Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-08-10

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future. The principles upon which
party Is built are so sound, they
nave so Irresistible an attraction 10
patriotic and fair-mlnded men nat
whenever a time Of crises comes,
When the national welfare Is clearly
at stake. when voters III declde
whether they shall follow their pre-
JUDGES or their consciences, we draw
from other parties their best mel by
thousands. Bright among the bright
est 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 COL
ors. Douglas, shortly before he died.
declared his unfaltering support OF
Lincoln. The sun would go down be-
fore | could name the Democrats who
fought like heroes for the country.
Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Dix, Sick
les, Logan-in short, an innumerable
host, Democrats all. rushed into the
field and thereafter fought and work
ed with the Republicans while life
lasted. And that vast majority OF
Lincoln's in 1864 would have been
impossible had not myriads OF Dem
ocrats, casting their lifelong associa-
tons to the winds, listened to the In
ward monitor which said: Choose
you this day whom ye will serve"
As II was then, so has it been in az
ter years. When the attempt was
made to repudiate, In whole or In
part, the national debt, oil to abolish
the system of protection to American
industries, founded by Washington
and Hamilton, and approved by the
experience of a hundred years, or to
degrade our currency at the demand
of mere ignorance and greed-in all
these cases we saw the proof of the
homely adage that you may lead a
horse to the water but may not make
him drink. In spite of organizations
and platforms, in spite OF the frantic
rdjurations of gifted orators, hosts
of patriotic Democrats walked quiet.
ly TO the polls and voted as their con-
sciences dictated, in the interests OF
the public welfare rather than of a
\ party. Even in so lofty and restrict
ed an arena as our senate, we have
seen the ablest and most adroit or
ganizer of his party fail in the most
energetic effort of his life to induce
his party to reject a great national
benefit because il was offered by Re-
, publican hands. Half the Democrat
c senator's said this was no question
or pettifogging politics and voted for
IN American canal across the 18th
:, ms .
Victory Is Assured.
! We could desire no better fortune,
n the campaign upon which we are
entering, than that the other side
! should persist in their announced in
%tention TO make the issue upon Presi-
dent Roosevelt. What a godsend to
our orators, II takes some study,
some research, TO talk about the tar
in, Or the currency, or foreign policy.
ut to talk about Roosevelt! 1t is
as easy as to sing the glory of the
lGraeme." OF gentle birth and breed
ing, yet a mar of the people in the
best sense; with the training of a
scholar and the breezy accessibility
of a ranchman; a man of the library
md a man of the world; an athlete
j and a thinker: a soldier and a states
mat; a reader, a writer and a maker
of history; with the s-nsibility OF a
y poet and the steel of a rough rider;
who never did, and never could, turn
! his back on a friend OF an enemy. A
man whose merits are so great that
he could win On his merits alone;
I whose personality is so engaging that
you loose sight of the merits. Make
! their fight on a man like that. What
II Il g..u1- .nr;ant,r,at san a. thnt
called them the Stupid party?
In our candidate for the vice presi-
= dency We have gone back to the old
J and commendable custom of the re
{ public and have nominated a man in
every way fit for the highest place
In the nation, who will bring to the
presidency of the senate an ability
i and experience rarely equaled in its
h history.
ii A Word to Young Men.
i, | have detained you too long; yet
: as | close I want to say a word to
y the young men whose political life
: Is beginning. Anyone entering bust
ness would be glad of the chance to
; become one of an established firm
with years of success behind it, with
a wide connection, with unblemished
character, with credit founded IN a
rock. How infinitely brighter the flu
y ture when the present is so sure, the
past so glorious. Everything great
done by this country la the last fifty
J years has been done under the aus
= pieces OF the Republican party. Is not
this consciousness a great asset tC
have in your mind and memory? AS
y a mere item of personal comfort is
: it not worth having? Lincoln and
: Grant, Hayes and Garfield, Harrison
and McKinley-names secure in the
u heaven of ~fame-they all are gone
leaving small estates in worldly goods
! but what vast possessions in princi
pies, memories, sacred associations.
/. 1t is a start in life to share that
J /. wealth. Who now boasts that he OPP
posed Lincoln? Who brags Of his
5 voting against Grant? though both
acts may have been from the best Of
motives.
Party That Does Things.
AL In our form Of government there
O must be two parties, and tradition
0 circumstances, temperament, will al
l. ways create a sucicient opposition
It But what young man would not rather
d belong to the party that does things
II instead of one that opposes them; &c
the party that looks up, rather thar
down; to the party of the dawn, rath
er than OF the sunset. For fifty years
the Republican party has believed in
If the country and laboreu for II in hope
Irl md Joy; has carried 1t under strange
r skies and planted 1t under farreced
n .ng horizons. 1t has seen the nation
II grow greater every year and more re
n spected; by just dealing, by intelll