The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-06-24
Senator Charles w. Fairbanks. of
Indiana, Named lAmid1Equdlly En-
thusiastic Scenes Gas Running
Nate of the Peoples Great
President and the Conven-
ton Adjourns.

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 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 a problem
on its own account, and when it has its
blunders have been its only monuments
its courag 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 dawn golden era for this
new Democracy. But the country is
mot ready YET to place a party in the
lead whose most expressive motto is the
cherries word forget" That motto
may express contrition, but it does not
inspire hone. Neither confidence nor
enthusiasm viii 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 differenc 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,
/ terference now, for the Republican
motto is that of the great commander.
never interrupt the enemy while he is
making n mistake"
In politics as in otner fields, the most
impressive arguments spring from con-
trast. NEVER has there been more
striking example of unity than is now
afforded by this assemblage. You are
: gathered here not as factions torn by
| discordant views, but moved by one de-
sire and intent, you have come a.
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
and espouce the same canse. You may
separate two bodies of water for thou
sand years, but when once the barrier
is removed they minglc 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 generations have passed away
since the origin of that great movement
from which sprang the spirit which has
been the leading impulse in Ameri.
can politics for half century. In that
movement. which was both creation
and an example were those great char
! acters 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 highest sentiments of mankind
From these men We have inherited the
desire, and to the memory we owe the
resolution, that those great schemes Of
/ government an humanity, inspired by
their patriotism, and established by
their blood, shall remain as the fixed
and permanent emblem of their abors,
and the abiding signal of tae liberty and
progress of the race.
There are many new names in these
days, but the Republican party needs
no new title. 1t stands now where ii
stood at the beginning Memory alone
is needed to tell the source from which
the inspirations of the country flow. A
drowsy memory would be as guilty now
as sleeping watchman when the enemy
Is astir. The name .of the Republican
party stands over every door where
righteous cause was born. Its members
have gathered around every movement
no matter how weak, if inspired by high
resolve. It's flag for more than fifty
years has been the sign of nope on
very spot where liberty was the word
Tint party needs no new name or plat
form TO designate it's purposes. 1t Is
now ms it has been, equipped, militant
and in motion. The problems Of every
age that age must solve. Great causes
impose great demands, but never ia any
enterprise have the American people
failed, and never in any crisis has tho
Republican party failed T. express the
conscience and intelligence 81 that peo
pie