The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-09

auce on the liDs of those who know
him best If you ask me why he mas
been silent / tell you 1T IS because
he docs not claim to be the master OF
the Democratic party but is content
TO be it's servant. If you ask me why
he has not outlined a policy Tor TINS
convention ] tell you that he does not
believe that policies should be dlc~
tatcd. but that the sovereignty OF the
na1tv is in the untrammelled Judg-
ment and wisdom of its members: IL
Won ask me what his policy VIII De-
if elected, | tell you that it VIII be
that policy which finds expression III
the platform of his party.
With these, as some OF the claims
upon your conscience and judgment
New York comes to you flushed with
hone and pride We appeal to the
South whose unclOuded vision ana
courage saw and fought the way for
n century, whose Jefferson aWoke the
dumb defiance of development INTO
voice that cried out to the world
curse upon the rule of kings ana a
blessing upon a new born repuDllc.
Whose Madison translated the logic
of events and the law OF progress
into the Constitution; whose Jackson
reclaimed the lost places of the far
South and democraticized the policies
of the nation and whose soldiers snow
ed the wondering world the nneSl
fruits of brain and nerve and heart
that ripen i'll her temperate sun ana
who. through all the sons she lost,
and all the sons she saved and all the
tears she shed amid the sorrOwful
ruins of war-and through all the pa
tient loyalty and labor of after years
so wrought for human happiness that
all the world exclaims her greatness
in peace is greater than her Valor IN
war
We appeal to you Of the old South
and the new to join with us in this
contest for the supremacy OF our par
ty. We appeal to the West whose
frontier struggles carried our ciViliza-
ton to the Pacific slopes. whose cour-
age conquered the plain and forest and
whose faithful labor has built beauti-
full cities clear through to the ROCKY
Mountains; we appeal to you as ne
did follow your leadership through
eigh long years of controversy you
turn and follow now when victory
awaits us in November. We appeal
to New England, faithful sentinel
among her historic hills, in the name
of ali her unfaltering and brilliant
Democrats, living and dead, to JOIN
us in our labor for success.
We appeal to every Democrat from
everywhere to forget the bitter war
fare of the past; forget the strife and
anger of the older. other days; aban-
don all the grudge and rancOr of pay
ty discomfort and, recalling with ever
| increasing pride the triumDhs Of our
| fifty years of a constitutional gov
| eminent of liberty and peacer--here
| and now resolve to make the future
record that Respondent reach of time
| in which liberty and peace went uI
| and down the nations of the earth
| building their kingdom in the hearts
| of men and gathering the harvest OF
| genius and toll in which reason struck
| from the hand of force the sword OF
| hate and plucked from the heart OF
war the germ of greed in which
| conscience smote the thoughts o.
wrong and filled the wind with sweet
restraint, in which power grew in thu
| human brain but refused the shelter
| of a glittering crown which the peo'
| pie of all lands and languages awak-
| ened to hope by the inspiration of oul
| example, followed with the march o.
years the luminous pathway leading
to destiny beyond the reach of Wis
| ion and within the providence of God
In this spirit New York nominate!
for President of the United States
| Alton B. Parker.