The San Francisco call., 1898-08-25
BARNES PRAISES THE :. :..+
 :, BRAVE SOLDIER BOYS
ADDRESSED THE DELEGATES WHILE '*+ :. THEY WERE WAITING.
Eloquent Words of the Lawyer Who Seeks to Be United States Senator = for California.


 United States Senator to succeed Senator Stephen NJ. White, addressed the State convention this morning. The address was delivered during break in the pro ceedings, due to the failure of one of the committees to report at the expected time General Barnes responded to a call made by the members and spoke as fol- lows:
 MT Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: In this world, as propapIy in the world to come, no man knows what is to happen to him. Uaughter) l was lattered-extremely flattered-by my ad- vancement in this body. On my first en- try l took my seat like the young man in the SCriptures-"Outsid the pale ana along came one of the secretaries, ana ne said, Why, General, this is no place TOT you; come in" And he put me in most agreeable society-among the ladies' thinking, probably, l was an old one. Gaughter) I had not been there a great while this morning before one or the secretaries, with courtesy and wear ing a smile ana suitable apparel for thls season. came to me and invited me to take a seat upon the platform. l am always afraid when a man approaches rrie with gift. (Laughter) But l finally concluded it would be a pleasant thing to hobnob with George Knight and with the. chairman of the State Central Com :mittee, and l came upon the platform. They. knew very well that the chairman of the committee on platform and resolu- tions would not be ready to make his statement to you here of the principles that were to guide us in this present cam ~paign, and so they had me, as they have my friend, Knight, unless he has run away Uaughter), ready to fill the gap. It is pretty much as In one or those country races. They send a man around the track on pony and with bass drum to pound his way through the crowd before the big trotters come on. :" .(Eaughter)
 But. gentlemen. this is perhaps as good an occasion as another to congratulate ourselves upon the position Of the na. tiOnal Republican party. It Is wonderful to look back upon its history and it's tra- dltiOns of honor, and see how II was born, under what circumstances of dis aSter and danger il came into existence, how splendidly it grew, until it reached the towering stature that commanded the admiration of the world. In all the changes of time and conditions Of men 1t is again in the hour of advancement; in the hour of peril 1t is in charge of the helm of state, and under the administra- ttGn of the Republican party the most splendid victories that the annals Of war will ever relate are those of the American army and navy upon sea and upon the land (Applause) l don't know how It is: with you,- gentlemen. but within the last four months this flag of ours has grown to have new beauty and wider meaning. Its stars, it's u4ue, its white, its cEtmson, were always the emblem or mans best hope and desire-always the emblem of something good and bright, to come as the sunlight. breaking through the eastern light. streaming with crfm- | son and with gold and mingling its col | orS with the stars that Gods great hand | has planted to burn, like torches i'm | mortal, in the midnight sky. (Applause.) | It was to me the grandest emblem of all times, and to-day, when We look at it, with the new trtumphs that surround it.. as it leads in the of the new era, extending beyond the limits of our own country and passing over seas and cast ing its benediction upon other peoples. 1 begin to think of the time imagined by the poet when the war drum should beat no longer and the battle flag be furled in the parliament of man and the federation -of the world.
 unknown to the best civilization of the time. Is 1t going to hurt the. United Is it going to do anything else to them but bless them? Why, our fathers taught. and wisely perhaps at the time, that we should form no entangling al- liances, and preserve ourselves like a sort of hermit nation, unmoved and un- disturbed by the storms that beat on Washington wrote his famous farewell address there were but three million white people in all the colonies of the United States-three millions of people, and that was all-and half million ne Spain held the Floridas. France and Spain were contending for tfe territory west of the Mississippi River. and Mex leo lay at the southwest. and Washing ton said over and over again, in his cor respondence, that the Mississippi River States. And we know that every time since then that territory has been ac- .quired it was met with resistance on the part of great many thinking people, because they supposed the constitution of the United States could never stand
 When Mir. Jefferson, by the Louisiana purchase, and the expenditure of $15.0OO,- GOO took that vast territory west of the Mississippi, there were thousands of the most thinking men in the United States who declared it was the commencement of the ruin of the great Government un- 1- -g1I bod liTTcal fn fhnf When, in 1819 we made the mistake of buying the Floridas from Spain and pay the depredations which Spanish bucca- neers had committed in the G'.lf of Mex leo, seeking refuge, in, the Harbors of Cuba-those very harbors where our ships in the last four months have been sending their missiles of war, when they had taken. and destroyed about eight property, and for the F'loridas, we agreed to pay those bilIs-there was a mistake taken Cuba, too, then Prolonged ap-
 When we annexed Texas and took 1t into the Union, you will remember how Etrenuously the Whig party of the time resisted that operation. It has passed into history that the great speaker and orator of Ohio, Thomas Corwin said he hoped the Mexican armies would well come those of the United States with bloody hands and hospitable graves. Yet we conquered Mexico and, under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, acquired those territories, and the blessed land where we now live. The Oregon pur- chase had already preceded it. And when MT. Seward. in 1867, leaped over the Brit tsh possessions and traded with Russia for Alaska. you all remember with what shouts of derision the press of the United States, from one end of 1t to the other accepted that transaction So it is to- day. Yet, singularly enough. there is less resistance to the idea of acquiring possessions outside of the present limits of the United States than to any other proposed acquisition of territory the United States has ever made
 For my part I hope and 1 believe that not one foot of the territory of which we have acquired possession, either by the possession of the foot or by the theory of law will ever be surrendered fAn- plause and cheers.l I hope never to know that single grave beneath which, under the tropic sun lie the rotting reYnains of an American soldier, mingling with the soil of those islands, shall ever be sur rendered by this Government to any other on the face of this earthl rTremen- | dn1ls aranlansal That il will rennal ltl fnr. 1