Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-06-18
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set forth the principles of the party
and declare the policies upon which
we shall ask for the support of the
people of the United States. With
fullness and with eloquence, your
temporary chairman has already re-
viewed 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 momen-
tous nothing 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 order to win for
them, and for our party, an assured
as well as merited victory, we must
defeat our opponents, whose exclu-
sion from power is desired by the
country and deserved by them.
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!: No political party in modern I:
!: times can show such a record :
I. of achievement during the last s
!: fifty years as the Republican :
I: Party. :
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Upon that record we stand and
challenge all corners to the lists. But
it is well to remember that the test
we have to meet is much less severe.
This is comparative world. We
do not go forth to contest the great
prize with an ideal party, which we
sometimes see beautifully depicted
by persons of self-confessed superb
ority and chronic discomfort. The
glittering abstraction which they
present never existed yet on sea or
land. It CLEANS upon us in printers
ink but it has neither substance nor
oganization nor candidates, for or
CARNATIONS and candidates must be
taken from the ranks of men and
{ cannot be the floating phantoms Of
an uneasy dream.
The American people must choose
next November between us and the
Democratic Party. With the Demo-
cratic Party, and with that alone,
4 must the comparison be made. We
differ from that party in some impor-
tant particulars. We both, it is true,
have past and history but we
treat those possessions very different
". They wish to keep their past a
profound secret. We seek by all
means to publish ours to the world.
If we refer to their history they
charge us with calumnys We regard
ours truthful 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-" Re-
call the cries hich have sounded from
the lips of these two parties during
the last half century. On the one
side Slavery; secession; repudia-
ton of the public debt; fiat money;
free trade; free silver; the overthrow
Of the courts and government owner
Ship
On the Republican side: Free
soil; free men; the Union; the pay
ment of the debt; honest money;
protection to American industry; the
gold industry; the maintenance of
law, of order and of the courts and
the government regulation of great
corporations. The old shiboleths OF
the Democrats are today the epitaphs
of policies which are dead and
damned. They serve only to remind
+ us of dangers escaped or to warn US
of perils to be Stunned. The battle
cries Of the Republicans 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
I ever greater heights of power and
prosperity.
Our Only Failure.
As we thus call up the past and
/ the echoes of these old conflicts again
sound in our ears and touch the
4 chords Of memory, one great fact
4 stands forth, clear and shining.
= The Republican party has :.
= never failed except when it has {,
> except when it has faltered. 4.
Our long career Of victory, so rare
~ broken, has been due to our meet
ing boldly each question ais 1t arose,
to our facing every danger, as It
crossed our path with entire cnur-