The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-19

d1daEoI IRE Or fODL1N
FICIAL
do we come TO this convention by tine
command OF our state, and, In tne
name of the Republican party OF New
Jersey-unconquered and unconquer-
able, undivided and undivisabie. wien
our united voice speaking for all tna1
counts for good citizenship in our stare.
and nominate to you for the office OF
Weep president of the republic, Garrett
A. Hobart, of New Jersey.
HENRY CLAY EVANS.
William Randolph. of Tennessee,
named Henry Clay Evans. He said;
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
Convention: It has been more than
thirty years since any citizen OF the
states organized as confederate states
has been presented by either of the
great national parties for the ONCE OF
president or viee-presidsnt. When the
great conflict for the nations life was
entered upon, the Republican party
had just assumed control of the gov
eminent. and it became champion OF
the union OF states and the Dreserva-
ton of the government under its con-
stitution. AT the close of the contest
the success of the national arms was
regarded as the special triumph of the
Republican party The people of the
states of the south had been in revolt
and il was natural that for time
after hostilities had ceased that the
Republican party and those people
SHOULD DISTRUST EACH OTHER.
The one found the great majority of
its voters in the states which adhered
TO the union and therefore selected its
candidates for president and vice
| president from those states.
The Democratic party had been the
! dominant party in the states of the
south for many generations and the
/ people regarded the party not only
as. their traditional representative, but
as the peculiar exponent of their politi-
: cal views. A solid south in a Demo-
| cratic column of electoral votes was
a necessary consequence, and for
many years the Republican party has
entered upon every national contest
handicapped with 159 electoral votes
absolutely certain to be against its
nominee.
To overcome this immense vote thus
| fixed on it, it has required the carry
ing of each of certain doubtful states
in the north, and failure to carry any
one of these states, as demonstrated
in the
DEFEAT OF MIR. BLAINE
in the contest of 1884, meant the cleo
| ton of the Democratic nominee.
To change this condition of affairs
requires a change of the relations be-
tween the people of the southern
states and the Republican party. To
accomplish such a change two things
must concur-the people of the south,
or a. majority of them. must be salts
fled that their interests are to be pro-
noted by the success of the Republic
can party and also that the Republic
can party is ready to concede to them,
when members of 1t and acting with
it, equal recognition with the people
of the other states in the selection Of
officers and agents for the adminds,tra-
ton of the government and the change
must be brought about by obtaining
converts from the Democratic party.
The experience of the last four years
of the administration of the national
government upon Democratic princi-
Piles and through Democratic officers
and agents has furnished satisfactory
proof on the first proposition, and a
large majority of the intelligent peo-
pie of
THE FORMER SOLID SOUTH
Is now ready to admit that the princi-
pies announced in the platform just
adopted when honestly administered
through capable officers and agents
must result in the building I'D of a
new south, not only in name, but in
industrial developments and in all that
goes to make UP a happy and prosper
GUS people.
The proof Of the other proposition,
that the people of the southern states
who are Republicans, and who are
honest, worthy and capable are to be
trusted as officers and agents in the
administration of government under
Ike circumstances equally with their
brothers of the other states, and that
no invidious discrimination is to be
made against them because of their
locality, ancestry or past history or
affiliations, remains yet to be made.
Now is the time for the great Re
publican party to make it's first seri-
Gus effort to build itself up and put
itself In a position of impregnable
strength among the people of the
south. The southern states are now
its recruiting grounds. The solid, south
Is reliably solid for the Democratic
party no longer. Kentucky, Tennes-
see, Maryland, Delaware, West Vir-
ginfa, Missouri and North Carolina
have each given un1nistakeable
INDICATIONS OF DRIFTING AWAY.
and with proper encourag cement and
suita BILE recognition. they may safely
be placed in the Republican column
4
ton in November is announced but
in future contests as they occur.
tennessee, the gateway of the south,
the great battlefield of the civil war.
the state which voted by a large ma
jority againht secession when the
question was submitted TO the people.
the last state to join itself to the con-
federate states, the first state to re-
turn to its loyalty to the Union, now
presents to you it's distinguished citi-
zen for the second place on your ticket.
1t is true that he is not native born.
but he is more-he is a citizen by
choice, and he comes from a state
whose people have always been loyal
to the Union and to the Constitution
and who furnished more soldiers to the
/ armies of the Union in proportion to
their population than any other terri
tory in the United States. Our nomi-
nee was born in the great state of
Pennsylvania. He was reared in the
equally
GREAT STATE. OF WISCONSIN.
When the president, in the beginning
of the nations danger, called the citi-
zens to arms to preserve the Union
and perpetuate the Constitution. though
a mere boy, he enlisted as a private
soldier and after going through all the
PSif4S. VI lAS Wal, CT tIlt emu ne was
honorably discharged. He then be-
came a citizen of the state of Tennes-
see, and has devoted mis- industry,
energy and ability to develop the re-
sources of that state. He has won
the friendship, respect and confidence
of the people among whom he lived
they have put him in various offices;
he has been alderman and mayor of a
city, member of Congress from his
district and first assistant postmaster