Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-07-10

would be popular.
When a Wall street panic burst
| upon us a few months ago he
promptly proposed as remedy the
guarantee of bank deposits, and so
| popular has this plan become that
IL is today a national issue and sur-
ported by the masses of the people.
He has long advocated legislation
which will secure publicity as to
| campaign contributions.
He believes in peace-in univers-
al Christian peace. He believes the
destiny of nations should be determ-
ined, not by wars, but by applying
the principles of justice and human
ity
Though these principles have met
with uncompromising opposition
from the special interests, he has re-
mained true to the cause OF the peo-
| pie. With clear vision and with un-
faltering trust, seeing and knowing
the truth, he has never lost faith In
ltS Ilnal victory.
Through years of unparalleled po-
lit!cal warfare, his loyalty to his
ideals and to his fellow men has
been abundantly shown. His refusal
to surrender his convictions, though
subjected to abuses, denunciation
and vindictive opposition such as
few public men in all history have
been compelled to withstand, Is am
pie proof of his superb courage.
His career proves that successful
leadership is determined by the SUE
cess or failure of great principles
rather than by election to high Of
fee.
We have met to plan the campaign
and to commission the commander
under whom the masses will enlist.
We are not here in response to the
voice of expediency: neither political
bosses nor corporate masters sent
u3 here. We are here at the sum-
mons OF the rank and file of that po-
litical organization which is the spe-
cial defender OF the rights of the
common people.
We are here representing all that
is best in the traditions of our party;
we feel again the spirit that animat-
ed the Democracy in the days of
Jefferson and Jackson.
The voters have spoken, and we
assemble to give expression OF their
WILL Their voice for the third time
calls Nebraska's favorite SON to be
the standard bearer of his party in
this gigantic contest.
Since time began no grander trib-
ute was ever paid TO any man by
free people. He is recognized today
as the most representative citizen OF
the nation, the peer of any living
man
Friends and foes have learned that
he was shaped in that heroic mold
in which the worlds greatest pa
triots, statesmen and leaders have
been cast.
First nominated when ten years
younger than any other presidentisi
candidate ever chosen by a promi-
nent party; living in a state 500
miles farther west than that in which
any president has ever lived. he has
grown In the affections OF the people
as the years have passed.
Speaking and writing freely on all
subjects, his heart has had no sec
rets and his friends have increased
in numbers and in confidence.
Without an organization to urge /
his claims; without a campaign fund
TO circulate literature in his behalf; |
patronage to brlbe a single
voter: without a predatory corpora
tlon to eoeree It's employees in TO his
support; without a subsidized newt
paper to influence the public mind,
he has won a signal victory at the
primaries and has become the free
choice of the militant Democracy Of
the natlon.
Forming in one unbroken pha-
lanx. extending from Massachusetts,
to California, and from Michigan to
the everglades. the yeomanry of the
party have volunteered their services
to make him the party candidate;
and they will not lay down their
arms until they have made him the
nations chief executive.
Nebraska's democracy which saw
In him, when a young man, the
signs of promise, places In nomina-
ion as. the standard bearer OF our
party the man who in the thrilling
lays of 90 and 1900 bore the battle
.oaprad haunaF NJ damOcrafV with