Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-08-17
JUDGE PARKER IS NOTIFIED
Accepts the Presidential Nomination rendered
By the Democratic Party

! aua 20 reileVe my sense or gratitude
express my profuond appreciation ci
the confidence renesei il ME by the
convention, After nominating me
and subsequently receiving com.
mGnicat:on declaring that regarded
tbs gold standard as firmly and ire;
vccebly established, o matter which
felt it incumbent upon nae to make
known my attitude so that hereafter
no man could justly say that his
support had been secured through in
direction OF mistake, the convention
reiterated It's determination that
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.
ADMIRABLE PLATFORM.
'The admirable platform upon
which the party appeals to the eeun=
try for it's confidence and support
clearly statas the principles which
were 80 we'll condensed in the first
inaugural address cf President Jeffer-
son and points out with force and di-
rectness the course to be pursued
through their proper application in
order to insure needed reforms in
both the legislative and administra-
tive departments Of the government.
While unhesitating in its promise to
correct abuses and to right wrongs
wherever they appear or however
caused; to investigate the several ad-
ministrative departments of the gov.
ernment, the conduct Of whose Off.
cials has created scandals, and to
punish these who have been gully of
breach of their trust; to oppose the
granting of special privileges by
which the few may profit at the ex-
pense of the many; to practive econ
cmy in the expenditure of the money
Of tho people, and to that end to re-
turn once more to the methods of the
founders of the republic by observ.
ing in disbursing the public funds the
care and caution a prudent indivi6Ia,
observes In respect to his own; still
the spirit Of the platform assures con.
servatiYe, instead of rash action; the
protection Of the innocent as well as
the punishment Of the guilty; the en-
couragement of industry, economy
and thrift; the protection Of property
and guarantee Of the enforcement
for the benefit of all mans inaliena-
BILE rights, among which, as said in
the Declaration Of independence, are
life, liberty and the pursuit Of hap
piness-" Liberty, as understood in
this country, means not only the right
Of freedom from actual servitude, i'm
Or restraint, but the
right Of one to use his faculties in all /!
awful ways, to live and work where /
le will and to pursue an ...laXfnl |
iehts. IL eof lie, liberty and properly I
ire not only guaranteed to the cltl-
zen by the constitution of each OF the
several States, but the States are by
the Fourteenth Amendment to the {,
Constitution Of the United States for
bidden to deprive any person Of them
without due process Of law.
Occasionally, by reason of unnec-
essary, OF impatient agitation for re-
forms, or because the limitations
placed upon the departments CT gov
ernment by the Constitution are dis
regarded by officials desiring to ac-
complish that which to them seems
good, whether the power exists III
them or not, it becomes desirable to
call attention to the fact that the peo-
pie, in whom all power resides have
seen fit to limit the powers conferred
and to say to departments created
by it: "Thus far shalt thou go and nj
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 judi
cial-certain powers, and it is the
duty of those administering each de-
partment so to act as to preserve,
rather than destroy, the potency OF
the coordinate branches of the gov
ernment, and thus secure the exercise
of all the powers conferred by the
people.
THE THREE POWERS.
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to
William C. Jarvis, touching the per-
petuity of our institutions, written
many years after he had retired to
private life, said If the three pow
ers of our government maintain their
mutual independence of each other
1t may last long, but not so if either
can assume the authority of the 9TH
err 1t must be confessed that in the
course Of our history executives have
employed powers not belonging TO
them; statutes have been passed that
were expressly forbidden by the con-
stitution and statutes have been set
aside as unconstitutional when it was
difficult to point out the provisions
said to be offended against in their
enactment; all this has been done
with good purpose, no doubt, but
in disregard, nevertheless, Of the fact
that ours is a government Of laws,
not of men, deriving its just powers
from the consent Of the governed
If we would have our government
continue through the ages to come,
for the benefit of those who shall
succeed u.s., we must ever be on our
guard against the danger Of usurpa-
ton of that authority which resides
in the whole people, whether the usur-
patton be by officials representing
one Of the three great departments of
government, or by body Of men act