The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-21

ing speech of the convention, deliv-
cred by ex-Secretary OF War Elihu
Root, was as follows:
The responsibility of government
rests upon the republican party. The
complicated machinery through which
the S0,000.000 people of the United
States govern themselves, answers to
no single will. The composite gov
eminent devised by the trainers of
the constitution to meet the conditions
of national life more than a century
ago, requires the willing cooperation
of many minds, the combination of
many Independent factors, in every
forward step for the general welfare
The president at Washington with
his cabinet, the 80 senators represent
ing as sovereign states, the 3S6 rep
resentatives in congress, are required
to reach concurrent action upon null
titude of questions involving action
titude of questions involving va
ried and conflicting interests and
requiring investigation, informa-
ton, discussion and reconciliation of
views. From all our vast territory
with its varieties of climate and indus
try, from all our great population act
i've in production and commerce and
social progress and intellectual and
moral life to a degree never before
attained by any people, difficult prob
lens press upon the national govern
ment
Within the past five years more than
$4,000 bills have been introduced in
congress. Some method of selection
must be followed. There must be
some preliminary process to ascertain
the general tenor of public Judgment
upon the principles to be applied in
government, and some organization
and recognition of dictatorship which
shall bring a legislative majority and
the executive into accord in the prac-
tical application ofothose principles;
or effective government becomes inn
possible. no
When the course of the next admin
istration is but half done the republi-
can party will have completed the first
half century of its national life. OF
the eleven administrations since the
first election of Abraham Lincoln,
nine-covering a period of thirty-six
years-have been under republican
presidents. For the greater part of
that time, the majority in each house
of congress has been republican. His
tory affords no parallel in any age or
country for the growth in national
greatness and power and honor, the
wide diffusion of the comforts of life
the uplifting of the great mass of the
people above the hard conditions of
poverty the common opportunity for
education and individual advance
ment, the universal possession of civil
and religious liberty, the protection
of property and security for the re-
wards of industry and enterprise, the
cultivation of national morality, re-
spect for religion sympathy with hui
mainly and love of liberty and Justice,
which have marked the life of the
American people during this long pc
Rod of republican control
With the platform and the candi-
dates of this convention, we are about
to ask renewed expression of popular
confidence in the republican party.
We shall ask it because the princi-
pies to which we declare our adher-
ence are right, and the best interests
of our country require that they should
be followed in its government.
We shall ask 1t because the unbrok-
en- record of the republican party in
the past is an assurance of the sinceri-
ty of our declarations and the fidelity
with which we shall give them effect
Because we have been constant in
principle, loyal to our beliefs and
faithful to our promises, we are en-
titled to be believed and trusted now
-
Have not the American people reas-
on for satisfaction and pride in the
conduct of their government since the
election of 1900, when they rendered
their Judgment of approval upon the
first administration of President Nc
Kinley? Have we not had an honest
government? Have not the men Sc
lected for office been men Of good rep
utation who by their past lives had
given evidence that they were honest
and competent? Can any private bust
ness be pointed out in which lapses
from honesty have been so few and
so trifiing proportionately, as in the
public service of the United States?
And when they have occurred, have
not the offenders been relentlessly
prosecuted and sternly punished with
out regard to political or personal re-
latiOns?
Four years ago the business of the
country was loaded with burdensome
internal taxes, imposed during the war
with Spain. BY the acts of March 2,
1901, and April IL, 1902, the country
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