Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-18
SENATOR LODGE BOASTS OF PARTYS DEEDS;
PAYS TRIBUTE TO RECORD OF ROOSEVELT

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CHICAGO. June 17.-Permanent
Chairman Lodge speech was eharac-
teristic of the senator's polished
style of ratory 1t was as follows:
/ thank you most sincerely for the
great honor you have done me ~
choosing me to preside Over your de-
Fcr il is a great honor
TO be the Lrssiding officer of a Re
publican National Convention.
NJ Political party in modern times
can show such q record 81 achieve
ment during the last fifty years as
he Republican patty. Upon that
record we can stand and challenge
all Corners To the lists. But it is
wen to remember that the test We
have to meet is much less severe.
This is a comparative world. We do
not go forth to contest the great
prize WITH an ideal party. which we
sometimes see be autiiully depicted by
persons OF self confessed superiority
and chronic discomfort. The glitter
'ng abstraction which they present
never existed yet ON sea or land. IT
CLEANS upon us in printers ink but
1t has neither substance nor organ
cation nor candidates, for organiza-
lions and candidates must be taken
from the ranks of men and cannot
be the floating phantoms OF an I'M
Easy dream. The American people
must choose next November between
MS and the Democratic party. With
the Democratic party, aud with that
alone, must the comparison be made.
We differ from that party in some i'm
portant particulars. We both. it IS
true, have a past and a history rnt
we treat those possessions very eli
ferently. They wish % keep their
past a profound secret. We seek by
all means TO publish ours to the
world If we refer to their history
they charge us with calumny. We re
gard ours. truthful and undistoTted,
rs our greatest glory. To the youth
NJ tbe country they say, Judge us
-oiyly by our undiscovered future"
We say. Read our record, judge US
bv our past and our present and from
these, learn what We are--what We
have been and what we mean to be-
Recall the cries which have sounded
from the lips of these two parties
during the last half century. On the
one side-"Slavery secession; repu-
diation of the public debt; fiat
money; free trade; free silver: the
overthrow of the courts and govern
ment ownership"
On the Republican side-"Free soil;
free men; the Union; the payment
of the debt; honest money; protec-
ton TO American industry; the gold
industry; the maintenance OF law.
of order and of-the courts and the
government regulation OF great cor
operations. The old shiboleths of
the Democrats are today the epIIaprs
of policies which are dead and
damned. They serve only to remind
us of dangers escaped or to warn us
of perils to be stunned. The battle
cries of the Republicans have been
the watchwords of great causes.
They tel of, victories won and tri-
umphS tasted-they are embodied in
the laws and mark the stepping
stones by which the Republic has
-isen to ever greater heights of pow
or and prosperity.
As we thus call up the past and
the echoes OF these old conflicts
again sound in our ears ard touch the
chords OF memory, one great fact
ztands forth, clear and shining. The
Republican party has never failed -ex'
cept when it has faltered. Our long
career of victory, so rarely broken,
has been due to our meeting bodily
each question as it aro~e to our facing
every danger, as it crossed our pain
with entire courage, fearless Of con
sequences and determined only to be
true to the principles which brought
the patty into existence and to the
spirit which has inspired it from its
birth. We faced secession rather
than assent to the extension of slay
cry. Rather than submit to sece7 sion
we took up the dread burden of civil
war. But a few years ego We per
mitted thousands of Republicans to
'eave US, thereby imperiling on: po-
litical power rather than ara~dNn tie
gold standard and plunge the country
INTO Disaster and dishonor.
In these latest years. as in the most
remote, We have been true 70 cur
traditions. In the process of devel
opment a point was reached whe-e
the country was confronted by sit
uation more perilous than any 1t las
evev faced except in the civil war
and we Republicans were. therefore
obliged to deal with problems of the
most complex and difficult chaTac
te-.
To our honor, be it said, We have
not sbrunk from the task. Much ha!
been done-much, no doubt, still re
mains to debut the great underly
I ing principles have been established
and upon them we can build, as ne
rossi+y arises. carefully and delib
erately.
I have spoken of the seriousness
IF the situation with which the coun
| try was confronted. It's gravity car
hardly be over-estimated. 1t grew on
If conditions and was the result o.
forces beyond the control Of men
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