Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-08-15

of all evil The influences opposing
him have demonstrated his availability
and fitness on the one hand, and ex-
posed the unavailability and unfitness
of certain others on the other hand
The influence that has opposed him
blights and blasts any cause and any
| person it espouses. That influence
has appealed to the sordid, the low and
the criminal. That influence fattens
and gorges itself on ignorance and
avarice Any man who accepts the
aid of that influence would be more
fortunate had a milestone been tied
about his neck and he had been cast
into the depth of the sea. (Applause.)
New Jersey believes that the opposi-
ton to her Governor, such as it has
been and such as it is necessitate5
and secures his triumph.
Similar necessities, causes and mo-
tiveS impel all men similarly the
world over. The same necessities,
causes and motives which draw, as
by omnipotence, all New Jersey about
this great and good man, are identi-
cally the same necessities, causes and
motives that are in resistless motion
in every State in the Union. Cap
plause.) Its solidarity cannot be dis
integrated False argument falls
broken against it, A revolution of in
telligent and patriotic millions is the
expression of these same necessities,
causes and motives. Therefore, New
Jersey argues that her splendid Gov
ernor is the only candidate who can
not only make Democratic success a
certinty, but secure the electral vote
of almost every State in the Union.
applause New Jersey herself will en-
dorse his nomination by majority of
one hundred thousand of her liberated
citizens What New Jersey will do, ev-
cry debatable State in the Union will
do (Applause.) We are building, not for
a day, or even a generation, but for
all time. Let not the belief that any;
candidate may succeed rob us of sound
judgment What would it profit the
Democratic party to win now, only to
be cast out four years hence? The
Democratic party is commissioned to
carry on great constructive pro-
gram, having for it's end a complete
restoration of the doctrine of equal
rights and equal opportunity without
injury or wrong to anyone. Provi-
dence has given US, in the exalted
character of New Jerseys Executive,
the mental and moral equipment to
accomplish this reincarnation of
Democracy.
New Jersey believes that there is
an omniscience in national instinct.
That instinct centers in her Governor.
He is that instinct. (Applause.) How
l.. ~, fatn lhn
planned? He has been in political
life less than two years. He has had
no organization of the usual sort;
only a practical ideal, the re-establish-
ment of equal opportunity. (Applause.)
The imperial voice of patriotism calls
to him. The logic of events points
to him. Not his deeds alone, not his
deathless words alone, not his simple
personality alones not his Incompatible
powers alone, not his devotion to truth
and principal alone, but all combined,
compel national faith and confidence
in him. (Applause) Every crisis
evolves its master. Time and circum-
stance have evolved the immortal
Governor of New Jersey. The North,
the South, the East and the West
unite in him. Deep calls to deep.
Height calls to height
From peak to peak, the rafting crags
among,
Leaps the live thunder. Not from
one lone cloud,
But every mountain now hath found
a tongue,
And Jura answers through her
misty shrouds
ID IL 1Tc 1rn n
her aloud"
The lightning fash of his genius has
cleared the atmosphere. We now
know where we are. The thunder OF
his sincerity is shaking the very foun-
dations of wrong and corruption. (Ap-l
plause.)
This convention stands between
ninety millions of people and thou
sand monopolies. 1t stands between
ninety millions of people who need a
free and fair opportunity and thou
sand trusts that have special privi-
Ieges. The great issue is to restore
to the people equal opportunity, and,
at the same time, to compel monopolies
and trusts to proceed upon the same
principle. This issue cannot be solved
by a platform. Thousands of plat
forms will not solve it. The man on
the platform alone can solve it. If
he has the moral force and personal
courage and mental ability, he will
solve it because ninety millions of
confiding men, women and children
stand behind him. (Applause.) Such
is the meaning of the appearance of
the Governor of New Jersey at this
time in the history of the nation.
(Applause.) From the roar and strug
gle and strife preceding this conven-
tion and now involving it, there arises
in majesty one character. unsullfed
and unsoiled He has made but one
compact. That compact was with his
conscience He has made but one
agreement That agreement was with
his country and with his God. Cap
tplause.) He is under but one obliga-
tion. That obligation is to the eternal
principal of truth and right 1t re-
quires no sophistry to explain either
his position or his character. He
stands in the quenchless light of