The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-28

l rests, must have a republican congress | for it's support in the next two years l two years of transcendent importance | to our future. New York, imperial | among her sister states in all which | makes a great commonwealth, is still | the pivotal state in our national con- ] tests. We, the delegates here assem- 1 bled have very serious duty in so act | ing as to keep our old state and her | congressional delegation in the republi- ! can column. Our thought, and our ab | sorbing anxiety, is with whom as stan | dard bearer can we most favorably present to the people these new and vital issues, the position of the repub- lican party and the necessity to the | country that it should receive the ap- proval of the country. Friends and en-
 emies alike join in the general satisfac- 1 ton with the wisdom, sagacity, and statesmanship of President Mckinley. | Our state has had faithful, able, and | worthy representative in the greatest | legislative body in the world in Senator Platt We are justly proud of our dele I gation in congress, and it's influence in the constructive measures of republi- can administration. We possess un- eASueil CASCullNS dDlIlly dlIl COuIdSS III l Governor Black. A protective tariff, sound money-the gold standard, the | retirement of the government from the banking business and state issues are | just as important as ever. Until three months ago to succeed we would have had to satisfy the voters of the sound- | ness and wisdom of our position on | these questions. The cardinal princi- pies of republican policy will be the | platform of this canvass and of future | ones. But at this juncture the people have temporarily put everything else
 aside and are applying their whole | thought to the war with Spain and it's | consequences. We believe that they
 think and will vote that our war with | Spain was just and righteous We
 cannot yet say that American constitu- l encies have settled convictions on ter | ritorial expansion and the government | of distant islands and alien races. We
 can say that republican opinion glories
 in our victories and follows the flag.
 l The resistless logic of events over
 comes all other considerations and im- | pels me to present the name of, as 1t will persuade you to nominate as our
 candidate for governor of the state of
 New York Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.
 If he were only the hero of brilliant l charge on the battle, and there was | nothing else which fitted him for this
 high place, I would not put him in nom l ination But Colonel Roosevelt has
 shown conspicuous ability in the public l service for ten years. He was @ soldier | three months. It is not time which
 tells with an executive mind and rest
 less energy like Roosevelt's, but oppor-
 tunity Give him chance and he leads
 to victory He has held two positions
 which generally ruin the holder of l them with politicians and the unthink- ] ing. One was civil service commits
 sioner and the other police commission
 CT for New. York city. So long as the
 public did not understand him there
 was plenty of lurd language and gnashing of teeth. The people are all
 ways just in the end. Let them know
 everything that can be said about a
 man and see all that the searchlight of
 publicity will reveal and their verdict
 is the truth. When the smoke had
 cleared away from the batteries of
 abuse they saw the untouched and un-
 harmed figure of public spirited, anu courageous OlilCSl,
 who understood official responsibility to
 mean the performance without fear or
 favor of the work he had promised to
 do and obedience to the laws he had
 sworn to support. The missiles from
 those batteries flew by him as innocu-
 ously as did the bullets from the Span
 ish Mausers on the hill of San Juan.
 General Grant said, when president,
 that the only way to secure the repeal
 of an obnoxious law is to enforce it, and
 that to refuse to obey it is to bring all
 law into contempt. Roosevelt adored General Grant. He did not make any
 of these laws. They were the work of
 both republican and democratic legs-
 latures If Roosevelt had been gover-
 nor many of them would have died by
 his veto.
 When he became assistant secretary
 of the navy he was in a sphere more
 congenial to his genius and abilities
 He is better soldier than he is po- liceman. Life on the plains had broad
 ened his vision and invigorated his
 youth. Successful excursions into the literature of the ranch and the hunting
 for big game had opened up for him
 the present resources and boundless | possibilities of the United States. He
 was fortunately under the most accom- ! plished, able, generous and indulgent
 chief in Secretary Long. A small man
 would have been jealous of this dyna- rnitic bundle of brains, nerves, energy , and initiative, but our distinguished
 secretary gave full scope to his brilliant assistant The country owes much to
 him for the efficiency and splendid con
 dition of our navy. The congressional
 economist has salways put his knife deep in the naval appropriations. He
 will not do so any more. The navy
 department has always been compelled
 to enforce on the commanders of it's
 men-of- war that they must be very
 careful of coal and powder. The per i manent staff said to Roosevelt one day,
 Dewey is wasting an unnecessary
 amount of powder in firing his big ] guns' Let him shoot away" said the assistant secretary, that is what the
 powder is for" If there had been no
 war some Jerry Simpson would have
 moved an inquiry into the extrava- gance of the navy department in burn i ing up the property of the United
 States, and upon Roosevelt might have