Bisbee daily review., 1904-08-11

Standing baTe-headed during brief Hull in the rain storm which had lasted since soon afte- daylight. Judge Parker accepted the nomination, and set forth his views in a speech that evoked fire quent applause.
 Judge Parker spoke for little more than half an hour. His speech was as follows:
 MT. Chairman sud Gentleman of the
 committee:
 l have resigned the office of Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of this state. in order that 1 may accept the responsibility that the great conven- tion you represent has put upon me, without possible prejudice to the court to which I had the honor to be- long, or to the eminent members of the judiciary of this state. of which I may say as private citizen am just ly proud.
 At the very threshold of this re- sponse and before declining with oth- CT subjects. I must in justice to my self and to relieve my sense of grat- itude, express my profound appre- citation of the confidence reposed in me by the convention. After nomi- mating me and subsequently receiv- ing a communication declaring that I regarded the gold standard as firm ly and irrevocably established. a matter concerning which I felt it in cumbant upon me to make known my attitude so that hereafter no men could justly say that his support had been secured through indirection or mistake. the convention reiterited it's determination that I should be the standard bearer of the party in pres ent contest.
 This mark of trust and confidence I shall ever esteem as the highest honor that could be conferred upon mean honor that whatever may be the fate of the campaign, the future can in no degree lessen or impair.
 The admirable platform upon which the party appeals to the country for its confidence and support clearly states the principles which were SC well condensed in the first inaugural address of President Jefferson. and points out with force and direction the course to be pursued through their proper application in order tc insure needed reforms in both the ex- ecutiye and administrative depart rnents of the government. While un- hesitatingly in it's promise to correct abuses and to fight wrongs wherever they appear or have ever caused; tS Investigate the several administrative departments of the government, tht conduct of whose officials has creat ed scandals and to punish those wh' have been guilty of breach of theil trust; to oppose the granting of spec ial privileges by which the few maI profit at the expense of the many; t' practice economy in the expenditur' of the moneys of the people and t' that end to return once more to th' methods of the founders of the re public, by observing in disbursini the public funds the care and caution A prudent individual observes with re spect to his own; the spirit of the pla form assures conservative instead O rash action; the protection of the in nocent as well as the punishment the guilty: the encouragement of in dustry, economy and the faithful pro lection of property and guarante of the enforcement for the beneht all mans inalienable right, amoni which. as said in the declaration O tndependence are life. liberty an the pursuit of happiness" Liberty as understood in this country mean not only the right of freedom Iron actual servititude, imprisonment O restraint. but the right of one to us his faculties in all lawful ways. |