The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-23
PARKER IS THE MAN
New York Banker Discusses
\ Democratic Politics.
WOULD LIKE CLEVELAND
Thinks the Country Wou d
Approve of New Yorker

Nav York. Jan. although I have
heen a lifelong Democrat" said j. Ed
ward Simmons, President Of the Fourth
National Bank, yesterday, Il am fully
aware of the fact that the general pub
tic will attach no special value TO my
s,pinion with reference to the coming
presideutial contest for the reason that
am banker. and am not except as
general reader, conversant with the
nautical affairs Of the country. How
ever, / am free to confess that the out
look for the Democratic party appears
TO me TO be exceptionally good, provided
the leaders use common sense in the
formation Of a platform and the selection
Ct a candidate.
Il am in favor of the nomination for
president of a Democrat whose char
acter and whose availability assure party
euccess. I think that the rehabilitation
: Of the Democratic party on Jeffersonian
! Hines, with q platform and candidate that
Will enable all elements in the party to
,.a,te, is something which is earnestly to
be desired by all citizens regardless of
their political affiliations. For all men.
whether Democrats or Republicans. must
desire that the nominees of the two great
parties should be of such character that
the success of either would result in no
disaster to the country.
THE attempt to reunite the warning
factions of the Democratic party is in
line with such result. There are a num-
4 Der of Democrats who might be men
. toned. who would make acceptable can
: dida.es for president this year. Among
, them is ex-president Cleveland who led
the party to success in 1884 and 1892. But
Il would appear from Mr.. Cleveland's re-
cent utterances that he cannot be con-
sidcred as a candidate. His former Sec
reiary of State, Mr.. Olney, and Senator
German, OF Maryland, who has returned
70 the Democratic leadership in the Sen
ate. would also no doubt, make strong
candidates.
But in many respects 1 think that
Chief Judge Parker, of the court of ap-
pals of this state, would make the most
available candidate, and for these rea-
roDe Judge Parker has been on the bench
for the past eight years, and has been,
therefore, removed from the realm of ac-
tive politics, and is in no way involved
IN the fractional differences that have re-
suited so disastrously to the party in the
past He has been devoted to his party
In spite of differences of opinion that
drove other men to the support of its
opponents
HE is moreover a man of the highest
character, of fine mental attainments; he
has a moral and intellectual sympathy
fer those who earn their bread by hard
labor, a evidenced more than once in
his judicial decisions; and his stainless
record as a lawyer and public-spirited
citizen has won for him the confidence
and respect of men of all parties. AS
New York must be the pivotal state in
nc contest of this year, it would seem
be good politics to put at the head of
de national Democratic ticket New
orll man"
L Believe that the country would wei
come to the presidency citizen whose
Knowledge of and reverence for law
y ould insure equality of persons and in
terests, great and small, before the law
Such a man would stand for the SUI
p~emacy of lava supremacy that
Y ould be.real and not merely thearet-
ical
Now, If ever, there is d necessity for
emphasizing the American and Demo-
cratic idea that the president is the ser
want of the law, and that whether he
likes the law not the most important
function of his Owe is to enforce the
law as it is and not as he would have
ito obey the law himself A presi-
dent uneasy under the restraints i'm
posed by law-whether he be contemp-
1uous of law or merely impulsive-will
always prove source of anxiety to legi-
Innate business. Such man as Judge
Parker-calnl, firm. law-loving, independ-
ent--is needed to restore that great Office
to its proper status in our national sys-
tenn.
He is independent. No man and no
set Of men could dominate him. The high
sense of propriety which has enabled
him to guard the dignity of his present |
office. in spite OF what might be TO other
men Irresistible political influences
ceaseless attempts to persuade political /.
utterances from his lips-would not be out 1
of place in the white house just now. /
His resistance TO the appeals of his |
friends and admirers to break the silence /
which his own conception of the judicial !
offiee has imposed en- him is in itself evil |
dence of his rock-like independence and /
courage"
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