The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-07-01
Blacks Tribute to Roosevelt
Former GoDernorofNe1D York Mominates Him at Chicago


4 when the American mind was so infamct
and the American patriotism so aroused
when among al the eager citizens surgiug
to the front as soldiers. the man whom
this convention has already in its heart
was among the first to hear the call anG
answer TO his name. Preferring peace hui
not afraid of war: faithful to every pri-
vate obligation yet first TO volunteer Il,
the sign of national peril; a leader III
civil life and yet so quick to comprehend
the arts of war that he grew almost in a
maIld.
Tho Test of Danger.
There is nothing which so tests a man
as great and unexpected danger. He may
what he is or does but few will ever know.
But when the crash comes or the flames
break out. a moments time Will single out
the hero in the crowd. y flash of light
ming In the Ugh will reveal what years
OF daylight have not discovered to the
eye. And so the flash of the Spanish war
revealed that lofty courage and devotion
which the American heart SO loves and
which you have met again to decorate
and recognize. His qualities do not need
20 be retoid. for no man in that exalted
place since lincoln has been better known
In every household in the land. He is not
conservative, if conservatism means wait.
ing tin IT is too late. He is not wise, If
wisdom is to count a thing a hundred
O'NN iA-N ~ - A'c
greet SO keen. IN man or country. as that
which follows an opportunity unembraced.
Fortune scars with high and rapid wing.
and whoever brings it down must shoot
with accuracy and speed. Only the man
with steady eye and nerve and the cour-
age to pull the trigger brings the largest
opportunities to the ground. He does not
always listen while all the sages speak.
but every day at nightfall beholds some
record which If not complete has been
at least pursued with conscience and in
trenlI RESOLUTION Ha iG NO slender. NnUpr
swaying in the wind. but that heroic fibre
which is best nurtured by the mountains
and the snow.
A Statement of the Hour.
He spends little time in review, for that
ne knows can be done by the schools. \
statesman graphing with the living prob
lens of the hour he gropes but little in
the past. He believes in going ahead. He
believes that In shaping the destinies of
pulse than regret. He believes that prepa-
ration for future triumplis is a more i'm
portant duty than an inventory. of past
mistakes. y profound student of history,
he Is today the greatest history maker
in the world. With the instincts of the
scholar. he is yet forced from the scholars
fit him to the last degree for those great
world currents now rushing past with
larger. volume and more portentous as
pect than for many years before. The fate
of nations is still decided by their wars.
You may talk of orderly tribunals and
learned referees. you may sing in your
Sif the gentle praises OF the quiet
last note of every martial anthem, and yet
in the smoke and thunder will always
be the tramp of horses and the silent.
rigid, upturned face. Men may prophesy
and women pray. but peace will come here
to abide forever on this earth only when
the dreams of childhood are the accepted
charts to guide the destinies Of men;
no man can tell which wire runs around
the world. The nation basking today in
the quiet of contentment and repose may
still be on the deadly circuit and tomor-
row writing In the tolls of war.
Time for Great Figures.
This is the time when great figures must
be kept in front. If the pressure is great
material to resist it must be granite
ard iron. Whether we wish it or not,
IS abroad in this world. Her in
terests are in every street, her name is
In every tongue. Those interests so sacred
and stupendous should be trusted only to
care of those whose power, skill and
courage have been tested and approved.
And in the man whom you will choose,
highest sense of every nation in the
living American does, the spirit and
the purposes of the twentieth century He
does not claim to be the Solomon of his
There are many things he may not
know. but this is sure, that above all
things else he stands for progress. courage
and fair play, which are the synonyms
OF the American name.
There are times when great fitness is
hardly less than destiny, when the ele-
ments so come together that they selct
the agent they will use. Events sometimes
goes down the highest rod. And so II is
those events which for many months
with unerring sight have led you to a
single name which / am chosen only to
pronounce: Gentlemen. l nominate for
president of the United States the highest
living type of the youth, the vigor and
the promise of a great country and q
great age. Theodore Roosevelt of New
York.