News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1904-06-29
Roosevelt dominates

Chicago, June discriminating
speeches were in ORDER today at the
national Republican convention.
Ex-Governor Black of New York, in
placing in nomination Mr.. Roosevelt,
said in part:
There will be no opposition sufficient to
raise a conflict There will be hardly
enough for competition. There are no
fall camnaign.. Their yea! Is chiefly cen
tired in discussion as to what Thomas JEFF
ferson would do il he were living. lie is
not living ard bat few of his descendants
are among the Democratic remnants of to-
day. Whatever of patriotism or wisdom
emanated from that distinguished man is
now represented in this convention.
1t is 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
makes every question new. The Democratic
party has seldom tried a problem on its
own account, and when It has its plumbers
have been its only monuments, Its cour-
age is remembered only In regret AZ long
as these things are recalled that party may
serve as ballast, but It wtll mover steer
In politics as In other fields, the most
impressive arguments spring from con-
traSt. Never has there been more strl6-
ing example of unity than Ia now Afforded
by this assembiage. You are gathered
here not as factions torn by dlscoFdant
Views. but moved by one desire and intent,
you have come as the chosen representa-
tive of the most enlightened party in the
world. You meet not as strangers for no
men are strangers who hold the same be
liefs and espouse the same cause. You
may separate two bodies of water for
thousand years. but when once the bar
rier is removed they miugle instantly and
are one. The same traditions inspire and
the same purposes actuate us all. Never
In our lives did these purposes stand with
deeper root than now. At least two gen
eratOns have passed away since the origin
of that great movement from which sprang
the spirit which has been the leading I'm
pulse in American politics for half cen
fury, In that movement, which was both
a creation and an example, were those great
characters which endowed the Republican
party at its birth with the attributes of
justice, equality and progress, which have
held it to this hour IN line with the high
est sentiments of mankind. Prom these
men we have inherited the desire, and to
those great schemes of government and hui
manity, inspired by their patriotism, and es-
tablished by their blood, shall remain as the
fixed and permanent emblem or their Ia
bors and the abiding signal of the llber-
ty and progress of the race. The problems
of every age that age must solve Great
in any enterprise have the American peo-
pie failed, and never in any crisis has the
Republican party failed to express the con
science and intelligence Of that people.
The public mind is awake both to its op-
portunities and its dangers. 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 unanimity sell
dom seen.
There are times when great fitness is
hardly less than destiny, when the elements
so come together that they select the agent
they will use. Events sometimes select
the strongest man, as lightning goes down
the highest rod And SO 1t Is with those
events which for many months with I'M
erring sight have led you to a single name
which | am chosen only to pronounce
Gentlemen, | nominate for President of the
United States the highest living type of
the youth the vlEor and the promise of a
great country and a great age, Theodore
Roosevelt of New York.
The Nomination Seconded
In seconding the nomination OF Mr..
Roosevelt, Senator Beveridge sand:
zone difference between the opposition
ond ourselves Is this - They select their
candidate for the people, and the people
select our candidate for US
This was true four years ago when we