The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-08-27
SHERMAN'S SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE


ton, to insure TO persons and property
every proper safeguard. and all necessary
strengthening of administrative methods
Will be provided TO furnish efficient in
spection and supervision. and prompt
righting of every injustice. discri minarion
and wrong.
| have not touched upon every plank Of
our splendid platform. but L reiterate my
full and unqualified approval of its every
promise.
Opposes Fostering Class Hatred.
| emphasize as my party's creed and
my faith that in legislation and admins
tration favor should be extended TO no
class. 10 sect, no race, no section as op-
posed TO another. To foster class hatred.
to foster discomfort, is un-Republican and
un-American. Our party stands on the
declaration that all men are created with
equal rights, and il will have no part in
the enactment or execution of any law
that does not apply alike To all good
American citizens, whatever their calling
or wherever they live. 1t will allow no
man in our land 10 have advantage in
law over any other man. 1t offers no
safeguard to capital that is not guaran-
teed TO labor; no protection TO the work
man that is not insured 10 his employer.
1t would offer TO each and to both in
pursuit of health and happiness and pros
perity every possible advantage.
The work that has been given the Re
publican party TO do has been of immense
Importance. Much of that work has been
fully accomplished; some has yet
to be completed. Republican declara-
tons once in our platform and no longer
there are omitted because they have be-
come accomplished facts. On the other
hand, Democratic declarations have been
abandoned because the voters have pro-
nounced them to be unwise and unsafe
and unsuited to our times and our coun-
try.
"shan People Ruler" No Issue.
Shall the people ruler is declared by
the Democratic platform and candidate
to be '.the overshadowing issue
now under discussion" 1t is no issue.
Surely the people shall rule, surely the
people have ruled surely the people do
rule. Nc party rules. The party. COM
missioned by the people, is simply the
instrument to execute the peoples will.
and from that party which does not obey
their expressed will. or which lacks the
wisdom 10 lead successfully. the people
will withdraw their commission.
For half a century. with bur two ex-
ceptions, the people have commissioned
the Republican party to administer the
national government. because its declared
principles appealed 10 their best iudg-
ment because the common sense of the
American people scented danger in Dem
ocratic policies. Ours always has been.
always must be. a government of the
people. That party will. after March 4
next. execute old laws and enact new ones
as in November il is commissioned by
the people to do. That commission will
be from an untrammeled American cleo
torate. Shame on the party which. sham
ON the candidate who. insults the Ameri-
can people by the suggestion or declara-
ton that ajority of its electorate is
venal. The American voter, with rare
exception, in casting his ballot is guided
by his best judgment. by his desire to con-
serve his own and the public veal.
The oyershadowing issue OF the cam
paign really is: Shall the administration
of President Roosevelt be approved shall
q party Of demonstrated capacity in adj
ministrative affairs be continued in pow
err: shall the reins of government be plae-
ed in experienced hands, or do the people
prefer to trust their destinies to an aggre-
CATION of experimental malcontents and
theorists, whose only claim to a history
is parts name they pilfered?
With record of four decades of wise
legislation, two score years OF faithful
administration. Offering its fulfilled
pledges as guaranty of its promises for
the future. the Republican party appeals
to the people and with full confidence in
their wisdom and patriotism. awaits the
rendition of the November verdict