Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-06-27

he would first destroy his own COM
rades In the adjoining tents. Each be-
lieyes rne weapons chosen by the 9th
er are not only wicked but fatal to
the holder. That is true This is the
only war of modern times where the
boomerang has been substituted for
The gun. Whatever fatalities may oc-
cur. however, among the discordant
hosts now moving ON 10 st. Louis. no
harm viii come this fall to the Amer
lean people. There will be no opposi-
tion sufficient to raise a conflict. There
viii be hardly enough for competi-
tion There are no Democratic plans
for the conduct of the fall campaign.
Their zeal is chiefly centered In dis
cussions as to what Thomas Jefferson
would do If he were living He is not
living. and but few of his descendants
are among the Democratic remnants
of today Whatever of patriotism or
wisdom emanated from that dstin.
guished man is now represented in
his convention.
It is sad day for any party when
It's only means Of solving living issues
Of a statesman who Is dead. This con.
1pion leaves that party always be.
ginner and makes every question new
The Democratic party has seldom tried
a problem on its own account, and
when Il has its blunders have been
It's only monuments. its courage is re.
membered only in regret As long as
these things ure recalled that party
may serve rs ballast, but It will never
steer the ship.
When all the people have forgotten
will dawn a golden era for this new
Democracy But the country is not
vet ready to place party in the lead
whose most expressive motto is the
,heerless word forget" That motto
may express contrition. but 1t does not
inspire hope. Neither confidence nor
enthusiasm will ever be aroused by
any party which enters each campaign
utteriug the language OF the mourner
There is one fundamental plank,
however, on which the two great par
ties are in full agreement Both be.
ieye in the equality OF men. The dil-
ference is that the Democratic party
would make every man as low as the
poorest while The Republican party
would make every man as high as the
best But the Democratic course Will
provoke no outside interference now
'or the Republican motto is that of the
great commander, never interrupt the
enemy while he is making a mistake"
In politics. as in other fields, the
most impressive arguments spring from
contrast, Never has there been more
striking example OF unity than is now
lnorded 10y this assemblage. You are
| gathered here not as factions torn
by discordant views, but moved to one
iesire and intent. you have come as
| he chosen representatives of the most
enlightened party in the world You
| meet not as strangers. for no men are
strangers who hold the same beliefs
md espouse the same cause. You may
separate two bodies OF water for a
| thousand years, but when once the
barrier is removed they mingle in.
| ;tantly and are one The same tradi.
| ions Inspire and the same purposes
lctuatc ais all Never in our lives did
Jhese purposes stand with deeper root
han now. AT least two generations
have passed away since the origin OF
| hat great movement from which has
sprung the spirit which has been the
| eading impulse in American politics
for half a century. In that movement
which was hoth a creation and an ex.
lmple We're those great characters
which endowed the Republican party
1t its birth with the attributes of jus
tice, equality and progress. which have
held It to this hour in line with the
highes sentiments of mankind. From
,hese men we have inherited the de
| sire, and to their memory we owe the
resolution, that those great schemes
If government and humanity inspired
5y their patriotism, and established by
heir blood shall remain as the fixed
aud permanent emblem of their labors.
md the abiding signal of the liberty
md progress of the race.
There are many new names in these
lays, but the Republican party needs
no new title, II stands now where II
stood at the beginning. Memory alone
IS needed TO tell the source from which
The inspirations of the country flow. A
lrowsy memory would he as guilty
now as a sleeping watchman when the
enemy is astir. The name of the Re,
publican party stands over every door
where a righteous cause was born. Its
members have gathered around every
movement, no matter how weak. If in
spircd by high resolve. Its flag for
more than fifty years has been the
sign Of hope on every spot where lib.
erty was the word That party needs
no new name or platform TO designate
ils purposes, Il Is now as It has been
equipped militant and in motion. The
problems OF every age that age must
solve. Great causes impose great de
mands. but never in any enterprise
have the American people failed. and
never in any crisis has the Republican
parry failed to express the conscience
and intelligence of that people,
The public mind is awake both to
It's opportunities and its dangers No
whore in the world in any era. did citi.
2enship mean more than 1t means to.
day in America. Men of courage and
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