Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1904-08-17
JUDGE PARKER IS NOTIFIED
Accepts the Presidential Nomination rendered
By the Democratic Party

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convention. After nominating me
and subsequently receiving a com
munication declaring that | regarded
the gold standard as firmly and ire
Nocably established. Il matter which
| felt it incumbent upon me TO make
I known my attitude so that hereafter
no man could justly say that his
support had been secured through in
direction or mistake, the convention
reiterated its determination that |
should be the standard-bcarer of the
party in the present contest This
mark of trust and confidence | shall
ever esteem as the highest honor
that could be conferred upon mean
honor that, whatever may be the fate
OF the campaign, the future can in
no degree lessen or impair.
ADMIRABLE PLATFORM.
Tho admirable platform upon
which the party appeals to the coun-
try for its confidence and support
clearly states the principles which
were so we'll condensed in the first
inaugural address Cf President JoffCr-
son and points out with force and di-
rcctness the course to be pursued
through their proper application in
order to insure needed reforms in
both the legislative and administers
tive departments OF the government
While unheSitating in its promise to
correct abuses ana to right wrongs
wherever they appear or however
caused; to investigate the several ad.
ministrative departments of the gov.
ernmcnt, the conduct of whose Off
cialS has created scandals, and to
punish these who nave been guilty of
a breach of their trust; to oppose the
granting of special privileges by
which the few may profit at the ex-
pensc OF the many; to practivc econ
omy in the expenditure of the money
OF tho people. and to that end to re-
turn once more TO the methods of the
founders OF the republic by observ-
ing in disbursing the public funds the
care and caution n prudent individual
observes in respect to his own; sull
the spirit OF the platform assures con.
servativc, instead of rash action: the
protection Of the innocent rs we'll as
the punishment of the guilty; the en-
couragemcnt of industry. economy
and thrift; the protection OF property
and guarantee of the enforcement
; for the benefit of all mans inaliena-
bic rights, among which. as said in
The Declaration Of Independence. are
life, liberty and the pursuit of han
piness-" Liberty. as understood in
this country, means not only the right
Of freedom from actual SOrvitude, i'm
prisonment or restraint. but the
right of one to use his faculties in all
lawful ways. TO live and work where
he will and to pursue any lawful
trade or business. These essential
rights of life, liberty and property
are not only guaranteed to the citi-
zen by the constitution Of each of the
several States. but the States are by
the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States for
bidden TO deprive any person of them
without due process OF law.
"OccaS.Onaliy, by reason of unnec-
eSsary, or impatient agitation for re-
forms, or because the limitations
placed upon the departments .f gov
ernment by the Constitution are dis
regarded by officials desiring to- ac-
complish that which to them seems
good, whether the power exists i'm
them or not, il becomes desirable to
call attention to the fact that the peo-
pie. III whom all power resides have
seen fit to limit the powers conferred
and ID say to departments created
by 1t: Thus far shalt thou go and no
farther. To secure the ends sought
the people have by the Constitution
separated and distributed among the
three departments of government
the Executive, Legislative and Judi
I clal-certaln powers. and it is the
duty of those administering each de-
partment so TO act as to preserve.
rather than destroy. the potency OF
the coordinate branches OF the gov
eminent. and thus secure the exercise
or all the powers conferred by the
people.
THE THREE POWERS.
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to
William =. Jarvis, touching the per
petuity OK our institutions, written
many years after he had retired to
private life, said: If the three now
ers OF our government maintain their
mutual independence OF each other
1t may last long, but not so if either
can assume the authority of the 9th.
er.' 1t must be confessed that in the
course of our history executives have
| employed powers not belonging to
them; statutes have been passed that
were expressly forbidden by the con
stltution and statutes have been set
aside as unconstitutional when IL was
difficult to point out the provisions
SAID TO be offended against in their
! enactment; all this has been done
/ with good purpose. no doubt. but
In disregard, nevertheless. of the fact
mat ours Is government OF laws
not OF men, deriving its just powers
from the consent OF the governed
II we would have our government
| continue through the ages to come
for the benefit OF those who shall
/ succeed us, we must ever he IN o,r
/ guard against the danger of usurna
! IiAn of th a-.tLa.=i.