The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-06
Elliott DanfOrth EulOgizeS the New York
 Judge. A TRUE FRIEND OF THE SOUTHERN STATES Problems of This Section Should Be Solved by Pe0- pie of This Section. Head of the New York Judiciary's Silence as to Topics Political Due Entirely to his Keen Sense of the Fitness
 of Things.
Advertiser Bureau, Colorado Building.
 Wa shin rt0n- May 6-

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 Washington. May 5.
 .arker is, in the judgment of men who understand the political situation, the only Democrat who can carry the State of New York. Judge Parker is the only Democrat who can be elected President this year.
 That is the reason why New York's seventy-eight delegates were instruct ed to vote for Judge Parker at St Louis, and that Is the reason. also, why Democrats of the South and West who are willing to subordinate per- sonal interests and personal resent ments to the success of the party are uniting with Democrats of the East in a concentrated and consolidated effort to nominate the chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals as the Demo- cratic candidate for President. It Is now clear that Judge Parker will be nominated at St. Louis, and the feel ing Is strong throughout the country that Judge Parker will be the next President"
 Eulogy of Danforth.
 That is what the Hon, Elliot Dan- forth. who was State Treasurer from 1889 to 1904. chairman of the State Democratic Committee 1s96-97,, Demo- cratic candidate for lieutenant gover- nor in 1898, delegate to the last five national Democratic conventions. a defegate-elect to St. Louis, and loy- al supporter of Bryan in 1896 and 1900, said here to-day in commenting upon Judge Parker's presidential candidacy. Before leaving the city with Mrs Dam forth for Hot Springs. Va, this after noon, Mir Danforth said:
 T have known Judge Parker inti- mately for many years, We have been in touch since the time when, as a young man, he entered upon a career, which, beginning in modest way, In the rural district of New York State has steadily advanced in dignity and power until Judge Parker now occu- pies the highest judicial office in the State, an office second only to a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States.
 The Rise of ParLer. E.
 'T knew Judge Parker when. as a political disciple of Samuel J. Tilden. he supported the great cause of re- trenchment and reform in the later seventies and early eighties.
 T knew him during the campaign of 1884. when the Democrats of New York looked on him for sympathy, ad- vice and support in the effort to elect the first Democratic President seated since the war between the States. I knew him when. as a young man in the office of surrogate of Ulster coun- ty. he was laying deep and broad the foundations of an honorable career. knew him when he was appointed member of the Supreme Court of New York. and later when he was elected chief judge of the Court of Appeals.
 'I do not think, I exaggerate, when I say, that Judge Parker is a whole man in every relation of life. a Dem ocrat of courage, character and con viction and an admirable representative of the American spirit
 Ut is in no sense surprising that Democrats throughout the country, weary of crimination and recrimina- ton, and irrespective of past faction al differences, have turned to this com mandirg figure in our political life, and have determined to bestow upon him the highest honor within their gift.
 T think I am we'll within the limits of restrained statement. when I say that Judge Parker is the hope of the unterrihed Democracy.
 Democracy Unquestioned.
 Judge Parker's Democracy can't he successfully impugned. It cannot be even doubted. Judge Parker recoG- nizes that the Democratic party is greater than any one man. He believes that the party founded by Jefferson rests upon certain eternal varieties in government, and that the party would not be orphaned in case one or even, two men should die He embOdies to- day in his personal idea, character and life. all that 1t is best and highest in the historic Democratic Party, in It's faith, and in its achievements
 He believes that the Democratic Party has done the really enduring thing in American history. and he be- lieves. also that upon the success of Democratic principles depend the safe ty and honor of the nation.
 Tt is idle in unfriendly critics of Judge Parker to state that his views on public questions lack definiteness. For reasons of weight, reasons which are convincing in the judgment of every thinking man, Judge Parker has not In recent years advertised his opin- Ions in public. When he went on the bench. he was by a decent sense Of the fitness of things, restrained from engaging in political agitation.
 There are some men who persist in being judges in politics and politicians on the bench. Judge Parker is made of finer clay than these, and the peo- pie of New York and of the whole country rejoice that he is
 Parker Not A Shirker.
 His silence in recent years should not be interpreted to indicate that he would, for any consideration, shirk re- Iponsibillty or seek safety in a policy of evasion. So long as he Is on the bench. Judge Parker prefers to deport himself in a manner beftting his ex- alted office. His friends are willing that his claims for political preferment rest for he preSent A least 0u his well -k devotion to Democratic principles, on