The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-20

| WIeCheTS VINO now possess 1t, ana
back into their own hands, they
could not find an agent better suited
to their purpose than this splendid
type of American manhood.
When he takes the oath of office as
President of the United States, even
as modestly as he laid down the Of
flee of Chief Justice of the State of
New York. he may be relied on to do
no trivial or foolish thing for the
sake of the supposed effect. He will
not race over the country about
Washington after a pack of hounds
chasing a paper fox. He will not
| cause hurdles to be erected on the
plateau adjacent to the monument to
show his agility as a horseman and
exploit himself as a rough rider. He
will not make civic Righteousness
speeches from the front portico of
the White House, with the spoilsmen
laughing and joking the while as they
wait for him to return to the back Of
flee there to finish the job of cheat
ing little Delaware out of her patri-
mony or holding Pennsylvania fast to
the idolatrous worship of Steel and
Iron, or the raising up in Ohio, In
diana, Illinois and Iowa, of the paint
| ed Harlot of Robbery and Jobbery,
| in the character of a Supreme Being
| to dupe the Manufacturer, to cheat the
| farmer, and to pillage the workman
alike in field and mill. He will not
| make common cause with the Gray
Wolves of the Senate, nor direct the
| Speaker of the House how, with the
aid of his Committee on Rules, to run
| the legislative grind in the interest of
| the Machine and it's Head, and not in
| the interest of the taxpayers. He will
be a party to no Investigations that do
not invest gate He will bring no
| bogus lawsuits meant to deceive the
credulous, whilst playing into the
! hands of the Trusts. He will restore
| the lost balance of power equally to
| the people and the coordinate
| branches of the Government He will
| keep a civil tongue in his head not
merely during election times, but all
the time. He will respect the veneer
able in years and service, not prance
through the corridors of the Execu-
tive Mansion and the Departments to
display his proWeSS now for the edit
cation of Princes and Ambassadors.
and now again for the humiliation of
veteran Generals and Admirals. He
will not require old women and old
men to stand uncovered in the pres
ence of his family and himself He
will not convert the Presidential abode
into hospital for disabled newspaper
hacks and a hosiery for moon struck
literary scrubs, called to kneel at the
up the War-lord. In a word, he will
be a Democratic President, the latch
string on the outside of the door,
when the door is not open wide a
jurist among men of action, a man of
action among jurists; everything that
the bronco buster is not. except that he
halls from New York and eats three
meals a day.
He belongs to none of the factions.
He is a Democrat. That is all. He is
a Democrat as Tilden was a Demo-
crat. He is Democrat as all of us
are Democrats who love truth for
truths sake and hate hypocrisy, lying
and cant. He is no mans man. I'm
der his wise, benignant and just rule
the humblest of Democrats will re-
CURE no chalkmark. Though twenty
years a justice on the bench he is up
to date on every political issue of the
time. Though living apart from the
buster hauntS of men, he is in close
touch with all the currents of life and
| thought. He is a healthy minded
man, a wholesome bodied man.
| right-hearted, sensible, matter-o fact
man, nothing spectacular or eccentric
about the best man we have seen at
the front in thirty years, and exactly
he kind of leader wanted to take the
helm of State and steer the ship away
from treacherouS water, to go into the
Augean stables and to clean them
out.
Judge Parker does not sport big
stick. nor wear a ruffle to his shirt
which is clean--nor ape the bad man
ners of the four hundred, whilst gent
ly Gliding their morals and keeping
their company. Not a dollar of hon
est accumulation will suffer by his
election; not a poor laborer striving
for his livelihood but will be the
gainef by lit. We shall remain a
World Power, but a World Power
maintaining itself by peaceful arts in
stead of bullying manifestoeS and the
ceaseless. costly display of force. The
one-man power will be scotched. The
one-party power will be checked. The
written law will be restored to its
proper place in the public autonomy.
The statutes will be enforced and
obeYed. The country can go to bed
sure that it will not get up to find
any burg lariOuS enterprise against
weaker nations consummated over
night. 1t can go to sleep sure of
waking up in the morning on no pre-
Cipitated foreign complications, artful-
ly contrived to exploit the President
and glorify the Administration. The
plIs will whirr again, the fields will
driven out and the would-be man on
horseback will have taken himself off
to ask the reason why of DiaZ, or to
find his consolation in the congenial
society of the Kaiser and the Gar.