Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08
livered an address o1:.'what Makes the
East Republicanw


Dr. Winship said in part:
why is the east republican?
why are not Isuceessful third parties
born here? Hi
why does not khe democracy thrive?
What is the eAst?i,,,
"A section of cpuntfY has as distinct a
personality as family or an individual.
1t may have its internal contentious, so
may family, but they are no more likely
to have them than is an individual. There
is no one who has not fought indefinite
battles in his own mental and moral being,
victories won. Thus il the personality of
time to know whatais to win out in the
child Adolescence the. educational watch
tablishing of personality.
THE east Is a composite personality,
merging Puritan, Dutchman and Quaker
In one blood. toning it up or down with
the blood ofsScotchman and Dane, Roman
list and Jew, anarchist and socialist but 1t
Is the same OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES still,
and it will never be perceptibly modified.
THE east Is not republican by a margin,
but 1t is virtually all republican except for
local erect and personal prejudice.
I'm the struggle of three centuries of ac-
quaintance and assimilation, the east has
come to typify and embody three Ideals
thrift, intelligence and conscience. These
are much part of the second American
generation of Irish and Germans as of ten
generations of Puritans, Knickerbockers
and Quakers.
mo third party has captured the east
for nearly half a century, and presumably
none ever will. A third party must be on
an economic, conscience, or academic issue.
No one of these alone can capture the east.
THE democratic party for half CEN
fury has been unable to capture and hold
the east, because 1t has gone wild first
over one and then over another of these
three phases and has never combined them.
Mr.. Cleveland could have helped the east
If the democrats of the west and south
would have permitted. His sound money
service professions gratified the conscience,
and his mastery messages satisfied the
academic feature of the east Mr.. Bryan
appealed to the conscience, but Mortified
the thrift and intellect.
Now, for the first time there is Pres
ident who is trying to idealize thrift, in
teligence and conscience each in all and
all in each, without the slightest com
promise of one fol-. any other or all for
any one. This is to be the great expert
ment of the twentieth century. 1t has be-
gun early and ought to make a new re-
publican party. President Roosevelt's per-
sonality Is so vigorous his conviction so
intense, his manliness so noble that he can
make a new republican party into which
all the ideal sentiment of the country can
come"
The Republican West.
Vice President William S. Cappeller Of
New Mansfield, Ohio, was received with
applause when he began his address on
What Makes the West Republican," Edi-
tor Cappeller said, in part:
What makes the west republican,? Is
easily answered. 1t is not because all of the
old abolitionists and republicans left Massa-
chusetts that they might elect democratic
governor whose factory-made soles, by
newspaper advertising, have been marching
on from one end of the country to the other
for years. The more direct reason is that
the republican party had candidates at the
head of its ticket who, by intelligent hon
esty, won the admiration of the people.
president Roosevelt early demonstrated
his wisdom in the selection of the chairman
of the national committee in naming man
who had been student of men and affairs,
and who, as chairman of the national COM
mittee, recognized that our boosted civiliza-
ton and education could be properly put to
the test by campaign of journalism. Time
was, before the multiplicity of newspapers,
that the Columbian orator, the modern SPELL
binder, was the only means Of communica-
ton between national and state legislative
bodies and the people. Posters and hand
bills announced meetings in city and coun-
try and when the eventful night came the
sounds of fife and drum and the torchlight
procession heralded that there were doings
at the cross roads or al the township school,
house. That slow, expensive and uncertain
means of reaching the people, like the secur-
ing of list of names and mailing docu-
ments, is passed and has been succeeded
largely by the newspapers of the country.
Another thing that helps to make the
west republican Is that there has been a
never-ceasing tide of immigration from the
east of live, progressive young men of force,
ability and enterprise, who from experience
and observation have learned that the prin-
ciples of the republican party have been
largely instrumental in making ours the
grandest republic on earth.
And again, the west, SO largely devoted
to agriculture, knows full well that the pol
questions has been and is such as to confer
a direct benefit upon the farmer, for while
the protective principle has made possible
the great Industrial and manufacturing de-
velopment of the east and middle west, 1t
has also provided the great agricultural in
terests with that best Of all markets-the
home market.
Another reason as to what makes the
west republican was manifest In the vigor-
GUS sledge-hammer response Of the Presi-
dent to the charges of dishOnorable or i'm
proper campaign methods. Like his letter
of acceptance, by the aid of the newspapers
1t, too, went into the hands of all intelligent
voters of the country. The minds of the
people were responsive, SO that by the time
the frost was on the pumpkin and the fod-
der In the shock the blow of a Hercules fell
full In the face of his maligners and sent to
the political junk pile the sage Of Wolfert's
Roost and his stalking horse"
Ovation for Mr.. Fairbanks.
Fairbanks appeared, framed in the main
doorway of the hall, he was given a rousing
ovation. The delegates and their ladies
arose and applauded with might and main.
The ovation continued while a committee
Of editors escorted Mr.. Fairbanks to the
platform. Then 1t was renewed with vigor
Fairbanks! 1857 sang out one of the
delegates.
Another editor declared that the Vice
President was the logical candidate of the
party to succeed President Roosevelt Then
the truth dawned that the Fairbanks boom
for 1908 had been launched. and the launch
ers were republican editors, representing
every section of the country.
Vice President Cappeller of the associa-
ton is an Ohio man, and in presenting
Vice President Fairbanks he referred to
him formerly from Ohio"
Yes sang out one of the delegates
but he is from Indiana now
Il have not come here to make formal
or extended speech" said Mr.. Fairbanks,
but rather to meet and greet you and bid
you welcome. The influence of republican
editors is felt everywhere and republican
editors are welcomed everywhere. They are
nowhere more welcome than at the nations
capital, of which we are all SO proud. We
cannot overestimate the influence of the
republican press If we have a wise and