Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1904-02-26
in PRAISE OF ROOSEVELT.
Senator Fulton Endorses Presidents s
Course in Recognizing Independ-
ence of Republic of Panama.

senator Fulton Endorses President
| Course in Recognizing Independ-
ence of Republic of Panama.
In his speech in the United Stat
senate, on February s, Senator Fultc
predicted that President Rooseve
would receive the greatest majorit
this year ever given, a presidents
candidate. Senator Fulton's predi
tion came at the conclusion Of a repl
to Senator Carmack, of Tennessee
who had severely arraigned the pres
dent for his attitude toward the BC
gotta government in recognizing tn
independence Of the new republic {
Panama. Senator Fulton's address
which appears in full in the Cor
gressional Record, was concluded a
follows.
Mr.. President I do not think th
President of the United States require
any defense at my hands because G
the position he has assumed in ou
relations with the republics of Panam
and Colombia. He certainly does nc
require any defense from me, and
he were wanting defender, he woul,
not call upon me. Yet, as I have SAT-
before, 1 have no apologies to offer fo
any position he has taken or for an,
attitude he has assumed in our re
lations with those republics.
Many severe criticisms have beer
passed on our president during thu
course Of this discussion. We have
heard a very severe castigation ad
ministered to him today by the very
able and eloquent senator who pre-
ceded me in the discussion Mr. Car
mack; but, Mr.. President, whatever
may be the political future Of the
present occupant of the White House
whether he shall be called again by
the people of this nation to preside as
their chief executive, he will go down
in history as one of the greatest, one
OF the purest, and one of the most
patriotic men that has ever occupied
the high office of president of the
United States. He will have many
great achievements to his credit but
in my judgment, the one upon which
his fame-his enduring fame-will
rest more than upon all others will be
the high patriotic duty he performed
and the service he rendered this nation
in assuring to it and to the civilized
world the construction of canal
across the isthmus Of Panama.
Mr.. President, during this dis.
cussion number of senators on the
other side, and I do not know but
most Of them, have spoken in kindly,
even eulogistic words Of the lamented
Mckinley. listened to those words
OF kindness spoken Of him with the
greatest interest and pleasure, because
they were spoken of one whom I have
ever honored, reverenced and loved.
But I could not help remembering
that it had not always been so. Roose-
velt is the tyrant, the Napoleon of to-
day, but it was only a few short
months ago when Mckinley was de-
nounced in one breath as a weak,
willing and plant tool Of designing
men, and in another breath as a wick
ed tyrant, who was engaged in the
business Of expressing weak, an un-
fortunate and defenseless people.
But, sir, all those things have passed
away. Mckinley has gone to his last
account; the smoke and dust Of
partisan strife have cleared away, and
through clearer vision it is seen
that Mckinley, instead of having been
a tyrant, was a great, noble, heroic
soul, and that the people, whom it
was charged he was expressing, are
today, under the policies inaugurated
by him, enjoying a higher prosperity
and greater tranquility, public and
private, than they ever painted or
pictured for themselves in their widest
dreams.
do not speak Of this in any spirit
Of unkindness, Mr.. President, but
cannot but think, nor can 1 refrain
from expressing the thought, how
to him it would have been if,
when surrounded by all these per-
picking questions, when weighed
1own by the terrible sense Of respons-
bility that these questions imposed,
some Of these beautiful sayings and
Kind expressions in his behalf might
nave been uttered.
Mr.. President, I sat here the other
lay and listened to a great speech by
great senator on the other side Of
he chamber, a gentleman to whom I
always listen with interest and usually
With profit, but on that day he gave
ltterance to a sentiment that I could |
wish he had failed to utter. II
would not refer to it were it not for the
act that 1 have heard the same state
nent made here and elsewhere a |
lumber Of times. In referring to the
resent president and the probability |
f his nomination to the presidency |
his year he spoke Of him as the man |
7hom everybody is for and nobody |
rants. Does the senator mean to tell |
IS that all sincerity has gone out Of
be land and departed from the peo-
lie? What means this universal
oiee that is going up from the re-
hosts all over the land? Do
hey not mean what they say, and do
hey not say what they mean?
The other day away out on the
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