Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-12

ed them by his exalted station on the
bench-a man who through his car
eer from poverty to power, never in
fair weather or foul forsook the stan
dards of his party faith or deserted
the colors of his command.
The country called upon New York
for a democrat free from fractional
dispute, and New York answers with
man friendly to all factions, but a
| favorite, and a friend of none: n man
who will take council and courage OF
both. but who will take the bitterness
of neither-a man who will not stir the
hatred of the past nor share the acri
mony of the present. but who will lead
us up toward the future in a cloud
less atmosphere Of party peace. The
country called upon New York for a
man who measured up to the stan.
dard stature of this lofty place and
| New York answers with Il candidate
who grew from youth to manhood in
humble walks of life: who lived and
learned what all our common folks
must live and learn; a man who rip
ened with advancing years in the rich
attachments of the Law until he went
| by choice of those who knew him best,
to hold the heavy scale of justice at
the highest point of our great judicial
system, where, with the masters who
moulded state and nation, and the
men who drive commerce DER the
wheel of time, he surveyed to the
very ground every inch of this great
republic and saw with expanding Wis
ion the material growth and glory of
his state
Man to Fit Place.
THE country called upon New York
for man to fit this, the critical hour
and place in our material life, and
New York answers with Il man who
puts against the strenuous sword play
OF a staggering administration, sim
pie faith in all the perfect power of the
constitution; man who puts against
an executive republic the virture of a
constitutional republic; a man who
puts against an executive uSurpation
a knowledge of and a deep love for
the poise and balance of its three great
powers; a man who puts against the
stealthy hunt with the big stick a
faithful observance of constitutional
restraints. The country called upon
New York for n man of stainless char
acter in private and public life. and
New York answers with a man whose
path leads from the sweet and simple
Preside of his country home where he
enjoys the gentle society of his family,
TO his place of labor and honor at the
head of one of the greatest courts in
christendOm. And nowhere through
his active and useful life has aught but
honest praise found utterance on the
lips of those who knew him best. If
you ask me why he has been silent,
tell you ii is because he does not claim
TO be the master of the democratic
party. but is content TO be it's servant
If you ask me why he has not outlined
a policy for this convention. | tell you
that he does not believe that politics
should be dictated but that the soYer-
eighty of the party is in the untram-
meled judgment and wisdom of its
members; if you ask me what his pol !
icy will be, if elected, / tell you it will |
be that policy which finds expression |
in the platform of his party.
with these, as some of the claims |
upon your conscience and judgment, |
New York comes to you flushed with |
hope and pride. We appeal to the |
south, whose mclouded vision and |
iron courage saw and fought the way
for half a century; whose Jefferson
awoke the dumb defiance of develop
nent into a new voice that cried out to
he world a curse upon the rule of
Kings and blessing upon a new born
'epublic: whose Madison translated
he logic Of events and tho law of pro
;ress into the constitution of the
whose Jackson reclaimed
he lost places of the far south and
the politics of the ma
ion: and whose soldiers showed the
wondering world the first fruits of
'rain and nerve and heart that ripen
n her temperate sun. and who.
through all the sons she lost and all
he sons she saved and all the tears
he shed among the sorrowful ruins
# war-and through all the patient
Dyalty and labor of after years so
wrought for human happiness that all
he world exclaims Her greatness in
,eace is greater than her valor in war.
Appeal to South.
I'VE appeal to you of the old south
md the new TO join with us IN this
of the supremacy of our par
v We appeal TO the west whose
rontier struggles carries our civiIiza-
ion to the Pacific slopes. whose cour-
lge conquered and forest and whose
aithful labor has built beautiful cities
.Iear 4hroupb m tho Rocky maintains |