The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-09-09
KNAPP SPEAKS
FOR THE EDITORS
ADDRESS AT RosEMouNT TO
THE PRESIDENTIAL NoMI.
NEE.
REPRESENTED zoo OF HIS CLASS
Offered the Tried FeaIty Of His sel.
lows to the Cause and Eulogized
Fighting Quality Of DEM
oeraey Militant
REPRESENTED 200 OF HIS CLASS

| ESopus, Sept. S-WhCn the demo
cratic editors assembled At Rose
mount today to meet Judge Parker.
Charles w. Knapp, spokesman of the
visitors made the following address:
We bring you greeting from me
democratic and independent press
OF the United States. Sharing your
ardent devotion to those eternal prih-
ciDles of truth and justice which bear
the name democracy, we nave come
to touch hands with our chosen lead
or, and in his presence register our
pledges of loyal fealty to the great
work of governmental reform III
which we expecte to follow him to
glorious victory next November.
| BY your fearlessness, resolution
and independence, sir, we have al
ready been stimulated to new Vlgor
and aggressiveness. We come to tell
you by word and by action OF the
enthusiasm that inspires our work
and the confidence with which we
await its successful fruition in the
very near future.
Trinity of Expressions.
| We are of one mind in echoing
your own forcible denunciations OF
the trinity of expressions from which
the American people suffer so much.
Not the transtory requirements OF
party duty, but the enduring respon-
Sibilities of a deep seated conVlntloh
unite both you and us in uunfalterng
opposition to imperialism, high tar
ifs and corrupt officialism. Recog-
niZing these evils as alike in their
essence, since they are. simply vary
ing forms of the same reckless sac
rifice of the general public welfare
in order that the private interests or
the favored few may be the more ef-
ifectively served, we congratulate the
country that the promises of demo-
cracy and the character of it's NOM
inees for the presidency alike assure
government by law and not accord
ing to individual caprice. assure reg
ulating of our affairs through the
wisdom of the constitution, and not
by strenuous fame.
Inside the Constitution.
And when we decry the Imperialism
We do not fear, Judge Parker, that
we will be blind to the grave duties
which the obligations of an enlight-
Iened civilization impose upon us in
the new relations which have come to
our country during the past half doz-
en- years, or that you will shrink from
the task which Christian humanity
demands that we should bravely eX-
ecute. We know that you Will be
awake TO the call of duty and ready
to do the bidding of our destiny. We
know that you will lead the American
people courageously forward to what .
ever sacrifices the ordinances OF fate
have set for them. But we know,
a'so, and we rejoice in the knowledge.
that you will assure the execution
OF these obligations within and not +
outside the constitution.
No Befogsins Phrase.
We have been profoundly i'm |
pressed with our earnest appeal that
the legislative, judicial and executive
departments of the government pre-
serve the clearly defined distinctions
as to their relative powers, which the
wise trainers of our organic law i'm
bedded i'm the constitution Of the
United States. We draw from the
record of your judicial career many
evidences that none of these distinc-
tiOns will be overlooked in your per
Torrance of administrative duties. I
We fear no befogging phrase of new
invention when you are our executive q
and we do not doubt that you viii I
recognize that our so-called insular
possessions are really subject colo
nies
With president imbuel with d
wholenome respect for the consiiiu-
tlou. We Shall look for prompt guar
antee that its protection for life. lib-
erty and property run equally for al .
who live under its flag. We shall
oount also uDOn a speedy sbandn- .
ment of the legal and political ana
chr0nism that a democratic republic
founded On constitution. heralaed
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