Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1908-06-24


by some overpowering movement
With the subsistence Of the Roosevelt
storm. Senator Lodge completed his stir
ring speech, which I'm part Is as follows:
Gentlemen OF the convention: I thank
you sincerely for the great honor YOU
over your deliberations Your resolu-
tons Will set forth the principles OF the
Which we shall ask for ,R es ssSoor qp9 on
the people. With fullness and with elo-
anence your temporary chairman al
party. has given YOU account of what
has been done, and has set forth what
merely to aid you. SO far as / can in the
ORDERLY and prompt transaction OF the
The. American people must choose
next November. between us and the
Democratic party. With the Democratic
comparison be made. Recall the cries
which have sounded from the lips of
c these two parties during !hs last half
secession. reputation OF the public debt.
fiat money. free trade. free silver. the
overthrow Of the courts and government
ownership. On the Republican side
free soil. free men; the union. the pay
ton to American industry. the mainte-
nance of law. OF order and OF the courts
ana the government regulation OF great
Corporations. The old shibboleths OF the
democrats are today the epitaphs of
policies which are dead and damned.
the situation with which the country was
confronted Its gravity can hardly be
oyerestimated. II grew out OF condi-
lions and was the result OF forces be-
yond the control OF men. Science and
invention. the two great factors I'm this
situation, have not only altered radically
human environment and our relations to
nature. but, in their application they
have revolutionized economic conditions
nave, In turn. affected profoundly So
ciety and politics. They have led among
other things. to combinations of capital
never before witnessed. They have
opened the, way to accumulation OF
weatl In masses beyond the dreams OF
oVarice and never before contemplated by
men.
The social and political problems thus
created are wholly new. 1t is the huge
size of privas fortunes. the vast extent
and power OF modern combinations of
capital, made possible by present condi-
tions which have brought upon ms IL,
these later years, problems portentous i'm
their possibilities. and threatening not
even our personal freedom. If they are
not boldly met and wisely solved
pa,',, MGR the lead OF the president. the
republican party has srappled with the
new problems born Of the new conditions
II has been no light task. Dangerous
extremes threatened on either hand. on
the one side We're the radicals of re-
action. who resisted any change at an;
on the other side We're the radicals OF de-
struction who wished to change every
thing. These two forms OF radicalism
are as far apart at the outset as the
alike to revolution. Between these two
Extremes the Republican president and
TO steer, and while they advanced stead
ily. soberly and effectively. they were
Obliged to repel the radical assaults on
Yet. Notwithstanding all these diff
culties, much has been accomplished.
cies urged by the president has been so
emphatic that it has been made clear.
once Tor all. that the government never
fed hNr
cial interests. and that the political
party which permits itself to be ruled
The policy OF the Republican party. i'm
dealing with these new and formidable
questions which have taken concrete
FORM IN enormous combinations OF CAPT
tai and in great public service corpora
tions. has been formulated and determ-
ined That policy is TO use government
regulation and supervision for the CON
. troll OF corporations and combinations so
( that these great and necessary instru-
inents Of commerce and business may be
preserved as useful servants and not de-
Stroyed because they have threa tened to
is the absolute opposite of government
ownership and all like measures. advo-
Gated by our opponents. which tend di-
rectly TO socialism and TO all its attend
ant miseries and evils.
The president who has led his party
and the people I'm this great work. re
tires. By his own determination. from
his high office. on the 4th of March
tated by the loftiest motives and bv a
noble loyalty to American traditions is
iinal and irrevocable. Anyone who at
for the presidency impugns both his sin
ceritv and his good faith. two OF the
presidents greatest and most consplc-
nous qualities. upon which shadow
mas ever been cast. That man is no
friend to Theodore Roosevelt and does
not cherish his name and fame who now
| from any motive. seeks to urge him as a
candidate for the great office which he
refused what his countrymen would GLAD
| ly have given him; he says what he
means and means what he says. and his
! party and his country will respect his
wishes as they honor his high chara cter
and great public service
and order and In the support OF the
courts in all their dignity. We believe i'm
to special privileges for any man. or any
| class OF men. high or low. rich or poor
we. who established the gold standard.
finance. We stand for protection to
American industry and American labor
and we will resist all the assaults Of free
trade under whatever name il comes dis
guised. We will see TO the defense OF
tine country; We mean to have a navy
/ peace and friendship with all the ma
tons but alliance with none. Yet. we
| have no intention Of being hermit ma
! ton. The great services OF the presi-
dent OF the world peace will be CON
,inued by the party which he has led
/ we are party mt to rule and govern
] TO legislate and administer and not a
! fortuitous collection of atoms whose only
| form OF thought or motion is TO oppose.
I Above all. we are true to our traditions
] and To our past. True now, as we were
| III the days of Lincoln. In this spirit we
/ must prevail-by this sign we must con
Quer'
! Then the convention turned to the re-
ports Of the other committees That on
rules and order OF business brought
majority report against the resolution Of
/ fered 10y James Francis Burke Of Penn
sylvania reducing the representation OF
states to basis Of the Republican vote
cast by those states. Mr.. Burke pre-
sented a minority report in which II Of
/ tire states Concurred.
sharp contest occurred on this qucs-
/ tion. bringing FOR the first time before
+ the convention some Of its best known
orators. including Burke OF Pennsylya-
/ ria. Gov. Wilson OF Kentucky. the vet