The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-23
GOV. BRADLEY'S SPEECH
On the Part of Kentucky Seconds
RooseveIt's Nomination.

amy IOE the future save the ASCOA0 "
its past.
1T points to an enormous com
merce, at home and abroad. To free
homes given to free people. To a war
waged to drive the tyrant from Cuba,
and a promise faithfully kept to give
to the people of the island stable
form of government. To an improved
have added iTnperishable glory to Amer
lean arms. To the erection of churches
and school houses, and the Inaugural
ton of civil government in the Philip
pines. To the universal prosperity now
prevailing throughout the Republic. To
a generous system of pensions, pro-
vided for those who fought, and the
families of those who died, that the
Union might be preserved. To the 81
gantic rebellion of all time courage
Ously met and completely subdued. To
the shackles of bondmen melted
in the red flames of war, and to stars
preserved, and yet others fixed, in the
armament of freedom.
I'VE can not stand at the base of
Bunker Hill monument, as prophesTed
by Toombs and call the roll OF our
slaves; but we can stand on any spot
of the earth and call the long roll OF
Republican statesmen and soldiers-the
most distinguished and ilustr1ouS that
the nation has produced, who rendered
impossible the fulfillment of that pre-
diction.
For nearly half century the rec
ord of the Republican party has been
so interviewer with the country'S MS
tory that each is a part of the other,
and neither can be written without
including the other. Indeed, during
that time the Republican party has
been the country.
IN diplomacy, in progress, in the
arts and sciences, in prosperity and
adversely, in peace and war, at nome
and abroad on land and sea, the Re
publican party has been true to every
trust, equal to every emergency, has
continually elevated and advanced the
standard of American honor and glory
and now proclaims to the world that
in the lexicon of patriotic endeavor
and achievement there is no such
word as fall
And during all these eventful years
the Democratic party has resisted
every step of advancement and prog
ress. 1t has been a stupid objector,
miserable malcontent and a common
Scold. For two presidential terms it
administered public affairs. and dur
ing each crippled commerce, unset
tied and decreased values, paralyzed
industry, closed manufactures, and
made it necessary for public charity
to provide food for the starving I'M
employed. 1t has exchanged its time
honored principles for dangerous
heresies and betrays it's leaders until
it is without a leader and in anxious
search of a platform. 1t has aband-
oned its Moses and is unable to dis
cover Joshua. 1t does not certainly
know what it wants; and if it did,
would not know where to find it. It
does not know what it is for, and if
it did would not know how to ex-
press it. It does not know what to
do, and if it did would not know how
/ to do it
Men of the north, we come from the
battlef1elds, consecrated to freedom
with the blood of your brave sons. We.
are the custodians of your patriot dead,
and each year commemorate their deeds
a TIaf1
In their names, and by their memories,
| the disfranchised south appeals to
you for justice. Shall 1t be said that
your sons marched and fought and died
in vain? Shall it be said that q, nation
can exist part slave and part free? Are
people free who are forced to bear the
burden and yet denied the highest priv
ilege Of citizenship If it be true that
warrant may not be found in the con
stitutfon to prevent Acknowledgement
then we beg that you no longer permit
the disfranchised and oppressed to be
estimated for the purpose of increasing
the electoral strength Of their oppreS-
sors.
Though the grape is crushed and
the grain is ground. they produce Meth
er wine nor bread for the persecuted
men of the south.
Surrounded by difficulties. striving
in vain to be free, they instinctiVeiy
turn to the brave, true man who has
said that he would not close the door
! of hope on a. struggling race. The
southern Republicans are devoted to
him and will follow him with all the
affection and enthusiasm WITH which
the Old Guard followed Napoleon.
They have mistaken faith in his superb
courage, evenhanded justice and un-
sullied honor.
1--WE have not forgotten how. when
the war clouds hung dark in the ma
! tons horizon, he sacrificed office and
left a happy home and a beloved wife
and children to bare his bosom in the
storm of battle The same patriotism
and courage that inspired him then
has animated him throughout his ad-
ministration. When others stood ap-
palled in the presence of the great
strike, he cheerfully and with alac-
rity assumed a responsibility not Off
ciaIly incumbent upon him and brave
" springing into the breach succeed
ed in procuring settlement that
brought tranquility to the representa-
tives of capital and smiles and sun
shine into the faces and homes of the
humble laborers
He unhesftatingly measured shrd
"He unhesitaungly- measured swords
with the giant corporation which
Threatened the people with wrong and
| oppression, and brought it into sub
I lection.
He knows how and when to plan,
and, better still, how and when to ex-
ecute. Alert of mind, he has quickly
seized every opportunity. In the pro-
curement of concessions for the Pan
anna canal he accomplish ed more in
a few hours than his predecessors ac-
complished in more than a hundred
years He did not attempt to unIoose.
/ he cut the Gordon knot
His enemies say that he cannot be
tursted; but the people know that one
I who always does the right thing at the
right time and in the right way is en-
/ titled to their implicit confidence.
/ His enemies say that he is unsafe.
1 His record proves that he is unsafe
i only to the lawless, the trickster, the
garfter.and those who deny equal
nrOfecfinn of the law to arrr c1a sc Of