The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-08-25

DclIdSt Opera I1OuSc duu VI d UuIkldly
at home.
1t looks as though Folk, the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Mis-
souri,, would come down from his ped
estal as reformer with capital R..
The nomination of two boodlers on the
State ticket by a convention controlled
by Folk occasioned much surprise, and
now it is charged that this was in
furtherance of an alliance, proposed by
Folk, with the men he had been prose-
cutting. OF course Folk denies this,
but the presence of these men on the
ticket gives color to the charge.
The blue and the gray mingled har-
moniously at the National Encamp-
ment, G.. A. R., in Boston last week.
The friendly greetings and hearty hos
FATALITIES extended to the ex-Confeder-
ates have strengthened the ties that
sentiment of the Grand Army was well
expressed in a speech at a banquet by
Corp. James Tanner, who said:
Our Grand Army comrades are glad
to lay flowers on the northern graves of
confederate soldiers, because we know
that better men and drawer soldiers
never marched since battles were first
fought than those who fought against
us.
This utterance was greeted with pro-
longed applause. Then, on the same
occasion, Gen, W. l. Behan of New
the southern people:
Today we all agree as to those prin
ciples. and all unite in the one opinion
that this is the greatest nation on earth,
and we intend to maintain its Suprem-
acy on sea and land against any and
all forces that may question our integ-
rlty or our interests.
There are those who sheer at Presi-
dent Roosevelt's warlike achievements
though, happily, they are in small
minority among the men of this Repub-
lie They ought to be put to shame by
the following statement of respected
officer, Gen. Henry V Doynton, who is
IN position to know whereof he speaks:
Having served on the army board of
brevets and medals of honor, it is pos
slOle to speak with precision concern
Ing the conduct of Colonel Roosevelt in
the Santiago campaign. Noluminous
papers were sui limited to that board by
his superior officers and his immediate
associates. There was perfect agree
ment among them ali. With one ac
cord they celebrated his conduct under
fire III terms of which any officer on any
field of reDoWn might well be proud
But the highest eulogy will be found IN
tile papers themselves, which make full
answer to the sneers and ribaldry of
writers, who, solely for political effect,
have been willing to unman themselves
by derisiOn Of the manly conduct of a
soldier III action.
President Roosevelt is not running
on his military record, though there is |
everything Ill it to commend him to his |
countrymen, but upon his whole career
in the service of the public, eliminating
in the Presidency. But veterans of the
Civil War and of the War with Spain,
while fully approaching his long and
brilliant civil record, will hold this in
chief remembrance to his credit, that |
promptly, upon the declaration of war,
he put behind him high and attractive
office, and the many ties of typical
American home, and accepted subor-
dinate regimental position, SO that he
might serve as soldier under his coun-
try's flag And those who know the
hearts of veterans will understand that |
this to them will be higher commenda-
ton than any success in civil life, even |
that great success obtained in the |
Presidential chair