Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-08-08

stitutional powers. No other platform
has given this intimate vision Of Il par
tvs duty. Education Is part Of the
great task Of conservation. part of
the task of renewal and Of perfected
power.
We have set ourselves great pro-
gram, and 1t will be Il great party that
carries it out. 1t must be party with
out entangling alliances with any spe-
cial interest whatever. 1t must have
the spirit and the point of view of the
new age. Men are turning away from
the Republican party as organized un-
der It's old leaders because they found
that 1t was not free. that 1t was entan
gled. and they are turning to us be-
cause they deem us free to serve them.
We should so into this campaign
confident Of only one thing-cOnfdent
of what we want to do If intrusted
with the government. 1t Is not parti-
| san fight we are entering upon. We
are happily excused from personal at
tacks upon opponents and from oil gen.
| eral indictments against the men op-
posed to us. The facts are patent to
everybody: we do not have to prove
them; the more frank among our oppo-
nents admit them. Our thinking must
be constructive from start to finish.
We must show that we understand the
! problems that confront us and that we
are soberly minded to deal with them,
applying to them not nOstrums and no.
lions, but hard sense and good courage.
A Government For Public Good.
A presidential campaign may easily
degenerate into mere personal con-
test and so lose Its real dignity and
significance. There Is no lndispensa-
BILE man. The government will not
collapse and 60 to pieces II any one
Of the gentlemen who are seeking to
be intrusted with its guidance should
be left ut home. But men are instru-
ments. We are as important us the
cause we represent, and in order to
be important must really represent
cause. What Is our cause? The peo-
pies cause? That is easy to say. but
what does 1t mean? The common as
against any particular interest what
ever? Yes. but that. too. needs trans
lation into acts and policies. We rep
resent the desire to set up an unen-
tagled government, a government that
cannot be used for private purposes,
either in the field of business or in
the field Of politics; a government that
will not tolerate the use Of the organ
ization Of a great party to serve the
personal aims and ambitions of any
Individual and that will not permit
legislation to be employed to further
any private interest. 1t is great con-
ception, but l am free to serve it, as
you also are. could not have ac-
cepted nomination which left me
bound to any man or any group of
men. No man can be just who Is not
| free, and no man who hes t. show
favors ought to undertake the solemn
responsibility Of government In any
rank or post whatever. least Of all In
the supreme post Of president Of the
United States.
To be free Is not necessarily to be
wise. But wisdom comes with coun-
sci, with the frank and free confer
ence Of untrammeled men united in
the common interest. Should I be in
trusted with the great Office Of presi-
dent would seek counsel wherever
1t could he had upon free terms.
know the temper Of the great cOnven-
ton which nominated me: know the
temper Of the country that lay back
Of that convention and spoke through
It. heed with deep thankfulness the
message you bring me from 1t. feel
that am surrounded by men whose
principles and ambitions are those of
true servants Of the people. I thank
God and will take courage.
Conside-ats.
Business Man \Ou tell me I am
hurting myself sitting 80 long at my
desk. hut l cant make any money II
I don't Doctor Have you enough to
pay me! business Man Y-e-s Doc.
tor-Thpn stop New York Weekly
True to Lite.
"Wh q success have yOn had with
the portal, 1T your mother In law"
"I'rp inendnMs 1t Is such s.enkinR
hkenrHs that my brother. when ne
came to lOok Mt It. instinrtiveIy put
his cigar behind his back" f'liegende
Batter.
Tattiny Yourself on the back Ia DIT