The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-06-19

VINO lear progress.
He has stood as a bulwark In the
legislative halls against useless ex
travagance also against retrogradt
| economy. He has represented the
| intelligent, right thinking patriot.
sentiment of the country, and has
had the courage to ignore the attacks
of those who sought to sweep the
government from its safe moorings
while helping to direct it into the
channels of the peoples government
Like the great Lincoln, he has kept
the government should not lose its
sense of responsibility to the people
who really constitute the government
In the house of representatives, when
the turbulent and revolutionary
minority sought TO paralyze the gov
eminent. he stood as the 1oor-leadei
to Speaker Thomas b. Reed, calmly
bringing the mob rule under subiec
ton, that the voice of the majority
might be patent and fulfill its re-
sponsibility to the country.
When the Spanish atrocities in
Cuba stirred the blood of the Ameri-
can people, and with one voice they
clamored for war. this man, then at
the head of the appropriations com
mittee controlling the purse STRINGS
Of the nation, did not Join in that
clamor but after a quiet conference
with President Mckinney as to the
preparedness of the nation fer war,
presented to congress and in two days
placed upon the statute books a law
absolutely and unrcservCdly giving
to the president fifty millions Of dol
lars fer national deems. There was
no preliminary advertising for this
move on the International chess
board but when 1t came it was the
most dramatic as we'll as the most
effective answer Of the United States
to the talk of European concert. This
man, born in the south, when slavery
rested like a blight upon half the
nation: reared in the east, whore the
true spirit of American manhood has
been eXenlpiiied in the pioneers of
the great Mississippe valley: has
come into the councils of the nation
as a true representative of the spirit
Of Lincoln AS was said of another
great son of Illinois, SO it can be said
of Uncle oJe"-his integrity, his com
mon sense, his courage his unequaled
experience, are the qualities offered
to his country
He has been true 10 every pledge,
and has been deaf to the appeals Of
friends and the threats of opponents,
where these came in conflict with his
sense of duty to the trust in his keep
ing. He has been praised and criti-
cised. but neither praise no criticism
has Influenced him in the discharg
of his duty. He has said No with
emphasis. where there was any dorbt
in connection with the demand for ap-
priatlons, bit he has ever been ready
to champion righteous cause, witt
out regard to whether it had popular
favor or not,
He has been in the councils of the
nation until he has wonn that verdict
usually given to those who have
passed from the stage of action-an
man. He was the friend
of Harrison and Reed, and cooperatcd
with Mckinley and Roosevelt to aid
in making their administrations glori-
Gus In the annals of American history
His cooperation with Roosevelt
the last five years has been
testified to by the present chief eXecu-
tive. and by that cooperation of those
two sturdy men has come the new
laws for the better control OF the
rate making power of our railroads
the employers liability act; the pur
food laws, and in the last session OF
congress. the new currency law tpl
make our business panicproof. IN
This last act the indomitable courage,
The perslstcnce and the experience OF
Uncle Joe" wrote that final act Of
congress on the statute books.
Let the peoples delegates here
write the platform Of PRINCIPLES, and
Uncle Joe" will aid in carrying them
He has over been a Stand
natter in carrying on; the will Of the
people expressed at the polls, AID het
win stand pat on the ticket and the
platform here made whatever tie r.
suit