The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-23

harvest In one column reaching from
are those people and those states which
have stood so long together. that when
great emergencies arise the nation
turns instinctively to them. In this
column, vast and solid, is a majority
so overwhelming that the scattered
squads in opposition can hardly raise
another army The enemy has neither
| they would use them on each other.
Destitute of the weapons of effective
warfare. the only evidence of ap
proaching battle is in the tone and
number of their bulletins. There is
dsCOrd among the generals: discOrd
among the soldiers. Each would figlt
in his own way, but before assaulting
his republican adversaries he would
first destroy his own comrades in the
! weapons chosen by the other 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 occur. how
ever among the discOrdant hosts now
moving on st. Louis, no harm will
come this fall to the American people.
There will be no opposition sufficient
to raise a conflict There are no dem
ocratic plans for the conduct of the
fall campaign. Their zeal is chiefly
ICentered in discussion as to what
Thomas jefferson would do if he were
living. He is not living, and but few
of his descendants are among the DEM
ocratic remnants of today. Whatever
that distinguished man is now repre-
sented in this convention.
| You have come from every state
and territory in this vast domain. The
country and the town have We'd with
each other in sending here their con-
tributions to this splendid thrOng.
Every highway in the land is leading
here and crowded with the members of
that great party which sees in this
splendid city the symbol of its rise and
power. Within this uneXampled multi
tude is every rank and condition of
|
But today a common purpose and de-
sire have engag ged us all, and from
every nook and cornOr of the country
rises but a single choice to fill the
most exalted office in the world. He
is no stranger waiting in the shade to
be called suddenly into public light.
The American people have seen him
for many years and always where the
fight was thickest and the greatest
| need was felt. He has been alike con-
spicuous in the pursuits of peace and
in the arduous stress of war. No man
now living will forget the spring of
9S when the American mind was so
| llilldlIleu ana american Ddlf1OIlSn SO
aroused; when among all the eager
citizens surging to the front as soldiers
| the man whom this convention has al
ready in it's heart was among the first
| to hear the call and answer to his
name. Preferring peace but not afraid
of war; faithful to every private obli-
cation yet first to volunteer at the sign
of national peril; a leader in civil life
and yet so quick to comprehend the
arts Of war that he grew almost in a
day to meet the high exactions of COM
mand. There is nothing which so tests
a man as great and unexpected danger.
He may pass his life amid ordinary
| scenes and what he is or does but few
will ever know. But when the crash
comes Or the flames break out, mo-
ment's time will single out the hero
in the crowd. A flash of lightning in
the night will reveal what years of