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Show m SECRETARY KAYS .ADDRESS ifeli Sjjjj Sisterly Review of the Achievements of the Republican Party Dur--.: I ing Fifty Years. 01 A century is but a moment of history; It f "a often happened that several of them ; Mvo passed away, since men. began to . ord their dcods. v.'Ith llttlo change in 'ks physical aspect or the moral progress , ! the world. But at other times of in-'!jffl in-'!jffl action and spiritual awakening a generation may form an epoch; and 'jr?r Periods of equal duration In political '-Ililaial9 DaV0 bocn 60 cr.wtlod vlth great ."41 j.jTtots a3 the fifty years wo eclebrato to- I is ndcr tho oaks of Jackson on the I, or July, 1S54, a party was brought Into Ml s baPtl2cd, which over since has j: 'awered the purposes of its existence II 'hT fCWCr f0,llea and failures and moro 'I hfiu lfi.upnt achievements tlmn ordinarily, Fl :Mri lh. loL o any institution of morLil 'I 'IlirM And ovcn tho beginning of the end J -h X y?t;. Thl3 historic party is only now Jl mk, i. '1' maturity of Its power and its S;.1' for sood. Wo look back upon a 1 j f, KTi01 unparalleled usefulness and glory r- : emotions of thankfulness and pride; ''. , YiYi?mfr0nL the future nnd Its exacting ii-Z5ma wllh a contldenco born of tho - li trC'c1 oC dlrrlculUcs surmounted and iM 2"3 achieved In paths moro thorny 1 si uua.ysx mor0 arduous than any that 'i cor.ii ly to challenge tho courago and the )' l fc;tvenco o tl,e generation which is to A wr V Ui!- 11 ,G ""-ot that at this stage of ' i im Jurnoy wo ahould review tho past J. ' 'J" hss ltssons. and In lt light tahc , , n for what lies boyond. - Had Noble Origin. i j ,;t5li0,?9P"bllcan party had a noble orl-Lvi orl-Lvi iU1(sPl"aS directly from an arouncd s I 'iW. inysnant national conscience. Quca-1' Quca-1' ''w7,,I hnance, of political economy, of J i, tii.ll' admlnlBtratlon. passed out of ' i i4 . .J'10 moment, to be taken up and i I litlon ln ,aler on. But In 1S54 tJio huch-l huch-l S ;atwlal wrought the thinking men to-!; to-!; 1 "Htolt t w?s wl,ether thoro ahould bo a U iljsi i? . 10 aggressions of slavery; and In i 'iuii !at solemn inquiry turned to one . ' ijoro Portentous, should the Nation ' t STrt.Ie?.Th0 humblest old Republican A J thnCir,ca nan t,lc r,Bht to bo proud thaL I days of h,s youth In the presence of ' G Wm. momentous qucBtlons ho Judged ? & f.?d if .l1? Is sl'Plng In his honored , 'declalon en nuiy Juotly Blad of i k ulo?? not s. oas fif-y Yjars ago to . I aav I, aBa'n5t tho slavo power as It i 3 nKSiiei"ttdSL'- Respect for the vested ?. ; our t thc Southern, people was one of , A td nni? cred traditions. It was found- ! 'iQted iho compromises of tho Constitution, 0 "a upon a long lino of lcgaLand lcglahJ t vo precedents. Tho men of tho Rcvolu-U?'1 Rcvolu-U?'1 ,maao no defense of slavery In ltsolf , vj nslungton, Adams. Jefferson, and l- ranklln deplorc-d its existence, but recognized recog-nized tho necessity of compromise until the public mind might rest In thc hope of its ultimate extinction. But after they had passed away, Improvements in tho Culture and manufacture of cotton made this uneconomic form of labor for tho time prolltablo, and what hnd been merely mere-ly tolerated as a temporary necessity bo-Knn bo-Knn to be uphold us a permanent system. Slavery entrenchrd Itself In ovorv department depart-ment of our public life. Its advocatos dominated Congress and the Stale Legislatures; Legis-latures; they even Invaded the pulpit and grotesquely wrested a few texts of scripture, scrip-ture, to their purpose. They gave the tope to society; even the Southern accent was Imitated In our schools and colleges. Could Not Best. If tho slaveholders had been content with their unquestioned predominance, they might for many years liave controlled con-trolled our political and social world. It was natural for tho conservative people of tho North to say: MVo deplore the existence ex-istence of slavery, but we are all to blamo for it; wo should not wist upon our brethren breth-ren In tho South the burdens and perils of Its abolition. cW must bear with the unfortunate un-fortunate conditions of things and tako our 3haro of Its inconveniences." But tho Maveholdlng party could not rest content The ancients said that madness was tho fate of those Judged by tho gods. Continual Con-tinual aggression Is a necessity of a falso position. They felt Instinctively that if i heir system were pormanently to endure It must be extended, and to attain this object ob-ject they wero ready to risk everything. Thoy rent cn twain the compromises which had protected thein so long. They toro down the bulwarks which had at once restricted re-stricted and defended them; and confiding in their strength and our paUcnco they boldly announced and Inaugurated tho policy of the Indefinite extension of their peculiar institution." Once embarked upon this fatal enterprise enter-prise they left ) nothing undone which could contributo'lo the catastrophe upon which they wero rushing. The Whig party had gone to ruin in 1852 on accounc of thc impossibility of combining the scattered elements of opposition to the party of nro-slavery nro-slavery aggression; but they themselves furnished tho weapon which was to defeat them. Kansas-Nebraska Bill. In May, 1S5I, after several months of passionate debate, to which the country listened with feverish interest. Congress passed tho bill organizing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, omitting the restrictions re-strictions of the Missouri compromise which excluded slavery from them. This action at once precipitated the floating anti-slavery sentiment of tho country. A mighty cry of resolute indignation arose from one end of the land to the other. Tho hollow truce, founded upon the legitimate-compromises legitimate-compromises which had been observed In good faith by one side and ruthlessly vlo-Icted vlo-Icted by the other, was at an end. Men began to search their consciences instead of the arguments of political expediency. A discussion of the right and wrong of slavery bi-came general, the light was let In. fatal to darkness. A system which degraded de-graded men. dishonored women, deprived little children of the sacred solace of home, was doomed from the hour It passed into tho arena of free debate. And even If we shut our eyes to the moral nspecta of that heartless system, and confined ourselves our-selves to the examination of Its economic merits, it was found to be wasteful and inefficient. The Americans are at once tho most sentimental and the most practical practi-cal of peoples and when they see thnt an Institution Is morally revolting, and, besides, be-sides, does not pay, its fate is sealed. Eepublicr.n Party Born, Yet the most wonderful feature of that oxtraordlnary campaign' which then be- t:;m. unu wmcn nuvcr cchsiki wiuii uiu land was purged of its deadly sin, was that oven in the very "tempest and whirlwind whirl-wind of their pusslon" the great leaders of tho Republican party kept their agitation agita-tion strictly within the limits of thc Constitution Con-stitution and tho law. There was no general gen-eral demand for even an amendment to tho organic Instrument. They pleaded for tho repeal of unjust statutes as Inconsistent Inconsist-ent with tho Constitution, but did not advocate ad-vocate their violation. Only among the moro obscuro and ardent members of the party was there any demand for the abolition abo-lition of slavery, but the whole party stood like a rock for the principle that the damnable institution must be content with what it had already got, and must not be allowed to pollute another Inch of free soil. On this Impregnable ground they made their stand; nnd the mass convention con-vention which assembled hero In 1S54, whllo the vibrations of the thunder of the guns and the shoutings of the birthday of Liberty yet lingered In the air, gave a nucleus nu-cleus and a name to the new party, destined des-tined to a great and beneficent career. Before the month ended, the anti-slavery mon of five more great States adopted the uamo "Republican,", and under that banner ban-ner Congress was carried, and two years later a national party assembled at Pittsburg Pitts-burg and nominated Fremont and Dayton, Day-ton, who failed by a few votes of sweeping sweep-ing thc North. Enthusiasm, of Early Days. "tt'ho of us that was living then will ever, forget the ardent enthusiasm of th030 days? It was one of those periods, rare in the life of any nation, when men forget themselves and, in spite of habit, of interest, and of prejudice, follow their consciences wherever they may lead. In tho clean keen air that was abroad tho best men in tho country drew deeper breaths and rose to a moral height they had not before attained. Tho movement was universal. Sumner In the East, Seward Se-ward In Nov York. Chase in Ohio, Bates in Missouri. Blair In Maryland, all sent forth their identical appeal to the higher motive; and in Illinois, where the most popular man in the State boldly and cynl-callv cynl-callv announced. "I don't care whether slavery is voted up or voted down." a voice, new to thc Nation, replied, ' Thero nro somo of us who do care. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong" and Abraham Lincoln came upon the field not to leavo it until he was triumphant in death. Battle in Kansas. I havo no right to detain you at this hour in recounting tho history of thoso memorable days. Two Incidents of tho long battle will never be forgotten. One was the physical and political contest for tho possession of Kansas, carried on with desperate courage and recklessness of consequences by the pro-slavery party on tho one side, and, on the other, by the. Now England farmers whose weapons of aggression were Bible texts and the words of Jefferson, and whose arms ot defense were Shnrpe's rifles, "With words that ring even now when wo read them, Uko the clashing of swords, the Slave Stato men claimed Kansas us their right and tho Frr: State men replied In the words of the prophet beforo Herod, It Is not lawful for you to have her. And when the talking sharpened to thc physical physi-cal clinch, tho praying men fought with thc same ferocity as the men who cursed. Lincoln-Douglas Debato. In tho field of political discussion tho most dramatic Incident of the fight was the debate between Lincoln and Douglas, Not manv of you saw that battle of tho strong, w-hero each of the gladiators had an adversary worthy of his steel, where tho audiences were equally divided, where the combatants were fairly matched in debating skill and address, and whero the superiority of Lincoln was not so much personal as it wax in tho overwhelming over-whelming strength of his position. He was fighting for freedom and could say so; Douglas was lighting for slavery and could not avow It. Tho result of tho contest con-test is now acen to have been Inevitable. Douglao was re-elected to the Senate but had gained also the resentful suspicion of tho South, which two years later disowned dis-owned him and defeated his lifelong ambition. am-bition. Lincoln became at once tho fore-moat fore-moat Republican of the West and a little later tho greatest political figure of tho century- Immortal Lincoln-Ifi Lincoln-Ifi thero Is one thing moro than another In which we Republicans axo entitled to a logltimato pride It Is that Lincoln was pur first President: that we believed in him, loyally supported him while ho lived, and that wo have never lost the right to call ourselves hlc followers. There is not i a principle avowed by thc Republican parly today which Is out of harmony with his teachings or Inconsistent with his character. Vc do not object to our opponents op-ponents quoting him, praising him even claiming him as their own. If it is not sincere, it is still a laudable tribute to acknowledged ac-knowledged excellence. If it Is genuine, it is still better, for even a Nebraska Populist Pop-ulist who reads his Lincoln is in tho way of salvation. But only those who bcllevo In human right.) find are willing to make sacrifices to defend them; who bellovo in tho Nation and its beneficent power; who believe in the American system of protection protec-tion championed by a long lino of our greatest and best, running back from Mc-Klnley Mc-Klnley to Washington, and, as Senator Dolllvcr so truthfully said, "to the original origi-nal sources of Amorlcan common sense;" only thoso who bellovo In equal Juatlco to labor and to capital; In honest money and tho right to earn it, havo any title to namo themselves by tho name of Lincoln, Lin-coln, or to claim a moral kinship with that august and venerated spirit. I admit ad-mit it would be llttlo les than sacrllego to try to trade upon that benignant Renown, Re-nown, whoso light "folds in this orb o tho earth." But wc who have always tried to walk in thc road ho pointed out cannot can-not be deprived of tho tender pride of calling ourselves his disciples, and of doing do-ing In his namo the work allotted to us by Providence. And 1 hope I am violating violat-ing neither tho confidence of a friend nor the proprieties of an occasion Hko this wlmn I refer to thp ardent and able young statesman who is now. nnd is to be, our President to let you know that In times of doubt and difficulty the thought oftcn-est oftcn-est In his heart Is, "Whnt. in such a case, would Lincoln have dono?" Hatred and Calumny Gone. As wc are removed further and further from the founders of our party and their mighty work, their names and their famo rise every year higher in the great icr-spectlve icr-spectlve of history- The clamor of hatred and calumny dies away. The efforts mado to weaken tho hands 6f Lincoln and his associates are forgotten The survivors of thoso who no bitterly attacked him nnd his cause, which was the cause of tho country, are now themselves astonished when confronted with the words they then uttered But It was against a political polit-ical opposition not less formidable and efficient than the armed force beyond tho Potomac that thc Unlrn men of that day, and their President, had to struggle. It was not merely the losses in battle, the waste of our wealth, the precious blood of our young men, thnt filled Lincoln's heart with anguish and mado 1dm old before be-fore his lime, but it was the storm of partisan hostility that raged against him, filling the air with slanders and thwarting thwart-ing his most earnest and unselfish efforts for tho country's good But In spite of it nil he persevered, never for a moment' tempted by tho vast power he wielded to any action not Justified by the moral and tho organic law. I havo always liked the inscription, on the medal which tho workmen work-men of France, by 1-ccnt subscriptions, caused to be struck after his death: "Abraham Lincoln, the honest man. Waged war. Abolished slavery'- Twice elected President without veiling tho face of liberty." This was an achievement now to the world: that a man and a party-armed party-armed with an authority so unquesllonod nnd so stupendous, in the very current ot a vast war, should have submitted thtm-selves thtm-selves so rigidly to the law nnd river have dreamed thero was anything meritorious meri-torious about It. The.n. If never before, wc proved we were as fit to bo free as the men who achloved our freedom, Learned Other Lessons. The world learned other lessons In cwlft them home to earn their livings as simple citizens of the land they had Saved, without with-out terms or conditions: thoy asked none; they wanted peace; they wero glad to get to work. And there were no reprisals, not a man punished for rebellion or treason; not an act of violence sullied the glory of victory The fight had been llerce, but loyal; we at least wished the reconciliation reconcilia-tion to be perfect. Then came tho naylng of our debts. To whom is the credit due of that onormou3 task, that sublime effort ef-fort of common honesty. If not to the party par-ty which against every assault of open and covert repudiation stood by the country's coun-try's honor and kept It free from stain? Work of the Republicans. Let me hurriedly enumerate a few of the events In thc long and fruitful career of the Republican party which seem to us to entitle It to the confidence of the country coun-try and the llnal approval of history. After Af-ter the war was ended and peace re-established with no damage to the structure of the Govi-rnment, but. on the contrary, with added strength and with Increased guaranties of Its perpetuity. It rcmnlned to be shown whether the power and success suc-cess of tho Republican party wore to be permanent, or whether, born of a crisis, it was fitted to cope with thc problems of dally national life. It hnd destroyed ola-vcrv, ola-vcrv, or. perhaps wc might better say. it had created the conditions by which slavery had committed suicide. In tho absence ab-sence of this great adversary, could tho party hold together against thc thousand lesser evils that beset the public life of modern peoples thc evils of Ignorance, corruption, avarice, and lawlessness, thc prejudices of race and of class, the voices of demagogues, the cunning of dlsboncst craft, the brutal tyranny of the boss, the venalltv of tho mean7 I think It Is not too much to say that tho last forty jears have given an answer, full of glory and honor, to that question. Capacity to Govern. Tho Republican party, in the mass and In detail, has shown its capacity to govern. gov-ern. By tho homestead law. with equal generosity and wisdom. It distributed tho immense national domain among the citizens citi-zens who were willing to cultivate It and who'hnve converted wide stretches of wilderness wil-derness Into smiling homed It built the Pacific railroad, which has bound tho Union together from East to WosL by bands of steel and made tho States beyond be-yond the mountains among our most loyal and prosperous commonwealths. It redeemed re-deemed our paper currency and mado all our forms of money of exactly equal value, val-ue, and our credit tho best iu the world. Bv persistent hojienly In our finances in tho face of obsUicles which might have daunted the hardiest statesmen It has reduced re-duced our Interest charges so that In any mart on earth wo can borrow money cheaper than any other people. Policy of Protection. In tho financial revulsions to which all communities aro HUbJect, wo are able, thanks to our laws and our ndmlnlstratlvo system, to meet and pass tho most violent crisis without lasting damage to our prosperity. pros-perity. Wc have, by tho patient labor of vears, so succeeded In reforming and regulating reg-ulating our civil service that patronage has almost censed to cast Its deadly blight upon tho work of our public servants. Human Hu-man nature Is weak and offenuos happen; but thov arc nlmost always found out and aro punished without mercy when detected. de-tected. Bv persistent adherence to tho policy of protection, wo have given to oiir Industries a development which thc fathers fath-ers of tho Republic never dreamed of; which, besides supplying our homo market, mar-ket, has carried our manufacturers to the uttermost ends of thc earth. Has no Parallel. Hlstorv affords no parallel to tho vast and Increasing prosperity which this country coun-try has enjoyed under Republican rule. I hasten to say we do not claim to havo Invented seedtime and harvest, and Industry Indus-try and thrift. We are a great peoplo and success Is our right; God Is good to those who behave- themselves. But we may lustly claim that tho Republican party ha3 been in power during these years of marvelous mar-velous growth, and wo can at least bring proof that we havo not prevented It and this Is nn slight honor for a party to claim. I will not at this moment speak of the Important acquisitions of territory wo have made, which render us In many ways tho predomlnaut power in tho Pacific Pa-cific But out of tho territory wo droadjr. possessed, fourteen new States havo entered en-tered tho Union. Some Interesting Figures. The census, of 1S50 gavo us 23.f-M.CC0 of population the lust ono, TG.OOO.OOO, Tho number of our farms thc totnl of our cultivated cul-tivated acreage has Increased fourfold. Our corn crop Is five times what it wns; pur wheat crop, lx times. Tho capital invested In manufacturing has grown from five hundred millions to ten bll-1 bll-1 ons; where It employed lea than a mil-. Hon artisans, it now emp!oy more than live millions; nnd whllo thc number of worklngmon has Increased five time, their wages has Increased tenfold. Tho value of manufactured property Is thirteen thir-teen times what It was when thc Republicans Republi-cans of Michigan met under the oaks. A Billion Dollar Country. The real and personal wr.ilth of the country has grown in this amazing hair century from seven thousand1 millions to ninety-four thousand millions. Our railroads rail-roads have grown from a mlleago of 16.-000 16.-000 to one of 00,000. Our imports and exports ex-ports havo gone up by leaps and bounds to tho same monstroun proportions. And finally. let us hasten to say. as the other sltTo will any it for us, instead of the f!7.-(00,000 f!7.-(00,000 which supplied our modest needs In 1S50 wo now collect and spend somo 5700 -000.000 annually I can only add what Speaker Reed replied to a Democratic statesman who complained of a billion-dollar billion-dollar Congress: "Weill this is a billion-dollar billion-dollar country." McKinley and Koosevelt. Of course our opponents, who. havo got far onoush from the men and tho events of the groat war period to admit thoy wero not without merit, will say for thev must sny 6omothing that we have fallen away from that high level. Now. I am grieved to confess that I am old enough to have seen something of tho beginning, as woll as of thc present, of Republican Administrations, and I venture to eav that no eight years of government In our history his-tory havo been purer from blame or have conferred greater benefits upon tho country coun-try than tho eight years of McKlnlcy and Roosevelt which claim your approval today. to-day. I need not hesitate to refer to It. although al-though I havo boon associated with both Administrations; so llttlo of tholr merit Is mlno that I may speak of thom without falso modesty. Magnificent Credit, Our national finances havo never In our history been so wisely and successfully administered; our credit nover stood on a basis so broad and so strong. Our,two-per Our,two-per cents command a premium In all marketsno mar-ketsno other country on earth can say as much. We paid abroad tho other day fifty millions of gold In a single transaction transac-tion without producing a rlpplo In exchange. ex-change. Tho vast expenditure mado necessary ne-cessary by our enormous increase in overy element of national growth Is collected with tho utmost ense and expended with perfect honesty. Our protective system, loyally and Intelligently carriod out and Improved In tho last seven years, not only fijls our treasury with tho menns of national expenditure, but has carried our industries and our commerce- to a height of prosperity which is tho wonder und. envy of our neighbors, who are trying to emulate our progress In the relations between labor and capital, always a subject sub-ject of deep concern in democratic governments, govern-ments, we have improved both in tho letter let-ter and the spirit. How could It be otherwise other-wise when labor knows' that McKlnlcy and Roosevelt have watched over Its Interests In-terests as abrothcr might, and capital knows that Its rights will bo sacredly guarded so long as it is truo to lt3 duties? Has Become a World Power. As to our place in thc world, It has simply sim-ply followed and naturally complemented condition, A country growing so fast must havo elbowroom must have Its share of the sunshine. In tho last seven years, without aggression, without undue self-assertion, we havo taken tho place that belonged to ds. Adhering with religious re-ligious caro to tho precepts of Washington Washing-ton nnd tho traditions of a centurv, and avoiding all entangling alliances, professing profes-sing friendship to all nations and partiality par-tiality to none,! McKlnlcy and Roosevelt have gone steadily forward protecting nnd extending American Interests everywhere and gaining, by deserving It, the good will of all the world. Their advice has been constantly sought and sparingly given By constant iteration their policy has been made plain. We do not covet the territory nor the control of any other people. We hold ourselven absolutely apart from uny combinations or groups of powers. Favor No Interests but Our Own. We favor no national Interests but our own. In controversies among our nelgh-bore nelgh-bore we tako no part, not oven tendering good offices unless af tho request of both parties concerned. When our advlco Is given, It Is always n tU side of peace and conciliation. We havo mado, It is true, great acquisitions, but nover of set purpose nor from greed of land. n Iho case of Hawaii, the will of the jjoodIo of those Islands coincided with the Important Interests we have to guard In thc Pacific. In tho Samoan treat we freed ourselves from a useless and dangerous entanglement, entangle-ment, and In place of an undesirable condominium con-dominium wc gained possession of the best harbor in tho South Scaa. retaining, at the samo time, all our commercial rights In tho archipelago. Diplomacy Unequalled. The diplomacy of McKlnlcy and Roosevelt Roose-velt has been directed principally to our present and future Interests in the Pacific, Pa-cific, on whose wide shores ao much of tho world's work is to bo done. They have constantly kept In vlow the vase Importance of that opening field of our activities. Tho long negotiations lor tho "open door" In China; tho steadfast light wc made for thc integrity of that ancient empire; President McKlnlcy's attitude throughout tho Boxer troubles, so ncvein-ly ncvein-ly criticized at the tlmo and so splendidly approved by tho result, tho position resident res-ident Roosevelt has since held and now holds In regard to thc neutrality of China In tho present war have all been dictated dictat-ed by ono consistent policy, of taking caro that our Interests recelvo no. detriment detri-ment In the Pacific; that whllo we wish no harm to anyono else, wc shall see that no damage la dono to our people, no door Is shut In our faco. Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. Tho negotiations begun by McKlnlcy and successfully completed toy Roosevelt for the abrogation of tho Clayton-Bulwer treaty, which Impeded our freedom of action ac-tion in building an Isthmian canal, was a part of tho samo general plan of opening! a field of cntorprlso In thoso llstant regions re-gions where tho Far West becomes the Far East. In this matter wo woro met in tho most frunk nnd friendly 3uint by thc British Government, as also In tho matter of tho Alaskan boundary, which wuo settled for all tlmo by a high Judicial tribunal removing a cloud upon our tltlo to another great Pacific possession And to close this record of success monotonous monoto-nous becauso gained by appeals to reason rather than force, without parado or mol-odrnma mol-odrnma camo tho treaty with Panama, by which we finally gained the pathway across the Isthmus by a perpetual grant, Inuurlng the construction of an American canal under American control, built primarily pri-marily for American nceda, but open on equal terms to all tho peoplo of good will thc world over. All thc foreign policy of McKlnlcy nnd Roosevelt has bcon marked with the cnnio stamp of honesty and fair dealing, confessedly con-fessedly In American interests, but treating treat-ing our friends with equity and consideration. considera-tion. They have made moro treaties than any two preceding Prcsid-ints; and tho conclusion of the whole matter 13 that we stand today In Independent though nmlca-blo nmlca-blo relations to all tho rest of tho world without an ally and without an enemy. Question of Islands. If tho Government for tho last Fcven years hnd dono nothing else, It would havo entitled Itself to an honorablo placo In history by tho manner In which It has handled t-ho oucsUoai pt tho. islands ( whose destiny hns been ao interwoven with our own. Thc war with Spain wno carried through with Incredible swnftncs3 and energy, without a shadow of corruption, corrup-tion, without a moral or a tcchnlcfl fault. A hundred days sufficed for thc fighting. . Diplomacy then did Its work, nnd our commissioners brought homo a treaty so Just and so beneficial that It was impossible impos-sible to unite the opposition against it. Then come the far more difficult and delicate deli-cate task of administration. You remember remem-ber the doleful prophecies of evil with which thc air was filled; that wc had i'Ot thc habit nor the nblllty to govern outlying outly-ing possessions; that tho Islands would bo cesspools of Jobbery nnd fraud; that tho enterprise wna conceived in violence and would go out in disaster And now you know the result. Tho Republic nover Is In default of mon to serve It worthily when the chief of thc State is honest and able; when ho has tho eye and tho will to choose tho beat men and will be satisfied sat-isfied with no lessr So In Cubn. Porto Rico and thc Philippines we got tho best wo had. Wood, Allen and Hunt, and Taft havo each in his plnco wrought a groat work and gained a righteous famo. Cuba and Porto Rlcq arc free and enjoying enjoy-ing tho ono under her own banner, tho other under tho Stars and Stripes a degree de-gree of prosperity and happiness nover known beforo In all their troubled story. In the Philippines. Ao to the Phillpplucs, thc work dono thero by Judgo Taft and hla assoclateo will rank among the highest achievements achieve-ments of colonial udmlulntratlon recorded in history. Never since their discovery has thero been such general peace and order; or-der; ao thorough a protection of tho peaceable and restraint of evil doors; so wide a diffusion of education; so completo a guaranty to Industry of the fruit of Its labors. And when they see this energetic nnd efficient government carried on, free from tho venality and bribery which for-merely for-merely seemed to them a necessity of existence, ex-istence, then, indeed, they are Hko thom that drenm. Tho principal evil from which they 3till suffer has Its origin here. Somo woll-meanlng people and others not so well meaning are constantly persuading them that they aro oppressed, and that they will be given their liberty, as they choose to call It, as soon as tho Republican Republi-can party Is overthrown In this country. Tlicao are tho true enemies of tho Filipinos, Fili-pinos, and not the men who are striving with whole-hearted energy and with consummate con-summate success to ameliorate their condition con-dition and to make them lit for self-government and all Its attendant advantages. The so-called antl-impcrlallsts confound in their dally speeches and writings two absolutely unrelated ideas tho liberty, the civil rights, thc self-government which we havo given tho Filipinos, and the independence which the be3t of thom do not want and know.thoy aro unable to maintain. To abandon them now, to cast ?hem adrift at tho mercy of accident, would bo an act of cowardice and trcach-nry trcach-nry which would gain us tho scorn and reproach of civilization. Draw From Other Parties. Our opponents sometimes say wo havo no right to claim tho credit of the groat deeds of tho last half century that wo could not have accomplished thom without with-out the aid of Democrats. Nothing truer was ever said; and It is one of tho chief glories of our annals, and It forms tho surest foundation of our hopes for tho future. fu-ture. The principles upon which our party par-ty is built aro so sound, thoy havo so Irresistible Irre-sistible an attraction to patriotic and fair-minded fair-minded men, that whenever a time of crisis cri-sis comes, when thc national wclfaro Is clearly at stako, when voters must decide whether thoy shall follow their prejudices or tholr consciences, wo draw from other parties their best men by thousands. Ballied to tho Colors. Bright among the brightest of thoso who Democrats, and whon tho war camo on, the picked men of that party rallied to thc colors. Douglas, shortly before he died, declared his unfaltering support of Lincoln. Lin-coln. The sun would go down beforo I could name tho Democrats who fought like heroes for thc country. Grant, Sherman, Sher-man, Shorldan. Dlx. Sickles, Logan In short, nn lnnumorablo host. Democrats all, rushed Into tho fiold and thereafter fought and worked with tho Republicans whllo life lasted. And that vast majority of Lincoln's In 1SCI would have been Impossible Im-possible had not myriads of Democrats, casting their life-long associations to the winds, listened to the Inward monitor, which said. -'Choose you this day whom ye will serve." Proof of Homely Adage. As It was then, so it has been in after years. When tho attempt was mado to repudiate, In whole or in part, the national debt, or to abolish the system of protection protec-tion to American industries, founded by Washington and Hamilton, and approved by thc experience of a hundred years, or to degrade our currency at tho demand of mere Ignorance and greed In all theso cases wo saw tho proof of tho homely udago that you may lead a horse to tho water, but may not mako him drink. In spite of organizations and platforms, in aplto of tho frantic adjurations of gifted orators, hosts of patriotic Democrats walked quietly to tho polls and voted as their consciences dictated. In tho interests inter-ests of tho public welfare rather than of a party. Even In so lofty and restricted an arena as our Senate, wc havo scon tho ablest and most adroit organizer of his party fall In tho most energetic effort of his life to lnduco his party to reject a great national benefit because it was ottered ot-tered by Republican hands. Half the Democratic Senators sold this was no question for pettifogging politics and voted for an American canal across tho isthmus. Good Men in All Parties. We are not claiming that we monopolize the vlrtuo or tho patriotism of tho country. coun-try. There arc good men In all parties. I know far bolter men than I am who nro Domocrats. But wo nro surely allowed, in a love feast like this, to talk of what has been dono by tho family, and at least to brag a llttlo of the Domocrats who havo holped us. Wo get their votes for ono reason rea-son onlv becauso wo started right and in tho main have kept right. We Invito accessions ac-cessions from tho ranks of our patriotic opponents, and wo nhall get them In the future, as wo have In thc pnst, whonover wo deserve them. Wo shall get them this year, becauso this year wo do deserve thom. Wo come beforo the country In n position which cannot ba successfully attacked at-tacked In front, or flunk, or rear. What we havo dono, what wo aro doing, and what wo Intend to do on all three we confidently challonge the verdict of thc American people. Thc record of fifty years will show whether as a party wo are lit to govern; the state of our domestic domes-tic and foreign affalra will show whether as a party wo have fallen off; and both together will show whether wo can bo trusted for a whllo longer. Platform Beforo Country. Our platform Is beforo tho country. Per-' haps it Is lacking In novelty. Thero Is ccrtainlv nothing sensational about it. It Is substantially tho platform on which we won two great victories In tho name of McKlnlcy, and It Is' still sound and serviceable ser-viceable Its principles havo beon tested by eight years of splendid .success, and havo received tho approval of the. country coun-try It is in line with all our platforms of the past, except where prophecy and promloo In those days have become history his-tory In these. We stand by tho nnclont ways which have proved good. What Will St. Louis DoP It would take a wizard to guess what a dainty dish our adversaries will sot beforo tho sovereign people tomorrow. Their Stato conventions havo given them a rich variety to choose from. As to money, they rango all tho way from Bedlam to Belmont: as to tnrlff, the ono wing In Maryland Is almoat sane, thc other wants raving freo trade and dynamlto for the, pustom-houacs. AVhen they discuss our Island possessions, some want to scuttle awav and abandon them out of hnml; others agreo with that Risible Southerner Southern-er who said: "What's thc use talking about expansion. Great Scott' we've dono expanded!" One thing Is reasonably suro; they will got as- noar to our. platform -aa thoy porslbly can and they will by Implication Impli-cation approve everything McKlnlcy and RoohcvcR have dono in the last four years. Thoy will favor sound llnanco and a tariff which will not disturb business; rigid honesty in administration and prompt punishment of thc dishonest; tho Monroo Doctrine and an Isthmian canal. To be logical they ought to go on and nomlnato tho Republican candidates who aro pledged to all theso laudable policies. Will Not Be Logical. But they will not bo logical. They do not earo to oppose our policy; they moro-ly moro-ly deny our sincerity In avowing It, They can not deny tho soundness of our principles, prin-ciples, they pretend themselves to hold them. But the function of an opposition Is to oppose, and as tney are otherwise destitute of an Issue they week to mako a few by attributing to us principles We have never dreamed of holding and policies poli-cies which are abhorrent to ub. And distrusting dis-trusting tho effect of these maneuvers In advance, they announce their plan of campaign cam-paign to bo not pro-anythlng, but antl-Roosevelt. antl-Roosevelt. This Is a mcie counsel of desperation, des-peration, and the Republicans will gladly accept thc Issue. Democracy Dodges Issues. Even on this narrow lssuo they will dodge moHt of the details. Ask them, Has tho President been a good citizen, a good soldier, a good man lit all personal rela-tlbns? rela-tlbns? Is ho a man of lntelligonce, of education? edu-cation? Docs ho know this country well? Does he know tho world outsldo? Han ho studied law, history, and politics? Has lie had great chances to learn, and has ho Improved them? Is hp sound and strong In mind, body, nnd soul9 Is he accessible and friendly to all sorts and conditions of men? Has he thecourngo and tho candor, and tho God-glvcn ability to speak to tho people nnd tell them what he thinks? To all theso questions they will answer, Yes. Thon what Is your objection to him? They will cither stand speechless or they will answer with tho parrot cry whloh wo havo heard acoftcn: Ho Is uusafe! In a certain sense wc shall havo to admit ad-mit this to be true. To every grade of lnwbreakcr, high or low; to a man who would rob a till or a ballot box; to tho sneak or tho bully r to the hypocrite and the humbug, Theodoro Roosevelt Is moro than unsafe; ho Is positively dangerous. Three Indispensables, But let us bo serious with theso good people. What are tho coefficients of safety safe-ty in a Chief of State? He should have courage; tho widest coward that ever lived Js not fit to rule. And Intelligence: wo want no blunder-headed hero In the Whlto House. And honesty; a clover thief w'ould do Infinite mlschlof. Theso three are tho indispensables. With them a man Is all the more safe If ho has a sense of proportion, pro-portion, a sense o.f humor, a wide knowledge knowl-edge of men and affairs; if ho seeks good counsel; and, finally, if he Is a patriot. If he loves his country, believes In it, and seeks in all things Its interest and it3 glory. Any man may make mistakes; but such a man as this will mako fow, and no grave ones. Tribute to Hoosevclt. Such a man Is our President and our candidate. Ho Is prompt and energetic, but ho takes infinite pains to get at tho factri before he acts. In all tho crises In which ho has been accused of unduo hasto, his action ha3 been tho result of long meditation and well-reasoned conviction. If ho thinks rapidly, that l.s no fault; ho thinks thoroughly, nnd that Is tho essential. essen-tial. When he made peaco between tho minors and tho operators. It was no sudden sud-den caprice but the fruit of serious reflection, reflec-tion, and this act of mingled philanthropy and common sense was justified by a great practical result. When he proclaimed anew thc Monroe Doctrino In tho Vone-zuela Vone-zuela case his notion was followed bv tho moat explicit acceptance of that saving nnllr.1' wMnVi lnc nnrn . .... r overseas. Ho acted very swiftly, It is true, In Mississippi, when tho best citizens citi-zens of a town threatened the life of a postmistress for no fault but her color. He simply said, "Very well, gentlemen; you mo get your letters somewhere else for a while." Merger Suits, And as to the merger suits, now that peoplo have come to their senses they nee that his action In that case was as regular as the equinox. He was Informed through legal channels that a stntute had boon violated. vio-lated. He did not make the statute, but he wns bound by his oath to execute it. He brought the proceeding which it wad his duty to bring Tho courts, from the lowest to tho highest, sustained his action. Ho did what it would have been a high misdemeanor not to havo done. The laws In this country aro mado to bo obeyed, whether It is sufo or noL It 13 always unsafe un-safe to dlsoboy them. fsthmian Waterway. But IhiV.'o has been moro noise mado over his suddenness on tho isthmus of Panama than elsewhere. It Is difficult to treat this chargo with seriousness. The President had made a troaty with Colombia Co-lombia at her own solicitation, which was Infinitely to her advantage, to inaugurate an enterpriso which was to be for tho benefit of the world. He waited with endless end-less patience whllo Bogota delayed and trifled with tho matter, and finally rojoct-ed rojoct-ed It. and suggested now negotiations for a larger sum. Panama, outraged by this climax of tho wrongs she had already suffered, declared and established her independence, in-dependence, Tho President, following an unbroken line of precedents, entered Into relations with tho new Republic, nnd. obeying his duty to protect the transit of tho isthmus as all other Prcsldonts had dono before him, gavo orders that thero should be no bloodshed on thc lino of the railway Ho said, like Grant, "Let us havo peace." and wo had it. It will seem Incrcdlblo to poatorlty that any American could havo objected to this. Ho acted wisely and beneficently, and all some people can find to criticise in his action ac-tion Is thnt ho was too brisk about it. If a thing is right and proper to do, It does not mukc it criminal to do It promptly. No. gentlemen! That wa3 a tlmo when tho hpur and the man arrived together. Ho struck while the Iron was whlto hot on tho anvil of opportunity and forged as perfect a bit of honest statecraft as this generation has seen. Issue This Campaign. Wc could desire no better fortune, In thc Cnmpalgn upon which wo aro entering, enter-ing, than that tho other sldo should persist! per-sist! In. their announced intention to mako the lesue upon President Roosevelt. What a godsend to our orators! It takes somo studv, somo research, to talk about tho tariff, or tho currency, or foreign policy. pol-icy. But to talk about Roosevelt! it Is as easy as to sing "tho glory of thc Graeme." Of gontlo birth and brooding, yet a man of the people In tho best sense; with tho training of a scholar nnd tho breezy accessibility ac-cessibility of a ranchman; a man of tho library nnd a man of tho world: an athlete ath-lete and a thinker; (l soldier and a statesman; states-man; a reader, a writer, and a makor of history; with tho sensibility of a poet and tho steel nerve of a rough rider; ono who nover did, and never could, turn his back on a frlond or nn onomy. A man whoso merits nro so great that ho could win on bin merits alone; whoso personality personal-ity is so engaging that you lose sight of his merits. Mako their fight on a man llko that1 What Irreverent caricaturist was it that culled them thc Stupid party? Eulogy' of Fairbanks. In our candidate for thc Ylco-Presldoncy wo have gono bnck to tho old and commendable com-mendable custom of the Republic nnd nnvc nominated a man In overy way fit for tho highest place in tho Nation, who will bring to thc Presidency of tho Senate Sen-ate an ability and exporlenco rarely uciunlod in its history. 1 havo detained you too long; yot as I oloso I want to say a word to thc young mon whose political Ufo Is beginning. Anyone, entering business would, be glad of "tho chnnco to become one of an established estab-lished firm witli years or success behind It, with a wide connection, with unblemished unblem-ished character, with credit founded on a rock. How infinitely brighter the future when tho present is oo suro, tho past so glorious. Everything groat donn by this country in tho last ntty ysars, has- been dono under tho ausmlcea of tho Republi- ' 't can party. In not thia consciousness n. kj .7 jH great asset to havo In. your mind nnd ,', f ' memory? As a mere Horn of personal W" I comfort In It not worth having? Lincoln i '" 1 and Grant. Hayes and Garfield. Harrison I . '. f 1 and McKlnlcy namca socuro In tho hcav- r - if ' jl en of famo they all aro gone, leaving , ; 1 flH small cstatos In worldly goods, but what ' t FH vast possessions In principles, memories, '' ill M sacred associations! It In a start In Ufa i ' t fll to share that wealth. Who now boasts H that he opposed Lincoln? who brngs ot , '' l, vl his voting against a rant? though both 5 I il acts may havo bcon from tho best of mo- . j ll Must Bo Too Parties. I ; 1 Hl In our form of government there must I i f ll bo two parties, and tradition, clrcum- i ijH Htanccs, temperament, will alwayc create T (.' a sufficient opposition But what young I ' man would not rathor bolong to tho party I IH that does things; Instead of ono thnt op- ; poses them; to tho party that looks up, I' iH rather than down: to the party of tho . IH dawn, rather than of thc sunset For . '. IH fifty yoars tho Republican party has be- j IH llevcd In the country and labored for It i In hope and Joy: it has rovcrenccd thn . i flag and followed It: has carried it under lj strange sklc-x and planted It on far-re- 4H ceding horizons. It has socn the Nation , m grow groaler every year nnd more re- I ' , i jcJ'H spectcd; by Just dealing, by Intelligent ' , H labor, by a genius for enterprise, it has lH scon the country extend Its lntercourso i ilH and its Influence to regions unknown to - 'Jl our fathers. Yet it has never abated on't iH Jot or tlttlo of thc ancient law Imposed on . . i . us by our God-fearing ancestors. :i( 1 Go Forward. ' ; We havo fought a good fight, but also ' wo havo kept tho faith. Tho Constitution of our fathers has beon tho light to our ; feet; our path Is, and will ever remain, - that of ordered progress, of liberty under ' : tho law. Tho country has vastly In- : creased, but tho grcat-brnlncd statesmen. 1 who preceded us provided for infinite lH growth. The dlcoverlos of science havo r ilH mnno miraculous additions to our knowl- ' 'H edge. But we aro not daunted by pro- -gross; wo are not nfrald of the Hrht. The fabric our fathers bulldcd on mioh pure x j foundations will stand all shocks of fate flH or fortune. There will always be a proud I plensuro In looking back on tho history ;. ! they mado; but, guldod by their example, ' i JM the coming generation has tho right to ' IH anticipate work not less Important, days equally mcmorabla to mankind. Wo who are passing oft tho stago bid you, as tho I children of Israol encamping by tho eca ; IH wore bidden, to Go Forward; wo whose IH hands can no longer hold tho flaming IH torch pass It on to you that Ub clear light ' may show tho truth to tho ages that aro ' ( .Jl to come. t ' Senator Fairbanks of Indiana vras dl tho noxt speaker. Ho spoke as follows: i |