The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-06-18
RECORD OF PARTY
Senator Lodge EuIogizes 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.

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: |
| thank you most sincerely for the great
| honor you have done me in choosing
me to preside over your deliberati lions.
| have, indeed, heard of conventions
where the honor of such a post as
that now occupied by me, is dubious,
and where, if excitement is present,
| pleasure is conspicuous by its alb
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 l 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
! Of the United States. With fullness
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 | can, in the orderly and
| prompt transaction of the business
! which has brought us together. That
| business is MISUNDERSTANDING less
| than to name here the two men who,
| speaking with the simplicity Of truth,
VIII be the next president ard vice
| president of the United States. In or
der to win for them, and for our party,
an assured as well 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 a record of achieve
| ment during the last so years as the
! Republican party. Upon that record
/ 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
/ portaut particulars We DO n, 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 calumny. 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 aTe-what we have been and
4 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 shilb5oleths 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
/ publioans 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-
I ing, the men and women who earn and
save, have no base envy-no fanatic
/ hatred of wealth, whether individual
/ or corporate, if it has been honestly
gained and is wisely and generously
employed with a 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 its for
tunes and its 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 a
cynical disregard of the very laws
which the mass of the PEOPLE we're
compelled to obey. They began to
fear that political power was being
reft from their hands and put into
/ the possession of the money holders.
/ that their dearest rights were in dan.
/ ger that their homes OF success and
/ advancement were cut off by business
/ systems which they could not under
stand but by which the individual was
! soCriGcpI and baIJ Jovyn