The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-01-11
EULoGIzED quay.
Speech Of Senator Msrrick in the Re
publican Caucus.

"The Republican party has called 1
you into council tonight, y said senator /
Grady, in calling the caucus to erder. 1
ito select a candidate who can COM
mand the largest number Of votes in a |
convention to be held two weeks from
to-day to represent not only the Repub-
lican party, but the State Of Pennsyl- !
vania in the National Congress at
Washington. No more important duty /
can be imposed upon you during your
official term than that which falls to /
you tonight. will ask you to address
yourselves to that duty seriously, and |
all Of you to aid the chair TO ascertain |
who is the choice Of the Republican |
party here tonight. We, as a party, /
believe in the rule of majority, aud |
that the man who shall command the I
largest number Of votes here tonight /
in this party convention is entitled to 4
the support of all members of the con- /
vention Of the Senate and House two /
weeks from to-day. All Of you and all
your constituents have opinions on this /
support, and there may be some ex-
preston upon it tonight We will 4
proceed to the duty assigned to Us"
Senator Walter T. Merrick, of Bioss-
burg, Tioga county, then arose, and in
a speech full Of feeling and with much /
eloquenee, placed the name Of Mr.. /
Quay in nomination. Senator Merrick |
spoke as follows;
We have met as becomes the duty Of !
loyal Republicans and in conformity
with the long established rules aud
customs of our party to place in nomi-
nation a Republican candidate for the
high Office, of United States Senator.
An Office the highest in the gift of |
Pennsylvania and the second in i'm
portance la the United States. Duty I
to ourselves, our party and our country /
demands that our best judgment and /
highest sense Of patriotism should be |
exercised to their fullest extent in the /
selection of a candidate for such an inn I
pOrtant trust. Our action will affect /
not only this great and powerful Com-
monweaith of which we are so justly /
proud, but its Influence will be felt /
throughout the length and breadth of
the land.
We will select O-night the candidate /
who should unques tionably be elected /
United States senator from the State of /
Pennsylvania for the next six years.
He will be the representative of an em-
pire and he should be a man Of the
highest attainments and most marked /
ability; one able 10 command the con-
iidenee, esteem and respect of the Peo-
pie whom he represents and also of his /
colleagues in the august body Of which
he will become member; one who
well knows the wants and needs of the
farmer, the laborer, the business man,
the manufacturer, the miner and all
the diversified interests of the greatest
manufacturing State in the Union.
One whom years Of experience and |
study have eminently fitted for the posi-
tion and who is both by nature and /
training generously endowed with all
the qualities of mind and heart that con-
stitGte the true statesman and patriot.
One whose love of country and fidelity
10 all her grand ennobiing principles
and institutions Is as enduring a. the /
rock of ages He should be man Of
the people. One whose earnestness and |
zeal will be exerted alike in the interest
of the humblest and the highest in the
land. One who in the supreme mo-
ments of the Nations peril, either
from arme foe without or ruinous dog
mas within, has never once fiinched
nor faltered in the path Of public duty.
Who believes in the Republican party
and its principles and has an abiding
faith in the righteousness of its cause
and the necessity for its further exist.
ence. Who holds that sound finan-
ciaI policy and protection to American
industries and American labor is es-
sentiaI to the best interest Of the Amer
lean people.
In short, man who though coming
from humble walks in life viii main
tain the majesty and power of this
grand old keystone Of the Arch" at
the Nations. Capital. Such man it
has become my daty and pleasure to
name for your consideration tonight.
/ will name one born and reared with
ia our own borders. Whose early
training and education were received in
a Christian home from Christian pa
rentsand surrounded by all the eleva-
ting influence of the Church and whose
veneration for its institutions has never
/ diminished. A man who had the
moral courage to stand up before the
world in the high Office to which be
had been elected and denoOnce and
prevent an attempted public desecra-
ton Of the Holy Sabbath.
1 will name to you man whose
name is known not only to US, but is
/ familiar in every town and hamlet
from the Canadian boundary to Mex
leo, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
whose love Of country, wisdom, pa
triotism aud courage have been proven
on the field Of battle and in the coun-
ell chambers in State and Nation; whose
fidelity to the sacred ties Of friendship
is only equaled by the generous and
lofty consideration shown to all fair
and honorable opponents.
A citizen whose domestic ties are
dearer to him than worldly hOnors;
whose fireside is typical model Amer
lean home, and around which clusters
a family whose extreme devotion and
love for one another appeals to the
heart; home in which the Injunction
Of Holy Writ 10 "honor thy father and
| thy mother comes not as a command.
but as most pleasing duty; where the
father, the mother, sisters and brothers
are welded in the bonds Of paternaI and
frsternal love, united happy family.
A wise, brilliant, dashing, daring po-
litical leader, who has carmel the right
TO be styled as he is, the greatest pOliti-
cal general of American politics, who
has been to the Republican parfy