Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-05
TO THE ELECTORATE.
Democratic Nominees for Presidential
 Electors Issue Ringing Apnaal.

The approaching election touches auchs vital issues. and the result must prove of such far-reaching conseduence to the welfare of the state and nation. that the undersigned, democratic nom, lnees for presidential electors for Con nectlcut, feel impelled to issue this special address to the electorate.
 A peculiar responsibility rests upon Connecticut tls constitution state. When issues involving the very exist ence of constitutional government are at stake. The vital achievement in the founding of the American republic was the transfer of power from king to people, from personal caprice to con stltutlIon, from royal will to legislature. through all the centuries, no richer legacy has come to any people. It is ours to protect and conserve. for fu- ture generations no less than for our selves
 A tendency to undermine these foun- dations brings the present crisis. The evidence is overwhelming that the present administration, under tie im- perious caprice of the president, is bound by neither precedent or consti- tutlon, but is endeavoring to substitute personal purpose as the final arbiter Tn government, instead of the will of
  lished institutions.
 We believe that the cratic leader ship of Theodore Roosevelt is positive ly unsafe for the domestic veal. and constant menace to International peace.
 It is for the restoration and con- servat1on of true government of the people that the democratic party pre- sents as candidate for president Judge Alton B. Parker, an eminent iJrist of unblemished record, and of nsWerving devotion to American institutions. in spirit and practice. Not only by many decisions during his long judicial ca ireer, but also by his recent public ut, terances, Judge Parker has indicated clearly that he may be depended upon for absolute loyalty to the American l ideals of equal opportunity for all, and special privileges for none. Connecticut cannot forget what it cost to establish the republic. This state has no apologies to make for the Declaration of Independence, and should brook none. Tho latter-day re- publican leaders, who for various req sons are seeking to modify that sacred instrument, are reminded that Abra- ham Lincoln in his time rebuked ana confounded such as they, and pro- claimed that in the immortal Declara- tion of Independence the fathers .sset up a standard maxim for free society," Connecticut should maintain that standard
 In this campaign the democratic party is seeking by every effort to sus- tain and preserve in all it's integrity that priceless contract of the states the constitution of the United States, which has received the highest praise of lovers of liberty in every cline. The American people have not s.out- liyed,'' nor lost their love for their nations fundamental law. Shall it be maintained?
 1t rests with you, the American peo. pie, to say whether the next president shall be Theodore Roosevelt, an i'm periaiistic autocrat, or Judge Alton B. Parker, constitutional democrat.
 (Signedl
 Charles E. Gross Of Hartford,
 Christian Stroebel of Waterbury.
 Cyrus G. Beckwith of New London, < Melbert B. Cary of Ridgefield,
 Wilbur O'Connor of Norfolk,
 William F. Ranney of Cromwell,
 Lebbeus E. Smith of Putnam, Democratic Nominees for Presidential
 Electors for Connecticut.
 November 2 1904