The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-10
MAY SAVE PARTY
Senator LaFOlIette Named for
the Third Time.
Nj. B. 0lbrich Presents Name OF
WiscOnsin's Candidate.
is QUALIFIED FOR POSITION
Republican Salvation Depends
on Naming "FavOrite Son.
PersOnificatiOn of Real Amer.
lea in LaFOllette.
IS QUALIFIED FOR POSITION


Chicago. June 1O.-The name of
Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette OF
Wisconsin was presented to the Re-
publican national convention Friday
by NJ. B. O!brich of Madison, Wis. He
spoke as follows:
For the third successive time Wis
consin presents to the Republicans OF
the nation opportunity for party sal
walton. Twice before through the re-
lection of her message disaster came
Today she points once more the way
to victory and honor. She presents
again the candidate whose speech anu
action best represent and express the
hours spirit and its needs.
"War is the worlds most obvious
reality today Across the eastern
ocean the genius of militarlsm IN tiie
ghastly humor of the MAJ keeper ol q
mad-house has locked the natloIlS u
Europe hand in hand and set them
dancing the Masque of the Req Dean ea.n
round the funeral pyre of clVlHzatloil;
The nations daily thought is coloreo
by reflection from the fier Slo" thh'
jnflames the eastern horizon
Issue Is Americanism.
.oThe issue is indeed Americanism-
and our candidate the embodiment OF
America nism-that distinctive amer
canism that solved the problem %
armament a century ago. Ihere "
the north where lies a thousand Hil!eS
of shore with not a single pattlesnip,
and three thousand miles OF Irohllel
without a fort; a line of national boun-
dairy that cleaves a continent, ana yet
with all the vexing, varied problems
of divided sovereignty, never the shock
of conflict; never hand TO sworn
hilt: and far toward the Southern
=, fl
manship of Chile and the Argentines
has borne aloft the figure of the eter-
nal and ineffable Christ, and placed
il in everlasting effigy amid the sum-
mits of the Andes in token of per
petuaI peace; these are the concerted
ideals distinctly American, which the
western hemisphere offers as its con-
tribution to aIlay the agony that grips
the parent continent. These two SIN
gle and significant facts portend more
for the welfare of the world than all
the din of battles, lost or won Armed
with this decisive demonstration of
the possibility of peace without arma-
ment-having brought solution to the
'blood-rusted' riddle of the ages,
America spurns the counsel that bids
her fling away achievement and seeks
like some vainglOriouS Hercules to
rear fondling from the spawn of
that same monster whose icy and COM
pulsive coil even now breaks the back
and brushes out the heart and hope
of all our kin across the sea
'She calls WiscOnSin's pilot who will
not bid farewell to all her ancient
landmarks. set her PROV upon a chart
less course without a compass and
place the tiller forever in suspicious
hands: who will not join in the COM
petitive debasement of the currency
OF international confidence; who re-
jects the theorem that burglary is the
final standard and exemplar of inter
national morals; who will not seek to
set the weary feet of labor on the rungs
of that amending treadmill that grinds
for her not bread, not glory, but only
a dreary grist of nameless graves
twisted and tortured lives. blghted
and broken hearts, and in the end the
dull and futile dust of race degen-
eracy.
Personify Real America.
But he is no mere apostle of ne
cation, the candidate whom we pre-
sent for leadership in this most preg-
nant and potential period of world
psychology. From the apex of author
ity he would aggressively personify
America-the real America. In all
the galaxy of gallant captains press
ing forward to command, WisconSin'S
champion alone meets in full the ex-
acting measure of this hour of earths
greatest extremity when America must
antithesis of progress-the very in
most sanctuary and citadel of privi-
lege, the throne of the monstrous in
carnation of mans inhumanity to
man: the shattering of whose columns
would mark the first great stride to-
ward the building of the progressive
empire of the world. Others have
sensed this thought in part; others
have spoken little sections of the
truth; but to him there stands re-
vealed fixed, unchanging moral law
whose application is the same from
parish to principality and world do
main The current of his progressi-
Vism has never known retiring ebb,
but with expanded opportunity has to
increasing purpose grown up throug h
county. state. and nation in a 'diapa-
son breaking full in world morality.
Compact of poise, and power and pur-
pose, he would mobilize the moral
energy of the world. summoning the
neutral nations in so-rd phalanx, and
as the spokesman of billion protest
ing, sympathiZing souls, he would as
with a monarch's voice recall the
bloody dogs of war and bid this sense
less conflict cease; he would subject
the contending nationalities to the
steady pressure of world opinion in
Slstent and persistent as the voice of
an offended God until there came the
peace of Lincoln's fond hope and fer
vent prayer that endures not for a
day, not century. but for all time
when nation shall not lift sword
against nation, neither shall they learn
war any more
Gentlemen. Wisconsin gives you the
name of her loved and trusted leader
brave, true-hearted, courteous. sim
PIE, gentleman; regeneration of a proud
and prosperous commonwealth: first
architect of the superb and splendid
structure that goes ever forward to
completion. redeemed America. and
today her truest prophet of interna-
lette.''
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