Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-07-01


honesty and honor, vigilant and fearless.
While he is president, readJustnSnt or
tariff schedules viii be made only in har-
mony with the principle OF protection.
Americans have memories.
! While he Is president peace with every
nation will be preserved at any cost. ex-
cepting only the sacrifice OF American
rights; and the yigor with which he main
tains these Will be itself q guarantee OF
peace.
The American people will elect him be-
cause, In a word. they know that he does
things the people want done. does things.
not merely discusses them--does things
only after discussing them-but does
people would nave him do. This is char
enthusiastically American; for wherever he
is. the American is he who achieves.
Know Where He Stands.
On every question all men know where
he stands Americans. frank themselves,
demand frankness in their servants. I'm
certainty Is the death of business. The
people can always get along If they know
where they are and whittier they are
going.
His past is his proof. Every great meas
ure OF his administrators was so wise
that, enthusiastically sustained by his own
party, it won votes even from the oppo-
sition.
DO YOU name Cuban reclprocityg The
opposition resisted and then opposition
votes helped TO ratify IL.
Do you name corporate legislation? The
opposition resisted and then opposition votes
helped TO enact II.
work of centuries, the eternal wedding OF
oceans, shrinking the circumference of
the globe. making distant peoples neigh
bors, advancing forever civilization all
around the world? This historic under
taking in the interest of all the race,
planned by American craftsmanship. TO
be wrought by American hands. TO stand
through the age protected by the Amer
lean flag: this vast achievement which
VIII endure when our day shall have be-
come ancient, and which alone Is enough
70 make the name Of Theodore Roosevelt
INDUSTRIOUS through all time--this fulfil
ment of the republics dream accom-
plished by republican effort, finally re-
ceived votes even from an opposition that
had tried TO thrwart It.
OF what measure of Theodore Roose-
velts administrator does the opposition
when has the record of any president won
greater approval?
Loved as a Man.
And so the people trust him as a states
man. Better than that, they love him as
a man. He wins admiration In vain who
wins not affection also. In the American
home-that temple of happiness and vir-
tue where dwell the wives and mothers
i'm life and guarding the morality OF the
nation-in the American home the name OF
T~heordore Roosevelt is not only honored
but beloved. And that is q greater tri-
umph than the victory of battleields,
greater credit than successful statesman
snlp. greater honor than the presidency
itself would be without IL. Life holds no
reward so noble as the confidence and
love of the American people.
The American people! The mightiest
force for good the ages have evolved.
They began as children of liberty. They
believed in God and HIS providence. They
took truth and justice and tolerance as
their eternal deals and marched fearless
ly forward. Wildernesses stretched be-
fore them-they subdued them. Noun
tains rose they crossed them. Deserts
misunderstanding passed them. Their
Faith failed them not and a continent was
theirs, From ocean to ocean cities rose.
fields blossomed, railroads an; but every
where church and school were permanent
proof that the principles of their origin
We're the life OF their maturity.
American Character.
American methods changed. but Ameri-
can character. remained the same. They
outliyed the stage coach. but not the bible.
They advanced. but forgot not their IA
theirs. They delved in earth, but remen-
bered the higher things. They made
highways of the, oceans, but distance and
climate altered not their Americanism.
They began as children of liberty, and
children Of liberty they remain. They be-
gan as servants of the Father Of Lights,
and His servants they remain, And SO
into their hands is daily given more Of
power and opportunity that they may
work even larger righteousness In the
world and scatter over ever widening
fields the blessed seeds Of human happi-
ness.
Wonderful beyond prophecy's forecast
their progress; noble beyond the vision OF
desire their future. In 1901 Jefferson said,
enough for our descendants to the thou
sandth and t~housandth generation; - three
generations behold the oceans our boun-
diaries. Washington never dreamed OF
railways, Today electricity and steam
make Maine and California household
neighbors. This advance, which no seer
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are Americans-because a free people with
unfettered minds and unquestioning be-
lief toyfully faced the universe of human
possibilities. These possibilities are not
exhausted; we have hardly passed their
boundaries. The American people are not
exhausted; we have only tested our
is not finished; His future missions for
the American people will be grander than
any he has given US, nobler than We now
comprehend.
Tasks Will Be Performed.
And these tasks as they come we Will
accept Saa accomplish as our Fathers ac-
complished theirs. And when our genera
ton shall have passed and our children
shall catch from our aging hands the
standard we have. borne, 1t will still be
the old flag of Yorktown and Appomattox
and Manila bay: the music TO which they
in their turn will then move onward will
still be the strains that cheered the dying
Warren on Bunker Fiji and inspired the
men who answered Lincoln's call. and the
Ideals that VIII pc IN them triumphant as
they are in us, will still be the old ideals
that have made the American people great
and honored among the nations OF the
/ earth.
This is the republican idea OF the Ameri-
can people; this the thought we have
when we nominate today our candidate
for the nations chief; this the quality OF
Americanism a republican standard bear
er must have And this is just the Ameri-
canism OF Theodore Roosevelt. Full OF
the old time faith IN the republic and IFS
destiny: charged with the energy OF the
republics full manhood; cherishing the or
dinances OF the republics fathers and
having in his heart the fear Of God; In
spired by the sure knowledge that the re-
publtc's splendid day is only N It's dawn,
| Theodore Roosevelt will lead the Ameri-
can people IN paths of safety to still
greater welfare for themselves, still
broader betterment OF the race and to the
| added honor of the American name.
Therefore. Indiana seconds the nomina,
ton OF Theodore Roosevelt.
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