Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-08-17
JUDGE PARKER ACCEPTS.
THE NOMINEE DECLARES HIS VIEWS ON
the PUBLIC QUESTIONS.
DOES NOT FAVOR A SECOND TERM.
Reiterates His Position or ths Gold Standard.
Z Says He Wants Every Voter to Know
Whore He Stands.

Esopus, N. Y, August 10.--In ac-
cepting the nomination by the Demo
cratic party for President, Judge
Parker said:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of
Athe Committee | have resigned the
kl9Sffice of Chief Judge of the Court of
Appeals of this State in order that !
may accept the responsibility that
the great convention you represent
has put upon me, without possible
prejudice to the Court to which !
had the honor to belong, or to the
eminent members of the judiciary of
this State, of which may now say
as a private citizen am justly proud.
AT the very threshold of this re-
sponse and before dealing with other
subjects, must, in justice to myself
and to relieve my sense of gratitude,
express my profound appreciation of
the confidence reposed in me by the
conventions. After nominating me
and subsequently receiving a COM
munication declaring that / regarded
the gold standard as firmly and ire
vocably established, matter con-
cerning which felt it incumbent
upon me to make known my attitude
so that.hereafter no man could Justly
say that his support had been Sc
cured through indirection or mis-
take, the convention reiterated its
determination that | should be the
standard bearer of the party in the
present contest. This mark of trust
and confidence / shall ever esteem
as the highest honor that could be
conferred upon mean honor that,
whatever may, be the fate of the
campaign, the future can in no de-
gree lessen or impair.
The admirable platform upon
which the party appeals to the
country for its confidence and sup
port clearly states the principles
which were 80 well condensed in the
first inaugural address of President
Jefferson, and points ont with force
and directness the course to be pur-
sued through their proper applica-
tion in order to insure needed re-
forms in both the legislative and ad-
ministrative departments of the
government.
While unhesitating in its promise
to correct abuses and to right wrongs
wherever they appear or however
caused to investigate the several
administrative departments of the
government, the conduct of whose
officials has created scandals, and to
punish those who have been guilty of
breach Of their trust TO oppose
the granting of special privileges by
which the few may profit at the ex-
pense of the many; to practice
economy in the expenditures of the
moneys of the people, and to that
end to return once more to the
methods of the founders of the re-
public by observing in disbursing
the public funds the care and caution
prudent individual observes with
respect to his own will !; still the spirit
of the platform assures conservative
instead of rash action the protection
of the innocent as well as the pun
ishment of the guilty; the encour-
Ragement of industry, economy and
Thrift the protection of property
and a guarantee of the enforcement
for the benefit of all of mans in
alienable rights, among which, as
said in the Declaration of Independ-
ence, are "Life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness" Liberty, as nm
derstood in this country, means not
only the right of freedom from ac-
tual servitude, imprisonment or re-
straint, but the right of one to use
his faculties in all lawful ways, to
live and work where he will and to
pursue any lawful trade or business.
These essential rights of life, liberty
and property are not only guaran-
teed to the citizen by the constitu-