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Show BEVERIDGE PATS Talks of Americanism of Roosevelt. Leader Who Is Full of Old-Time Old-Time Faith in the Republic. "WilL Lead tho American People in Paths of Safety and Add Honor y to Name. CHICAGO, June 23. Senator Bever-idgc Bever-idgc of Indiana was given a great ovation sis he arose In the Republican Re-publican convention today to second sec-ond the nomination of Roosevelt, He spoko with force and increasing enthusiasm, en-thusiasm, emphasizing his points with a gesture with the right hand. The Senator's voice was probably the easiest eas-iest heard of any speaker which the convention has yet heard. Shouts, cheers and cat calls resounded through tlirt holl rvVifln Vi a CZnnainv cn rn cf lr.fi 11 V said: "No mystery was ever elected President and never will be." Long before be-fore he concluded his speech Senator Beveridge's collar was wilted and the perspiration was streaming down his face; but his voice lost none of its carrying power and his manner none of Its energy. Senator Beveridgc's concluding con-cluding words, "Indiana seconds the name of Roosevelt," released the waiting wait-ing cheer, the band and the flags. He spoke as follows: Senator Beveridge's Speech. Gentlemen of the Convention: Ono difference between tho opposition and ourselves is this: They select their candidate can-didate for the people, and thc pcoplo select se-lect our candidate for us. the people select our candidate for us. This was true four years ago when wo accepted thc peoplo's judgment and named William lIcKlnley, whoso perfect mingling of mind and heart, ot wisdom and of tenderness, ten-derness, won the trust and lovo of thc Nation Na-tion then and makes almost holy his memory mem-ory now. His power was ln tho people's favor, his shrine is ln tho people's hearts. It ls true today when we again accept the people's judgment and namo Thcodoro Roosevelt, whose sympathies are as wldo as the Republic, whose courage, honesty and vision meet all emergencies, and the sum of whose qualities make him tho type of twentieth century Americanism. And tho twentieth century American Is nothing more than tho man of '7C facing a new day with tho old faith. Theodore Roosevelt, like William Mc-Kinloy, Mc-Kinloy, ls lho nominee of thc American fireside. So were Washington and Jefferson Jeffer-son in tho early time; so was Andrew Jackson when he said "Thc Union; It Must Be Presorved"; so was Abraham Lincoln when, tho Republic saved, ho bade us 'bind up the Nation's wounds , and Grant when, from victory's very summit sum-mit his lofty words, "let us havo peace" voiced the snlrit of the hour and the people's peo-ple's prayer" When nominated by parties, each of these great Presidents was. at tho periods named, already chosen by tile public pub-lic Judgment. And so todav," the Republican Repub-lican party, whoso strength is In Its obedience obedi-ence to the will of tho American people, merely executes again tho decreo which comes to It from tho American homo ln naming Thcodoro Roosevelt as our candidate. candi-date. A Leader Who Leads. The people's thought is his thought; American Ideals, his Ideals. This is his only chart of statesmanship and no other ls safe. For the truest guide an American President can have Is the collective Intelligence Intelli-gence and massed morality of the American Ameri-can people. And this ancient rule of tho fathers ls lho rulo of our leaders now. Theodore Roosevelt Is a leader who leads; because ho carries out thc settled purposes of tho people. Our President's plans, when achieved, aro always found to be merely tho Nation's will accomplished. And that Is why tho peoplo will elect him. They will elect him becauso thoy know that If ho ls President we will got. to work nnd keco at work on the canal. After dec-ads dec-ads of delay when the peoplo want a tiling done, they want It donn. Thev know that while he ls President tho Flag will "stay put," and no American Ameri-can advantage ln tho Paclllc or tho world be surrendered. Americans never rotrcaU While he Is President no wrong-doer ln tho aervlco of tho Government will go un-whipped un-whipped of Justlro. American demand honestv and honor vigilant and fearless. While ho Is President, readjustment of tariff schedules will be made only ln liar- mony with tho princlplo of protection. Americans havo memories. Whllo ho la President peace with every nation will bo preserved at any cost, excepting, ex-cepting, only tne sacrifice of American rights; and thc vigor with which ho maintains main-tains these will bo Itself a guarantee of peace. Tho American people will elect him because. be-cause. In a word, they know that he does things the pcoplo want done; does things, not merely discusses them docs things only after discussing them but does things; and doe3 only thoso things thc people would have him do. This In characteristically char-acteristically American; for wherever ho ls, tho American ls he who achieves. Americans Demand Frankness. On every question all men know where he stands. Americans, frank themselves, demand frankness In their servants. Uncertainty Un-certainty is the death of business. The people can always got along If thov know where they are and whither thev arc going. go-ing. His past is his proof. Every great measure meas-ure of his administration was so wlso that, enthusiastically sustained by his own party, It won votes even from tho opposition. opposi-tion. Do you name Cuban reciprocity? Tho opppsltlon resisted ilnd then opposition votes helped to ratify It. Do you name corporate legislation? Thc opposition resisted and then opposition votes helped to enact It-Do It-Do you name thc canal that largest work of centuries, the eternal wedding of oceans, shrinking thc circumference of tho globe, making distant peoples neighbors, advancing forever civilization all around tho world? This historic undertaking In tho Interest of all tho race, planned by American statesmanship, to bo wrought by American hands, to stand through thc ages protected by the American flag; this vast achievement which will endure when our day shall have become ancient, and I which alone Is enough to mako tho name of Theodore Roosevelt Illustrious through all time this fulfillment of thc Republic's dream accomplished by Republican effort, finally received votes even from an opposition oppo-sition that had tried to thwart It. Of what measuro of Thcodoro Roosc-olfs Roosc-olfs administration docs the opposition dare oven to propose the repeal? And when has the record of any President won greater approval? Admired and Loved. And so the people trust him as a statesman. states-man. Better than that, they lovo him as a man. He wins admiration ln vain .who wins not affection also. In the American home that temple of hlnnlnau. n.,,1 ...tm-si ,l...nll Ihn wives and mothors of tho Republic, cherishing cher-ishing the beautiful ln life and guardlnjj tho morality of the Nntlon ln tho American Ameri-can home the name of Theodoro Roosevelt Roose-velt is not only honored but beloved. And that ls a greater triumph than the victor of battlcllelds, greater credit than successful success-ful statesmanship, greater honor than thc Presidency Itself would be without It. Llfo holds no reward so noble as tho confidence and love of thc American people. peo-ple. The American people! Tho mightiest forco for good thc ages have evolved. They began os children of liberty. They bollovcd In God and his providence. They took truth and justlco and tolerance as their eternal Ideals and marched fearlessly fear-lessly forward. Wildernesses stretched before them thoy subdued them. Mountains rose they crossed them. Deserts Des-erts obstructed they passed them. Their faith failed them not and a continent conti-nent was theirs. From ocean to ocean cities rose, fields blossomed, railroads ran; but everywhere church and school wore permanent proof that the principles of their origin wero the life of their maturity. Unchanging American Character. American methods changed, but American Ameri-can character remained the same. They outlived tho stage coach, but not thc Bible. Bi-ble. They advanced but forgot not their fathers. They delved in earth, but remembered remem-bered tho higher things. They made highways high-ways of the oceans, but dlstanco and climate cli-mate altered not their Amorlcnnlsm. They began as children of liberty, and children of liberty they remain. They began as servants of the Father of Lights, and his servants they remain. And so Into their hands Is dally given more of power and opportunity that they may work oven larger righteousness ln tho world and scatter over ever widening fields tho blessed seeds of human happiness. Wonderful beyond prophecy's forecast their progress; noble beyond tho vision of desire their future. In 1S01 Jefferson said, "the United States (then) had room enough for our descendants to tho thousandth thou-sandth and thousandth generation"; threo generations behold the oceans our boundaries. boun-daries. Washington nbver dreamed of railways. Today . electricity suid steam mako Maine and California household neighbors. .This advance, which no seer could havo foretold, wo made because we aro Americansbecause Ameri-cansbecause a free peoplo with unfettered unfet-tered minds and unquestioning belief Joyfully Joy-fully faced the universe of human possibilities. possi-bilities. These possibilities are not exhausted; ex-hausted; wo have hardly passed their boundaries. Thc American peoplo aro not exhausted; wc havo only tested our strength. God's work for us ln thc world Is not llnlshod; his future missions for tho American peoplo peo-plo will bo grander than any he has given us, nobler than wo now can comprehend. And theso taste as they come we will accept ac-cept and accomplish as our fathers accomplished accom-plished theirs. Old Ideals Ofmperishable. And when our generation shall have passed, and our children shall catch from our aging hands lho standard wo havo borne, It will still bo the old flag of York-town York-town and Appomattox and Manila bay; thc music to which they In their turn will then movo onward will still be the strains that cheered tho. dying Warren on Bunker Bun-ker Hill and Inspired tho men who answered an-swered Lincoln's call; and the Ideals that will bo In them triumphant as they are In us, will still be the old Ideals that have made lho American pcoplo great and lion-ored lion-ored among tho nations of tho earth. This Is tho Republican Idea .of tho American people; this tho thought wo havo when we nominate today our candidate candi-date for tho Nation's chief; this thc qu:Ql-ty qu:Ql-ty of Americanism a Republican standard-bearer must have. And this ls Just tho Americanism of Thcodoro Roosevelt, Full of tho old-timo faith ln lho Republic Repub-lic and its destiny; charged with tho cner. gy of tho Republic's full manhood; cherishing cher-ishing thc ordinances of tho Republic's fathers and having in his heart the fear of God; inspired by tho sure knowledge tho tho Republic's splendid day Is only In Its dawn. Theodoro Roosevelt will lend tho American people in paths of safoty to still greater wolfaro for themselves, still broader betterment of the raco and to the added honor of tho American namo. |