The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-04
sterner course.

sterner course.
so that a description of the spirit
which animates the Republican party
might be summed up in these three
words: Conservatism. progress. peace
and as the necessary result of all of
these the steady and continuous pros
perity of the whole land. To the test
OF this high standard all our work for
the nation may be put: and it will be
found that II record measures up to
its high requirements.
Appealing TO the FIresIdes.
Careful observers have noted the
steady increase among the people of
that thoughtfulness. poise and reserve
which alone a make a republic per-
manent and successful. And 1t is to
this growing tendency of the people
to consult their sober second thought
that we appeal. Mature reflection is
| the wisest counsellor which either a
man or a party can have. just as
prompt action is a nan or a nations
best servant when a wise course has
been carefully determined. And so
it is that the record. purposes and spir-
il of our party will increasingly appeal
to the firesides of the nation where all
large questions are discussed and de-
termined. and where the verdict is
really made which is afterward regis
tered at the ballot box.
"It is for IL Sc reasons that I con
idently say to you, the Republican
editors of Indiana, who must carry our
message to every home in the com
monwealth, that your task this year
labors will be rewarded by an EN-.
phatic vote of approval of the Repub.
lican party, to which we are all in com-
mon equally devoted. | have no fear
that this statement will inspire yer
confidence. it is not necessary to
brighten good soldiers by the sugges-
ton of a possible defeat. Men like the
Republican editors of Indiana, and in
deed the rank and file of our party,
are the kind of men to whom the
knowledge that they are striving for
wise m righteous principles and poll
cies is sufficient inspiration for sleep
less vigilance and unrelaxing effort.
They are the kind of men who do not
need the stimulus of fear on the n
hand, and on the other hand. are not
to be drugged into neglect of duty by
the prospect of certain victory.
Going Forward Confidently.
LET us then go forward to u work
with the strength which comes from
the knowledge that we are right; with
that calmness which is always the evil
dence of real might, and with that
pleasure in our labor which the belief
that we will be successful always
brings and with that enthusiasm in
spired by Theodore Roosevelt who as
the maker of the record which must
be our platform, will be overwhelm-
ingly elected president of the whole
people of the United States whom he
has with devotion and im~partiality SO
faithfully served. He is a commander
who has never known defeat. Under
his leadership we will this year
achieve another overwhelming victory
for sound policies, right principles and
conservative and ~farseeing American
craftsmanship. Z
"Will you not present to your asso-
citation collectively and to each mem
Der of it individually, my kindest re-
CARDS, and remember me very espe-
cially to the wives of the editors who
at the last banquet were such an at
tractive element of it and whose re-
sponses won such merited applause?
Say to all the members of our asso-
citation that | shall hope to meet each
of them during the coming campaign
and add my efforts to theirs in behalf
of the cause for which we are all CO.
workers"
Senator Fairbanks Greeting.
Senator Charles w. Fairbanks sent
the following telegraphic greeting
from Washington to the Republican