The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-05
EXALTED SERVICE
Has Been Rendered to the Country bv
Republican Leadership.
GOLDEN AGE OF TIE REPUBLIC

Party's Period Of Supremacy In Ma.
tionaI Affairs-We Stand at the
Morning of New Century That Is
Bright With the Glow CT Promise
Senator Fairbanks Delivers a Meta
bile Address c. an Historic Occa.
sion.
At the celebration of the somi-cen.
tennial of the Republican party, held
at Jackson, Mich, on July 9th, Sena-
tor Charles w. Fairbanks, candidate
for vice president on the Republican
national ticket, was one of the dis
| tinguished speakers. The able and
eloquent address delivered by Indi
ana's senior senator on this occasion
created great enthusiasm among his
| thousands OF hearers. Senator Fair
! banks said:
I'VE are met to commemorate no
ordinary event, for here, half cen,
! fury ago, American patriots solemnly
| pledged themselves to vindicate the
first principles of republican govern
! VI
the slave power. Here was issued the
second declaration of freedom. Here
was taken the initial step which led to
the overthrow of slavery and the es-
tablishment of the government upon
! truly national lines. We freely pay
the tribute of our grateful apprecia-
ton to the memory of those who
raised here the standard of Republi-
canism.
"The Republican party was born of
/ the conscience of the people, and it
was here dedicated to as high and
holy service as ever summoned men
to heroic duty.
''The appeal to the people of Mich
gan which was issued by Zachariah
Chandler, that stalwart among stall
warts, and his associates, was like
q clarion call to exalted service. 1t
was conceived in the same spirit
which inspired our fathers in the
morning Of the American revolution.
"The resolutions here adopted were
put upon high plane. Differences Of
Individual opinion upon all other SUBJ
jects of state or domestic policy were
subordinated to the one overmastering
question of the hour 1t was solemnly
Resolved, That, postponing and sus-
pending all differences with regard to
political economy or administrative
policy, in view Of the imminent dan
ger that Kansas and Nebraska will
be grasped by slavery, we will act cor.
daily and faithfully in unison to avert
and repeal this gigantic wrong and
shame
Integrity Of the Nation.
"Thus consecrated, the Republican
party was here christened, and sent
forth to accomplish more vital mis-
sion than ever challenged the consid
Grafton of the people since the founda-
ton Of the government.
"To the Republican party was COM
mitted, in Gods providence, the stu
pendous responsibility of preserving
the integrity Of the nation itself We
would not here kindle anew the fires
of past hates or reopen the debate Of
long buried differences, which divided
section against section, for we stand
reunited under the acknowledged SUI
premacy of one flag and one constitu-
ton. But we may appropriately recall
the history of great generation in
which American contested with Amer
ican for the triumph of opposing the
cries. In that contest the Republican
party stood for the national solidarity.
1t stood for the nation above the state,
and the victory it achieved blessed
both the victor and the vanQuished
American opposed American with IT,
tanic power. American met American
upon the field of glory and the God of
by the Republican party. The hates
and the enmities which ignorance and
false teaching engendered have happi-
ly persisted and persisted forever
"The memory of the valor of those
who fought for conscience sSS1e be-
meath opposing flags remains as a
rich national Inheritance The impair.
tial verdict of history is that the Re-
publican party was everlastingly right,
, and it's further verdict is that no
American ever surrendered his sword
save to an American. Every grave,
whether it is tenanted by the heroic
youth who wore the blue, or by him
who wore the gray, is an enduring
pledge of the solidity and unity of the
republic.
"Out of the unhappy divisions which
followed Quickly upon the accession
to power of the Republican party
came a new national birth; a fusins
of national strength beyond the
dreams of our fathers.
Amidst Stirring Events.
Fifty years is brief period when
compared with the life of the older
nations, yet it embraces the entire life
of the Republican party, party whose
achievements are among the mos,
lasting and luminous of the deeds
done by any party since the beginning