The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-12

and the most convincing auguries are
rapidly increasing of its formal en-
| aorsement by the American people at
| the polls.
Requesting your acceptance OF this
nomination we are. with assurances OF
| our high esteem and sincerest good
| wishes.
Yours respectfully.
CHAMP. CLARK.
| 'Of Missouri"
| It was also signed by all other men,
| bers of the notification committee
Chairman Clark was enthusiastically
cheered throughout his address and
was accorded an ovation which was
| merged into the reception extended to
Judge Parker. During the speaking
| rain began to fall fitfully, and many
| umbrellas were raised. Realizing that
the ceremonies might be interferrec
with. representative Clark left out a
portion of his speech as originally pre-
pared.
Judge Parker. with barred head, STOOD
on the platform throughout the speech
with utter disregard of the rain which
dampened him from head to foot and
he smiled with the spectators at the
| witticisms with which Mr.. Clark in
terspersed his address. Mr.. Clark con-
| cluded at 2:16 and then presented to
| Judge Parker the formal notification
| signed by the chairman and other men,
bers of the committee.
Flags were frantically waved at the
close of Mr.. Clark's speech, the spec
| tators cheered and it was full minute
before Judge Parker was permitted to
speak.
Before beginning his address Of ac-
ceptance, Judge Parker advised the
crowd to get under the trees out of the
| rain. 1--WE don't mind the wet" was
the spontaneous reply. Judge Parker
began his address at 2:18 p. m.
Judge Parker's Speech.
| Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Committee:
have resigned the office of Chief
| Judge Of the Court OF Appeals, Of this
State in order that I 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 be-
| long. or to the eminent members of
the judiciary of this State, of whom
| may now say as a private citizen 1
am justly proud.
AT the very threshold of this re-
sponse 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 communica-
| ton declaring that l regarded the gold
| standard as firmly and irrevocably es-
| tablished, matter concerning which
| felt it incumbent upin me to make
| known my attitude so that hereafter
| no man could justly say that his sup
port had been secured through indi-
| rection or mistake, the convention re-
| iterated it's 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 degree
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
| well condensed in the first inaugural
| 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
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| its promise to cOrrest abuses and to
| right wrongs wherever they appear or
| however caused;to investigate the sew
| eral administrative departments of the
| government, the conduct of whose OF
| ficials 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
L he ina ~, he
| 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
caution a prudent individual OBJ
| serves with respect to his own; still
| the spirit of the platform assures con-
| servative, instead of rash action; the
| protection of the innocent as we'll as
| the punishment of the guilty; the en-
| ooura cement of industry, economy
| and thrift; the protection of property
| and a guarantee of the enforcement
| for the benefit of all of mans inaliena-
| Bile rights, among which, as said in
the Declaration of Independence, are,
| life, liberty and the pursuit Of happl-
| ness Liberty" as understood in this
| country, means not only the right of
4 freedom from actual servitude, inn
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 pursue any law
full trade or business. These essen
| trial rights of life, liberty and property
| are not only guaranteed to the citizen
| by the constitution of each of the sew
eral states, but the states are by
| the Fourteenth Amendment to the
| Constitution of the United States for
hidden to deprive any person OF any
one OF them without the process of
law.
sary or impatient agitation for re-
forms, or because the limitations
placed upon the departments of gov
ernments by the Constitution are dis
| regarded by officials desiring to ac-
complish that which to them seem.
good. whether the power exists in