The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-13
SENATOR LODGES ADDRESS.
An Eloquent Tribute to the Nominee
Of the Republican Party.


Of the Republican Party.
When the party had been seated Senator
Lodge mounted a small standing block, and
delivered his speech. He said:
Mr.. President-This committee repre-
senting every State in the Union, and the
organized Territories of the United States,
was duly appointed to announce to you
formally your nomination by the Repub-
lfcan national convention, which met in
Philadelphia June 10 last as the candidate
of the Republican party for President of
the United States for the term beginning
March 4. 1901.
Ito be selected by the Republican party
as its candidate for this great Office is al
ways one Of the highest honors which can
however. comes to you, sir, under circum-
stances which give 1t a higher significance
and make II an even deeper expression of
honor and trust than usual. You were
nominated unanimously at Philadelphia.
You received the unforced vote of every
delegate from every State and every Ter
ritory-
The harmony of sentiment which ap-
pears on the face of the record was but
the reflection of the deeper harmony which
existed in the hearts and minds of the
delegates. Without faction. without dis
sent, with profound satisfaction and eager
enthusiasm, you were nominated for the
presidency by the united voice of the rep
resentatives of our great party, in which
there is neither sign of division nor shadow
of turning. Such unanimity, always re-
markable, is here the more impressive. be-
cause II accompanies a second nomination
to the great Office which you have held for
four years. 1t is not the facile triumph
OF hope over experience, but the sober ap-
prevail of conduct and character tested in
many trials and tested by many and ex-
traordinary responsibilities. With the excep-
tion of the period in which Washington
organized the Nation and built the state
and of those other awful years in which
Lincoln led his people through the agony
of civil war and saved from destruction the
work of Washington, there never has been
presidential term in our history crowd
ed with great events, so filled with new and
momentous questions, as that which is now
drawing to its end.
made at st. Louis in 1885, you. SIR united
with the Republicans in Congress in the
revision OF the tariff and the re-establish-
ment of the protective policy. You main
tanned our credit and upheld the gold
standard, leading the party by your advice
to the passige of the great measure which
is to-day the great bulwark OF both. You
led again in the policy which has made
Hawaii a possession of the United States.
On all these questions you fulfilled the
hopes and justified the confidence OF the
neople. who four years ago put trust in
your promises. But on all these questions.
also, you had as guides, not only your own
principles, the well-considered results OF
years of training and reflection, but also
the plain declarations OF the national con-
vention which nominated you in 1896
THE WAR WITH SPAIN.
Ear different was it when the Cuban
question which we had already promised
to settle, brought first war and then peace
with Spain. Congress declared war. but
you as commando -n-chief, had to carry
it on You did and history records un-
broken victor from the first shot of the
Nashville TO the day when the protocol
was signed. The peace you had TO make
alone. Cuba, Porto Rico. the Philippines
you had TO assume alone the responsible
ity of taking them all from Spain. Alone,
and weighted with the terrible responsible
ity of the unchecked war powers of the
Constitution. you were obliged TO govern
these islands and to repress rebellion and
disorder in the Philippines. No party creed
defined the course you were to follow.
Courage. foresight. comprehension of Amer
lean interests, both now and in the un-
charted future. faith in the America peo-
pie and IN their fitness for great tasks,
were then your only guides and counsel
ors. Thus you framed and put in opera
ton this great new policy which has made
US at once master OF the Antilles and a
great Eastern power, holding firmly our
possessions on both sides of the Pacific.
THE new and strange ever excites fear.
and the courage and prescience which ac-
cepts them always arouses criticism and
attack. Yet. a great departure and new
policy were never more quickly justified
than those undertaken by you. On the pos
session of the Philippines rests the admir-
able diplomacy which warned all nations
that American trade was not TO be shut
out from China. II is TO Manila that we
owe the ability TO send troops and ships in
this TIME of stress TO the defense OF our
minister, our missionaries, our consuls and
our merchants in China. instead of being
compelled TO leave our citizens 70 the casual
protection Of other powers. as would have
been unavoidable had we flung the Philip
pines away and withdrawn from the
Orient Rest assured, sir, that the vigor-
Gus measures which you have thus been
enabled TO take. and that all further meas
ures In the same direction which you may
take, for the protection of American lives
and property, will receive the hearty sup
port of the people OF the United States.
who are now, as always. determined that
the American citizen shall be protected at
any cost in all his rights, everywhere and
at all times.
A WISE POLICY.
1T Is to Manila egain. to our fleet in the
bay and our army on land. that we shall
owe the power. when these scenes of
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