Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1904-10-26

New York, Special-Former Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland in McClure's for
November gives his personal estimate
OF Judge Parker as n candidate for
President. He says of him in part:
1--WE sometimes find features of char
acter so prominently visible in a mans
mental organization that. like the fea-
tllres of his countenance, they need no
proof OF their existence. This is pre-
e'ninently true of Judge Parkers in
tent deliberation in reaching conclu-
sions and his inherent judicial conser-
vatism. These qualities of his mind
are so distincly apparently that they
are at once seen and known by all who
gain the slightest knowledge OF the
man. This should make it thoroughly
understood that those who love presi-
Dental pyrotechuics must look else
where.
Il have known Alton b. Parker for
more than twenty years. He impressed
me on our first acquaintance as a sim
cere, honest and able man, and this inn
preston has. with time and observa-
ton, grown to clear and undoubting
conviction. ! am sure that | venture
nothing in making the positive asser-
ton that the guiding trait of his char
aoter is his constant and unyielding de-
votion 10 duty.
Judge Parker's experience in ju-
d;cial investigation. added to his nat
ural aptitude in the same direction,
to cot i.f,, L.,
eNacting of his abundant ability to dis
cover in the light OF constitutional re
Quirements, and in the atmosphere of
enlightened but conservative Ameri-
canism, the manner in which a Pres-
dent should best serve his country
men.
Il am persuaded that the American
people will make no mistake if they
place implicit reliance in Alton b.
Parker's devotion to duty. in his clear
perception of the path of duty, in his
steadfast persistency against all temp
tation TO leave the way where duty
leads. and in his safe and conservative
conceptions Of presidential response
Gilties."
In McClure's for November. Sena-
tor Henry Cabot Lodge gives
glimpse OF President Roosevelt as he
soes him. He says OF him.
No man has lived the life OF his
time so amply as he; no one has
shown humanity in so many phases,
no one has wider sympathies OF so
many interests. 1t would be worse
than idle for anyone. no matter how
intimate his knowledge, to fancy that
he could depict a character so many
sided. so tried and tested in such
multiform experiences. within the
space allowed me here. Ills daily
life does not differ in any respect
from that OF any other very busy man
Of great energy, who finds rest and
relief not only in active out-of-door
life, but in 4 wide and constant read
ing of books-a habit, by the way,
quite as characteristic as an yother,
but of which the newspaper critics
and humoristS tell us little
Theodore Roosevelt apprchends
very quickly. When he has thought q
subject out thoroughly and knows
What he means TO do. ne acts prompt
ly. When, after full consideration, he
has made up his mind as to what is
right ne Is unbending; but no man
has been ill the White House for
many years who is SO ready to take
advice. who has made up his mind
more slowly, more deliberately. and
after more consultation than Theo-
Gorc Roosevelt
Every nation, or rather every his
toric race. has certain attributes in
addition 10 the great and more OBJ
vious virtues which it believes To be
peculiarly its own. and in which it
takes an especial pride. we OF the
United States like to think of the typ
ical American as a brave man and
an honest man, very human. with no
vain pretensc TO mfallibility. We
would nave him simple ill his home
life, democratic in his ways, with the
highest education that the world can
give, kind to the weak. tender and
loyal and true. never quarrelsome, but !
never afraid TO fight. with a strong,
sane sense of humor. and with n
strain OF adventure In the blood !
which we shall nveer cease to love |
until those ancestors CT ours who !,
conquered continent have drifted q |
good deal further into the past than |
is the case today. These are the |
qualities which all men admire and |
respect, and which. thus combined. |
we like TO think peculiarly American.
AS l enumerate them | describe |
Theodore Roosevelt"