The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-05-28

some individual. hut 1t was charge
against the leader, the candidate OF
the party for the presidency, and the
charge went to the very heart of the
organization. At that time there was
Just coming into notice a young man
or rare capacity for leadership of mar
Velous energy and actuated by great
and honorable ambitions. He had op
posed the nomination of Mr.. Blaine
and when the hegira from the party
took place because of the nomination
this young man was asked to go and
most bitterly assailed as a gutter and
compromiser when he did not go. But
he said my work Is here, ! can be
more effective in the party than out of
1t. will make the party what IL ought
to be- and l stand here to say I'd you
tonight that the republican party never
reached a higher point of efficiency, of
strength of capacity for great and be-
neficent 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 aimless, Intellectual, fruit
less wandering in the Wilderness to
be claimed at last by that remorseless
glutton for the Intellectual in politics
oblivion Had he followed the course
of those who denounced him, those sew
en- years of marvellous administrative
worth would not have been written and
his tremendous place in history would
have been a different story.
Ny your friend, it is not enough in
this world, especially in the world of
politics. that you be right yourself, that
you have right motives and high ideals.
1t is equally important and even Of
greater moment to society that you
choose the efficient and effectual meth
| cd for doing something for your coun
try and your countrymen. You are just
as much under obligation to choose that
method by which your great youthful
powers shall be of service to YOUR fell
| lows as you are to acquire and possess
those powers Do not hide your tai
ents either through accident or design.
| Now, turn back the pages of history
| which have been written, permanently
written, since Schurz and Curtis and
that class of well meaning and able
men who so misjudged the effective
forces of politics that they bolted the
republican convention and pronounced
the republican party boss ridden and
corrupt-declared that the great party
of Lincoln had come and performed its
task and was no more. What has that
party done since then? What evidence
have we before us of it's remarkable
capacity for constructive and benefi-
cent legislation? l could indulge here
in general eulogy. but plain, unvarnish
ed facts are far more eloquent than
any general encomiums which l could
give you.
Effective Work OF Republican Party.
1t has since then enacted the inter
state commerce law, creating the in
terstate commerce commission, the anti.
rebate law, the Sherman antitrust law
the employers liability act. the law pro
viding for compensation for injuries t.
government employees, the postal saw
ngs bank law. the parcels post law
the standard equipment act for rail
roads, the law requiring railroads to re
port all accidents, the eight hour pro
vision for all public works and all worl
done under public contracts, the Law
compelling publicity of campaign con
tributions the law providing for TIN
, physical valuation of railroads, TIN
amendment to the constitution provid
ing for the election of senators by pop
hldi Nott, tic law PiON'hihb ioi VI
q establishment of the bureau of commerc
and labor and finally for the creation
| of the department of labor. making it
= head q cabinet officer-a more remark
able, sanely progressive policy of legis
lation you will not find anywhere out
, side of the great fruitful period whe
t our government itself was formed.
Since that time it has given to tn
g world as leaders and benefactors sue
5 men as Harrison and John Hay an
I William Mckinley and that class G
E men whose craftsmanship was made a
e the more excellent in the eyes of
= Christian nation because flo their ex
f ated and spotless moral strength an