The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-28
THE PROCEEDINGS IN DErAI1.
Depew's Speech and EIihu Roots
 Eligibility Statement.


 Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 27.-When the republican state convention reassem- bled tonight Senator Horace Whita of Syracuse was chosen as permanent chairman. Chairman White addressed the convention. The mention of Cover nor Blacks name by Chairman White in his address was the occasion of laundering applause and at mention of the charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan hill the delegates stood in their places and cheered. Senator Platt join ed with the other delegates. When Senator White had concluded his ad- dress the convention decided to proceed with the nominations.
 Former Judge J. Ryder Cady of Hud- son addressed the convention, placing before it for re-nomination the name of Frank s. Black. Judge Cady concluded amidst tremendous applause, a finishing remark about Governor Blacks faith fitness to the ticket, no matter what come, calling forth great enthusiasm. Chauncey M. Depew then took the platform in behalf of Theodore Roose- welt. For some minutes Dr. Depew could not begin his speech for the ap- plause that ensued. When quie- was restored he said:
 Depew's Nominating Speech.
 Gentlemen: Not since 1863 has the re- publican party met in convention when the conditions of the country were so interesting and so critical Then the emancipation proclamation of President Lincoln, giving freedom and citizenship to four millions of slaves, brought about a revolution in the internal pol icy of our government which seemed to multtudes of patriotic men full of the gravest dangers to the republic. The effect of the situation was the sud- den and violent sundering of the ties which bound the past to the present and the future. New problems were precipitated upon our statesmen to solve, which were not to be found in the text books of the schools, nor in the manuals or traditions of congress. The one courageous, constructive party which our politics has known for half a century solved those problems so successfully that the regenerated and disenthralled republic has grown and
 
 erty beyond all precedent and every prediction.
 We gather fresh inspiration and hope for our tasks when the assembled rep resentatives of this splendid and histo- ric organization recall the names of and venerate the memory of the bril- liant republican statesmen of the war, of reconstruction and of national de- velopment Lincoln and Grant, Sew- ard and Chase Thaddeus Stevens and James G. Blaine, though dead, yet speak most eloquently in measures which have made our country prosper ous and in policies which have giveh it worldwide power
 Now, as then, the unexpected has happened. The widest dream ever born of the imagination of the most op- timistic 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 Wash ington about our government, or we are to find by the wise utilization of the conditions forced upon us how to be Sdfer ana stronger WiIulu our OWu boundaries, and to add incidentally to American enterprise and opportunity by becoming masters of the sea, and entering with the surplus of our manu- factures the markets of the world. We cannot retreat or hide We must 'Pide 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 poli- ticians 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. Co., l,1mbus, looking for the Orient and it's fabled treasures. sailed four hundred years ago into the land locked harbor of Santiago, and to-day his spirit sees his bones resting under the flag of a new and great country which 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 1776 and 1865, We need ar cbitects and builders. We have but one school for their training and education,