The Colorado statesman., 1912-08-24

as an annex to their business affairs:
these are they who In the past years
of Republican misrule have turned the
temple of constitutional freedom into
a money-changers mart and have made
of the coordinate branches OF the gov
ernment obeisant lackeys of the
jingling guinea.
"The second grade consists Of those
whose outlook upon life has been en-
larged by the civilization under which
we live, who have been taught by the
school and the college. by the press
and the magazine, who appreciate the
good things of life, whose horizon
has been enlarged and whose capacity
Tor joy and sorrow has been increased.
Conditions have become unbearable
to them. They have reached the point
where, in the struggle for that which
they believe to be right, they are will
ing to destroy the ideals of the Re-
public. How many of these there are,
|. do not know, but do know that spe-
cial privilege in the Republic is
breeding them day by day like rabbits
in a warren.
THE third grade of citizens, it
pleases mo to call old-fashioned con-
stitutional Democrats. These are they
who believe that the equality of man.
kind does not consist in an equality
of brain and Drawn, but in an equal
ity whereby every man, native and
foreign born, has an inalienable right
to exercise all of his ability in getting
on in the world just so he realizes
that in getting on he owes it to him
self, to his family and to the Republic
to see to it that he gets on honestly,
and that he does not prevent any 9TH
er man from obtaining the reward of
his honesty and enterprise.
These old-fashioned Democrats be-
lieve in making money but they be-
lieve every dollar made should be so
clean that an infant may cut its teeth
upon it. And they hold that it is no
part of government to boost one man
and boot another"
"If doubted that the return of the
historic Democratic party to power
would fail to right the wrongs of in
dustrial life. wipe out the injustices Of
legislation and to preserve the oppor-
tunity of every man for happiness,
then my voice, now weak, would be
silent. If I did not believe that inso-
far as human agency can, this party of
ours will promote the brotherhood of
mankind, would here and now repu-
diate 1t.
But believing as I do that the re-
public had it's origin in an inspiration
which did not come from the mere
brain of mere man, but sprang from
the heart of humanity, believing that
this age more than any which has pre-
ceded it calls for conscience and broth
erhood in governmental affairs; hoping
that every sacrifice of mind and body
and personal good which has been
made, is a guaranty of the perpetuity
of this, the latest and greatest expert
ment upon the part of a democracy to
work out its ideals in government;
and trusting that the God of Washing
ton, the founder, and of Lincoln, the
preserver, will still be the God of the
republic, and will not permit his
chosen people to forever wander in the
wilderness of legislative sin, | accept
upon it's platform, the nomination of
the Democratic party for vice presi-
dent of the United States.
"And may my right hand forget her
cunning and my tongue cleave to the
roof of my mouth if in all my get
tings l fail to get that greatest gift
wisdom and understanding to know
the heart-break and the need of our
common humanity"