The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-06-18

ON TAFT

| This convention enters upon the
grave responsibility of selecting Z
presidential candidate with the Sc
rene assurance that the Republican
party will continue to rule this peo
pie. What assembled multitude in
any land has ever pointed the way
to such beneficent results for home
and for the progress Of the whole hu.
man race, as the recurring conven-
| tions of this grand old organization
Yet we do not rely alone upon the
pHshed. We emphasize, even more,
it's supreme qualification to solve the
problems Of the present.
It is especially appropriate that
this gathering should be held in this
marvellous city of Chicago, whence
the steel bands of commerce reach
out in every direction, over plain and
river and mountain, to almost bound
less distance. bringing the richest
treasures of continent to lay them at
your feet. Here it was that the right
eous uprising against slavery and
Bourbonism, sprung from the nations
conscience, raised its first triumphant
voice when Abraham Lincoln was
nominated. And here, again, with
notes of thunderous acclaim, enrap-
tured throngs greeted the naming Of
Garfield, of Blaine. OF Harrison. and
of Roosevelt.
Again Ohio presents a candidate to
the National Republican Convention.
In seven stubbornly contested presi-
soil have led the embattled Republi-
can hosts to victory. The Buckeye
State has assuredly contributed her
share of statesmen and generals for
the upbuilding of the nation. But
that of which We are prouder still is
her stalwart citizenship-the might
lest bulwark of the Republic in every
commonwealth-mad up of Amer
ica's free yeomen, ever ready to res
pond to the tocsin of alarm in days
ever it raises its menacing head.
From this citizenship Onio in the SUI
preme emergency of the Civil War,
sent forth more than two hundred
thousand soldiers for her country's
Defense, a formidable array easily
surprising in numbers the world con-
Quering legions of imperial Caesar,
and even larger than any army ever
mustered by Britain for the tented
field. But transcendent above all Is
less union of states linked together
in everlasting bonds of amity and
constituting an empire wonderful in
power and almost immeasurable in
extent Each sovereign state alone
would occupy but a subordinate place
in the great current of the worlds
events, but when represented by one
of forty-six bright stars on field OF
stainless blue, every one forms part
of an emblem of union and of strength
more beautiful far than the most
brilliant constellation in the heavens.
We welcome the friendly rivalry of
candidates from other States-from
the great Empire State, the Keystone
State, Indiana, Illinois, and Wiscon-
sin, forming with Ohio a broad ex
panse extending in unbroken sweep
from old ocean to the uppermost
bound of the greatest of the inland
lnod
er among leaders whose achievements
and renown are not confined to the
narrow limits of single common
wealth. Today with fervid earnest
ness we wage a contest for the prize.
Tomorrow, united for the fray and
quickened by a common fiery zeal.
the champions of all the candidates
will go forth with mounting e1thus
iasm to vanquish the foe.
The most perplexing questions of
today arise from the bountiful devel-
opment of our material wealth. Such
a development cannot occur without
the creation of inequalities and dan
gers to the social fabric. I most
stre1uously deny that the American
business man or the American citi-
zen cherishes lower standards than
the citizens of any other country.
The American people are by no means
depraved- But by reason of their
busy absorption in varied pursuits
and OF the glamour which attends sue
cess in great undertakings, question
able methods have been able to en-
graft themselves upon the business
of the country. Rich rewards have
too frequently been gained by some
who are none too scrupulus. Mon
opoly. dishonesty and fraud have as
summed prominence which calls for
the earnest attention and condem1a-
tion Of every man who truly loves the
Republic
Against AL these abuses and IN tho
work for restoring Old Ideals 81 hqn-
esty na1d equality. as weII u Tor hieh-