Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-08-25
MASTERLY
ADDRESS BY
HUGH BROWN
Candidate for the Office of
Supreme Justice Delivers
Brilliant Address at Ban
quet in Goldfield.

tion affords safeguard to the re-
public, and we may have cause fof
regret If the tradition should be de-
parted from by future conventions.
We may not be specially concerned
with what foreign observers may
think of our political customs and
institutions, but assuredly the con-
vention incident of twelve years ago
must have amazed them with its preg-
nant possibilities of disaster to the
country, when,-with forethought,
without plan, and without investiga-
tion, such as the important Office inn
peratively required-a convention of
the representatives of great Ameri-
can party, in the hectic glow of a
sudden enthusiasm, nominated for the
presidency of the United States an
untried and unseasoned man OF
thirty-six, who proved to be saturat-
ed to the marrow with immature and
impractical theories of legislation
and administration; and the fight of
subsequent years have not served yet
to get them all out of his system. If
cut and dried conventions will oper-
ate to avoid such critical contin-
gency in the future, then let us have
cut and dried conventions.
The action and utterance of the
Chicago convention was emphatic,
consistent and clear on every ques-
tion which came before it--both the
matters it endorsed and those it re-
jected Every American voter
knows precisely where the conven-
tion stood. 1t was strategic blum
der for the Denver convention not to
act likewise. The Denver conven-
tion--in other words, Mr.. Bryan
was all things to. all men. For ex-
ample, through his temporary chair
man he bid for the Roosevelt Re-
publican vote, and through his per-
manent chairman he fiayed the presi-
dent to the bone to appease differ
ent element. Their platform bulges
with reckless promises and reckless
denunciation. May it not charitably
be attributed to the party's long
habit of not being held responsible
for its words? Nor will the Novem-
Der election change the habit The
day after the Denver nomination, a
great New York Democrat, reviewing
Bryan's disastrous career as leader
these past twelve years, bitterly said:
''The Democrats of the United States
are now at liberty to resume their
accustomed occupation of electing. a
Republican president They will
walk cheerfully to the polls and vote
Mr.. Taft into the White House by
a larger majority than any person
has had since Grant ran away from
Greeley"
The action of the Chicago conven-
tion stands out in sharp contrast. 1t
was typically consistent in the Re-
publican party to endorse certain poll
ices and then nominate for president
a man who has helped to promulgate
those policies and who has given
more and better guarantees of his
fitness to execute them without abuse
than any other man in the country
If the Chicago platform may lack
anything as party declaration of
principles and policies, it has been
supplemented and completed by ar.
Taft's speech of acceptance de-
clared by many authorities to be the
ablest document of the kind ever
published. The New York Times.
Democratic paper. commenting on
the speech of acceptance. warns its
readers that Mr.. Taft carries a big
stick. even though he speaks softly.
1t protests against parts of the
speech. But after ALL" II ADDS.
1T is campaign not OF issues but
of men. and Mr.. Taft Is incomparably
the better man Of the two"
II Is error to say that he Is a
dictated candidate. Two years ago
his election was logically foreseen.
just as McKinley's succession to the
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