The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-28
1T is ROOSEVELT.
Chosen as the Republican Can
didate for Governor
Over Black by Vote of Three
to One.
PRESENTED BY DEPEW
Eliza Root Declares His Citi-
zenship All Right.
Platform sFavOrs Holding the
Philippines.

Saratoga, N. Y. Sept. 2s.-The Re-
publican convention nominated the fol-
lowing ticket:
For Observation-Disclosures Roosevelt of
Oyster Bay.
Lieutenant governOr-Timothy L.
WOOdruff of Kings.
Comprehensive. J. Morgan of Erie.
Secretary of state-John T. McDOn-
Cugh of Albany
State treasurer-John B. JaeckeI of
Cayuga.
State engineer-Edward A Bond of
Jefferson.
Attorney general-John T. Davies of
At 4:55 O'Clock Chauncey NJ. Depew
took the platform to nominate Theodore
Roosevelt. For some minutes Mr.. De-
pew could not begin his speech for the
applause that ensued. When quiet was
restored he said in part:
Chauucey Depew's Speech.
mot since 1853 has the Republican
party met in convention when the con-
diuOns of the country were so interest
ing or so critical Then the emancipa-
ton proclamation of President Lincoln,
giving freedom and citizenship to four
millions of slaves, brought about a rev
oluuon in the internal policy of our
government which seemed to multi
tudes of patriotic men full of the
gravest dangers to the republic. The
effect of the situation was the sudden
and violent sundering of the ties which
bound the past to the present and the
future. New problems were precipi-
tated upon our statesmen to solve,
which were not to be found in the text
books of the schools, nor in the man
uals or traditions of congress. The one
courageous, constructive party which
our politics has known for half a cen
fury solved those problems so success
fully that the regenerated and olsen
Thralled republic has grown and pros
nRTe0 under this birth of liberty
beyond all precedent and every predic-
ton.
I'VE gather fresh inspiration and
hope for our tasks when the assent led
representatives of this splendid and
historic organization recall the names
and venerate the memory Of the bril-
liant Republican statesmen of the war,
Of reconstruction and of national de-
velOpment. Lincoln and Grant, Seward
and Chase, Thaddeus Stevens and
James G. Blaine, though dead, yet
speak most eloQuently in measures
which have made our country prosper
Gus and in policies which have given
it world wide power.
Now, as then, the unexpected has
happened. The widest dream ever
born of the imagination 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 dykes erected by Washing
ton ABOUT our government OF we are
to find by the wise utilization or the
conditions forced upon US how to be
safer and stronger within our old
boundaries, and to add intellectually to
American enterprise and opportunity
by becoming masters Of the sea, and
entering with the surplus of our manu-
features the markets of the world. we
cannot 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
one hundred and thirteen days poll
to meet new questions and to take
sides upon startling issues The race
Of the world has been changed. The
maps of yesterday are obsolete CO.
lt1rnIoI1s looking for the Orient and its
tabled treasures, sailed four hundred
years ago into the land-locked harbor
of Santiago, and today MS spirit sees
his bones resting under the nag OF
new and great country which mas Iounu
the way and conquered the outposts'
and is knocking at the door OF the tar-
thest east
1.-The times require constructive
statesmen. As in 1776 and 1865, we need
architects and builders. We have but
one school for their training and educa-
ton and that school is the Republican
marty 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 transcendent Importance
to our future New York, imperial
among her sister states in all winch
makes q great commonwealth, is still
the pivotal state in our national con-
tests. We, the delegates here assem-
bled, have a very serious duty IN SO
acting as to keep our old state ana ner
congressional delegation in the Re
publican column. Our thought, and our
a absorbing anxiety, is with whom as
standard bearer can we most favorably
present to the people these new anu
vital issues the position of the Repubd-
can party and the necessity to the
country that it should receive the ap-
prevail of the country Friends and
enemies alike join in the general salts
faction with the wisdom, sagacity and
craftsmanship of President Mckinley.
Our state has had a faithful, able and
worthy representative in the greatest
legislative body in the world in Senator
Plat. We are justly proud of our