The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-02
TOHONOR RCLEVELAND
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WILL
 RESPECT HTS MEMORY.
Judge Parker Carries Resolutions to Denver That wiIi Pay Tribufe to
 the Dead Statesman.

New York, July 1.--Ex Judge Alton. B. Parker, William r. Sheehan and other delegates New York left this afternoon for Denver on the 3:30 o'clock train to attend the national democrat ic convention.
 On the day of ex-president Cleve- lands funeral an informal conference of leading men from many states was held ct which it was agreed that, upon the completion of the address of tenn porary chairman of the convention. series of declarations commemorative of the ex-president's relations with his party and the country should be intro duced As a result of this agreement.
 Judge Parker will present the fol- lowing resolutions:
 Be 1t resolved that after entering formally upon the special and impor- tant work for which this national con vention of the democratic party of the United States has been called. we take the earliest opportunity solemnIy to express our grief over the death Of Grover Cleveland. We record our pro- found appreciation of his lofty char acter. his commanding ability and his unfafling wisdom. We indulge a just pride that his patriotic and unselnsh services, rendered to his country in the time of need, were made possible as the representative and chosen candi- | dent in three of It's national conven- tions. We mourn his loss the more because hls great gifts of mind and heart. so cheerfuliy and so effectively devoted to It's service period of fifty two years are no longer to be at .ne command of his party and his country. Tn thus giving expression to the keen sense of loss felt, without refer ence to political opinion by our fellow citizens. throughout the country. we recognize and command his faithful ness. at all times and under all cir cumstances, to the settled traditions and policies of the democratic party as exemplihed by it's declarations of prin- ciples. by its acts and by the ideas and utterances of all it's great leaders from the days of Thomas Jefferson to those of Samuel J. Tilden.
 Although Mir. cleveland's important work was done and his greatest re- sponsibility assumed in the execution of federal authority, he upheld with all the force of his mind, with heroic devotion to principle and with all the power of his great office and infiu- ence, the night of the state and local governments He thus rendered afrec- tive service in asserting and maintain ing that just distribution of powers which so distinguished the political sys- tenn bequeathed by the founders of the republc.
 He respected the integrity of our courts and so insisted upon the strict enforcement of the law that every hon. est man or interest might be protected and all offenders punished without fear or favor.
 ''On the one hand he consistently pressed upon his countrymen the neces- sity for revision of our tariff laws which should strip away every vestise of favor, remove every excuse or reason for monopoly and destroy every harbor In which privilege is wont to find shell ter while on the other hand he enforc- ed that economy in expenditure which he believed would eliminate the cor ruption entailed from an era of extor- ton and extravaganza against which his whole career was protest He maintained the public credit and
 honor. stood firm as a rock in defense of sound principles of finance and re.
 sisted the dangerous economic doe ] trines and practices left by the Repub- licah Party as an heritaxe to our peo- gle.
 Under his administration civil ser vice reform was first redeemed from
 the region of pretension and became
 Q reality.
 He took the Monroe doctrine out of the realm of dreams and made it