Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-10-31
The REPUBLICAN, ROOSEVELT PARTY
DEFINES ITS POSITION


At meeting of the REPUBLICAN
ROOSEVELT PARTY held on Mon.
day, October I'D, 1906, at Cape May
Court House, New Jersey, the following
address and declaration of principles
were unanimously adopted:
The immortal declaration that he
'serves his party best who serves his
country best,n is as true to-day as it
was when declared by that Warrior
Statesman who led the Union hosts in
the battles that saved the Nations life,
and led the Republican party through
those bitter years when the waves of
that tempest of war were not yet stilled.
We as Republicans hold the duty of
citizenship superior to any party name;
and that in "a government of the peo-
pie, by the people and for the people,
the independent Republican voter who
holds his ballot as a sacred trust and
casts it as duty, following the dictates
of his own conscience, is the Nations
safeguard, and the Republics security.
We believe that the casting of a free
mans unbought ballot is the passing
ofjudgment upon the fitness of every
candidate whose name is offered for
his suffrage and that it is his duty to
himself, his fellow men, his country,
and his God, to cast it only for those
uh hns fn tn
him and his fellow citizens the best
and purest service; and we hold this
duty to be far above and beyond the
claim of any party or faction.
We believe that the Republican
Party was founded OH the purest prin-
ciples of Right and Justice, and so con-
tinues; and that it is the sacred duty
of every citizen regardless of party ties,
or party name, to give his utmost in
fluence by action, voice and vote, to the
promotion of LavoJ Yiforder, Temper
ance and Morality, and tnlb IN public
as in private life; and we hold that
nothing short of this Is worthy of the
name of Republicanism.
We deny that the Ocean City Con-
vention of 1905 was Republican Con-
vention.
We deny that its conduct was worthy
of the name of Republicanism, or that
its candidates are entitled to our sup
port.
We believe its controlling votes were
the fruits of fraud, and the outcome of
crime against the elective franchise.
We believe that justice was denied;
that the truth was suppressed; that
honor was outraged, and fairness
trampled under foot.
We believe that this was the result
of conspiracy conceived in secrecy,
wrongfully to secure to one candidate
that nomination which a majority of
the Republican voters of this County
desired by their ballots to award to
another.
We refuse our sanction to a nomina-
tion we believe thus tainted; and hold
that to do otherwise, would stultify
ourselves as Republicans, and make
us accessories, if not parties, to politi-
cal fraud; that even silent reputation
at the ballot box would fall short of
our civic duty, and that We owe it to
ourselves as Republicans, and to the
public, thus openly and by the legally
provided method, TO select for our suff-
RACES candidates, the legality of whose
nomination is unquestioned and un-
challenged and further to invite as
we hereby do, the cooperation of all
voters who with us hold that Republi-
can principles demand pure primary
ballot and clean nominations.
We declare ourselves now and ever
true Republicans; believers in and
supporters Of those principles of justice
and fairness which that glorious Re-
publican whose name honors our ticket,
has condensed aud immortalized in
the phrase, "a SQUARE DEAL.n
We heartily endorse the administra-
ton of President Roosevelt, the acts of
the last Congress, Congressman John
J. Gardner and the present Republican
administration of the State of New
Jersey.
We earnestly uphold the sanctity of
the Sabbath and deplore the threatened
invasion of that day of rest, and de-
mand compliance with the laws of the
State of New Jersey in regard thereto.
Upon this ground we stand as upon
platform.
Because of our faith in the intelligent
judgment of the people, we take this
action.
l hereby certify the foregoing to be
a true and correct copy of the address
and declarations of principles of the
Republican Roosevelt Party, unani-