Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-08-17
PARKER'S ACCEPTANCE.

Judge Parker has been notified of his nomination and has accepted 1t. The speech of acceptance has been referred to and aptly so as Ian aca- demic essay by a learned jurist. " While it covers a great amount Of space it contains nothing suggestive of depth of thought but i'll all of its utterances is rather commonplace and mediocre. The most startling thing said by Judge Parker probably in the entire speech, was the assertion that if elected he would not again be a candidate for reelection in the fol- lowing words:
 ''If the action of the convention shall be endorsed by an election by the people I will, God helping me, give to the discharge of duties of that exalted office the best service of which am capable and at the end of the term retire to private life. l shall not be a candidate for, nor shall ac- cept re-nomination. Several reasons might be advanced for this position, but the controlling one with me is that l am fully persuaded that no in
 cumbent of that office should ever be placed in a situation of possile tempt ation to consider what the effect of any action taken by him in admins trative matters of great importance might have upon his political for
 tunes. Questions of momentous con- sequences to all of the people have been in the past aud will be in the future presented to the president for determination, and in approaching their consideration as well as in weighing the facts and the arguments bearing upon them, he should be un
 hampered by any possible thought of the influence his deciscion may have on anything whatever that may effect him personally. 1 make this state ment, not in criticism of any of our presidents from Washington down, who 1 have either held office for two terms | or sought to succeed themselves; for ] strong arguments could be advanced ! in support of the reelection of a president. It is simply my judgment i that the interests of this country are i now so vast and the questions present | ed are frequently of such overpower- ing magnitude to the people that it is indispensable to the maintenance | of a befitting attitude before the people not only that the chief magis- trate should be independent, but that | independence should be known to all i men.
 The above declaration will of course be cheering to the presidential aspi- rants in the democratic ranks, for if | Parker fails of election as he almost ! surely will, be will be eliminated | naturally as a presidential possibility, i but if by any mishap politically he | should be elected, he has eliminated ] himself and will give free field to all !. democratic aspirants. On other ques- i tions Mir. Parker has said nothing that will arouse any enthusiasm in his behalf on the part of voters.
 He starts out by announcing his resignation from the bench and ex- presses gratitude for the nomination, then explains his gold standard teIe- gram which was adopted as sort of appendix to the St. Louis platform he compliments the platform quoting a string of its generalities, stIinging a lot of his own making, which might mean anything the reader wishes it to.
 He hits the present tariff "biff. He would not be democratic if he failed to do this for was it not created by republicans and the mission of democrat is to denounce and deplore any and every sor- of republican crea- tion. He refers to the fact that repub- l licans can be found who have voiced a sentiment in favor of tariff revision i but he failed to add that they have never yet committed themselves to |. have the opponents of tariff perform !