The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-29

spent Saturday on his horse and in
the field. after his morning swim in
the Hudson. Speaking today about
the effect of this two days in his coun-
trv home, he said: 81 would return
to Albany like a new man physically
refreshed and strengthened by the
exercise and the rest and the change"
In this respect, he is not unlike the
GREAT man we read of in mythology
who renewed his strength every time
he touched Mother Earth.
Judge Parker believes in
rule by the constituted au
thorities. When urged to select
chairman of the National Democratic
Executive Committee, he declined to
do so. When begged again and again
to suggest a preference, he was sun
silent. Why? He believes that the duty
rested upon the National Committee
and he believes in every man DONG
the particular duty that devolves upoa
him. But now that the Natlonal
Committee has selected the chairman,
he will not be backward in Impress
ing his views as to the best policy OF
conducting the campaign. Toward any
Democrats not yet in line, he believes
in a policy of infinite patience and
federation. He has been gratified and
pleased at the assurances from all
sorts of Democrats of hearty support
and he wishes all to feel that he is
the candidate of the Democratic par
ty-not of any faction of the party
and that this is the campaign of every
man who calls himself a Democrat as
much as of the Presidential candidate.
He believes that harmony will come
all along the line. and that before
November the party will be united,
but he does not wish this harmony TO
be pumped up" but to come from
feeling that issues and conditions
demand Democratic unity to carry out
Democratic principles.
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Judge Parker does not run to meet
trouble or solve problems before they
arise. Without scintilla of phleg-
matte temperament, he <as the power
to let many things settle themselves
by waiting when that is wise just as
he showed he had the power to de-
eide himself an important matter
quickly and decisively.
The visitors here were graciously re-
Iceived by Judge Parker's wife, daught-
er, sister and his venerable moth
or, who, when informed of his nom
nation. said HE will make a good
President for he is a good SON" 9th
ers will give reasons that Will be very
different and may have more effect on
many voters, but this good mother has
paid a tribute to her distinguished
son that will increase the respect in
which. the people hold him.
Much has been written about the
origin of the name Esopus and how
to pronounce it, 1t is pronounced
E-so-pus with the accent on the sec
ond syllable. AS to the meaning of
the word a correspondent of the New
York Times of today says:
1.-THE Rev. Mr.. Megapolensis, Dutch
minister at Fort Orange, (Albany)
who studied the Indian languages and
served in missionary labors among
the Mohicans and Mohawks, wrote the
name 'Sypous' in 1856, an equivalent
of Sepuus, (ElioD. "a brook or creek.
Indian speakers threw the accent of
their words forward to the penult,
leaving the initial sound indistinct and
uncertain in many cases. This was es-
pecially SO in the early days when the
name was first written-1614-16. The
early Dutch writer supplied the sound
by adding the letter e presumably
from his familiarity with the name of
Esop or Greek Aesop. Sepuus is gen
eric. 1t is written dialectically in sew
eral forms. 1t is a composition of
Sepu, river and es or us, diminutive,
hence "a small river.
at was of as general use among
the AlgonquinS as our words brook
or creek are among ourselves 1t APP
pears first in the Esopus form on a
carte figuratiVe of the Hudson of pre-
sumed date 1614-16. I'm application
to a stream on the east side of the
river, as it may have been properly
as q generic, but became permanent
at Kingston Point, about 1923, as the
name presumably of Rondout CreAl
from which it was extended by the
Dutch to the Kleine Esopus, south of
Rondout in the town where Judge
Parker resides; to the grote Esopus
now the Rondout. and to the Esopus
now called the Saugerties, at that
place. The early traders gathered on
the north side of the creek an a cove
or hook which they called Punthoekje,
(now Ponkhockie,) which became the
general locative, Sopus, and the name
by which later Wildwijk was called.
(now kingston").
The only Indians who now Invade
Rosemont are Tammany braves and
they receive a cordial welcome from
Judge Parker. All good Democrats
''look alike to him." j. ID.
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