The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-18

problems of the future that he has dis
played again and again as speaker?
His executive recommendations will
embody the wisdom Of generation of
| legislative experience.
He Knows the People.
Speaker Cannon knows the people
! and sympathizes with them in their
| struggles because his own life has
been constant struggle crowned by
| success. His sympathy for the suf-
fering and oppressed came to him
| naturally by inheritance and early as
| sociations. His father, DR.. Cannon,
was pious Quaker who bore testi-
mony against slavery. He was an
early director in that railroad from
| which the Republican party took all
| the passengers; the road on which
| men journeyed only one way, from the
dark underworld Of bondage up into
| the joyous light of freedom. It is lit
| tie wonder that with such a father
| the sons first campaign work the first
| vote should have been for the great
| emancipation.
Not only does Speaker Cannon know
| the people. but what is of more i'm
portance in a presidential candidate.
the people know him, and those who
know him best love him best. His
| personality is made up of those manly
traits that attract the admiration of
| his fellow men. He has met in the
| lists the bravest champions of his
day. Sometimes she has been the VIC
! tor; often the vanquished; but always
he has been cheerful and stout
hearted, remembering the past and it's
| ing the future ever with undimmed
hope and courage undiSmayed.
His opponents dwell upon his years
| as a handicap, but with him years
have brought no signs of age, but
only the wisdom of experience and
| ifs phi1nSnnhxy he
be elected president next November
and reelected in 1912, he would at
| the end of his second term be four
years younger than was Gladstone
| when he made his farewell speech as
prime minister in the house of COM
| mons. Why should not the United
| States have her Grand Old Man!
Nineteen Times Elected.
No one of this generation has de-
| monstrated SO often or so successfully
his capacity for attracting the con-
| fidence and the affections of his fell
| low citizens. Nineteen times he has
been elected to high office by the vote
| in the United States for intelligence
and patriotism Nineteen times the
seal of approval has been placed upon
his character, and his record, by
/ those who know him BEST Thrice he
has been chosen by the representa-
| tives of all the people to fill the high
est legislative office in the land What
living man can give like promise of
retaining, as presidential candidate,
the support of the Republicans and
| attracting the SURFACES of the three
| million first voters of the country who
can control the coming election?
1 Posterity will revere forever the
] name of Abraham Lincoln, not alone
because he freed the slaves, but
| rather because he emancipated his
countrymen from thraldom to ignoble
ideals in our civil and political life.
And posterity will honor always the
name OF Theodore Roosevelt not
alone because more than any living
man he has lightened the burdens of
the weak, but rather because he has
emancipated his countrymen from
thraldom to unworthy ideals In the
world of business and finance. And
the name of Cannon will always be
linked with that of Roosevelt as the
speaker who stood by the, president
and helped to crystalline the policies
into law. To whom could we entrust
with greater confidence the perfection
and extension of these policies IN exc
cution of the peoples will! sst-
| Mr.. President and Gentlemen OF
the Convention, I nominate as the Re-
publican candidate for president of
| the United States the speaker of the
| house of representatives, who cast his
| first vote for Lincoln, entered congress
under Grant and crowned a genera
tion of service as Roosevelt's strongest
and bravest ally, Joseph G. Cannon of
| Illinois.
Visitor-Don.t you think Schopenhauer
| a terrible nlisogynist?
Mrs. Neurich-I don't know. The one
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