The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-05-13

New York Sun and Id C1nok0n9e.
In view or the fact that The Neu
York Sun. Of late years regarded a.
the leading republican paper Of the
United States. has seen nt to vigor-
ousiy aSail Mr.. Roosevelt and at the
same time speak fxvorably Of Judge
Parker, much curiosity has been
aroused In the minds OF fts readers
regarding It's actual preference In the
matter OF a presidential candidate.
This feeling apparently 20 grew upon
a Brooklyn citizen. Who signs himseif
"Omobas." and says he has read The
Sun for thirty-four years. that he can
not refrain from inquiring: VINO IN
the devil and Tom waiker are you
for. anyway?" The correspondent
also asks for "a good. square. ingen
uous answer" And he gets 1t,
least. the ingenious part In repIy.
~ sun saws that Chief Justice Par
ker is the most conspicuous demo-
cratic candidate. but that ne -
long way from the certainty or sucn
a control Of votes in the St Louis con-
vention as would warrant Mr.. Omooas
or else In thrusting MIN
peremtorily under ne nose as the
sole possible alternative to Roosevelt.
with a take him or W MIN. now
is your last chance!'"
Our correspondent Is probably
well aware OF The Suns opinion OF
Chief Justice Parker. We know no.
thing but good of him. IL anybody
about Judge Parker as a citizen or
as a jurist, the possessor OF the un-
favorable information is uncommonly
successful in hiding IL from the
world. No reason has been advanced
from any source why he should not
prove, on closer acquaintance, to be
as fine a specimen Of a democratic
candidate as yer trod h soil OF this
republic. 1t Is this absence of mani
fest disqualifications, togethef with
the geography OF his political genesis.
that has carried his boom onward as
far as 1t has gone. Nothing is needed
to waken real enthusiasm in the
hearts of those who are waiting to
support him. save the filling out of
the OUTLINES and the application OF
pigment to the monochrome which
has been presented to the country
as the personality OF Alton B. Parker.
Ar nobody can do that job but Judge
Pe ter himself"
The Sum-, however. thinks that
Judge Parker should be detached
from David B. Hill and his small
and selfish ambition 1t turns TO
the present chief executive to say that
it is not damning him in any shape or
but is hoping steadily and
cheerfully for his redemption from
idiosyncracies and specialties of exec
utive performance, which the most
faithful of the republican fold have
been contemplating o nearly three
wears with poorly dissimulated shiv-
ers," and continues:
1--WE are praying every night after
going to press that the m1strust n
the apprehension created in the MINDS
of patriotic Americans by such Incl
dents as the stump speeches borrowed
from Bryan, the forced confirmation
of his personal %favorite n military
chum, Doctor Wood, the executive
service pension order, the Mayflower
and the dead-head railway trains and
provender, the infinitesimal recess and
the snap adjournment, the apparent
subordination in his mind OF every
public consideration to the exigencies
of the ego, may be removed in divine
Provinces good time by a broader,
maturer and more altruistic concep-
ton of the exalted Office which he
holds and now wants to keep. It is
President Roosevelt's salvation, not
his perdition, that would be regarded
with genuine satisfaction in this
quarter"
AS interesting as are these details.
they are not a marker for the final
reply to Mr.. Omobas' query, which
follows:
who are we for? The Sun doesn't
mind telling its esteemed c~orrespon-
dent now breaking his thirty-four
years patient but not uncritical ST.
lence. We are for the candidate.
whatever his name or party label.
who, when the facts are before us.
the issues made and the definite al
tentative presented, shall deem to our
modest intelligence and sincere con-
Germ for the welfare Of our country, as
we understand the same, to offer the
better prospect, in person and by
platform pledges, Of maintaining thi
government and its precious features
as they were designed by the trainers,
as they have been for than a
hundred years. and as we want them
to remain for centuries longer
Charlotte Observer.