Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-10
SPEAKS FOR JOHNSON
Attorney General Straus of Marys
 land Seconds Nomination.
SPRUNG FROM THE PE0PLE.H

"Undefeated and undsfeatabie, the
 Very Genius of Victory" ls the Tsr-
 rapin State Orators Characterization
 of Minnssota's Self Made Governor. Mir. President-Speaking for Mary.
 land and her Democracy, I second the
 nomination of Governor John Johnson.
 If ever there was a time when the
 consolidation and success of the Dem
 ocratic party were necessary and vital
 to the welfare of the country it is now.
 know full we'll that the strong tend
 ency of this convention is to nominate
 the great and popular leader from Ne
 braska. do not fail, no one could fail,
 to appreciate his wonderful genius and
 personal power. realize full we'll his sincerity as we'll as his greatness. and
 l appreciate, too, the demonstrations
 with which you hail his name.
 Governor John Johnson, magnif. gently sprung from the people, resplen- dent in the gIories of great admins. tration of a great state, undefeated and undefeatable, is the very genius of victory itself and as sincere an oracle 1 of Democratic truth as was Jefferson himself. He is natural champion of the people and loyal, great and successa ful fin all that he undertakes. He has shown that he can meet with calmness and courage and power all the great emergencies which could confront him as president. The people honor and trust him, and every interest as well as every section of the country would be safe in his executive charge. His integrity, his courage, his conservai tism, his experience, his fidelity td duty, his loyalty to the people, his true Democracy, his talent for success and his genius for victory are the attriI butes which will commend him to the country.
 While the stars in their courses may fight against others as they did against Sisera, they fight for and in favor of Governor Johnson with that constant compelling, supernatural power which makes victory with him invariable, in. evitable and sure.
 For forty years the Republican party has mlsused the powers of the govern. ment in an unlawful alliance with spe. cial interests, building up monopolies whose, wealth and might stagger the understanding and which have now become more powerful than their ere. ator and ally, the government itself. Having done this against the law and the people, the Republican party now proclaims that the states cannot deal with this subject and that therefore the general government must grasp and exercise the powers reserved by the constitution to the states. Nor do they stop there. Even the powers of the general government thus re-en. forced, they assert, are not great enough to deal with these polyglots of wealth which they have conjured up, and therefore the powers of the gov. ernment must be still further aggran. dized; and as the people of the states have enumerated and limited the pow. CTS of the general government in the constitution creating it, it becomes necessary to construe the constitution to mean that the general government shall be possessed of and exercise every power which those in control of 1t may deem that the necessities of any situation require.
 Against this revolutionary and de. structive doctrine we present the say. ing principles of Thomas Jefferson ir the candidacy of Governor John John. son. If this government cannot pro. tect itself and do its duty without overlapping the very law of it's crea. tion. then 1t has the germ of death and not of life in it's bosom.
 This convention has the greatest op. portun!ty the Democracy has ever had in its history. You can absolutely nom mate the next president. You can elecl him and inaugurate him. You can re- store the party of Jefferson and Jack. son and Tilden and Cleveland to its wonted seats of power and it's former splendor and glory. Yon can save from destruction the violated constitution which was signed and delivered to us by the holy hand of Ceoroe Waehf,~. ton and his compatriots less Illustrioux than only he. and you can adminlstst the government within it's Limitations. You can arrest the devastating march of federal usurpation over the broken ark of the covenant of the fathers and over the bent forms of sovereign states. You can break the illegal and mon. strous alliance between government and monopoly. You can curb and cast out the insolent power of Mammor eloating in the high places of the gov. ernment. You can end the carnival of class privilege and special laws and rescue the people from robber tariHs and from the regime that has SO long been plundering every toiling house hold in the land. You can stop pater. nalism and government interference and leave individual enterprise. equal before the law. tO win it's own wav and enjoy the fruits of it's own crea. tion. You can stereotype upon the whole broad domain of the great rp- public its underlying ma rfua of an.,sf