Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-13
STATES POSITION.
New York Sun Out for Roosevelt and
Fairbanks.


New York. Aug. 1.-THE Sun in it's
issue Thursday, contains the following
editorial under the captain Roosevelt
and Fairbanks:
THE campaign is now on. Both par
ties and both candidates have spoken.
On the one side, a conservative party,
with a radically inclined and erstwhile
too strenuous candidate for President,
and behind him, for the vice presidency.
a man of undoubted capacity, sound
opinions and mental and physical
promise Of endurance. On the otner sue
a radical party with an infinite capacl-
" fol- mischief and stupendous record
Of mischief actually accomplished. pre-
senting for President conserVatlVHly
inclined candidate of irreproachable
character and attractive personal ac-
complishments, and for vice president
ona whose extreme age is the sole but
sufficient reason for apprehension in
cas-. of his succession to the presidency.
"Such Is the choice before the indie
pendent voter, and it is the lndepeh-
dent voter who will decide this election.
He cannot take Judge Parker on the
Republican platform and record he
cannot reject Mr.. Roosevelt without
beckoning to the distant Huns. WITH
out helping to open the gates of power
70 political forces of unmeaSured de-
structive potentiality. 1t seems better 10
maintain unbrOken the wall of defence
which the first election Of Mckinley
established.
1.-TWO things might have happened to
make the choice Of 1904 2 choice be-
tween individuals rather than between
parties standing on their respective
records. Neither of the two things has
happened The first opportunity was
deliberately avoided by the compromis-
ing tricksters al st. Louis. The second
was deliberately thrown away at Rose
mount Wednesday. Barring Judge Par
ker's gold telegram of 1904. offsetting
in some degree his two free-silver votes
for BRYAN in 1896 and 1900. and barring
a politic anti-secOnd term pledge which
might have been made. perhaps. more
gracefully in an inaugural address. at
ter election. nothing has come from
Judge Parker's lips or pen to indicate
that he possesses a single political idea
marking him as a statesman of indie
pendent initiative, of courage superior
to the st. Louis brand of statue to
command and lead. With two eXcep-
tons noted. he is an echo of the con-
vnntion and naught beside. He is yet
the unknown quantity that he was
throughout the preliminary period of
silence prescribed by judicial dignity.
Instead of rising above the platform.
Judge Parker has craWled pretty ig-
ANONYMOUSLY beneath it, in our reluc-
family expressed opinion. He himself
has decreed that the choice of the indie
pendents shall be one of parties and
records and principles, rather than of
men.
ITO state the Suns position and its
reasons therefor requires no metaphysical
subtlety of explanation The main con-
sideration is as broad as the nations
interests. AS the case is now made up,
we prefer the impulsive candidate of the
party of conservatism to the mildly con-
servative. temporlzing. opportunist rep
resentative of the Hun vote IN the back
ground. We have more faith in the dis
tinct promises of the Chicago platform,
not ignoring the many serious defects OF
| that document, than we have in the mis-
| mite concoCted at St. Louis a month ago
| by party afraid to announce its GRIM
inal follies. and tasted. Wednesday, at
| ESopus by a respectable candidate, who
declares with guSto that its flavor is add
mirable. We shall therefore advocate the
election of Roosevelt and Fairbanks and
| advise the defeat Of Parker and Davis.
preserving our own absolute independence
Of organic control. and our freedom OF
! Judgment as to every specific question &C.
curing. And may the Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt's pre- sent mood continue, and if
/ he is elected may the discourager of pre-
cpitancy stand always at his elbow.
| I'm the policies 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 hon
est and competent administration their
public affairs so grievously need and to
wipe out the shame and evil of existing
| Conditions Alhany'