Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-11
NOW FOR ROOSEVELT
THE NEW FORK SUN DECLARES
FOR THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
Prefers the Party Of Conservatism to
r.
the Democratic "Huns,":7
Led by Parker.

From the New York Sun, Today.
The campaign Is now on. Both parties
and both candidates have spoken.
On the one side, a conservative party,
with radically inclined and erstwhile TOO
strenuous candidate for President, and be-
hind him. for the vice presidency, a man Oh
undoubted capacity, sound opinions ana
mental and physical promise of endurance
On the other side radical party, with an
infinite capacity for mischief and a stu
pendous record of mischief actually &C
complished. presenting for President a con-
servatively inclined candidate OF ire
proachable character and attractive per-
sonal accomplishments; and for Vice Pres1-
dent one whose extreme age is the sole but
sufficient reason for apprehension in case
of his succession to the presidency
Such is the choice before the Independent
voter and it is the Independent voter who
will decide this election.
He cannot take Judge Parker on the re-
publican platform and record. He cannot
reject Mr.. Roosevelt without reckoning to
the distant Huns; without helping to open
the gates Of power to political forces of
unmeasured> destructive potentiality. 1t
seems better to maintain unbroken the wall
of defense which the first election of Nc
kinley Established
Two things might have happened to make
the choice of 1904 choice between individ-
uals rather than between parties standing
on their respective records Neither of the
two things has happened. The first oppor-
tunity was deliberately avoided by the
compromising trickSters at ST. Louis. The
second deliberately thrown away at
ROSemOunt yesterday.
Barring Judge Parker's gold telegram of
1904. offsetting in some degree his two free
silver votes for Bryan in 1895 and $780, and
barring a polite anti-second term pledge,
which might have been made. perhaps.
more gracefully in an inaugural address
after election, nothing has come from
Judge Parkers lips or pen to indicate that
he possesses a single political idea mark
ing him a statesman of independent
initiative, of courage superior to the st.
Louis brand, of stature to command and
lead. With the two exceptions noted, he
is an echo of the convention, and naught
beside. He is yet the unknown quantity
that he was throughout the preliminary
period of silence prescribed by judicial dig
nifty. Instead of rising above the platform,
Judge Parker has crawled pretty ignomini-
ously beneath 1t, in our reluctantly ex-
pressed opinion. He himself has decreed
that the choice of the independents shall
be one of parties and records and princi-
pies, rather than of men.
To state the Suns position and its rea-
sons therefor requires no metaphysical
subtlety of explanation. The main con-
sideration is broad as the nations in
terests. AS the case is now made up, we
prefer the impulsive candidate of the party
of conservatism to the mildly conservative,
temporlZlng. OppOftunlSt representative VI
the Hun vote in the background. We have
more faith in the distinct promises of the
Chicago platform, not ignoring the many
serious defects of that document, than we
have In the miserable hell-broth of dish
water and dynamite concocted at st.
Louis month ago by a party afraid to re-
nounce its criminal follies, and tasted yes
terday at ESopus by respectable cand1-
date who declares with gusto that it's
flavor Is admirable!
We shall therefore advocate the election
of Roosevelt and Fairbanks and advise
the defeat of Parker and Davis; preserv-
ing our own absolute independence Of or
ganic control, and our freedom of judg-
ment as to every specific question occur
ring. And may the Hon. Theodore Roose-
velt's present mood continue and If he is
elected may the Discourager of Precipi-
fancy stand always at his elbow!
In the politics of the empire state. so far
as they concern state matters, we shall
support the candidate, whatever may be
the partisan designation of his ticket. who
seems to US the more likely to give the
people of New York the honest and COM
petent administratio their public affairs
so grievously need, and to wipe out the
shame and evil of existing grocery condi-
tons at Albany.