The record-union., 1898-09-28

army was ever organized and equipped
so we'll and so completely, with less
privation and less suffering, than our
own volunteer army in our present
war
New questions have grown out of
the war. New territory has been ac-
quired. What shall be done with it?
New administrative questions will arise,
questions of revenue, questions of
finance all of which are disturbed by
our responsibilities. Shall we adopt a
colonial policy? What shall it be?
Whatever is done with these islands, we
must lift up their semi peo-
pie toward the level of American citi-
zenship. Their government, their civil
ization, their education demand the best
wisdom of our ablest statesmen.
Shall we trust their settlement to
those who two years ago, We're making
a crusade against law and order,
against American credit and appealing
to the lowest motives of the citizens;
or shall we stand by the Administration
and give to President Mckinley at the
National Capital a Senate and House
| of Representative who will aid him in
every endeavor to carry sound systems
| of government into the islands of the
| sea? This cannot be done, gentlemen,
| by losing a Senator here and an Assem-
| blyman there in the State of New York
We must see to it that our Democratic
Senator retires to the shades of Troy.
| We must have a Republican in his
place. We must have a Republican
| House. We must see to it that we have
| a Republican Executive in the Empire
State. We must stand by the Admin
| istration in these perilous times that
are to come, guaranteeing to these ISL
ands a stable, just and equitable gov
ernment, that will give to Cuba a place
among the nations of the earth and
| give to Porto Rico a chance beneath the
American flag to march up toward
| American civilization and become a
| part of the American people"
| The mention of President McKinley's
| name was the signal for wild and con-
! tinuous cheering, and Delegate Charles
A. Moore of Brooklyn capped the eli
max by asking for threescheers, which
were given with a will.
| AT 1:35 p. m. the convention, on mo-
| tion of j. S. Fassett, took a recess un-
til $3.50 o'clock
| When the convention reassembled at
O'Clock the Committee on Organiza-
tion reported the permanent officers. in
| cluding Senator Horace White of Syra-
cuse for Chairman.
The Committee on Credentials report
| ed that there were no contests and
Senator White took the Chair Refer
ences in his opening speech to Governor
| Black and Senator Platt provoked tre-
mendous applause,
RT.ACK ACE,D TNr NynN9TN-
| j. Rider Cady of Hudson, who NOM
| mated Governor Black two years ago.
| took the platform to perform the same
services again. Judge Cady finished
amid tremendous applause. his closing
remarks about Governor Blacks faith
fulness to the ticket calling forth the
enthusiasm of the audience.
DEPEW NoMINATES ROOSEVELT.
At 400 o'clock Chauncey NJ Dapew
took the platform to nominate Theodore
Roosevelt For some minutes Mr.. De
pew could not begin his speech for the
applause that ensued When qiie. was
restored he said:
Gentlemen: Not since 1863 has the
Republican party met in convention
when the conditions of the country
We're SO interesting or so critical. The
NiiOCSt uiSdHI ever DOIH III the lnaSI-
nation of the most optimistic believer
in our destiny could not foresee when
Mckinley was elected two years ago
the on-rushing torrent of events of the
past three months. We are either to
be submerged by this break in the
dikes erttIed by Washington about
our Government, or we are to find by
the wise utilization of the conditions
forced upon US how to be safer and
stronger within our old boundaries and
to add incalculably to American enter
prise and opportunity by becoming
masters of the sea, and entering with
the surplus of our manufactures the
markets of the world.
THE times require constructive
statesmen AS in 1776 and 1865 we
need architects and builders. We
have but one school for their training
and education, and that school is the
Republican party. Our Republican
administration, upon which a tremen
dous responsibility rests, must have a
Republican Congress for it's support in
the next two years-two years of tran
scendent Importance to our future.
New York, imperial among her sister
States in all which makes great
commonwealth, is still the pivotal
State in our national contests. We,
the delegates here assembled, have a
very serious duty in so acting as to
keep our old State and her Congress
sional delegation in the Republican
column. Our thought and our ap
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 RepuD-
lican and the necessity to the country
that it should receive the approval of
the country.
Friends and enemies alike join in
the general satisfaction with the wis
dom, sagacity and craftsmanship OF
President Mckinley. Our State has
had faithful, able and worthy rep
resentative in the greatest legislative
body in the world in Senator Platt. We
are Justly proud of our delegation in
Congress and it's influence in the con-
structive measures of Republican ad-.
ministration. We possess unusual ex-
ecutive ability and courage in Govern
or Black.
"The resistless logic of events over
comes all other considerations, and i'm
pels me to present the name of, and
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 a brilliant
charge on the battlefield, and there
was nothing else which fitted him for
this high place, would not put him in
nomination. But Colonel Roosevelt
has shown conspicuous ability in the
nublic service for ten years. He was