The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-08
A ROUSING SPEECH
William l.. Taylor Sounds a Stirring
Note =. Seventh District Convention.

u lAC OoN0AlH uiSlElCI COIfSuSl1A
which nominated Congressman Over
street on Saturday, spoke as follows
on assuming the gavel:
''Von Hoist, the great political his
torian, says that political parties exist
as means to an end and not as an
end in themselves; that the moment a
party ceases to have a fixed policy as
an end, that moment it's excuse for ex-
listing ceases.
''The Republican party has always
existed az means to an end; it has
always had a fixed purpose and has
always known just what that purpose
it and it has always had the ability and
the courage to transform it's principles
into positive laws. those laws have
been tried and approved.
1.-THE Democratic party formerly was
a means to an end 1t formerly had
purposes and plans. Toda. it has nei-
Their. 1t is a leaderless, purposeless
mass 1t Is simply drifting with the
tide. Like ship without her rudder,
1t will wash upon the rocks this fall.
It's only avowed end is to find some
landing place. 1t has elected but one
president since 1856, and he has been
in exile for eight years. The conspic-
uous figure who has been at the head
for the last eight years is now on his
way to st. Helena. You cannot put
the pictures of these two leaders side
by side in any Democratic convention
without starting row. The Demo
cratic party today is qual1ing lest the
new yellow peril yellow in journal
ism and yellow iii money, should sweep
the Democracy from it's feet and Sc
cure the presidential nomination at
st. Louis. The Indiana Democracy is
violently agitated 1t is trembling be-
tween hope and fear-hope that some
full-armed leader will walk out of the
Wilderness; despair lest Hearst be
nominated.
How different with the Republican
party. It's platform could be written
by any schoolboy. It's leaders are al
ready named by the common consent
of 100000 sovereign voters. Every
township convention in this country
that meets today can write a platform
that can safely be adopted at Chicago.
The story of the Republican party
this year is an open book.
Every principle the Republican
party has advocated since 1856 has
become q fixed fact in the laws of the
country. Every proposition the Demo.
cratic party has advocated during that
time is as dead as the Caesars. 1t is
a remarkable fact that the last avowed
purpose of the Democratic party is the
first one it now denies.
1.-THE chairman of the Republican
state committee has invited to sit upon
the platform at the state convention
those men who participated in the Re-
publican state convention of 1855.
These venerable patriots can read
upon the walls every proposition the
Republican party has advocated since
the first convention. They illumine
the first convention. Not line has
been erased or blurred These men
voted for Fremont and did not regret
it. Not one of them bows his head in
shame over a single act of commits
sion or omission. They see the faces
of our great leaders looking down from
the walls and they are proud of them
all. Not single picture is turned to
the wall. From Fremont to Roosevelt
We are proud of them ALL
''How is it with the Democratic par
ty? Every line-written by that party dur
ing these forty eight years of glorious
history has been erased Every lead
er has been discredited. We Look hope
fully to the future; they look doubt
fill NJ no CT I1yIo
are going to do and the name of our
commander; they do not know what
they will do nor who will command
them
I'VE know that we are going to nom
mate the capable. earnest and ener-
getic Jesse Overstreet for congress
Some congressman talk and do not
work. Some work and do not talk
Jesse Overstreet both works and talks
I'VE also know that we are going
to elect Republican legislature this
year and that we are going to re-elect
the brilliant and capable Junior SEN
ator, Albert ]. Beveridge. We know
that we are going to nominate and
elect as a successor to Lincoln, Grant,
Hayes, Garfield, Harrison and McKia-
ley, the intrepid, honest, brave, fear
less and competent leader, Theodore
Roosevelt. We know that we are GO
ing to stand by the flag wherever she
floats, as we have always done. We
know that We are going to stand by
the boy who wears the blue shirt of
the American soldier, in whatever
sun or cline he marches or sleeps.
We know that everywhere around this
world he will carry the torch of civil
lization in one hand and the flag in the
other. and that wherever he goes the
blessings of civil liberty and civic