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SACRAMENTO, June 23. — The Board of
Supervisors, by. a unanimous vote, , elected X>.
W. Carmlchael, a Democrat. County Treasurer,
vice ' A. W. Greenlaw, deceased, who was a
Republican. - \
Almighty put too much gold tn the lap of old
Mother Earth. Forsaking their traditions, they
no longer champion free trade. They clamor
only for a Republican revision of the Dlnglry
tariff. Has It come to this, that with Cham
berlain of England they are at last openly be
come protectionists? They now seem really
anxious to keep the American flag where it K
regardless and unmindful of whether the con
stitution follows the flag or the flag follows
the constitution. Truly, can any good thing
come out of this Democratic chaos? Jn fifty
history-making, creative years j hat policies,
domestic or. foreign, fiscal or Industrial, expan
sive or constructive, has the- Democratic party
embodied into the national thought or wm«a
Our Democratic frienda tn this year of grace
are destined to bo mere tdle dreamers and
only seem of visions. Dlssentlous they lack
faith and have no Issue. Why, Just now they
are trying to let go of the "Orator of the
Platte" and his fustian "cross of gold." They
now say. that "free silver" is dead because th.
¦ Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conven
tion: Responsive to tho swelling chorus of
millions of voices from all over the republic w«
are here to name as our standard bearer the gift
ed son of the Empire State, who has in his
makeup all the resolute, spirit aijd vigor of the
Imperial West and ' in whose veins courses the
rich, warm blood of the dauntless Southland
Nominat'ng and seconding speeches here are of
no moment, for his nomination has already
been made by the American people themselves!
We have only to select his running-mate, pro
claim the doctrines of our faith and go forth
and overwhelm once more the cohorts of a dis
tracted, distempered and dlsmemhered Democ
rocy. »¦
Joseph-^ B.- Cotton Pays Glowing
Tribute to Presidential Nominee.
CHICAGO, June 23. — Joseph B. Cot
ton of Minnesota, another seconder" of
the name of Roosevelt for President.
said:
FROM MINNESOTA.
; It * is pot pretended that the section . from
which I come to you Is, as .a section, in
sympathy with, your' political 'party. But I
am as sure aa that I stand here that the
HIS FEARLESS HONESTY.
Coming into the position of the martyred
McKlnley, tho youngest chief magistrate that
has ever nlled the Presidential chair, without
the * privilege and advantage of preliminary
discussion and consultation, he gave the coun
try a - pledge that he would I carry out the
policies of his predecessor. It was a master
stroke of genius, applauded alike North and
South. His- -conception of the duties of his
high office, as formulated by him at Harvard,
was "to serve all alike, weiu to act in a
spirit of fairness and justice to all men and
to give each man his rights," . He has kept
this pltdgt; he fas lived up to this flne con
ception of his duty. This pledge Involved a
completion of the work begun In Cuba and
an honorable discharge of the promises made
to our struggring neighbor. The flag of an
Independent republic floats over Havana to
day, and" all men know that we have kept
faith with the Cuban people. Leaving: the
details to engineers, he has cut as by a single
stroke the Panama canal, through mountains
of prejudice and centuries of ignorance. In
tho. far Philippines our flag floats,, a guarantee
of '.redemption, pacification and development.
His conception of duty has led him Into dif
ficult places In dealing with the internal af
fairs of our. own country; he has met every
issue bravely and ably and demonstrated not
only that prompt and decided action Is often
the highest expression of conservatism, hut
that It 1« safe to trust the impulse of a man
who is essentially and instinctively honest.
Fellow countrymen. • after nearly four years
of I Theodore Roosevelt we find the army and
navy on a better footing, . our trade expended,
the country 'at peace and prosperous and our
flag respected In every quarter of the globe.
The American people will not withhold from
him the applause of manly hearts. I am
proud that my State, the Empire State of the
South, shares in the glory of his achievement*.
as It will share in their benefits.
TO SERVE ALL ALIKE, WELL.
Tho childhood of. the good woman who bore
him was cast nfear where the Atlantic flows In
over the marsh and the sand. There she first
built her a home in the greatness of God.
Womanhood found her within 1 the uplifting
view of the mountains in a land over which
the Almighty inverts a sapphire cup by day
and sets his brightest stars on guard, by night.
And there, fellow countrymen, the soul of your
President was born. Those, of us who know
and love him catch in the. easy flow of his
utterance and feel in its largeness of thought
and contempt of littleness the rhythm of the
ocean on tho Georgian sands and the spirit of
the deep.' In his lofty Ideals and hopefulness.
In his fixedness of purpose and unchanging
rock-ribbed honesty, we -Bear the mountains
calling-. In hie darjng. his Impulsive courage,
his unconquerable manhood, we see his great
brother, the Georgia volunteer, Jn the hand to
hand fights of the Wilderness, tho Impetuous
rush up the heights of Gettysburg and the de
fiance of overwhelming odds from Chattanooga
to . Atlanta. We look at him as a Georgian
Dbroad, and If In the providence of God It may
be bo we ehall welcome him homo some day,
not as a prodigal son, who has wasted his man
hood, but as one who on every field of endeavor
has hnr.oreJ his mother and worn the victor's
wreath.
CHICAGO, June 23. — Harry Still-,
well Edwards of Georgia spoke on be
half of the Roosevelt nomination' as
follows:
It Is eminently fit and proper that a
Georgian should on this occasion second the
eloquent speaker from New York that the
voice of the. Motherland should blend with the.
voice of the Fatherland to declare that the des-*
tlnies of America shall for four years more be
intrusted to the great son born cf the Union
of the two empire States.
I do not belittle the Influence of a father
when I say that if the Iron In a son's nature
be dsrlved from him the gold Is coined from
• the heart of the mother whose lap has cradled
him. And- because 1 believe this, because the
lesson at .tlffe mother's knee Is the seed that
send* a stalk toward heaven and opens far
up Its auxiliary blossoms in the morning light,
because the lofty ideals of manhood are rooted
deeper than youth, because that which a man
Instinctively would be has been dreamed for
him in advance by a mother, I claim for
Georgia the large share In the man you hava
chosen your leader.
Do you name corporate legislation? The op
position resisted and then opposition-* votes
helped to enact it. ' . .
Do you name the canal-*-tbat largest w/trk
of centuries, the eternal " wedding • of . oceans,
dhrlnklng the circumference of the globe, mak
ing distant peoples neighbors, advancing- for
ever civili sat km all around the world? This
historic undertaking in the interest of all the
race, planned by American statesmanship, to
be wrought by American hands. - to stand
through tht- ages protected by the American
flajr: this vast achievement which will endure
While he Is President peace with every na
tion will be preserved at any cost, excepting
only the sacrifice of American rights; and the
vigor with which be maintains the*e will be
itself a guarantee of peace.
The American people will elect him because,
in a word, they know that he does things the
people want done; does things, not merely dis
cusses them — does things o«ly ¦¦•'-discussing
them — fcut does things; and does only those
things the people would have him do.- 'This Is
characteristically American; for wherever he
is, the American la he who achieves.
On every question all men know where lie
stands. Americans, frank themselves, demand
franknees. In their servants. Uncertainty is
the death of business. The people can always
get along If they know where they are and
whither they are going. v
His past Is his proof. Every great measure
of his administration was so wise that, en
thusiastically sustained by his own' party, it
won votes even from the opposition.
Do you name Cuban reciprocity?. The oppo
sition resisted and th«n opposition votes helped
to ratify It.
They know that while he is President the
flag will "stay put, V and no American ad
vantage In the I'aciflc or the world be sur
rendered. Americans never retreat. :
.While he is President no wrong-doer (n the
service of the Government will go unwhipped
of justice. Americans demand honesty and
honor, vigilance and fearlessness. ' '
When ha ia President readjustment of tariff
schedules will be made only in harmony with
the principle of protection. Americans have
memories.
Theodore Roosevelt is a leader who leads;
because he carries out the nettled purposes of
the people. Our President's plans, when
achieved, are always found to be merely the
nation's will accomplished. And that la why
the people will elect him.
They will elect him because they know that
If be is President we will get to work and keep
at work on the canal. After decades of delay
when the people want a thing done, they want
it done.
The people's thought is hi* thought: Ameri
can idealt;, hie ideals. This is his only -chart
of t.taleKmanfihip— and no other is safe. For
the truest guide an American President can
have is the collective intelligence and massed
morality of the American people. And this an
cient rule of the fathers is the rule or our lead
ers now.
CHICAGO, June 23. — Senator Bever
idge of Indiana seconded the nomina
tion of President Roosevelt in the fol
lowing ppeech:
Gentlemen of the Convention: One differ
ence between the opposition and ourselves Is
this: They select their candidate for the peo
ple, and the pt-ople (-elect our candidate for u*.
This was true four yearn ago when we ac
cepted the people's Judgment and named Wil
liam McKlnley. whose perfect mingling of mind
and heart, of wisdom and of tenderness won
tne 'trust and love of the nation then and
makes almost holy hU memory now. His
power was in the people's favor, his shrine is
In the people's hearts.
It is tru<« Ui-day when we again accept the
people's judgment and name Theodore Rocse
velt. whose sympathies are as wide as the re
public, whose courage, honesty and vision meet
all emergencies,, and the sum of whose quali
ties make him the .type of twentieth century
Americanism. And the twentieth century
American is nothing more than the man of '7U
facing a new day with the old faith.
•Theodore Roojfevelt, like William McKlnley,
is the nominee oX the' American fireside. So
were Washington and Jefferson in the early
time; «o was Andrew Jackson when he said
"The Union; it must be preserved"; so was
Abraham Lincoln when, the republic saved, he
bade us "bind up the nation's wounds"; and
Grant when, from victory** very summit his
lofty words, "Let us have peace," voiced the
spirit of the hour and the people's prayer.
When nominated by parties, each of these great
Presidents was. at the periods named, already
chosen by the public judgment. Ana so to-day
the Republican party, whose strength is in its
obedience to the will of the American people,
merely executes again the decree which comes
to it from the American home In naming Theo
dore Roosevelt as our candidate.
¦ "We ; have not forgotten how,' when the war
clouds hung dark tn the nation's horizon, he
sacrificed . office and left 'a happy home and a
beloved . wife and children to bare his bosom
is the storm of battle. 'The same patriotism
PATRIOTISM AND COURAGE.
Men of the North, we come from the battle
fields, consecrated to freedom with the blood
of your brave sons. We ore the -custodians
of your patriot dead.- and each year commem
orate their deeds and decorate their graves
with flowers. In their names and by their
memories the dltepfranchlsed South appeals to
you for Justice. Shall It be said that your
sons marched and fought and died in vain?
Shall it be said that) a -nation can exist part
slave and part free-? Are people free who are
forced to bear the burden and yet denied the
highest privilege of citizenship? If It be true
that warrant may .not be found in the en>
stltutlon to prevent dlsenfranchlsement, then
vi beg that you no longer permit the dis
franchised and- oppressed to be estimated for
the purpose of increasing the electoral strength
of their oppressors. ¦
Though the grape ts crushed* and the grain
Ik ground, they produce neither wine nor bread
for the persecuted men of the South.
Surrounded by difficulties, striving In vain
to be free, they instinctively turn to the brave,
true man who .has said that he would not close
the door of. hope oh a struggling race. The
Southern Republicans are devoted to him 'and
will follow him with all the affection and eo
thustasm with which the "old guard" fol
lowed Napoleon. They have unshaken faith in
his superb courage, evenhasded Justice . and
unsullied honor. ¦ ¦ ' ' . •
CHICAGO, June 23. — Governor
Bradley of Kentucky sa.'d a few un
kind things about the Democratic
party in his speech seconding the
nomination of Theodore Roo3evelt.
He spoke as follows:
The Republican party has made no mistakes;
therefore it has no apologies to offer. It has
broken no promises; therefore it enters no plea
of confession and avoidance. It offers no guar
anty for the future save the record of Its past.
It points to an enormously increased com
merce at home and abroad.; to free homes
given to free people; to a war waged to drive
the tyrant from Cuba and a promise faith,
fully kept to give to thu army and navy
whose deeds of valor have added lmperishabie
glory to American arms; to the erection of
churches -and schoolhouses and the Inauguration
of civil government in the Philippines; to the
Universal prosperity now prevailing throughout
the republic; to a generous system of pensions,
provided for those who fought and the families
of those who died, that the Union might be
preserved; to the gigantic Rebellion of all time
courageously met and completely subdued; to
the shackles of bondmen melted in the red
flames of war and to stars preserved and yet
others fixed in the firmament of freedom.
We cannot stand at the base of Bunker Hill
monument, as prophesied by Toombs, and call
the 'roil of our slaves; but we can stand on
any spot on earth and call the long roll of
Republican statesmen and .soMlers — the most
distinguished and Illustrious that the nation
has produced, who rendered Impossible the ful
fillment of that prediction. .
For nearly half a century the record of the
Republican party has been so Interwoven with
the country's history that, each Is a part of
tho other, and neither can.be written without
including the other. Indeed, during that time
the Republican party has been the country.
In diplomacy. In progress. In the arts anl
science*, in prosperity and adversity, in peace
and war. at home and abroad, on land and
sea. the Republican party has been true to
every trust, equal to every emergency, has
continually elevated and advanced the standard
of American ¦ honor and glory, and now pro
claims, to the world that In th>3 lexicon of pa
triotic endeavor and achievement there is no
euch ' word as fall.
HAS RESISTED ADVANCEMENT.
And during all . these eventful years the
Democratic, party has resisted every step of
advancement and progress. It has been a
stupid objector, a miserable malcontent and a
common scold. For two Presidential terms it
administered public affairs and during each
crippled commerce, unsettled and decreased
values paralyzed Industries, closed manufac
tories and made It necessary for public charity
to provide food for the atarvlnR unemployed.
It has exchanged its time-honored principles
for dangerous heresies and betrayed Its lead
ers, until it Is without a leader and In anxious
search of a platform. It - has abandoned Its
Moses and is unable to discover a Joshua. It
doea not certainly know what It wants; and
If it did. would not know where to find it.
It does not know what it is for, and if It did
would not know how to express It. It does
not know what to do, and if it did would not
know how to .do 'It. ¦ . ' '
This is the Republican idea of the American
people; this the thought we have when we nom
inate to-day our candidate for the ' nation's
chief; this the quality of Americanism a Re
publican standard bearer must have: And this
is just the Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt.
Full of the old time faith In the republic and
its .destiny: charged with the energy of the
republic's full manhood; cherishing the ordi
nances of the republic's fathers and having In
his heart the fear of God: inspired by the sure
knowledge that the- republic's splendid day is
only in its dawn, Theodore Roosevelt will lead
the American, people In paths of safety to etil.l
greater welfare for themselves;-, etill broader
betterment of the race and to the added honor
of the American name. • .. - . . ¦ . : ¦ . . .
American methods changed, but American
character remain* the same. They outlived
the stage coach, nut not the Bible. They ad
vanced, but forgot not their fathers. . They
delved in earth, but remembered the higher,
things. They made highways of the oceans,
but distance and climate altered not their
Americanism. They began as children of lib
erty, and children of liberty they remain. They
began as servants of the Father of Lights,
and hU servants they remain. ! And .so
Into their hands i» dally given more power
and opportunity that they may work- even
larger righteousness in the world and scatter
over ever widening fields the blessed seeds of
human happiness.
Wonderful beyond prophecy's forecast their
progress, noble beyond th" vision of desire
their future. In ISO! Jefferson said, "the
United States (then) had room enough for our
descendants to the thousandth and thousandth
generation" ;' three generations behold the
oceans our boundaries. Washington ' never
dreamed of railways. .To-day electricity and
strain make Maine and 'California, household
neighbors. This advance, which no seer could
have foretold, we made because we arc Amer
icans — because a free people with unfettered
minds and unquestioning belief Joyfully faced
the universe of. human possibilities. These
possibilities are not exhausted; we have hardly
passed their boundaries/ The American people
are not exhausted: we have only tested our
strength. God's work for us In the world Is
not finished: his future missions for the Amer
ican people will be grander than any he has
glv»n us. nobler than we now can comnrehend.
And these tasks as they come, we will accept
and accomplish as our fathers accomplished
theirs. And when our generation shall have
passed and our children shall catch from our
aging hands- the standard we . have borne, it
will still be the old • flag Bf . Yorktown and
Appomattox and Manila Bay; the music to
which they In their turn will then move on
ward will still be the strains that cheered the
dying Warren on Bunker Hill and Inspired the
men who answered Lincoln'* call; and the
Ideals that will h» In them triumphant as they
are In us will still, be the old ideals that have
made the American people great and honored
among the nations of the earth.- •• " ¦ :
. Of what measure of Theodore Roosevelt's
administration doe* the opposition dare even
to propose the repeal? And when has the
record of any President won greater approval?
And no the people trust him as a statesman.
Better than that, they love him as a man. He
wins admiration in vain who wins not affection
also. In the American home — that temple of
happiness and* virtue where dwell the wives
and mothers of the republic, cherishing the
beautiful in life and guarding the morality of
the nation — In the American home the name
of Theodore Roosevelt Is not only honored but
beloved. And that is a greater triumph than
the victory of battlefields, greater credit than
successful statesmanship, greater honor than
the Presidency Itself would be without it. Life
holds no reward so noble as the confidence and
Jove of the American people.
The American people! The mightiest force
fdr good the ages have evolved. They began
as children of liberty. They believed in God
and his providence. They took truth and
Justice and tolerance as their eternal ideals
and marched fearlessly forward. Wildernesses
stretched before them — they subdued them.
Mountains rose — they crossed them. Deserts
obstructed — they passed them. • Th«lr faith
failed them not and a continent was theirs. 1
From ocean to ocean cities rose, fields blos
soined. railroads ran; but every where church
and school were permanent proof that the
principles of their origin were the life of their
maturity.
when our day shall have become ancient, and
which alone Is enough to make the name of
Theodore UooFfcvelt Illustrious through all time
— this fulfillment of the republic's dream ac
complished by Republican effort, finally re
ceived voifs even from an opposition that had
tried to thwart it.
In Kentucky we' have "contended against
principalities and oowers and the rulers of
darkness." We have. In truth, fought with
all manner of hearts, not at Ephesus, but at
Ftankfort. We are nerving ourselves for the
coming .conflict and In November next we
hope to break the chains which partisan legis
lation has thrown around us and restore free
dom to the State which gave birth to Abraham
Lincoln and holds within its bosom the ashes
of Henrv Clay.
He was born to fulfill a mission. That
mission in part accomplished will be com
pleted in coming years, and his name shall
go rinsing down the centuries with htose of
the immortal few "who were not born to
die."
He boldly and fearlessly advances: he never
sounds the retreat. Imbued with never-falling
courage, combined with sound and conserva
tive Judgment; brilliant as a meteor, yet
steady and certain as the sun in its course;
gifted with broad and intelligent statesman
ship; fixed in lofty purpose, he is the em
bodiment of American ideas, American vigor
and the most exalted type of American man
hood. \
He has not been the- pliable instrument of
any man or set of men. He is the creator,
not the creature of public sentiment. He is
not controlled by popular clamor, but hews
to the line, let the chips fall where they may.
He Is not a laggard, a time-server or an Idle
dreamer. He loses no opportunity on account
of timid doubt or annoying hesitation. He is
not a follower, but every Inch a leader. He
is not an imitator, but thoroughly original,
guided alone by a clear conception of right
and the xenius of common sense.
NO PLIABLE INSTRUMENT.
. His enemies eay that he is unsafe. His
reSord proves that he is unsafe only to the
lawless, the trickster, the" grafter, and those
who deny equal protection of the law to any
class of American citizens. But in the dis
charge of the great trusts devolved upon him,
he has proven a harbor of safety.
His enemies predicted that he would in
volve the nation in war; but all his victories
have been thesea/jf diplomacy and peace, and
to-day he enjoys the respect and friendship of
every foreign power.
His enemies say that he cannot be trusted;
but the people know that one who always does
th»- righ; thins at the right time and in the
right way is entitled to their Implicit confi
dence.
He knows how and when to plan and, bet
ter still, hotr and wh,«?n to execute. Alert of
mind, he has quickly seized every opportunity.
In the procurement of concessions frcm the
Panama canal, he accomplished more In a few
hours than his predecessors accomplished in
more than lw> years. He did not attempt to
unloose; he cut the Oordlan knot.
H<* unhesitatingly measured swords with the
giant corporation which threatened the people
with wrong and oppression and brought It Into
subjection. .
and courage that Inspired him then has ani
mated Mm throughout his ailminiscration.
When others stood appalled In the presence of
the great strike, he cheerfully, and with
alacrity, assumed a responsibility not officially
incramb'.nt ucon him and, bravely springing
Into the breach, succeeded in procuring a set
tlement that brought tranquillity to the repre
sentatives 01 capita] send smiles and sunsalne
into the faces and homes of the humble
labor: rs.-^
Edwards of Georgia Extols
Party Leader's High
Character.
Senator Beveridge Praises the True Citizenship of
the Presidential Nominee.
Republicans Have Made No Mistakes, He Declares,
and Have Not One Apology to Offer.
SAYS THE AMERICAN FIRESIDE
REALLY NOMINATED ROOSEVELT
GOVERNOR BRADLEY OF KENTUCKY
SAYS PARTY STANDS BY RECORD
SOUTH SHARES
IN PROSPERITY
OF THE COUNTRY
CALJFORNIAN WHOSE SPEECH WAS THE HIT OF THE DAY AND NEW YORK MAN WHO PLACED THEODORK ROOSEVELT IN NOMINATION.
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There «re many new names Jn these days,
fcut the republican party needs no new title!
It elands now where it stood at the beginning
Memory alone Is needed to tell the source from
which the Inspirations of the country flow.
A drowsy memory would be as guilty now as
a sleeping watchman when the enemy is astir.
The name of the Republican party stands over
even' door where a righteous cause m-as born.
Its members have gathered around every move
ment, no matt-r how weak, if Inspired by high
r«*solvc. It« flag for more than fifty years has
been the «lgn of hope on t-very spot where
liberty was the wcrd. That party needs no
new name or platform to designate its pur
poses. It is now as it has been, equipped,
militant and in motion. The problem* of every
age that age munt solve. Great causes im
pose great demanl*. but n«ver In any enter
prise have the American necple failed, and
never in any crisis has the Republican party
failed to express the conscience and intelligence
cf that people.
The public mind is awake both to Us oppor
tunities and Its dangers. Nowhere in the
world, in any era. did citizenship mean more
thc.% tt means to-day In America, Men of
courage and sturdy character are ranging
themselves together with a unanimity seldom
seen. There is no excuse for groping In the
dark, for the light is plain to him who will
but raise his eyes. The American people be-
Iie\-» in a man or party that has convictions
• nd knows why. They believe that what ex
pericne* has proved it is idfe to resist. A
wise man is any fool about to die. But there
U a wisdom which with good fortune may
fruide the living and the ' strong. That wis
dom Fprings from reason, observation and ex
perience. Guided by these, this thing is plain,
«.ad young men may rely upon It. that the
fcietory and purposes T have described, rising
»vrn to the etmence and aspirations of patriot
inn, find their best concrete example In the
career and doctrines of the Republican party.
But not aJone opoa th« principles of that
NEEDS NO NEW TITLE.
OXE FUNDAMENTAL. PLANK.
When all the people have forgotten will
«1awn a golden era for this new Democracy.
Uut the country 1st not ready- yet* to place a
party In the lead whose most expressive motto
is the cheerlees word "forget." That motto
nay expres* contrition, but it does not inspire
bo:*. Neither confidence nor enthusiasm will
ever be aroused by any party which enters
t-ach campaign uttering the language of the
mourner.
.There is one fundamental plank, however.
en which the two great parties are in full
.agreement. Both believe in the equality of
tnrn. The difference is that the Democratic
party would make every man as low as the
poorest, white the Republican party would
make every men an high as the best. But
the Democratic course will proveke no outside
interference now, for the Republican motto
is that of the great commander, "never inter
rupt the enemy while he Is making a mistake"
In politics as in other field?, the most im
presslve arguments epring from ' contract.
»ver has there been a more striking example
of unity than is now afforded by this assem
blage. You are gathered here not as 'fac
tions torn by discordant views, but moved by
one desire and intent, you have come as the
chosen representatives of the most enlightened
party In the world. You meet not as strangers,
for no men arc- strangers who held the same
beliefs and espouse the same cause. You
may separate two bodies of water for a thou
»*nJ years, but when once the barrier is re
moved they mingle lnrtantly and are one.
The same traditions inspire and the same pur
poses actuate us all. Never in our lives did
these purposes ¦ stand with deeper reot than
now. At least two generations have passed
eway «lnoe the origin of that great movement
from which sprang the spirit which has been
the leading impulse in American politics for
half a century. In that movement,. which was
both a creation and an example, were those
great characters which endowed the Republican
party at Its birth with the attributes of Jus
tice, muality and progress, which have held
It to thla hour in line with the highest senti
ment* of mankind. From th^i-e men we have
Inherited the desire, and to their memory we
ewe the resolution, that those great schemes
of government and humanity, inspired by their
patriotism, and established by thefe blood,
i>hall remain as the fixed and permatent em
blem of their labors, and the abiding signal
cf the liberty and progress of the race.
CHICAGO, June 23. — The conven
tion was in a flutter of animation
xvhen ex-Governor Frank Black of
New York advanced to the front of
the platform to place in nomination
The name of President Roosevelt.
As he confronted the convention
Governor Black presented a striking
ligure. He is tall and gaunt. His
hair, originally a dark brown, is. lib
erally streaked with gray, his dark
e\es look sharply from behind spec
tacles and from beneath closely over
hanging eyebrows.
His voice well; his " epi
grams orovoked laughter and the
sharply turned sentences never failed
to raise a rip:>le of applause.
He spoke as follows:
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Conven
tion: We are here to inaugurate a campaign
vhich seems already to be nearly closed. So
wisely have the people sowed and watched and
tended, there teems little now tQ do but to
measure up the grain. They are ranging them
relves not for battle but for harvest. In one
f:!nmii reaching from the Maine woods to the
PaWCt Round are those people and those States
which« have stood so long together, that when
great emergencies arise the nation turns in
t-iinctlvely t-> thf-m. In thin column, vast and
tclid, 1? a majority so overwhelming that the
mattered squads In opposition can hardly raise
another army. The enemy has neither guns
nor ammunition, and if they had they would
use them on each other. Destitute of the
weapons of effective warfare, the only evi
dence of approaching battle is in the tone and
number of their bulletins. There is discord
among the generals; discord among the- soldiers.
r.ach v.-oaid fight in his cwn way. but before
assaulting h'.s Republican adwrearies he would
first destroy his own comrades in the adjoining
t«*nts. Kach believes the weapons chot\.n by
the other are not only wicked but fatal to the
li. : ii-r. That is true. This is the only war
of modern tim^s wfcere the boomerang has been
substituted tor the gun. Whatever fatalities
may occur, however, among the discordant
hosts now moving en St. Louts, no harm will
come this fall to the American people. There
will be no opposition sufficient to raise & con
flict. There will be hardly encugh for compe
tition. There are no. Democratic plans for the
conduct of the fall campaign. Their zeal is
chiefly centered in discussion as to what
Thorr.se JtiTcrson would on if he were living.
He ia not living, and but few of his de
scendants are among the Democratic remnants
of to-day. Whatever of patriotism or wisdom
emanated from that di*t:ninjtsh«d man is now
represented in this convention.
It Is a cad day for any party when its
only means ol y< )\ ir>- living issues is by t'Jess
ing et the possible attitude of a statesman
who is dead. This condition leave* that party
•Jwajn a beginner and makes every question
new. The Democratic party has seldom tried
a problem en its own account, and when it
hts Its blunders have ben its only monu
ments, its courage is remembered only In
regret.- As long as these things are repealled
that party may oerve as ballast, but it will
sever steer the ship.
We want this younger Lincoln — the keeper of
our great eagle — we wanted him with hl» han.ls
on the halyard* of our flag; we want him th«
defender of our constitution and the executive
of our law. and when we have used him ant
the best years of his young. manhood for th-!
good of the nation, he will still be holding our
banner of liberty with stars added' to its azura
field, its history sacred, its stripea untarnlshe-1.
and. by command of the majority, hand it to
the American patriot standing next In line.
The hlesslngs of this great work cannot b<>
told In words, and figures win get wobbly and
unsteady with the load when you chalk them on
the blackboard of time.
Barnacle bottomed ships of the great salt
sea will greet the great father of waters and
make every town on his banks a maritime city.
Tho owners of the farm, factory and mine will
become familiar with the names they never
knew and write strange addresses on the ex
ports they send across the unharvested ocean.
Australia. New Zealand. Yokohama. Hongkong.
Manila. Honolulu and Korea will N» some of
the new name* the new South will he glad to
know, and their children wUl bless the- Presi
dent that gave them their wonderful opportuni
ties for trading. i
WILL KNOW NEW NAMES.
From a Democratic point of view, he Is a
weird magician of politics. They charged him
with disrupting a government on the isthmus,
creating a republic and unlawfully conniving
at a canal. They awoke one flne morning to
find the republic of Panama an entity. Its exist
ence recognized by foreign nations and Con
gress paying out millions of dollars to ratify
his strategic promptness. He wanted to give
Uncle Sam a Job and he did It. and Uncle Sam
wanted the Job and he took It. He belongs to
the Union. We see him standing to-day with
his feet upon the * spade, his garments are
made of his flag, his Inventive Yankee whiskers
are brushed, there Is an American smile on his
face and his heart la gladdened aa he looks at
the golden sunrise of bis commercial future.
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never
impulsive; Roosevelt la Impulsive; so be It — he
Is different.
Our tree is big and broad and grand: we
want a President typical of the country: ore
who will preserve her history, enforce her law,
teach Americanism and fight the wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt, thcu art the man. TI>!1
may he be proud. He is young: the prl*s of
life ig his, and time Is on his side. He lovej
the whole country and knows no fa\-orite sec
tion: he has performed his sacred promise: he
has kept the faith with McKlnley's memorv
and now faces responsibilities of his own. He
hypnotizes obstacles, looks them In the eye and
overpowers with self -conscious honesty of par
pose.
How like unto our emblem of freedom h+
has cropped off the young twigs of our ceda.
of liberty and carried them across the ocean
to the land of traffic and set them In th
city of merchants. The seed of our land :s
there among fruitful field*, beside great waters
and set as a willow tree.
Tb.ua said the Lord: A great eagle, with
great wings, long winged and full of feather*,
which had divers colors, came unto Lebanon
and took the highest branch of the cedar.
He cropped off the top of Its young twUs and
carried It into a land of traffic: he set it in
a city of merchants: he took also of seed of
the land and planted It In a fruitful field:
he placed it across great waters and set as
a willow tree.
EMBLEM OP FREEDOM.
Protection to American labor and our nat
ural resource*, climate. soil, agricultural and
mineral wealth, navigable rivers and safe
harbors, wise laws and clean public men.
have made us the greatest nation on earth to
day. In territory we have outgrown the con
tinent: we are peopling the lalea of the sea.
Gentlemen of the Convention: Geography
has but little to do with the sentiment and
enthusiasm that Is to-day apparent In favor
of the one who Is to be given all th« honor*
and duties of an eleotsd President of th»
Lnite.k States of America. However, the Pa
cific Slope and th-? Elands (those ocean buoys
of commerce moored In the drowsy tropical
sea) »end to this convention words of con
fident greeting, with discreet assurance that
your Judgment will be Indorsed by th* Ameri
can voter and our country continue its won
derful :*-ogress under Republican success
The time Is ripe for brightening up Ameri
canism, to teach with renewed vigor the prin
ciples of individual liberty for which the
minute men of the Revolution fought • the Lin
coln liberty, an Individual liberty for the man.
not a black man alone, any man. all men:
the right of labor In the exercise of freedom
unmolested and be paid for his individual
toil and with it build his cuttage home.
From the press, the pulpit, the achoolhoftse
the platform and th« street. !er the true his
tory of our country be known, that the youris
men and women of America and many oiU
ones may know what a prlr» has been paid
for the liberty. r>eace an<l union they enjoy
through the- devoted patriotism of our sfK-nt
heroes of the past. Deprivation and sacrifice
already endured for many years before the
old bell in the Statehouse was given the
voice to apeak the glorious sentiment of the
age and proclaim liberty throughout all th»
land, and they were made the Instruments
by which the principles productive of our
national grandeur were set aa Jewels In our
public's coronet. What we prayed for. fought
for. bled for aftd died for. we want cared for
Telegraph the world that the Kepublicari
party was the first organization that beckoned
the laboring man to hl» feet and made him
know the quality and equality of his tru»
¦elf. It showed him the possibilities of honest
poverty and has withheld nothing from his
worthy ambition. It took a rall-splltter from
the ground J5Aor of a log cabin and set him
with the stars.
His speech was of Just the right
length and his every sentence forcible
and to the point.
"We have outgrown the continent
and are peopling the Isles of the sea"
was his summing up of the question of
expansion. !
He painted a graphic picture of th»
results of the opening of th« Panama
canal, and in leading up to his plea for
Roosevelt said: "We want for Presi
dent a man, big. broad and grand, like
our country." Here is his speech la
full:
CHICAGO,, June 23.— The powerful
voice of George A. Knight of California
•will long be remembered by those in
the convention hall to-day and his rug
ged tribute to President Roosevelt, of
whose nomination he was one of the
seconders, was distinctly a feature of
the convention.
Californian's Speech a
Feature of the
Convention,
New York's Ex-Gover
nor Presents Name
• of President,
Brings Convention to
Its Feet Cheering
for Nominee,
George Knight Pays a
Forceful Tribute to
Roosevelt.
BLACK PLACES
ROOSEVELT IN
NOMINATION
RAFTERS RING
WITH SOUND
OF HIS VOICE
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1904.
WITH STIRRING ORATORY REPUBLICANS NAME STANDARD-BEARERS OF THEIR PARTY
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