Comment on Judge Parker's Speech of Acceptance. From The Nation, , Aug. ~8, 1904, pp. 50-52

p.50 Calls for return to "the old American conception of liberty under law."

p. 51 "To him [Parker], any attitude but the judicial is intolerable. That he should ever be approached as President with the argument that the course he thought right would lose delegates, is a prospect which he will not contemplate for a moment. ... If he is chosen President, we shall not witness an Executive feverishly working night and day to perfect the machine for a renomination. There will be many cheap jests about Judge Parker's putting aside what may never be his, but nothing of that kind can obscure the simple dignity of his announcement that, if his fellow-citizens elect him President, he will devote himself for four years entirely to their affairs."

p. 52 "The speech at Esopus makes it plain to all that Judge Parker was the right candidate with whom to oppose President Roosevelt. The two men stand for antithetical ideals, and it is for the nation to make its choice between them. It is Constitutionalism versus Imperialism. It is law against impulse. It is the man of calm and (poise and judicial habit against the impetuous meddler who leaps first and asks afterward what the laws If Americans have got tired of all the fret and sham of militarism and the meretricious I glitter of Imperialism, they will turn with relief to Judge Parker."