The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-08-04
ROOT ON ROOSEVELT
The President Has Taken the Whole
People Into His Confidence.


AS We gather in this convention. our
hearts go back to the friend-the
never to be forgotten friend, whom
when last we met we acclaimed with
one accord as our universal choIce to
bear second time the highest honor
in tie nations gift; and back still,
memory goes through many a year of
leadership and loyalty.
How wise and how skillful he vas!
how modest and self-effacing' how
deep his insight into the human heart'
how swift the intuitions of his SYM
pathy! how compelling the charm of
his gracious presence! He was SC TN
selfish, so thoughtful of the happiness
of others, SO genuine a lover of his
country and his kind. And he was the
grasped another's hand. Alas, that
his virtues did plead in vain against
cruel fate
Yet we may rejoice, that while he
lived he was crowned with nonCr;
that the rancOr of party strife had
ceased; that success il his great
tasks, the restoration of.peace, the ap-
proval of his countrymen, the affec-
ton Of his friends-gave the last quiet
months in his home at Canton repose
and contentment.
And with Mckinley we remember
Hanna with affection and sorrow-his
great lieutenant. They are together
again.
But we turn as they would have us
turn, to the duties of the hour, the
hopes of the future; we turn as they
would have us turn, to prepare our
selves for struggle under the same
standard borne in other hands by
right of true inheritance. Honor,
truth, courage, purity. of life, domestic
virtue, love of country, loyalty to high
ideals-all these, combined with act
i've intelligence, with learning, with
experience in affairs, with the con-
elusive proof of competency afforded
by wise and conservative administra-
ton, by great things already done
and great results already achieved
all these we bring to the people with
another candidate. Shall not these
have honor in our land? Truth, sim
certify, courage! these underlie the
fabric of our institutions Upon n.y.
pocrisy and sham, upon cunning and
false pretense, upon weakness and
cowardice, upon the arts of the dema-
gogue and the devices OF the mere pol
| itician-no government can stand.
No system of popular government can
endure in which the people do not be-
lieve and trust. Our president has
taken the whole people into his conf
dence. Incapable of deception, he has
put aside concealment Frankly and
without reserve, he has told them
what their government was doing, and
the reasons. 1t is no campaign of APP
pearances upon which we enter, for
the people know the good and bad.
the success and failure, to be credited
and charged to our account. 1t is no
campaign of sounding words and spe-
cious pretences, for our president has
told the people with frankness what
he believed and what he intended
the people have believed every. word
he said, and with him this convention
agrees because every word has been
sound Republican doctrine No people
can maintain free government who do
not in their hearts value the qualities
which have made the present presi-
dent Of the United States conspicuous
among the men of his time as a type
Of noble manhood Come what may
here-come what may in November,
God grant that those qualities of brave
true manhood shall have honor
throughout America, shall be held for
an example in every home, and that
the youth of generations to come may
grow up to feel that it is better than
wealth, or ONCE, or power, to have
the honesty, the purity. and the cour-
age Of Theodore Roosevelt