Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-07-22
PARKER BREAKS SILENCE.
Democratic Candidate Makes a Speech
of Gratitude to Old Friends.

of Gratitude to Old Friends.
Esopus, N. Y, July 16.-Six carloads
OF enthusiastic friends of Judge A. b
Parker came down on a special train
to celebrate the judges nomination
Most of those who came were demo-
Gratis, but there We're not a few old
republican friends of the judge and the
celebration was designed to be nom
partisan in character.
Headed by the First Regiment band
of Kingston, the visitors marched to
Rosemont and gave Judge Parker q
rousing ovation. The speech In behalf
of the visitors was made by former
State Senator j.. j. Linson, of Kingston
Senator Linson, in congratulating
Judge Parker, spoke substantially as
follows:
You may have heard 1t remarked
at some time during your long resi-
dence among us that Ulster county
was settled by the Dutch. Be that as
it may, there is one Dutch character
istic that It's citizens share with all the
people OF our great nation. They adj
mire a man who sees the right, and
seeing dares to do IL. 1t is for that
reason as we'll as for the respect and
| affection relt for yourself personally
that the assemblage Of your ~neighbors
has gathered to do honor to you to
whom has come a distinction that only
one in millions can attain.
Words of Praise.
cit is related of a great republican
leader now deceased that when an OPP
ponent in the house of representatives
had shouted to the chair: Mr.. Speaker,
in the words Of Henry Clay, | would
rather be right than be president he
retorted with sarcasm: Don't be
afraid. You'll never be either
Since the glorious %sunburst Of the
fateful Saturday when the telegraph
flashed from Esopus to st. Louis your
words has become history, 1t nay DEM
instrate that a man may be right and
be president, too.
But we have come here simply to
a k you by the hand to assure you OF
our unalterable appreciation and re-
gard, to congratulate you on the esteem
in which you are held by one of the
great parties OF the nation at least, and
to say to you that whether your next
few years g to be kept at Rosemont
or in the White House; whether you
walk among US as a private citizen, or
sit In the chair of Washington, of JEFF
ferson and of Lincoln, you will occupy
precisely the same position in the
hearts of those who know you best"
Judge Parker Speaks.
In reply Judge Parker said:
Senator Linson and gentlemen of
that gallant band of twenty-six that
went over to st. Louis the other day;
old friends and neighbors:
There are never any friends like the
old friends. Friendship is not a plant
OF rapid growth. Fol more than a quar-
ter of a century / have passed among
you day ~ dav end re have met one
another on the streets as we were going
about our several duties. We chatted
together at the club and met one an
other In social intercourse in our re-
spective houses, we sorrowed together
when dear friends passed away. We
helped N another I'm occasions OF
need; we rejoiced together when some
great good came into the lives of some
of u friends. During these years we
formed relations OF friendship with one
another. An an illustration of it, we
find that twenty-six of YOU went to st.
Louis through the heal To say some
thing kind of one of their friends of
that Kingston and Ulster county band
associated together for so many years,
and / know very well they have no
old the whole truth at st. Louis. There
Is something about those friends whom
! have known Sc well those yeafs thai
makes it impossible for them to tell the
exact truth about a friend, and | know
we'll that In talking to the several dele
cations they probably failed TO recolleet
aught but those things which pictured
their n~eighbor as they liked him and
liked TO view him.
Happy Appreciation.
u need not say that / am very CRATE
full to these men. I did not ask them
70 go. but / appreciated the fact they
went. / knew that they would be q
force there. as | have learned they
proved to be. and | know very well that
II a little effort had been made that
that band could have been very large
ly increased from among friends and
neighbors who would have been only
too glad to go.
Il am not going to attempt 10 make
a speech, but ] want TO welcome YOU
to Rosem0nt. Never Will / forget while |
! live the happy days when we met
day after day and shook one another |
by the hand and discussed the various |
situations presented.
Il am grateful to all of you who have |
come here. and I want to take this |
opportunity TO shake all OF my neigh |
Dors by the hand and to say to each OF
you. godspeed!"
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