Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1906 — The District Convention Resolutions. [ARTICLE]

The District Convention Resolutions.

We, Republicans of the Tenth Congressional District of Indiana, in convention assembled, do hereby affirm our unshaken faith in the principles of the Republican party, which safeguard liberty, augment prosperity, stand for all that is best in popular government, and hold that any party to survive must keep pace with the progress of human thought and the developments of circumstance. We hereby most earnestly attest to our confidence in the principles of the Republican party, as outlined in the Chicago platform which guaranteed national honor and integrity at home and abroad and made national prosperity secure. We most heartily commend the administration of our worthy president, Theodore Roosevelt, whom the Republican party gave to all the people, for his earnest interpretation of the vital principles of Republicanism; for his fearless individual liberty be preserved; for the evidence he has given that this is, and must continue to be, a government of and for the people. That we endorse the able administration of our Governor J. Frank Hanly and urge him to do his whole duty to the enforcement of every stafcntorylaw. We earnestly indorse the service of the Hon. Edgar D. Crnmpacker, representative of this, the Tenth Indiana Congressional District, in Congress, in whom we have personified the republicanism of Theodore Roosevelt, for his unfaltering devotion to the welfare of all the people, for his loyalty to the people o: his district and the Republican party, for the fearlessness he has displayed in congress when right has been endangered and wrong has been a menace; for his' courage in placing conviction above expediency and principle above aspirations. Therefore, be it, Iresolved: That we hereby renew our allegiance to principles of the Republican party, that we here and now pledge onr support to the ideals of the Republic, and that we, in convention assembled, sacredly proclaim our determination to follow in the path being blazed by oar illustrous president that this government may continue to be the greatest of the earth and that her people may continue to enjoy the greatest blessings, that ever came to any people.