The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-02
EXTOL VIRTUES
Of CLEVELAND
Judge Parker Has Set of ReS0-
IutionS for the Denver
Convention.
NEW WORKERS START WEST
PAT M'CARREN TAKES PASSAGE
ON SAME TRAIN.

New York, July Former Judge AL
ton B. Parker, William F. Shehan, and
other delegates from New York, left
this afternoon for Denver to attend the
national Democratic convention.
On the day of former President
Cleveland's funeral an informal con-
ference of leading men from many
states was held at which it was agreed
that upon the completion of the adj
dress of the temporary chairman of the
national convention, a series of declar-
atoms concentrating Mr.. Cleveland
relations with his patty and country
should be introduced. AS a result of
this Judge Parker will present the fol-
lowing:
The Resolutions.
Before entering formally upon the
special and important work for which
this national convention of the Demo-
cratic party of the United States has
been called, we take the earliest Op-
portunity Solemnly to express our grief
over the death of Grover Cleveland.
We record our profound appreciation
of his lofty character, his commanding
ability and his unfailing wisdom. We
indulge in the just pride that his pa
triotic and unselfish services, rendered
to his country in the time of necessity,
was made possible as the representative
and chosen candidate of the Demo-
cratic party in three of it's national
conventions. We mourn his loss the
more because his great gifts of mind
and heart, so cheerfully and so effect
lively devoted to service over a period
of fifty-tw0 years. are no longer to
! his country.
Example Commended.
I'm 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 commend his faithfulness
at all times and under all circum-
stances to the settled traditions and
policies of the Democratic party as
exemplified by its declaration of prin-
ciples, by its acts and by it's ideals
and utterances of all its great leaders
from days of Thomas jefferson to those
of Samuel j. Tilden.
Although Mr. Cleveland's important
work was done and his greatest re-
sponsibility assumed in the execution
of federal authorities, with heroic de-
votion to principle and with all the
power of his great office and influence,
the rights of state and local govern
]
vice i'm assisting i'm maintaining the dis
tribution of powers which so distin-
guished the political system bequeathed
by the founders of the republic.
Respected the Courts.
HE respected the integrity of our
courts and insisted upon strict en-
forcement of law that every honest
man or interest might be protected and
I.H lo,-e NTH fanr ~
favor.
ION one hand, he consistently
pressed upon his countrymen the ne
cessity for a revision of our tariff laws
which should strip away every vestige
of favor, remove every excuse for q
monopoly and destroy every harbor in
which privilege is wont to find shell
ter, while on the other hand he en-
forced that expenditure which he be-
lieved would eliminate corruption en-
tailed from an era of extortion and ex-
travagance against which his whole
career was protest
Maintained Public Credit.
He maintained the public credit anC
honor. stood firm as rock in defens'
of sound principles of finance and re
sisted the dangerous economic doc
trines and practices left by the Repub
lican party as a heritage to our people
Under his administration civil ser
vice reform was first redeemed from
the region of pretension and becam'
reality.
He took the Monroe doctrine out o
the realm of dreams and made it
thing of life and power, which com
mands universal respect.
He so insisted that official respon
sibility was his bounden duty and tn
inalienable right of our people, that hi
motto, "A public office is a public trust
was the ruling principle. of his lif
and is a fitting epitaph for his monu
ment
He preserved simplicity in living ant
character in time when ostentdtion
both public and private, not onl!