The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-07-07
least eight columns. Williams began

place is st. Louis, the chief city of the
most populous state carved out of the
Louisiana territory acquired 10y the IA
ther of Democracy. The time is the
centennial anniversary celebration of
the acquisition of that territory, a vast
area of contiguous territory whose pos
session was necessary for self-defense
and which was fitted in climate and
soil for home-making by the sons and
daughters of the republic; the ami
versary of real and not pesudo ex-
pansion-an expansion of our popula-
ton, our industrial life, and our free
institutions, over uninhabited lands, or
lands sparsely settled by sayages,
whose tribal independence we recog-
nized by treating with them, or settled
in spots by white men easily and will
ingly assimilated; not a so-called ex-
pansion by mere superimposed force
of our flag and our military authority.
''The Democratic party afterwards
guided the country to further expan-
sion of this real, free character in the
acquisition Of Florida, the admission
Of Texas as state, and the acquisition
from Mexico of a magnificent far west
fit to be made states in the Union and
governed under the constitution"
Referring to the quadrennial nation
al conventions he satiriZed that held
at Chicago last month as one in
which everything was ''cut and dried;"
said he: There are some conveniences
about a convention of that sort. One
of them is that the temporary chair
man knows six or nine months before
hand that he is going to be temporary
chairman. He also knows what he is
wanted to say, compared with what
he wants to say" Dwelling on the point
he reviewed the address of Temporary
Chairman Root, which he said was
"a labored argument to prove that the
party of Roosevelt must, by something
like evolutionary process, act as the
party or Lincoln and Mckinley. This
was necessary in order to disguise the
palpable fact that it is not so acting.
1T was to drayaway attention from
Rooseveltism and its volvanic, eruptive
and reckless character, by dwelling up
on the fact that at some period Of its
history the Republican party has been
"a party which did things and did
them safely. The orator hoped to have
the country lose sight Of the fact that
it is now in both of its legislative
branches party Of nassivity, Of non
action, Of obstruction to reform and
progress-in a word. a party whose
only sacred precept is the 'shibboleth
which maketh them known, one of
them to the other shibboleth drawn
from the gamblers table; stand pat,
a precept born Of cowardice and fear
to move"
Then he quoted Walter Wellman,
the newspaper correspondent who,
writing up an interview with Presi-
dent Roosevelt, represents him as say
ing that he has great secretary OF
state" great attorney general" etc.,
but that Elihu Root lis the greatest
man that has appeared in public life,
of any country, in any position, on
either side of the ocean, in my time"
Wherefore said Williams the praise for
Roosevelt in Roots speech. Then he
came to the tariff, and quoting both
Root and Roosevelt as saying that if
tariff law worked well it is better
to endure any slight inequalities, ETC.,
for a time than incur the uncertainties
consequent upon a change. Verify"
said Willims, 1.-TWO souls with but a
single thought. Two speeches that read
like one. And that single thought so
harmoniously expressed is not to force
single special interest to take its lips
from the public breast for fear the
public finding them unnecessary might
shake them all Off"
Referring to Roots statement that
through the Republican party the
moral sentiment of the United States
finds expression, Williams said: God
save us. Where? Going back to an
cient history in the credit mobilier? In
the public lands bureau? I"
In the pitiable kilograms inquiring just
when the patriotic and an assisted
revolution of fifty or 100 men was
stated to come off Unexpectedly in
Panama"
Coming to the finances he quoted
Roots statement Of the increase Of cir
culation per capita and consequent
prosperity" and said: what curious
boast this is for those lately denying
so strenuously that the quantity of
money had anything to do with the
value of money, of the price of other
things as measured in money, or with
an ascending scale of prices" He
elaborated on this point to some ex-
tent, and then generally criticised
Roots exposition Of the finances.
He closed his review of Roots
speech with the declaration as to the
ex-secretary-"Verily he is the Root
of all evil when it comes to making
the worst appear the better side OF
reason" and controverted the state
ment that Roosevelt continued McKin-
ley's policy.
Then he went at the national Repub-
lican platform and declared that 1t,
like the temporary chairman's speech,
deals chiefly in the boast that the Re
publican party is responsible for ev-
erything good which has happened 1t
also deals much in ancient history. 1t
did well to go back fifty years ago." Re
ferring to the charge that CIeveland's
second administration left the country
+. "in evil plight" Williams compared 1t
with the situation when Cleveland
came in in 1898, and used the same
words to describe the conditions as the