The record-union., 1899-09-22
VASTLY Different
SCENE AT OMAHA.
The Republican Convention TO Aem-
mate State Officers
One of the Most Harmonious Gather ings
the Party Has Ever Held.
L. G. McGilton and William B. Ely
Nominated for University Re-
gents, and M. B. Reese for JUS
tice of the Supreme Court-Ad-
dress of Temporary Chairman
Reavis.

dress or temporary Chairman
Reavis.
OMAHA, Sept. 21-The Republican
State Convention was one of the most
harmonious gatherings ever held by the
party in the State. M. b. Reese of
Lincoln was nominated for Supreme
Judge on the first ballot L. G. Nc
Clifton of Omaha and William B. Ely
of Ainsworth We're nominated for Re-
gents of the State University on ! the
first ballot. Judge Reese has served
six years on the Supreme Bench, retir-
tice of his profession.
Frank c. Reavis of Falls City, as
temporary Chairman, addressed the
convention as follows:
with a people rescued from want
and raised to opulence; with labor en-
ployed and the fields of industry sing
ing in every valley and from every hill
side; with our foreign commerce the
terror of Europe and the wonder OF
the world; with perfect faith kept with
the people, and with every promise
redeemed we stand on the threshold
looking into the future with the con-
fidence born of duty performed and
with every assurance of success
1.-The doctrine of the free and un-
limited coinage Of silver, accepted by
many as the panacea for the distress
ing condition of three years ago, a
doctrine which fiourished when pow
erty and woe sat at the hearthstones,
has been dissipated by the wave OF
prosperity that swept across the nation,
and is to-day but wreck on the
shores of Democracy.
I'm it's stead the question of trusts
is seeking prominence. The Republican
party, always the guardian of the peo-
pie, meets this question with perfect
serenity. Respecting the rights of
property, granting capital the full de-
gree of freedom that is guaranteed by
the law, the Republican party insists
that commers ial corporations shall use
their interaEsgs SO as not to unneces-
sarily injure or interfere with the
rights of others. By it's representatives
this party long ago declared itself on
this question. In Congress it enacted
the most stringent laws against the
interstate features of trusts, only to
see it's efforts made abortive by DEM
ocratic majority, which embraced the
first opportunity to repeal the law.
I'm this State an antitrust law, ere
ated by a Republican Legislature, has
not merited the attention of the DEM
ocratic Attorney General until they ap-
proach a political campaign, in which
Iaa RI
would seem that so great an evil should
have melted the early action of one
so jealous in the cause of the people
1t would seem that the dictator of the
Democratic party, whose power was
supreme enough to induce the Governor
of this State to refuse an official rec
ognition of the bravery and valor or
those gallant heroes of Nebraska.
should have been equally potent in in
ducing the Attorney General to pro-
ceed against trusts without a delay of
three years. For what other power
than that of the State can b exer-
cised to control all such combina-
tions."
What right has the General Govern
ment to interfere with State corpora
tions? Let those who charge the Re-
publican Congress with responsibility
for the creation of trusts point to one
instance where the charter or franchise
of such a corporation has not been
granted by State; let them point to
one instance where a trust has been
created by virtue of Federal law.
Let those who prate so loudly of the
wrongs inflicted by this socialism of
wealth suggest a remedy by means of
which such combinations can be regu-
lated or destroyed by any power other
than that which created them.
But trusts will not be the issue.
though the Republican party would
welcome such a. contest. The condi-
tions at home are too satisfactory for
the agitation to be successful, and the
platforms constructed by the conven-
tions of this and next years must there
fore be broad enough to reach beyond
the confines of this continent, across
the distant seas and unto the seat Of
war.
"A war in defense of the weak and
the oppressed has brought forth un-
contemplated problems; has rolled the
scroll backward forty years, again
making the basic principle of the Re-
publican party that of patriotism and
national honor.
THE Democratic party charges that
the Administration is destroying the
republic and subverting the purpose of
the Union-that we purpose a violation
of the principles of the Declaration of
independence.
"Hysterical vaporings and rash as
sertions will not alter the issue from
that of patriotism and national honor.
Let me emphasize the statement that
from now until the polls are closed in
1900 this question, and this alone, is
before the American people. Though
the attack of the unfriendly at home
and the assaults of the enemy abroad
may make the duty of preserving the
honor of the nation more difficult of
performance, it will only result in
greater effort that the obligations of
the United States to protect the lives
and property interests in it's new pos
sessions may be fulfilled; that the duty
of maintaining peace and concord in
the islands and of putting down a re-
bellion against the sovereignty of this
Government may be speedily erected.
and forever establishing the fact be-
fore the nations Of the world that the