The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-21
lille jUTTERANcEs OF Mr.. ROOT
s5ss. nj AY Be TAKEN AS TIE
ii FIRST CAMPAIGN #LITERA-
TURE
FOR THE CAMPAIGN OF 1904
sa5sss-T He REPuBL!cAN PARTY
M 54sS VILE SOON COMPLETE ITS
FIRST HALF CENTURY
OF CONTROL.

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FIRST HALF CENTURY
OF CONTROL.
CHICAGO, June 21--on taking the
chair today as the temporary presld-
ing officer, the Hon Elihu Root, OF
New York, spoke as follows:
Of the Convention:
The sresponsibility of government.
rests upon the Republican party The
comp licated machinery through which
the 10000, 200 people of the United
states govern themselves, answers to
no signal WILL The composite govern
Snent devised by the trainers of the
Constitution to meet the conditions
ago. requires the willing cooperation
4 of many minds, the combination OF
many independent factors, in every
forward step for the general welfare.
The President at Washington with
his Cabinet the 80 Senators. repre-
senting 10 sovereign States, the 3S6
Representative in 7CongresS-are re-
quired to reach concurrent action up
&on multitude of questions involving
varied and conflicting interests and
requiring Investigation, information,
From all our vast territory with its
varieties of climate and industry,
from all our great population active in
production and commerce and social
progress and intellectual and moral
life to a degree never before attained
by any peop1e-difncult problems
press upon National Government
Within the past five years more
than sixty-six thousand bills have
been introduced in Congress. Some
method of selection must be follow
ed. There must be some preliminary
#processsSto ascertain the general ten
or Of public Judgment upon the prin-
5ciples. to be applied in government,
and some organization and recogni-
ton of$1eadership which shall bring
Legislative majority and the eNecu-
tive into accord in the practical apli~
cation Of those principles: or effect
i've government becomes impossible.
The practical governing instinct OF
our people has adapted the ma
&chinerys devised in the 18th to the
conditions of the Goth Century by the
organization of national political par
ties. In them men join for the pro-
motion of a few cardinal principles
upon which they agree For the
sake Of those principles they lay
aside their differences upon less i'm
portant questions. To represent
those principles and to carry on the
government in accordance with them,
they present to the people candidates
whose competency and loyalty they
approve. The people by their choice
Sof candidates indicate the principles
and methods which they wish follow
led in the conduct of their government.
They do not merely choose between
between principles they profess, the
methods they follow, the trustworthi-
ness of their professions, the infer
ences to be drawn from the records
3Sof their past, the general weight of
character of the body OF men who will
be Brought into participation in gov
eminent by. their ascendency.
When the course of the next admin
istration is but half done the Republi-
can Party will have completed the
first half century Of its national life.
#Of the eleven admin STATIONS since
the first election of Abraham Lincoln,
nine-covering a period of thrtysiX
years-have been under Republican
presidents. For the greater part of
i that time, the majority in each
House of Congress has been Repub-
s1ican. History affords no parallel in
any age or country for the growth in
Irrational greatness and power and
honor the wide diffusion of the COM
forts of life, the uplifting Of the mass
Sof the people above the hard condi-
tons of poverty, the common oppor-
$tunity for education and individual
advancement, the universal posses
sion Of civil and religious liberty, the
projection Of property and security
forth rewards of industry and enter
prise, the #cu1tivation of national mo-
respect for religion, sympathy
SS|sA sl1manit = and love of liberty and
a ich have marked the life OF
s sssan people during this 1ong
4 "a s1ub1i lean control.
s5s$sS ssS a So form and the candi-
on, we are about
s. Eassion of pop
lean Par