The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-29
ROOT ON ROOSEVELT
The President Has Taken the Whole
People Into His Confidence.

AS we gather in this convention. our
hearts go back to the friend-the
never to be forgotten friend, whom
when last we met we acclaimed with
one accord as our universal choice to
bear second time the highest honor
in TIE nations gift; and back still,
memory goes through many a year Ct
leadership and loyalty.
How wise and how skillful he vas!
how modest and self-effacing' how
deep his insight into the human heart
how swift the intuitions of his sym
pathy! how compelling the charm of
his gracious presence! He was SO I'm.
selfish, so thoughtful of the happiness
of others, so genuine a lover Of his
country and his kind. And he was the
kindest and tenderest friend who ever
grasped another's hand. Alas, that
his virtues did plead in vain against
cruel fate!
Yet we may rejoice, that while he
lived he was crowned with nonCr;
that the rancor of party strife had
ceased; that success in his great
tasks, the restoration of peace, the ap-
ton of his friends-gave the last quiet
months in his home at Canton repose
and contentment.
And with Mckinley we remember
Hanna with affection and sorrow-his
great lieut. enant. They are together
again.
But we turn as they would have us
turn, to the duties of the hour, the
hopes of the future; we turn as they
would have us turn, to prepare our
selves for struggle under the same
standard borne in other hands by
right of rue inheritance. Honor,
truth, courage, purity of life, domestic
virtue, love CT country, loyalty to high
ideals-all these, combined with act
i've intelligence, with learning, with
experience in affairs, with the con-
elusive proof of competency afforded
by wise and conservative administra-
ton, by great things already done
and great results already achieved
all these we bring to the people with
another candidate. Shall not these
have honor in our land? Truth, sin
certify, courage! these underlie the
fabric of our institutions. Upon n.y.
| pocrisy and sham, upon cunning and
false pretense, upon weakness and
cowardice, upon the arts of the dema.
gogue and the devices of the mere pol.
itician-no government can stand
| No system of popular government can
endure in which the people do not be-
1ieve and trust. Our president has
taken the whole people into his conf
dence. Incapable of deception, he has
put aside concealment. Frankly and
without reserve, he has told then
the reasons. 1t is no campaign Of ap
pearances upon which we enter, fol
the people know the good and bad
the success and failure, to be credited
and charged to our account 1t is NJ
campaign Of sounding words and spe
| ciOus pretences, for our president ha
told the people with frankness wha
he believed and what he intended
He has meant every word he said, am
the people have believed every wore
he said, and with him this convention
agrees because every word has beel
sound Republican doctrine. No peopl
not in their hearts value the qualite
which have made the present pres
dent of the United States conspicuou
among the men of his time as a typ
Of noble manhood. Come what ma
here-come what may in November
God grant that those qualities of brav
true manhood shall have homo
throughout America, shall be held fo
an example in every home, and tina
the youth of generations to come ma
grow up to feel that it is better tina
wealth, or Office, or power, to hav
the honesty, the purity, and the cou
age of Theodore Roosevelt.