The herald., 1898-09-28
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with the surplus Of our manufactures Il
markets OF the world.

with the surplus Of our manufactures the
markets OF the world.
The times require constructive states
men. As in 177s and 1865 we need archl-
tects and builders. We have but one school
for their training and education and that
school is the Republican party. Our Re-
publican administration, upon which a tre-
mendous responsibility rests, must have a
Republican Congress for its support In the
next two years-two years Of transcendant
Importance to our future. New York. I'M
perial among her sister States In all which
makes great commonwealth, is still the
pivotal State In our national contests. We,
the delegates here assembled have a very
serious duty In so acting as to keep our old
state and her Congressional delegation In
the Republican column. Our thought and
our absorbing anxiety Is, through whom as
standard 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 receive the approval of the country ?
Friends and enemies alike join in the gen.
eral satisfaction with the wisdom, sagac-
ity and craftsmanship Of President McK.n-
ley. Our State has had a faithful and
worthy representative in the greatest legis-
lative body In the world in Senator Platt.
We are justly proud of our dele
CATION in Congress and its inf1u-
ence In the constructive measures Of
Republican administration. We possess
unusual executive ability and courage in
Governor Black.
The resstless logic Of events oyercomes
all considerations and impels me to pre-
sent the name Of. as 1t will persuade you
to nominate as our candidate for Governor
of the State of New York, Colonel Theo-
dore 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, l would not put him in
nomination. But Colonel Roosevelt has
shown conspicuous ability IN the public SER
vice for ten years He was soldier three
tbs. 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.
The wife of Cabinet officer told me that
when Assistant Secretary Roosevelt had
announced he had determined to resign a nd
raise a regiment for the war, some Of the
ladies' in the admi nistrat.on circle thought
II their duty to demonstrate with him. They
said: "Mr. Roosevelt, you have six chill
dren, the youngest a few months old and
tho eldest not yet In the teens. While the
country IS full of younger men who have
no such responsibilities and are eager to
enlist, you have no right to leave the bur-
den upon your wife, of the care. support
and bringing up of that family"
Roosevelt's answer was "A Roosevelt an
swer: Il have done as much as any one
to bring on this war, because believed t
must come, and the sooner the better, and
now that war is declared have no right to
ask others to do the lighting and stay at
home my SELF"
The regiment Of Rough Riders was an
original American suggestion, to demon
strate that patriotism and indomita BILE
courage are common to all conditions of
American life. The same great qualities
are found under the slouch hat Of the cow
boy and the elegant imported tile Of Now
York's g.lded youth. Their mannersms
are the veneers of the West and the East: :
their manhood Is the same.
In that hot and pest-cursed climate of
Cuba. officers had opportunities for. pro-
lection from miasInu and fever which were
not possible for the men. But the Rough
Riders endured no hardships nor dangers
which were not shared by their Colonel
He helped them dig the bitches; he stood
beside them in the deadly dampness of the
trenches. No fioored tent for him II his
comrades must sleep on the ground and
under the sky In that world-famed charge
Of the Rough Riders through the hail of
shot and up the hill of San Juan their
Colonel was a hundred feet in advance,
The bullets whistlng by him are rapidly
thinning the ranks of these desperate
fighters The Colonel trips and falls and
the line wavers, but in a moment he is up
again, waving his sword, climbing and
shouting. He bears a charmed life. He
clips the barbed wire fence and plunges
through, yelling, Come on, boys; come on
and we will lick hell out OF them"
The moral force of that daring cowed and
awed the spaniards and they fed from
their fortified heights, and Santiago was
ours.
ITO lick hell out of them" is the fury of
the fighting. 1t expressed the Titanic rage
Of Washington at the treachery of Lee
and turned the tide at Monmouth. 1t
pierced like bullets the fears of the fleeing
soldiers and sent them flying to the front
and victory when Sheridan rode madly up
the valley from Winchester.
Colonel Roosevelt Is the typical citizen
soldier. The sanitary condition Of our
army in Cuba might not have been known
for weeks through the regular channels of
inspection and reports to the various de-
partments. Here the citizen in the Colonel
overcame the official routine and retlcence
of the soldier. His graphic letter to the
government and the roundrobIn he ini-
tiated brought suddenly and sharply to our
attention the frightful dangers of disease
and death and resulted in our boys being
brought Immediately home. He may have
been subject to courtmartial for violating
the articles of war, but the humane i'm
pulses Of the people gave him gratitude and
applause.
1t is seldom in political conflicts when
new end unexpected issues have to be met
and decided that a candidate can be found
who personifies the popular and progressive
side of those issues. Representative men
move the masses to enthusiasm and are
more easily understood than measures.
Lincoln, with his immortal declaration,
made at time when to make 1t insured
his defeat by Douglass for the United
States Senate, that "a house divided against
itself cannot stand. believe this govern
ment cannot endure permanently half slave
and half free" embodies the anti-slavery
doctrine. Grant. with Appomattox and
the parole Of honor to the Confederate
a