The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-09-05
NO MONOPOLY
OF PATRIOTISM


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But While we freely criticise the !.
= opposing programs and candida ].
= cies, we as freely recognize that +
y no party has a monopoly of pa 4,
n trlotlc motives or of sincere en- i,
| + deavOr. We criticise each other 4
= without bitterness, realizing that +
u in the contest of public discus !.
= sion, We find the surest> protec- /,
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+ Governor Hughes Speech. j.
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Youngstown, O., Sept. 5.-At the
opening Of the republican national
campaign here today, Gov Chas Evans
Hughes of New York Spoke as follow !:
"The republican party makes an 4p-
peal to public confidence as the most
important political agency for conser-
vation and progress. By virtue of its
achievements, leadership and aims it
stands forth as an efficient instru-
ment, strong and capable of admins
tration, as the safeguard OF stability
and prosperity, which depends upon
! stability and as an unrivaled power for
the correction of abuses.
TT stands in striking contrast to
| the record of vacillating and inepti-
tude presented by the chief opposing
Iarty. When we hear sounded the
strident call to the defense of popu-
| lar rights, we look to see who consti-
! tute the new patriotic army into whose
! keeping we are asked to turn over the
+, destinies of the nation and the cam
| paign watchwords "Shall the people
rule, and the demand Whether gov
| ernment shall remain a mere business
! asset of favor seeking corporations,
| are not impressive when emblaZoned
on the banners of Tammany Hall and
| other essential allies, and the army op-
! posing us can not pass muster either
i as one of defense or of salvation and
we may we'll pause before we per-
| nit it to garrison our institutions.
Twelve years ago, the democracy
| of Tiden and Cleveland was over
! thrown in it's own house. Under
| the old name but the new alignment
i and leadership, a desperate assault
was made upon the credit OF the cOun-
! try and the integrity of private debts
| and campaign of education followed
Thousands of democrats, more intent
| upon the safety of the country than
fidelity to the party name, itself be-
! trayed, supported the republican or
rather the national cause.
Then ensued great popular vic
tory and the people ruled in the elec-
ton of William Mckinley. President
Mckinley laid down his life. trusted
and beloved by all the people. Then
came new leader dear to the peoples
heart For seven years, and with lofty
aim and unconquerable spirit he has
labOred for the people and today by
virtue of his sincere devotion to their
welfare, his valiant attack upon evil
in high places, the forceful and repre-
sentative laeder is typified in the per-
son of Theodore Roosevelt
William Jennings Bryan is an elo-
quent critic, but the record of the
republican party is known to all and
the American people will neither be
confused nor misled by adroit thrusts
or pleaders' skill. If all that Bryan
has favored during the past twelve
years had been enacted into law, we
would have been overwhelmed with
disaster and would regard our CHIEF
business in the future to find a way
of escape from the meshes OF lily con-
sidered legislation. Bryan says the
democratic platform is binding as to
what it omits as we'll as to what 1t
contains
10 oh o6 1oI ic i11cf
significant in one case as in the other.
Lincoln said in the absence of formal
written platforms, the antecedents of
candidates become their Platforms and
it may also be said that in the pres
ence of formal written platforms, the
antecedents can not be forgotten. ST.
1ence is often eloquent In the elec-
ton this fall we choose men not alb
stractiOns Platforms must be read in
the light of history and may be elo-
quent of past mistakes and misguided
agitatiOns which their sponsors gladly
ignore but which the nation will do
we'll to remember.
"The sagacity, steadiness and sound
judgment of the chief executive must
be the security of the nation in many
CfylHS eIfeIScliClcS II 10 llO lhJuSSiSS
to Bryan's attractive personal quail
ties, his effectiveness as an orator, his
skill as a party leader nor is 1t any
disparagement of the purity of his
motives to say that the man who es-
poused free silver in 1895, renewed his
advocacy in 1900 and later declared his
belief in the public ownership of rail-
reads, can not be regarded as safe
man to whom to conf1de the great
power of president merely because
those doctrines are omitted from the
present platform.
"The country needs a man of rock,
based in sound conviction and fun
damental principle, in whose good
Judgment in any difficulty all may
feel secure and such a man preemi-
nently is William H. Taft.
TT is not improbable that the next
president will appoint at least four
Judges of the supreme court. No one
could command higher confidence than
the republican candidate for president J.
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