The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-05-19
REPUBLICAN TO
THE VERY CORE
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lect delegates to a national conven-
ton Of the republican party. The
nonor given to the men we will
choose is no idle honor for with the
honor goes heavy responsibility.
Not only are candidates for the presi-
dency and vice presidency of the
United States to be chosen, but a
platform is to be built upon which all
men can stand from ocean TO ocean,
and from the northern lakes to the
southern gulf. Our candidate for the
presidency is already chosen. Mems
minds are made UP, and have been
since they witnessed the splendid
poise, the patriotic bearing, the mag
nifcent manhood Of Theodore Roose-
welt, when he succeeded to his great
Office after the bloody tragedy at
Buffalo. There will not be, in the
convention at Chicago in June, one
dissenting voice. Theodore Roose-
welt will be and ought to be the unan-
imous and happy choice Of the great
republican party. And he deserves
the honor. William Mckinley was as
pure as a mortal can be pure. So
is Theodore Roosevelt. In all that
has been said about him; in all the
abuse that has been poured upon him
by a partisan press, challenge the
world to find spot or stain upon his
personal character.
Where Votes Will Come From.
But who will elect Theodore Roose-
welt? I will tell you. The bone and
sinew Of the countryside great mid
die class, to which nearly every Amer
lean belongs, who are neither rich
NOR poor-the mechanic and the mer-
chant, the artisan, the banker, the la
borer, the lawyer, doctor, the farmer,
and the railroad man; those who
earn their bread by the sweat Of
the brow or by the toll of the brain;
the arm and buttress Of the country;
those who conduct affairs and do the
work over all the land today; who la
Dor six days of the week honestly,
bravely patiently, providing for the
wife and little ones at home.
The combined wealth and worth
and intelligence Of the country will
elect him, because they believe he
will so administer the affairs of the
government that every man, rich or
poor, black or white, learned or un-
trained in the schools, will be made
safe under the law as to his person
and as to the property mis- industry
and his intelligence have acquired.
All will be safe, rich or poor. No
rights will be disturbed, and every
man can sleep joyously and happily
under the protection thrown about
him by our laws as administered by
this pure and honest president.
Democracy's lncapacity.
I, for one, hope never to see the
democracy win again in national
contest. In the last trial which the
nation gave them they made the en-
tire country poor; they took away the
means Of living from hundreds CD
thousands of men and they failed
failed-because as the historian says,
1T is a terrible task to govern mil
lions of men who are destitute of
breeches,' and made destitute of
breaches by the acts of the govern
ment itself, and so Bryan and Cleve-
land and German will feel and realize
on that cherries and gloomy Novem-
Der day in the cold gray dawn Of the
morning after
All of the people can not be fooled
twice; we know the democracy and it
can not disguise itself, no matter how
it masks; the people will recognize
it under any name or standing upon
any platform.
A wise man has told us that man
has assembled from the ape. This
may be true, but if the American peo-
pie, ever go back to free trade or to
the shadow of free trade, then it will
undoubtedly be true that the major
ity of us when we started on our up
ward journey from our ancestral and
simian home bought round trip tick
cts.
Tariff and Reciprocity.
For nearly seven years we have
lived and thriyed under the Dingley
tariff. Money has been plenty, rates
of interest have been low, work has
sought the man and not man the
work. In our manufacturing towns
there has been peace and plenty and
prosperity. The children have had
food the women have had clothes
the spindles have been moving, the
web has been weaving, the iron has
been heating, and the hammer and
the saw and the adze and the plane
have been at work all over the land.
The wheels have everywhere been
turning, the whirr of great machinery
has been the sweetest music; the fur
naces have been roaring with the
rythm Of the flames and the chimneys
have sent forth to the blue and bend
Ing heavens that sweetest incense,