Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-07-20
LET PAST BE FORGOTTEN.

tiOnal ideas"
LET PAST BE FORGOTTEN.
New York Statesman Makes Strong
Plea fos Party Harmony.
The speech of Hon. Martin W. Lit
Teton, of New York, who nominated
Judge Poker, probably was the ora
torical gem of the convention. He be-
gan his Grafton by saying:
I'VE do not expect here that stupid
peace which smells of chloroform.
I'VE do not wish that unctuous
unanimity which springs from the un-
conflicting emotions of solitary man.
We would not have our harmony in a
single harness. We, too, love the stir
of strenuous life; but we believe in
equal strenuousness for all and special
strenuousness for none. We do not
derive our power from the seats of the
mighty, but from the souls of the
humble. We do not ask for inane
agreement springing from faithless
fire, but rather outbursts of dissen-
sion issuing from robust freedom. We
are not in executive session. but rather
in the committee of the whole We
were sent here by the people to select
a candidate. We were not sent here
by the candidate to notify the people"
After sketching the political and So
cial conditions which have been adopt
ed by the republicans as their party
shibbOleths, Mr.. Littleton proceeded to
present his candidate in the following
words:
THE country called upon New York
for a man to fit this, the critical hour
and place in our national life, and New
York answers with a man who puts
against the strenuous sword play
staggering administration. simple
faith in all the perfect power of the
constitution; a man who puts against
an executive republic the virtue of
constitutional republic; a man who
puts against executive usurpation a
knowledge of and a deep love for the
poise and balance of its three great
| powers; a man who puts against the
stealthy hunt with the big stick" a
| faithful observance of constitutional
New York for man of stainless char
acter in private and public life, and
! New York answers with a man whose
( path leads from the sweet and simple
| fireside of his country home. where he
enjoys the gentle society of his family
! to his place of labor and honor at the
mead OF one Of the greatest courts in
| Christendom. And nowhere through
his active and useful life has aught but
| honest praise found utterance on the
! lips OF those who know him best If
you ask me why he has been silent,
will tell it is because he does not claim
| to be the master of the democratic
party, but is content to be its servant
If you ask me why he has not outlined
policy for this convention, | tell you
| that he does not believe that policies
should. be dictated, but that the sover-
eighty of the party is in the untram-
meled judgment and wisdom of it's
members; if you ask me what his
policy will be, If elected tell you that
it will be that policy which finds ex-
preston in the platform of his party
with these. as some of the claims upon
your conscience and Judgment New
! York comes to you flushed with hope and
pride. We appeal to the south. whose
unclouded vision and iron courage saw
and fought the way for half century:
whose Jefferson awoke the dumb def
ance of development into a voice that
cried out to the world curse upon the
rule of kings and blessing upon new
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the logic of events and the law of prog
ress into the constitution of the coun-
! try: whose Jackson reclaimed the lost
places of the far south and democratized
the policies of the nation; and whose
soldiers showed the wondering world
the finest fruits of brain and nerve and
| heart that ripen in her temperate sun.
and who. through all the sons she lost.
and all the sons she saved and all the
tears she shed amid the sorrowful ruins
/ of war-and through all the patient 10y
for human happiness that all the world
exclaims: Her greatness in peace is
greater than her yalor in war
I'VE appeal to you of the old south and
the new to join with us in this contest of
the supremacy of our party. We appeal
to the west whose frontier struggles
carried our civilization to the Pacific
slopes. whose courage conquered the
plain and forest and whose faithful Ia
Dor has built beautiful cities clear
through to the Rocky mountains: we
appeal to you as he did follow your lead
ership through eight long years of con-
| troversy you turn and follow him now
4 when victory awaits US in November
We appeal to New England. faithful
sentinel among her historic hills, in the
name Of all her unfaltering and brilliant
democrats. living and dead. to join us in
our labor for success.
I'VE appeal 20 every democrat from
everywhere to forget the bitter warfare