Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-06-24
SPEECH OF SENATOR LODGE.

before the Republican National Con vcntion today. Permanent Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts. sounded the republican battle cry in the coming presidential campaign. ln no uncertain tones he made it clear that the Roosevelt, battle against Che cnrroachmcnts of predatory wealth up on the rights of the people must bc fought along the lines planned by President Roosevelt, and that the Roo. scvclt policies are to be the keynote of the campaign.
 "The response of the people ,o th" policies urged by the president has been so emphatic" said Lodge, "thai i, has been made clear. once and for all. that the government of the United States k never to be dominated bv money and financial interests. and that the political party which permits it self ,o bc ruled by them k thereby domrd to defeat
 The response to the chairman = de clara,ion was most enthusiastic, nav ing ifs climax in the remarkable de. monstration of for,y.ivc minutes when Rooscvcl,'S name was mentioned as the hest abused and most popular man with people in the United States. Senator Lodges speech is given in full below: Gcn,lcmcn of the Conventions:
 My duty k merely to aid you. so far a~ can. in inc orderly and prompt transaction of the business which has brought us together. That business k omcntous-.nothing less than to namc hcto the two men who. speaking with the simplicity of truth. will bc the ! next President and Vice President of the United States. In order ,o win for them. and for our party, an assure | as well as a mcritcd victory, we must defeat our opponents. whose exclusion from power is desired bv the country and deserved by them.
 No political party m modern times can show such record of achievement during the last fifty years as the re. publican party. Upon that record we can stand and challenge all corners to the lists. Iiut it is well to remember that the test we have to meet is much less severe. This k q comparative world.
 ' The American people must cnoose next November between us and the democratic party. With the democrat. is party, and with tha, alone, must the comparison h" made. We differ from that party in some important particu- lars. We both. it is true, have pas, and a history but we treat those pos sessions very differently. They wish Co keep their past profound secret. We seek by all means 10 publish ours to the world. If we refer to their his. tory they charge us with calumny. We regard ours. truthful and undistorted. our greatest glory. To the youth of the country they say: Judge us sole ly by our undiscovered futurc.' We say. ''R Read our record, judge us by our past and our present and from these, learn what we are what we have been and what we mean to be. v Recall the cries which have soundc [ from the lips of these two parties dur ing the last half century. On the one side: ''Slnvcry; secession; repudia. ton of the public debt; flat money {; free trade; free silver; the overthrow of the courts and government owner. ship"
 The Republican Record.
 On the republican side: "Free soil: {: free men; the Union; the payment of the debt; honest money; protection to American industry; the maintenance of law, of order and of the courts and the government regulation of great cor porations. The old shiboleths of th. democrats are today the eptaphs of policies whicn are dead and damned. They serve only to remind us of dan. gers escaped or to warn us of perils to be summed. The battle cries of the republicans have been the watchwords of great causes. They tell of victories won and triumphs tasted-they are embodied in the laws and mark the stepping stones by which the republic has risen to ever greater heights of power and prosperity.
 As we thus call up the past and the echoes of these old conflicts again sound in our cars and touch the chords of memory, one great fact stands forth, clair and shining. The republi can party has never failed except when it has faltered. Our long career of victory, so rarely broken, has been due