The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
POLITICAL.
The Republicans of New York.

the Empire State OF the Union noml-
mated Colonel Roosevelt for Governor
by vote of nearly four to one. Re-
publicans all over the country have
lively interest in the politics of the piv-
otal State of New York. 1t was of vi
tai importance that the great State
should be saved to the party this year.
This was fully appreciated by the party
leaders and they rose to the full height
of the demand upon them and met The
responsibilities of the situation like pa
triots. The speech of Mr.. Depew pre-
senting to the convention che name of
the gallant Rough Rider is of national
interest and Importance and it is,
further, of the deepest interest to the
lovers of good speaking and the ad
mirers of the hero of the charge up
San Juan hill. Subjoined is the larger
part of what this master of the stump
and platform said:
DEPEw's SPEECH.
Gentlemen:-Not since 1868 has the
Republican party met in convention
when the conditions of the country
were so interesting or 80 critical. Then
the Emancipation Pre- clamation of
President Lincoln, giving freedom and
citizenship to four millions of slaves,
brought about a revolution in the inter-
nal policy of our Government which
seemed to multitudes of patriotic men
full of the gravest dangers to the Re-
public 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 prob
lens were precipitated upon our states
men to solve, which were not to be
found in the textbooks of the schools,
nor in the manuals or traditions of
Congress. The one courageous, con-
structive party which our policies has
known for half century solved those
problems so successfully that the re-
generated and disenthralled Republic
has grown and prospered under this
new birth Of liberty beyond all prece-
dent and every prediction.
We gather fresh inspiration and
hope for our tasks when the assembled
representatives of this splendid and his
toric organization recall the names and
venerate the memory of the brilliant
Republican statesmen of the war, of
reconstruction and of national develop
ment. Lincoln and Grant, Seward and
Chase, Thaddeus Stevens and James
G. Blaine, though dead, yet speak most
elCquently in measures which have
made our country prosperous and in
policies which have given it worldwide
power.
Now, as then, the unexpected has
happened. The widest dream ever born
of the Imagination of the most optimis-
tic believer in our destiny could not
foresee when Mckinley was elected two
years ago the on-rushing torrent or
events of the past three months. We
are either 10 be submerged by this
break in the dykes erected by Washing
ton 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 boun-
DIARIES, and to add intellectually to Amer
lean enterprise and opportunity by be-
coming masters of the sea, and enter
ing with the surplus of our manufac-
lures 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 polti-
clans 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, look
ing for the Orient and its tabled treas
ures, sailed four hundred years ago
into the Unlocked harbor of Santiago
and to-day his spirit sees his bones
resting under the flag of a 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 states
men. AS in l776 and 1865, we needed
architects and builders. We have but
one school for their training and edu.
cation, and that school is the Republi-
can party. Our Republican admins
tration, upon (which tremendous re-
sponsibility rests, must have Repub.
lican Congress for its support in the
ub4I TWO y6dIb-tWO 1odlo VI lldDbCcn'
dent importance to our future. New
York. imperial among her sister States
in all which makes a great common
wealth, is still the pivotal State in oul
national contests. We, the delegates
here assembled, have very serious
duty in so acting as to keep our ole
State and her Congressional delegation
in the Republican column. Gu
thought, and our absorbing anxiety, i
with whom as standard bearer can VI
most favorably present to the peopl
these new and vitul issues, the position
of the Republican party and the ne
cessity to the country that it should re
ceive the approval of the country
Friends and enemies alike join in tn
general satisfaction with the wisdom
sagacity, and craftsmanship of Presi
dent Mckinley. The cardinal princi
Piles of Republican policy will be tn
platform of this canvass and of iutur
ones. But at this juncture the peopl
have temporarily nut everything els
aside and are applying their Who'll