The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-26

threaten the very foundations of the greatest cathedral builded by modern civilization. The cornerstone 0A thN temple is Plymouth Rock The deelafa- tlon of independence and our matchless constitution are embedded in inc founda- tion thereof The superstfucture mas been reared block by block with years CT toll by patriotic and able statesmanship' This fair and noble achievement, this matchless fabric ill-guarded, neglected, profanei and fnutilated while in the GUS tody of republican officials, left open thus to attack of vandals socialists and alien anarchists, is nenaced with des- truction. If threatened ruin comes the fail and the great march of modern civilization and true progress VIII be forever stayed.
 1t is not the wild swirling, cruel methods of revolution and violence that are needed to correct the abuses incident 10 our government as to all things human. Neither material nor moral pro- gross lies that way. We have made our government and complicated institutions by appeals to reason, seeking to educate all our people that. day after day, they may see more clearly, act more Justly, become more and more attacked to the fundamental ideas that underie our society. If we are to preserve undimish- : ed the heritage bequeathed us and add to it those accretions without which
  the powers that the school, the church the court, the deliberative assembly and the quiet thought of our people can bring to bear.
 We are all about to do battle against the unfaithful guardians of our consutn- tion and liberties and the nordes of ignor- ance which are pushing forward only to the ruin of our social and governmental fabric and their own damnation
 "TOo long has the country endured the ..ffn nf tf.s Iaa.J .JfNfac nf a N once knew greatness. Too long have we been blind to the backhanial of corruption Too long have we listlessly watched the assembling of the forces that threaten our country and our firesides. The time has come when the salvation of the country demands the destruction of the leaders of a debauched party and the restoration to place and power of men of high ideals who will wage unceasing war against corruption in politics, who will enforce the law against both rich and poor and who will treat guilt as poison and punish it accordingly.
 For their crimes against American citizenship the present leaders of the re- publican party should be destroyed.
 For the lavish waste of the public funds for the fraudelent disposition or the peoples domain and for their contri- button toward the division of the people into classes, they should be destroyed
 For the efforts to seize for the execu- tive department of the federal govern ment powers rightfully belonging to the states, they should be destroyed.
 tAll destruction will be theirs this very year if we but do our duty.
 What is our duty2 To think alike as to men and measures? Impossible Even for our great party! There is not a reactionary among us. All democrats are progressives, but it is inevitably human that we shall not all agree that in a single highway is found the only road to progress, or each make the same man of all our worthy candidates his first choice.
 "It is possible however. and 1t Is our duty to put aside all selfishness, to con- sent cheerfully that the majority shall speak for each of us and to march out of this convention shoulder to shoulder, the praises of our chosen leader and that will be his due-which ever of the honorable and able. men now claiming our attention be chosen"