Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-03-31


My friends, you and owe whatever
advantages we possess to this Ameri-
can principle, and we should feel proud
that the leaders of the Republican
party possess this true spirit of Ameri-
can Citizenship equally, if not more
fully than any of the great American
leaders who have gone before. For
who will deny that the historian of the
Twentieth Century in writing about
Washington, Jackson, Clay, Webster,
Monroe, Lincoln and Grant, will not
accord equal mention to Mckinley,
Hanna, Taft, and Root, also to John
Hay, our Secretary of State, who learn
ed mercy, justice and greatness under
Lincoln; and dc you doubt that history
will have place for that great man
who stands as our leader to-day, that
colleg man who sends his children to
the p, bile Schools in Washington
our President, Mr.. Roosevelt.
Now candidates should not be elect
ed for their individual manhood alone,
nor for their own personal benefit, but
for the good of the people and for the
principles which they have the incli-
nation and ability to help maintain.
The fundamental principle of civil
ization is the recognition of the right
of ownership and individual indepen-
dence, subject always to restriction
and regulation by the laws of the
Commonwealth
No man absolutely owns his own
life or health, and can only use and
manage his own dog or railroad under
public supervision and state law. This
question of ownership covers not only
individual rights and liberties, but al
so State rights and Interstate rights,
and we are beginning to grasp and de-
fine Inter National law with all the
Commercial nations of the world.
We have United States Commerce
Commission, United States Mail Ser
vice and United States money and we
trust the day is not far distant when
the Federal Government will guard a
mans life as zealously as it protects a
postage stamp.
Ancient Kings and Queens used to
own all the lumber, coal and minerals,
but America says all natural resources
belong to the people who stake them
out and develop them, and we have
the most liberal mining and patent
laws to define, superyie and guarantee
by the National Government, our
rights under those laws.
own our natural resources or mono
police our commerce either on land or
sea, for we want chance to be business
men, not simply clerks. More than that,
the majority of our oil, coal, minerals
and patents would never be discovered
or developed were it not for individual
effort and ambition, and we do not
want monopolies of any kind except
on patented aticles, and them for only
a reasonable time.
The records show, thanks to Republi-
can legislation, that railroad trusts,
and beef trusts are illegal. The law
is not perfect, but it can be made to
cover monopolistic restraints in every
trade, and the Republican party is not
ashamed of her management of public
affairs for the past forty years. The
republican party represents the traces
of the harness that connects our Gov
ernment with the collars on the prin-
ciples of power that now move us for
ward in the front rank with the nations
of the world. We may need hold
backs on down grade, but we are
still climbing the path of progress, and
want the best and most substantial
money system we can get, with a
reasonable amount of surplus as q re-
serve fund.
Now gentlemen of the Convention,
this is fresh water town, up in the
mountains, and our county is one of
the smallest in the state, but | am not
ashamed of either Our town pro-
duces as much freight tonnage as any
on the Philadelphia 4 Erie Railroad
between Harrisburg and Erie, and our
county is not dead and has no idea of
quitting either politics or business,
and if l can pull few pounds on the
wagon traces, will be only too glad to
do so.
We have the best water in the State,
and the best air, finest scenery, and
most glorious skies to be be seen any
where We can have the best farms
and the best roads, the best factories,
and the best schools and churches: we
can read the best books and raise the
best children, and the best cattle.
Why be satisfied with second place?
Why not have faith in the American,
| idea, that merit, not quantity, counts
| most? England, not China, leads the
world, Why should we not study
| broad ideas, and try for first place in
our own homes and make each district
the best in the State. We cannot do
this by grabbing or pretense. We
must merit it, but the door of progress
is open for us all, and no one can shut
it but ourselves.
thank you for your attention; |
thank you for the nomination, and if
the people elect me this November, /
shall try to carefully look after all
their interests, without distinction or
favor; will work for good roads nd
good schools and try to stand for all
that is best and true to our American
ideals.
AT the close of Mr.. Howard's able
address, he was warmly app]auded.
DIR. E. o. Bardwell, the party's
choice for County Treasurer, in a few
words thanked the Convention for the
nomination and pledged, that in case
of his election, that he would person
ally transact the duties of the office.
The modest gentleman was applaud I'd.
There being no further business the
Convention adjourned sine die.
T. Il HTrNIuINC,noNr