Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-24

| Do you name the Canal--that largest
work Of centuries, the eternal weddine
Of oceans. shrinking the circumference
Of the globe. making distant peopla
neighbors. advancing forever civiliz-
alton ell around the world? This
( historic undertaking In the interest M
all the race, planned by American
: craftsmanship, to be wrought nv
! American hands. to stand through the
ages protected by the American flag.
this vast achievement which will en-.
dure when our day shall have become
arcient, and which alone is enough IN
! make the name of Theodore Roosevelt
inustrious through ali time.this full
hilment Of the Republics dream ac-
| complished by Republican effort
hnally received votes even from an
Opposition that had tried to thwart It.
/ or what measure of Theodore Roose-
Velts administration does the On
position dare even to propose thu re-
peal? And when has the record Of anv
President won greater approval.
And so the people trust him az
statesman. Better than that. they love
him as man. He wins admiration
| in vain who wins not affection also
| In the American home-that temn,e or
happiness and virtue where dwell the
| wives and mothers OF the RepubI,c
| cherishing the beautiful I'm life ana
guarding the morality Of the Nation
| in the American home the name ~
Theodore Roosevelt is not only honored
| but beloved. And that is greater
triumph than the victory Of battle
| fields. greater credit than successor,
| craftsmanship, greater honor than the
Presidency itself would be without n
| Life holds no reward so noble as TN.
! confidence and love of the American
people.
| The American people! The migbtiest
force for good the ages have evolved
They began as children of liberty
| They believed in God and His provi-
dence. They took truth and Justice
and tolerance as their eternal ideals and
| marched fearlessly forward. Wilder
1 nesses stretched before them-tbev
subdued them. Mountains rose-tbev
| crossed them. Deserts obstructed-
| they passed them. Their faith failed
| them not and continent was theirr
| From ocean to ocean cities rose fields
| blOssOmed, railroads ran; but eyery-
| where church and school We're perma-
nent proof that the principles of their
| origin were the life of their maturity.
American methods changed, but
American character remained the
| same. They outlived the stage coach.
| but not the Bible They advanced but
| forgot not their fathers. They delved
in earth. but remembered higher
| things. They made highways of the
| oceans. but distance and climate
altered not their Americanism They
| began as children of liberty. and chill
| dren Of liberty they remain. They be-
gan as servants of the Father of
| Lights, and His servants they remain.
| And so into their hands is daily given
| more of power and opportunity that
| they may work even larger righteous
| ness in the world and scatter over ever
widening fields the blessed seeds Of
human happiness.
Wonderful beyond prophecy's fore
cast their progress; noble beyond the
vision of desire their future. In 1901
Jefferson said, "the United States
then) had room enough for our de-
scendants to the thousandth and thou
sandth genera tom" three generations
behold the oceans our boundaries.
Washington never dreamed of rail-
ways. Today electricity and steam
make Maine and California household
neighbors. This advance. which no
seer could have foretold, we made be-
cause we are Americans-because
free people with unfettered minds and
unquestioning belief jnyfully faced the
universe of human possibilities. These
possibilities are not exhausted; we
have hardly passed their boundaries.
rt,a
ed; we have only tested our strength.
Gods work for us in the world is not
finished; His future missions for the
American people will be grander than
any He has given us, nobler than we
now can comprehend. And these tasks
as they come we will accept and ac-
co:nplish as our fathers accomplished
theirs. And when our generation shall
have passed and our children shall
catch from our aging hands the STAN
dard We have borne, 1t will still be thu,
old flag of Yorktown and Appomattox
and Manila Bay; the music to which
they in their turn will then move on
ward will still be the strains that
cheered the dying Warren on Bunker
Hill and inspired The men who ans
wered LincOln's call; and the ideals
that will be in them triumphant az
they are in us. will still be the old
ideals that have made the American
people great ana honored among the
nations of the earth.
This is the Republican idea of the
American people: this the thought we
have when we nominate today our can
didate for the Nations chief; this the
quality of Americansm a Republican
standard-bearer must have. And this
Is just the Americanism of Theodore
Roosevelt. Full of the old-time faith
In the Republic and it's destiny;
charged with the energy of the Repub-
lies full manhood; cherjshing the or
dinances of the Republics fathers and
having in his heart the fear Of God;
inspired by the sure knowledge that
the Republics splendid day is only in
Its dawn. Theodore Roosevelt will lead
the American people in paths of safety
to still greater welfare for themselves,
still broader bettarmant or tba r.oa