Bisbee daily review., 1912-06-23

enough to see the menace to free in
stitutions. brave enough and strong
enough TO check the on-sweeping
march of corporate aggression. They
will be content with no sham PROBES
sion of loyalty. No chanting of a
time worn creed will still their cry.
| Thor wishes scprned and scorped
| they are in deadly earnest now. They
cannot be mislcd again No party dare
! juggle with their just demands or
! trifle with their will The time has
gone by when they will be satisfied
with q SOP of high sounding ambiguity
I in a political platform or strident
I lip service and trumpeting OF loud
allegiance by a nominee They look
beyond the platform and seek assur-
ance of sincerity. some substantial
earnest of performance in the charac-
I ter and the record of the candidate.
a Favored Son.
The republicans of the sanely con-
sentative commonwealth of Wiscon-
Sin.uniqua in the sisterhood of states
united and unanimous in support OF
Ia distinguished son, bid me present to
this convention the name La Toilette.
That name and that alone supplies
the guarantee. without which, the
American people will accept no par
tvs promise TO perform. Twice before
you set the man in the pillory and
sought TO cruelty his ideas. But the
fiery words OF prophecy spoken from
this platform four wears ago have been
fulfilled and what you then derided as
socialistic and popuiistic you recCg-
nize as true conservatism today, and
the candidacy of the man YOU told
10 take his democratic dope and go
to Denver furnishes your one saliva
ton from defeat in dishonor and dis
grace.
For his professions have received
the priceless conservation OF actual
performance From q feudatory OF
special privilege he created Wisconsin
into free state, through jungle of
morass and marsh that gave no sure
" Of footing and seemed to give no
hope of passage where rose the foul
miasma Of corruption for ten long
black and purgatorial years, set upon
by sinking beasts ambushcd and
beaten and battered down, he kept
a course that knew but single com
pass. Out of the agony and travail
of that dark and awful pilgrimage
was born the progressive movement
in America. Primary elections, Cquol
taxation of railroads and other cor
porate wealth, effective regulation OF
the rate and service OF transportation
and public utilities. civil service re
form, insurance against Industrial &C
Cident forever monument his line of
march
Coal Of Freedom.
In Wisconsin the Goal Of Free
dom's race Daffled ott-but ever wen
has been achieved. Upon her statute
books were written for the first time
i'm America laws that insured a
tairer apportionment OF the race. her
itage of civilization that embodied
the best thought OF the best brains in
the world. Doctrines ciyen timid
voice by hesitant idealists we're made
by his constructive craftsmanship into
effective instruments for lifting from
the backs OF ever burdened millions
the heavy weight OF injustice, in
equality and wrong
six years ago, hazed and belittled
and lampOoned, he stood in the Amer
can senate the lone champion of the
invested citadel OF public right Singl
handed he maintained its defense
against open assault and covert sub.
terfuge Again and again he met the
charge of the black cavalry of priv
ilege and they recOiled before the
stroke Of his unconquered sword One
by one fair seeming measures intro
duced under the specious guise Of
dealing with Indian coal lands. re-
forming the currency, revising the tar
IF, regulating railway rates, establish
ing a commerce court or enacting
reciprocity with Canada by the touch
of his Ithurial spear stood revealed in
all their hideous nakedness. poised
and potent with menace, Kissing with
a Thousand forked serpent tongues.
Winning Of Recognition.
They who scoffed have come to
listen when he speaks. He is no more
jingler of euphonicus words. no
conjurer of fantastic phrases. In an
orderly progression his speeches move
to the conclusions of an inevorable
logic. Devoid OF poetry or classical
allusion they are crammed with facts
and statistics. But they are facts. vi
moving significance. ordered into an
irresistible phalanx. along whose lines
there giisten everywhere the bayOnets
of truth. that march TO the inspiring
music OF hope for all mankind
"Step By step no inch uncontested,