The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-05
{. M. SHEPARD SPEAKS
"The People Must Decide Whether the
President is to be Restrained, as
the Rest of US, by the Obi
cations of Law"
He Says.
(New York World.)

~ the relative merits of the two Presi-
lential candidates. His statement fol-
lows in full:
II am willing to answer The Worlds
Inquiries, but feel bound to say that,
lfter it's mastery editorial page of
saturday last, whatever | say will be
carrying of Goals to Newcastle.
Judge Parkers candidacy appeals
TO the best American sentiment; Its
success would promote the best inter
estS of the country and of civilization.
The support of distinguished indie
pendent lawyers like John Il. Parsons,
James c. Carter, Wheeler Fl. Peckham,
William Il. HornbloWer and Francis
Lynde Stetson, all of whom are men
long familiar with Judge Parker, all of
whom for eight years have supported
republican candidates, is sufficient in
deed. But the turn of the tide is deep
CT and broader than the ranks of IA
NOUS lawyers or rich men. The Dem
GCratic appeal iS-as for success it
must be-to the honest, sober, Demo
cratic thought of the masses.
No Right To Throw Stones.
Eyes, fault is found with the poll
teal history of some of Judge Parker's
supporters. But there never was a
residential candidacy-nor. for that
matter, was there ever a political cam
paign-Which in all of it's features and
details was entirely satisfactory. This
is merely saying that political cam
paigns and candidates are human.
Even when Abraham Lincoln was
candidate in 1860 there was the bar
gain made by Jealous supporters of
his with the forces of Simon Cameron.
Surely candidate who, like PreSi-
dent Roosevelt, has adopted as his in
Innate and representative supporters
the late Senator Quay, the present
Postmaster General Payne, the would
be Senator Addicks, and many men
like thcm-the candidate who has re-
Gently effected so OBSERVATIONS a re-
cancellation with Louis #. Payne, de-
nounced not many years ago, if / re-
member Alright, by Secretary Root as
a stencil insupportahle-- not,
nor ought the Presidents friends to
throw stones because the Democratic
party strengthened by Judge Parkers
nomination and enjoying the prospect
of success, is now attractive to prac-
teal politicians.
l. Good citizens who are not politi-
clans may therefore turn to the real
questions in this campaign. They are
fundamental and Gar-reaching. First
is the question of law and order. This
is crowded upon us by President
Roosevelt's candidacy and emphasized
by Judge Parker's candidacy.
1.-THE American people have to de-
eide whether the President is to be
restrained, as the best of us are, by
the obligations of law, national and
International. The President and his
friends boast that he does things.
This is not, of course, to say that he
does not also talk of what he does
for never was there President 50
prefuse Of words about his own doingS
1t means what obstacles of law and
of public or international right and
justice are in the way.
a More LewIess Roosevelt
THE mild manner which his speech
making assumed at oyster Bay will
not cancel from American memory the
actual dOings of the White House dur
ing the last two years, or make us for
get that are-elected Roosevelt will be
more high handed, nor less high hand
ed, than the Theodore Roosevelt who
for three years has been restrained by
his promise to follow the example OF
his gentle predecessor and by the COM
ing judgment of the American people
zone of the worst of all the Presi-
dents reckless uses of his great office
was almost the latest. | refer to his
contemptuous threat against the South
American Republics, in the letter to
the Cuban dinner. That letter was
written but 81 few weeks before the
necessary restraints of the campaign
were imposed upon him.
''And the second question is like the
first, or is, indeed, part of it: Is the
American Republic, wherever its flag
and power extend, TO stand for con-
stitutional and representative liberty
the liberty which is the foundation of
ho f,,r1o 10,
of which law and order and sacred
regard for the rights of person and
property and the equal rights of all
before the law are essential and abld-
ing conditions and consequences?
Judge Parker stands for an Ameri
can democracy which would have no
foreign or colonial subjects-which,
recalling the inSuperable difficulties
created by the presence of the black
race in the South, proposes to have
neither slavery nor subjects The
democratic party promises that races
and tribes Of men across seas which,
although entitled TO our friendship,
cannot safely be taken into our citi-
zenShip, shall be left to work out their
own salvation with our help and en-
enlargement, but not under our do
minion.
Spirit of MiIitarism.
'In the third place, President
Roosevelt stands, and he would have
to be another man, body and mind and
soul, not to stand, for the Grass mill
taristic spirit which is hostile to in
dustrial liberty and to all the true
ideals of industrial democracy. In the
principal nominating speech at Chica-
go, Governor Black truly set forth his
hero; and there are many passages in
President Roosevelts own books which
present the supreme glory and useful
ness which he assigns military power
and the disparagement to which he
subjects the industrial necessities and
ideals of those who do not hunt big
game or prefer the tonic of warfare
to the achievements of laborious and
orderly peace. Upon this issue Presi-
dent Roosevelt will lose other votes
than those of the 'weaklings' whom he