Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-10-07

Ing that Colonel Roosevelt defeated
Vice President Sherman for the tenn.
porary Craftsmanship OF the conven-
ton. The old guard tried hard. They
made good fight. They lost because
they were u,derweights.
When Roosevelt took the gavel as
temporary chairman he said:
1 believe in the party to which we be-
long because I believe in the principles
for which the Republican party stood in
the days of Abraham Lincoln; and
Furthermore, and especially, because /
believe in treating these principles not
as dead but as living. We can deserve
the confidence of the people by proving
I'm deed as well as In word that we face
the problem of dealing with political and
business corruption and of working for
social and economic justice and for the
betterment of the conditions of life and
the uplifting of our people with the
same fervor and sincerity that Lincoln
and his followers brought to the great
tasks allotted to them in their day.
Corruption Worse Than Violence.
Corruption in every form is the arch
enemy of this republic, the arch enemy
of free institutions and of government by
the people, an even more dangerous
enemy than the open lawlessness of vio-
lence, because II works in hidden and
furtive fashion. We are against corrup-
ton in politics, we are against corrup-
ton in business and above all, and with
all our strength, we are against the de-
grading alliance of crooked business and
crooked politics, the alliance which adds
strength to the already powerful corrupt
boss and to the already powerful corrupt
head OF big business, and which makes
them in their dual capacity enemies
against whom every patriotic man should
stand with unwaverng firmness. Let no
t1ot I, ,tc tc n uGl1
honest business man. That Is as foolish
as to say 1t is an assault upon the up
right political leader The high regard
In which we hold the upright and honest
business man who reaps great reward
by rendering n great service to the COM
munity is the measure OF our contempt
and adherence for that business man.
big or little, who wins success by cor
ruption and fraud, who swindles the pub
lie instead of serving the public.
For Honesty and Efficiency.
In short, our attitude is merely that
we stand for honesty as well as for
protyressiveness and for efficiency; that
we believe both business men and poll
ticians should be just and upright and
honest as well as wise, courageous and
far sighted.
We are against crookedness in the
small men, but we are against 1t just as
strongly in the big man. We Judge each
man by his conduct and not by his
wealth or his social station; and we hold
| it to be our bounden duty to strive stead
| lily to make and to keep this great Amer
| lean commonwealth a true democracy
and steadily to endeavor to shape our
| legislation and our social conditions so
| that there shall be a far nearer ap-
| proach than at present toward equality
| of opportunity among men.
The corporation must be protected,
| must be given its rights, but 1t must be
prevented from doing wrong: and Its
managers must be held in strict account
| ability when II does wrong; and 1t must
| be deprived of all secret influence In our
| public life. We must strive to do away
| with the social and economic injustice
that has come from failing to meet by
| proper legislation the changed cond1-
tions brought about by the growth of our
gigantic industrialism. We of this state
| must encourage the growth of the farm
ing communities, and to help give the
people in those communities the ad-
| vantages which have come in dispropor-
| tionate measure to the city during the
Industrial growth of the last 90 years.
Guard Workers Interests.
We must guard the interests of the
/ wage worker, the man who works with
| his hands: we must safeguard the woman
| who tolls and see that the young chill
dren do not toll. We must see that, by
far-reaching legislation, the workman
| who is crippled, and the family of the
workman who is killed in industry are
compensated, so that the loss necessar-
| lily incident to certain industries shall be
equitably and fairly distributed instead
| Of being placed upon the shoulders OF
those not able to bear them.
We must make 1t a matter of obliga-
ton by the state to see that the condi-
tions under which working men and
women do their work shall be safe and
healthful. So far as by legislation 1t is
possible, we must strive to give to the
working man the power to achieve and
maintain n high standard of living
Finally, and as a matter of course, we
must do everything possible to promote
and conserve the business prosperity OF
the whole country.
We who come together to set the
standard of our party have grave re-
sponsibilty to that party and to the pub
lie. Democracy means nothing unless the
people rule. The rule of the boss is the
negation of democracy 1t is absolutely
essential that the people should eXer-
else self control and self-mastery, ano
he is foe to popular government who ir
any way causes them to lose such self
control and sef-mastery whether from
without or within. But 1t must be liter
ally self control and not control by out
siders.
Direct Nominations.
We should at once introduce In this
state the system of direct nominations ir
|
able themselves to decide who the can
didat tes shall be instead of being limited
merely to choosing between candidate!
with whose nomination they have hat
nothing to do. Our country offers th'
!, most wonderful example of democratic
, government on giant scale that th'
world has ever seen; and the peoples o
the world are watching to see whether
we succeed or fail.
We believe with all our hearts IL
democracy; in the capacity OF the people
to govern themselves, and we are bounC
; to succeed for our success means no
only our own triumph but the triumph o
| the cause of the rights of the peopl,
: throughout the world and the uplifting
OF the banner OF hope for all the nations
, OF mankind.
Roosevelt Dominates Committee.
Theodore Roosevelt is now in alb
solute control of the New York Re
publican machine. Through his vic
tory in convention and additiona
success achieved at caucuses he will
dominate the new state committee
l. by vote of at least 22 to 16. Wood
riff Odell Debragga and other oil