The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-12
PARKER, DAVIS, THE PLATFORM.
A UNITED AND MILITANT DE-
MOCRACY.

With confidence in it's candidates
and in it's platform the Democracy
| united and militant, goes to the coun-
| try. 1t is confident because it knows il
represents the very best for this coun-
try, it is militant because it fights to
remove the incubus of Republican
usurpation, misrule, and rascality, it
is united for it stands as one man.
1t is an aggressive fight which it is
prepared to wage, and in it's success
there is bound up for this country its
greatest hopes. 1t is the party of the
Constitution, and the government II
committed to its charge, will be con-
Quoted along the safest and the sures,
line for the development, the honor
and the glory of the entire country
In it's platform pledges it speaks FOR
the party, and tells the people wha,
is to be expected if power is placed
in it's hands. The many-sided affairs
of this government will find safe d.
rection in it's hands, and the interests
of the whole people will be safe.
guarded with a jealous care.
In its presidential candidate it OF
fers to the people man of wisdom
man of experience, learned in the
law, courageous for the right. Judge
Alton Brooks Parker the Democratic
nominee, is a man of affairs. Those
close to him recognize his great abil-
ity, and his absolute honesty. He is q
man to tie to, and is thus described
by Hon. Edward M. Shepard, a great
Brooklyn lawyer, himself of heroic
size in all that makes for manhood
and ability.
"He represents the very opposite OF
restless im~atient, reckless contempt
for CONSTITUTIONAL laW-abiding gov
eminent and for those respectful and
righteous relations with the rest oil
the world which belong to our best
traditions. That is to say he repre-.
sents the very opposite of the conduct
and policy of the gallant Republican
now dwelling in the White House."
In this description of Mr.. Shepard's
there is thrown down the gauntlet 20
the Republican party and it's nomi-
nee. Judge Parker is the antithesls
of the Rough Rider in the White
House, who struts with cheap miliA
tary bravado and with self-conferred
heroism. He is a man whose power
will be exerted in the interests os
the people, and not for self-glorifica-
ton. He will bow to the law and
not attempt to over ride it.
Judge Parker is a Democrat. In
that one sentence there is conveyed
to the people the fact that with him
as the President of this great Re
public there would be no longer the
threat of social equality as now
taught from the White House. The
negro problem would not have in ii
daily, nay an hourly, menace from
the actions of the Chief Executive
No more could it be chronicled that
the President of the United States sits
at meat with negro, no more would
the threat of a force bill be thrust
i'm the face of the South. To this sec
ton his election will come as a great
relief for he knows of the conditions
which confront us, and has faith in
our ability to solve rightly and righ-
teously the difficult problems which
confront u.s. "unmolested by irritating
political interference from the out
side"
Ex-senator Henry G. Davis is a
Democrat. He is Democrat of
eighty years of record, for he was
rocked in a Democratic cradle. He is
a man from the ground up. Begin
ming life as a farm boy later brake
man, he has built railroads, banks,
schools and churches. From twisting
the brakes to president of railroads
and banks of his own making tells
that he knows every phase of life AS
United States, Senator from West
Virginia he made a record for ability
and in West Virginia no man stands
higher, for he leads in having devel-
oped it. An all round man he adds
strength to the ticket, for he is able,
honest, upright, true and rings clear
as bell on the issues of the day.
The platform is Democratic. III
strikes out from the shoulder upon
every great issue of the day. 1t is not
alone bread enough and wide enough
for every Democrat to stand upon, but
upon it can stand every opponent of
Republicanism and Rooseveltism no
matter what view they entertain upon
the money question, for that is not an
issue in the Democratic platform 1t
demands honesty in public office
economy in administration, a Presi-
dent who is imbued with the princi-
Piles of the Constitution, unremitting
war against the trusts, which are fos-
tered by Republican rule, the speedy,
honest and economical construction of
the Panama canal, equality before the
law for all citizens, just rights impair
tally to both labor and capital, a re-
vision and gradual reduction of the
tariff in that it may be limited to the
needs of the government economically
administered, discrimination against
nc industry or section, the observance