Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 146, 10 July 1908 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AHT STJX-TELEGRA3I,

DELEWARE PRESENTS THE NAME OF GRAY

Eastern State Nominates Judge George Gray for The Presidency.

AN ILLUSTRIOUS DEMOCRAT

FORMER CONGRESSMAN IRVING HANDY PRAISES THE WORK OF DELAWARE CANDIDATE IN HIS NOMINATING SPEECH.

In presenting to the convention the same of George Gray, of Delaware.

former Congressman living

said:

finding endeared him forever to organized labor. It Justifies me In applying to him the ancient description of an upright Judge: '"He put on righteousness and it clothed him; his Judgment was a robe and a diadem; and he brake the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil out of his teeth "Such has been the quality of his life long service, and he stands in its whit light approved of the people. "George Gray is a moderate, not a violent man. With him as president justice and prudence will walk hand in hand, and peace will be restored between man and man throughout our borders. He is sound, not sensational, and with him as president we shall have rest from turmoil so that prosperity may come again. The country needs a rest. Honest enterprise and honest toil need a change to attend to their own business; and George Gray is no meddler and can ue happy when he is not engaged in a fight. If we

want industrial prosperity, we must establish and maintain industrial peace.

"This man has the temperament, the

love of justice, and the firmness of

Handy principle to correct abuses without dis

ordering and wrecking the affairs of

performance of public duty, against political corruption, against the entrenchments of lawless wealth and against the deliverance of the rights of the people and of their chosen representatives into the possession of a triumvirate out of sympathy with the people, the democratic party sets its face and prepares for a mighty conflict. Again proclaiming for all equality, for none special favor, It enters upon the contests with the consciousness of being right and with the assurance of being victorious. "Here in this beautiful city of the mountains have assembled the delegates who are to select the leader in thi6 campaign of the people to recover their rights and privileges. "What ever dissentions there may be in our ranks, whatever differences of opinion may prevail, to be worthy of the task before us, we must choose our leader with calmness and deliberation and when he is chosen we must follow him with zeal and with strength mindful only of the great purposes we seek to accomplish. "If there is one in our party great enough and good enough to be made our candidate, upon whom all within

was stainless, wnose energy ana aon- me truth, as oe sees it, so mat ms

. . I thA npnnle

-Air. cnairman aim ueUurui the wlcked and pluck tne Epoil out of

convention. their teeth: but he will know how to

"I have a duty to perform, placed destroy the beast of prey without be-

upon me by the democracy or tne state jaborlng an of the domestic animals, from which I come. In the perform- H ... atoo nredatorv wealth from

ance of that duty, my heart leaps with depredations without terrorizing hon- j

pleasure. est and industrious wealth. He is

"Because of his ability, because of progressive, not revolutionary; const!

his patriotism, because of the maturity tutional, not autocratic, practical, not

of his judgment, because of his devo- visionary.

tion to true democratic principles, be- "George Gray is not only the man

cause of the width and depth of his ex- best fitted to be president, but he is

perience in governmental affairs, and also the democrat we can most surely

because of his devotion to Justice and elect president. He will be an acceptto the constitution, the man who is able candidate in every part of our

best fitted to perform the duties of broad country.

president of the United States is "Surely he will be peculiarly satis-

George Gray. As a general rule the factory to the people of the Southern

man best fitted for the place is most states, where we must look for that available for the nomination. ever failing body of electoral votes

tr von are to nominate a man be- which constitutes the backbone of our

cause he is eager to be president, you strength. His great and successful

will not name Judge Gray. There fight in the senate agamst the Force

are other candidates who want this Bill opened the safe pathway down

nomination more than he does. This which those states have walked to shelter from the black storm which

fcition is the last weakness of great threatened their civilization. How re

minds, and ambition is the greatest Joiced would Southern men be to see

dancer the oeonle have to fear in rul- once more in the white house a presi

ers. Judge Gray is a public servant dent who understands and appreciates

without nersonal ambition. In this tne soutnern man s point 01 view:

our ranks can agree, and around whom

He will break the jaws of I no internal strife has raged, one who

can better than any other unite all the factions and all the divisions of the democratic party upon a platform enunciating the demands of the people and dedicated to them, it is wise and it is our duty to name him as our candi-

he Is like our first and greatest presi

dent.

"If you are to nominate the man

whom- you personally love the best,

"As to the group of states on the Atlantic seaboard Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia there is no doubt

I V. rAnr(.a flvav its far n n avL'av tVlA

perhaps you may nominate some other u " candidate: for I am not-unmindful of strongest candidate that can be named.

the personal devotion which delegates

After all, those are the states in which

our great political battle must be fought and won or lost. When did the democratic party ever come within hailing distance of victory without carrying these states V It would be a wanton recklessness to plan a cam-

The government has paign which abandoned the chance of travaeant and auto- carrying those old-time democratic

cratic, and the prosperity of te people states in the delusive hope of making yaB fni. nn itself wines and flown ood the loss in other portions of the

amav Wpp institutions exist in order field

that at such a time as this the country "Delaware is a small state, but it is v nArMhiv rhamrfl its rulers and sometimes given to small people to

.k.i, . nniiriw perform great services. In offering

"Knterlne on a nolitical camnalgn in George Gray as your presidential can

T,in, viMm v nv riPfeat means so delate Delaware isoffering a great ser

date. "The great North Star State, midway between the two oceans and at the the head of the great valley of the Plississippl, comes here with a message to deliver and a record to disclose. She has a son whom she loves and has signally honored and she cannot better aid in the great work that lies before us than in offering to us as a leader that honored citizen of the state. "Thousands upon thousands of the men and women of this country were

born in other lands and under other flags. The opportunities to be found in this land, the broad principles upon which our form of government rests, the freedom of action and the se-

ity were known; one wno naa mace no factional enemies, but who had always been loyal in the service of the state. "From no one section, from no one faction, from no one class came Uie call for the man of the hour. It summoned from his modest office the publisher of a weekly paper and around him rallied the remnants of the democratic party that had so ofen struggled in vain against the crushing force of republican majorities. Reunited, inspired with the hope of victory, they followed this man and supported hijm. Not to honor him, not to gratify his ambitions, but to arouse a state from drowsv inaction to energetic life. In

that year President Koosevelt carried the state by a plurality greater than 1K,C00, but the democratic governor was elected. ' Two years ago he was a candidate for re-election. His successful efforts in securing a reduction of transportation charges, his successful campaign against timber trespassers who had long been undisturbed, his insurance

reforms, his tireless struggles for faithful and efficient service in every department of the state government, and his frank and fearless manner of dealing with all questions and matters that came before him, made him the trusted tribune of the common people of the state. " 'One good term deserves another,' was the caidfcaign cry, and when the ballots were counted it was found that he had been re-electec By a plurality greater than 70,x.0, the greatest ever given to a gubernatorial candidate in the state.

"Today, this man, in the prime of

life, courteous, kind ana unpretentious

strong, resolute and virile, an orator

of unusual power, who has attained

honorable distinction by his own industry" and effort, whose character and winning personality compel the love of his friends and the respect of his political opponents this man, innocent of the allurements cf great wealth, who has not been swerved from the path of duty nor fascinated by the power given into his hands nor dizzied by greater honors placed before

words may be a light and not a net and a snare upon the pathway of the convention. I say then, whatever may be your partiality and devotion to any particular leader, however great and mag-

to the sober walks of statesmanship. Against the candidate of Mr. Roosevelt, the candidate of paternalism, and executive selection, the candidate of centralized power and personal absolutism, the candidate of a construction that would destrqy the constitution

netic and powerful he may be. if his j and hrow the shadow of despotism

candidacy makes the impending con

test doubtful or unpromising for the

over the land, the candidate who as

soon as he is fairly warm in the seat

the functions of both the legislative and judicial departments in a manner subversive of democratic institutions and not to be borne by a free people. Against this revolutionary and destructive doctrine we present the saving principles of Thomas Jefferson ia the candidacy of Governor John John" son. If this Government cannot protect itself and do its duty without ov-

democratic party he ought aofto be of one office itches for another, we "leaping the very law of its creation

chosen as its presidential nominee. There is no lamp for us but the lamp of experience. We have no basis for judging the future but the past, and in the light of the past I ask you whether you deliberately propose to go again to the crushed hopes and the

gloomy disappointments, the defeat and disaster to which we were brought on the stricken and fatal fields of 1S96 and 1900? On both those occasions we believed one man omnipotent and on both occasions that belief led us to defeat and made the democracy an easy prey to the forces of monopoly and absolutism. "Mr. Pitt, the only man to save the

country.' So spoke Sheridan

in

curity of life and property here, at- Mm. never unmindful that as a public

tract ed them so irresistibly that they

left the homes of their fathers and

officer he is the servant of the people and bound by every o-j;igation of du-

came to live with us, to pay for thejty and honor to strivo to advance

here present cherish for other candidates. But the question we are now j

to decide is too important to our par

ty and our country to be decided be

cause of personal preferences.

"The republican party has been in

power too long.

grown corrupt, extravagant and auto-

much, we are now to select the political chieftain who shall carry our banner and marshal our forces. If the country were in great war, in which

vice to the party and the country. Small as she is, Delaware is entitled to a full measure of state pride, but this nomination is not suggested by state

nation's welfare when there is peace,

and to fight for the nation's honor : when there is war. They became Americans. It is of the son of Swedish immigrants that I speak. ' "They came with all the hope and with all the fear that is experienced by those who try the unknown. There was a new language to be acquired, new customs to be learned, a new life to be begun. They found a beautiful spot in the plain, near the lakes and the forest, and there they built their little cot and underwent the struggles the pioneer immigrant so well understands. "At the knee of this hard-working, noble-minded, God-serving mother, where he was taught to lisp his evening.prayer. her son first learned something of the character of this great nation, as she whispered to him her reasons for leaving far-away Sweden and taking up her home down by the trees and the river and the lakes. "Deprived at an early age of the father's guiding hand, the mother and her little ones were obliged to make their way alone. Out of the depths of

their interests, is the ideal candidate

of this great party for president of the United States. "For the first time Minnesota offers to the democratic party a candidate for the presidency, a man who has been tried and found not wanting. It offers you its best loved citizen. It offers you the governor who has twice led the way to victory, a leader stainless and pure, strong and brave, able and sincere, a true democrat, faithful to the teachings of the fathers, understanding the needs of the day, devoted to the good and the right. For nominee for the presidency of the United States Minnesota presents the name of

John A. Johnson."

a decisive battle was to be fought and Pride. She is acting not to gratify j poverty have come some of the noblest

the duty fell upon me to choose the

general who should command our

country's army in the field, 1 would not dare to put in command the gen

eral whom I loved the beat, nor the

her great though unambitious son nor yet to minister to her own glory.

"Rising to the heights of patriotism,

animated solly by a desire to contribute to the welfare of the whole coun-

one who was the most eager. Neither ir. wuuout a spar or animosity to

would you. The responsibility would waTd other candidates, Delaware offers

be overwhelming to choose the coldier a name entwined witn victory, a man whose eenius for war. shown by his ho is every inch a democrat, a man

record and experience, gave the best whose every blood-throb carries lovo of

prospect of winning victory. You country. un Denau or ueiaware, in .m rmt liPRitatfi to refuse nromo- accordance with her instructions, and

tion and opportunity to your own broth

er, if there were available another soldier who gave greater promise of winning the fight. "In like spirit I ask you to put aside all personal preferences, and to choose calmly and prudently the democrat who can most surely win a democratic victory in November. Possibly any one of the candidates suggested may be able to win at the polls. I , hope so. But our plain duty is to nominate, not a candidate who may win, but the candidate who can m6st sure

ly win. We contend for too great a Name Of GOVemOr Johfl

prize to take any unnecessary chances of defeat. "Our eandidrte must be one who can command the support of our party and at the same time attract the support of

Independent citizens who are not strict

party men. We may as well face the "NORTH STAR" CANDIDATE.

fact that, a majority vote in tnis coun

try is always made up of the party

vote re-enforced by the votes of a large

body of independent citizens. Hence a successful candidate for president must do more than hold the loyalty of his partisans. He must, in addition, command the confidence and win the support of people who care nothing for

party. Party opinion is a great thing and must be considered, but public

in her name, I nominate George Grayas a candidate for president of the

United States."

MINNESOTA STANDS

FOR FAVORITE SO

Johnson Placed in Nomination at Convention.

MARYLA

i F

AVORS

NAMING

JOHNSO

FOR THE FIRST TIME, ACCORDING TO SPEAKER W. S. HAMMOND, MINNESOTA ASKS TO NOMINATE MAN FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

souls the world has known. The hardships, the numerous trials, the weary struggle for the day's nourishment, raiment and shelter leae an impress upon the character of him in whose life they come that can never

be removed. "The story of the poor and the interests of the common people appeal to him as Tiey cannot appeal to one ho has not experienced the sorrows the burden and the anxiety of penury and want. The gross, the selfish, the callous and the indifferent are worn away by the grinding wheels of poverty, leaving but the refined, the gentle and

tender nature, sensitive to the calls of distressed and unhappy humanity. "Creatures of environment that we are. how great is the influence of our surroundings in those tender years when impressions are most readily made and most lastingly retained. In this uprising of the people let our leader be a man of the peop-.e. one who has risen from the depths and is by birth, by training and by nature truly a son

of toil. "When the boy grew older he read a few good books and in a quiet country village pondered ever the great questions affecting the destiny of the state and of the nation. Once convinced that the government was beset by special interests seeking to obtain unholy profits from it, staves of greed and selfishness, lovers or power and dominion, every patriotic impulse in the young man's breast, impelled him to oppose and denounce these enemies

of the public good. "Believing they sought shelter and protection at the hands of the republican party and have to a large extent, through their agents and representatives, gained control of that party and of some of its recognized leaders, he attached himself to the minority party and labored in its ranks, without thought of office or preferment, and with voice and pen endeavored to bring home political truths to the peo-

Attorney General Isaac Straus Seconds Minnesota's Nomination.

SPRUNG FROM THE PEOPLE.

GOVERNOR JOHNSON, HE SAID,

CAME FROM THE HARDY STOCK

THAT HAS MADE AMERICA A

GREAT NATION.

Speech of Attorney General Isaac

Lobe Straus of Maryland seconding the nomination of Gov. John Johnson

of Minnesota for president at the dem-1 jng With the angels

ocratic national convention was as

follows:

Mr. President Speaking for Mary-H

land and her democracy, I second the nomination of Gov. John Johnson. If ever there was a time when the consolidation and success of the dem-

ccratic party were necessary and vital

to the welfare of the country it is now. I know full well that the strong tendency of this convention is to nominate the great and popular leader from Nebraska. I do not fail no one could fail to appreciate his wonderful genius and personal power. I realize full

the

debate in the commons upon the French war "Mr. Pitt, the only man to save the country. No one man can save the country. The nation that depends for its safety upon one man cannot and, I will add, ought not to be saved." I say the democratic party is not dependent upon any one man. Its splendid and patriotic leaders are to be

found in every state of the union. When its leadership becomes a matter of one-man monopoly or dictatorship then it cannot, and, I will add with Sheridan, it ought not to be saved. Our business now is to nominate a candidate for the presidency who will lead us to triumph one who, while

illustrating the immortal truths declared by Jefferson, is a child of victory and not the Siamese twin of defeat. Governor John Johnson, magnificently sprung from the people, resplendent In the glories of a great administration of a great state, undefeated and undefeatable, is the very genius of victory itself and as sincere an oracle of democratic truth as was Jefferson himself. He is a natural

champion of the people, and loyal,' great and successful in all that he undertakes. He has shown that he can meet with calmness and courage and power all the sreat emergencies

which could confront him as presi

dent. The people honor and trust him and every interest as well as ev

ery section of the country would be

safe in his executive charge. His integrity, his courage, his conservatism,

his experience, his fidelity to duty, his loyalty to the people, his true dem

ocracy, his talent for success and ms

genius for victory are the attributes

which will commend him to the country.

While the stars in their courses

may fight against others, as they did against Sisera, they fight for and in

favor of Governor Johnson with that

constant, compelling, supernatural

power which makes victory with him invariable, inevitable and sure. With him at the head of the democratic colmns, flashing his irresistible inspiration to victory through every doubtful as well as through every certain state, galvanizing the whole party into renewed life and hope, doubling democrats everywhere in strength, energy and devotion, eliminating all divisions and solidifying our ranks throughout the union, with the banner of the Constitution and Equal rights proudly floating all along the line, he shall do, as Cleveland did. lead us

back after long years of defeat and exile lead us back into thepossession of our own. Remember, that in order to consummate this grand result we want the vote of every democrat. We must have the vote not only of the laborer and the farmer, but of the industrial and business interests of the country. We want the votes too, of that large body of conservative citizens upon whom party ties rest lightly, who are tired of the turbulent agitations and alarmed at the arrogant usurpations of

the last four years, and who are weep-

at the fantastic

would pit a candidate nominated by

the people, a man of the people and for the people, standing for the constitution, for a federal government administered within its limitations, for the sovereign powers of the states, for the non-interference of the government, with matters it ought to let alonestanding against paternalism and Socialism and special privileges of every sort .against the coalition of government and monopoliy. standing standing for a just and discriminating revision of the tariff, for the business and industrial as well as for the agricultural and laboring interests for the tenets and traditions of the democratic fathers and the best ideals of the republic they founded such a candidate I ask you to name in the il

lustrious son and governor of Minnesota. The old, undying and imperishable truths of the democratic party demand that we do not present a candidate for president allied in the least degree with paternalism. Socialism,

centralization or interference by the government with things that do not concern it. All the great historic purposes and principles, of the party lead back to the simple and ultimate fact that the purpose of democratic institutions is the cultivation of men. By leaving them free and maintaining them upon a plane of absolute equality before the government and the law, by preserving the government as their servant and not as their support, democracy builds up upon the broad

base of liberty and equality men who are strong, independent, self-reliant, and self-sustaining the masters and not the slaves of their government, the

rulers and not the victims of themselves. That is democracy. That is

why we insist upon, the limitations of

the organic law which we call the con

6titulion. That is why we have always s jealously fought for the autonomy of the state goverments which are

under our immediate control and by

the control of which the liberties of

the citizens are effectually protected and his interests best safeguarded

then it has the germs of death and not

of life in its bosom. Wedeny that for any purpose it is necessary to convert this Government into an absolute despotism, either in theory or in practice. The Democratic party if resorted to power would put down monopoly and mammon and meet every other danger that confronts the nation by the firm application of its unfailing principles. Take the class legislation, the special privileges, the illegal bounties, the unlawful discriminations our of your tariff system, cut out its extortion and robbery, lower the walls behind which the trust and combine have grown up, and bring the Government back to equal laws and constitutional taxation, and monopoly will no longer overshadow the Government or over

ride the people, and no pretext even

will remain for any President or Cabinet officer or member of Congress ta reach for discretionary power.

This Convention has the greatest

opportunity the Democracy has ever

had in its history. You can absolutely nominate the next President. Yoia can elect him and inaugurate him. You can restore the party of Jeffer

son and Jackson and TiKlen and

Cleveland to its wonted seats of pow-

er and its former splendor and glory. You can save from destruction the. violated Constitution which was signed and delivered to us by the holy, hand of George Washington and his compatriots less illustrious than, only, he, and you can administer theGovernment within its limitations. You can arrest the devastating march of Federal usurpation over the broken Ark of the Covenant of the father and over the bent forms of sovereign States. You can break the illegal and monstrous alliance between government and monopoly. You can curb and cast out the Insolent uowsr of mammon gloating In the high places of the Government You can end the carnival of class privilege and special laws and rescue the people -from robber tariffs and from the regime that has so long been plundering every, toiling household in the land. You can

stop paternalism and Government In-'

terference and leave individual enter,

and subserved. That is why we fight prise, equal before Uie law. lo wan its

for the federal or states rights system own way and enjoy the fruita of Its

of government limited by the funda- owa creation. Tfou can stereotype up-

mental laws, as against a consolidated, on tne hole broad domain oi tne centralized, imperial power, unlimited &reat Republic Its underlying maxim by law and committed to the arbitrary of e(ual r,hu for aU and Pfc,al discretion of personal rule. And. aft- Privileges for none. All thete things.

tne natural anu nappy coiiBfjuencr

of Democratic victory and Democrat

er all, that is the supreme issue before the country the Constitution or absolutism: the supremacy of the law as the safety of the people the salus populi or the abrogation of the law by a system of interpretation which is

not construction, but deliberate, wan

ton destruction. Proclaiming the law of necessity-

the law of AJaesar, of Cromwell, of

Napoleon; the law of necessity the

destroyer of free institutions wherever they have appeared in the history of

the human race; the law of necessity

the darkest infamy in history, the

Republican party through Taft and

Root and Roosevelt assert a construe

tion of the written law of the land

which grasps and seizes every power, which puts the law beneath the Government and the Government above

the law and establishes a usurpation in which the institutions and energies

ic rule, you can achieve, effectually

and surely, if you will but seixe this fateful hour and nominate Gov. John

Johnson as your candidate for, the Presidency of the United States.

SIZE OF A THUNDERBOLT.

Geoloviata Hava m Srt l7 Whirls

larh MtMirta JLrm Takca. 'Did you ever see the diameter of a

lightning flash measnredr' asked a

geologist. "Well, here is the case which once inclosed a flash of lightning, fitted it exactly, so that you can see how big it was. This is called a 'fulgarite, or

'lightning hole,' and the material It Is made of is glass.

"When a bolt of lightning strikes

bed of sand it plunges downward Into

the sand for a distance less or greater.

The name of Governor John A.

opinion is a greter things and must be Johnson, of Minnesota, was placed in obeyed. Nominate George Gray and nomination for the presidency by

public opinion will sfty that we have Congressman W. S. Hammond at the

proposed a man whose intellectual and convention this afternoon. The nomi-

raoral stature towers to the standard nating address was as follows:

set by the greatest and wisest presi- "From each of the great galaxy of

dents in our history. commonwealths constituting the Un-

George Gray's life has been one long ion come the delegates of an earnest j pie of his native state and to throw

and unselfish service of the people In and impatient people. Earnest in I do without puzzling over the problem.

high place. Attorney -general of his their determination that public wrongs light upon the dark practices of un

state, a great senator of the United 1 shall be speedily righted, that corrupt

States for many years, a treaty maker practices shall cease and that civic

for the nation, the most successful ar- righteousness shall prevail. Impatient

bitratcr cf disputes between labor and at the policy of delay and postponecapital who ever lived, and now, in his ment pursued by the political party

tricks which in the vicinity of the white house have of late been played before high heaven. We want every doubtful state or at least a good majority of them. This is indeed the supreme need upon which the event of the approching contest hangs. We do not require a can

didate who can carry South Carolina or Texas. Any democrat can do that. Beware lest you name a candidate who shall not only lose us the doubtful states, but republicanize democratic states. Maryland is a democratic state. The only occasions since the

civil war upon which we have ever lost

well his sincerity, a3 well as his great-j a presidential or the congressional ness and I appreciate, too, the dem-, elections in that state were the occa-

which you hail his ! sions when- Mr Bryan was a candi- ! date. If you nominate him he will

But beyond the storm and tempest , lose the state lhIs year and carry Qur of this convention, beyond its excite- candidates for congress down with ment and enthusiasm, is the calm, so- hlm Qn tne other hand Governor ber, steady judgment of the people of j Johnson can carry Marj-land by 15fMK the union the mighty and discrimin- maJorltr. r beiieve the same condiating judgment which shall determine tiona xlst in rnnnfv.ti.t X-Aw vrir

New eJrsey, Delaware, West Virginia,

4 f .m !n., olmnHflnpAllfilv tntn fftllB

of the people must ultimately be ab- lQ the mater,a,

it passes. Thus by Its great best it forms a glass tube of precisely Its own size.

"Now and then such a tube, knows

as a tuigarite, is iouhu anu uug up. Fulgarites have been followed lntothe sand by excavations for nearly thirty

feet. They vary in Interior diameter from the size of a quill to three Inches

scrbed

It is for the Democratic party in

this great crisis' through this Convention as its supreme organ to make it clear and certain to the people of the

Union that it never was intended that

their Government of law and its fun

damental charter should be thus set aside upon the plea of necessity or

onstrations with

name

upon any other improvisation at the according to the -bore of the discretionary behest of any officer of flaghi ut rulg4rites are not produced

mp uovernmem, nign or low. a,one ,a 8and Th( e found ajBO Ja

iii .3 ulB, ar aivaya i, rock though Tery naturally 0f

iin? nauit?. ii litis us ruiea ui aciuiu

like every other iniquity. The methods it uses are always fundamentally

the same. First, the powers of Gov

ernment are so perverted and abused as to create an intolerable condition

or a dangerous emergency in the I

State. Then the claim is put forth

lhat the Government must be made

stronger, that its powers must be aug

mented and multiplied, and finally

slight depth, and frequently existing as a thin, glassy covering on tbe-sorfsce.

"Such fulgrrites occur in astonishing

abundance on the summit of Little Ara-.

rat. In Armenia. The rock is ao eoft and porous that blocks a foot long can

be obtained, perforated In all direc

tions by little tubes filled with bottle

green glass formed from the fused

rock.

Knm wnnrirfnl fnlcarltes were

that they must be rendered absolute. f und b y numboldt on the high Kevaaa

because of the necessity which its

previous wrongs have themselves ere

ated. Then upon this pretense of necessity the dykes a.re undermined or

beaten down and the tide of absolut

ism rolls in

Such has been the course of events

in this country. For 40 years the Republican party has misused the pow

ers of the Government in an unlawful

alliance with special interests, build

de Toluca. in Mexico. Masses oC the rock were covered with a thin layer oC

green glass. Its peculiar shimmer In the sun led Ilumboldt to ascend the

precipitous peak at the risk of his life

later years, a great and learned judge, his merit has won the confidence and good will of the whole people. "In the senat? ho was ever in the fore front of weighty debate, championing with eloquent logic the principles of Democracy. In making the treaty with Spain he was the one commissioner who stood true to the doctrine of human liberty and protested against taking the Philippines and strapping Imperialism upon the shoulders of the republic. In settling the anthracite coal strike he demonstrated his sympathy with the toiling masses of hl3 fellow countrymen. His just

now in control of all departments of the federal government and impatient at the frivolous excuses and apologies of the republican party for its inaction and its neglect to perfect necessary legislation. "The power to defeat progressive and reformatory measures favored by the great majority of the men of the land has been lodged in the hands of a coterie of reactionary politicians who exercise it to further partlzan ends, and to serve special interests, regardless alike of the needs of the nation and the demands of the people. "Against this deliberate delay in the

faithful office holders and public servants. "Four years ago the dominant political party in the State of Minnesota flushed with a series or easy victories, but not "held together ty devotion to any great living issue, found itself engaged, in bitter factional quarrels. Great chieftains had arisen and their personal ambitions and their contests for political supremacy so engaged the attention of the adherents of the republican party that encroachments upon the rights of the state were suffered to remain unchecked and the interests of the state were not vigilantly guarded. "It was the time for a leader to appear, one who had the confidence of the people of the state, whose integrity was unauestioaed. whose character

their decision uron the nominees of this convention. It is not here, not within this splendid hall, not within the bosom of this magnificent assemblage, that the fate of the approaching presidential contest is to ba de

cided. The verdict will not be given

here or now.

this moment have passed after four months of deliberate thought in the sober quiet of the November kalends, the people of 46 great states shall declare their judgment upon your work of tonight. It Is more, far more than a personal question between rival leaders which you have to solve and settle. The question is shall the democratic party and its great principles be maintained and made victorious? Shall we go to victory or defeat?

I shall speak plainly. The time fori

Illinois, Indiana and possibly Kentucky. Mr. Bryan's nomination will land these states squarely in the republican column. Governor Johnson, would no doubt carry all those states.

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iijutiovj ui jkhj laiiu is xor jonnson. There is another consideration not to be overlooked. With Governor Johnson as our leader there will be nothing to explain, nothing to retract, nothing to apologize for. From the outset to the end of the conflict we shall be on the offensive, and not the defensive. Liberty. equality and individual rights will find a protector in him. The reserved powers of the states and

i the legitimate powers of the federal

It Won for SarSaau It is a singular fact that the famous French dramatist Sardou owed his first success on the boards to bis excellent handwriting. He-had sent In his often

ing up monopolies whose wealth and j rejected plaj, La Taverne des EtudU might stagger the understanding and ants." to the CM eon management for

which have now become more power- consideration, and the manuscript wae ful than their creator and ally the thrown, with some others, upon a tableGovernment itself. Having done this one day at rehearsal the charming aeagainst the law and the people, the 'tress Mile. Berengere was attracted by. Republican party now proclaims that the handwriting and took up the manu-

the States cannot deal with this sub- script, crying, Ob, what an exqnlsite

ject, and that, therefore, the general hand!" She read the play and recom-

Government must grasp and exercise i mended It so strongly to the directors

the powers reserved by the Constitu- that they were Induced to read It and

tion to the States. Nor do they stop then accept it. At the time Sardon was there. Even the powers of the gen- starring. He had gone through seven

eral Government thus reinforced, long years of terrible hardship and fri-

they assert, are not great enough to ration.

words vhout any purpov has gone j government shall be inviolate in his hv Th ancient assemblies of the keeping. The interests of trade and

Grecian

with the invocation of a curse upon anyone who did not freely utter hi3 real and true sentiments. There was not only free speech but it was regarded as the snprerne obligation of every speaker. Such is and ought to be the spirit of every democratic convention. Every man ought to speak

democracies were opened i industry, of business and finance, shall

ciscover ana acKnowieage in nira their safeguard against Communism and lawlessness, against Socialism and paternalism, against those peculiar phenomena o fthe executive mind with which the country has,hecome of late bue too familiar, and which are more suited to the wilds and the jungle than

deal with these polyglots of wealth

which they have conjured up, and

therefore the powers of the Government must be still further aggrandized and as the people of the States -have

enumerated and limited the powers of

Hops la Kasltal. The English were taught the uses of bops by a native Artois. who introduced them into England in 1524. They met with some hostility, for physicians

represented them as unwholesome, and

the general Government in the Const!- pariiament was petitioned against them tution creating it. it becomes nece3- as a cked weed." In 1528 their use

sary to construe the" Constitution to WM prohibited order severe penalty

mean that the general Cxovernment rjenry YIII. appears to have been prejshall be possessed of and exercise er- uucei against bops, for in a mannery power which those in control cf scrpt. dated Eltham, January. 1530, ocIt may deem that the necessities cf cur, an Injunction to his brewer "not t

any situation require, i repeat mat pDl hope or brimstone" into the ale.

tni3 is not a construction dui me de

struction of the Constitution. It Is n Llvlaar.

not merely overleaping the walls of I Sis Why did you throw up your sit

the .Instrument and the end of all gov-1 nation, Ernest? Brother Because I

ernment limited by law. And., con-1 am going to Set married. Sis But

currently with the promulgation of I what will yon live on love? Brother

this fatal doctririe. all the while wel-Oh.no! We are going to live on my.

have beheld the President invading love's. father..