The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-10

the truth as he sees it. so that his
words may be light and not net
and a snare upon the pathway of the
| convention.
| say then. whatever may be your
| Partially and devotion 10 any parti-
cular leader, however great and mag
! netic and powerful he may be. if his
candidacy makes the impending con-
/ test doubtful or unpromrsing for the
democratic party he ought not' TO be
chosen as its presidential nominee.
! There is no lamp for us but the
/ lamp of experience. We have no bas-
is for judging the future but the past,
and in the light of the past l ask you
whether you deliberately propose TO
go again to the crushed hopes and the
/ gloomy disappointments, the defeat
and disaster to which We were
brought on the stricken and fatal
fields of 1896 and 1900? On both
those occasions We believed one man
omnipotent and on both occasions
that belief led us TO defeat and made
the democracy an easy prey to the for
ces of monopoly and absolutism.
Mr.. Pitt, the only man 10 save the
country So spoke Sheridan IN the
debate in the commons upon the
French war-"Mr. Pitt the only man
TO save the country. No one man can
save the country. The nation that
depends for its safety upon one man
cannot and, will add, ought not TO be
saved"
| say the democratic party is not de-
pendent upon any one man. Its splen-
did and patriotic leaders are to be
found in every state of the union.
When its leadership becomes a matter
of one-man monopoly or dictatorship
then it cannot, and. | will add with
Sheridan. it ought not to be saved
: Our business now IS 10 nominate a
candidate for the presidency who will
. lead us to triumph-one who, while
illustrating the immortal truths de-
clared by jefferson. is child of vic
tory and not the Siamese twin of de-
feat
Governor John Johnson, magnifi-
Gently sprung from the people. re-
splendent in the glories of a great ad-
ministration of a great state, unde-
teated and undefeatable. is the very
genius Of victory itself and as sincere
an oracle of democratic truth as was
Jefferson himself He is a natural
champion of the people, and loyal
great and successful in all that he
undertakes. He has shown that he
can meet with calmness and courage
t and power all the great emergencies
which could confront him as presi
dent. The people honor and trust
= him and every interest as we'll as ev
: cry section of the country would be
0 safe in his executive charge His in
;. tegrity, his courage, his conservatism
I his experience, his fidelity to duty
e his loyalty to the people, his true dem
/ Ocracy, his talent for success and his
e genius for victory are the attributes
Il which will commend him to the coun
: try.
d p While the stars in their course:
L may fight against others, as they die
d against Sisera, they fight for and il
If favor of Governor Johnson with tina
constant, compelling, supernatural
power which makes victory with hin
invariable, inevitable and sure
cratic colmns, flashing his Irresistible
Inspiration to victory through ever,
4 doubtful as well as through every Ger
tain state, galvanizing the whole PAL
] ty into renewed life and hope, doubling
democrats everywhere in strength, en-
ergy and devotion, eliminating all d.
S visions and soidifying our rank
throughout the union, with the banne
of the Constitution and Equal right
proudly floating all along the line, h
shall do, as Cleveland did. lead IL
back-after long years of defeat an
eXile-lead us back into thepossessio
of our own.
Remember, that in order to cor
summate this grand result we wan
r the vote of every democrat We mus
have the vote not only of the lahore
n and the farmer, but of the industris
A and business interests of the countr,
We want the votes too, of that larg
body of conservative citizens upo
whom party ties rest lightly, who al
&C tired of the turbulent agitations an
ls alarmed at the arrogant usurpations {
III the last four years, and who are Wee
u ing with the angels at the fantast
dS tricks which in the vicinity of II
white house have of late been playe
~ before high heaven.
he We want every doubtful state-or
least good majority of them. TIL
he is indeed the supreme need upc
m which the event of the approaching CO.
al test hangs. We do not require ca
Is didate who can carry South Carolr
or Texas. Any democrat can do tina
IN Beware lest you name a candida
IN who shall not only lose us the dout
I'm full states, but republicanize democra
lid ic states. Maryland is a democrat
en- state. The only occasions since Il
ull civil war upon which we have ever 10
at presidential or the COMPRESSION
M elections in that state were the occ
lis sions when Mr.. Bryan was a cane
date. If you nominate him he w
7s' lose the state this year and carry o.
te' candidates for congress down wi
81. him. On the other hand Govern
oi Johnson can carry Maryland by 1870
III majority. l believe the same conc
nc tinnS PYiSt N Nar, Va