Show BOLD MANLY AND HONEST president letter of acceptance warmly praised by travelers f t NOT ONE ISSUE IS EVADED professional and business men read the letter on a tram train and unite in commending Commend inz its directness boston mass sept 22 on the day when pres dent roosevelt a letter accept ing the nom nation tor for the pres dency wa was issued through the newspapers a trainload of people were travel ng from boston to new ew york the tram train left boston quite early in the morning and ti tery ery man in la the parlor car settled him self el down to an un interrupted study of h s morning paper NI ith plenty of time before the n w th i 1 oti oil ng to d the r attention NN th no bus ness cares to ri r come between them it was qu te to natural that every man i 11 i tl it at car should give the letter an extra ord nar ly close read ing in po nt at of fact it was easy to see that every man in that car read that letter through practically from begian ng to end and read it carefully caie tully fully too th i took op up a cons demable de rafale time and but little was heard in the car save the rustling of 0 the newspapers as the train ped sped on between the beautiful towns of 0 the old bay state after a while the newspapers were laid as de one man atter after another drift ad d into the smoking room and there fol lowed owed the usual interchange of op n ons on an current top cs es the men in the car iver were of the usual type of h gh g grade rade prosperous amer can c eizens they rep resented all sections of the country and all vocations as well one was d st net ly a minister of the gospel qu te a num ber were bankers going on to attend the big convel tion in new york there vl ere several younger men who had the r coif golf sticks w th them and the rest pre anted a fair assortment of bus ness and profess onal men it was the man with the short wh te mutton chop whiskers who began the moke talk and as a matter of course he took tor for his top c the president a letter of t acceptance which every busy man in that tbt car had just finished reading roe doe not mince words there Is I 1 one th ng I 1 like about koose roose alt said he of the mutton chops and that Is that you never have to guess gain again a to what he is talking about and he means I 1 have just finished j 41 kead read ng nt that long letter in the morning paper and I 1 don t bel eve there is an evasive woid in fn it I 1 haven t been a Roo roosevelt evelt man my b is iq ness interest are re such that I 1 got to pay ng a good deal of attention to th s talk about the dent being a dangerous man a wild crazy erratic fellow I 1 was opposed to his nomination at the outset because I 1 believed all these stories when mclvin ley d ed I 1 was tearful fearful that roosevelt s hot blood would involve us in d meal ties and I 1 te many other bus ness men I 1 was extremely acx ous about the fu ture I 1 have been cured of all that by the way things have moved in the last three years on the whole however I 1 thought this man parker would make a pretty good president and it seemed to ne me anyway it was about time for a change I 1 read parker s speech of ac cep tince with a whole lot of interest be cause I 1 wanted to see what he had to say y ile d da t eay say adyth ng at all it was the most disappointing thing of that kind I 1 ever read this letter of roose relt velt a la Is exactly the opposite it doesn doean t leave you in doubt a single minute as to what the candidate bel eves eyes in it te Is honest end and stra ard it does not nine words there is not the sl suspicion of trickery and after reading it through from beg nning lining to end I 1 for fog one ne cannot find a s agle line to which I 1 could take exception not a single nent ment which seems to be that of 0 a danger ous or an amb bious man it Is bold and ve bat but itis not dishonest disho neet and it is ort fc deceptive after reading parkers speech and roosevelt s letter I 1 tell you gentlemen there is absolutely no choice at t all as between the two men and I 1 am a roosvelt Roos relt man from now on hold bold and honest what I 1 like best about the letter aid said the broad shouldered young fellow whole whose brown face and strong hands gave evidence of a summer largely spent in the pen open air lr is the fact that he hits out straight tra ight from the sho ilder I 1 I 1 ke that art sort of campaign I 1 te texture lature it a the let ter of a man who look looks you in the eye and find then punches you good and hard he ile doean t ran run away from the subject and b be boesa doesn t dodge his letter is like the ran inan bold and nd honest I 1 don t much IM sare whether he is dangerous or not but I 1 ku v he suits the young fellows in this auntry country end and it isn t a question of poll tic ties at t all I 1 in going to cast my first presidential rot vote next november Iso vember and it 11 II be counted tor for theodore roosevelt or III know the reason why the yount young men of the country can understand roosevelt and they can understand thu this letter he ile talks of the th tb nga that have been done in the last four years and doean doesn it waste any time on constitutional law OT in sermons as to the duty of good citizens the republican party has done certain things in the last four years and roosevelt tells what they are he ile diesti doesn t tl tie about them he only tells the facts and then he be asks the people to vote for him it if they bel be eve that the government of e country has been run properly if they don t I 1 bel be eve be vi bould rather ape tir ethem them vote against I 1 im he iles s tint that abd tf a man he ile fights out in the epen open and he s always squire ire so its no wonder that everi young man I 1 know is going to vote tor for roosevelt parker a blunder that was an awful d g he gave my friend park parker aid said a well known law va 1 A yer of boston who eat sat in the corner contentedly puffing at a very big and very black and incidentally a very ex x pensive c gar A lot of us didn dian t un bertand der tand when we read parkers s speech bow how he could have made such an awful blunder as to have declared that the com mon law would be found sufficient to deal with all the trust quest ons which come up parker must have known but he probably forgot that from the very na ture of th yo i can cam t apply the corn cona mon law in a nat onal court air 0 ir federal courts derive all the r power from the const cution of the un U fed ted states con gress can only leg slate under the conati tut t t on and wh uh ie le we apply general pr n caples in interpreting the law it is im poes poss ble to sec see re a y affirm active action in tl e united states court except as the result of a statute law d ily passed by congress and aad a ad approved by the pres dent of 0 fh the t he ui ted states A man I 1 11 1 e 01 ley icy who N 0 has been inhere ted in e ae at fairs at IN ash would neer nen er have nade the blunder parker nade lie he seemed to have N w r aten hi 11 s speech of ic ac cep tance as if he we e e deal ng e t rely in abstract quest ons ous wh cli eh had been pre dented for settlement I 1 y h 9 s own court H 11 s expos t on of the general pr nc tie pies ples of the const tut on was not bad from a legal stand pont nt but when he came to deal with the quest on of tr ests he seem ed to have forgotten that he be m v as respond ing to a nom nat on from a national con vent on wh ch eh ha I 1 selected elected h in to act as pre i dent of the ui ted states in wh ch capac ty he be would have to execute un t ed states laws lais only and would have ab sol noth ng to do with nith the common in law w th s allusion of parl er to the common law as a means of attacking the trusts has been a source of surer se so and amazement to the profess on all over the country judge parker s dec s ons in new lork state have always taken h gh rank and it m was as th s N wh h ch eh made the amazement all the greater ive e co child ild not understand how it could poss pos bly be that ally u good lawyer could have made such a blunder and we have been forced to the on that judge pirl P irl er ab sol forgot that be was wr t ng on a national topi chis is only an in stance gong go ng to show the of taking a man off the bench for a pol pos tion especially such a pos tion as that of president of the united states experience necessary to adm adin n ster the affa rs of the gov eminent successfully exper ence is just as necessary as it is to ru i a hotel or a railroad A lawyer fa in active practice is necessarily thrown in to a large extent with the ord nary bus ness affairs of the country but w th a judge on the bench it is entirely d efferent ile deals with matters of abstract r and wrong and all his tra ning goes to remove h in from bus ness problems in po nt at of fact the successful judge in a court of last resort should be as far removed from the influences of daily life as ble the ideal judge is a legal mach ne tie setti ng abstract pr nc tie pies of law where as the ideal pre dent is exactly the appo s te he ile executes the laws as he finds find s them suggests new ones to meet new cond eions and acts as the personal representative of the people who make the laws laves it is not h s bus ness to interpret but to do and the th wh wit ch make a man a good judge make it h in a bad dent and vice versa parker would nev er have made that awful blunder if he had had any recent experience in con gress or in an executive pos at wash agton where he would have been in touch with current opinion on th a subject I 1 don t wonder thit that roose i velt elt picked h in up on th s and in ma m op nion the pres dent s paragraph about the common law as appi appl ed to the federal control of trusts is a most lum ex pos t on of the powers and the I 1 in lations of the federal government but it s a ki knockout lockout blow tor for parker the tariff issue 1 I 1 wa was glad to see said a successful looking man who explained later on that he was a manufacturer in northern ver mont I 1 was glad to see that the dent made such a point of the tariff issue we had a dose of democratic tree free trade theor es up our way about ten years ago which we will never forget NA e are so near the canad an border that we get the worst of every on in the tar ff intes we have to enter into com petit on with the cheap labor of 01 canida canada when the alion tariff bill went into operation just ten years ago it shut up my factory ins de of six months and I 1 tell you gentlemen I 1 d t open again until after Me mckinley Rinley was elected and the D agley tar ff law went into it was a of pinic panic as you know thousands ot of labor ing men were glad to work for any w A ages and yet at the same time I 1 could not run my factory and compete with the canadians who flooded our part of the country goods made by the cheapest labor such as I 1 could not secure even in those t dies mes of starvation there are some places tar far in the interior where freight rates protect them from foreign com petit on in times of free trade but those of us who are near the border are the first to feel this competition I 1 got it in the neck ten years ago and got it good and hard it if there t any other issue between the two parties I 1 NN v vote for roosevelt because he and the republicans generally stand tor for the protector prot protect ecton on of american manufactures aga ast the compel tion tiou of the cheap la bor not only of canada but of the world at large we all believe in reel probity wh ch eh is reciprocal and not in free trade under the gu se of reciprocity roosevelt s story of the d sa effects of the wilson tariff of 1894 Is 13 not overdrawn in the slightest particular and I 1 ain glad to see that he be has kept the tariff issue to the front because in all th a talk of imperialism imperia liim atia and gance and the brusti and on one thing and aud another people seem to forget that the can party is pledged to crotee tion and that the democratic party is pledged to free trade we haven t for gotten that up our way however and I 1 tell you gentlemen that the bg b g lican vote in I 1 ermont was largely if not entirely prod iced by the determination of our people to put themselves on rec ord against the free trade principles and platform of the democrats its it a frank it its s honest and it its s fair said the clergyman to a seat neighbor in the inter or of the car when they were discuss ng the same letter of accept ance I 1 in not a uch ofa politician my self but I 1 bane been very much impress ed with the extra ord nary honesty and the benac ty of p impose shown by the pres dent i 11 i h s letter of acceptance compin compari g it with the speech 0 of judge parker in accepting h s nominal on I 1 cannot see how haw the people I 1 la hesitate very long in making th c choice |