The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-08-23
Gardner Renominated,

The convention to nominate a Repub
lican candidate for Congress for the Sec
ond District, met at Atlantic City, Oh
Thursday The four counties composin!
the district were fairly represented. Sam
uel K Robbins, of Moorestown, wa
chosen to act as chairman, and his open
ing address captured the convention.
The denomination of Congressman Gard
ner was foregone conclusion and the
delegates got to business at once and the
work was soon done.
The Committee on Resolutions then re-
ported the following resolutions, which
were adopted;
We, the Republicans of the Second Con
gressional district, in convention assem-
| bled, do hereby declare:
| First We reaffirm our devotion to the
principles of the Republican party as ex-
emplified in the platform adopted by the
National Convention in 1895 and as made
into history by the administration of Pres
ident Mckinley and the legislation of the
present Congress, under the operation of
which the American workingmen are
again being given employment and their
wages paid in sound money worth one
hundred cents to the dollar.
Second. That we congratulate the
country upon the successful prosecution
and triumphant conclusion of the war
with Spain, by which millions of people
have been rescued from tyranny and mis-
rule, and the area of the republic, with it's
blessings of liberty and civilization, has
been so greatly extended; that we con
graduate President Mckinley upon the
iudicious, wise and patriotic manner in
which he has administered the govern
ment through this trying exigency, with
full confidence that the triumphs of our
arms will be sustained by the wisdom and
firmness of our diplomacy. We believe
that in the adjustment of the questions
| forced upon him by these triumphs no
step backward will be taken.
Third We congratulate the State of
New Jersey upon her prompt response to
the call for troops in the war, and we ex-
press our sincere gratitude to the army
and navy for the glorious victories won
with so little loss of life
Fourth. To our present Representative,
| Hon. John j. Gardner, we can truthfully
say, We'll done, thou good and faithful
servant His experience in state and
national legislation has fitted him in the
| highest degree for the discharge of the
duties to which he will be again called by
a grateful and appreciative constituency.
We hereby pledge him our cordial and
earnest support, and commend him with
confidence to the voters of the district
A committee of three was appointed to
notify Mr. Gardner of his nomination and
to escort him to the hall. The nominee
was quickly on hand and addressed the
convention for nearly half hour
He defined very clearly his attitude
upon the question of territorial expansion,
and aroused a storm of applause when he
said that the American flag should never
be hauled down where it had once been
raised. He believed that the stars and
stripes had never injured anybody and
that no harm could come to this country
from its new possessions.
He warned Republicans against putting
confidence in the assertion being made by
the Democrats that there were no national
issues to be considered in the coming cam
paign
Their claim that the free silver issue is
dead and the tariff question settled, he
pronounced delusion and snare to be
avoided by the people.
He ventured the assertion that in the
south and west the Democrats would nom
mate for Congressman only those men
who would promise to support the free
silver proposition
Congressman Loudenslager was on the
stage and responded to call for speech
in an address which was highly eulogistic
of Mr. Gardner.