The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-11
Mr.. ROOSEVELT IS ENTER
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being your guest and guest of the city
of Chicago this evening, and in looking
at the possibilities of the future, let me
add that l have not the least antcipa-
ton of Chicagos ever reversing that most
complimentary vote which | SO deeply
appreciated last year because it Will
never have the chance daughter and
applause)
Our country is governed and under
existing circumstances can only be gov
erned, under the party system, and that
should mean, and that will mean, when
we have a sufficient number of people
who take the point of view that
Judge Dickinson takes-that will mean
that there will be a frank and manly
opposition of party to party, of party
man TO party man, combined with an
equally frank refusal to conduct a party
contest in such way as to give good
Americans cause for regret because of
what is said before election when COM
pared with what is said after election.
applause, The frankest opposition TO a
given man or given party on the ques-
tons of public policy not only can be, but
almost always should be, combined with
the frankest recognition of the infinitely
greater number Of points of agreement
than of the points of differences.
There are foreign questions and there
are domestic questions. Our politics
should, and in the great majority of
cases do, our political lines of difference
should, and in the majority of cases do.
disappear at the waters edge, and when
had to choose a man to represent to a
peculiar degree the interests of this gov
eminent in one of the most foreign ne
gotiations of recent years, that concerning
the Alaskan boundary. l chose the best
lawyer one of the ablest public men and
one of the most fair minded patriots that
could be found in the country, and the
fact that he was of opposing political
| faith did not interfere with Judge Dickin-
son doing that work well. (Applause)
"One of the works Uncle Sam has on
hand just at present is digging the Pan
ANA canal-and 1t is going to be dug.
Cheering and cries of Good Good.). 1t
is going to be dug honestly and as cheaply
as compatible with efficiency-but with
the efficiency first. daughter and APP
piause). | wanted Congress to give me
power to remodel the commission. 1t did
not do it. l remodeled II anyhow Qaugh-
ter and applause) purely In the exercise
OF my executive functions. and | made up
my mind that I was not going to make
| the slightest effort to represent different
sections of the country on that canal,
was going to try to have the whole
country represented and put the best men
could get in any given position without
the slightest regard to where he came
from.
Now gentlemen, those are external
questions as regards which the whole
country and not the interests of any
party or any section of the country must
be considered, and humbly considered by
the President. 1t is just as true of certain
OF our great International policies. Some
OF those present will differ from what
am about to say. | believe. however,
that sooner or later it will be found that
the great bulk of our people will agree
with what l am about to say.
Capital and Labor.
Among the most vital questions that
nave come up for solution because of the