The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-23
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overwhelming that the scattered squad,
in opposition can hardly raise another
army. The enemy has Neither guns MOI
ammunition, and ii they had they would
use them on each other. Destitute OF
the weapons of effective warfare, the
only evidence of approaching BATH i:
in the tone and number of theii
bulletins. There is discord among the
gnerals; discord among the soldiers
Each would fight in his own way, but
before assaulting his Republican ad.
Yersaries he would first destroy his own
comrades in the adjoining tents. Each
believes the weapons chosen by the
other are not only wicked but fatal to
the holder. That is true. This i the
only war of modern times where the
boomerang has been substituted for The
gun. Whatever fatalities may occur
however, among the discordant host.
now moving on st. Louis, no harm will
come this fall to the American people.
There will be no opposition sufficient to
raise conflict. There win be hardly
enough for competition. There are no
Democratic plans for the conduct of the
fall campaign. Their zeal is chiefly
conferred in discussion as TO what
Thomas Jefferson would do if he were
living. He is not living, and but few
OF his descendants are among the Demo.
cratic remnants of today. Whatever OF
patriotism of wisdom emanated from
that distinguished man is now repre-
scented in this convention.
1t is a sad day for any party when its
only means of solving living issues is by
guessing at the possible attitude of a
statesman who is dead. This condition
leaves that party always beginner and
makes every question new. The Demo,
cratic party has seldom tried problem
on its own account, and when it has it,
blunders have been its only monuments
its eourag is remembered only in
regret. As long as these Things are re.
called that party may serve as ballast
but it will never steer the ship.
When all the people have forgotten
will darwin a golden era for this
new Democracy. But the country il
not ready yet to place party in the
lead whose most expressive motto is the
cheerless word forget That motto
may express contrition, but it does moi
inspire hope. Neither confidence nor
enthusiasm will ever be aroused by any
party which enters each campaign utter.
ing the language of the mourner.
There is one fundamental plank, how
ever, on which the two great parties
are in full agreement. Bottle believe in
the equality of men. The difTerenc is
that the Democratic party would make
every man as low as the poorest, while
the Republican party would make every
man as high as the best. But the Demo
cratic course will provoke no outside in.
reference now, for the Republican
motto is that of the great commander.
never interrupt the enemy while he is
making a mistake"
In politics as in other fields. the mos1
impressive arguments spring from con-
trast. Never has there been a more
striking example of unity than is now
afforded by this assemblage. You are
gathered here not as factions torn by
diseordant views, but moved by one de.
sire and intent, you have come as
the chosn representatives of the most
enlightened party in the world. You
meet not as strangers, for no men are
strangers who mold the same beliefs
md espouce the same cause. You NAV
separate two bodies of water for thou. |
sand years, but when once the barrie,
IS removed they mingle instantly and |
are one. The same traditions inspire
md the same purposes actuate us all
Never in our lives did these purposes
stand with deeper root than now. All
east two generations have passed away
iince the origin of that great movement
rom which sprang the spirit which ha.
'een the leading impulse in Ameri
an politics for half century. In that
movement, which was both a creation
md an example, were those great char
ieters which endowed the Republican
'arty at its birth with the attributes oil
ustiee, equality and progress, which
ave held it to this hour in line with
ne highest sentiments of mankind
rom these men We have inherited the
esire' and to the memory we owe the
esolution, that those great schemes oil
.oyernment an humanity, inspired b,
heir patriotism, and established nv
heir blood, shall remain as the axed
nd permanent emblem of their labors
nd the abiding signal of tae liberty and
rogress of the race. II
There are many new names in these
avs but the Republican party needs
Q new title. It stands now where i'll
TODD at the beginning. Memory alone |
needed to tell the source from which (
ne inspirations of the country fIow