Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-08
Speech of Secretary J Hay
(continued from Page seven.)


 Roosevelt is more than unsafe, he is s positively dangerous.
 But let us be serious with ttese good people. What are the coeficients of safety in chief of state? He should } have courage: the wisest coward that ] ever lived is not fit to rule. And in telligence: We want no binnder headed , hero in the White House. And hon , esty: a clever thief would do infini.o , mischief These three are the ind.s- pensables. With them d man is all the more safe if he has a sense Of pro , portion. a sense of humor. wide ! knowledge of men and affairs; if he seeks good counsel; and. finally. If he is a patriot. if he loves his country, be- lieves in it, and seeks in all th!cgs its interest and glory. Any man may , make mistakes; but such a man as this , will make few. and no grave ones. ! Such a man is our president and our ! candidate. He is prompt and energet- ! ic. but he takes infinite pains to get , at the facts before he acts. In all . the crises in which he has been accus- ed of undue haste, his action has been the result of long meditation and Sell- reasoned conviction. If he thinks , rapidly, that is no fault: he thinks thoroughly. and that is the essential When he made between the miners and ! the operators, it was no sudden ca price but the fruit of serious reflec- ! tion. and this act of mingled rhilan- : thropy and common sense was ius.ife1 ' by a great practical result When he | proclaimed anew the Monroe Doctrine , in the Venezuela case his action was . followed by the most explicit accept ance of that saving policy which has , ever come 10 us from overseas. He ' acted very swiftly. 1t strue. in Mis- ' sissippi. when the best citizens of a . town threatened the life of q pos . mistress for no fault but her coi3:. | He simply said. Very well. gentlemen. ' you may get your letters somewhere . else for a while"
 | And as to the merger suits. now : that people have come to their senses . they see that his action in that case ' was as regular as the equinox. He was ' informed through legal channels that . a statute had been violated. He did ! not make the statute. but he was bound by his oath to execute it. He brought the proceeding which it was his duty to bring. The courts. from the lowest to the highest. sustained his action. He did what it would have 5 been a high misdemeanor no 10 have 2 done. The laws in this country are 2 made 10 be obeyed. whethsr it is ,afa [ Or not. l. is always unsafe to diso5ey , them.
 , But there has been more noise made . over his suddenness on the Isthnus , of Panama than elsewhere. IL Is df- ficult to treat this charge with seri ousness. The president had made . treaty with Colombia at her own solic- itation. which was infinitely 10 her a1- , vantage. 10 inaugurate an enterprise ! which was to be fer the benefit Jf the
 world. He waited with endless pa-
 ,tience while Bogota delayed and tff
 fled with the matter, and finally reject , ed il. and suggested new negotiations [ for a larger sum. Panama, cuJ-agst !. by this climax Of the wrongs she had ? already suffered. declared and csiab- l. lished her independence. The presi- F dent, following an unbrCken line ct . precedents, entered into relations wl,h . the new republic. and ob9yiaS his duty | to protect the transit of the Isth;nus !. as all other presidents had done le- fore him, gave orders that there should :. be no bloodshed on the line of he . railway. He said, like Grant, Let us have peace" and we had it. II will Z seem incredible to ' 1sterity that any : American should nav1 objected 10 { this. He acted wiso'y and benefCent-
 ly. and all some people can find Io crl'- icise in his action Is tha. he was too
 brisk about il. if a thins is light ' and proper to do, it does not make t ' criminal to do 1t pro-ptIy. No. gen. . tlemen. That was a tiEie when the . hour and the man 1rrigei together. He . struck while the ;on was white hot on | he anvil of oppoctH1.ty and forged fS . perfect a bit of honest s,atccrsft as |. this generation has seen
 We could desire ID bEt.er fortune, in the campaign up)l which We are ' entering, than that the other side . should jersist in their announced in ' tention to make the issue upon Presi- ' dent Roosevelt. What a godsenG to . our orators, It takes some study,
 some research, to talk about the tariff, = or the currency, or foreign policy. But to talk aout Roosevelt it is as easy as to sing the glory of the Graeme." Of . gentle birth and breeding, yet a man of  ! the people in the best sense; with the \ training of scholar and the breezy ac- , possibility of a ranchman; a man of \ the library and a man us the world {; . an athlete and a thinker; soldier and a statesman; a reader. writer. and | a maker of history; with the sensibili- J ty of poet and the steel nerve of a \ rough rider; one who never did, and never could turn his back on A friend
 or an enemy. A man whose merits = are so great that he could win on his
 merits alone; whose personality is so r iengaging that you lose sight of his merits. Make their fight on a man 3 like that. What irreyerent carica- B turist was it that called them the Stu pid party?
 In our candidate for the vice presi- , dency We have gone back to the old 5 and commendable custom of the repub-