Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-08

| FASTENED by the impetuosity of the
Democratic party and Republican
| contingent, found the nation but i'll
prepared to enter the contest. Lacking
an organized army, lacking ammuni-
ton, lacking almost everything that
| should precede a campaign, President
! Mckinley was forced to make the best
of things, and he did; for no man Will
deny that when the war came he con-
| Quoted it with an energy, wisdom.
and discretion worthy the lofty title
he bore of Commander in Chief Of the
Army and Navy of the United States.
Applause on the Republican side.l
With peace came Cuban indepen-
dence and the redemption of our
pledge that the war was for humanity
and not for ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The
successful starting of Cuba on her
| career as nation called for states
manlike qualities of the highest order.
| Like qualities were again demanded
upon the part of the Administration in
power when we were compelled to
take charge of the Cuban government
upon failure of the Cuban people to
adjust themselves to popular rule. AS
|
all the world recognizes our disin-
terestedness our fidelity to duty as
sumed, and our ability in the discharge
of it,
| Under Republican administration
| Porto Rico has been started upon a
| career both of material prosperity and
of intellectual and moral growth.
| Government has been provided for her
not according TO precedent, but as
adapted to her conditions by the wis
dom and ingenuity of Republican
| legislators.
| The Philippines are rapidly advance
| ing on their way in preparation for
ultimate self government. And this
under Republican administration by
methods of Republican device, not
withstanding the cowardly suggestions
of those who would abandon them to
anarchy or plumber and the sneers of
those who are as responsible for our
| possession of them as is the party in
power.
| Great contributions have been made
| to the maintenance of the worlds
peace The blockade of Venezuela by
| foreign powers for the collection of
debts was raised by the Intervention of
President Roosevelt and arbitration
substituted for possible war.
In violation of all the precedents of
diplomatic history, but pursuant to the
dictates of humanity, President Roose-
welt dared boldly to suggest the cessa-
ton of the bloody war between Russia
and Japan, and as result of his
| efforts brought about treaty of
peace TApplause on the Republican
| side.]
And doubt not that when his name
and memory shall be the subject of
mems charitable speeches, in foreign
nations and the next age, not the least
of his claims to a lasting place in the
worlds memory will be under the title
of the great paciiicator." Applause
on the Republican sidel
| Not so conspicuous, but no less bold
and philanthropic, was his action in
| laying his hand on the great anthracite
coal strike and rescuing our people
from a calamity incapable of measure
| ment
| 1t remained for a Republican adj
ministration to enter upon the realiza-
ton of the worlds dream of three hum
bred years; the most audacious con-
|
known, the project to connect by,
friendly currents, to carry the worlds
commerce, the waters of two oceans
alien to each other since the morning
stars sang together.
The Panama Canal, long discussed,
was halted for half a century by the
treaty, which gave to Great Britain
| ,;rrI,f lot,
by the Inflated and unsuccessful
French attempt at construction.
| The abrogation of this treaty, the
negotiations with Columbia and with
Panama, and the recognition of the in
| dependence of the latter, the final
| treaty whereby we acquired the Canal
Zone and the right to enter upon the
great enterprise. constitute SO many
chapters in the life of that great diplo-
mat, the friend and pupil of Lincoln,
John Hay. Applause on the Republic
can sidel A diplomat who gave the
| lie to the maxim of Talleyrand that
the office of language is to conceal
thought and taught the world that
truth is as essential and potential in
international diplomacy as in the
domain of private contract. [Renewed
| applause An dulHOT WHOSE pen was
as graceful as that of Addison, as
sweetly sympathetic as that of Burns,
and as virle and incisive as that of
Junius. One who, with almost the
modesty and sensitiveness of a woman,
| combined the robust fiber of the
! manifest of men, an object at once of
| both admiration and love. loud and
| long continued applause on the Re-
| publican side.1
! There are questions of domestic
nature with which the Republican
party has been called upon to deal
| during The last eleven years, to which
it has given attention, which have be-
come embodied in legislation. l must
deal with them only briefly.
We are living in an age the economic
law of which is combinations a law
which is the evolution of changing in
dustrial conditions. Enterprise has
outgrown the partnership, has out
grown the corporation, and seeks the
| aggregation of corporations. Com
bined wealth, so essential to the colOS-
sal enterprises of our time. is accom-