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

We want a man who will guard the
safety and dignity of the nation at home
and abroad and who will always and con-
Stantly be firm and strong in dealing with
foreign nations instead of suddenly vary
ing long course of weakness and indif-
ference with a conclusive spaSm of vlgcr
and patriotism. Above all. we want
man who viii lead his party and act with
II and who will not, by senselesS quarrels
between the White House and the cap
itoi, reduce legislation and execution alike
to inlbecilty and failure. Such is the
man we want for our great office in these
bitter times when the forces of disorder
are loosed and the wreciers with their
false lights. are gathered at the shore TO
LURE THE SHIP OF STATE
upon the rocks. Such man. fit for such
deeds, L am now to present to you. ne
needs no praise from me, for he has
| proved his own title 10 leadership. From
1 what he is and what he has done we
! know what he can do. For twenty years
/ IN victory and defeat at the head of great
majoritiss and of small majorities alike,
he has led his party in congress with a
| power which no man could dispute and
/ with an ability which never wansd.
have seen him with a maddened oppose
/ ton ssorming about him, carry through
! that great reform which has made the
/ house of representatives the strong and
/ efficient body it is today. l have seen him
during the past winter guide great MA
I
mand put upon them and made no errors
which could burden the Republican parry
/ in the campaign before US. Before the
| people and in the house he has ever been
| the bold and brilliant champion of the
great Republican policies which. adopted,
| have made us prosperous, and abandoned,
| have left
RUIN AT OUR DOORS.
He is a thorough American, by birth. by
descent, by breeding; one who loves his
country and has served it in youth and
in manhood, in war and IN peace. His
great ability. his originality of thought.
( his power of debate. his strong will. are
known of all and are part of the history
| of the last twenty years. His public ca
reer is as spotless as his private Character
is pure and unblemished. He is a trained
statesman, fit for the heaviest task the
country can impose upon him. He com
mands the confidence of his party and his
| country. He is a leader of men. We
know it because we have seen him lead.
! To those who have followed him he never
said go" but always come He is en-
tirely fearless. We know it, for we have
seen his courage tested on
A HUNDRED FIELDS.
He has been called to great places and
| to great trials, and he has never failed
nor flinched. He is fit to stand at the head
of the Republican. column; he IS worthy
! to be an American president.
/ have the honor, the very great honor.
/ 10 present 10 you as cdnuludle AOE your
nomination, the speaker of the national
| house of representatives, Thomas 3. Reed
! of Maine.
The mention of Mr. Reeds name was
| received with loud applause and cheer
/ ing, led by the Maine delegation. To
add TO the enthusiasm, some admirers
of the Maine statesman suspended
! large picture of Mr.. Reed from the
/ gallery, which evoked many demonstra-
tons of applause.
SECONDED BY LITTLEFIELD.
Mr.. Littlefield, of Maine, seconded
the nomination of Mr.. Reed.
He said:
The nominee of this convention will
! be the next president of the United
States That the Republican party is
to be victorious in the coming cam
paign. whoever its nominee may be,
has long since been settled by the
| manifold plumbers, worse than crimes,
that have been committed by the
Democratic party 1t has demonstrate
ed its incapacity to direct the affairs
of the nation in full measure, heaped
up, running over. 1t was intrusted
with power by a forgetful and for
! giving people, at a time of uneXam-
pied prosperity with an Overlooking
national treasury, and unlimited public
credit. labor fully and profitably en-
ployed, wheels turning, looms moving,
| furnaces glowing and machinery hum
ming the music that attends profita BILE
/ diversified industry. These were the
inevitable results of the intelligent ap-
! plication of that elemental principle of
our system of government, coeval with
the birth agony of the republic,
PROTECTION OF AMERICAN LA
Dor
and industry. The Democratic party,
after having denounced the Mckinley
tariff as the eliminating atrocity of
class legislation" and set forth it's
declaration of alleged principles. asked
| for a change of administration and
! party in order that there might be "a
change of system and a change of
method" We have had a change in
administration and party, a change of
system and method. a complete rever-
sal of results In 1896 we see the per-
| feet converse of the picture presented
in 1892. In that great achievement of
Democratic craftsmanship the con-
fessed misbegotten offspring of cow
! ardice. perfidy and dishonor, a tariff
for deficiency only. Professor Wilson
declared that he had just begun to
shell the protected industries of the
north
THE OPENING GUN
of his campaign was sufficient to
drive timid capital to inaccessible re-
treats, extinguish the fires, silence the
loom, paralyze industry, turn honest
labor into the street and Plunge the
country into a condition of business
depression hitherto unknown to this
generation of business men. 1t en-
couraged and cherished foreign and
domestic industry 1t has fostered no
ding haS hot nF oh
Then the sunshine of prosperity il1u-
mined the whole land. Now our people
grope, shiver and wait in the benumb-
ing shadow of adversely ano disaster.
Even Cleveland has discovered that we
are confronted by a condition of bust
ness depression. Then surplus over
flowed the treasury. Now a deficit
denudes it's vaults. The stern logic
of events has given the American peo-
pie an object lesson on the most stu
pendous scale. But one lesson is
taught. 1t is so plain that "he may
run that reads it," Another change
is decreed. 1t only waits the slow
turn of the hand on the dial plate of
time to be registered. For the next
four years the Republican party will
again take charge of the business Of
the country.
A QUERY.
Will it remain in power for decades, 4
shaping in harmony with it's high des-
tiny the policy of the republic? The
action of this convention in the selec-
ton of a nominee will determine.
We stand here as the representatives
of this great party, charged with the
responsibility of deciding whether the
lease of power which an indignant, ex-
hausted. exasperated people stand
ready to give US shall be four years or
decades. We are called upon to act