The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-26
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.

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THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
The Republican National Conven-
ton at Chicago has concluded its
labors, has adopted a platform of
principles, and has nominated the
Republican candidate for president
and vice-president of the United
States. From now until the day of
the November election it should be
the duty and the pleasure of every
sincere Republican to do all in his
power to promote the fortune of the
candidates and the success of the
party. The Citizen declared months
ago, when the rivalry between the
contending factions in this state was
at its height, that it would Loyalty
support the candidates who should
be nominated at the Chicago conven-
ton. 1t stands by that declaration
to-day. We nail the banner of Taft
and Sherman to the masthead. We
give equal support to the national
candidates nominated by the conser-
vative convention at Chicago, and to
! the state candidates nominated by
the progressive convention at Harris
| burg. We recognize all of them as
candidates of the Republican party,
| fully entitled to whatever assistance
in their campaign this journal can
give them.
! We recognize the differences of
opinion that have existed in this state
as we'll as in other states of the
Union. But we hold that the time
has now come when those differences
| should not be permitted to interfere
with party success. The conserva-
tives have won their battle. They
are entitled to the fruits of their vic
tory. They have placed in the field
as their candidate for president a
man whose record and whose person
ality need no apology, whose conduct
of the great office to which he again
aspires, gives abundant promise of a
wise and skillful and honorable ad-
ministration of that office in the fu-
ture. They have adopted a platform
which calls for all of the really de-
sirable and commendable innova-
tions demanded by the progressive
element of the party, and which at
the same time upholds all of the
primary principles of law and order
and representative government on
which this nation has been built.
AS to the boiling element of the
party, which has undertaken, in de-
fiance of party rules and of orderly
procedure, and of good faith to set
up a political house of its own, we
believe that sober second thought
will bring the better part of this ele-
ment back into the ranks of the reg
ulars before the campaign is fairly
under way. The grievances are not
serious enough, the principles involv-
ed are not of sufficient Importance
to bring any considerable number of
Republican voters to the support of
the movement. A new party cannot
be born and live under such aus
pices as marked the bolt at Chicago.
Political history has demonstrated
this fact over and over again.
In the meantime it is for the great
body of Republican voters who have
abiding faith in their party and its
principles, and who desire to see the
processes of government carried on
in an orderly, wise and humane man
ner, to set themselves seriously to
the task of healing wounds mad
vertently made, of rallying voters to
the standard of the greatest party
the country has ever known, and OF
insuring success to the candidates OF
that party in the coming election
The primary campaigns are over, the
convention, with its heat, its excite
ment and its bitterness, is a thing o.
the past the nomination has beer
made-now for the future!
The tumult and the shouting dies,
The captains and the kings depart;
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,-
. An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet
: Lest we forget,-lest we forget"