Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-19
JUDGE PARKER'S LETTER.
Prediction Made That the Document
Will Induce Many Republicans
to Change Faith.

Judge Parker's letter of acceptance
has been treated by the metropolitan
press of the country as document hav-
ing few equals from presidential candi-
dates. It's sober, judicial tone, its nicely
worded assertions and its careful dis
tinctions have been praised freely.
That it will be the cause of many voters
swinging from the republican to the
democratic party, and so casting their
ballots in November, is asserted in al
most every section of the country.
Editorials touching upon the subject
from few OF the leading newspapers of
the country follow:
The New York Herald says:
Judge Parker's letter of acceptance,
though calm and dignifed, will stir the
country even more profoundly than did
his famous telegram, announcing his
firm and irrevocable adherence to the
gold standard Its calmness is the calm
ness Of power-like that of the oceanic
tide
"As a great but conservative tribune
of the people, which the author of this
stateSmanlike letter now shows himself
to be, his strong protests against the OPP
preston of monopoly, and the subver-
sion OF constitutional government and
law, by audacious and arrogant extrem-
lists of imperialism, will have Immensely
greater weight with all Independent
voters, because the statements evil
IDENTIFY emanate from a man who soberly
weighs his words in the nice balances
Of judicial accuracy and are supported
by irrefutable facts"
The Boston Herald says of Judge
Parker's letter:
ut is an able. candid, vigorous, cor7-
prehensive, definite consideration of the
peremptory issues OF the present can
vass. It gives assurance that it's author
| has the insight and the capacity of
craftsmanship. He has now spoken
with freedom and power, confirming the
faith of those who had faith. and the
| hope Of those who had no satisfying
| grounds for faith
ut is the letter of a sincere, high
minded, conscientious citizen, anxious
| that the people. who are to render judg-
ment. shall rightly understand his polit-
| ical faith and purposes
The Louisville Courier Journal says
| On Judge Parker's letter of acceptance:
"Vigor and clearness are the chief
| characteristics of Judge Parker's letter
Of acceptance 1t Is not nearly so long as
| that of Mr.. Roosevelt's, but it omits
nothing that ought to be mentioned It's
tone is judicial, while that of Mr. Roose-
Welt was not. It is perfectly courteous.
and at the same time perfectly out
! spoken. 1t does not undertake to bully
those Of different way of thinking, nor
to hold them ZIP as idiots or public enc
| mics, but il leaves no one in doubt as to
Judge Parker's views of public policy
| The New York Times says:
| Judge Parker's statesmanlike. virile
and convincing letter of acceptance lifts
| the democratic campaign once more to
| the level of the gold standard telegram,
! or very near it. The incident of the
| telegram, extraordinary and startling,
was altogether unique. 1t could not be
repeated and nothing like it could hap
pen again in the canvass. If, in the quiet
| days that followed, democrats have felt
that the battle Jagged, and that their
lines were being beaten back here and
| there by the impetuous onrush of the
confident foe their apprehension and the
| reaction that caused it were but natural.
/ 'sThe letter of the candidate ends that
phase of the campaign 1t stirs, it
moves, 1t inspires, it gives the needed
forward impulse. 1t is the letter of a
strong man. man confident Of the
rightness of his views, and sure Of his
| strength at every point"
/ The Ruffai0 Courfer gave.
His views are democratic in the
broad sense. Fair-minded republicans