Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-07-07

MS action. He did What 1t W0ul
have been a high misdemeanor nc
Ito have done. The laws in this couI
try are made to be obeyed, whethe
1t is safe or not. It is always unsaf
to disobey them.
/ But there has been more noise mad
8 over his ~suddenness on the Isthmu
of Panama than elsewhere. 1t is dit
Ificult to treat this charge with ser
iousness. The president had mad,
a treaty with Columbia at her owl
solicitation, which was infinitely /,
her advantage, to inaugurate an EN-
terprise which was u be FOR the ben
eft OF the world, He waited witt
endless patience while Bogota delay
ed and trifled with the matter, ane
finally rejected it, and suggested new
negotiations for a larger sum. Pan
anna, outraged by this climax of the
wrongs she had already suffered, de,
clared and established her indepen
dence. The president, following al,
unhroken line of presidents, entered
into relations with the new republic
and, obeying his duty 10 protect the
transit of the isthmus as all other
presidents had done before him, gave
orders that there should be no blood
shed on the line Of the railway. III.
said, like Grant, LET us have peace,
and we had 1t. II will seem incredt
bic to posterity that any American
could have objected to this. He acied
wisely and beneficiently, and ali
some people can find 10 criticise in
his action is that he was too brisB
about it. If a thing is right and prop
er to do, it does not make a criminai
to do it promptly. No, gentlemen;
That was a time when the hour an6
the man arrived together. He STRUCK
while the iron was hot on the anvil
OF opportunity and forged as perfect
a bit of honest statecraft as this gen
Grafton has seen. j.
We could desire no better fortune
in the campaign upon which we ar,
entering, than that the other side
should persist in their announced n
tention to make the issue upon Pres;
dent Roosevelt. What godsend to our
orators! It takes some study, some
research to talk about the tariff, o.
the currency, or foreign poiicy. III
to talk about Roosevelt! 1t is as easy
as to sing the glory of the Graeme.
OF gentle birth and breeding, We. :
man Of the people in the best sense;
with the training of a scholar ami
the breezy accessibility of a rancn
man; a man of the library and a man
Of the world; an athlete and a think
er; a soldier and a statesman, a read
er, a writer, and a maker Of history,
with the sensibility of a poet 4lG
the steel nerve of a rough rider; one
who never did, and never could, turn
his back on a friend or an ene.ay. 4
man whose merits are SO srei. thay
he could win On his merits alcre,
whose personality is so engaging that
,,a,, loeo ciubt ~ bis merits Male L
their fight on a man like that! What
.irreyerent ca~ricaturist was It that
them the Stupid party?
In our candidate for the vice presi
dency we have gone back to the ole
and ~commendable custom Of the re
public and have nominated a man in
every way fit for the highest plac.
in the nation, who will bring to the
presidency Of the senate an ability
md experience rarely equaled in its
I have detained you TOO long; yet
Is | close ! want to say a word to
he young men whose political life
s beginning. Anyone entering busi
ness would be glad of the chance to
one Of an established firm
With years Of success behind 1t, with
i wide connection, with unblemished
character, with credit founded on a
rock. How infinitely brighter the
'uture when the present Is SO sure
he past so glorious. Everything
treat done in this country in the last
fifty years has been done under the
auspices Of the republican party. Il
lot this consciousness a great asset
have in your mind and memory
rs a mere item Of personal comfort
5 1t not worth having? Lincoln ano :
irant, Hayes and Garfield. Harrison :
ind McKinlay--names secure In tho
heaven Of fame-they all are gone \
small estates In worldly goods
tut what rart possessions In prin
'iples, memories, sacred associations.
I is a start In life to share thai.
Who now boasts that he op
'osed Lincoln? who brags of his vot