The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-22

President Roosevelt. was named as
temporary chairman of the National
Republican Convention. and his ad-
dress is regarded as setting forth the
views of the President and summarize
ing the attitude of the Republican
paign.
| Mr.. Root said:
| The responsibility of government
rests upon the Republican Party. The
complicated machinery through which
| tho S0.000,000 people of the United
no single will. The composite govern
ment devised by the trainers OF the
Constitution to meet the conditions of
national life more than century ago.
| requires the willing cooperation of
| many minds. the combination of many
INDEPENDENT factors, in every forward
| step for the general welfare.
The President at Washington with
his Cabinet. the 30 Senators represent
Ing 40 sovereign States. the 1856 Repre-
| scntatives in Congress-are required
| t1tude of questions involving varied
and conflicting interests and requiring
Investigation. information. discussion
and reconciliation of views. From ali
our vast territory with it's varieties of
climate and industry. from all our great
DC pulation active in production and
tellectual and moral life to a degree
never before attained by any people,
dlhicult problems press upon the Ma
| tfonal Government.
Within the past five years more than
| $4,000 bills have been introduced in
Congress. Some method of selection
must be followed. There must he some
preliminary process to ascertain the
general tenor of public judgment upon
the principles to be applied in govern
mentt and some Organization and re
bring a legislative majority and the
| executive into accord in the practical
| application of those principles; or eff
| fcctive government becomes impossible.
| The practical governing instinct of our
| people has adapted the machinery de-
| vised in the Eighteenth to the conditions
Eanization of national political parties.
In them men join for the promotion of
a few cardinal principles upon which
they agree. For the sake of those
| principles they lay aside their differ
| ences upon less important questions, To
represent those principles and to carry
| on the government in accordance with
didates whose competency and loyalty
they approve. The people by then
choice Of candidates indicate the prin-
Ciples and methods which they wish
followed in the conduct of their gov
eminent. They do not merely choose
| between men: they choose between
profess, the methods they 'i Pillow t thy
trustworthiness of their professions,
the differences to be drawn from the
records of their past. the general
weight of character of the body of
men who will be brought into partici-
patton ir government by their ascend
ency.
When the course of the next admin
istration is but half done the Republi-
car Party will nave completed the first
half century of its national life. OF
the eleven administrations since the
frs election of Abraham Lincoln nine
covering a period of thirty-six years
have been under Republican Presi-
time. the majority in each House of
Congress has been Republican. His
tory affords no parallel in any age or
century for the growth in national
greatness and power and honor, the
wide diffusion of the comforts of life,
the uplifting of the great mass of the
people above the hard conditions OF
poverty, the common opportunity for
education and individual advancement
the universal possession of civil and
religious liberty. the protection of
property and security for the rewards
of industry and enterprise, the cult
walton of national morality, respect for
religion, sympathy with humanity and
love of liberty and justice, which have
marked the life of the American people
during this long period of Republican
control.
dates of this Convention. we are about
70 ask renewed expression of popu-
lal confidence in the Republican Par
We shall ask it because the princi-
pies to which we declare our adherence
are right and the best interests of
our country require that they should
be followed in its government.
We shall ask 1t because the unbroken
record of the Republican Party in the
east is an assurance of the sincerity of
which we shall give them effect. Be
cause we have been constant in prin-
ciple. loyal to our beliefs and faithful
to our promises. we are entitled to be
believed and trusted now.
Assurance of Good Government.
We shall ask 1t because the character
of the Party gives assurance of good
government. A great political organi-
cation. competent to govern. is not a
chance collection of individuals
brought together for the moment as
wind and sea. to be swept away. to be
formed and reformed again. 1t is
growth. Traditions and sentiments
reaching down through struggles of
years gone, and the stress and heat of
old conflicts, and the influence of
leaders passed away. and the ingrained
probation and of thought.-all give TO
a political party known and inalfen-
able qualities from which must follow
in its deliberate judgment and ultimate
action, like results for good or bad
government. We do not deny that 9TH
er parties have in their membership
men of morality and patriotism; but
we assert with confidence that above
all others. by the influences which
gave 1t birth and have maintained its
life. by the causes for which II has
striven the ideals which 1T has fol-
lowed. the Republican Party has ac-
quired a character which makes its as
tendency the best guarantee of a gov
eminent loyal to principle and effect
i've in execution. Through 1t more than
any other political organization the
moral sentiment of America finds ex-
preston. 1t cannot depart from the di-
rection of its tendencies. From what
1t has been may be known certainly
what ii must be. Not all of us rise
thy of its glorious History; but as
whole this great political organization
the party of Lincoln and Mckinley
cannot fail to work in the spirit of its
past and in loyalty to great ideals.
We shall ask the continued conf
didates whom we present are of proved
competency and patriotism, fitted to fill
the Offices for which they are nomi-
mated. to the credit and honor of our
country.
We shall ask 1t because the present
policies of our government are bene-
fetal and ought not to be set aside. and
the peoples business is being well
done. and ought not to be interfered
with.
Have not the American people rea-
son for satisfaction and pride in the
conduct of their government since the
election of 1900, when they rendered
their judgment of approval upon the
Kinley? Have we NOT had an honest
government Have not the men Sc
l6cted for office been men of good repu-
tatton who by their past lives had given
evidence that they were honest and COM
petent? Can any private business be
pointed out in which lapses from hon
esty have been so few and so trifing
proportionately, as in the public ser