The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-06-30
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Portions of the Nominating Speech
OF Ex-Governor Black.

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OF Ex-Governor Black.
The following extract from the
speech of Ex- Governor Black in nomi-
mating Theodore Roosevelt for the
presidency is worthy Of the careful
reading of every voter in the country.
1t is not only, worth reading but is
interesting.
There are many new games in these
days, but the Republican party needs
no new title. 1t stands now where it
stood at the beginning. Memory alone
is needed to tell the sources from which
the inspirations of the country flow.
A drowsy memory would be as guilty
now as a sleeping Waterman when
the enemy is astir. The name OF the
Republican party stands over every
door where a righteous cause was
born. Its members have gathered
around every movement, no matter
how weak. if inspired by high re-
solve. Its flag for more than fifty
years has been the sign of hope on
every spot where liberty was the
word. That party needs no new
name or platform to designate it's pur
poses. 1t is now as it has been,
equipped, militant and in motion.
The problems of every g that age
must solve. Great causes impose
great demands, but never in any en-
terprise have the American people
failed, and never in any crisis has
the Republican party failed to express
the conscience aud intelligence of that
people.
The public mind is awake both to
Nowhere in the world, in any era,
did citizenship mean more than it
means today in America. Men of
courage and sturdy character are
ranging themselves together with a
unanimity seldom seen. There is no
excuse for cropping in the dark, for
the flight is plain to him who will
but raise his eyes. The American
people believe in a man or party that
has convictions and knows why.
They believe that what experience has
proved it is idle to resist. A wise
man is any fool about to die. But
there is a wisdom which with good
fortune may guide the living and the
strong. That wisdom springs from
reason, observation and experience.
Guided by these this thing is plain,
and young men may rely upon it, that
the history and purposes l have de-
scribed, rising even to the essence and
aspirations of patriot SIN. find their
best concrete example in the career
and doctrines of the Republican party.
But not alone upon the principles
of that party are its members in &C.
cord. With the same devotion which
has marked their adherence TO those
principles, magnificent and enduring
as they are, they have already singled
out the mar to bear their standard
and to lead the way. No higher
badge was aver yet conferred. But
great as the honor is, the oircumstsn-
ces which surround it make that honor
even more profound You have come
from every State and territory in this
vast domain. The country and the
town have We'd with each other in
. sending here their contributions to
. this splendid throng. Every high
way in thu land is leading here and
crowded with the members of that
great party which sees in this splendid
city the symbol of its rise and power.
Within this unexampled multitude il
every rank and condition of free men,
every creed and occupation. But to.
day a common purpose and desire have
engaged us all, and from every NOOK
and corner of the country rises but 6
single choice to. fill the most exalted
office in the world,
He is no stranger waiting in the
shade to be called suddenly into pub
lie sight. The American people have
seen him for many years and Away
where the fight was thickest and thu
greatest need was felt. He has been
, alike conspicuous in the pursuits Of
peace and in the arduous stress
of war. sNo man now living will
forget the spring of '9S, whtr