Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-10

business of Roosevelt Which ti'e
patience and good nature of ms auui-
cnce Will allow, and abused the trusts
all he d;lres to i'm view of the fact that
this Democratic c;.ndidat" was selected
by the trusts and his campaign MAN.
aged by them, h, hurri"s ba 4 Lew
generations and tells how jefferson
founded the Democratic party ana
| made it the sole legat"e of the wisdom
Of the ages.
One distinguished speaker whom We
had the pleasure of hearing recently
did not stop there, but went back TO me
dawning Of the Christian era as the
time when the Democratic party came
into existence. This WAS a new version
to his hearers and they gave him
enthusiastic applause. Thus en-
courased he scared again with the
reSeStlesS wings of impctuous eloquence
| ard before he alightcd he had gone
back over thousands of years ana
named Adam as the real and original
! founder of his party. But alas! how
far has the Democracy strayed from
| the innocence of those days and hcw
dim is its memory Of the delights Of
Eden.
The pleasure of the Democracy In
pointing to the remote and dis
tinguished ancestry which it imagines
it possesses, ana its attempt to
monopoliZe as it's own the principles of
the constitution and the declaration of
independence are a harmless amuse-
ment and deceive nobody. But they
emphasize the fact that the party faces
the past rather than the future. 1t is
not 4 vital, aggressive force of the
present which does things and stands
for things. 1t is negative rather than
positive. 1t holds the country back
instead of helping it push ahead. 1t
hauled down the flag in Hawaii and
l.
1t waivers in the face of a crisis and
lodges national duty. The gaping hole
in the st. Louis platform where the
money plank was kicked out is
characteristic of the Democracy of to-
day. The nomination of its presidential
candidate by a trick and the blunder
IL, al
candidate are characteristic Democratic
performances.
It's origin is one of the noblest pages in
American history. and its earliest great
achievement was to save the Union
whose dissolution had been nearly ac-
cOmplished by the Democracy. But it
is rot asking for support in this
campaign on the strength of that
origin and those early achievements.
They are scarcely ever alluded to by
Republican campaign speaker. 1t does
not seek votes simply because it is the
party once led by Fremont, Lincoln,
Hamlin, Seward and Grant. It's record
for the past half century is the story of
American growth, progress and
achievement, the most wonderful story
Of the kind ever written, but it is not
dwelt upon at length by the Republican
campaign speakers.
No. the Republican party, proud as
it justly is of its past and as much as
there is there to which it can point
with pride, comes before the people in
this campaign as a party of the present
ard the future. 1t seeks support be-
cause it does something, and stands for
son ethlg. today. Every plank in it's
pla form is sound and the man upon
it Is an open book to the land. Just
rs it has evaded no duty in the past,
so now it dOGges no issue. Every
voter knows what it stands for and
what manner of man it's leader is 1t
has kept its pledges, and it's promise
for the future is it's record of the
immediate past. These are the reasons
why Roosevelt will be reelected and
the Republican party continued in
power
NO state in the Union has had n