Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-07-11

since the Democratic convention was
called TO order last Wednesday morn
ing.
Mr.. Bryan snid:
Eight years ago a Democratic con
vention placed in my hands the stand
ard Of the party and gave me the com.
mission us its candidate. -Four years
later that commission was renewed. ]
come tonight to the Democratic con
vention to return the commission and
to say that you may dispute whether
/ fought il good fight. You may dis
pute whether | finished my course, but
YOU cannot deny that have kept the
faith.
"As your candidate I did all | could
to bring success to the party. As a
private citizen today l am more in
terested in Democratic success than ]
ever was when | was a candidate.
The reasons that made the election OF
n Democrat desirable were stronger
in 1900 than in 1896, and the reasons
that make the election of the Demo
cratic candidate desirable are stronger
in 1904 than they were in 1900.
'The gentleman who presented New
York's candidate dwelt upon the dan
gers of militarism, and lie did not over
state the dangers. Let me quote the
most remarkable passage that ever oc-
Cured or that was ever found in the
speech of nomination of any candidate
for president.
Governor Black of New York in pre-
senting the name Of Theodore Roose
Welt to the Republican conventions
used these words: The fate of IA
tons is still decided by their wars
You may talk of orderly tribunals ani
learned referees. You may sing il
your schools the gentle praises OF quie.
life. You may strike from your book
the last note of every martial anthem
and yet out iii the smoke and tllunde
will always be the tramp of horse.
and the silent, rigid, upturncd faces
Men may prophesy and women pray,
but peace will come here to abide for
ove in this earth only when the
dreams of childhood are the aceeptet
charts to guide the destinies of men
Events are numberless and mighty
and no man can tell which wire run
around the world. The nation baskini
today in the quiet of contcntment ant
repose may still be on IL deadly circui
and tomorrow writhing in the tolls o.
war. This Is the time when grea
figures must be kept in front. If TIN
pressure is great the material to resis
1t must he granite and iron
''This is Il eulogy of war. This is {;
declaration that the time hoped for
prayed for, of perpetual peace vii
never come, thus eulogizing the doc
trine of bfdte force and giving denia
to the hopes of the race. And thi,
president, n candidate for reelection
is presented as the embodiment of that
ideal, the granite and the iron, to rep
resent the new idea of militarism. Dc
you say you want to defeat the mill
tary idea? Friends of the south, ar,
you tryingfto defeat the military idea
Let me tell you that not one of Won
north. east or south, more fears tho
triumph or that idea than l do. Il
this is the doctrine that our nation il
to stand for, it is retrogression, MOI
progression; It is the lowering of thu
ideals of the nation; 1t is the tTrnin;
backward to the age of force. Nor,
than that. it is a challenge to the Chris
tian civilization of tho world and moth
ing less.
'Twenty-sevcn hundred years ago /
prophet foretold the coming of n who
was TO be called the Prince of Peace
Two thousand years ago he came upoI
the earth, and the song that was suns
at his birth was Peace on earth, gooo
will toward men,
"For two thousand years this doc
trine of peace has been growing. l..
has been taking hold upon the hearts
of men. For this doctrine of penc,
millions have given their lives. Fol
this doctrine of peace thousands have
crossed oceans and given their lives
among savage tribes and among for
eign nations. This doctrine of peace
the foundation of Christian civilian
ton, has been the growing hope Of the
world.
,"And now the ex-governor of the
greatest state of the nation presents
for the office of president Of the great
est republic Of all history Il man who
is granite and iron and who repre-
sents. not the doctrine of peace, but
the doctrine that the destinics of ma
tons are still settled by their wars.
'Will you of New York present a
graver indictment against President
Roosevelt than that? VIII you of til,
south present n graver indictment
against President Roosevelt than thati
/ do not ask what is the character Of
The man. He may have every virtue;
he may be exemplary in every way,
but if the president shares Il idea OF
the man who nominated him; if the
president believes with his sponsor at
Chicago that wars must settle the des-
TIMES of nations; that peace is but a
dream; that women pray for 1t; that
.o. -. .,uo,l.ncxr a1,Otat H. fhnf nll