The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-15
PRESS VIEWS OF CONVENTION.

IA ID 10 longer 10 De OuODSQ the
silent statesman When he spoke
Saturday afternoon his voice was
neard all Over the nation. and though
MS words were few they were the mos
fbr Hing that have been uttered in a
generation. 1t lakes a big man to de-
cline a presidential commandments
leigh Post
With all questions of temporary ex-
pendiency or policy omitted, with no
reference to free silver or sound money,
to income tax or government owner
ship. it is difficult to see why the dem
ocratic party should not get together
on a platform to which non of its ele-
ments could object and leaye.the rest to
faith in its candidate and to the dec
!aI atoms in his letter OF acceptance
Charlotte Observer.
The national democratic convention
has done it's work well, and The News
cannot refrain from expressing great
satisfaction with the platform adopted
: and the candidate nominated.0Char-
-Iotte News
Certainly the democratic party starts
out in the campaign under favorable
circumstances, all elements happily
united on a candidate and a platform
and all ready to pull together for sue
cess. It had been apparent for some
fcehS pass JHdl Tic SCAlAIiiNiI w lax
democrats of the country was crystal
LIKING on Judge Parker, and we believe
that his nomination, coming almost
spontaneously as it did, was the best
thing that could nave happened for the
party. There need be no further feel
ing between the Cleveland and the Bry-
an democrats-both have made gener-
Gus concessions-and nothing is left
over which to quarrel. The breach that
has existed since n0nlliGt was in flow
er. has been closed, past quarrels for
gotten. the sins of the gold bug as well
as the sins of the sixteen-to-oner have
been forgiven and the party is now
more closely united than it has been
since the war.0Charlotte Chronicle.
1t is a good thing for the party that
the ominatio was made on the first
ballot. The fact proves to the country
that the democracy is heartily behind
the nominee. Enemies of the party will
be greatly disappointed that the nomi-
nation was not attended with wrang-
ling and bitterness. They expected the
radical element to show more strength
and fight with more fury. They count
ed on some sensational effort by Mr..
Bryan to strike confusion into the con
-%serVative camp. He tried, but failed.
Judge Parker makes a fine candidate.
He goes before the people as the unan-
1AtOdS CLAOiCC " Ills patty Ol liz liz
ballot He did not make any bid for the
nomination, and nobody can accuse him
of having sacrificed for political pur-
poses one jot or title of the judicial lie
nifty which he owed his state. H be-
came the leader of the democratic
forces without any word Of bitterness
with regard to any other presidential
Landmark.
Have the managers of the St. Louis
convection lost their senses? Do they
want to give Mr. Roosevelt a walkover
In the election? With a two-thirds ma
S.ority to nominate Judge Parker it is
iucrE6E5:e that they cannot control u
simple majority to give to him safe
and sane platform. Yet they present 10
the country the extraordinary spectacle
Of permitting Mr.. Bryan, the twice-de-
feated. candidate and utterly discredit-
q leader of a forlarn hope, to bulldoze
the committee on resolutions and the
convention itself into refusing a simple
recognition of the accomplished fact
of a gold Standard If the question had
not been raised silence woul have been
enough. But after the cnail man
OF The convention acknowledged in his
speech hat the gold standard is here
to stay, and after a subcommittee on
platform had agreed upon a plank de-
~-claring that the discoveries of gold
nave contributed 10 the llldllleIldlCS
OF u money standard of value no longer
open to question, removing that issue
from the field of political contention'-
then to reject this resolution and re-
fuse to make any utterance upo the
question that has twice defeated the
party is to invite another overthrow
New York World.
The action of the platform committee
in deliberately leaving out the gold
plank as a compromise measure with
MIR Bryan was bitterly criticised yes
terday morning in the eastern demo-
cratic papers. The New York Times
said with the greatest vehemence that
Judge Parker could not in justice to
himself accept any such makeshift plat
form, unless he declared specifically for
gold in his letter of acceptance. The
New York World went so far as to call
on Judge Parker to inform the conven-
ton before it adjourned Of his future
course in regard to sound money. To
the same effect spoke the Brooklyn
Eagle, which paper brought out Parker
as a candidate. The Eagle said nat
Parker would measure lip to the re-
Quirements Of the situation and could
he trusted to speak with no uncertain
sound on his monetary beliefs.
Throughout the country the democratic
papers were mystifed or alarmed, and
the republican papers correspondingly
.eIated over an action that left the po-
Sition OF the democrats in regard to
sound money still in doubt. I.
Judge Parker has laid that ghost, and
the timid and impressionable cannot be
terrified or deluded by any cry from
the republican of democracy's leaning
10 unsound money. There are enough
real and vital issues before us in the
coming campaign, but among them the
old threshed out money question of 1896
finds no place.-Richmond Tmes-Dis-
patch.
Judge Alton B. Parker. of New York.
is the standard-bearer of the national
democratic party for the campaign Of
1904. It cannot be claimed that his
nomination represented any great and
a~llpervasive enthusiasm for him. The
honor liz not come to him on a ground
swell, but as the result of processes of
accretion, which at times, even after
tine convention had assembled, were in
danger. His nomination finds explana-
Hon in tho gradual dr,st IF annSarya-