Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-07-01

Chicago, June 23.-Nominating
speeches We're in order today at the
national Republican convention.
Ex-Governor Black of New York, In
placing in nomination Mr.. Roosevelt,
said in part:
raise conflict. There will be hardly
enough for competition. There are no
Democratic plans for the conduct of the
fall camnaign. Their zeal is chiefly cen.
tired in discussion as to what Thomas Jef
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
emanated from that distinguished man is
now represented in this convention
1t is 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 a beginner and
makes every question new. The Democratic
party has seldom tried a problem, on its
own account. and when 1t has its blunders
have been its only monuments, Its cour
age is remembered only in regret. As long
as these things are recalled that party may
serve as ballast, but it will never steer
ship
In politics. as in other fields. the most
impressive arguments spring from con-
trast. Never has there been a more strik
..
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
a thousand years. but when once the bar
rer is removed they mingle Instantly and
are one. The same traditions inspire, and
the same purposes actuate ms all. Never
in our lives did these purposes stand with
deeper root than now. At least two gen.
erations 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 cen
fury. In that movement, which was both
a creation and an example. were those great
characters which endowed the Republican
party at its birth with the attributes OF
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
those great schemes of government and hu-
manity. inspired by their patriotism. and es-
tabished 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-
pie failed. and never in any crisis has the
Republican party failed to express the con-
science and intelligence of that people.
The public mind is awake both to its op-
portunities and its 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 unanimity sell
dom seen.
There are times when great fitness Is
hardly less than destiny, when the elements
50 come together that they select the agent
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the strongest man, as lightning goes down
the highest rod And so it Is with those
events which for many months with un-
which | 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 q great age, Theodore
Roosevelt of New York