Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-29

quircd. In the short space of one hundred
ana thirteen days politicians and parties
have been forced to meet new questions
and to take sides upon startling issues.
The face of the world has been changed.
The maps Of yesterday are obsolete.
Columbus looking for the Orient and its
tabled treasures. sailed four hundred
years ago into the land-locked harbor of
Santiago and today his spirit sees his
bones resting under the flag of a new and
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 states
men. As In 1916 and 1865 we needed archi-
tectG 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 tremendous responsibility rests,
must have a Republican Congress for its
support In the next two years-two years
of transcendcnt Importance to our future.
New York, imperial among her sister
states IN all which makes II great COM
monweaith. is still the pivotal State in
our national contests. We, the delegates
here assembled. have a very serious duty
ian 40 acting AZ 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 pre-
sent to the people these new and vital
issues, the position of the Republican
party and the necessity to the country
that II should receive the approval of the
country. Friends and enemies alike join
IN the general satisfaction with the wis
dom, sagacity, and statesmanship of Pres
dent Mckinley. oar State has had Il
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 administration. We pcs
scss unusual executive ability and cour-
age IN Governor Black A protective tar
in. sound money, the gold standard, the
retirement of the Government from the
banking business and state issues are
just as 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 ques-
tons. 'rhe cardinal principles Of Repub-
lean policy will be the platform of this
canvass and of future ones But at this
juncturc the people 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 wat
with Spain was just and righteous. We
cannot yet say that American constituen-
cies have settled convictions on territor-
ial expansion and the government of dis
tant Islands and alien races. We can say
that Republican opinion glorics in our
victories and follows the flag.
The reSiStlcSs logic of events OVerCOmes
all other considerations and impels me
to present the name of, as it will pre-
suadc YOU to nominate as our candidate
for Governor of the State of New York
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt If he were
only the hero of Il brilliant charge on the
battlefield. and there was nothing else
which lifted him for this high place,
would not put him in nomination. But
Col Roosevelt has shown conspicuou.
ability I'm the pubic service for ten years
lie was Il soldier three months. 1t is moi
time which tells with an executive mine
= and restless energy like RooseVclts, blu
: opportunity, Give him the chance and hC
l leads to victory. He has held two posi-
lions which generally ruin the holder o
them with politicians and the unthinkng
, Ono was CiVil Service Commissioner ant
the other Police Commissioner for New
York city. So long as the public did no
2 understand him there was plenty of lurit
language and gnashing of teeth. The PEG
! pie are always just in the end. Let then
l know everything that can be said abou
: a man and see all that the scarchligh
! of publicity will reveal and their verde
| is the truth. When the smoke has clear
Il ed away from tho batteries OF abuse the,
saw the untouched and unframed hgur
of public-splrited, broad-minded AM
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