The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-26
THE REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN
KEY NOTE IS SOUNDED TODAY
ACHIEVEMENTS AND FAILURES POLITICAL PARTIES
ELooUENTLY PRESENTED BY
Permanent Chairman Republican Convention
In
Held In Indiana.

achievements of a half century the
Republican party triumphantly sur.
veys the past and courageously faces
the future. Upon its waving banners
are inscribed the most splendid victo-
ries of civilization and there are
also recorded there resolutions of he-
roic. endeavor and high emprise. The
brightest pages of human history
were written by the hands Of it's vo-
taries, and we find full inspiration for
the conflicts of the future by review
of its marvellous past. Therefore, we
this day triumphantly, aye, defantly
invoke the truth of history, knowing
full we'll what the inevitable answer
will be. -. .>.
Gentlemen, governmental policy
cannot do everything that needs must
be done to make a country great, but
it can do much. 1t can do much to
develop its, natural resources, to di-
versify its industries, to stimulate ge-
MUS, to give profitable investment to
capital, to fully and remuneratively
employ labor, to more equally dis
tribute the fruits Of toll. to fix the
standard of citizenship, to more gen
orally disseminate happiness among
the people, to incorporate the highest
ideals in its institutions and embody
the dearest principles in it's laws.
These things this party of ours has
ever done. While it may not be re-
sponsible for all the marvellous achi-
evemeats of the last four and forty
years, achievements that challenge
historical parallel, yet it is neverthe-
less true that all that progress has
occurred under the beneficial opera
tion of its policies and the fearless
application Of its principles to gov
eminent.
The only time that triumphal pro-
cession down the years has been sus-
pended was when the operations of
those policies were temporarily inter-
fered with, and an Indifferent people
intrusted the machinery Of govern
ment to the nerveless and incompe-
tent hands Of a helpless Democracy.
And every presidential campaign
we are compelled to temporarily alb
andon this great work of commercial
conquest. and industrial achievement
and overcome the Democratic party,
in order that we may continue min-
terruptedly this work of progress and
patriotism for the next four years.
And that is the great enterprise upon
which we are embarking here today.
And, gentlemen, it may be remarked
at the outset, as a reason for the uni
form success Of it's policies, that the
Republican party has always had the
courage to do right, the courage of a
sublime conviction, the courage to in
corporate the highest ideals in its
platforms and apply the loftiest prin-
ciples in its laws.
When the reins of government were
Igrasped by the kindly and patient
hand Of Abraham Lincoln, it was the
|spirit Of justice that inspired him tc
heroic action. Then in the shadow of
our flag, there were 100000 of ou1
fellow-men in chains, 100000 of hu.
man beings with manacles upon their
minds and with fetters upon their
!, feet, and they cried out for freedom
The Republican party heard the
piercing cry and had the moral cour.
age to face that awful problem. Upor
! a thousand CORY fields of strife, slav.
| cry was shot to death by the millior
guns Of the Union, and that question
: was forever settled in our land. The
flag went down at Sumter. but it rose
, again at Appomattox, uplifting in its
, rise a race from bondage and natior
to triumphant hope.
Tt was also believed by a hostile
. party that this nation was but loose
, confederacy, rope of sand, that i
t might be dissolved at the pleasure O.
, any one of its members, and tha
neither the Constitution nor the law
e had any binding force upon any Stat
that did not willingly consent to ODE.
3 them.t The Republican party heroic
lally met and solved that problem
I State. sovereignty Was pierced Il