The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-09

his career from poverty to power, new
er. in fair weather or foul. forsook the
standards of his party faith or deserted
the colors of his command.
The country called upon New York
for a Democrat free from factional dis
man friendly to all factions, but a fav-
orite, and afraid of none; a man who
will take the counsel and courage of
both. but who will take the bitterness
of neither-a man who will not stir the
hatred of the past nor share the ac-
rimony of the present. but who will
lead us up toward the future into
cloudless atmosphere of party peace.
Man of stature.
The country called upon New York
for man who measured up to the
stature of his lofty place and New
York answers with a candidate who
grew from youth to man in the hum
BILE walks of life; who lived and learn
ed what all our common folk must
live and learn; a man ripened with
advancing years in the rich attain
ments of the law until he went. by
choice of those who knew him best.
to hold the heavy scale of justice at
the highest point of our great judicial
system, where, with the masters who
moulded state and nation, and the men
who drove commerce DER the wheel
of time, he surveyed to the very
ground every inch of this great repub-
lie and saw with expanding vision the
material growth and glory of his state.
THE country called on New York
for man to fill this, the critical place
in our national life, and New York
answers with man who puts against
the strenuous sword play of a swag
gering administration a simple faith
in all the perfect power of the con-
stitution; a man who puts against an
executive republic the virtue of a con-
stitutional republic; man who puts
against executive usurpation a knowl-
edge of and deep love for the poise
and balance of its three great powers;
man who puts against the stealthy
hunt with the big stock a faithful
observance of constitutional restraints.
The country called upon New York
for man of stainless character in
private and public life, and New York
answers with man whose path leads
from the sweet and simple fireside of
his country home where he enjoys the
gentle society of his family, to his place
Of labor and honor at the head of one
of the greatest courts in Christendom.
And now here, through his active and
useful life, has naught but honest
praise found utterance on the lips of
those who know him best. If you ask
me why he has been silent, l tell you
1t is because he does not claim to be
the master of the Democratic party,
but is content to be its servant. If you
ask me why he has not outlined a pol
icy for this convention / tell you that
he does not believe that policies should
be dictated, but that the sovereignty
of the party is in the untrampled judg-
ment and wisdom of it's members: if
you ask me what his policy will be if
elected 1 tell you that it will be that
policy which finds expression in the
platform of his party.
An Appeal to the south.
With these. as some of the claims
upon your conscience and judgment,
New York comes to you flushed with
hope and pride. We appeal to the
South whose unclouded vision and iron
courage saw and fought the way for
half a century; whose Jefferson awoke
the dumb defiance of development in
to voice that cried out to the world
curse upon the rule of kings and
blessing upon new born republic;
whose Madison translated the logic of
events and law of progress into the
constitution of the country; whose
Jackson reclaimed the lost places of
the Far South and Democraticized
the places of the nation; and whose
soldiers showed the wondering world
the final fruits of brain and nerve and
heart that ripen in her temperate sun,
and who through all the sons she lost
and all the sons she saved, and all the
tears she shed amid the sorrowful
ruins of war-and through all the pa
tient loyalty and labor of after years
so wrought for human happiness that
all the world exclaims Her greatness
in peace is greater than her valor in
war.
I'VE appeal to you of the old South
and the new to join with us in this
contest for this supremacy of our par
ty. We appeal to the West, whose from
tier struggles carried our civilization
to the Pacific slopes, whose courage
conquered the plain and forest and
whose faithful labor has built beau
tiful cities clear through to the Rocky
Mountains we appeal to you as he did
follow your leadership through eight
long years of controversy you turn and
follow him now when victory awaits
us in November. We appeal to New
England, faithful sentiment among her
historic hills, in the name of all her
unfaltering and brilliant Democrats,
living and dead, to join us in our labor
for success.
Democrats Must DO Their Duty.
I'VE appeal to every Democrat from
everywhere to forget the bitter war
fare of the past: forget the strife and
anger OF the older, other days; aban-
don all the grudge and rancor Of party
discomfort and, recalling with ever in
creasing pride the triumphs Of our
fifty years of constitutional govern
nlent Of liberty and peace-here and
now resolve to make the future record
that respondent reach OF time in which
liberty and peace went up and down
the nations OF the earth, building their
kingdom IN the hearts Of men ard gath
ering the harvest Of genius ard toll;
in which reason struck from the hand
Of force the sword Of hate and plucked
from the heart of war the germ of
greed; in which conscience smote the
thoughts of wrong and filled the mind
with mercy's sweet restraint, i'm which
power grew in the human brain, but
refused the shelter OF a glittering
crown; in which the people of all lands
and tongues awakened to hope by the
inspiration of our example, followed
with the march of years the luminous
pathway leading to a destiny beyond
the reach of vision and within the
providence of God. In this spirit New
York dominates for President Of the
United States Alton Parker"
Speaker Cannon declares that of
all the close-hsted men he ever knew
the champion is a rich bachelor who
lives In Vermilion county, Illinois. The
superintendent of a local cemetery sent