Bisbee daily review., 1904-06-24

l Q SSS v S 1 3S S v " " " v " '" 1 Mir. President and gentlemen of the Convention. We are here to inaug- urate a campaign which seems already to be nearly closed So wisely have the people sewed and watched and tended, there seems little now to do but to measure up the grain. They are ranging themselves not for battle but for harvest. In one column reach | ing from the Maine woods to the Puget Sound 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. lis a majority so overwhelming that the scattered squads in opposition can hardly raise another army. The enemy has neither guns nor ammunition, and | if they had they would use them on each other. Destitute of the weapons of effective warfare, the only evil dence of approaching battle is in the 1 tone and number of their bulletins. There is discord among the generals; | discord among the soldiers. Each | would fight in his own way. but before assaulting his Republican adversaries he would first destroy his own com rades in the adjoining tents. Each believes 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 sub stituted for the gun Whatever fla talties may occur, however, among he discordant hosts now moving on St. Louis, no harm will come this iall to the American people. There will be no opposition sufficient to raise a conflict There are no Democratic plans for the conduct of the fall cam paign. Their zeal is chiefly centered n discussion as to what Thomas Jef- ferson would do if he mere living. and but few Of his Democratic descendants are among the Democratic remnants | of today. Whatever of patriotism or wisdom emanated from that dis Jinguished man is now represented in ' his convention
 It is sad day for any party when its only means of solving living is sues is by guessing at the possible at titude of a statesman who is dead. | Fms condition leaves that party al ways a beginner and makes every i question new. The Democratic party has seldom tried a problem on it's own account, and when 1t has its | blunders have been its only monu- ments, its courage ts remembered only in regret. As long as these are recalled the party may serve as ballast. but it will never steer the ship.
 When all the people have forgotten will dawn a golden era for this new Democracy. But the country is not ready yet to place party in the lead whose most expressive motto is the cheerless word forget" That motto may express contrition, but it does not inspire hope. Neither con. fidence nor enthusiasm will ever be aroused by any party which enters each campaign uttering the language tof the moaner.
 There is one fundamental plank ities are in full agreement. Both be
 however, on which the two great par
 Iieve in the equality of men. The diff ference is that the Democratic party
 would make every man as low as the
 poorest, while the Republican party
 would make every man as high as
 the best. But The Democratic course
 will provoke no outside interference jnow. for the Republican motto is thal of the great commander, never in
 terrupt the enemy while he is making "a mistake
 In politics as in other fields, the lmost expre1sive arguments spring lfrom contrast Never has there ibeen more striking example of unity
 than is now afforded by this assem
 blaze. You are gathered here not as
 factions torn by discordant views, but
 moved by one desire and intent, you have come as the chosen representa-
 tives of the most enlightened party
 in the world. You meet not as strangers, for no men are strangers
 who hold the same beliefs and espouse
 he same cause. You may separate
 two bodies of water for thousand tyears, when once the barrier is re
 moved they mingle instantly and art lone. The same traditions inspire and } the same purposes actuate us all
 Never in our lives did these purposes stand with deeper root than now. Al
 least two generations have passed
 away since the origin of that great movement from which sprang the
 spirit which has been the leading i'm
 pulse in American politics for half . lcentury. In that movement, which lwas both a creation and an example
 were those great characters which en
 dowed the Republican party at its
 birth with the attributes of justice
 equality and progress, which have held
 it to this hour in line with the highes;
 sentiments of mankind. From these
 men we have inherited the desire land to their memory we owe the reso