. Review of reviews and world's work. st the methods of force, in the settlementof international questions. The most striking statement in JudgeA Candidatem Pikers speech of acceptance is that in which he declares for a singleterm. A part of what he said on this interestingsubject is in the following language : If the action of the convention shall be indorsed byan election by the people, I will, God helping me, giveto the discharge of the duties of that exalted office thebest service of which I am capable, and at the end of theterm retire to private life. I shall not be a candidatefor nor sha
. Review of reviews and world's work. st the methods of force, in the settlementof international questions. The most striking statement in JudgeA Candidatem Pikers speech of acceptance is that in which he declares for a singleterm. A part of what he said on this interestingsubject is in the following language : If the action of the convention shall be indorsed byan election by the people, I will, God helping me, giveto the discharge of the duties of that exalted office thebest service of which I am capable, and at the end of theterm retire to private life. I shall not be a candidatefor nor shall I accept a renomination. . It is simply my judgment that the interests of thiscountry are now so vast, and the questions presentedare frequently of such overpowering magnitude to thepeople, that it is indispensable to the maintenance of abefitting attitude before the people, not only that theChief Magistrate should be independent, but that thatindependence should be known of all men. 268 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF Miss Democracy (to Uncle Sam) : As I am now safe and sane, I would like to manage your Sam : How long have you hecn out of the asylum( —From the Leader (Cleveland). It is clear that Judge Parkers title to the con-fidence and support of about half of the votersof the United States does not rest upon the ex-pression of distinct tenets or his arraignment ofthe Republican party. It will rest upon thetact that his views are marvelously like those!known to be held by leading Republicans suchas President Roosevelt, Mr. Root, Secretary Hay,Mr. Taft, and others, and that his election wouldnot, therefore, result in any radical change intlic method or spirit of the admirable adminis-tration that the country has enjoyed during thepast few years. Mr. Parker is placed in the dif-ficult position of having to satisfy his party byan effort to differentiate issues upon public ques-tions, at the very I inn- when the elements that have captured the Demo
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