Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-20
HEAR A RINGING ADDRESS
Delegates NO the: Republican State Con
vention Hear Addresses From Sem
atorsz and congressman. s.@s.~ e.,

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at last he has discovered new idea,
and he had to go to Europe to get it.
He repudiates the New York platform,
and In effect points to the remarkable
spectacle Of the Empire state democra-
5cy going deliberately, to Wall Street
for its candidate. Does not this utter
ance make W. J. Bryan again the logi-
cal candidate, Of his party?s >.. r,./,$
~ Altogether the situation is one of
.hopefulness fol. the republican party,
for good government. For US there
are mo unsolved problems to contend
with. We have no apologies to offer,
for none are necessary. r. .-, ' e., y
\ Senator McCumber thought that be-
fore recording or debating a single
thought on the present or future of the
republican party that every citizen
should congratulate the country and
the state on the greatest industrial pro-
agress made during the past seven years
that the world has ever seen. No
American citizen whose heart is not
dead can fail to give thanks for this
shower of blessings, which has been
pouring down since 1897. No man can
fail to accord to the republican party
its full credit for all these blessings.
Twelve years of such prosperity should
satisfy the most ardent searchers after
political truths and awe the maniac
who cries for free trade. The republi-
can party has been in control for seven
years and we know the results. For
years the democrats clamored for an
opportunity. We gave them every
thing from president down, and what
did they give us?
HELL" was the answer from man
in the audience. s; :s.: y.
The point is well taken continued
the speaker. They depleted the treas
ury; they destroyed h the mills and
factories and pauperized American
labor. And after this trial, in, 1897 the
republican party took hold OF the
refns Of government and pulled it from
this slough Of depression into which
It had been dragged BY democrats mis-
rule, and placed it on the highway OF
progress and for seven years have
carried It on that grand avenue OF
prosperity, with increased prosperity
every year and there is no telling
where It will stop. When this delega'
ttion, named here today, arrives in the
convention hall at Chicago they will
have nothing to do but to ratify the
sentiment Of the people Of the United
States, which has been crystallizing
for seven years. That convention and
this delegation will stand and declare
for that policy which has given us
this prosperity; which has raised the
value Of North Dakota. lands from
500 to 1000 per cent; which has
doubled the wages Of labor and which
has cast a hue Of crimson glory over
the entire land, improving and better
ing the conditions Of all mankind.
There will be long debate in that con-
vention over who shall carry the ban
ner OF this great party, and woe be 70
the man who will gainsay this deter
mination, The speaker then paid q
glowing tribute to Roosevelt, He l'e. stat atH
ed that there was something In the
life on the broad plains OF North Da'
kota, on the rolling slopes Of the Mis-
souri,, and even in the bad lands l that hal
had moulded the generous motives s OF
Theodore sevelt whose sympathiea
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