Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-06-23
SECONDED By BEVERIDGE.
Eloquent EuIogy of the President by the
Indiana Senator.

AnuAana SENATOR
In seconding the nomination of
Roosevelt Senator Beveridge said:
''Gentlemen of the Conventions: One
difference between the opposition and
ourselves is this: They select their can
didate for the people, and the people
select our candidate for us. This was
true four years ago when we accepted
the peoples judgment and named Will
lam Mckinley. 1t is true today when
we again accept the peoples Judgment
and name Theodore Roosevelt whose
sympathieS are as wide as the re-
public, whose COura re, honesty and Wis
ion meet all emergencies and the sum
of whose qualities make HIM the type
of twentieth century AmericaniSm.
Theodore Roosevelt is a leader who
leads; because he carries out the set
tied purposes of the people. Our presi-
dents plans when achieved, are nj.
| ways found to he merely the nations
will accomplished. And that is why
the people will elect him. They know
that while he is president the flag viii
| stay put" and no American adVan-
tage in the Pacific or the world lie sur
rendered. Americans never retreat.
W
in the service OF the government will
20 unwhipped of justice. Americans
demand honesty and honor, Nigilant
and fearless.
While be is president. reimbursement
Of tariff schedules will be made only
in harmony with the principle of pro
| lection. Americans have memories.
While he Is president peace with every
nation will be preserved ut any cost,
excepting only The sacrifice of Ameri-
can rights; and the vigor with which
he maintains these will be itself Il
guarantee of peace. The American peO-
pie will elect him because. in a word,
| they know that he does things the peO-
pie want done; does things, not merely
discusses them-dOeS things only after
discussing them-but does things; and
does only those things the people
would have him do. This Is character
istically American; for wherever he is,
the American is he who achieves. His
past is his proof. Every great meas
ure of his administration was so wise
that. enthusiastically sustained 10y his
own party, il won votes even from til"
opposition. Or what measure of ThcO-
dore Roosevelt's administration does
the opposition dare even TO propose
the repeal: And when has the record
of any president won greater approx
al?
And so the people trust him as a
statesman. Better than that. they love
him as Il man. He wins admiration in
vain who wins not affection also. In
| the American home-that temple of
happiness and virtue where dwell the
wives and mothers of the republic,
chcrishing the beautiful in life and
guarding the morality OF the nation
in the American home the name of
| Theodore Roosevelt is not only hon
ored but beloved Life holds no re-
ward so noble as the confidence and
love of the American people.
The Americanpe people! The mightfest
! force fofr good the ages have evolved
| They began aschIldren OF liberty. They
believed In God and His providence
| They took truth and Justice and toler-
ancc as their eternal ideals and
marched fearlessly forward. Wilder
nesses stretched before thcm-they
| subdued them. Deserts Obstructed-
they passed them. Their faith failed
them not and a continent was theirs.
/ From ocean to ocean cities rose, fields
/ biessOmed, railroads ran; but every
where church and school were perma-
nent proofs that the principles of their
origin were the life of their maturity.
! The American people are not eX-
| hsusted; we have only tested our
I strength. Gods work for US in the
/ world is not finished; His future mis-
kions for the American people Will be
! Erander than any He has given US,
+ nobler than we now can comprehend.
And these tasks n : they come we Will
accept and accomplish as our fathers
accomplished theirs. And when the
generation shall have passed and our
children shall catch from our aging
hands the standard we have borne. it
I viii be still the old flag Of Yorktown
and AppOmattoX and Manila Bay.
This is the Republican idea Of the