Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-07-09
CLAYTON FLAYS ROOSEVELT AND
HIS PARTY IN KEYNOTE SPEECH
Permanent Chairman of Democratic
Convention Declares Time for
Change is at Hand
TELLS Of REFORMS THE DEMOCRACY WOULD INACCURATE
His Wild Harangue Arouses Enthusiasm of the Delegates
TELLS Same Old Story Of "What We
Would Do"
|Ms THE DEMOCRACY WOULD INACCURATE

proclaimed the president to be the
greatest exponent OF the art of adyer.
tising the world has known. The
country has been told and not allowed
to forget that, in his opinion his ener-
gies have been devoted to the ac-
complishment OF many high purposes,
and that his work is yet incomplete,
1t is so only because his undertakings
were too vast to be carried to sue.
cess during his term of office. Ny
policies must continue. So the cham
pion of these would transfer Office
and power to his fayorite cabinet min.
ter, and his spear is to have a
fellow.
Taft Mere Tool"
The pretense Is that the fight
must go on under the leader desig
mated by him until the last foe shall
have surrendered or lies inglorious
in the dust. The nomination OF his
wOuld-be successor was largely accom-
plished by the use Of official patron
age and coarse machine methods and
has delighted the chief apostle OF
strenuosty, and, at the same time,
has not perturbed the conscience of
the one-tme civil service reformer,
now the boss and adept in the be-
stowal OF public plunder and forget.
full of all his resounding moral com
monplaces. No fair-mined American
could read the daily accounts Of the
recent political doings at Chicago
without feeling modification and re-
gret; modification that the president
should have so abused his power In
debating to a great party his choice
of a successor. and regret that that
party should have Submitted so COW
ardly to humiliation that was as
manifest as it was degrading.
Democratic Principles Usurped.
What are the policies which con
stitute the capital of the Republican
party in this campaign and that are
relied upon to support the candidacy
of Mr.. Taft?
"To recall Democratic platforms.
speeches and measures is to convince
any man that many OF the Presidents
public utterances were derived from
an unavowed familiarity with the
teachings of our party. His utterances
that are Democratic have given him
his only claim to be reformer and
have contributed more than all else to
the popularity he has enjoyed. The
heir and the party are committed to
'unfaultering adherence to the polio
les of the President.
Representative institutions must
be preserved Our federal government
of delegated and limited powers must
be maintained in all of it's reserve
powers and in its integrity and auton-
omy forever. Therein is the safety OF
the Union and the states-one indis-
soluble and the other indestructible.
LET us confidently hope that the
time will never be ripe for the change
of the Constitution by executive ac'
ton and by judicial interpretations.
|If such time should come then a
government law will perish from the
|earth and government of caprice
will be created on the ruins Of one es.
tablished by written constitution.
Democratic Duty.
I'VE know there is a brighter pros
pect. If the love of country and llber-
ty is still strong in the hearts Of the
American people; If an oath to sup
port the constitution is now consider
ed by them as binding; II the people
are in earnest in their protests against
the rule of insolvent wealth, the un-
authorized and baleful influence Of cor
porations and the exactions Of the
trusts; If the manliness Of the fathers
has been transmitted to the sons, the
fourth of next March will mark the ad-
vent of the gladstone light Of Democ-
racy and the beginning Of the return
to constitutional honesty and econom-
ically administered.
ITO the banner we raise here we
invite to repair any citizen OF our
common country who revere the mob.
Ter traditions of the past and who de-
h plore the grave alterations of the
|present.
LET us see to 1t that this standard
shall once again float over a govern
ment resting secure on lasting founda.
Itions.
"Mr. Chairman, delegates and fel-
low countrymen, the time and the oc-
casion in our national affairs impose
duty we cannot, If we would, evade.
We must 60 out from this hall with
one heart and a determination to put
our loved ship Of state on an even
keel. That keel has been too long beat
ing the air. We must bring 1t down
into the deep abidins voters Of the
constitution"