The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-11

and gives Il beautiful SOFT, NeINctN SKIN
| Your druggist sells it 1t cured Edward
d. Herring, of Frederick. Md. of l bad
case of eczema, and he writes: My face
is "A smooth as an Infants
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day as an honest party, representa-
! tive of an honest people We can do
no less than recognize his patriotism
and applaud his transcendent service.
He has grappled the iniquities OF the
meat trust which was spreading virus
/ through the physical veins of the re-
public. He has put his probe into
/ the putrid politics of the insurance
! companies and purged them of the
| pus that was poison to politics and
! trade. He has gripped by the throat
! the almost OmipOtent power Of the
/ transportation magnateS, and he has
/ today at his feet and asking clemency
| at his hands the tallest and most ire
mendOus figures of the tyrant railway
| systems of the land.
And in doing this he has vindica-
ted every principle for which Bryan
has plead and Hearst has Numbered
and has proven himself a publicist
who is a patriot, a president who is
a pOpulist and a Democratic Repub-
| lican, who deserves TO rank in
achievement with the best and brav-
! est in the annals of our immortal
| party.
Gould Democrat Have Done Work.
We ask ourselves the question
here, whether any man born of our
Democratic women could have done
more than this Republican president
at Washington has done. We ASK
ourselves here face to face with each
other and the facts If with the hiStor-
ic diStruSt OF capital, with the pres
tige of sustained defeat, with only the
commission of the plain people be-
hind us, if there is anyone among
us set in power who could have so
gripped and grasped the machinery of
reform, could have so compelled the
respect of politicians and the surren-
der of Syndicates as this Republican
Democrat, who fresh from the ranks
of the privileged and with the pres
tige Of dauntless courage and achieve
ment, has coerced by the sheer power
of his personality those whom ne
weight of his reason had failed to
convince?
We ask ourselves further, standing
face to face in this fine high counsel
of Democracy, whether any man
whom we could place in power now
would be able under necessarily in
ferior equipment, to carry to the lofty
chair of execution that prestige, that
experience, that grasp of present af
fairs. that personality of achievement
which would hold in continuous
check these predatory hordes of priv
ilege and prosecute to their great and
indispensable conclusion the reforms
which Theodore Roosevelt has set on
foot?
Let US ask and answer in our own
hearts tonight whether any man,
coming new and fresh from the ranks
without a senate and house of his
own faith behind him, unframed in
executive paths, unglOrified by execu-
tive achievements, could muster
within his equipment the force and
the following to carry to their conclu-
sion in government the things which
the president has pressed to their
present promising and satisfactory
state?
If Theodore Roosevelt should lay
down tomorrow the rein of govern
ment which he has demonstrated be-
yond all cavil or question his mighty
power to hold, is there any man at
the head of new party, unless every
branch of the government was solid
and united behind him, who could
give to the republic the well founded
hope of a triumphant conclusion OF
the reforms which are now progress
ing to an inevitable victory in TheO-
dore Roosevelt's strenuous and un
daunted hands?
A Time for Frankness.
MI Chairman, and my fellow Demo
Gratis, it seems to me the time is ripe
for an expression of the reality of
Democratic principles and of the real
majesty of Democratic leadership
which will startle history and inspire
the republic TO a better life. There
are opportunities which the Almighty
sends at rare intervals to parties and
to individuals. And it seems to me
in honest and fearless frankneSS that
such a time has come TO us.
We stand for the people mere. What
the people want is principles. no.
men. What the people need is re-
suits, not shibboleths. What the peo-
pie clamor for is not party names,
but equal popular rights and estab-
lished liberty
If the Democratic party has been
sincere through all these years in the
splendid platforms and in the SPLEEN
did platitudeS which have cOnSecra-
ted its faith and fortunes to the cause
of the peOple-if We have fought in
faith and not in selfish expectation
for the great things which we wish
to see embodied in the government
if We have been consecrated to the
rightinS of popular wrongs, 10 the re-
Taxing of the grip of graft and privi |
lege from the throat of the people
if we have been really honest in our
professions of supreme concern for
the whole people rather than for par
ty profit and for personal glory-we /
seem TO have an immortal opportun- /
ity to prove it now. There has come |
to us a time when the Democratic |
party can illustrate an unselish pa !
triotism and a SURPRISING principle |
that will glOrify every profession OF !