The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-06-23

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<.Mr. President and Gentlemen of
the Convention: We are here to in.
augurate a campaign which seems al.
ready to be nearly closed. So wisely
have the people sowed and watched
and tended, there seems little to do
now but to measure up the grain.
They are arranging themselves not
column reaching from the Maine
woods to the Puget Sound are those
people and those states which have
stood so long together, that when
great emergencies arise the nation
turns instinctively to them. In this
column, vast and solid. is a majority
sc overwhelming that the scattered
squads in opposition can hardly raise
another army. The enemy has nei-
Their guns nor ammunition. and if
they had they would use them on
each other. Destitute Of the weapons
of effective warfare, the only evidence
of approaching battle is in the tone
and number OF their bulletins. There
is discord among the generals; dis.
cord among the soldiers. Each wOulG
fight in his own way. but before as.
saulting his Republican adversaries
he would first destroy his own com
rades 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 is
the only war of modern times where
the boomerang has been substituted
for the gun. Whatever fatalities
may occur, however, among the dis
cOrdant hosts now moving on st.
Louis, no harm will come this fall
to the American people. There will
be no opposition sufficient to raise q
conflict. There will be hardly enough
for competition. There are no Demo
cratic plans for the conduct of the
fall campaign. Their zeal is chiefly
conferred in discussion as to what
Thomas Jefferson would do II he
were living. He is not living, and
but few Of his descendants are among
the Democratic remnants of today
Whatever of patriotism or wisdom
emanated from that distinguished
man is now represented in this con.
vention.
at is a sad day for any party when
its only means of solving living is
sues is by guessing at the possible
attitude of a statesman who is dead
This condition leaves that party al.
ways q beginner and makes every
question new. The Democratic party
has seldom tried a problem on it's
own account, and when it has its
plumbers have been its only monu-
ments, it's courage is remembered
only In regret As long as these
things are recalled that party may
serve as ballast, but it can never
steer the ship.
~ &AA JIG POoPAO AovS SUI
ten will dawn a golden era for this
new Democracy. But the country is
not ready yet to place q party in the
lead whose most expressive motto is
forget" That motto may express
contrition. but it does not inspire
hope. Neither confidence nor enthus.
iasin will ever be aroused by any
party which enters into each cam
paign uttering the language Of the
mourner.
There is one fundamental plank,
however, ON which the two great par
ties are in full agreement. Both be-
lieve in the equality Of men. The diff,
ference 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 Democratic
course will provoke no outside inter
terence now. for the Republican mot
10 is that Of the CREST commanders
never Interrupt the enemy While be
4 making : nalstake."
IN politics - ii other fields. the
most Impre1stvs arguments spring
from contrast Never has there been
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