The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-10
JUDGE PARKER
MAKES REPLY
TO THE COMMITTEE WHO NO
TITLED HIM
ADDRESS OF ACCEPTA'E
Literal Quotations From Jefferson
Declares For the Gold
Standard.

Parker in accepting the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency replied
as follows:
MIR. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Committee:
[ have resigned the office of Chief
Judge of the Court of Appeals of this
State in order that | may accept the
responsibility that the great conven-
ton 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 judi
ciary of this state, of whom | may
now say as private citizen | am
justly proud.
At the very threshold Of this re-
spouse and before dealing with other
subjects, l must, in justice to myself
and to relieve my sense of gratitude,
express my profound appreciation of
the confidence reposed in me by the
convention. After nominating me
and subsequently receiving a commu-
nication declaring that l regarded the
gold standard as firmly and irrevo-
cably established, matter concerning
which [ felt it incumbent upon me to
make known my attitude so that here
after no man could justly say that his
support had been secured through in
discretion or mistake, the convention
reiterated its determination that I
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 support clearly
states the principles which were so
address of President jefferson, and
points out with force and directness
the course to be pursued through their
proper application in order to insure
needed reforms in both the legislative
and administrative 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
a breach of their trust; to oppose the
granting of special privileges by which
the few may profit at the expense of
the many; to practice economy in the
expenditure of the moneys of the peo-
pie, and to that end to return once
more to the methods of the founders
of the republic by observing in dis
bursting the public funds the care and
canton a prudent individual observes
with respect to his own: still the spirit
of the platform assures conservative,
instead of rash action: the protection
of the innocent as we'll as the punish
ment of the guilty: the encouragement
Of industry, economy and thrift: the
protection Of property and a guaran-
tee of the enforcement for the benefit
of all of mans inalienable rights,
among which. as said in the Declara-
tion Of independence, are "life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness. .
Liberty. as understood in this coun-
try. means not only the right of free
dom from actual servitude. imprison-
ment or restraint, but the right Of one
10 use his faculties in all lawful ways
70 live and work where he will and tc
pursue any lawful trade or business
These essential rights of life, liberty
and property are not only guaranteed
10 the citizen by the Constitution o.
each of the several states. but tn,
states are by the Fourteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution Of the Unite,
States forbidden to deprive any per
son of any one of them without du
process of law.
Occasionally, by reason of unneces
sary or impatient agitation for re
forms, or because the limitation
placed upon the departments of GOV
eminent by the Constitution are di:
regarded by officials desiring to az
complish that which to them seem
good, whether the power exists
Them or not, it becomes desirable I