Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-10
ACCEPTED BY PARKER
Full Text of His Speech Of
Acceptance.
READ AT ESOPUS TODAY
DWELLS AT LENGTH UPON ISSUES
OF THE HOUR.
Defines Powers of the Executive and
Expatiates Upon Momentous Cues
tions-Tariff Reform.

Judge Parker, In response to the notifica-
ton address of Mr.. Champ Clark, replied
as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Com
mittee:
1 have resigned the office of chief judge
of the court of appeals of this state in or
der that l may accept the responsibility
that the great convention you represent has
put upon me, without possible prejudice to
the court to which l had the honor to be
long, or to the eminent members of the
judiciary of this state, of whom l may now
say as a private citizen | am justly proud.
At the very threshold of this response
and before dealing with other subjects, L
must, in justice to myself and to relieve
my snse of gratitude, express my pro-
found appreciation of the confidence re-
posed in me by the convention. After noml-
mating me and subsequently receiving
communication declaring that l regarded
the gold standard as firmly and irrevocably
established,a matter concerning which felt
it incumbent upon me to make known my
attitude so that hereafter man could
justly say that his support had been Sc
cured through indrection or mistake, the
convention reiterated its determination that
l 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 con-
ferred upon mean honor that, whatever
future can in no degree lessen or impair.
An Admirable Platform.
The admirable platform upon which the
party appeals to the country for its con-
fidence and support clearly states the prin-
ciples which were well condensed in the
first inaugural address of President Jeffer
son. and points out with force and direct
ness the course to be pursued through tEei:
proper application in order to insure needed
reforms in both the legislative and admin
iStrative departments of the government.
While unhestating in its promise 10 cor
ect abuses and to right wrongs wherever
they appear or however caused, to inveS-
tigate tie several administrative depart
ments of the government. the conduct Of
whose officials has created sc1n11ls, and
to punish those who have been guilty of a
breach of their trust to oppose the grant
ing 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 people, and to that end to re-
turn once more to the methods of he found
ers of the republic by observing in disburs
ing the public funds the care and caution
a prudent individual observes with respect
to his own; still the spirit of the platform
assures conservative. instead of rash ac
ton; the protection of the innocent as well
as the punishment of the guilty; the en-
enlargement of industry, economy and
thrift the protection of property and a
guarantee of the enforcement Tor the ben
eft of all of mans inalenable nights
among which. as said in the Declaration of
Independence, are life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness Liberty. as under
stood in this country means not only the
right of freedom from actual Servitude i'm
prisonment or restraint. but the right of
one to use his faculties in all lawful ways
to live and work where he will and to pur-
sue any lawful trade or business.
Rights of Citizens.
These essential rights of life, liberty and
property are not only guaranteed to the
citizen by the Constitution of each OF the
several states. but the states are by the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitution
of the United States forbidden to deprive
any person of any one of hem without due
process of law.
Occasionally, by reason of unnecessary
or impatient agitation for reforms, or be-
cause the limitations placed upon the de-
partments of government by the Constitu-
ton are dtSregarded by officials desiring to
accomplish that which to them seems good,
whether the power exists in them or not, IL
becomes desirable to call attention to the
fact that the people. in whom all power re-
sides, have seen fit, through the medium of
the Constitution. to limit the governmental
powers conferred and to say to depart
ments created by IT. THUS far shalt thou
go and farther" To secure the ends
sought the people have by the Constitution
separated and distributed among the three
departments of government-the executive,
legislative and judicial-certain powers and
1t Is the duty of those administering each
department so to act as to preserve, rather
than to destroy, the potency of the CO.
ordinate branches of the government and
thus secure the exercise of all the powers
conferred by the people.
Thomas Jefferson. I'm letter to William
c. Jarvis. touching the perpetuity of orr
institutions written many years after he
had retired to private life. said: IF the
three powers of our government maintain
their mutual independence Of each other,