Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-07-04
Roosevelt Nomlnated

walton to the eousIdeFate judgment % LAG
American people.
Roosevelt Nominated
Chicago, June. 23.-NGminating
speeches were in order today at the
national Republican convention.
Ex-Governor Black of New York, in
placing in nomination Mr. Roosevelt,
said in part:
There will be no opposition sufficient to
raise a conflict. There viii be hardly
enough for competition. There are no
Democratic plans for the conduct of the
fall GamnaiEn. Their zeal is chiefly cen
tired in discussion as to what Thomas JEFF
ferson would do if he were living. He is
not living, and but few of his descendants
are among the Democratic remnants of to-
day. Whatever of patriotism or wisdom
eHanated from that DISTINGUISHED man is
1t is a sad day for any party when its
only means of solving living issues is by
guessing at the. possible attitude of a
statesman who is dead This condition
leaves that party. always beginner and
makes every question new. The Democratic
party has seldom tried a problem on its
own account, and when it has its blunders
have been its only monuments. its cour-
age is remeIS5ered only in regret. As lor
as these things are recalled that party may
shin
In politics. as in other fields the most
Impressive arguments spring from con
trast. Never has there been a more strik-
ing example of unity than is now afforded
by this aSsemblage. You are gathered
here not as factions torn by discordant
views. but moved by one desire and intent.
you have come as the chosen representa-
tive of the most enlightened party in the
world. You meet not as strangers, for no
men are strangers who hold the same be-
liefs and espouse the same cause. You
may separate two bodies of water for
thousand years. but when oace the bar,
g m hlyT- II10Cvi Ia f1aE N
are one. The same traditions inspire and
the same purposes actuate US all. Never
in cur lives did these purposes stand with
deeper root than now. At least two gen
citations have passed away since the origin
of that great movement from which sprang
the spirit which has BEEN the leading i'm
pulse in American politics for half a cen
fury. In that movement which was both
a creation and an example, were those great
characters which endowed the Republican,
party at it's birth with the attributes or
justice, equality and progress, which have
held it to this hour in line with the high
est sentiments of mankind. From these
men we have inherited the desire, and to
their memory we owe the resolution. that
those great schemes of government and hui
tahlished by their blood. shall remain as the
fixed and permanent emblem of their la
bors. and the abiding signal of the liber
ty and progress of the race. The problems
of every age that age must solve. Great
causes impose great demands. but never
in any enterprise have the American peo-
u.
Republican party failed to express the con-
science and intelligence of that people.
The pubic mind is awake both to its op-
pOrtunitieS and It's dangers. Nowhere in
the world, in any era, did citizenship mean
more than it means today in America Men
of courage and sturdy character are ranging
themselves together with a unanimity sell
dom seen.
There are times when great fitness is
hardly less than destiny, when the elements
so come together that they select the agent
they will use. Events sometimes select
the strongest man, as lightning goes down
the highest rod And SO it is with those
events Which for many months with un-
erriag sight have led you to a single name
which l am chosen only to pronounce:
Gentlemen. | nominate for President of the
United States the highest living type of
the youth, the vigor and the promise of a
great country and a great age, Theodore
In seconGIng the nomination Of Mr..
Roosevelt, Senator Beveridge said:
lone difference between the opposition
ono ourselves is this They select their
candidate for the people. and the people
select our candidate for Us.
This was true four years ago when we
senesat-d The pean-a's i-d---c2t ard named
William Alch nIey, Mi:"se g'fIett mngllng
Of mind and heart. of wisdom and Of ten
derness, won the trust and love of the ma
tiOn then and makes almost holy his mem
DRY now. His power was in the, people 5
favor his shrine is in the peoples hearts.
1T is true today when again accept
the peoples judgment and name Theodore
C..
the republic, whose courage, honesty aud
vision meet all emergencies. and the sum Of
whose qualities make him the type of goth
century Americanism And the 20tb cen
fury American is nothing more than the
faith - - -,'','S NV 10y '
American ideals, his ideals. This is his
only chart of Ctatesmauship-and no other
is safe. For the truast guide an American
president can have is the collective intelli
| gence and mRssed morality of the American
| people. And this ancient rule of the faith
| ers is the rule Of cur leaders now.
Theodore Roosevelt is a leader who leads
| because he carries out the settled purposes
| of the people. Our presidents plans. WheT
achieved, are always found to be merely
! the nations will accomplished. And thai
| is why the people viii elect him.
They will elect him because they know
| that If he is president we. will get, to WORT
| decades of delay, when the people want
thing done, they want it done.
+bo Ifh hey know that while he is Presd;en
| advantage in the Pacific or the world b.
surrendered. Americans never retreat
While he is president no wronng-doer il
the service OF the government will go un
| whipped OF Justice. Americans demant
honesty and honor vigilant and fearless.
| nile he Is president adjustment o
tariff schedules @aill be, made only in bar
mony. with the principle of protection
| Americans have memories.
hoco dne 4; american lean, people will elect hin
thlhgs the people want done: does things
not merely discusses them-does thing
only after discussing them-but doe
things; and does only those things tn
people would have him do This is char
acteristically American: for wherever b
Is, the American is he who achieves
On every question all men know wher
he stands Americans. frank Themselves
demand frankness in their servants. Tr
certainty Is the death of business III
people can always get along If they kno1
where they are and whittier they are qoine
His past is his proof. Every great mea:
ure of his administration was so wise RI
enthusiastically sustained BY his own mart,
II Won votes even from the opposition
American methods changed but Arar
can character remained the same Toa
ontlved the stsge coach, but not the Pib1.
Ihey advanced but forgot not their fa+ber,
Lhey deIyed Ia earth. but remembered th
hleher Things. They made highways of tn
oceans, out distance and climate altered Nc
their Am,erlcanism. They began as chi
uren 81 % hpTLty and children of liberty the
remain. They began as servants Of II
tatheF Q. lights, and His servants +hev p
NAM ana so into their hands is dali
gwen more q power and opportunity this
J they may Work even larger RELATIONSHIPS !
J the WofId ana scatter over ever widenin
heiGs the pressed seeds of human happines
+ This Is the Republican idea of the Amar