The Detroit times., 1914-05-26
BORAH SAYS
BULL MOOSE ARE
RETURNING
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on the platform with Senator William
Alden Smith and ex-Congressman
Garrit j. Dlekema AT 1880 there
we're probably 1900 people in the hall
The gallery contained about 200 spec
tators, including small group OF Pro
gressiyes Ralph Hall Ferris. Senator
Glttins and two or three others
there were many vacant seats on
the floor In the sections set apart
for the upstate delegations. The east
side OF the hall was filled with the
delegates from the first six districts.
Hall or the auditors took their coats
on for II was sweltering weather
Senator Borah did not attend the
morning session. Neither did Sena
tor Townsend They were lucky. for
uuder the charcoal drawings OF Lin
coin and Mckinley, the holders oil
platform seats sat with their coats
on and looked horribly uncomfortable.
CONGRESSMAN Kelley spoke for
three-quarters OF an hour. The con
yention then took recess for lunch
con. The Wayne county delegation
had tickets passed among the dele
gates. emitting them To a meal.
AT 1880 the convention assembled
again 10 listen 10 the serious business
OF the day Mr.. Kelley introduced
Senator Smith as permanent chair
man. Senator Smith, IN a brief adj
dress. introduced Senator Borah.
Senator Borah's address follows, in
part
Il DO not forget that have the
hslor 20 be the guest OF the great
state upon whose patriotic soil the
Republican party was organized and
among whose virile and progressive
people its great principles and pol
icies have borne their richest fruit |
never tire OF reading OF that gather
ing and the plain simple but power
fel resolutions adopted by those men
gathered there under the oaks You
viii recall that portion OF the resolu- |
ton which says: Resolved That in !
view OF the necessity OF battling for
the first principles OF republican gov
eminent, and against the schemes OF
an aristocrgcy the most revolving
with which the earth Was ever cursed |
or man debased, we will cooperate !
and be known as Republicans until |
he contest is terminated
Since the hour of the adoption OF !
that r. solution, the Republican party |
has fought its enemies from without |
a! q It's enemies from within, II has /
been no less successful with the one 1
than with the other and has been |
threatened about as often by the lat !
ter as the former More than once I
men have tried 70 utilize it's vast pow
or, the strength and worth OF its |
traditions and its prestige, for purely |
selfish purposes. But i'm every in |
stance, in due time, the voters have
called reckoning and the leaders I
have responded TO the call ask |
YOU, especially the young men. eager
and restless for the conflicts OF life !
Just ahead and who feel the inspira- |
ton which comes from approaching !
tasks to be bravely met. to remember !,
that those who have stood with the !
party and resolved when il was weak I
10 make ii strong. when II was wrong
To make II right, are those who have /
won the highest honors. and above /
all, and better than all, performed the
greatest services 10 their country.
nHn
Attack on Blaine.
"ln 1884 our brilliant leader was /
charged with being a corruptionist I
md bribe-taker, a man gifted in
minu bait wanting utterly wanting, (
| u NdS odlu, III puUllC IHOIdlS, IL WIS I
\ that while speaker OF the house OF /
representatives he used that great
office for selfish ends And upon his
nomination by the party, thousands
and thousands left the party This I
was not a charge OF corruption, OF
bCssism, upon the part OF some indi.
v'duai. but il was a charge against
TIE leader, the candidate of the party /
for the presidency. and the charge /
went 10 the very heart of the organ.
ization.
AT that time there was Just CON-
Ing into notice a young man of rare
capacity for leadership, OF marvellous
energy and actuated by great and
honorable ambitions He had opposed |
/ &c nomination OF Mr.. Blaine and
Wher the hegira from the party took i
place because OF the nomination. this
young man was asked TO go and most
bitterly assailed as gutter and |
icCmpromiser when he did not go But
he said. my work is here, | can be
more effective In the party than out
OF IL, will make the party what II
ought to be. and ! stand here 10 say
70 you tonight that the Republican |
party never reached a higher point /
OF efficiency, of strength. OF capacity
for great and beneicient legislation.
than IL did under the leadership OF |
that same young man. Had he gone !
out with those who left the party he
would have passed with them into an !
aunless, Intellectual fruitless wander.
ing In the wilderness. TO be claimed /
al last by that remorseless glutton
for the Intellectual in politics-ob-
I liy!on. Had he followed the course 1
Of those who denounced him. those
seven years OF marvellous administra-
tive worth would not have been writ. I
ten and HIS tremendous place in his
tory would have been different |
rtory.
TNow, turn back the pages OF his |
tory which have been written. per /
llanently written since Schurz and |
l'urtis and that class of well-meanins /
nd allie men who so misjudged the /
Elective forces, OF politics that \
sley Eolted the Republican conven-
Ion and pronounced the Republican |
raity as boss-ridden and corrupt I
declared that the great party OF Lin !
'oln had come and performed It's task i
md was no more What has that !
party done since then? What evi. !
dence have we before us OF its re. |
rlr hla Fonorfty c1pctrucsfya /