Arizona republican., 1904-06-22
MAKING OF A PRESIDENT
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 varied and conflicting interests and re-
 QUiring investigation, information. dis
 cussion and reconciliation Of views.
 From all our vast territory with it's
 varieties of climate and industry, from
 all our great population, active in pro-
 ductiOn and commerce and social prog
 ress and intellectual and moral life
 to a degree never before attained by
 any people-difficult problems press
 up0u the national government.
 The practical governing instinct of
 our people has adapted the machinery
 devised in the Eighteenth to the condi-
 tions of the Twentieth century by the
 organization of national political par
 ties. In them the men join for the pro
 motion of a few cardinal principles up-
 on which they agree. For the sake of
 those principles they lay aside their diff ferences upon less important questions.
 To represent those principles and to
 carry on the government in accordance with them, they present to the people candidates whose competency ard by atty they approve. The people by their choice of candidates indicate the prin- ciples and methods which they wish followed in the conduct of their gov ernment. They do not merely choose between men; they choose between parties-between the principles they profess, the methods they follow, the trustworthiness of their professions, the inferences to be drawn from the records of their past. the general weight of character of the government by their ascendency. ,, s3zs
 '-ORIoUS HALF CENTURY.
 When the course of the next admins tration is but half done, the republican party will have completed the first half century of it's national life. Of the eleven administrations since the first election of Abraham Lincoln. nine covering a period of thirty-six years have been under republican presidents. For the greater part of that time, the majority in each house of congress has been republican. History affords no parallel in any age or country for the growth in national greatness and pow CT and honor. the wide diffusion of the comforts of life, the uplifting of the great mass of the people above the ha,d ! conditions of poverty, the common Op- pOrtunity for education and individual ! advancement, the universal posse sion ! O4 CIVIL anu IellSlOuS lDeILNs lAG pro | tection of property ard security for the | rewards of industry and enterprise, the | cultivation of national morality, respect | for religion, sympathy with humanity | and love of liberty and justice, which | have marked the life of the American | people during this long period of re- publican control
 With the platform and the candidates 1. AH,g -Ir a renewed expression of popular con fdence in the republican party.
 We shall ask it because the principles i to which we declare our adherence are right, and the best interests Of cur country require that they should be followed in it's government.
 We shall ask it because the unbroxen record of the republican party in the past is an assurance of the sincerity of our declarations and the fidelity with which We shall give them effect. Be cause we have been constant in princi- ole. loyal to our beliefs and faithful to our promises, we are entitled to be be- lieved and trusted now.
 We shall ask it because the character of the party gives assurance of good government.
 CONFIDENCE DESERVED.
 A great political organization, compe- tent to govern is not a chance collection Of individuals brought together for the moment as the shifting sands are piled uC by the wind and sea, to be swept away. to be formed and reformed again. It is a growth. Traditions and sentiments reaching down through struggles of years gone. and the stress and heat of old conflicts. and the in fluence of leaders passed away, and in- grained habit of applying fixed rules of and of thoUght-aH give to political party known and inalien- able qualities from which must fol- low in it's deliberate judgment and ulti I mate action, like results for good or bad government. We do not deny that other parties have in their membership 7 men or morality and patriotism: but we assert with confidence that above all others, by the influences which gave it birth and have maintained its life, by the causes for which it has striven, the z Ideals which it has followed. the re- , publican party as a party has acquired 1, 7 character which makes it's ascend [ sney the best guarantee of a, govern nent loyal to principle and effective in execution. Through it more than any |, other political organization, the moral I sentiment of America finds expression. 1t cannot depart from the direction of i Is tendencies. From what it has been ? nay be known what it certainly must : pc. Not all of us rise to it's standard: . not all of us are worthy of it's glorious s history: but as a whole this great po- itical organizauon-the party of Lin q ,oln and McKinley-cannot fail to work a n the spirit of its past loyalty to great deals. r We shall ask the continued confidence 'f the people because the candidates [ whom We present are of proved com O )etency and patriotism, fitted to fill F he offices for which they are nominat- (