Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1904 — A PARKER CONSTITUTION CLUB [ARTICLE]

A PARKER CONSTITUTION CLUB

Republican Disregard of Constitution Leads to Formation of a Notable Club. One of the most important clubs of the campaign has been formed in New York. It is projected by men who are devoted to principles and who have determined to do all they can to stay the aggressions of the Republican party upon the constitution, both at home and abroad. If there is one thing more than another which has caused thinking men to turn to the Democratic nominee for the presidency it is the disregard of President Roosevelt and his advisers for the restraints that the constitution imposes. It has been overridden time and again by the administration at Washington, and there is a wholesome fear throughout the country that the precedents set by Mr. Roosevelt 'frill lead to even worse conditions should he be elected. Out of this fear has come the Parker Constitution Club, an independent organization formed in New York, and whose object is to provide the Democratic campaign managers with authentic information bearing upon the disregard of precedents and legal limitations of authority of which President Roosevelt and the Republican leaders have been guilty. A permanent organization has been formed with the following officers: President—James C. Carter. Vice Presidents—Wheeler H. Peckham, John E. Parsons, Joseph Larocque, John G. Carlisle. Secretary—William C. Osborn. Treasurer—William E. Curtis. Executive Cdmmittee—William B. Hornblower, Francis L. Stetson, John G. Mllburn, Howard Taylor, James W. Gerard, Jr. The declaration of principles arraigns the present administration for disregard of the constitution, refers to the policy of the chief executive, and says: “This venerable and beneficent policy President Roosevelt has undertaken to reverse, and in its place to set up a policy of autocratic force. He has shown that a president who has the will to usurp legislative functions. to exalt the power of the executive above the constitution and to commit our nation to violations of international justice, easily finds a way. His course, while filling the vacancy made by the death of President McKinley, can only be taken as an earnest of what he will do if the American people, by electing him president, shall approve his tendencies and methods. “Here is the issue which every citizen must now decide. The statesman who until recently was chief justice of the highest court of New York is the leader of those who stand for constitutional government of this country, strong and enduring in the union of liberty and law.” Judge Parker had eight years yet to serve on a $17,000 a year job, but he resigned. Senator Failbanks has only two years to serve on a $5,000 job, but he is hanging on like grim death. The Judge feels certain of his election, while the senator feels equally certain of defeat. Mr. Fairbanks is losing heart early in the game.—Winchester Democrat. Alva Green, editor of the Otwell Star, the only Republican paper in Dubois county, has renounced the Republican party and will support the Democratic tickets. He says that he Is still a Republican, but President Roosevelt is too erratic to be intrusted with power, and the best interests of the oountry demand his defeat. Judges, college presidents, manufacturers, business men, railroad men, bankers, solid fanners and men of all •vocations and callings in life are for Judge Parker because they know he Is a safe, cautious and conservative man, one whose Judgment is sound and whose mind is clear and well trained. With him in the presidential chair, there will be no Jack-rabbit business or wild west strenuosity connected with the administration. The solid men of the nation are for Judge Parker.—Columbia City Post. It seems strange in this "era of Republican prosperity” to find the New York Tribune, the only out-and-out Roosevelt paper in the city of New Turk, advising laboring men not to go oa strike because "there are so many idle men to take their plaeee at the same wages or less than they are re-