Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-20
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ter election.
RenuhlicnnS Take Credit.

tSrhe republicans further point with
pride to the honesty and integrity of the
administra tion. They take credit to them
selves for the exposure of the postal
frauds The President even eongratulates
and compliments himself on the alleged
vigor with which this exposure has been
conducted. We may be pardoned for ques-
tioning whether this exposure has been
quite as vigorous and unrelenting as our
republican friends would have believe.
We have some recollection of proceedings
in the House of Representatives which
some evtlly-diSpoSed persons have been in
clined to criticise as of a smothering rather
than an exposing tendency.
The record of eight years of democratic
administration is a record of honest. eco
nomical and efficient administration unsur-
passed in the history of this country.
Coming to the specific acts of the pres
ent administration. We find the party and
the President complacently facilitating
themselves upon what they regard as ac-
complished results and resenting discussion
of the propriety or Legality of the methods
by which the results have been accom-
pushed. 1t ought to be needless to point
out TO American citizens that our whole
system of constitutional law and free gov
eminent is based upon, and is absolutely
dependent upon. strict observance of le-
gal limitations upon executive power To
point 10 an accomplished result as vim
dlcation of lawless methods is to use the
arguments proper only for despotism
Nothing Spectacular in Parker.
ne candidate whom we have offered to
the American people has nothing spectacu-
lar IN his makeup. He is an unassuming
American citizen. but he is a man of ster-
ing integrity, of strong convictions a
trained jurist, lover of law and a cham
pion or the Constitution. We believe that If
erected the people of the United States will
iihu IN MIN an executive who will NOT he
seeking for disqualification, nor even for
.ne sAofincatlon of his country at the ex-
Pense OF truth, justice liberty
We believe that to re-elect the present
incuhpeht OF the presidential Office would
pe ~ Cohdone grave offenses against our
I'M OF government, and would be to sane
tion similar acts in the future We believe
that to prevent disaster to our liberties ana
10 preserve our form of government intact
lor future generations, the American peo-
PIE must and Will. elect in place of Theo-
dore Roosevelt the candidate whom wo
nave presented Alton B. Parker 49,. 80 :
Republican Machine Politics. =.
The candidate nominated by the 'repub.
mean convention for the high office of gov
erhor OF this state, however estima bic ne
may be in his personal capacity, was nomi-
mated by machine methods and pursuant to
personal dictatfon, and represents the most
Objectionable features of republican ma
chine methods and republican personat
ulctatloh IN the state of New York The
man 10 be nominated by this convention
should be. and 1 believe he will be. a man
VINO VIII commend himself to the voters OF
tlis state as a man who will be his own
master. who Will stand for honest ana
ehcleht government, and who will repre-
sent no faction as against any other far
lion, ana VINO VIII have no object to SUBJ
serve. if elected but the welfare NJ TIC
people OF the state as a whole, regardless
OF faction and of party"