The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-10-27

New York, Special.-Former Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland in McClure's for
November gives his personal estimate
CT Judge Parker as candidate for
President. He says of him In part:
"We sometimes find features Of char
acter so prominently visible in mans
mental organization that, like the fea-
lures Of his countenance, they need no
proof Of their existence. This Is pre-
cminently true Of Judge Parkers in
tent deliberation in reaching conclu-
sions and his inherent judicial conser-
ratism. These qualities Of his mind
are so distincly apparently that they
are at once seen and known by all who
gain the slightest knowledge OF the
man. This should make it thoroughly
understood that those who love presi-
deutial pyrotechnics must look else
where.
81 have known Alton B. Parker for
more than twenty years. He impressed
me on our first acquaintance as a sin
cere, honest and able man, and this i'm
preston has, with time and observa-
ton, grown to clear and .undoubting
conviction. l am sure that l venture
nothing in making the positive asser-
ton that the guiding trait of his char
acter Is his constant and unyielding de-
votion to duty.
Judge Parker's experience in ju-
dicial investigation, added to his nat
ural aptitude in the same direction,
ought to satisfy the most cautious and
exacting Of his abundant ability to dis
cover in the light of constitutional re-
auirements, and in the atmosphere OF
enlightened but conservative Ameri-
canism, the manner in which a Presl-
dent should best serve his. country
men.
81 am persuaded that the American
people will make no mistake if they
place implicit reliance in Alton b.
Parker's devotion to duty, in his clear
perception Of the path OF duty. In MS
steadfast persistency against all temp
tation to leave the way where duty
leads. and in his safe and conservative
conceptions OF presidential RESPONSE
Eilties."
In McClure's for November, Sena-
tor Henry Cabot Lodge gives
glimpse of President Roosevelt as he
sees him. He says of him:
mo man has lived the life OF his
time so amply as he; no one has
shown humanity in so many phases,
no one has wider sympathies or so
many interests. It would be worse
than idle for anyone. no matter how
intimate his knowledge, to fancy that
he could depict a character so many
sided, so tried and tested in such
multiform experiences, within the
space allowed me here. His daily
life does not differ in any respect
from that of any other very busy man
of great energy, who finds rest and
relief not only in active out-of-door
life, but in a wide and constant read
ing OF books-a habit, by the way,
quite as characteristic as an yother,
but of which the newspaper critics
and humorists tell us little.
Theodore Roosevelt apprenends
very quickly. When he has thought q
subject out thoroughly and knows
what he means to do, he acts prompt
". When, after full consideration, ne
has made up his mind as to Wnat Is
right he is unbending; but no man
has been in the White House for
many years who is so ready to take
advice. who has made Up his nina
more slowly, more deliberately, and
after more consultation than Ineo-
dore Roosevelt. -.
"Eyery nation, or rather every MIS-
toric race, has certain attributes IN
addition to the great and more oD-
yious virtues which 1t believes to De
neculiarly its own. and in which II
takes an especial pride. We OF the
limited States like to think Of the typ
icaI American as a brave man ana
an honest man, very human, with no
vain pretense to infallibility. we
would have him simple ia his home
life, democratic in his ways. with sne
highest education that the Worid can
give. kind to the weak. tender ana
loyal and true, never quarreisome, out
never afraid to fight, with strong'
sane sense Of humor. and with q
strain of adventure in the blood
which we shall nveer cease to love
until those ancestors OF ours VINO
conquered continent have drifted
good deal further into the past tnan
is the case today. These are the
qualities which all men admire anu
respect, and which, thus comoined'
we like to think peculiarly American.
As enumerate them descrioo
Theodore Roosevelt"