The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-07-23


and animated BY American constitu-
tionai ideas"
LET PAST BE FORGOTTEN
New York Statesman Makes Strong
Plea for Party Harmony.
The speech Of Hon. Martin w. Lit
Teton, Of New York, who nominated
Judge Parker. probably was the ora
torical gem of the convention. He be-
gan his Grafton by saying:
We do not expect here that stupid
peace which smells of chloroform.
s'We do not wish that unctuous
unanimity which springs from the un-
conflicting emotions of solitary man.
We would not have our harmony in a
single harness. We, too, love the stir
of strenuous life; but we believe in
equal strenuousness for all and special
strenuousness for none We do not
derive our power from the seats of the
mighty. but from the souls of the
humble. We do not ask for inane
agreement springing from faithless
fire, but rather outbursts Of dissen-
sion issuing from robust freedom. We
are not in executive session. but rather
in the committee of the whole. We
were sent here by the people to select
a candidate We were not sent here
by the candidate to notify the people"
After sketching the political and So
cial conditions which have been adopt
ed by the republicans as their party
shibboleths, Mr.. Littleton proceeded to
present his candidate in the following
words:
The country called upon New York
for a man to fit this, the critical hour
and place in our national life, and New
York answers with man who puts
against the strenuous sword play a
staggering administration, a simple
faith in all the perfect power of the
constitution; man who puts against
an executive republic the virtue of
constitutional republic; a man who
puts against executive usurpation a
knowledge of and deep love for the
poise and balance of its three great
powers; man who puts against the
stealthy hunt with the big stick"
faithful observance of constitutional
restraints. The country called upon
New York for a 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
fireside 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 know him best, II
you ask me why he has been silent, /
will tell it is because he does not claim
to be the master of the democratic
party, but is content to be its servant.
If you ask me why he has not outlined
a policy for this convention, l tell you
that he does not believe that policies
should be dictated, but that the sover-
eighty Of the party is in the untram-
meled Judgment and wisdom of its
members; If you ask me what his
policy will be, if elected, I tell You that
it will be that policy which finds ex-
preston 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
unclouded vision and iron courage saw
and fought the way for half a century:
whose Jefferson awoke the dumb defll
ance of development into voice that
cried out to the world curse upon the
rule of kings and blessing upon new
born republic; whose Madison translated
the logic of events and the law of prog
ress into the constitution Of the coun-
try; whose Jackson reclaimed the lost
places OF the far south and democratized
che policies of the nation; and whose
soldiers showed the wondering world
the finest fruits Of brain and nerve and
heart that rlpen In her temperate sun.
and who, through all the sons she lost.
and all the sons she saved and all the
tears she shed amid the sorrowful ruins
Of war and through all the patient 10y
atty and labor of after years SO wrought
for human happiness that all the world
exclaims: Her greatness in peace is
greater than her valor in war"
I'VE appeal to you of the old south and
the new to join with us In this confession
the supremacy of our party. We appeal
to the west whose frontier struggles
carried our civilization to the Pacific
slopes, whose courage conquered the
plain and forest and whose faithful Ia
Dor has built beautiful cities clear
through to the Rocky mountains: we
appeal to you as he did follow your lead
ership through eight long years of con-
troversy you turn and follow him now
when victory awaits us in November.
We appeal to New England, faithful
sentinel among her historic hills. in the
name of all her linfaltering and brilliant
democrats, living and dead, to join us in
our labor for success.
1--WE appeal to every democrat from
everywhere to forget the bitter warfare
Of the past; forget the strife and anger
of the older, other days; abandon all the
grudge and rancor Of party discomfort,
and, recalling with ever increasing pride,
the triumphs of our SO years of a consti-
tional government Of liberty and peace
here and now resolve to make the fu-
ture record that resplendent reach Of
time in which liberty and peace went up