Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-06-27
ELOQUENT IoWAN PLACES IN
DIANA MAN IN NOMINATION.
PARTY Is UNANIMOUS
Both on Candidates and Principles, De-
cIares the Speaker, and Must Not
be Undermined by Hostile Agita-
tion-Blaine and other Leaders
Eulogized.

Chicago, June 24.-In placing Sena-
tor Fairbanks in nomination for vice
president Senator Dolliver of Iowa de-
clared tnat the national republican
convention presented To the world a
moral spectacle of extraordinary inter
est and significance. IL is a fine thing
to see thousands of men, representing
millions of people, iightig in the politi-
cal arena. for their favorite candidates,
and contending valiantly for the sue
cess of contradictory principles and
conflicting doctrines. Out of such
contest, with its noise and declama-
ton, its flying banners, its thunder OF
the captains and the shouting, the truth
often secures a vindication, and the
right man comes out victorious. Some
times, however, wisdom is lost in the
confusion and more than once we
have seen the claims of leadership
swallowed up in contention and strife.
Then he added:
AT intervals of four years | follow
ed the banner of James G. Blaine
through the streets of our convention
cities, from Cincinnati To Minneapolis,
and did my full share To see that no
body got any more applause than the
great popular leader who had cap
tured my enthusiasm long before l
was old enough to vote. Not even
his defeat served TO diminish the hold
which our champion had upon the
hearts of those who followed him,
and il has required a good deal of
experience to enable them to under
stand the lesson of his defeat Other
conventions have met to settle the
fate of rival chieftains; we meet to
record the judgment of the republi-
can millions of the United States.
They have based their opinion upon
the facts of the case. They have not
concluded that we have the greatest
president of the United States since
Washington. They know how to
measure the height and depth of things
better even than Professor Bryce,
when he deals with the superlatives
which find their sway into all we'll
regulated banquets after midnight.
They have not forgotten the grave of
Lincoln, which has become a shrine
for the pilgrimage of the human race.
They remember still the day when the
Canon of Westminster opened the
doors Of that venerable monument to
admit the name of the silent American
soldier into the household of English.
spoken fame.
They have passed no vainglorious
judgment upon the career of Theodore
Roosevelt. They have studied it with
sympathetic interest from his boyhood,
as he has risen from one station of
public usefulness to another, until at
length, before the age of As he stands
upon the highest civic eminence known
among men. Their tears fell with his
as he stood in the shadow of poor Nc
Kinley's death and as a part of his
oath of Office. asked the trusted coun-
sellers who stood by the side of the
fallen president to help him carry
forward the work which he had left
unfinished, and while his administra-
ton deserved the tribute which IL re-
ceived in this convention from the
eloquent lips OF our temporary chair
man. IL is because he has executed in
a manly way, the purpose of the re-
publican party and interpreted Alright
the aspirations of the American peo-
pie. Nor can there be a doubt that If
i'm the years to come. he shall walk
steadfastly in the same path, he will
be numbered among the great leaders
of the people who have given dignity
and influence TO their highest office.
but the judgment OF the republi-