Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-06-27


the fundamental principles for which
IL stands. | think the convention has
been fortunate in harmOnizing the
minor differences which unavoidably
arise i'm a country like ours, where
speech is free, and where printing is
free. We stand together on the prop
osition that the industrial system of
the United States must not be I'M
dermined by a hostile partisan agita-
ton and that whatever changes are
necessary in our laws ought to be
made by the friends, or at least the
acquainances, of the protective tariff
system. The things upon which we
are agreed are so great, and the things
about which we differ are so small, that
we are able, without sacrificing sincere
republican convictions anywhere, to
unite as one man in defense of our
common faith.
1.-The roll-call of this convention is a
reminder not without its melancholy
suggestion, that the veterans of re-
publican leadership are transferring
the responsibilities which they have
borne, to the generation born since
1850. The children of the men who
laid the foundations of the republican
party are here to begin the celebration
of its fiftieth anniversary. A heavy
hand has been laid since we met at
Philadelphia upon the men who guided
the counsels of the party. Nelson
Dingley, whose name is associated in
immortal reputation, with the indus
trial and commercial miracles which
opened the new century is gone, and
within the borders of the same state
lies all that is mortal of Thomas B.
Reed, who put an end to anarchy in
the American house of representa-
tives; dear uncle Mark Hanna, whose
face has looked down with the benedic-
atoms, we shall sac no more; within
the past few days we buried Matthew
Stanley Quay in the bosom of the COM
monwealth which he loved, and which
in spite of the malice and calumny
which pursued him while he lived,
never failed in its affectionate conf
dence in him, while over the whole
four years has hung the shadow of the
national affiiction which left the
American people in sackcloth and
ashes.
I'VE stand at the beginning of the
new era, and while the republican party
leans upon the counsel of its old lead
ers, il has not hesitated to summon to
the responsibilities of public life the
young men who have been trained I'M
der their guidance to take up the bur-
dens which they are ready to lay
down, and finish the work which comes
TO them as an inheritance of patriotism
and duty. That is the significance of
the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt
and that is the explanation of the call
which has been made by the repub-
lican party without a dissenting voice,
upon Charles w. Fairbanks, to stand
by the side of the president in the
guidance and leadership of the repub-
lican party.
while he has not sought to con-
strain the judgment of the convention,
or indirectly, he has kept him.
self free from the affection which I'M
dervalues the dignity of the second
office in the gift of the American peo-
pie and | do not doubt that his heart
has been touched by the voluntary
expression of universal good will which
has already chosen as one of the stand
ard bearers of the republican party or
sought the man and he will bring to
the Office the commanding personality
of statesman equal to any of the
great responsibilities which belong 10
our public affairs. A leader of the
senate, the champion of all the great
policies which constitute the irwin
chile record of the republican party
during the last ten years, his name will
become a tower of strength to our
cause, not only in his own state, but
everywhere throughout the country. A
man of affairs the whole business com
munity shares the confidence which
his political associates have reposed
in him from the begging of his public
life. The quiet, undemonstratve,
popular opinion, which has given the
republican party a platform upon
which all republicans can stand with
no dissenting voice, here or anywhere,
has long since anticipated the action
of this convention in adding to the ma
tional republican ticket the name of
Senator Fairbanks of Indiana. take
pleasure in presenting his name, hon.
ored everywhere throughout the
United States as our candidate for
vice president"
A MISSOURI MUNcHAUSEN.