The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-19
PARKER TO THE ULSTER DENIS.
PAINTING ROOSEVELT AS AN. OC-
CASIONAL USURPER.
II Would he We'll. He Thinks. II Ulster
County Would Raise It's Voice for Com
stitutiOn alisni- Enthusiast Promises
Him the whole Vote OF the County.

Two hundred or 80 Democrats who once
lived in Ulster county hut now are citizens
OF this town, met last night in the store at
597 Broadway They were supposed to
shudder at pictures OF imperialism and
shout for Parker, but they were mel Their
depressed nor enthusiastic Most OF the
talk before the meeting concerned the well
fare OF Charley, Pete and other Ulster
county lads. A man from Hurleyville
would ask one from Refton Glen how they
were coming, but not mention the Con-
stitution at all.
Thomas Z. Benedict, once Public Printer
called the crowd to order and introduced
Charles NJ. Preston, chairman OF the Ulster
County Democratic committee, who had
rich prize in his pocket Twas letter
from Judge Parker, and II the date be not
false, 1t must have been written before
breakfast yesterday, as the Judge left
Rosemount at IA. NJ. Thus it ran:
RosEMouNT, Esopus, n, Y. Oct. ls, iooi
GENTLEMEN Ulster county neishbors
cannot be excelled anywhere. Neighbors
once they are neighbors always. Years
may pass A son OF Ulster may settle far
from home. He may seldom see one OF the
faces so familiar in the old days. But
Ulster county is always home to him. ana
old neighbors.
1 wish / might personally shake the hand
of each old friend tonight. l covet the
eager greeting and neighhorly grip that
will be exchanged on all sides.
want to say just word about the sig
nificance of your meeting. 1t is well that
the sons of old Ulster should bear part IN
the great struggle for Government by the
rule Of the Constitution. There is peculiar
appropriateness in it. Ulster was the
t,ti ion ~
Empire State. .
Twelve years before our national Consti-
tuition was in operation, that Of New York
was formulated and adopted at Kingston
And the state Government was estab-
lshed there in conformity with that Con-
sttution.
The Federal Constitution is a chart that
sets forth the course the ship of state should
sail to insure safe voyage. BY IL govern
ment is divided into three departments.
Each department is to perform lts proper
and specified functions.
This is popular government in its most
perfect form. SO long as each depart
nent performs the functions, and only
those, conferred upon 1t by, the people
through the Constitution, 80 long are we
this rule has been disregarded One OF
the branches of the national Government
has on occasion gone beyond It's authority
and usurped func tons withheld from 1t
by the Constitution: a.,
Therefore this is in issue: Shall the ship
of state sail by the peoples chart, or at
random
| repeat, it is well that the voice OF the
people of Ulster county be heard on the
side of constitutionalisn.
With warm greetings and best wishes
for each Of you, am, very faithfully yours,
ALTON b. PARKER.
There was a little applause for each
paragraph. Howard Chip OF Kingston
who said he made speeches from 1870 to 1894,
when the protective tariff forced him to
devote all his time to making living, told
Of his first meeting with Parker IN 1870,
Then he sailed into the tariff and walloped 1t
it for an hour, winding up with the asser-
ton that Ulster county will charge with
Parker as Stanley charged with Lancashire
at Flodden Field. Those who were familiar
with the prospects in the county smiled
grimly.
Ex-senator Linson was to have been
speakerN o.. 2, but he was detained in kings
ton, and the neghbor county Of Chenangoo
furnished a substitute in the person OF
Elliot Danforth who told two stories about
Andrew Jackson and read four pounds OF
typewriter speech on Big Stick horrors.