The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-17

way OF other, benefited and enriched
both. Do not stop to explain how
this is possible. It would take TOO
much time. 1t might besides that,
be embarrassing. If anybody is i'm
pudent enough to insist upon know
ing how it could possibly come about,
tell him that you are not teaching a
kindergarten, and tell him, moreover,
that it is your duty to do things and
not to be bothered with any consid-
GRAFTON of whether you are doing them
right or wrong.
"In conclusion, Sir. pray for war
nobody can tell what great things
war will end in when once begun. 1t
might result in making of your chief
the first Emperor and Lord Protec-
tor of the Western Hemisphere You
would, of course. in that event, as
heir-apparent, share his glory. Your
legal title might become Prince d.
Outre Mer.' l know you would run
some little risk of having him desig-
nate his Secretary of War as his sue
cessor. but l believe l would chance
it. Besides. peace is a tame and IN
strenuous thing and tsmothers out
some of the finest instincts of man
hood Shakespeare said: I'm thy
right hand carry gentle peace to ST.
lence envious tongues Our forefath-
ers, eve down through the times of
Lincoln and Grant, thought this senti-
ment sound morality and sound poll
cy, for nations, as well as for individ-
uals. We know now that the right
policy is to tread softly and carry
a big stick
Who was the fool who said. "War
is HE'LL anyhow? My word for it, he
never saw real war.
Remember above all things that
our chief duty as citizens, but espe-
cially as rulers, is not to be weak
is a strangely domesticated animal.
who listens before he acts, and who
weighs evidence before he decides,
who modestly v~enerates greatness in
others, who actually prefers piping
times and peace to the 'pOmp and
circumstance of glorious war Weak
lings are men who fear the strenuous
life, the only national life that is re-
ally worth the living'-the life of
Crown-C Conquest, the life mill
tant, in a word. We are getting to be
as a people-your committee is glad
to say. splendidly, military. A flag,
brass band and a choice collections of
epaulets, escorting a secretary of Wal
to and from the depot in Washington
when he augustly leaves or arrives,
appeal to the higher flights of Il pa
triotic imagination, as nothing else
does or can.
eff l have to some degree. in these
words, speaking for the committee,
have been your mentor, attribute it
in part to my shorter experience on
the worlds stage and my consequent;
superior wisdom, but still more to the
fact of my close study and assimila-
ton of the wisdom of Republican
statesmen, both in and out of the
White House. | hold after mature de-
liberation, in common with the great
est of these and one of the youngest
that youth necessarily insures wis
dom because-the older a man is the
more he has forgotten.
1T has been a pleasure to us to
do our duty, 20 notify you of your
nomination. This has been a pleas
ure Notwithstanding the fact that you
by Hon. Elihu Root, who while pre- |
tendingly notifying Senator Fair
banks. could not get his mind off n
you, as the darkies say and whose
speech consisted Principally in saying
Go to, thou art an old man. and in
~bemoaning the fact that you might
pOSSlUly ul0 DO1OI0 YOU gu 10 U0 RE-
So might he for that matter.
THAT would be bad enough, but
as bad as a case l know of-the
case of a man who was once elected
V~ice-President and who becoming
President later, ftickled the ears
the groundlings but made the jul
to grieve.' Mr.. Root forgot
that Democratic presidents are never
and that they never die while
holding the Office, although some of
them do afterwards.
In further comment upon Hon.
Elihu Roots notification of your nomi-
| will hazard the remark, in
to one of the exceeding good
on his part, hat it is better 70
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