Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-09
DAVIS ACCEPTS
NOMINATION ON
c. D. P. TICKET
Senatorial Candidate Says
He Will, If Elected, Serve
the People to the Best of
His Ability.

state convention Friday, accepting
1.-THE United States senatorial nomi-
lnation:
"Mr. Chairman and Fellow Re
ipublicans:
ITO be nominated for office by
iany political party is an honor. TO
be named by the republican party
lof this state as its candidate for
the highest office within its gift
is the greatest honor that can come
to one of its citizens. / appreciate
it as such, but stronger than my
appreciation of the honor and
!stronger than my gratitude for your
faith in me, great as that is, is my
deep feeling of the responsibility
which you have placed upon me.
lie who accepts such trust as
isumes no light burden. 1t is for
him to carry on the struggle for
those underlying republican princi-
pies upon which our party was
founded, and grasp the torch light
ed by our fathers and bear it on
lundimmed for the future. Those
who have gone before us have left
us glorious party heritage. | am
|
| all good originated with the repub-
| lican party. and all evil with our
opponents. 1t would be strange
thing If all political virtue was con-
centrated in one group of our vast
population, Nor do i say that our
| party has made no mistakes. Hu-
man action is bound to go wrong
sometimes, and no individual and
no party can always be right on all
matters. The individual who solves
a hundred problems of his own,
whether in business or family or
private affairs inevitably makes
some errors, and political parties
are but collections of individuals.
However that may be, for sixty
years the principles of the repubi-
can party have received the appro-
baton of the American people, who
have decreed that that party should
carry on their governmental affairs.
The exceptions have been few and !
far between, quickly regretted and !
decislvely repudated. Look back !
upon party records and you will |
find that nearly ell of political |
progress, Of progressive legislation, |
of that which looks to political, |
social and racial freedom, of the |
solving of economic and financial |
problems, has been brought about |
by the republican party. The past |
is glorious. we are justly entitled to |
the greatest pride in it; but no in
dividuGl, no people and no party |
can live OH the past. The tree that |
ceases to grow dies, and the party |
that ceases to progress perishes.
Problems of Today.
A few years ago Europe was sur
facely a collection of friendly
countries, but it held the seeds of
hatred which soon produced the
most terrible war man has ever
experienced, No one can say how
soon existing conditions will cause
another cataclysm on that con-
tinent. The problems of today are
not those of yesterday. and as the
result of that war, of changing
economic and social relations, diff
ficulties greater than have arisen
for a generation, now confront us.
Only a foolish and presumptuous
man would claim that he holds in
his own brain the remedy for all
the ills which afflict us. But we
can safely say that these problems
must finally be solved by the ap-
of human Justice which in
the hands of the republican
party, guiding the destines of our
nation, have made us the most
powerful tho most Independent,
and the most prosperous of all the
peoples OF the world. Those prin-
ciples are eternal, but human
memory is fleeting. Only two
years ago. you will remember. a
great political campaign was
fought to decide whether the coun-
try should abandon its traditional
policy of non-interference in Euro
pean affairs and become but a cog
in wheel of government called
the league of nations. The Amer
ican people placed the seal of ap-
proval upon the republican policy
of avoiding foreign entanglements,
and repudiated the democratic plan
that we should surrender part
of our national sovereignty to
world uper-government. And so
finally and so definitely was that
principle settled that the platform
of the democratic party adopted
in this city last week, can be read
in vain for any reference to what
they then declared to be vital 10
the national welfare and upon
which they asked the people of this
country to retain them in power. 8
Hardinp'S achievements {
silent, too, is that platform '
upon the great achievement of the q
administration of President Hard |
with the leading nations of the &
world limiting naval armament {
settling grave matters of inter- q
national dispute, and, so far as this |
country is concerned, laying the l
foundation for perpetual peace,
"The calling of that conference
and conducting it to successful !
fruition were acts of republican
administration so beneficial to
that not even the demo- q
cratic party in its platform dares :
to attack them. And let it be =
frankly said also that many of that .
party, including, | believe, the =
democratic senator from New Mex
leo, gave their influence towards r
It's success and voted for its accom- +
-
Protective Tariff. :
II wish | could say as much for n
'ur democratic friends in their at -
itude towards the tariff. What .
'ver we may believe as to specia =
chedules and as to the amount of u
luty to be imposed on particular u
lrticles, the republican party all 7
Ways has been and is now pledged h
o protective tariff. 1t is its /,
fundamental principle in tariff c
making, that duties shall be I'm y
'osed not alone for revenue but al r
% to equalize the cost of produce
ion at home with that abroad, af-
ording assistance and protection to
american labor and American in /,
ustries. On this question, and in "
his state at least, we have clear G
ut party issue, for the democratic n
latform, as ] extract this feature S
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