S., that party as a medium between government
and the people, the party to which we are greatly indebted for our
achievements and our greatness among the family of nations, it was that
party that was destined to give birth to and to nurse the first
offender of that tradition, who gradually proved to be the evil spirit
of the country, and that great party which was born during a national
crisis and which had bravely faced and overcome many a grave trial,
nobly faced the coming storm and survived it with its honor unimpaired.

Gentlemen of the jury, when we inquire into the past of that man, we
will find that his ambitious plans have all been filed and laid down
long before he has been President. All doubt that these plans were
towards establishing at the least a perpetual presidency in these
United States have been removed during last summer, when a certain
senator unearthed from within the library of the white house a written
document deposited there during the third termer's presidency. This
document was an order for repairing to be done in the white house, and
this order closed with the following words: "These alterations should
be done, to last during my lifetime." When the third termer was
informed of the finding of this document, he admitted and absorbed the
all-important matter by simply saying: "Some people have no more brains
than guinea pigs."

Gentlemen of the jury, his rough rider masquerade during the
Spanish-American war was his first important step towards his goal, it
gained for him the governorship of the Empire state and that important
office made him an influential factor in the councils of the Republican
party. During his term as secretary of the navy he gained the
popularity among the men in that branch of the mailed fist of the
country by increasing the salaries of those men, who might some day be
of vital benefit to his cause. The Republican leaders of those days
were soon aware of the dangerous ambitions of this man and also knew
that this man would never be safe enough to fill the highest office of
the nation, for this reason these men thought it wise to make him
vice-Presidential candidate on the same ticket with McKinley, for it
must not be new to you that the office of a vice-President has always
been regarded as the suicide to a man's political ambitions. But,
gentlemen of the jury, now came the time when a man's ambitions
blindfolded him to all reason. The desire to overcome the obstacle
r