The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-06-17
GREATEST DEMONSTRATION EVER KNOWN
IN HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS
Expected Stampede Occurs when Chairman LODGE Closest Per-
sona Friend Of fle President Delivers His Speech laudng
the Achieve ents Of Roosevelt --Comention in
al proar for Half an Hour

lean show such a record of achieve
ment during the last so years as the re-
publican party. Upon that record we
stand ard challenge all comers to the
| lists. But it is we'll 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 beautifully depicted by
persons of self-confessed superiority
and chronic discomfort The glittering
| abstraction which they present never
existed yet on sea or land. 1t CLEANS
upon US III printers ink. but it has
neither substance nor organization nor
candidates, for organizations and can
Of men and cannot be the floating
phantoms of an uneasy dream. The
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vember between us and the democratic
party. With the democratic party, and
with that alone. must the comparison
be made. We differ from that party in
some important particulars.
"The ole snibboleths of the democrats
are today the epitaphs of policies which
are read and damned. They serve only
to remind us of dangers escaped or to
warn us of perils to be summed. The
battle cries of the republicans have
been the watchword of great causes.
They tell of victories won and triumphs
tasted-they are embodied in the laws
and mark the stepping-s stones by
which the republic has risen to ever
greater heighths of power and pros
perity.
True to Tradition.
LAS we thus call up the past and the
echoes of these old conflicts again
sound in our ears and touch the chords
of memory. one great fact stands forth,
clear and shining The republican
party has never failed except when it
has faltered. Our long career of victory,
so rarely broken. has been due to our
meeting boldly each question as it
arose; to our facing every danger. as il
crossed our path, with entire courage
fearless of consequences and deter
mined only to be true to the principles
which brought the party into exist
ence and to the spirit which has in
spired it from its birth. We faced Sc
cession, We took up the dread burden
of civil war. But few years ago we
permitted thousands of republicans to
leave us, thereby imperiling our po-
ltical power. rather than abandon the.
gold standard and plunge the country
into disaster and dishonor
TN these latest years. as in the most
remote, we have been true to our ira
ditions. In the process of DEVELOPMENT
point was reached where the country
was confronted by a situation more
perlous than any it has ever faced
except in the civil war. and we repub-
licans were. therefore. obliged to deal
with problems of the most complex and
difficult character.
ITO our honor, be it said. We have
not shrunk from the task. Much has
been done-much, no doubt. still re-
mains to do-but the great underlying
principles have been established and
upon them We can build, as necessity
arises, carefully and deliberately.
Il have spoken of the seriousness of
the situation with which the country
was confronted. Its gravity can hardly
be overestimated. 1t grew out of con-
ditions and was the result of forces be-
yond the control of men, Science and
invention. the t0o great factors in this
situation, have not only altered radical
ly human environment and our rela-
tions to nature, but, in their applica-
tion. they have revo,utionized economic
conditions. These changed economic