The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-06-23
SENATOR
BRVBRlDGE
Seconds the Nomination of Theodore
Roosevelt for President.


In seconding the nomination of
Theodore Roosevelt for President at
the Republican convention, Hon. Al
bert J. Beveridge spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Committee:
One difference between the oppopsi-
ton and ourselves is this: They Sc
lect their candidate for the people,
and the people select our candidate
for us.
This was true four years ago when
we accepted the peoples judgment
and named William Mckinley, whose
perfect mingling Of mind and heart,
of wisdom and Of tenderness, won
the trust and love of the Nation then
and makes almost holy his memory
now. His power was in the peoples
favor, his shrine is in the peoples
heart.
It is true today when we again &C
cept the peoples judgment and name
! Theodore Roosevelt, whose sympa-
thies are as wide as the Republic,
whose courage, honesty and vision
meet all emergencies, and the sum of
whose qualities make him the type
of Goth century Americanism. And
the Goth century American is nothing
more than the man Of rs facing a
new day with the old faith.
Theodore Roosevelt, like William
| Mckinley, is the nominee of the
American freside. So were Washing
ton and Jefferson in the early time
so was Andrew Jackson when he said
"The Union: 1t must be preserved; -
so was Abraham Lincoln when, the
Republic saved, he babe us "bind up
the Nation s Wounds; and Grant
when, from victory's very summit his
folly words, "let us have peace
voiced the spirit of the hour and the
peoples prayer. When nominated by
parties, each of these great Presidents
was, at the periods named, already
chosen by the jublic Judgment. An6
so today, the Republican party, whose
strength is in its obedience to the
; will of the American people, merely
executes again the decree which
comes to it from the American home
in naming Theodore Roosevelt as on
candidate.
The peoples thought is his thought
American ideals. his ideals. This is hi:
only chart Of statesmanship-and nj
other is safe. For the truest guild
an American President can have i
the collective intelligence and masse'
morality Of the American people. AM
this ancient rule Of the fathers is tn
rule of our leaders now.
Theodore Roosevelt is leader VIII
leads; because he carries out the set
tied purposes Of the people. GU
Presidents plans, when achieved, ar
always found to be merely the ma
. tons will accomplished. And that i
why the people will elect him.
They will elect him because the,
know that if he is President we vii
get to work and keep at work on tn
Canal. After decades of delay whe1
the people want a thing done, the
want it done.
They know that while he is Presi
dent the Flag will "stay put" an
no American advantage in the Paci
fc or the world be surrendered
Americans never retreat.
While he is President no wrong
doer in the service of the Govern
' ment will 60 unwhipped of justice
Americans demand honesty and hor
or, vigilant and fearless.
While he is President, re-adjust
ment of traffic schedules will be mad
only in harmony with the principle Q
protection Americans have memoric
y While he is President peace wit
le every nation will bepreserved at an
y, cost, excepting only the sacrifice c
Is American rights; and the vigor wit
ct which he maintains these will be /
slef guarantee Of peace.
I The American people will elect hir
because, in a word, they know th'
he does things the people want done
does things, not merely discusses the
does things only after discussir
T. them but does things; and does on
i'd those things the people would ha,
him do. This is characterised
American; for wherever he is, tt
American is he who achieves.
On every question all men kno
where he stands. Americans, fra1
themselves, demand frankness in the
servants. Uncertainty is the dea
Of business. The people can alwa
get along if they know where tn
are and whittier they are going.