The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23
Genuine Cuckoo Panegyric From
Attorney General GriggS.
ABUSE OF DEMOCRATS
DENOUNCED. FOR CRITICTSING
THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
Administration Partisan Deplores
Partisanism In Bitter Partisan
Speech-New Jersey Republicans
Nominate Voorhees, For Governor
By Acclamation.

Trenton, N. J., Sept 22.-The Re-
publican state convention met here to-
day and nominated Foster NJ. Voor-
hees as its candidate for governor. Mr..
Voorhees, is at present a senator from
Union county and in his capacity as
president of the senate, has been act
ing as governor since Governor John
! w. Griggs was chosen attorney. gen.
eral.
There was only one session Of the
convention, lasting about two hours,
and the gathering was the most har-
monious affair of the sort ever gotten
together in New Jersey. Attorney
General Griggs presided and his speech,
mainly devoted to national affairs, was
the feature of the convention.
| Mr. Voorhees, was nominated by ac-
clamation, and as the governor is the
only state officer elected by the people,
the work of the convention was soon
performed.
The platform adopted is devoted
mainly to state issues. A paragraph
expressing faith in the ability of the
Republican national administration to
deal with incompetency in the army
was, on motion Of State Chairman
Murphy, stricken out.
Mr. Murphy, who had presented his
resi- gnation some days ago, was pre-
vailed upon to reconsider his with
draWal and continue at the head or the
state committee.
The convention was called to. order
in Taylor's opera house at noon by
Chairman Franklin Murphy of the
state committee, who introduced Al
torney- General Griggs, as presiding Of
ficer Mr. Griggs received an ovation
He spoke briefly of local state politics
and the last presidential campaign he
then continued:
"And in this latest time of storm and
stress, in the midst of great perpiex-
ties, it is q pleasant thing to be aple
to bear witness that our president has
retained the confidence and support of
those who aided US in 1896. And more
than that, he has had the assistance or
the advice and counsel of many of the
responsible leaders of the Democracy,
north and south, loyalty and sincerely
rendered without thought of partisan
or political differences.
HE has held behind him the support
of the American people with greater
degree of unanimity than any presl-
dent since Washington.
What can political opposition rest
upon in this campaign? There is
nothing but academic discussion left
for Democratic T forms. They may
denounce protective tariffs, but no
one will care They have nothing
newer or better than the Chicago
platform. from which tens of thou
sands of New Jersey Democrats re-
VOTED.
IF that was a dangerous and alarm
ing diversion of Democratic doctrine
then. it is now only ridiculous. 1t has
upon it the double condemnation of
popular defeat and present great in
consistency with every great occur
renee in history since 1896.
Il do not speak of that other item,
which certain newspapers and others
are trying to make the leading issue OF
the Democratic campaign. Forgetting
the glory, achievement, the success
with which an army of 600 men was
raised out of nothing, and hostile
nation almost wiped cut in 80 days,
they are lowering like buzzards over
the battlefields, and hospitals. and
graveyards, looking only for the misery,
and suffering, and death which are
inevitable in war. Surely the Demo-
cratic party has not been reduced so
low in the supply of proper subjects
for political division as to need to rely
upon yellow fever and yellow litera-
ture.
Il he country demands now branch
of craftsmanship new to Americans
the proper method and measures for
the control and government of colonial
and the adjustment of
colonial interests and affairs to the in
terests of the home governments field
wherein partisan politics should not
easily be allowed to enter. but where
broad and enlightened state policy may
have full scope to work out plans
all the blessings of essential
liberty and twentieth century civiliza- |
ton may be assured to the peoples that
are to be under our paternal care, and
reciprocal benefits may be obtained for |
our own countrymen.
Il believe in the capacity of Ameri- |
cans to govern-to govern themselves /
and to govern others. I believe that (
the boundlesS capacity and the splendid |
of America, with her high |
sense of justice, her appreciation of the |
rights of man, will, in the new duties !
placed upon us, work out marvellous !
good for the peoples that have come !
under our guardianship and greater |
glory for our country.
And how we have been blessed al /
ready. All the old roots of bitterness |
between north and south are removed. |
What years and years of political eff |
fort could not do was done in a mo- !
ncnt, when our standards were set |
toward a foreign foe and the consum-
mate tact and grace OF our Republican
president refused to make any distinc-
ton between federal and confederate,
but put Lee and Wheeler side by side
with Kent and Shafter, Johnnies' and
YaDks all keeping step together to the
music of the Union.
ut has been the happy result of this
war to have brought back-forever, we
-rust-that entire esteem, confidence
md affection, the old good humor be-
.ween the people of the north and the
south, as in the days when Adams and
Hamilton and Jay labored and con-
erred in fraternal harmony with Pat
lex Henry, and Thomas Jefferson, and
he Pinckneys about our country's in
crest"