New-York tribune., 1900-07-18
WHY HE REMAINS REPUBLICAN.
A SPEECH BY tom" FITCH THAT WILL BEAR
READING AGAIN.
From The St. Louis Globe-Democrnt.


At the late Republican convention Of Arizona
neId to elect delegates the St Louis Convention
vocates in the Territory was called upon to spea
Mr. tltch said: This morning a friend who is
me with his audience. said to me: MI Fitch You
free cojnaee Of 9egh e pT9poQn@eed @ advocate Of the
louis Convention adopts plank in its platform
free coinage Of siyer did not answer this dues
Lon then' but with your permission l VIII do SO
y 7 belong to the Republican party because its
and the freedom Of the becsTses ns fs n
poses are patrioc because it is the friend Of labor
because It is Just because it's restoration to com
the turbines and fll the land with the music of
G0n[ehIed ana wei paid toll and put bread into
II belong to the Republican party because it is
me me grahqeSt poIltcal organization of freemen
guidance star after star has been added to our flag
after factory has been added to our resources
millions upon millions have been added TO our wealth
t ages, ana the land has been laced with network
0igbf non d Tas ana furnace hres have Illuminated the
MADE to sound Throughout the continent
its inspiration these United States once wTans
ing Hg and discordant Commonwealth, these United
the disease Of secesson-these United States have
hn labor Where no freeahs RFsssmee dis
SSnokeo ~ G oy me hand or power where donfs
equals; where education is free. where manhood is
Under the patriotic rule Of the Republican marty,
these United States have become a nation 1boss
credlt reigns at the head Of the worlds hnencAsN
whose nag noats proudly upon the sea and whose
armies would come at the drumbeat out Of the
try every shore. - " uii-
Under the rule of the Republican party these
OhlIed states nave become the greatest freest and
most prosperous nation under the light of the eIn
belong 10 the Republican party because If gave
land 10 the landless, because IL gave work IN tha
INDUSTRIOUS because IL gave freedom 10 the slave
because, when the Nation was in peril il gave
armies and treasure for her preservation S@'o
, r orty years ago when lad Of eighteen 7 ioined
Lhe Republican ranks. and, too young to vote
nuns my blazing banner aloft for Fremont and
jessie. i was present a newspaper renorter ~
the chicago Convention OF 1860 when ali IIIjnois
shouted Abraham Lincoln into the Presidency
heard the song OF John Browns soul sung in ba ted
preth ana In secret gatherings of his sympat
almost caught the echo OF its refrain when arniAs
chanted II FOR their battle anthem l entoved tbs
eloquence and friendship Of Baker and ~ stsrC
King and Butler and Bingham and Garhald oad
Gonking and that noblest Roman of them Ali
who shall dare to Tell me It is my dutv. shall
care 70 ASK me 10 betray these memortes becanra
OF difference OF opinion concernin9 fba oeCaune t
uons under which silver dollars snail be coined S'
VINO shall dare 10 tell me il is nv duty 10 iesv.
the path along which my youth and manhood snS
Where, when the evening bugle shall sound ~
ilHal reVelile, my age shall be found stiIl narcb
lngE Rather VIII / turn to the Republican Roddegs
Ihe same steadtast race that bore when my locks
now whitening. We're as black as the ravens vJns'
and say 10 her, as Ruth said to Naomi: 'Whitheerr
ihou goest ] VIII go; and where thou lodRest I viii
lodge; thy people shall be my people and INV God
my God; where thou dlest will die and there will
be buried " ~ '0 VIII