River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-23

voice. fApplause) He has but one pur-
pose, and that is that he shall receive the
nomination for Governor and through
united Republican party re-establish good
government among the people and lift up
the industries Of his state to the proud
position they have heretofore occupied.
Il need not say to you he is no politi-
clan; need not say to you that the
charge has never been laid to his door of
being machine manipulation or creator.
(Applause.) He is none of these. He Is,
as he Declares plain, transformations but
successful business man.
He believes, as most Of US do, that his
business and the business of this state,
and through it possibly the business Of
the nation, is today jeopardized by the
| threats that come from this state pursu-
ant to a purpose, and that purpose, we
| all know what it is. We have seen the
| concrete manifestation of it in that which
| purported to be, but shame to US and to
| them did not succeed in being the regular
| Republican convention of this state. ZAP
! plause.) 1t is the first time In the history
Of this state that such a condition has
| Inundated US. We all know what we
| have passed through in the last "a hours.
| I do not need to apologize to this in
telligent citizenship for any feeble part
| which | have taken in its demonstrations
| or deliberations. / have no apology to
| offer either for myself or any interest l
| represent. In the interest Of that greater
| thing than individual desire | have insist
| ed that righteousness should prevail but
| we stand here today draped not with the
| humiliation Of defeat but with the humili-
| alton of our birthrght stolen from us.
| (Applause.) The perpetrators have been
| detected red-handed in the commission of
| the offense, and insist that if we were
| to participate in the division Of the spoils
| we would be particeps criminis, acces-
SORES after the fact, and equally guilty
| with the perpetrators Of the offense. Gap
| plause).
| "What must we do? We must either
plead guilty to a righteous indictment
| and ask for the amnesty of the court, or
we must deny the charge and plead our
case, not before jury that has been
| packed in advance, with the verdict
1 sealed and prepared to be delivered, but
| to an unbiased public. (Great applause.)
81 believe that the seal of disapproba-
| ton deliberately rendered at the proper
time by public intelligence will forever
/ drive to the farthest corner of Hades it.
self every such attempt that may ever be
| conceived in the future to steal from in
telligent citizenship its right to rule.
| (Applause)
'The Republican party of the state of
| Wisconsin cannot with impunity be toyed
| with. The Republican party Of this
! state, dignifed by a half century of
existence, equally old with the institu-
| ton of learning that graces the hills of
| this fair capital of our commonwealth,
| and with your humble speaker himself,
| for / am glad to have been born the
same spring that the Republican party of
| the United States was born (applause),
and trust that it will outliFe me many
| centuries and it's influence will increase
with age (Applause) This party, this in
| stitution, this humble speaker, we all of
us are still virile enough although half
century grown in age, to protest against
| the indignities that are sought to be
heaped upon us. (Applause)
''This Republican party that we love
| cannot be shattered ruthlessly for the
| qualification of any ambition, and indi-
vidual ambition is Of no concern when
! party and commonwealth interests are
at stake. In this we have had a striking
example in the action of one who a
short time ago addressed you. ZAP
| plause)
"This party that we love, to be taken
from us with our eyes open and no pro-
test-never, never. We had better here
and now serve notice upon them and
upon all their ilk who shall come after
| them, who are composed of gentlemen
from the highest walks in life, clear
down through all the scale of humanity,
motley, marvellous aggregation of con-
tributions from all peoples and all par
| ties that no incestuous and unholy al
lance of Republication with any other
| degraded or exalted being shall ever pro-
| Quce an OFFSPRING LHdJ sudll the
! Republican party. (Applause.)
| "If these things are permitted, the doc
/ trine to which we have all subscribed
| and most of us have advocated and have,
we thought, established in this country,
| would be gone from the institutions of
the. republic, and human equality and
majority rule would be relegated
came to this fair land to establish
human liberty and equality, would not
have to return to the Orient to submit
| their necks to the yoke of monarchical
here, crushed with one iron hand actual
ed by one relentless will, instigated by
one ambition, they would be serfS in
deed. (Appfause)
'Such is not the doctrine of the insti-
buttons of the republic, and it perishes
! from the earth not only when we lose
sight of that fact, but when we submit
ourselves without protest to such rule
| and domination. The foundation stone
Of this government is human equality
| and human equality with human liberty
forms the two hemispheres which make
up the we'll rounded globe of this coun-
| try, and shall we do aught to subvert
| these principles? Shall we submit to
the declaration of the doctrine and the
doing Of the adverse thing? When men
| stand up and proclaim that human equal
! ity shall be placed in every mans hands
and then proceed by the subtlest kind Of
! preconcerted action to change him from
! that purpose, is that equality? Never.
| If there shall be a primary election law
| or any other that gives to man an OPP
| portunity unmolested and unrestrained
| to exercise his choice, then we shall have
made progress in human government and
| toward the goal of securing the indie
| pendence that we all love.
"This Republican party not only gives
/ us this and will give it to us, but it has
given it to us in the past and will guar
antee it to us in the future-but out
side and beyond it and that which Is of
| more concrete and direct Importance to
| us all, is the fact that it stands for COM
mercial progress in the nation
| II suppose | am a foolish sort OF a
| Republican because am one of the kind
! that believes that it is absolutely es-
sential to the commercial integrity and
continuing prosperity OF this country
| that Republican institutions and govern
ment prevail in this country. / cannot
| get that out of my conviction. My eX-
| perience and observation both justify me
| in standing upon that conclusion. We
| have tried Democratic rule in this coun-
| try and every time that we try it things
get desperately out of joint. We be-
lieve their purposes are right, but some
| how their scheme of government is a
| great big misft, and when their theory
| is concerted into daily activity we some
how suffer commercially in this nation.
| We do not know why, we do not care
| to know why-we know it is so, and