Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-06-25
RECORD Of PAR TY
Senator Lodge Eu|ogizes the
Work Of Republicans.
LONG LIST OF ACHIEVEMENTS
Battle Cries Of Party IN Power De-
clared Always to Have Been the
Watchwords Of Great Causes
President Roosevelt Praised.

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Chicago, June Ex-senator Lodge of
Massachusetts,, permanent chairman of
the Republican national convention, on
taking the chair addressed the dele
gates substantially as follows:
Gentlemen of the Convention: I
thank you most sincerely for the great
honor you have done me in choosing
me to preside over your deliberations.
I have, indeed, hea I'd of conventions
where the honor Of such q post as
that now occupied by me, Is dubious,
and where, If excitement is present,
pleasure Is conspicuous by it's ab-
sence. But to be the presiding officer
of Republican convention is ever a
high distinction to which no man can
be insensible. Gentlemen of the con-
vention, again I thank you.
shall not delay or detain you with
many words. You resolutions will set
forth the principles of the party and
declare the policies upon which we
shall ask for the support Of the people
and with eloquence your temporary
chairman has already reviewed the
history Of the party, has given you
account of what has been done, and
has set forth what we hope and mean
to do. My duty is merely to aid you,
so far as I can, in the orderly and
prompt transaction of the business
which has brought US together. That
business Is Notwithstanding less
than to name here the two men who,
speaking with the simplicity Of truth,
will be the next president and vice
president of the United States. In or
der to win for Them and for our party,
an assured as we'll as a merited vic
tory, we must defeat our opponents,
whose exclusion from power is desired
by the country and deserved by them.
Achievements of the Party.
No political party in modern times
can show such record of achieve
ment during the last so years as the
we can stand and challenge all COM
ers to the lists. The American people
must choose next November between
us and the Democratic party. With
the Democratic party, and with that
alone, must the comparison be made.
We differ from that party in some i'm
portant particulars. We both, it is
true, have a past and history, but we
treat those possessions very different
1y. They wish to keep their past
profound secret We seek by all means
to publish ours to the world If we
refer to their history they charge us
with ca1umny. We regard ours, truth
full and undistorted, as our greatest
glory. To the youth of the country
they say: Judge us solely by our
undiscovered future" We say: 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-" Recall the cries
which have sounded from the lips of
these two parties during the last half
century. On the one side: slavery,
secession, reputation of the public
debt, fiat money free trade, free sill.
yer, the overthrow of the courts and
government ownership"
On the Republican side: Free soil,
free men, the union, the payment of
the debt, honest money, protection to
American industry, the gold standard,
the maintenance Of law, of order and
of the courts and the government reg
ulation of great corporations" The
old shilbboleths Of the Democrats
are to-day the epitaphs of policies
which are dead and damned. They
serve only to remind us of dangers es.
capped or to warn US of perils to be
stunned. The battle cries of the Re-
publicans 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.
The great body of the American peo-
pie, neither very rich nor very poor,
the honest, the thrifty, the hard-work-
ing, the men and women who earn and
save. have no base envy-no fanatic
hatred Of wealth, whether individual
or corporate, If 1t has been honestly
gained and Is wisely and generously
employed with q sense of responsible
ity to the public. But this great body
of our people, by habit and instinct
alike wisely conservative, these peo-
pie, who are the bone and sinew of
our country. and upon whom it's for
tunes and it, safety rest. began to OBJ
serve, with deep alarm, the recent
manifestations Of the new economic
conditions. More and more they came
TO believe that these vast fortunes and
these huge combinations of capital
were formed and built up by tortuous
and dishonest means and through 4
cynical disregard Of the very laws
which the mass Of the people were
compelled to obey. They began to
fear that political power was being
Teft from their hands and put into
the possession of the money holders,
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