Arizona republican., 1908-06-19
FAvoRITE SON.

Pennsylvania FAVORITE SON.
Lieutenant Governor Murphy of
Pennsylvania in placing the name of
Senator Knox before the convention
took occasion to describe his pioneer
campaign against great and unlawful
! combinations and his destruction of
! the Northern Securities company. He
said:
Remarkable as it may seem, this
| great legal triumph is but one of
many, no less in Importance, marking
| his official career. His vigilance and
activity made no pause in the fields
white for the harvest Wherever a
great combination conducted opera
tiOns in disregard Of law and the peo-
pies rights it instantly became at his
! hands the subject of attack. To pro-
teCt the grain grower of the North and
West and maintain freedom in COM
petition he shattered the Grain Trust;
he performed the same high duty for
the cotton grower of the South, when
he struck down the cotton carrying
pools. In behalf of those who earn
their bread in the sweat of the brow
ne drove the sword of Justice into the
tested the same relentless vigor in
the prosecution of those high in posi-
ton who were guilty of stealing the
public lands; he enforced for the pro-
lection o. the travelling public and the
rights OF the wOrkihgman the Safety
Appliance Law; he reversed the action
OF the English PriVy Council and
brought back for punishment Gaynor
and Greene, the two greatest thieves
Of the century; in the interest Of lab
or he draughted the employers liza
hility bill: and he crowned his record
in the office of attorney general by
giving to his country d perfect and
unhlemlsned title from the other Ma
tons Of the world to the Panama can
al
Upon this splendid record of tri-
umph in behalf Of the peoples rights,
Pennsylvania submits her claims for
recognition. That record iustifies our
action in demanding this nomination
In the enforcement Of old statutes and
in the enactment OF new laws the
safety of this country and republican
rule depended upon the distinguished
attorney general, of whom the chief
.
sense, honesty and resolute courage.
We need what he has shown: the
character that will refuse to be hur-
ried into any unwise or precipitate
movement by any clamor, whether /
hysterical or demogogic; and on the !
other hand, the character that will .
refuse to be frightened out of a move /
mcnt by any pressure, still less by any
threat. expressed or implied
His intellectual courage illuminated
the whole field and unerringly pointed /,
the true pathway for the march Of !
those eternal principles of right upon /
which the federal government must
ever securely rest.
From his entrance into the cabinet +
Of William Mckinley and throughout
his brilliant senatorial career the /
American people have never been in /
the slightest doubt as to the attitude
of Pennsylvania upon every vital
affecting the public interest.
No man i'm public life and occupying
the post of senator in the congress !
of states has more clearly defined his
position upon every leading issue of /
the day.
foF the great office of president
Pennsylvania offers to this conven-
ton as a candidate Il man of splendid
attainments and ripened experience. in
private and official life without a
stain; committed solely to the per-
lormance of his duty, and who, by
training and education, has become in
Inc Judgment of this country the first
lawyer of his time, the greatest states
mar that ever held the office of attor-
1ey-generdl of the United States. One
VINO, following in the footsteps of the
great Marshall, pierced with the vision |
d genius the Obscurity lying between |
The power of the federal government 1
ana that of the state; one whose in
Innate knowledge OF the checks and II
balances upon both great powers gave
o MN the power to point the pathway
u security to our Institutions one
Hho believes that the Constitution
nail not be treated like the charter
u a corporation, whose Interpretation
S confined to the letter of the instru-
nent; one who realizes that this is a
Nation possessing all the powers of
RATIONAL sovereignty; one who believes
nat the principles expressed in the