, 1904-06-23
Governor Blacks Address.

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Ex-Governor Frank S. Black of New
York placed President Roosevelt in
nomination delivering the following
stirring address:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
Convention: We are here to inaugu-
rate a campaign which seems already
so nearly closed. So wis ly have the
people sowed and watched .nd tended,
there seems little now to do but to
measure up the grain. They are
ranging themselves not for battle but
for harvest. In one column reaching
from the Maine woods to the Puget
sound are those people and those
states which have stood so long togeth-
err, that when great emergencies arise
the nation turns instinctively to them.
In this column, vast GRd solid. is a
majority so overwhelming that the
scattered squads in opposition can
hardly raise another army. The enemy
has neither guns nor ammunition, and
If they had they would use them on
each other. Destitute OF the weapons
of effective warfare, the only evidence
of approaching battle is in the tom
and number of their bulletins. There
is discord among the generals; dis
cord among the soldiers. Each would
fight in his own way, but before as
saulting his republican adversaries he
would first destroy his own comrades
in the adjoining tents. Each believes
the weapons chosen by the other are
not only wicked but fatal to the holder.
That Is true. This is the only war of
modern times where the boomerang
has been substituted for the gun.
Whatever fatalities may occur, how
ever, among the discordant hosts now
moving on st. Louis, no harm will
come this fall to the American people.
There will be no opposition sufficient
to raise a conflict y:,ere will be hard
~ enough for conIA3.ion There +
of the fall campaign. Their zeal is
chiefly centered in discussion as to
what Thomas Jefferson would do If
he were living. He is not living, and
but few of his descendants are among
the democratic remnants of today,
Whatever of patriotism or wisdom
emanated from that distinguished man
Is now represented in this convention.
1t is a sad day for any party when
its only means of solving living is
sues is by guessing at the possible at
titude of a statesman who is dead.
This condition leaves that party al
ways a beginner and makes every
question new The democratic party
has seldom tried a problem on it's W
account, and when it has its blnnders
have been its only monuments, it's
courage is remembered only in regret.
AS long as these things are recalled
that party may serve as ballast, but it
will never steer the ship.
When all the people have forgotten
will dawn a golden era for this new
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ready yet to place a party in the lead
whose most expressive motto is the
cheerless word forget" That motto
may express contrition. but it does not
inspire hope. Neither confidence nor
enthusiasm will ever be aroused by
any party which enters each compaign
uttering the language Of the mourner.
There is one fundamental plank.
however, on which the two great par
ties are in full agreement. Both be-
lieve in the equality of men. The diff
ference is that the democratic party
would make every man as low as the
poorest, while the republican party
would make every man as high as the
best. But the democratic course will
provoke no outside Interference now,
for the republican motto is that of the
great commander, never interrupt
the enemy while he Is making q mis-
, take"
In politics as in other fields, the
most impressive arguments spring
from contrast. Never has there been
: a more striking example of unity than
+ Is now afforded by this assemblage.
d You are gathered here not as factions
torn by discordant views. but moved
n by one desire and intent, you have
come as the chosen representatives Of
the most enlightened party in the
world. You meet not as strangers
for no men are strangers who hold
" the same beliefs and espouse the same
cause. You may separate W bodie:
Of water for a thousand years. blu
when once the barrier is removed
e they mingle instantly and are one
9 The same traditions inspire and tn
9 same purposes actuate us all. We've
In our lives did these purposes STAN
T. with deeper root than now. At leas
10 two generations have passed ava