The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-11


 on the 9th, 7th, Sth and. 9th days or July 1904, we, the undersigned, nave the honor, and it is our pleasure 10 convey to you, as we now do' tne or ficial announcement of your unanimous nomination by that great and historic body of the people, as US candloate for the exalted office of the President of the United States. at the election to he held November 8, 1904, nomina- tion so manifestly wise and appropriate that already the country has indicated it's approval of it and the most con- vfncing auguries are rapidly increas- ing of its formal endorsement by the American people.
 Tn requesting your acceptance of this nomination, we are. with assurances of our high esteem and sincerest good wishes,
 Yours respectfully,
 Champ Clark of Missouri,
 Chairman.
 It was also signed by all of the other members of the notification com mittee.
 Judge Parker then spoke as follows: Speech of Judge Parker. MT. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committees:
 I have resigned the office of Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of this StdtS III oTueT that l may accept the l responsibility that the great conven- | tion you represent has put upon me, without possible prejudice to the court to which had the honor to belong. or to the eminent members of the. judi. | ciary of this State. of whom may now say as private citizen am justly | proud.
 At the very threshold of this re- sponse and before dealing with other subjects. must. ip justice to myself and to relieve my sense of gratitude, express my profound appreciation of the confidence reposed in me by the subsequently, receiving a communica- tion declaring that I regarded the gold standard as firmly and irrevocably es- tablished, matter concerning which I known my attitude so that hereafter no man could justly say that his sup port had been secured through indi | rection or mistake, the convention re- fterated its determination that should be the standard bearer of the party in the present contest. This | mark of trust and confidence I shall ever esteem as the highest honor that that. whatever may be the fate of the campaign. the future can in no degree lessen or impair.
 The admirable platform upon whio h the party appeals to the country for its confidence and support clearly states the principles which were so well con. densed in the first inaugural address of President Jefferson. and points out with force and directness the course to be pursued through their proper appli- cation in order to insure needed reforms In both the legislative and administru- tive departments of the government correct abuses and to right wrongs wherever they appear or however caused; to investigate the several ad. ministrative departments of the Gov Naf Af l.- .t-N has created scandals. and to punish those who have been guilty of a breach or their trust; to oppose the granting of special privileges by which the few may profit at the expense of the many; to practice economy in the expendi- tune of the moneys of the people, and to that end to return once more to the methods of the founders of the repub- ilc by observing in disbursing the public funds the care and caution prudent individual observes with re- spect to his own; still the spirit of the platform assures conservative. instead Of rash action; the protection of tine innocent as well as the punishment of the guilty: the encouragement of in dustry. economy and thrift: the pro- lection of property and a guarantee of the enforcement for the benefit of all of mans inaltenable rights among which. as said In the Declaration of Independence, are life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness" Liberty, as understood in this country. means not only the right of freedom from actual servitude. Imprisonment or restraint. but the right of one to use and work where he will and to pursue any lawful trade or business These essential rights of life, liberty and property are not only guaranteed to the citizen by the Constitution of each of the several States. but the States are by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States forbidden to deprive any person of any one of them without due process of law.
 The Limitations of Power. occasionally, by reason of unneces- sary or impatient agitation for reforms, or because the limitations placed unnn constitution arc disrcgarded by officials desiring to accomplish that which to thtm seems good. whether the power exists in them or not, 1t becomes desfr- able to call attention to the fact that the people. in whom all power resides have seen fit. through the medium of the Constitution. to limit the govern mental powers conferred and to say to departments created by 1t: Thus far shalt thou go and no farther" To se- cure the ends sought the people have by the Constitution separated and dis trlbuted among the three departments or government-the executive. legisla- tive and judicial-certain powers. and It IS the duty of those administerfng VoNh SD to act as to pre- serve, rather than to destroy, the po- tency of the coordinate branches Of the government, and thus secure the exercise of all the powers conferred by the people
 Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Will liam C. Jarvis. touching the perpetufty of our institutions. written many years after he had retired to private life, said: If the three powers of our gov ernment maintain their mutual inde- pendence of each other 1t may last long, but not so if either can assume the authority of the other" It must be confessed that in the course of our history executives have employed DOW CTS not belonging to them; statutes forbiGden by the Constitution and stat Wes have been set aside as unconstf- tutlonal when 1t was difficult to point out the provisions said to be offended against in their enactment; all this has been done with q good purpose no doubt. but in disregard. nevertheless, or the fact that CUTS is a Government or laws. not of men. deriving its lust powers rom the consent of the gov trhed. If we would have our Govern Iacht continue during the ages to come TOT the benefit of those who shall sue ceeu uS' we must ever be on our guard aEdIhst the danger of usurpation of tnat authority which resides in tine WVole people, whether the usurpation he bX officials representing one 6f thc three great departments of Government. or by body of men acting without commission from the people.
 1mpatience of the restraints of law