Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1908 — “A STATESMAN WITH A CONSCIENCE.” [ARTICLE]

“A STATESMAN WITH A CONSCIENCE.”

Description of the Republican Presidential Candidate by Senator Borah of Idaho. (From Senator Borah’s Boston Speech.) . . “Now, it seems to be conceded by friend and Me that few men have been nominated for the presidency whose experience, whose training and whose sound and wholesome fashion of grasping and dealing with public questions were equal to those of William H. “He is not a crusader, he is a statesman with conscience. He has won his present position through a cheerful, unhesitating and undeviating devotion to duty, through actually achieving things on the open field of action, through an intelligent conception of the strength and worth of our great government with its checks and balances; and tbe strength and capacity of our citizenship with its loyalty and its patriotism. “No man ever had a deeper regard for tbe fundamental principles and precepts upon which this government is founded, and no one ever had a firmer conviction that the constitution Is a sufficient chart by which to measure all rights and obligations and to gauge all the demands and all the aspirations and restrain and control all the recklessness of this indomitable race of ours. Trained in the law, eleven years on the bench, he explored well the sources of jurisprudence and carried away from his work an everlasting devotion to order and justice. “Under all circumstances and under all emergencies, he has proved himself a brave, clean-minded, self-poised "and courageous statesman. No man can put his finger upon a little or cowardly act, an incompetent or questionable piece of public service—no stain upon his private life, no shadow upon his public career. And standing now tn the full fierce light which beats upon a throne, with eager eyes scrutinizing every act of a long and arduous public career, no doubt arises as to his experience and ability, no challenge comes to his fine sense of duty or bls patriotism.”

I believe onr strong party with its great principles Is only In its Infancy. Our glory as a nation has but just begun. There are mighty problems yet to be solved, grave questions to be answered, complex issues to be wrought out, but I- believe we can trust the Grand Old Party and its leaders to care for the entire future of our Nation and of our people as it has eared for them so well to the past—Hon. James 8. Sherman. In Des Molnet Mr. Bryan talked free trade, in Indianapolis sailed into corporations, and In Topeka proclaimed the necessity of the guarantee of bank deposits. Mr. Bryan is geographically adjustable at a moment’s notice, and never dismayed when one of his paramount issues blows up.—St Louis Globe-Democrat