The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-23

self a guarantee of peace.
The American people will elect him
because, in word, they knn~ that
he does things the people want done;
does things, not merely discusses them
but does only those things the peo-
pie would have him do This is char
acteristically American; for wherever
he is, the American is he who
achieves.
All Know Where He Stands.
On every question all men know
where he stands. Americans, frank
themselves, demand frankness in their
servants. Uncertainty is the death
of business The people can always
get along if they know where they
are and whittier they are going.
His past is his proof. Every great
measure of his administration was SO
wise that, enthusiastically sustained by
his own party, it won votes even from
the opposition.
Do you name Cuban reciprocity?
The opposition resisted and then op
position votes helped to ratify it.
Do you name corporate legislation?
The opposition resisted and then Op-
position votes helped to enact it.
Do you name the canal-that larg-
est work of centuries, the eternal
wedding of oceans, shrinking the cir
conference of the globe, making dis
tant peoples neighbors, advancing for
ever civilization all around the world ?
This historic undertaking in the in
terest of all the race, planned by
American craftsmanship, to be
wrought by American hands. to stand
through the ages protected by the
American flag: this vast achievement
which will endure when our day shall
/ have become ancient, and which alone
/ is enough to make the name of The
| odore Roosevelt illustrious through all
4 time-this fulfllment of the Repub-
| lies dream accomplished by Republi-
can effort, finally received votes even
from an opposition that had tried
to thwart it.
Of what measure of Theodore
/ Roosevelt's administration does the
| opposition dare even to propose the
repeal? And when has the record of
any president won greater approval
People Trust Him.
And so the people trust him as a
statesman. Better than that, they love
him as a man. He wins admiration in
vain who wins not affection also. In
! the American home-that temple OF
! happiness and virtue where dwell the
[ wives and mothers of the Republic
cherishing the beautiful in life and
guarding the morality of the nation
in the American home the name OF
ored but beloved. And that is a
/ greater triumph than the victory OF
battlefelds greater credit than sue
cessful statesuanship greater honor
than the presidency itself would be
without it. Life holds no reward sc
noble as the confidence and love OF
the American people.
The American people! The might
lest force for good the ages have
evolved. They began as children OF
liberty. They believed in God and His
providence. They took truth and JUS
tice and tolerance as their eterna
ideals and marched fearlessly for
ward. Wildernesses stretched before
them-they subdued them. Noun
tains rose-they crossed them. Des-
erts cted-they passed them
Their faith failed them not and a con
tinent was theirs. From ocean Il
ocean cities rose, fields blossomed
railroads ran; but everywhere church
and school We're permanent proof tina
the principles of their origin were thu
life of their maturity
American methods changed. bu
American character remained the
same. They outIiyed the stage coach
but not the Bible They advanced
but forgot not their fathers The,
delvsd in earth, but remembered thl
higher things. They made highway