Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-07-11
CONVENTION uTTERAncEs.

and fine and high sounding phrases.
There is. indeed, something Of poetic
beauty and imagery in some Of Little
toms sentences. Listen to this:
Somehow Of late the atmosphere
Of our national life is filled with a
spray Of blood somehow the march Of
progress sounds Of hammered steel;
somehow, although the sunlight OF
peace Is all about US, there Is now
and then the CLEAN Of bayonets In its
radiant fire and a flash Of swords
tts liver beams somehow, al
though the constitution is still In force
there is d sense of failing power and
growing disrespeet which makes us
feel that the venerable old man, SO
10 speak, II halt and blind with years
and burdens in the strenuous house.
hold Of his grandchildren: somehow
All times there runs a sort Of shock
right down 10 the foundations 81 this
republic which makes the structure
tremble, and all The country paises
and listens and then returns to work !"
or course The man who said those
pretty things didn't mean any thing.
Here are a few epigrams which illns,
trate the ilItemper Of the Wall Street
monopolist against Roosevelt
'our adyersaries. BY dwelling ten.
derly On he simplicity Of The lament.
ed Mckinley, managed to endure for
three days the ~strenuosity Of Roosc.
welt,
without the master they had learn.
cd 10 love. they fingered listiess i'm.
der the whip 81 one they have learn.
ed to fear.
"There II much said BY those who
sill on cushioned chairs about COW
ards and weddings in the nations
life"
Mr., Delmas made 4 really effective
speech. Hero are some Of his say.
Iings:
what Is the Issue which divides
today the democratic and republican
parties? Let euphemlstic habbiers
gloss over as they please the
question Is whether this government
shall be carried on for the benefit OF
tho people, or manipulated for the
benefit Of d privileged class.
.For the first time In history, Cal
iiornia presents as a candidate for
president one born npon her soil
DO you want for your nominee a
man of truly democratic impulse, ever
ready to stretch out a %snccoring hand
to suffering humanity
Men OF the south, you upon whose
soil American democracy first saw
the light. yon. the hereditary custo
dian of IT'S purest traditions. you
whose political Importance, Il not
political life. Is bound UP with IL
fate-men Of the sbnth, to you
speak.
Speaking through the agency of q
public voice heard daily by millions In
eyery nook and corner Of the country,
his thoughts have been given utter
ance.
ITO you who sit under the eonstei
|lation of the lone star; TO You, rep
resentatives of that great state whose
imperial bounds embrace the vast Ter,
rltory stretching between The Rio
Granae aud the Caribbean sea, e
YOU / turn and bid you speak for me.
When, on that neyer.toinforgotten
might IL four years agn the breath u
the hurricane swept over tha southern
coast and the waters 81 tae deep, de
flying The laws nf grayitaiIon. stsod
like fluid mountains, threatening 6
.delnge d continent and Ia u few hriei
hours The metropolis of the gulf Wps
made d scene Of desoladDn when hn,
man sympathy was stricken dumb and
human energy stood paralyzed II tac
presence Of the countless and the
spectacle 81 universal havoc who was
the first 10 come 90 the suceor 90 the
ruined city ~
His paroratinn was eleyerly word,
cd aud passionateIy delivered II
was well calculated 10 arouse en-.
thnslasm. Here Il Is:
"unaacfying in his devotion 81
these principles, constant as the
needle 60 The pole Ii this purpose, he
stands before the American people
today, And as surely as, In spite OF
the opposition % the monarchlal fol.
lowers Of Hamilton, as surely ms. In
spite % the enmity of the United
States bank, fame has Inscribed upon
the roll OF the chief magistrates Of
The republic the names Of jefferson
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