Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-13
FOR ROOSEVELT.
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| the midst of their usefulness Leaders
may die out the great party which fol-
lowed them after worthy tributes to
their memory passes on the grapple
with and solve as it has every done,
! the problems which always arise in
free governments and to solve them in
the interest Of the people.
Our opponents say that we must be
| judged in the coming campaign by the
| record of the Mckinley and Roosevelt
administration. We accept the chal-
| lenge whether it be in what We had
| done or propose to do, or in meeting
| the, as yet, undecided issues and UNI
known candidates they promise.
The nineteenth century closed not
only with phenomenal prosperity, not
only with the balance of trade in our
| favor greater than the accumulated
sum of all our previous history not
| only with the farmer, the manufactures
the artisan and the worker happy and
hopeful but with all this accomplished
not withstanding a foreign war. The
| republic was facing new and untried
problems. 1t had the unrest of Cuba
which had lasted for 800 years upon
| it's hands, the poverty of Porto Rico
anu VII iiiS NlloliS III tAiN Hi'
| ippines but today Tuba holds an hon
| orab!e place among nations. Porto
Rico is lifted into hea hful and pros
| porous conditions, '" 'ectionS have
ceased in the Philip ''n'i their ten
! millions of people Hl't - Sular un-
| animity are eagerly acqui iS Ameri-
| can education liberty and law This
has been brought about by President
| Roosevelt.
The problem of 400 years seemed
about to be settled and the two oceans
united by the canal across the iSthmus.
When Panama fulfilled the threat
known to ali the world for months and
successfully accomplished her revOlu-
ton, the President acted within his
constitutional privilege with the direct
ness, courage and wisdom character
istic of his whole public life.
We are told that in this campaign the
Democratic party will be united and
that the difficulties which occurred in
1896 and 1900 will be healed. The en-
eminent doctors who are diagnosing the
disease and prescribing for the patient
to bring about this result are the con-
Servative President Cleveland on the
one side and the radical William Jen-
nings Bryan on the other. Mr.. BryanS
prescription is the same as was admin
stored in 1896 and 1900, free silver at
1G to 1. while Mr.. Cleveland's is terese-
ly expressed when he says: Return to
Sanity"
If Mr.. Bryan's policy is adopted then
the business interests and the Dor of
the country will have no mo-. 70 do
with the ticket than they did in the two
previous campaigns. If Mr.. Cleveiands
advice is adopted which admits that the
policy of his party in 1896 and 1900 was
insanity and its candidates We're luna
tics, how can we be assured that the re-
turn to reason is permanent or when
once in the possession of the goods they
may not play crazy tricks with the as
sets of the country.
Happily for our party we are not
waiting to be told what we are to he
lieve by the national convention nor is
our candidate compos i as yet, of in
choate qualities. Eve. Republican in
this broad land knows in what we be-
lieve and knows for N.lom he is going
| to vote.
They say the President is rash. He
was rash when as assistant secretary
of the navy he paralyZed the bureau
officers by ordering the navy to burn
powder i'm target practice. But that
rdshness materialized in the highest
conservatism when those gunners I'M
der Dewey sank the fleet at Manila bay
in 80 minutes and Ceveras' fleet at San
ago in 60. All of his acquaintance
said he was rash when he threw up a
comfortable berth in the navy depart
ment to take upon himself the perilS
of the campaign in Cuba; that he was
rash when, at the head of his regiment,
he encountered vOlleys of Spanish bull
let's in battles. but the rashness dis
played the qualities which make the
American people both trust and love
him. He has probed deeply the great
departments of the government and
prosecuted and convicted those of his
own household of faith, who were found
guilty He enforced the law when dire
predictions of disaster were made and
by doing so lost the favor Of some of
the ablest and strongest OF our finan-
Cal leaders. but the supreme court has
sustained his action and the markets
have rebOunded with that phenomenal
rise in the securities affected which
demonstrates the judgment of the in
veStors of the country.
The most loudl, lpplauded portion
of Senator Depew'% address was an in
terpOlatcd paraP r'ph rot in his set
speech, which DE- AIRED jlat the COM
ing elections would '.u', that the en-
tire state approved jtu u4t7'j istration
of Gov. OdelI.
When Senator Depew h3t! concluded
the usual committees we.- appointed
and a recess until o'clock was taken.
Immediately after the reopcning of
the convention the committee on Gre
dentials presented its report which
seated the Fassett delegation in the
33d district.
The committee on permanent organZa-
ton reported the nomination of Repre-
sentative Serene f. Payne as permanent
chairman. and a list of vice presidents
representing every district. The nominal
lions were ratified and Chairman De- Nv
appointed William l.. Ward and William
Barnes. Jr.. to conduct Mr.. Payne to the
chair. which was done amid cheers. Mr..
Payne said:
1t will not he expected on this occa-