The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-26

Baltimore, Md, June 9b,-Follow1nS
Is the keynote address delivered by
Judge Alton b. Parker. temporary
chairman, before the Democratic Ma
tional Convention.
Judge Parker said in part:
I'VE meet while the hills yet echo
to wild cries OF liar thief and traitor
and furious walls OF fraud. bribery.
treachery and corruption. and our ears
are weary with the din O.: articulate
shrieking out villtfcation OF the most
shameful brawl OF our political his
tory.
our candidates., however. are with
out exception men OF such lofty mien
That We meet immune from the distem-
per which seized the Chicago con-
venton. and privileged to discharge
soiinn public duty. calmly. deliberately,
seriously.
The cause OF government by the
people the world over has been mate
rally checked by the disgrac eful brawl
which terminated N the bedlam of
Chicago. Every good citizen has been
put TO shame by the brutality and the
aouse which characterized this wran-
gle between n President and an cx-
president. Gratitude friendship, party
royalty, patriotism and common de-
cency were forgotten in the tussle.
safeguard Is Needed.
Inc assault upon tho unwrtten pro-
hioition against third term, made
In the wild scrambio for the Republi
can nomination, warns us Of the vital
necessity of incorporating In our Con-
sutution safe guard against repeated
terms
The ma Who spill, his party at Chi
caso once recognize the third term
tradition and acknow edged its appli
cation to his situation. on the eve of
MS triumph in 1904 he said: The wise
custom which limits the President to
Two terms regards tho substancA and
not the form. and under no circum
stances will be a candidate for or
accept another nomination.
Wrong in this year OF grace he
was right in that. Peradventure he
was honest with his soul and he may
nave confessed to 81 that even a Pros
ident may be tempted TO resort to sor.
aid devices and shameless importun,
Ties to gain his ambition. II SO no
was IN mental condition to realize to
me iuii the danger TO the republic in
vowed in setting aside "A custom con-
stitutins the only bulwark nSaInst
assaults OF men whose ambition
ohokes their patriotism and whose sell
hSh desire for personal victory and
power throttles those moral scruplcs
with which they may once have been
endowed.
Would the man who threw his hat
IT. the rinG and sought to slug his
opponent over the ropes IN his night
tor third term rest satisfied with its
achievements?
clearly his lus, Of power would
have hrooked no such Limitation. \
third term would hut Rave whettcd his
Gesire for more, and as the terms
shipped away each renewal would dis
cover greater injury to our constitu-
tlon. 10 the form of government es-
tablished under IL. and to every legal
curb on his imperious will This Is the
man W homcnaced US with an incrcas @
81 Federal power by usurpation of
states rights and without authority
OF constitutional amendment: the man
let CONGRESS debate about 1t after
wards. the man who having enough
money to send the fleet on its famous
cruise to the Pacific sent II without
sanction of CONGRESS, leaving IL to APP
proprlate the money for the return
When Congress deemed that necessary.
RMS Is the man who advocated Fed
eial incorporation for The increase OF
power at Washington and the tighten
Ing Of legal burdens on the corpora
lions: tine man who authorized the
absorption Of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company ny the Steel Trust; the
man who. by many such drastic acts.
and by unnumhored words has sought