The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-11
RooSevelt'S Nomination
BY w. ]. Bryan Suggested
Continued From First Pase.)

! loved chief of all our clan. The heart
| of Democracy will be his until the
end OF the chapter. Among those who
| have led us in the past, and among
| those who are TO lead us in the future
| there deserves to live and there will
be left 10 live no name more honored,
! no character more revered, no leader
ship more trusted, and no personality
more beloved, than William ]. Bry-
an, of Nebraska.
| Twice he has fought his good fight,
always he has kept his faith, but that
he has finished his course no man
who reads history or trusts the people
| can for a moment think If the De-
mOcracy had in its power to choose,
| me vast and swelling majority of its
| ranks would bear William ]. Bryan
| upon its shoulders 10 the presidency
OF the United States.
| For my own part, believe, and |
| am sure you too believe, that we shall
| yet see his inustrious and useful years
! crowned with the illustrious station
| whose duties he will adorn. and whose
| powers and responsibilities he will
nobly meet.
A Serious Question.
The question to us in these serious
and honest hours is whether this is
the time 10 commit once more to the
fortunes of the battle the platform of
our principles, and TO force once
more to the front the man whom our
Democratic mass deHghteth TO honor.
The Democratic party in its history
and in its traditions is a party of the
people. 1t was set tor the welfare
and the safety of the plain people of
America. 1t was established for the
nhnITfinY, Of
ment of aristocracy, the rebuke of
corruption. the destruction of cOncen-
trated power. IL was formed for the
enforcement of liberty and the econ.
Omic and personal prosperity of the
people. The Democratic party IS not
held now and never must be held for
the exploitation of individual ambi
tions and for the capture of offices
to be distributed among its followers
at the polls.
Men who believe in certain prin-
ciples and in certain great theories of
government, band themselves to-
Sether IN an organized movement to
secure the triumph of these theories
at the ballot box and their admins
tration of the government. When
parties either forget their principles
or project the ambitions of their
leaders or the selfish aspirations of
their Office-holders to the subo1 dina
ton of the great principles which
drew them together, then parties
have prostituted their faith, failed in
their mission and forfeited the OBJ
legation to individual loyalty among
their followers. Whenever Democracy
reaches the time when it is not willing
to sacrifice men, however dear and
honored, or power. however great and
desirable, in order to accomplish
those great and splendid ends for
which the fathers cOnsecrated it, then
Democracy is no longer a party Of
the people, but has become a con-
spiracy of spoilsmen, or mob of sell
fish grafters in the republics life.
Mr.. Chairman, we have fought for
forty years for that triumph at the
polls which would give our theories
their due course to ne glorIed in the
administration of the government. we
have failed for forty years, with one
exception. We found once a strong
man from New York who was willing
to go down with the principle of tariff
reform in the full brave faith of its
ultimate triumph. The absence of
legislative majority to reinforce exc
cutive patriotism tied the hands of
our only Democratic president and
crippled his grand capacity for the
vindication of Democratic ideals. But
we have left US the record of a great
name and an honest administration
under Grover Cleveland, of New
York
Out of Enemys Camps.
We are fronted now with conditions
in this republic which few men could
have foreseen and which no man ten
years ago would have had the temer-
ity to predict. Out of the camps of
the enemy. out of the seats of the
scOrnful. out of the PretOrian Guard
of privilege and monopoly, there has
come an unexpected and potential
convert to the creeds and theories or
Democracy. And whether we ind
the school master who has taught him
in the eloquent and irresistible evan
gels of Bryan, in the thunder which
has doomed persistently from the
eight great guns of the indomitable
Hearst, or whether that providence
which shapes the desunies of nations
and of men has dropped the scales
from his partisan eyes, the fact re-
mains that Theodore Roosevelt has
learned his Democratic lesson well.
We may as we'll acknowledge fairly
what history will fearlessly affirm,
that he has become the foremost and
most effective executor of Democratic
policies and the most practical cham
pion of popular rights which these
two generations of the republic have
produced.
The things for which We have
fought for forty years he has been
putting into fearless and effective
execution. Since William r. Hearst
flung at his feet the challenge to re-
form in that incompatible array of
statistics which proved the existence
and the iniquity of the trusts. the
strenuous president of the United
States has not failed or faltered in
his discreet and fearless way to find
a remedy. Since William J. Bryan
fashioned the eloQuen. evangels which
went forth from the garden meeting
in Madison Square, the president of
Washington has not hesitated to go
forward with redoubIed zeal and en-
ergy in the prosecution of his work