The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-01
EDWARDS SPEECH
 IS GREETED BY FLOW DRY | AM'

attempted legislation as to morals has served only to intensity the gen. eral conditions of distrust, and con- fusion. Even now there is a firm ly established conviction that too much government not only tends, to defeat the object for which 1t was enacted but arouses that rebellious spirit and contempt for law and order which is sadly visible in oth- CT countries today"
 What then remains? Can order be evolved from chaos? Can com- merce and industry be infused with new life and vigor? Can the Ship of State be steered again true to it's course and land safely in the harbor of our desires, One great common wealth of this Union can answer these questions. One great common wealth has pre-eminently stood out as the defender of the rights of the individual, as the hamburger of peace and prosperity, and as the champion of personal liberty-time honored, historic New Jersey.
 "We assume then that we have
 the right to take foremost posi- ton in this latest fight for prfnci- pie. We assume that no man is bet ter qualified to lead than the first citizen of New Jersey Reputation and experience in statesmanship and bnsiaeas arszsitis lin abltRdslsce Whether as Comptroller or the state, Senator of Governor, to every cause in behalf of the public veal he has brought an energy and perseverance that has battered down dishonest opposition.
 Official Record Reviewed Reviewing Governor Edwards of ficial record, MT. O'Brien said that as state comptroller he had placed the finances of New Jersey on as ound basis as those of any state Tn the union and that then as State Senator he began the great
 work of his career, the task of
 combating from without the state
 the forces that attempated to take
 away our natural rights and from within, the forces of dishonest or
 yanized wealth that had come to be regarded as the almost dominant
 factor in it's governmental affairs"
 "To you. men of the South. of per
 petual Democracy, of a glorious past
 and brighter future whose pro gress and spirit of loyalty not even
 wars declaration could stifle, to you, men of the broad. bounding West who have harnessed the lat ent resources of nature to your in- domitable will, surpassing courage and magnificent energies. who have made paradise of plenty out of great stretches of barren waste who have played well your part in mak- ing this nation the mightiest of the mighty we appeal to help swell the | diapason of triumph.
 Message of Liberty We come with the message that across the continent in the towering mass of bronze and granite. sym | bolic of Americas gift to the world,
 there is a brighter gleam in Lib
 erty's eye, more ardent flame in
 her torch. She stands there with a welcome to the stranger who, 1 fleeing from the oppression of mon-
 arch ridden lands, finds here | home and a refuge: and who further | by the combination and application of brain and muscle, contributes
 to the substantial and moral devel- 1pment of our country. proves him. i self a worthy of that greatest of
 all material blessings. Americas will To continue it's besowal is
 Democracy's right and purpose as
 exemplified by him whose name
 have the great honor to present as | the choice of this convention for it's 1 Presidential nomination, the Apostle | of Democracy. Edward l. Edwards
 of New Jersey
 Hitchcock Is Nominated l The name of United States Sen
 ator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Neb-
 raska was placed before the con
 vention for nomination by A. c.
 Shallenberger in a speech in which
 he said:
 Under the leadership of Woodrow
 Wilson America has experienced a
 period of prosperity and national glory such as she has never known
 before and the Democratic party
 must stand or fall upon the record
 made by the administration. We
 have no other political asset. With
 out it we are bankrupt.
 That administration waged a war
 and won it gloriously. and when the
 President signed the peace treaty as Paris America had stepped into
 the leadership of the world