The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-28

an income tax proposition to raise rev.
enue for war expenses and continued as
f. owS:
The President knew at the beginning,
as the country now knows, how unpre-
pared we were for war. We had a navy
which any nation might envy, but we had
only the skeleton of an army. To prop
erly equip and organize an army of so 900
men, and to place them in the field in
ninety days, Is a tremendous undertake
ing: Mistakes have undoubtedly been
the necessity for sanitary regulations. We
would have gladly postponed the war I'M
TIL the. autumn, but events thrust 1t upon
us. Men went from necessity where they
were not acclimated. We realized that
the war was not a picnic, but stern
reality. That there should be suffering
and disease history has taught us to ex-
: But when the record of the war is made
up it will appear that no. great army was
ever organized anu equipped so well and
so completely, with less privation and
less suffering. than our own volunteer
army in our present war.
New questions have grown out of the
war. New territory has been acquired.
What shall be done with. it? New admin
istrative questions will arise, questions of
revenue, questions of finance, all of which
we adopt a colonial policy? What shall
it. be? Whatever is done with these
islands, we must lift up their semi-bar-
barous people toward the level of Ameri-
can citizenship. Their government, their
civilization, their education. demand the
best wisdom of our ablest statesmen.
Shall we trust. their settlement to those
who two years ago were making a crusade
against law and order, against American
credit, and appealing to the lowest mo-
tives Of the citizensE Or shall we stand
by the administration and give to Presi-
debt Mckinley. at the national capital. a
Senate and House of Representatives.
who will aid him in every endeavor to
carry sound systems of. government into
those islands OF the sea?
This cannot, be. done. gentlemen, by
man there In the State of New York
We must see to 1t that our Democratic
Senator retfres to the shades of Troy.
We must have a. Republican. in his place.
We must have Republican House. We
must see. to. IL that we have Republican
executive in the Empire State. We must
stand by the administration in these peril
Gus times that arc to come, guaranteeing
to these islands "a stable, just and equit-
able government, that will give to- Cuba
and give to Porto Rico a chance beneath
the American flag TO march up toward
American civilization and to become a
part of the American people.
The mention of President Mckinley
name was the signal of wild and con-
tinuous cheering, and. Delegate Charles
A. Moore Of Brooklyn capped the CHI
max by asking for three cheers, which
were given with will.
When the convention reassembled at
o'clock, after a recess, the committee
on organization reported the perma-
nent officers, including Senator Horace
White of Syracuse, for chairman. The
committee on credentials reported that
there were no contests and Senator
White took the chair. References in
his opening speech to Governor Black
and Senator Plat provoked tremen-
dous applause. The war heroes, too.
came in for appreciation when refer
ence was made to them by the speaker,