The Glenwood post., 1912-10-26

that votes are not bread, constitutional
do not pay rent or furnish homes, re
calls do not provide clothing, initiatives
do not supply employment or relieve in
equalities of condition or opportunity.
For any definite plans from those who
advocate these innovations, which will
promote equality of opportunity and
ameliorate hardships, We listen in vain.
Unfortunately, hostility to the judi
ciary and measures to take away its
power and independence constitute the
chief definite pans of that class OF
politicians and reformers from which
the republican party escaped at Chi
cago and to which the democratic party
yielded at Baltimore. And / use tina.
word "escaped" advisedly.
No consideration of party veal or
personal ambition would for single in
stant tempt me to stand before the
American people as the presidential
candidate of a great party, did / not
know there was no stain or flaw rest
ing on my nomination; did I not know
from the most painstaking exam. ma
tion of the evidence that the reckless
assaults on the integrity of that Romi-
nation are as baseless as they are
vicious; did not know that every can
did and unprejudiced observer, who
will devote the time and pains neces-
sary to an examination of the proceed
ings of the republican national conven-
tiop, must pronounce the nomination
conferred on me without stain and with
out defect. But, knowing that, I know
it is my solemn duty to the party that
has so honored me and to the people
who four years ago elected me to the
highest office in their gift to stand
resolute against those policies and poll
ticians who would sacrifice the welfare
of this fair republic to personal ambi-
tion or to unwise economic experiment
alton.
Who Are the People?
/ have sworn to uphold the Constitu-
tion, and SO l stand, as the republican
party has always stood, for the Consti-
tuition as it is, with such amendments
adopted according to its provisions as
new conditions, thoroughly understood,
may require, and this is the supreme
isSun Of this foi ~
land there are many democrats who
also revere the Constitut ION. and who
view with equal aversion those radical
propositions recklessly advanced to sat
isfy what is supposed to be popular
c'amor. To them also I appeal, con
fident that a majority of the voters
will be able to distinguish between the
substance of performance and the fus-
tan of promise. that they will be able
to perceive that those who would de
liberately foment discomfort and cult
vate hostility toward those who repre-
sent the business progress of this coun-
try are sowing dragons teeth.
Who are the people? They are not
alone the unfortunate and the weak !;
they are the weak and the strong, the
poor and the rich, and the many who
are neither; the wagc-earner and the
capitalist; the farmer and the profcs-
sional man; the merchant and the man
ufaeturer; the storekeeper and the
clerk; the railroad manager and the
employee-they all make up the people
and they all contribute to the running
of the government, and they have no,
given into the hands of any one tn .
mandate to speak for them as peculiar
ly the peoples representative.
Especially does not he represent
them who assuming that the people are
only the diseontented, would stir them
up against the remainder of thosa
whose government alike is this.
Before this the American people have
become confused and msled by speciouS
appeals to their prejulices, but the
bubbles of demagogic promise havee
been pricked, the people have come 10
a clearer appreciation of their own in
terests and to the rejection of specious
nostrums. And so ! believe that VIII N
the votes are counted in November the
great and dependable common-sense OF
the American people will be found to
have asserted itself. l am confident
they viii not have permitted either the
sugar-coated nostrums of the thir
party or the retrogressive tariff prin-
ciples of our time-honored opponents
to have tempted them to menace the
prosperity of the nation by a change
of political administration.
HORSES BEING VACINATED
The commissioners from the several
counties. after going into the country