Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-08-19
JUDGE PARKER ACCEPTS
Democratic Candidate for Presidency
Notified Of His Nomination.
SIMPLE Ceremonies AT ROSEMOUNT.
The Notification Was Brought to Judge Parker
by Representative Champ Clark, Of Mis-.
souri,, as Chairman Of Committee Repre-
seniing Every State and Territory In the
Union.

Esopus, N. Y, (SpeciaD. - Alton
| Brooks Parker, whose home is at
Rosemont, near this village, was We'd
nesday afternoon formally notified Of
his nomination for the Presidency
by the Democratic party.
Accompanied by other prominent
Democrats, committee of one from
each State and Territory, appointed
by the recent Convention in St. Louis,
came to Esopus on the steamboat
Sycamore, from New York, and took
part in the exercises. The party num-
bered more than 500. They were
joined by relatives and neighbors of
Judge Parker.
The programme of notification was
a simple one. Congressman Champ
| Clark of Missouri, chairman of the
committee, addressed the candidate,
and handed him a written notification,
signed individually by the members
of the committee. Judge Parker re-
sponded with speech which was the
first since his nomination. and is of
greatest importance, because it declar-
eS his views on the great public ques
tons before the country in this cam
paign.
Esopus, N. Y, (SpeciaD.-When
formally notified that he had been
nominated for the Presidency by the
Democratic party, Judge Parker ad-
dressed the notification committee and
others present in part as follows:
"Mr Chairman and Gentlemen of
the Committee:
81 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
judiciary of this State, of whom may
now say as private citizen | am just
ly proud.
Famous Message Recalled.
AT the very threshold of this re-
spouse, and before dealing with other
subjects, 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 commun-
\ication declaring that | regarded the
gold standard as firmly and irrevoca-
Ny established, matter concerning
hich l felt it incumbent upon me to
IKE known my attitude so that here
ar no man could justly say that his
Snort had been secured through in
dir.tion or mistake, the Convention
reitated its determination that
shon be the standard-bearer of the
partyjn the present contest. This
marx trust and confidence | shall
ever GEM as the highest honor that
couiG oconferred upon mean hon
or that'Nhatever may be the fate of
the n,,ign. the future can in no
degree ieen or impair.
The Platform.
he adn1ble platform upon which
the party aealS to the country for
its conhdenS and support clearly
states the prnples which were so well
con3enseu III y first inaugural address
OF PRESIDENT erson, and points out
Win IorCe any Sectness the course to
be pursued thrSh their proper ap
| plication in ordego insure needed re-
forms in both tElegislative and adj
ministrative depap ents of the Gov
eminent.
Executive P,r Usurped. [,
Occasionally, JASON of. unnec
essary or impatient E;tation for re-
forms, or because keuitations plac-
ed upon the departmee ri Govern
ment by the ConstituS, ara d;sre
garded by officials desirr 70 accom-
| plish that which to them ems GOOD
whether the power exists them oy
not. it becomes desirable n.iI a. {
tention to the fact that t, neooie
in whom all power resides, We p'o Seen
fit, through the medium of : Con
| stitution, to limit the COVE, ent.l
powers conferred and to sayS de. 4
partments created by it: TN ffsr
| Shalt thou go and no farther Ia
secure the ends sought the people,vo
by the Constitution. separated nd t
| distributed among the three dek-
ments of Government-the execuh :
| legislative and judicial-certain pd
ers, and it is the duty of those admit S
istering each department so to adt
as to preserve, rather than to destroy,
the potency of the coordinate branch
es of the Government. and thus Sc
cure the exercise Of all the powers
conferred by the people.
Tariff Law.
"The present tariff law is unjust in
| its operation, excessive in many of its
rates, and so framed in particular in
stances as to exact inordinate profits
from the people So we'll understood
has this view become that many
prominent members of the Republican
party and at least two of its State Con-
ventions, have dared to voice the
general sentiment or that subject
That party seems, however, to be col
lectively able to harmonic only upon
a plank that admits that revision may
from time to time be necessary, but
it is so phrased that it is expected to
crsIned Ry An luf0m0hjIe