Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-08-10
BLACKS NOMI-
MATING SPEECH
New Works. Ex-Governor Delivered
One Of the Most Eloquent Politl.
cal Addresses Recorded.
ROOSEVELT THE STATESMAN
Conscientious and Fearless in the Dis.
charge Of What He Believes to
be Right-Not chattel.

former Governor Frank d. Black, Of
New York, said:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
Convention: We are here to inaug.
urate a campaign which seems already
to be nearly closed. So wisely have
the people sowed and watched and
tended, there seems little now to do
but to measure up the grain. They
are ranging themselves not for bat.
tie, but for harvest. In one column.
reaching from the Maine woods to
Puget sound are those people and
those states which have stood SO long
together, that, when great emergen-
cies arise, the nation turns instinct
lively to them. In this column, vast
and solid, is a majority so overwhelm-
ing that the scattered squads in OPP
position can hardly raise another
army. The enemy has neither guns
nor ammunition, and II they had they
would use them on each other. Des-
titute of the weapons Of effective war
fare, the only evidence of approach
ing battle Is in the tone and number
Of their bulletins. There Is discord
among the generals; discord among
the soldiers.
Each would fight In his own way,
but before a~ssaulting his republican
adversaries he would first destroy his
own comrades in the adjoining tents.
Each believes the weapons chosen by
the other are not only wicked, but
fatal to the holder. That Is true.
This is the only war OF modern times
where the boomerang has been sub
stituted for the gun. Whatever fatal
titles occur, however, among the dis
cordant hosts now moving on st.
Louis, no harm will come this fail
to the American people. There will
be no opposition sufficient to raise
q conflict. There will be hardly
enough for competition. There are no
democratic plans for the conduct OF
the fall campaign. Their zeal is
chiefly centered In discussion as to
Wudl AuOuldo oOu Wouiu w ~
he were living. He Is not living, and
but few of his descendants are among
the Democratic remnants of today.
Whatever Of patriotism or wisdom
emanated from that distinguished
man is now represented In this con.
vention.
Sad Day for Them.
Il is a sad day for any party when
its only means Of solving living Is
sues is by guessing at the possible
attitude of q statesman who 10 dead.
This condition leaves that party al
ways a beginner and makes every
question new. The Democratic party
has seldom tried a problem on its
own account, and when 1t has its
blunders have been Its only monu-
ments, its courage is remembered on
ly in regret. AS long as these things
are recalled that party may serve as
ballast, but 1t will never serve the
ship.
When all the people have forgotten
will dawn q golden era for this new
Democracy. But the country Is not
ready yet to place q party In the lead
whose most expressive motto is the
cherries word forget" That mot
to may express contrition, but 1t does
not inspire hope. Neither confidence
nor enthusiasm will ever be aroused
by any party which enters each cam
paign uttering the language Of the
mourner.
Equality Of Man.
There Is one fundamental plank,
however, on which the two great par
ties are In full agreement. Both be-
lieve in the equality Of men. The diff
ference is that the Democratic party
would make every man as low az the
poorest, while the Republican party
would make every man as high as the
best. But the Democratic course will
provoke no outside interference now,
for the Republican motto is that Of
the great commander, Never inter-
rupt the enemy when he is making
a mistake"
In politics as in other fields, the
most impressive arguments spring
from contrast. Never has there been
a more striking example Of utility
than is now afforded by this assem-
blage. You are gathered here not as
factions torn by discordant views. but
moved by one desire and intent. You
have come as the chosen representa-
tives of the most enlightened party
in the world. You meet not as strang-
ers, for no men are strangers who
hold the same beliefs and espouse
the same cause. You may separate
two bodies of water for a thousand
years, but when once the barrier Is
removed they mingle instantly and
are one. The same traditions inspire
and the same purposes actuate US all.
Origin Of Party.
Never In our lives did these pur-
poses stand with deeper root than
now. At least two generations have
passed away since the origin OF that
great movement from which sprang
the spirit which has been the leading
impulse In American politics for hall
a century. In that movement, which
was both a creation and an example
were those great characters which
endowed the Republican party at III
birth with the attributes Of justice
equality and progress, which have held
II to this hour in line with the high
est sentiments OF mankind. From
these men we have inherited the de
sire, and to their memory we W thu
resolution that those great schemes
of government and humanity. inspir
ed by their patriotism, and establish
ed by their blood. shall remain al
the fixed and permanent emblem o
their labors and the abiding sigma
Of the liberty and piogress OF tn
race.
Old Party OF Name.
There are many new names In thes
days, but the Republican party need
m nau tifle II afands now WHARF 4