The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-09

conSplrac1eS IN restraint of trade should
| pe enforced, and that offenders should
be punished.
| He believes that labor is the base of
the social system; that the base can
not be despised; that the laborers and
producers are the salt of the earth,
| that their broad shoulders and strong
| arms support the whole fabric of civiIi-
cation, that they constitute the great
| body of the people and must never be
| enslaved.
That property has rights also, but
| tnat the maintenance of these rights
does not require that a limited and
constantly diminishing number of per-
sons shall be permitted to monopolize
all of the property of the country, or
that pampered banditti shall be per
mltt 1ed to defy the laws, absorb all
He believes, with the immortal
Washington, that the mission of the
republic is peace, justice and liberty.
That we must teach peace by being
peaceful, that we must teach Justice by
| being just, that we must teach liberty
by maintaining our own liberties, and
by never denying liberty to any people.
lie DeneVeS that this nation has been
a world power from its birth; that it
was world power when that old bell
rang out from Independence hall, lib
erty throughout the land, and to all the
inhabitants thereof. That it was a
world power, when, by the force of its
example, it caused republics to take
the place of monarchies in all South
|
That it was a world power when, by the
| force of it's example, it caused the
great French revolution, shattered abb
| solutism, and gave to Continental
Europe, except Russia, constitutional
government That it was world power
when it inspired Japan, glorious Japan,
| to cast away the cruel bauble of au-
| tocracy, and adopt a free constitution,
based upon the principles of Democ-
racy. That for more than a hundred
years it has been such a great world
power it's light has SO snone in the
world that it has attracted to these
shores the oppressed of all nations.
drawn to this country By the justice
of its laws and the magnanimity of its
character. But it has not been an i'm
perial world power; and only the en-
emies of liberty would have it SO. 1t
has been a Democratic world power, a
republican world power; the mother of
republics the foundation of democracy;
and the home of liberty enlightening
the world" Our candidate must be a
man against whom no faction will wage
war he must be man whose eminence,
experience and ability are guarantee
of his fitness for the presidency.
General Miles Personality.
A man whose personality and whose
career will arrest the attention and
challenge the admiration of the people.
If we nominate an unknown OF prosa1c
candidate, titled mediocrity and coun-
terfeit greatness will continue to call
forth the applause of the multitude.
A man who fills in full measure the |
requirements of the hour is General
Nelson A. Miles. If nominated he viii |
be the candidate of no faction, but of
the whole Democratic party, and of all
patriots. He will receive the vote of
every Democrat in the United States |
He will receive the Independent vote; |
the anti-imperialist peace vote, and the |
good citizen vote. He will receive the
votes of all those (and they are legion) |
who resent the attempt of the acting |
president to degrade and dishonor him; |
and to degrade and dishonor other IL
lustrious men who have earned the
praise and lasting gratitude of their
cOuntrymen. His name Will warm the
heart and stir the blood of every COM
rade of the civil war. They will recog-
nize in his candidacy their last oppor-
the great office of president. His candi-
dacy will arouse the generous chivalrie
spirit of every man who wore the gray;
with such a man as ex-senator Harris
for vice president, the ticket would
mark an epoch in our history. United
in that wider coHradeship of American
valor, now the proud heritage of the
whole American people, the survivors
of that great struggle both north and
south, would rally to the Democratic
standard, almost to a man. The one
man whom the Republicans fear is
Miles. The one man whom the White
House fears is Miles. They fear him
because the neviouS shaft aimed at MS
heart by the acting president fell harm
less at his feet, and they fear its re-
bound, if he is nominated They fear
him because of his record, because OF
his personality, because the splendor OF
his career and the grandeur of his char
acter would so outshine the acting
president as to pale his boosted exploit
into utter insignificance.
Any honest Democrat can carry the
south. Miles can carry not only New
Y rk and New Jersey, but Massachus-
etts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and
New Hampshire. He can carry Indiana,
Illinois and Wisconsin. He can carry
the Pacific states and the mountain
states. He can carry Nebraska and he
can carry Kansas.
An Ideal President
The people want for their president
man clean hearted and high souled;
man upright and honest of purpose, .
with ability of a high order. They
1on't want a mad mani They don't 1
want a wild man! They don't want a I
nan possessed of illusions or possessed :
whose vaulting ambition would burst
Ill bounds and sunder all restraints, !
and plunge the nation into. needless !
hangers and inf1ict upon the people /
needless sufferings and sacrifices.
They want a man whom they can
owe and trust and admire, for his man .
hood, for his judgment, for his human .
ty, for his integrity, for his stainless /
ife for his great career, for his kind ?
leart for his sound mead. for his dem +;
,cratic instincts and for his love of !
liberty.
A man who will restore the constitu- :;
ion revive the old veracity, enforce &
he laws, re-establish justice, sever the =
read of monopoly and privilege and
Freak the chain and set the captive 4
rec, and proclaim, once more, Peace, .
commerce and honest friendship with
III nations, entangling alliances with
lone.'
L nominate for president that peer
ess patriot, soldier and statesman-tnat
LohIe that incorruptfble. that illus