The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1908-09-24

1t would be lntOlerable that it were
otherwise. 1t makes no difference how
sincere the minority may be, it makes
no difference how sure they may feel
that they are right, they must yield to
the majority, and have a government
based upon the majority rule If the
majority is wrong, the majority of the
people will find it out, and the minor
ity of today will be the majority of to-
morrow, and the majority of today will
be the minority of tomorrow. You will
have to be contented with this in this
new community. | have had this i'm
pressed upon me not only on this oc-
casion, but upon the occasion of my
former visits.
| spoke to you two years ago upon
a political question. At that time we
were not engaged in the selection of
a president and vice president of the
| United States. We were determining
| the policies of state government and
! county government and national gov
ernment so far as the legislative
branch of this part of the government
of the nation is concerned. Today we
have a wider, broader question, to
| consider. We are to determine as far
as we may in this great council of
the people, for whom the ballot shall
| be cast for president and vice presi-
dent.
| AS a senator and member of con-
gress representing these people, | say
there are no greater questions to be
determined. Government is not oues-
ton of men. Men may come and go;
and if every man of today were to
move out of this country, the men of
tomorrow who come in would be just
as much the government as were the
men who moved out | have heard it
stated repeatedly that we want to
look beyond our platforms to the men.
| want to look on the platform for
the men. / never want to look be-
yond the platform or principles of a
party. The platform of the Republic
an party is not all contained in the de-
clarations made in Chicago. The Re-
publican party has been writing her
platform since the hour of her birth,
and you will find that there are but
few of her principles that are not
written in the statutes. They have
enacted a Republican government and
you must take this in connection with
the declarations made at Chicago be-
fore YOU can determine the policies of
the Republican party 1t is written in
the history of the platform, and in
the laws of the country, and the de-
clarations of the Chicago convention
are merely summing up of the prin-
ciples of the Republican party. What
is it? What does it mean? It does not
mean any man. 1t means a code of
action that shall be the basis upon
which the government itself shall rest
Because the prosperity of the people
as we'll as the stability of tehe nation
depends upon such a government.
repeat, men come and go, one genera
ton succeeding another with confid-
ence in themselves to maintain the
principles of government. These prin-
ciples must have stability. They are
eternally based upon the principles OF
justice-between man and men; based
upon the principles of justice between
all men and man. That is government
This is wherein our government is
different from any on the face of the
earth. The fundamental principles OF
our government are written in the
constitution of the United States-a
. document that is absolutely sacred tC
, the American people-founded by oul
fathers in wisdom that has never
been shown before or since by any
statesman; anticipating conditions ant
meeting these conditions as nfpthel
fnpde of laws that was eve
saWant to talk to you
the foundational pr Fo
Ament represented by. sti
tdyloh. / want to lay thu pl
for what | am going to b.
things of today. We mn
the thing of yesterday
we may know what is "A
, day We get our WISDOM
from the wisdom of.the past FfSl
, very beginning of this government th'
great questions that confronted I'll,
builders, were economic queQf m
pertaining to the daily business AIR
, of men. There was no qN6a bn o
sentiment, or poetry or the Sta Span
) gled Banner or the Amef1can Eagle il
them. The foundation of this govern
ment was laid upon dispute or quar-
+ rel between the states then bound to
gether by the articles of confederation
as to whether or not one state nigh
5 trade freely with the people Of anothe
! state across the river, without payini
' duties, and whether New York, Penn
j sylvania and certain other states ha'
. the right to treat every other state a
) a foreign nation. Conditions becam
|. .lintolerable, OF course, and cOnven
vpS called for the purpose of con
4 fsid6rtdg these conditions and findin
s a remedy for them. Out OF this con
elRention came the constitution Of tn
\ United States. This placed the pOwe
: in the hands of central government
: which regulates commerce betwee
e the people Of the different states an
I foreign nations That was the foun
e dation principle; but the Republica
: party, the lineal and legal descendan
| OF the old Federal and Whig partie
: stood for one principle Of government
: and what is now known at the Demo
' cratic party, stood for an entirely dii
D ferent one. And this difference ha
run through the ages and is the sam
. today as it was at the foundation {
: the government.
\ In the early days We found oursel
: YES face to face with conditions thu
: affected trade and the prosperity {
i the people. and that Of competition
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