Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-10-15
Phillips on
The Issues
The Able, OigGifled, Ringing Speech
With Which The Republican Can,
iidate for GGVsInOr 0pen.d The
Campaign al Aberdeen.

Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle.
men: l appear before you tonight as
the Republican candidate for governor
OF this state. / think | fully realize The
cares and responsibilities Of such an
important Office, and IL the people OF
South Dakota see fit by their votes in
November to elect me 10 this position,
you maiy rest assured | will serve tho
whole people OF this state TO the best Of
my ability, and thereby best serve the
friends and party responsible for my
nomination and election.
| feel that | am not entirely unac-
qualEted with the duties of the Office 10
which / aspire, having filled the Office
which | consider the most important
office Of trust and grave responsibility
In the state, that OF state treasurer, for
the last four years.
In this contest, | propose to treat the
opposition with the greatest respect. |
will have nothing to say against the
candidates on the opposing ticket. II
Is fair TO presume that they are up
right, honorable gentlemen. | trust
each party is equally honest and sin
ceIe. The aim Of each should be to do
what II considers would be the greaest
EcrCht to the greatest number OF the
People. | am rot going 10 indulge in
any personal abuse, utilization, or
quarrel with any men on account Of mis-
political convictions. II seems impoSsi-
bio for all men 10 think alike-they
never did, nor do / think, they ever
viii. Thanks TO the wisdom of our
forefathcrs, every man I'm this free and
enlightened land has the right to pro-
claim his principles and express him
self at the ballot box as he choices.
] am a Republican, but If governor, /
expect to be governor for the whole
people regardless of party Affiliations.
| am a Republican because | believe in
the principles Of the Republican party,
because they were founded in simple
ity, have been built upin strength and
maintained by the strongest Of strong
men, because their existence proves the
greatest truth with which We have ever
had to do, namely: that al men are
born free and equal. | Tin q Republi-
can because that party has been and Is
the party OF progress and freedom. II
has made the American nation the
greatest nation on which the sun ever
shone.
A party thaE has given the most ben
cfcent laws 10 this nation that the
world has even known.
A party that has produced the great
est men In our history or in the his
tory Of the world, the party Of Lincoln,
Of Grant, of Garfield, Of Blaine, Of Har.
rlson, OF Mckinley, of thousands oE IL
lustrious statesmen and heroes. Men
Of the greaG common people who de-
voted their lives to sustain and build
up this great republic, and serve The
common people.
am a Republican because that party
Is and has been the party Of the com
mon people. Some of our Populist
friends say il Is not the party of 1860.
Read its platforms, its principles, and
most Of all note It's acts and you will
find the party Of Mckinley Is the came
grand old party OF Lincoln, with the
aims, fighting the same old fight
of equal rights and freedom for all, ana
keeping step with the progress OF our