The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-08-19
Accepting the No1nilla.
ton Of the Demo
Gratis for the
Presidency.
RESPECT OF THE LAW
Is the Keynote Of the Speech.
What He Says About the
Trusts, Tariff and
Other Things.

Other Things.
In formally accepting the nomina-
tion OF the Democratic party as It's
candidate for President, Judge Parker,
replying to the speech OF Chairman
Clark, Of the notification COMMITTEES.
spoke as follows:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen OF the
Commlgtee: have resigned the office
OF Chief Judge of the Court of AppeaIs
Of this State in order that i NAV ac.
cept the responsibility that the great
convention you represent has put upon
me, without possible prejudice to the
Court to which had the honor to be-
long or to the eminent here nf
the judiciary of this State, Of whom I
may. now say as private citizen am
justly proud.
AT the very threshold OF this re-
sponse and before dealing with other
SUBJECTS must, in Justice to myself
ana 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 conmu-
nication declaring that regarded the
gold standard as firmly and irreyocably
estaol1shed, matter concerning
which 1 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
direction 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 an honor
ist la tasS be the ft.teof the
campaign the future can In no degree !,
lessen or impair.
THE ADMIRABLE PLATFORM s.a
upon which the party appeals to the
country for its confidence and support
clearly states the principles which
were SO well condensed in the first in
augural address OF President Jefferson,
ana points out with force and direct
ness the course to be pursued through
their proper application in order to In
sure needed reforms in both the iegis-
latlye and administrative departments
OF the Government. While unhesitat-
ing IN Its promise to correct abuses
and to right wrongs wherever they ap-
pear or however caused; to investigate
The administrative departments of the
government, the conduct of whose Off
Gals has created scandal, and to punish
those who have been guilty of breach
OF their trust; 10 oppose the granting
of special privileges by which the few
may profit at the expense of the many;
to practice economy in the expendi-
ture OF the moneys Of the people, and
to that end to return once more to the
methods of the founders of the Repub-
lie by observing in disbursing the pub
lie funds the care and caution a pru-
dent individual observes with respect
10 his own; still the spirit of the plat
form assures.
| CONSERVATIVE, INSTEAD OF RASH
action; the protection of the innocent
as well as the punishment Of the gull
ty; the encouragement of industry,
economy and thrift; the projection OF
property and a guarantee OF the en-
forcement for the benefit of all of
mans inalineable rights, among which
as said in the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, are life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness" Liberty, as under
stood In this country, means not only
the right OF freedom from actual SER
yitude, Imprisonment or restraint, 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
guaranteed to the citizen by the Con-
Stitution 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 them without
due process Of law.
LIMITATIONS OF POWER.
1Iu h.,
Sary or impatient agitation for re-
forms, or because the limitations
placed upon the departments Of Gov
ernment by the Constitution are dis
regarded by officials desiring to accom-
pliSh that which to them seems good,
whether the power exists in them or
not, it becomes desirable to call atten-
tion to the fact that the people, in
whom all power resides, have seen fit,
through the medium of the COnstitu-
tion, to limit the governmental pow
ers conferred and to say to depart
ments created by it; "Thus far shalt
the ends sought the people have by
: the Constitution separated and dis
tributed among the three depart
ments OF GOvernment-the executive,
legislative and judical-certain pow
, ers and 1t Is the duty OF those adminis-
tering each department so to act as to
preserve, rather than to destroy, the
potency OF the coordinate branches Of
the Government, and thus secure the
exercise OF all the powers conferred by
, the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
In letter to William c. Jarvis, touch
ing the perpetuity of our institutions,
written many years after he had re-
tired to private life, said: "If the
: three powers CT our Government main
| tain their mutual independence of
each other 1t may last long, but not so
II either can assume the authority Of
the other" 1t must be confessed
that in the course OF our history exc
cntiyes hasye employed powers net he
longing 70 them; statutes have been
, passed that were expressly forbidden
by the Constitution, and statutes have
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