Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-07-18
AN IDEAL CANDIDATE
Littleton Places Judge Parker's
Name Before the Convention


of medium height and sturdy figure,
with a full, clean-shaven face, with
heavy mass of dark brown hair. tossed
back from his brow and ears, took the
stand amid ringing applause to place
Judge Parker in nomination.
Mr.. Littleton's manner of speaking
is calm and deliberate and he uses but
few gestures. His voice is full,
resonant and of decidedly pleasing
quality. and could be heard further
tnan that of any speaker who had pre-
coded him. He said in part:
There is much talk of twisting
tendons in the race of life, of running
out Of breath toward the open grave
The old ard honored way is still the
best, but not so strenuous as to strain
yourself, nor yet so simple as to fall
asleep. There is much said by those
who sit OIL cushioned chairs about cow
ards and workings in the nations life.
The sunbuFIt farmer is just as brave
as the star-crowned soldier. The man
OF natural peac - hero hundred times
hero once
Somehow Of late tie atmosphere of
our national life Is filed with spray
of blood: scmeEow the march of pro-
gress sounds of hammered steel: some
how, although the sunlight of peace is
all about US, there is now and then the
CLEAN Of bayOnets in its radiant fire and
flash of swords in its silver beams;
somehow. although the constitution is
still in force, there is sense of failing
power and growing disrespect which
makes US feel that the Venera bic old
man-so to Speaks halt and blind
with years, isld burdens the strenuous
household of his grandchildren. Some
how, at times, there runs a sort of
shock right down the foundations of
this repubcc which makes the structure
tremble and all the country pauses and
listens and then returns to work.
Somehow, although the future well
comes us, it does so with a mailed
hand; somehow, although you cannot
put your finger on the cause, there is
a universal fear.
Behind these fears and doubts and
startled dreams and vague misgivings,
is many hidden cause. But over them
is one at least revealed For Lincoln
said, in the sadness of his great soul,
with malice toward none, with charity
| for all, with faith in the right as God
| gives us the wisdom to see it. And
Roosevelt said in the glory of his self
| contemplation, Tread softly and carry
a big stick
''And between these, the beginning
and the end of Republican growth, in
time and temper, is all their wild,
| descending flight. With all they know
and feel of the. country's question of
| their course, the Republican party yet
claim every fruit of soil and sun, of
brain and soul. So, on the whole. we
may conclude that whatever the good
Lord does in administering this good
universe that turns out to be good, they
credit to themselves, and whatever the
! Republicans do in administering the
government that turns out bad, they
charge up to the Lord.
1--WE come together in the historic
valley of the Mississippi at a time when
uncounted millions are making a
patriotic pilgrimage to shrine erected
by Democratic wisdom and foresight.
| Surely, with the present breaking upon
your enraptured vision and the past
| filling your heart with songs of praise
and joy, you are urged by every impulse
and entreated by every recollection to
| forever sink the differences that dis
tract and the causes that confuse, and
gathering afresh from this exhaustless
headwater of our hope the spirit of 80
years Of ascending party faith, resolve
to restore our party to It's place of power
and pride in the hearts and affections
of our countrymen.
1.-THE state of New York hardening
to the demand from every quarter of
the country, comes to you united upon
one who will bring peace into our coun-
Gil, patriotism and power into our cam
paign and success to our contest. l say
New York is united and in saying so,
deny the charge that has been spread
overcast over the country that there is
diSSenSion.y
THE country, anxious to win in this
great crisis, called upon New York as
the battle-ground. New York answers
with a candidate who carried the state
by 10000 majority; a man who cut his
way through poverty and toll until he
found the highest peak of power and
honor in the state; who learned the
simple lessons Of Democratic faith in
the furrowed field, who took them with
increasing strength to the bar and
finally honored them by his exalted sta
ton on the bench; man who, through
out his career from poverty to power,
never in fair weather or foul forsook
the standards of his party faith or de-
serted the colors of his command.
, IF you ask me why he has been
silent l tell you it is because he
does not claim to be the master of the
, Democratic party, but is content to be