The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-03

light into the sky in widely scattered
lions of property and the hope of fam
lilies and of enterprise have turned to
ashes before them.
Mr.. Lincoln was the champion of
unity. He declared the Union could
not 1--we half free and half slavery. His
great achievement was to fuse the
warning states into a nation, one in
freedom. His great heart took in all
men, all creeds, all races, rich and
poor, high and low. in every part of
the land. His generous soul had char
ity for all, malice for none.
Prophet Of Diseord.
Mr.. Bryan, on the contrary, breaches
the crusade of dissension; he aims to
create divisions where there are none;
his appeals are to prejudice and to
hate, to envy and malice. Discomfort
and suspicion are his constant COM
pany. Despair seems in his train. The
appeal for Bryan in the glamour of
Lincoln is as wicked 1T is absurd.
Were Lincoln today charged with the
grave affairs in which he rendered
such glorious service, where would he
look for help? Surely not to the crowd
gathered at Denver not TO the sachems
of Tammany Hall, with whom Mr..
Bryan has patched up a peace. Can
any imagination be SO wild as to pic
ture Lincoln trusting the judgment of
Bryan-a judgment so frequently and
so enphatically proved erroneous?
Mr.. Lincoln would accept President
Roosevelt's assurance that when in
doubt over serious problems he always
asked what Lincoln would do under
the circumstances. To that rule the
present administration owes much of
its success. That has been the spirit,
too, in which Mr.. Taft has trained
himself to be a most efficient and most
successful administrator; trained him.
self until today he approaches the
presidency better fitted to meet and
discharge it's varied and weighty duties
and responsibilities than ever did a
| candidate before first approach that
lofty position.
Had Judge Taft lived in Lincoln's
time that great man would have found
| in him, as his great successor has
| found, a man worthy of his confidence,
one mentally fitted to be an ideal sue
cessor to embody in the clearer light
of his new generation the aims and
purposes, the convictions and aspira-
tions which Lincoln and Roosevelt
would have the republic possess and
enjoy.
| hn int
let US turn to the proof. No one now
living who had the privilege of cast
ing his vote for Abraham Lincoln can
be induced to betray his record by a
ballot for Bryan. Such veterans there
be, and they will go to the polls with
the enthusiasm of youth to insure the
election of Taft to occupy the seat of
Lincoln and wear the mantle of his
wisdom and patriotism.
And il there remain anywhere
throughout our broad domain, north
or south, or east or west, those who
were hostile t. Lincoln in his days OF
stress and trial, you will find them
seeking a congenial retreat under the
Bryan banner.
Appeals to Veterans.
The supporters Of Mr.. Bryan, by at
tempting to discredit the fame and
merits of the first martyred President
challenge those to whom that memory
is precious, to assert the truth and to
act upon it. 1t is fair to consider in
what manner the ballot should be cast
to most faithfully maintain the pur
poses and principles of this great man
who deserved SO well of all his fellow
countrymen. The Republican party is
the party in whose creation Lincoln
; helped, whose existence Lincoln pre-
, served, the sole heir of his estate, the
, trustee bound to administer his be
quests, the guardian of his gifts to hui
| mainly.
, In 1904 no state whose electoral vote
, was given to Lincoln failed to bear
aloft the Republican banner. New
states had joined the sisterhood and
they too took position in the same hon
| or roll. These presidents should in
spire effort to repeat the achievement
The spirit of Lincoln still directs Re
: publican councils. Lincoln brough
: back the erring states into the Union
they will be welcome to share in thu
l triumph for Taft In November.
: In his speech in New York, Mr.. Bry
5 an denounces the Republican party 70
: alleged tendency to Capitalization. Hi
: words are the echoes OF the assault
upon the efforts of Lincoln to defen'
= the Union and maintain the Constitu
4 ton, the spirit which made Difficult
: the prosecution of the struggle agains
= the armed hosts of the confederacy
t Such utterances prove that Bryan |
: hostile to all that Lincoln stood TO
: and still represents. Every Lincoll
Republican should be and / believ
d will be supporter of Taft.
t Those out of sympathy with Liz
I coins faith and achievements are MAJ
r urally found among Mr.. Bryan's sur
porters.
Mr.. Sherman's address on labor t
q the employees of the Moline Plo'
q Works was as follows, in part:
e The Republican party has Away
g expressed diligent care for America
: labor. In fifteen years since 1893
: laws for the benefit of labor to tn
/ number of over 100 have been enacte
s by Republican Legislatures, signed b