New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-28

most eloquent and stirring ever heard IN Con
vention Han
He. too, Ike IudE- Cadv. disclsimed the inten-
ton 81 criticisins or attacking any other canti-
date and he declared that Judge csdy had DO
greater respect and could utter No h~ariier
praise than he for the young statesman. Gov
ernor Black But tho conditions which pre-
vailed three months ago. and which then would
have called for the denomination ~ Governor
Black were not the conditions 81 to-day The
Republican party must meet the question,
What ~ the war with Spain =" The Issues
now before the people resenbled those ~ 1863
and all personal preferences should DO set aside
in the endeavor 10 End the best man for the
Republican nomination for Governor AZ this
crisis Theodore Roosevelt IN his opinion. was
that man. and the orator went on 10 outline
now eloquenty nov humorously. earnestly
the facts IN the public career ~ his candidate
In the midst Of the speech there up
roar az the door. and four men. bearing huge
transparency which was Roosevelts picture.
ran fIl-t,lt down the centre aisle and showed
the picture M onto the platform. Nobody
seemed 10 know What 10 DO with II A. first II
uas held behind the speaker but as II was ten
feet square II cut of forty or ffty people sitting
behind from sight or sound NJ Mr Depew 90
81 vas finally carried to the rear ~ the stage
and propped against the wall. and Mr. Depew
resumed his speech with the remark. That is
the entrapce into this convention ~ Rough
Rider" daughter and spplausel
Continuing Mr. Depew spoke ~ Colonel
Roosevelts services in the Navy Department
and In the actual work Of war. closing with
dramatic description o. tho charge Of the Rough
Riders up the hill Of San Juan. and Roosevelt's
.ofss ho.-c md 80 1irk
hell out OF them sentiment which he COM
pared 10 Nashingtons outburst OF titanic rage
and sherdans rallying Of his disordered troop
ers in the Valley Of Virginia
DEPEW'S SPEECH.
Mr. Depew'. speech. which aroused the
thusiasm Of the great audience N high degree
was in full follows
Gentlemen. Not since 1863 has the Republican
party me, in convention when NE condions OF
the Emancipation Proclamation OF President LIN
coin, giving freedom and citizenship to four million
iernal policy OF our Government, which seemed
dangers 10 he Rep1bc The eject Of the sua
ton was the sudden and violent sunderins Of the
future as wn'c e% probems precsied upon our
Statesmen to solve. which were not TO be found In
or traditions Of Congress The courageous.
constructive party which opr politics has known
cessfully that the regenerated and disen,hraled
Republic has grown and prospered under this new
brfh OF liberty bevond all precedent and every
prediction
we gather fresh Inspiration and hope for our
tasks when the assembled representatives. OF this
splendid and historic organization recall the names
and v>nerate the memory or the brilliant Repub-
lican statesmen OF the war. OF reconstruction and
OF National development Lincoln and Grant. sew
ard and Chase. Than1eus Stevens and James @.
Blaine though dead. yet speak most eloauently
in measures which have made country pros
porous and in policies which have given II world
wide power ,-,
Nov, az Their the unexpected has happened The
widest dream ever born Of the imagination of the
most optimistic believer in destiny could not
foresee when Mckinley was elected two years ago
the onrushng torrent Of events OF the last three
months We either 70 be submerged by ms
break in the dykes erected by Washington ABOUT
our Government. or 10 md by the wise
utilization OF the conditions forced upon us now
20 be safer and stronger within our old houndarles
and 10 add incidentally 10 American enterprise and
opportunity by becoming masters OF the sea ana
entering with the surplus OF our manufactures me
markets Of the world We cannot retreat or moe
We must ride the and direct me STORM
war has been fought and won. and vast posses
sious. new and far away, have been acquired In