Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-17

| people, but which it Is never intended
 to enforce. The worst laws imaginable
 are those which are allowed to rust unused, because if enforced they migAt interfere with vested abuses or curl
 the rich and powerful.
 The president has enforced the laws as he found them on the statute book
 For this performance of his sworn
 duty he has been bitterly attacked. Ii
 was to be expected. Vested abuses
 and profitable wre-gs cry out loudly
 when their intrenchments are carried
 and some one is sure to be hurt when
 the bayonets of the law are pushed
 home. In the great American electorate money has few votes. but it can com.
 mand many voices and cause many birds to sing. The result is that the 1 president is the best abused and the
 most popular man in the United States | today. He has been more abused than
 any president except Washington, Lin
 coin and Grant. He possesses the love and confidence of the American peo- pie to a degree never equaled except
 by Lincoln and Washington. May it not be said in sober truth that the fearless performances of sworn duty is not without it's exceeding great re- l ward?
 But the work has not ceased with
 the enforcement of existing laws. A Republican congress and Republican
 president have placed new laws upon the statute books designed to carry out the Republican policy of government
 regulation in a safe. reasonable and ef-
 fective manner. The Elkins law, aimed
 at preferential rebates, which have
 been the curse of our transportation
 and our business; the railroad rate
 law, which made the supervision of
 railroads more effective, and the pure
 food law. which has been in the high est degree benefcent to the masses of our people, are all monuments of the policy and the labors of the Repub- lican party.
 High Praise For Roosevelt.
 The president. who has led his party and the people in this great work, re- tires by his own determination from his high office on the 4th of March next. His refusal of a renomination, dictated by the loftiest motives and by a noble loyalty to American traditions, is final and irrevocable. Any one who attempts to use his name as a candi- date for the presidency impugns both his sincerity and his good faith, two of the presidents greatest and most conspicuous qualities, upon which no shadow has ever been cast That man is no friend to Theodore Roosevelt and does not cherish his name and fame who now, from any motive, seeks to urge him as candidate for the great office which he has finally declined. The president has refused what his countrymen would gladly have given him He says what he means and means what he says. and his party and his country will respect his wishes as they honor his high character and great public service.
 But, although the president retires, he leaves his policies behind him. To those policies the Republican party stands pledged. We must carry out as we have begun, regardless alike of the radicals of reaction and the radicals of revolution. We must hold fast to that which is good while we make the ad- vances which the times demand.
 We ask for the confidence and SUD- port of the American people because we have met the problems of the day and have tried patiently to solve them. We appeal for votes and for the power they confer because we uphold the presidents policies and shall continue to sustain them. We make our appeal with confidence because we have a well defined policy and are not like our opponents. fumbling in the dark to find some opinion on something.
 Party Greed Summed Up.
 We believe in the maintenance of ! law and order and in the support of | the courts in all their rights and dig. 1 nity. We believe in equal rights for all men and are opposed to special privi- l leges for any man or any class of men. high or low. rich or poor. We, who | established the gold standard, are pledged to the cause of sound finance. | We stand for protection to American industry and American labor, and we l will resist all the assaults of free 1 trade under whatever name 1t comes | disguised. We will see to the defense l If the country. We mean to have a navy worthy of the American name. ! We seek peace and friendship with all ] the nations. but alliance with none. i Yet we have no intention of being a hermit nation" The great services ] If the president to the worlds peace i will be continued by the party which ] he has led. We are a party fit to rule | and govern. to legislste and admins i ter. ard not fo-tuitous collection of I atoms whose only form of thought or 1 motion is 10 oppose. Above all. we are true to OUT traditions and to our past. l true now as we were in the days Of Lincoln.
 In this spirit we must prevail. hy .5is sign -vs F's-e+ e~-1s-e-