The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-08-04
PRESIDENT RoosEvELr,s SPEECH.
Some Remarks in Reply to Notification
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Some Remarks in Reply to Notification
| OF Nomination.
President Roosevelt was formally
notified July 9th at Oyster Bay of his
nomination. Speaker Cannon deliver
ing the notification speech. The presi-
dent in replying said: "Three years
ago became president because of the
death of my lamented predecessor. I
then stated that it was my purpose to
carry out his principles and policies
for the honor and the interest of the
country. To the best of my ability 1
have kept the promise thus made. If
next November my countrymen con-
firm at the polls the action of the con-
vention you represent, I shall, under
Providence, continue to work with an
eye single to the welfare of all our
people.
A party is of worth only in so far
as it promotes the national interest.
and every Official. high or low, can
serve his party best by rendering to
the people the best service of which he
is capable.
Effective government comes only
as the result of the loyal cooperation
of many different persons. The mem
bers OF legislative majority, the
officers in the various departments of
the administration, and the legislative
and executive branches as towards
each other, must work together with
subordination of self to the common
end OF successful government. We
who have been entrusted with power
as public servants during the past
seven years of administration and
legislation now come before the people
content to be judged by our record of
achievement. In the years that have
gone by we have made the deed square
with the word: and if we are contin-
ued in power we shall unswervingly
follow out the great lines of public
policy which the Republican party has
already laid down; a public policy to
which we are giving, and shall give, a
united, and therefore an efficient sup
port.
I'm all of this we are more fortunate
than our opponents, who now appeal
for confidence on the ground, which
some express and some seek to have
confdentially understood. that if
triumphant they may be trusted to
prove false to every principle which
IN the last eight years they have laid
down as vital, and to leave undis-
turbed those very acts of the admins
tration because of which they ask that
the administration itself be driven
from power. Seemingly their present
attitude as to their past record is that
some of them were mistaken and others
1nslncere. We make our appeal in a
wholly different spirit. We are not
| constrained to keep silent on any Vi
tai question: we are divided on no
vital question; our policy is continu-
GUS, and is the same for all sections
and localities. There is nothing ex-
perimental about the government we
ask the people to continue in power,
Tor our performance in the past, our
proved governmental efficiency. is a
guarantee as to our promises for the
future. Our opponents, either openly
or secretly, according to their several
temperaments, now ask the people to
trust their promises in consideration
OF the fact that they intend to treat
their past promises as null and void.
we know our own minds and we have
kept OF the same mind for sufficient
length of time to give to our policy
conference and sanity
''In such a fundamental matter as
the enforcement of the law we do not
have to depend upon promises, but
merely to ask that our record be taken
as an earnest of what we shall con-
tinue to do.
" In dealing with the great organize
tons known as trusts, we do not have
to explain why the laws were not en-
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ually have been enforced and that
legislation has been enacted to in
crease the effectiveness of their en-
forcement. We do not have to pro-
pose to turn the rascals out, :" for we
have shown in every deed that when
ever by diligent investigation pub
lie official can be found who has be-
trayed his trust he will be punished to
the full extent of the law without re-
gard to whether he was appointed un-
der Republican or a Democratic
administration. This is the efficient
way to turn the rascals out and to
keep them out, and it has the merit of
sincerity. Moreover the betrayals of
trust in the last seven years have been
insignificant in number when com
pared with the extent of the public
service. Never has the administra-