The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-11-04

him fighting for the right as right seem
| ed to him. And it never took him long
to decide what the right was though
| seldom did he make a mistake-yet if
convinced that he had made mistake
he wouldturn as quickly on his mistak-
en- judgment as he would on the least
trusted of his advisors.
That is the man whom we delight to
honor today. Just man of flesh and
blood such as the rest of us only bigger
and better than so many of us because
he has all of the time been trying to
prepare himself for bigger and better
work while so many of us have forgot
ten to keep on growing as we should.
Today we see him standing where he
has been led by duty as he has conceiv-
ed his duty to be. We see him fearless
as any pure minded man who cares
nothing for the opinion of the world if
only he knows that he is right, and that
his motives harbor no evil intent. Just
toward all men, he can sympathize
equally with the overworked miner or
| with the worried financier who with
splendid daring and wonderful skill
launches great enterprise which will
bring more prosperity, and happiness to
the land. But he is just as quick to
condemn in the one as in the other any
attempt to override the law. Whether
it be labor organization which has so
far forgotten the dignity of labor, and
the added dignity due to its very or
ganization or whether it be gigantic
trust which has in its turn forgotten its
duty to obey the laws of the land, it is
the same to hint is not the individ-
ual in either case, but it is the individ-
uals making up the organization which
has Violated the law of the land against
whom he turns the forces of the law for
its own self-preservation and the saliva
ton of society. Perfect fairness to
every man so far as he can be the means
of bringing it to pass is one of his cardi-
nal articles of faith, and fear of intimi-
dation on the part of no man or set of
men is equally part of them.
Such is little sketch, just the small
est kind of pencil sketch without the
richness of detail, of the man who is at
the head of this great nation today, the
man whom the republicans of the coun-
try are proud indeed to have at the
head of their national ticket. Proud
Yes, proud to have him and to share
him too, with the thousands of demo-
Gratis all over this broad land who rec
ognize the sterling manhood of our
high minded president and who will
honor the highest type of American
manhood, their country and themselves
when once within the sacred seclusion
of the election booth by voting for the
Theodore Roosevelt. The republican
party is great and its history has been
wonderful one and sometimes it seems
that it is most wonderful of all in the
men it produces. Great party men,
men who are so great that it could not
if it would, and would not if it could,
keep them to itself alone but must give
them to the country, to the world, and
to all ages to come. Such a man is
Theodore Roosevelt. man whom com
ing generations will delight to honor
for the example of fearless integrity of
absolute honesty, and of purity of pur
pose in pub ic life.
So, too, years from now, men Of noble
ness of character will delight to say that
they voted for President Roosevelt, and
will look back on this election in the
fall Of 1904 as one which furnished
them with one of the most glorious of
opportunities they ever had in their
political life, the glorious opportunity
of stamping their approval of truth, and
nobility of character in the highest
places. A glorious opportunity to i'm
press upon the minds of the rising gen.
Grafton the fact that honesty and high
purposes count in public life and that
the supreme public duty of every man
is to ring true in whatever position he
finds himself To vote for President
Roosevelt next Tuesday and to get more
fully into sympathy with the high
ideals for which he stands, to the think
ing, the true, the patriotic man, must
be indeed glorious opportunity.
s~~~ I. AsA-s - 1890 1890,
Put cross (X) IN tie circle at tie
! top Of tie ticket under tie portrait Of
I A6rdhdm Lincoln If y0u aoish to gote !
for President R0oSeoeh. Nothing more ,
az aeceSS1rU and fLnt 9riW be counted ,