Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-10
PARTYOFTHE PEOPLE
Republicans Stand for National Hon
esty and True Patriotism.
Speech of T.. G. Pickett, Temporary
Chairman OF the Iowa state Cum
vention blessings of Repub-
lean Administration.


Mr.. +. c. Pickett. temporary chairman.
spoke in part as follows:
''The history of the republican party
stands for the heroic age in American pol
itics. Its character lines are boldly de-
fined 1t received its first lessons from the
supreme and patriotic statesmanshlp OF
Abraham Lincoln. Born OF the people II
has ever been proud of it's parentage, ana
courageous in defending its birthright. 1t
has never seized with nerveless grasp the
important problems confronting 1t. II dis
cerned the growing needs of the people, an
ticpated further developments, compre-
hended the boundless possibilities of our
great republic and with high resolve, an
honest conviction, and fearless leader
ship, unfurled the banner of national
progress in its broadest and truest sense.
IL has been true to the instincts of our
history. In its party organism are found
those vehement, virile and forceful traits
that have made our people the greatest
charact people in civilized history.
at is true of nations as of individuals,
that the strongest types are produced by
opposition. Courage, struggle, victory, are
written on every page of our history they
have developed the little band in the
Mayfiower into a mighty and powerful re-
public. At every step in our onward
march, we have met with opposition; but
from each and every contest whether
with nature, savages despotism, internal
dissensions or foreign foe, have arisen
grander. stronger than before.
1--WE have never shrked responsibility,
nor evaded the mandates of duty. we
have never repudiated the guiding spirit OF
a God-ordained destiny. We have never
paused TO question whence, but have
simply asked whittier. The DIVINE Donor
seems to have encirc!ed our self-reliant,
liberty-loving and progressive people with
all the generous bounties of hospitable ma
ture and with prophetic command, bid US
found in our national lexicon
THE republican party at it's birth IN
herited these facts. 1t has stood in the
past, and stands to-day, for the broader
higher and grander destiny OF our choesn
people.
when the false prophets of free silver
were inoculating the public mind with the
dishonest heresy of something for noth-
ing, and nothing for something; when pa
thetc appeals were being made to the un-
fortunates of the country, when grand and
petit larceners were being tempted with
legaized immunity; when the ac-
cumuated wisdom of centuries OF
craftsmanship and economic science were
about to be cast aside; when business
panic reputation and discredit were
knocking at the door of power for ad-
mission, when political leaders were sniff
ing the direction of the popular air, the
republican party, fearleSsy and patriot
icaly, stepped forth into the public arena,
stamped upon the hydraheaded monster
of national dishonesty, put to rout the
hosts of regulators, unlanced the would
be knight-errants of finance, and declared
before God and man that honesty must
prevail in the legislation of our nation.
THE alleged evils of our financial sys-
tenn were imaginary, rather than real.
When given an opportunity to act, as 1t
will be given in next session of con-
gress, the republican party will enact
such legislation as may be necessary to
conform our present system to its declared
principles, but its legislation will be RENE
dial, not revolutionary, constructive, not
destructive. corrective. not disturbing.
How different are the conditions to-day
compared with those of three years
ago. The contrast would be belttled by
argument The citation of facts would
distract from the universal object les
son before US. Progress was draped in
mourning. Prosperity wore the shroud of
death. The nation stood, as it were, on
Veritable Bridge of Signs" gazing with
darkened brow upon the waves, as they
dashed against the lea shore of the ma
TONS hope. But the ark of repuolicanism
appeared in the horizon; ii was borne on
the heavy pillows of popular sentiment,
until securely anchored in the harbor of
triumphant election; when forth from ii
stepped before the joyful hearts and
happy faces of reassured people the be-
nign, the patriotic, the heroic mold of Will
liam Mckinley.
Destiny seems to have set its seal on
the administration of William Mckinley.
1t was foreordained by Providence. We
have simply obeyed the DEGREES of fate. we
caunot retrace our steps nor erase the
past if we would, and would not If we
could.
"The fortunes of war abound in surprises.
Chance sometimes dictates the course of
progress This time ii has opened to our
country the boundless opportunities OF
the orient, and created an outpost of civ
ilization that will in time emancipate the
east from the bondage of barbarsm and
stagnation.
"Civilization must triumph in every land
and under every sky. The spirit of ex-
pansion, the desire for enlarged national
growth, the reaching out for greater OPP
portunties, has been the great boulevard
of progress down which have passed lib
erty, Christianity and all the higher bless
ings of civilization.
But the opponents of So-called eXpan-
sion say that are departing from the po-
sition and tenets of our forefathers. !
answer: No. We are simply rising 10 the
new conditions that surround us. The
telegraph the railroad. the countless in
ventions of the present-long ago made
the departure.
But we hear it claimed that the ac-
QUESTION of the Philippines under the
treaty of Paris is unconstitutional. The
right to acquire territory is not dependent
upon the constitution. The nation, ire
spective of its form of government or IN
ternal laws, is endowed with the attributes
of sovereignty
when the inSurrection now being waged
in the Philippines is put down-as it surely
must be-the Flipinos will be given ssch
form of government as their intelligence
and condition will justify, and such as a
great and free people deem just and prop
er The right of consent is always de-
pendent on the power or ability TO consent.
So firmly is this principle established that
its simple statement is its own conclu-
sive argument.
1T is claimed, or at least argued by a
| few, that We are drifting towards imperial
| ism. The only Imperialism possible is the
| Imperialism of commerce. And that is
| sure to come We already occupy the
| vantage ground. We will not surrender
| it now. IL came TO us through the for
| tunes of war-t Will remain with us for the
| uses of peace
| Gentlemen of the convention, repre-
| sentatves % the republican party of the