New Britain herald., 1920-06-12

can party merited its long years of triumphs through it's valiant service to the republic and its promotion of the peoples progress. It battled for national prosperity and sound finance under inc leadership of Ohio's , knichtliest son. William Mckinley; it raised the victorious standard of the square deal aid obedience to the law at the call of thtt staluart red blood cd American Theodore Roosevelt. But , vast as are its achievements and brilliant as has been It's leadership. the snan nominated here today must be Of type big enough to enable him to. look with level gaze to the leader ship Of other years and to face, un- daunted. problems more serious than those which confronted Washington or Lincoln. We have emerged from a world war victorious and unafraid; in that great struggle to maintain the national honor and preserve free government among men. republicans on battlefield. in congress and in pri- Nate life did their full share as Am- orleans regardless of the repeated in- suits of the most bitterly partisan administration in the history of the republic and the official pronounce ment that the only way to sustain the rcpubIica and be patriotic wa to vote tho ticket Of the party that won in 1916 because he kept us out of war and seek to win in 1920 be- cause he kept us out of peace Tariff Is Needed.
 Tho republican party here assem- bled. with the faces of the heroic ! dead looking down upon us and com manding us with mute lips to stand by : the principles of the party and defend to the uttermost every American ideal, will go forth to victory on a platform pronouncing unequivocally in favor of constitutional government and obedi- ence to law; in favor of repeal of war-time legislation not needed in |, times of peace but seized upon by a powergrasping. autocratic adminis- traitor to perpetuate itself: in favor of legislation to promote ind4s.rial peace. not by protecting a rich man becau he is rich nor 8 poor man be- cause he is poor. but, rather, by pro- tecting the upriGht citizen, rich or poor. because b,s is upright; in favor of the ratification of only such a peace treaty as. while fully discharg- ing our obligation to other nations, will. at t're same time, protect un- 
 reserve for decision by our own peo- pie exclusively every purely American question: and in favor of the main- tenance of the principle of an Amer ican protective tariff and an American Merchant Marine. These arc bound to be the dominant issues of the forth coming campaign. Then. why not name as our candidate the man whose record is the party platform. for the record of Ohio's candidate is the rec ord of the republican party in the last decade.
 Fostered Merchant Marine.
 He fought for an American mer- chant marine to carry our commerce under the American flag to all the ports of earth, while other leaders were skepticai or quiescent; by the side of Mckinley and Mark Hanna he helped bear the heat and burden of the day in the struggle for rehabilita- tion of American industry: four years ago he stood this platform-tL0 choice of both William H. Taf
 Theodore Roosevelt for chairn
 the convention; and it is onl
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 he enjoyed the intimate any tial friendship of both lat leaders. He had the hSl Ient to the senate and to seI hact- men. of the legislat led for -the Roosevelt divi5 eryice in IFrance--IegisIn.isu1 Ias eager
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 leak of his cordial relationship Colonel Roosevelt because it