Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-07-11

IulSSiOl DIS It's CduDIudlG. IQuT YGdES
later that commission was renewed /
ctele tonight to the Democratic con-
vention to return the commission and
to say that you may dispute whether
fought good fight You may dis
pute whether finished my course, but
you cannot deny that I have kept the
faith
AS your candidate / did all could
to bring success to the party As
private citizen today / am more in
terested in Democratic success than /
ever was when / was a candidate.
The reasons that made the election of
a Democrat desirable were stronger
in 1900 than in 1896, and the reasons
that make the election of the Demo-
cratic candidate desirable are stronger
in 1904 than they were in 1900.
'The gentleman who presented New
York's candidate dwelt upon the dan
gers of militarism, and he did not over
state the dangers. Let me quote the
most remarkable passage that ever oc-
CURED or that was ever found in the
speech of nomination Of any candidate
for president.
Governor Black of New York in pre-
senting the name of Theodore Roose-
welt to the Republican convention
used these words: The fate Of ma
tions is still decided by their wars.
You may talk of orderly tribunals and
learned referees. You may sing in
your schools the gentle praises of quiet
life. You may strike from your books
the last note of every martial anthem,
and yet out in the smoke and thunder
will always be the tramp of horses
and the silent, rigid, upturned faces.
Men may prophesy and women pray.
but peace will come here to abide for
ever in this earth only when the
dreams of childhood are the accepted
charts to guide the destinies Of men.
Events are numberless and mighty,
and no man can tell which wire runs
around the world. The nation basking
today in the quiet of contentment and
repose may still be on deadly circuit
and tomorrow writing in the tolls of
war This is the time when great
figures must be kept in front. If the
pressure is great the material to resist
it must be granite and from
""This is eulogy of war. This is
declaration that the time hoped for,
never come, thus eulogizing the doc
trine of brute force and giving denial
to the hopes Of the race. And this
president, candidate for reelection,
is presented as the embodiment of that
ideal, the granite and the iron, to rep
resent the new idea Of militarism. Do
you say you want to defeat the mill
tary idea? Friends of the south, are
you trying to defeat the military idea?
Let me tell you that not one Of you,
north, east or south, more fears the
triumph Of that idea than / do. If
this is the doctrine that our nation is
TO stand for, it is retrogression, not
progression; it is the lowering of the
ideals of the nation; 1t Is the turning
backward to the age Of force. More
than that 1t is a challenge to the Chris
tian civilization of the world and moth
ing less.
4'Twenty-seven hundred years ago a
prophet foretold the coming of one who
was to be called the Prince Of Peace.
Two thousand years ago he came upon
the earth, and the song that was sung
at his birth was Peace on earth, good
will toward men
For two thousand years this doc
trine of peace has been growing. 1t
has been taking hold upon the hearts
Of men, For this doctrine of peace
millions have given their lives. For
this doctrine OF peace thousands have
crossed oceans and given their lives
among savage tribes and among for
eign nations This doctrine of peace,
the foundation of Christian civiliEa-
ton, has been the growing hope of the
world
And now the ex-governor of the
greatest state of the nation presents
for the ONCE OF president Of the great
est republic Of all history a man who
is granite and iron and who repre-
SCENTS, not the doctrine Of peace, but
the doctrine that the destinies OF ma
lions are still settled by their wars.
"WilI you Of New York present a
graver indictment against President
Roosevelt than that? Will you of the
south present a graver indictment
against President Roosevelt than that?
do not ask what is the character of
the man. He may have every virtue;
he may be exemplary in every way,
but If the president shares the idea OF
the man who nominated him; If the
president believes with his sponsor at
Chicago that wars must settle the des-
TIMES of nations; That peace is but a
dream; that women pray for 1t; that
men may prophesy about 1t; that all
these talks OF orderly tribunals and all
this are but empty sounds; if he be-
deves these things, he is dangerous
man for our country and the world.
81 believe he ought to be defeated.
believe he can be defeated, and If the
Democratic party does what it ought
to do believe he will be defeated.
How can you defeat him? I tried
to defeat the Republican party as your
candidate. 1 failed. you say? Yes, I
did.
81 received million more votes than
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