Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-02-16

try, but when that convention has made
its choice and placed before the people
its candidate for the Presidency. let US,
like good patriotic Republicans and oiti-
zens. bow to its will and stand by the
banner Of our grand old party to the end.
supporting loyalty its candidate. be he
Roosevelt or Taft.
Following are excerpts called from
Senator Beveridge's great speech:
To deal with the instant need of things;
to do the work at hand; to help the
people get rid of the evils Of the hour
this was the method of Abraham Lincoln
and it must be ours. Political parties
must be servants, not masters Of the
people; party organizations must be SER
wants. not masters Of the parties. A poll
teal party must do the work which the
people need to have done; otherwise it
will not live and ought not live.
Abraham Lincoln was Wing because
he believed in the principles OF the Wing
party, among which was protection.
But when the party stuck to the old land
marks only and would not do the new
and bigger work which had to be done
for the welfare of the nation, Abraham
Lincoln became a Republican. He did
this because the Republican party meant
progress; because the Republican party
was the reborn spirit of 'z6 setting up
new landmarks of liberty which knew
no shackes. and nationhood that knew
no sections.
To continue to be the party of Lincoln,
our party actively must do the work we
find before US instead of idly praisng the
work our fathers found before them,
but which is now behind us. We must
deal with living and unsettled issues which
concern living and troubled men. Past
glories feed no hungry mouths today. nor
cloth those made cold by the winter OF
1912. Past glorles are our inspiration
but not our task. Abraham Lincoln was
proud to remember that Washington
made Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown;
but Lincoln was anxious to see Grant
make Lee surrender at Appomattox. The
task of his day, the issues OF his time,
were Lincoln's concern; the task OF our
day, the issues Of our time must be our
concern.
1t amounts to nothing to present the
people with mere words; we must do
something for them by real deeds. Or
rather, we must do all we can to enable
the people to do all they can for them
selves. 1t was the people won their in
dependence for themselves and not some
superior power that won their independ-
ence for them; the superior power was
on the other side. 1t was the people who
ended slavery and made themselves into
one nation; Abraham Lincoln was only
the peoples voice and hand in those
great works. And just so it is the people
who will work out their own prosperity
and salvation for them.
TheSherman law was meant to prevent
trusts-not to remedy their evils. Yet it
utterly has failed even to check their
growth and has not even touched their
evils. Since its enactment organized
capital engaged in industry has developed
more fully than in the whole history OF
the world before. Administrations OF
both political parties have dealt with that
law with equal futility. Scores OF courts
have ground out an unheard OF volume OF
decisions on it without avail. The last Of
these were the DEGREES of the federal
court under the Judgment of the supreme
tribunal of the Nation in the cases OF the
two greatest trusts on earth. These de-
cisons and DEGREES were supposed tc
combine the wisdom and justice OF the
highest authority among mankind so far
as this law permitted.
Yet the oil and tobacco trusts are more
alive today than ever, because they now
live under the express approval OF the
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