Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-09


| complete ever before achieved In any
| congressional district OF New York;
| Never II, instead OF running in mere
| district, no who won this unprecedent-
| ed Victory had been q candidate in the
| whole municipality. he would, accord
| Ing to this ratio, have carried the city
| OF New York by a majority Of 100000.
| Has he been running In the state at
| large--even concedlng 10 his adversary
| the preponderance customarily claimed
| by the Republicans In the rural dis
| tricts-he would have carried the state
| by Il majority OF 10000
Gentlemen, II II be true that the state
| OF New York is Indispensable to your
| success, who Is the man that affords
equal guarantees OF his ability TO carry
| &c? Will you find him In a stranger to
| that stato2 or Will you find him In
| either OF the men whose majorlties our
| candidate has thus already eclipsed at
| the polls?
OF PROVED FIDELITY.
DO yju want nominee OF proved
| and unquestioned fidelity to your party?
Where you viii find one whose party
| fealty can claim superiority to his In
hours which tried mems souls? Others
have deserted the ships in the days
| when ldolatrous allurements were
| spread forth others have forsworn the
| faith OF their fathers and have pros
| trated themselves before the golden
| calf. His allegiance has not wavered;
his devotion has been marred by no
scheme. In prosperity and in adversely,
in sunshine and in storm, through good
and evil repute his Democracy has re-
NAMED steadfast and
| Constant as the northern star,
| or whose true fixed and resting quail
ity,
There is no fellow in the armament"
ALWAYS PATRIOTIC.
| During the Ave presidential elections
| which have taken place since he has
| reached manhood's estate he has ever
| abandoned personal preferences, sur
| rendered individual opinions and UNI
| grudgingly acquiesced as soon as e.
| party's choice has been made and its
| creed proclaimed Three times did he
support Grover Cleveland, and twice
him who yonder sits and him who, un-
touched by ephemeral obliquity, mis-
representation and SANDER, viii be-
queath posterity a name as pure,
character as lofty,and fame as bright
as any recorded in the annals of DEM
ocracy.
NO SULKER.
Nor does the fealty OF our candidate
belong to the past alone, 1t exists to-
day in amplitude as complete, In de-
votlon as absolute as Of yore. Though
aspiring to this nomination, yet If your
assembled wisdom shall deem another
worthier, he will not be found dis
contented grumbler, sulking in his tent;
still less will he be found organizing
fellow deserters into maurauding
bands OF hastile malcontents No and
above all, will he not be found work
ing for the party's defeat and exultlng
in It's overthrow. Even though disap-
pointed in his aspirations, he Will re-
main at his post, ready as of old, to
battle for the cause. and II not chosen
to lead as a commander OF the hight
ing. as private In the ranks.
DO you want for your nominee man
of truly Democratic impulse, one ever
in sympathy with distress, ever ready
to stretch out succorng hand to suf-
fering humanity
Not here il the place to recount the
numberless instances In which those
traits OF our candidates nature and
disposition has been displayed. Time
would not permit even the enumera-
ton OF countless acts Of benefaction--of
asylums founded hospitals established,
universities endowed, of private dis
tress relieved Of the thousands
nightly sheltered during the long and
bitter winters OF the great metropolis,
HEAR ME FOR MY CAUSE"
Indulge me, then, In one single illus
tratlon, and Of that | need not In per-
son, speak to you who sit under the con-
stelation OF the Lone STAR to you, re-
presents OF that great state whose I'M
perial bounds embrace the vast terri
tory stretching between the RIO
Grande and the Caribbean sea, to YOU |
turn and bid you speak for me. When,
on that never-to- be-forgotten night OF
four years ago, the breath of the hur-
rlcane swept over the southern coast
and the waters Of the deep, defying the
laws OF gravitation, stood like fluid
mountains, threatening to deluge a
continent and In n few brief hours
the metropolis OF the gulf was made
n scene of desolation; when human
sympathy was stricken dumb and hui
man energy stood parayzed In the
presence of the countless dead and the
spectacle of universal havoc, who was
the first TO come to the succor of the
ruined city? Under whose inspiration
was 1t that from New York and from
|
Infamous trains bearing stores of food
and OF clothing, of medicines and of
medical stores of nurses and physi-
cans and surgeons, sped like trinity
OF minlsterlng angels flying on wings
of mercy to the relief OF afflicted hu-
manity? Tell us, We gallant sons OF
Texas, for you know
MEN OF THE SOUTH.
Men OF the south, you upon whose soil
| American Democracy first saw the
light, you, the hereditary custodian OF
It's purest traditions, you whose politi-
cal Importance, II not political life, IL
bound UP with its fate, you In whose
annals the events of this day may
mark an epoch more fatal than any
which has gone by since the war
men OF the SOUTH TO you next speak
Do you want as your nominee man
whose descent, whose past career ano
whose present attitude afford irrefrag'
able guarantees of sympathy and give
proof OF accord upon the great ques-
lions with which the very existence OF
your people as a race are involved? II
you want such n nominee what lacks
| the candidate of California 10 COM
mend your confidence and enlist your
support
HIS ANCESTRY.
Upon the momentous questions which
affect you, every sentiment OF his heari
IL by the sheer force OF hereditary
with you. The same blood that flows
through your veins courses through
his Like yourselves his parents and
forefathers belong TO the south. on
the maternal side he comes from Vir-