Arizona republican., 1904-07-07
PARTY'S CRADLE
continued From Paae 1.

] NCOA0 tAiC po'A v AACAN NcSNNAASA tteseA4AA'N 1 the thousand lesser evils that beset the public life of modern peoples-the evils
 of ignorance, corruption, avar'ce and | llawlessness, the prejudices of race and 1 of class, the voices of demagogues, the
 cunning of dishonest craft, the brutal tyranny of the boss, the venality of the
 mean? 1 think it. is not too much to say that the last forty years have given
 an answer, full of glory and honor, to
 that question. = The republican party,
 in the mass and in detail, has shown it's
 capacity to govern. By the homestead | law, with equal generosity and wisdom, l it distributed the immense national do main among the citizens who were will | Ing to cultivate it and who have con- verted wide stretches of wilderness into
 smiling homes. Il built the Pacific railroad, which has bound the union i together from east 10 west by bands If steel and made the states beyond the
 mountains among our most loyal and prosperous commonwealth. It redeem- | ed our paper currency and made all
 our forms of money exactly equal val
 ue, and our credit the best in the world. By persistent honesty in our finances in the face of obstacles which might have daunted the hardest statesman 1t has reduced our interest charges so that in any mart on earth we can bor- row money cheape,' than any other peo- pie. In the financial revulsions to which all communities are subject, We
 are able, thanks to our laws and our administrative system, to meet and pass
 the most violent crises without last ing damage to our prosperity. We have, by the patient labor of years. so succeeded in reforming and regulating our civil service that patronage has al-
 most ceased to cast its deadly blight upon the work of our public servants Human nature is weak and offenses
 happen; but they are almost always
 found out and are punished without mercy when detected. By persistent adherence to the policy of protection,
 we have given to our inductries a de- Velopment which the fathers of the re- public never dreamed of; which, be- sides supplying our home market has carried our manufactures to the utter
 most ends of the earth
 Our opponents sometimes say We have no right to claim the credit of the great deeds of the last half century, that we could not have accomplished them without the aid of democrats.
 Nothing truer was ever said; and it is one of the chief glories of our annals. and it forms the surest foundation Of our hopes for the future. The princi- pies upon which our party is built ar,. so sound, they have so irresistible an attraction to patriotic and fair minded men, that whenever a time of crisis comes, when the national welfare is clearly at stake. when voters must de- eide whethec they shall follow the.r prejudices or their consciences. we draw from other parties their best men by thousands. Bright among the brightest of those who founded our party shine the names of democrats. and when the war came on, the picked men of that party rallied to the coIors. Douglas shortly before he died. de-
 ciared his unfaltering support of Lin coin. The sun would go down before [ could name the. democrats who fought like heroes for the country. Grant. sherman, Sheridan, Dix. Sickles. To- gan-in short, an innumerabIa host. democrats all, rushed into the field and thereafter fought and worked with thu, republicans while life lasted. And tbar vast majority of Lincoln's in 1864 would have been impossible had not rnyriads or democrats, casting their lifelong as sociations to the winds, listened to the inward monitor which said. "Choose you this day whom ye shall serve" As IL was then. so it has been in after years. When the attempt was made 10 repudiate, in whole or in part. the national debt; or to abolish the system or protection to American industries founded by Washington and Hamilton. ana approved by the experience of 4 hundred years; or to degrade our cur rency at the demand of mere ignorance and greed-in all these cases we saw the proof of the homely adage that you may lead horse to the water but may TOT make him drink. In spite of or ganizations of gifted orators. hosts of patriotic democrats walked quietly to tho polls and voted as their consciences dictated, in the interests of the public welfare rather than of a party.
 Everything great done by this coun- try in the last fifty years has been done under the auspices of the republican
 party. Is not this consciousness 2 great asset to have in your mind and HiS-IoIy AS mere item of DersOuai comfort is it not worth having? Lin coin and Grant Hayes and Garfield Harrison and McKinley-narnes secure in the heaven of fame-they all are gone leaving small estates in worldly goods but what vast possessions in principles, memories sacred associa- tons! It is a start in life to share that wealth. Who now boasts that he op- posed Lincoln? who brags of his voting against Grant? though both acts may nave been from the best of motives. Tn our form of government there must be two parties, and tradition. circurn- stances, temperament, will always ere ate sufficient opposition. But what young man would not rather belong to the party that looks up. rather than down; to the party of the oawn' rather than of the sunset. For mNy years the republican party has be- iieVed in the country and labored for ii m hope and joy; it has reverence1 tho Tag and followed it: has carried if un- der strange skies and planted it on far recedlng horizons. It has seen the na- ton grow greater every year and moro