The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-28
MIR. DEPEW's SPEECH.
Roosevelt GIOrified for His Charge Up
BulIet-Swept San Juan Hill.

Roosevelt GIOrified for His Charge Up
BulIet-Swept San Juan Hill.
At ASS o'clock Chauncey M. Depew took
the platform to nominate Theodore Roose-
Welt. For some minutes DR.. Depew could
not begin his speech for the applause that
ensued. When quiet was restored he said:
The widest dream ever born in the i'm
agination of the most optimistic believer in
our destiny could not foresee when McKin-
ley was elected two years ago the on
rushing torrents of events of the past three
months. We are either to be submerged by
this break in the dykes erected by Washing
ton about our government, or we are 20 find
by the wise utilization of the conditions
forced upon us how TO be safer and stronger
within our old boundaries, and to add in
calcuably to American enterprise and op-
portunity by becoming masters of the sea-
and enterine with the surplus of our manu-
features the markets of the world. We cam
not retreat or hide. We must ride the
waves and direct the storm A war has
been fought and won, and vast possessions,
new and far away, have been acquired. In
the short space of 113 days politicians and
parties have been forced to meet new ques-
tions and to take sides upon startling issues.
The face of the world has been changed.
The maps of yesterday are obsolete. Co
lumbus, looking for the Orient and it's
tabled treasures, said four hundred years
ago into the land-locked harbor of Santiago,
and to-day his spirit sees his bones resting
under the flag of new and great country
which has found the way and conquered the
outposts and is knocking at the door Of the
farthest East.
''The times require constructive statesmen.
builders. We have but one school for their
training and education, and that school is
the Republican party. Our Republican adj
ministration. upon which a tremendous re-
sponsibility rests, must have Republican
Congress for it's support in the next two
years-two years of transcendent impor-
tance 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 contests We, the DEL
egates here assembled, have very serious
duty in so acting as to keep our old State
and her congressional delegation in the Re-
publican column. Our thought, and our
absorbing anxiety, is with whom as stand
ard bearer can we most favorably present
to the people these new and vital issues,
the position of the Republican party and the
necessity to the country that it should re-
ceive the approval of the country.
PROUD OF THEIR LEADERS.
Friends and enemies alike join in the
general satisfaction 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
delegation in Congress, and its influence in
the constructive measures of Republican adj
ministration- We possess unusual executive
ability and courage in Governor Black. A
protective tariff, sound money-the gold
standard, the retirement of the government
from the banking business and state issues
are just important as ever. Until three
months ago to succeed we would have had
to satisfy the voters of the soundness and
wisdom of our position on these questions.
The cardinal principles of Republican policy
will be the platform of this canvass and of
future ones. But at this juncture the peo-
pie have temporarily put everything else
aside and are applying their whole thought
to the war with Spain and its consequences.
We believe that they think and will vote
that our war with Spain was just and
righteous. We cannot yet say that Ameri-
can constituencies have settled convictions
on territorial expansion and the government
Of distant islands and alien races. We can
say that Republican opinion glories in our
victories and follows the flag.
1.-THE resistess logic of events overcomes
all other considerations and impels me to
present the name of, as it 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 charge on the battlefield. and there
was nothing else which fitted him for this
high place. would not put him in nomina-
ton. But Colonel Roosevelt has shown con-
spicuous ability in the public service for ten
years. He was a soldier three months. 1t
is not time which tells with an executive
mind and restless energy like Roosevelt's,
but opportunity. Give him the chance and
he leads to victory. He has held two posi-
tions which generally ruin the holder Of
them with politicians and the unthinking
One was civil-service commissioner and the
other police commissioner for New York
city. So long as the public did not under
stand him there was plenty of lurid Ian
guage and gnashing of teeth
A FEARLESS OFFICIAL
''The people are always just in the end.
Let them know everything that can be said
about a man and see all that the search
light of publicity will reveal and their ver-
dict is the truth. When the smoke had
cleared away from the batteries OF abuse
they saw the untouched and unharmed fig-
ure Of a public-spiritcd. broad-minded and
courageous officer. 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 innocuously
as did the bullets frcm the Spanish Mausers
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