Show I 1 BOLD SOLD MANLY AND HONEST president Roosevel ts letter of acceptance warmly praised by travelers NOT ONE ISSUE IS EVADED professional and business men alen read the letter on a train and unite in commending Commend inz litz its directness boston mass sept 22 on the flay day when pros dent letter accept fail tag the for the presidency we was issued through the newspapers a trainload of people were traveling from boston to new lork the train left boston quite early la in the morning and tery every man in the parlor car settled him jelf self down to an a uninterrupted study of 0 b h a morn mom i me n c pa paper per IN alth ith plenty a 0 f time before them w th tb nothing to d J street the r attention a vt til th no business cares to ome come between them it was quite natural that every man a thit car should eie give the letter an extraordinarily close read ing in point of fact it was easy eany to see ee that every man maa in that car read that letter through ally lly from beginning ir to end and read it carefully too this took up a cons demable time and but little was beard in the car sare save the rustling of the newspapers as to the train pd ou oa between the beautiful beau manlutac towns of the like old bay state blate after a while the newspaper newspapers were laid aud aside one man after another mother a drift ad d tuto late the smoking room and sad there fol towed the usual interchange of 0 opinions on an current top topics am the men in the car were of the usual type of h b gh gb grade prosperous american citizens they represented all sect act ong ono of the country and ait 11 II vacations as well one wag was distinct ly a mcalster of tue the gospel qu te is a num her ber were bankers grains going on to attend the big coave conTer tion in new york there were erg several lounger Toi inser men who had their fall coll tt at eks w tb th them and the rest pr pree ge rd pit a fair assortment of bu business and nien men it was the mm mn with the short white mutton chop whiskers who began the moat alk and as a matter of course he took tor for hg h s tope top c the president presidents s letter at wh ch eh every busy man in that car had just finished reading lip doe does not mince orda there Is one tb as ng I 1 like about roose roots volt slid said he be of the mutton chops and 0 thit that Is that you never hare hays to guess I 1 gain again as to what be he is talking about and M what he means I 1 bare have just finished as read ng D that long letter in the morning IP paper and I 1 don t believe there is an evasive word ord in it I 1 haven t been a Roo roosevelt tevelt man my business bi b siness interests are erg such that I 1 foe got to paying a good deal kt of t attention to tins this talk about the oil dent be ag ng a dangerous man a wild crazy erratic fellow 1 I was 12 opposed to ogg he b s nomination at the outset because I 1 pill r believed all these them stones stories IN ben hen melon in djey I 1 died I 1 was tearful fearful that roosevelt Roosevel ts lot ot blood would involve us la in difficult ties and like many other business men P I 1 was extremely anxious about the tu fu ture I 1 have been cured cared of 11 all II that by I 1 the way things bar have moved in the last rd three years oa on the whole however boweter I 1 thought this maa man parker would make a tier 0 pretty food good president and it seemed to am me anyway it was about time for a change I 1 read parker a speech of ac ae cep tince with a whole lot of Inter interest ext be cause I 1 wanted to fee see what he be bad to say y lie he didn dian t a deiy ajr anything at lit all it it was fhe the most disappointing thine thing of that a e kind I 1 ever read this tetter letter of boose roose gal tit valt i a Is exactly the opposite it boesa t leave you in doubt a single minute as to what the candidate believes be lieres in it la Is it honest and nd straightforward it does not mine mines words there Is a not the slightest led at suspicion of trickery and after reading it through from beginning to end I 1 for 19 one ne cannot find a single line to which I 1 wa 0 could take exception oot not a tingle single f cint which seems to be that of a danger alti out ats or an ambitious man it Is bold and arave bat but it is not dishonest and it Is MIN km sot ot deceptive after reading parker th speech and Koose ts s letter I 1 tell you 2141 tot leinen there is absolutely no choice 40 at t all as between the two men end and I 1 am 4 roosevelt man from now on hold bold and honest IIo neit 0 I 1 what I 1 like bet best about the letter I 1 till said the broad shouldered young fellow he whoa ho brown face and strong bands hands gave my evidence of t a manner summer largely spent in the uplift pa air Is is the tact fact that he be bita hits out straight from the shoulder sho ilder I 1 like that ort sort of campaign camp aien literature it a the let t of a man who looks you in the eye be and slid then punches you good and hard lie is ean t rna run away froia from the subject and rot ad ht down t dodge ills letter is in like lik the P bin call bold and honest I 1 don t much the tore r whether he is 1 dangerous or not bat but wit I 1 im y he h salla saki the young fellows follows in this thin atry slid nd it fan isa t a question of 0 poll ties c at t all I 1 in going to cast my first vote next november and it 11 or be counted tor for theodore roosevelt Roose or arty ill U know the th reason why the young B of the country can understand 04 Ko aserett and they can understand this letter ile n talks of the things that bate have broa ta don done la im the th last four years and 12 esa t IF wast sto any time on constitutional law w or InI in hermans ermous as to the th duty of good i as the republican publican Be party has done I 1 f cerald things thing in the lat last tour four years and nd got Rs elt tells what they are lit ile doern t bla it c about them he only tells the facts 1 and I then he aski asks the people to tote vote for e film a it if they believe that the government fOT emment ong it 0 country boo ha been run properly property if it oil bevy be y don dont t I 1 be belete eye he boull rather ra mt them vote against him he ile a tint thit aru kind na at ng man ire jr abts aig out in the or an and nd he hes a always aqua squa squrire re do so il it a no its wonder aikler tint that every youn ratio I 1 know Is going ln to rot for ito wit evelt irr porker a ilium lr or nit bt was an awful I 1 g be gave give my trimond parker said a well known law i yer yet of boston who eat la in the comer contentedly puffing at a tory very big tag and terr very black and ad incidentally a tory very tx ex pensive cigar A lot 0 of us dlan t on un der demand stand when we w read parker speech how he h could bar have made such an awful blunder as to liar here declared that the corn com mon law would ba be found sufficient to deal with ill all the trust questions which come ap parker must have known bat he b up probably ably forgot forgo that from rom the very na tare ot of things yon can t apply the coin cow nou mom law in a national court our federal courts derive all their aroi from tb constitution of the united state states con eres cress can only legislate under the C consal aution and while we apply general prin caples in interpreting interpret ine the law rt a is 1 IB 1 possible to sec see ire any affirmative action in the united states court except as the result of a statute law duly passed by congress and approved by the president who of f the united state states A man I 1 ke olney who las lihs been interested in public at fairs at ashington ashing tou would never have made the blunder parker mide lie ile seemed to have artlen arteo his speech of acceptance cep tance as s it if he be were IF ing ei or la in abstract questions a h oil cu had been pro pre tented seated tor for settlement by h b s own court ili his she exposition ot of the general prime pies ples of 0 I 1 the itron was not bad from a legal standpoint but nhen be he came to deal with the question of trusts he be seem ed to hare have forgotten that be he nas A as respond ins ing to it nomination from train a national con dention which had selected him to act as president of the united states in which capacity be would hare bare to execute unit ed states laws laus only and would have absolutely sol nothing to do with the common law this allusion of parker to the common la an as a means of attacking the trusts has been a source of surprise and amazement to the profession all over the country judge I 1 arker a decisions in few new lork state bare always talen taken high rank rauk and it was this which made the amazement all the greater 11 e coald not understand how bow it could pos bly be that aly aay food good lawyer could hare have made stich such a blunder and we xe have hare been forced to the conclusion that judge parker absolutely sol forgot that te be was writing on a it national top koplo ibis is only an in stance going to show the of taking a man off the tb bench for a pol position especially such a kostiou pos lion as a that of president of the united states re Ze rebeary ceary cestary tb to administer the affairs of 0 the goy eminent success successfully filly ex experience prience Is just I 1 as necessary as it is to run a hotel or a railroad A lawyer in active practice is necessarily thrown thron in to a large extent with the ordinary business affairs of 0 the country but with nith a judge on the bench it is entirely it frelent he ile deals with matters of at abstract right and wrong and all bis his training goes to remote remove him from business problems in point of tact fact the successful judge in a court of last resort should be as far removed from the influences of daily life as me ble the ideal julge is a legal machine mach like settling abstract principles of law whereas is the ideal president is exactly the opposite lit lie ile executes the laws as ha he finds them suggests new ones to meet new conditions and acts us its the personal representative of the th people who make the laws it is not his business bosl ness to interpret but to do and the things which make a man a good judge make him a bad dent and vice versa parker would nef nor er hate have made that awful blander it if be had had any recent experience in con gross gress or in an executive position at t washington where he would hate bare been in a touch with current opinion on this subject I 1 don t wonder that roose relt picked h b in up on this and in my opinion the I 1 resident a paragraph about the common law as appl ed to the federal control of trusts Is a most luminous ex position of 0 the powers and the limitations ii mItAt Ions of the federal government but it a certainly a knockout blow for parker th the tariff ine issue 1 I was glad to see ee said a successful bucce looking man abo bo explained later on that he was a manufacturer in northern N ver er mont I 1 was glad to see that the dent made such a point of the tariff issue V IN e had a dose of democratic tree free trade theories up our way about ten years ago which we will never forget IN e ar are eo so near the canad an border that we get the worst of every reduction in the tariff rates we bare have to enter into competition ith the cheap labor of canada V ben the vi ilson tariff tart it bill went into operation just ten tell years ago it shut op up my factory inside of six months and I 1 tell you gentlemen I 1 dida t open again until after mcgunley Mc lUnley was elected and the dingley tariff law went into operation it was a time of 0 panic a as you yon know thousands of labor ing men were glad to work tor for any w ages and yet at the same time I 1 could not run my ray factory and compete with the canadians who flooded our part of the country with goods made by the cheapest labor such as I 1 could not secure eren even la in those times of starvation ther there are some places far in the interior where freight rates protect them from foreign competition in times of free trade but those of us who villo are near the border are the first to feel this thin competition I 1 got it t in the neck ten years ago and got it good and hard it there t any other issue between the two parties I 1 would tote vote for roosevelt because he and the republicans generally stand tor for the protection of american manufactures the tb competition of the cheap Is lor bor not only of 0 canada but of the world at large W we all believe la in reel probity which Is reciprocal and not in tree free trade under the th guise of at reciprocity roosevelt Hoose a story of the disastrous effects of the tb wilson tariff of 1831 Is not over brawn in the slightest particular and I 1 am glad to tee see that he be has kept the tariff issue to the front because in all this talk of imperialism and gance games and the trusts and one thing and another people seem to forget that the I 1 republican party is pledged to krotec tion and that the democratic party Is to pledged to free trade we baton haven t tor for gotten that up our way however and I 1 tell yon you geat gentlemen lemen that the big lican tote vote in I V ermont was largely it not entirely produced by tb the determination of oar our people to put themselves on rec ree ord again against the tree free trade principles and platform of the th democrats ito it rank frank ito it honest and it a fair said the clergyman to a seat neighbor in the th interior of the tb car when they were discussing the ame same letter of accept A anca ra I 1 to not much of a politician my self but I 1 bays been tory very much impress ed with the extraordinary honesty and he rho tenacity of purpose shown by the president la in b a s letter of acceptance comparing it with the speech of judge I 1 arler la it accepting his nomination I 1 cannot see how th via people sa A hesitate my try long la IQ making looking tl ie chales |