The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-28

the Republicans Were Friendly
to Silver.
BOSTON, March IA larger or
more enthusiastic body of prominent
Republicans has seldom met at a
state convention than was gathered at
Music Hall today to elect four dele
gates at large and their alternafes to
attend the national convention at St.
Louis. OF 1902 delegates entitled to a
seat in the convention, 1851 were pres
ent, full of enthusiasm for Hon. Thorn
as B. Reed as candidate for president.
Every delegate had in his buttonhole
Reed button, bearing picture of the
man with a background of the ma
tional colors and every time the name
of the Maine statesman was uttered
cheers burst from the threats of the
vast crowd that filed the convention
hall.
Nor were the delegates much more
enthusiastic than the scores of ladies
who occupied seats in the first gallery.
While the men applauded and cheered,
the women waved their scarfs and
handkerchiefs. The hall was almost
completely lined with bunting, pune
tured by groups of flags. Baldwin's
full band bore its part in keeping up
the enthusiasm by playing national
and patriotic melodies. The proceed
ings of the convention were har-
monious in a marked degree, and the
programme mapped out by the state
committee was adopted with a single
exception-that of the election of Dr.
E. S. Courtney of Boston, a colored
man, to be an alternate. He was
nominated from the floor by Morris c.
Aller, a colored 'elegate from Boston.
The speeches wee listened to with
marked attention and every point
seemed to receive it's merited amount
of applause or laughter. This was
particularly the case when Congress
man Mccall and Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge were delivering their addresses.
THE PROCEEDINGS.
The Republican state convention was
called to order at 1915. Long before
that the delegates assembled in the
hall and killed time by cheering for
tered. The first grand volley came
when Chairman. George H. Lyman,
followed by the state committee,
mounted the platform. Mr.. Lyman
called the convention to order and the
call was read.
Bishop Lawrence offered prayer and
eloquently referred to the justice and
purity of life of the late Governor
Greenhalge Mr. Lyman then ad
dressed the delegates.
LYMAN'S SPEECH.
Mr.. Lyman said:
I'VE are assembled in convention,
empowered by the suffrages of the Re
publican voters of Massa chusetts to
outline and determine the policy of
this commonwealth, when she shall
meet the representatives from her sis
ter states, at perhaps the most i'm
portant national convention in the his
tory of the great American party. We
meet, after a lapse of four years, to
select good men and true, who are to
speak for the commonwealth at the
convention, and also to agree upon and
formulate such rules of government
as shall best tend to represent and in
terpret the principles of the party we
honor-the foundation of our best
citizenship. Let the national conven-
ton stand true to the best interests
of the Republican party, an honest
dollar, and the institutions of our
country, and that party's defeat is an
impossibility.
Gentlemen, our position is a very
responsible one. In thought and name
and being we are one with that New
England sisterhood of states, whose
proudest record has ever been for loyal
support of those institutions. Why
has no New England state yet met in
Is it not because they
first to hear the voice of
Massachusetts? Towards the decline
of the eighteenth century, with sword
and pen, in council and on the field,
New England, with united purpose
was the most foremost in establishing
this great government under which we
live; and foremost of them ALL in free
dom's cause, with brain and arm,
fought Massachusetts,. Then was given
birth to that great bulwark of the
American people-the New England
man.
To-day, though blessed with peace, !
we have issues no less vital that must
be distinctly met They involve the
very foundation of our civil structure
of those institutions, of our credit, of
our national honor. Massachusetts
owes to herself, she owes it to those
who fashioned her in earlier and
darker days to take her place and
maintain her birthright in the councils
of the states. OF all the states within
this wide territory-God's gift to an
infant republican religion, in enter
prise, in culture, in refinement, in it's
in the fervid and intense
spirit of patriotic Americanism by
tradition and BIZ example, stands first
and foremost the old Bay state.
Then let your vote send such men
to ST. Louis as shall best represent
that at this last con-
vention of the ninteenth century, she
and all New England may stand no
cipher but a mighty unit, and with
such resolutions as shall receive the
of all Americans who own
4 country. and demanding such a
leader as truly American as the prin-
cip1es he is called upon to defend
New England cannot be said to be less
worthy of leadership today than in the
Did days of the thirteen united colonies
when she presents as her chosen
the name of Thomas Bracket
Reed.
THE DELEGATES.
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