The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-06-23

uiuerence between tue OppOSltlOn auo
ourselves is this: They select their
for the people, and the peo-
pie select our candidate for us.
This was true four years ago when
we accepted the peoples judgment
and named william Mckinley, whose
perfect mingling Of mind and heart.
OF wisdom and Of tenderness. won
the trust and love Of the nation then
and makes almost holy his memory
now. His power was in the peoples
hearts.
at is true today when we again SC
cept the peoples judgment and name
Theodore Roosevelt, whose SYM
pathies are as wide as the republic,
whose courage, honesty and vision
meet all emergencies. and the sum
Of whose qualities make him the type
Of twentieth century Americanism.
And the twentieth century American
is nothing more than the man of '76
facing a new day with the old faith.
THEODORE Roosevelt, like william
Mckinley, is the nominee of the
American fireside. So were Wash
ington and jefferson in the early
time; so was Andrew Jackson when
he said The Union: 1t must be pre-
served; so was Abraham Lincoln
when, the republic saved, he babe us
bind up the nations wounds; and
Grant when, from victory's very sum-
NIT his lofty words, "let us have
peace voiced the spirit of the hour
and the peoples prayer. When nomi-
mated by parties. each of these great
presidents was, at the periods named,
already chosen by the public judg-
ment. And so today. the republican
party, whose strength is in it's
obedience to the will of the American
people. merely executes again the de-
cree which comes to it from the
American home in naming Theodore
Roosevelt as our candidate.
1.-THE peoples thought is his
thought; American ideals. his ideals.
This is his only chart of statesman
ship-and no other is safe. For the
truest guide an American president
can have is the collective intelligence
and massed morality of the American
people. And this ancient rule of the
fathers is the rule of our leaders
now.
Theodore Roosevelt is a leader
who leads; because he carries out the
settled purposes Of the people. Our
presidents plans, when achieved, are
always found to be merely the ma
tons will accomplished. And that
is why the people will elect him.
They will elect him because they
know that if he is president we will
get to work and keep at work on the
canal. After decades of delay when
the people want thing done, they
want it done.
They know that while he is presi-
dent the flag will "stay put" and no
American advantage in the Pacific
or the world be surrendered. Ameri-
cans never retreat.
while he is president no wrong
doer in the service of the government
will go unwhipped of justice. Ameri-
cans demand honesty and honor, vigi-
liant and fearless.
while he is president, readjust-
ment of tariff schedules will be made
only in harmony with the principle
of protection. Americans have menu
cries.
while he Is president peace with
every nation will be preserved at any
cost, excepting only the sacrifice Of
American rights; and the vigor with
which he maintains these will be it.
self guarantee of peace.
1.-The American people will elect
him because, in a word, they know
that he does things the people want
done; does things. not merely dis
cusses them-does things only after
discussing them-but does things;
and does only those things the people
would have him do. This is char
acteristically American; for wher-
ever he is, the American is he who
achieves.
"On every question all men know
where he stands. Americans, frank
themselves, demand frankness in
their servants. Uncertainty is the
death of business. The people can
always get along if they know where
they are and whittier they are going.
Ills past is his proof. Every great
measure of his administration was
so wise that, enthusiastically sus-
tanned by his own party, it won votes
even from the opposition.
do you name Cuban reciprocity?
The opposition resisted and then OPP
position votes helped to ratify it.
do you name corporate legisla-
ton? The opposition resisted and
then opposite votes helped to en-
act it.
''Of what measure of Theodore
Roosevelt's administration does the
opposition dare even to propose the
repeal? And when has the record of
any president won greater approval?
"And so the people trust him as
a statesman. Better than that. they
love him as man. He wins admir-
also. In the American home-that
temple of happiness and virtue where
dwell the wives and mothers of the
republic. cherishing the beautiful in
life and guarding the morality of the
nation-in the American home the
name of Theodore Roosevelt is not
only honored but beloved. And that
is a greater triumph than the victory
of battlefields. greater credit than
successful craftsmanship. greater
honor than the presidency itself
would be without 1t. Life holds no
reward so noble as the confidence and
love. of the American people.
THE American people! The might
lest force for good the ages have
evolved. They began as children of
They believed in God and
His providence. They took truth and
justice and tolerance as their eternal
ideals and marched fearlessly for
ward. wiidernesses stretched before