Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-19
SENATOR W0LC0TT, TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION DELIVERS A
STIRRING SPEECH
GRAND RECORD OF MKINLEY's ADMINISTRATION - PROSPER
ITY AND FINANCIAL INTEGRITY Of THE NATI0N-THE
WAR AND OUR ISLAND DOMINION.

Since the first party convention in
these United States. there was never one
gathered together n such hopeful
and suspicious circumstance as those
which surround us today. United, proud
of the achievements of the past four
years, our country prosperous and hap
py, with nothing to regret and naught to
make us ashamed, with a record spotless
and clean. the republican party stands
facing the dawn, confident that the tick
ct 1t shall present will public
approval, and hat in the declaration of
it's principles and it's purposes, it will
voice the aspirations and hopes of the
vast majority of American freemen.
We need mo omen but our country's
cause" yet there is significance in the
fact that the convention is assembled in
this historic and beautiful city, where
we first assumed territorial responsible
fties, when our fathers, a century and a
quarter ago, promulgated the immortal
Declaration of Independence.
JUSTICE AND LIBERTY.
The spirit of justice and liberty that
animated them found voice three-quar-
CHS VI q SOALuly IA NAAA0 0OAAAS SASy
of Brotherly Love, when Fremont led the
forlorn hope of united patriots, who laid
here the foundations Of our party n
put human freedom as its corner stone.
It compelled our ears to listen to the cry
of suffering across the shallow waters Of
the gulf two years ago.. While we OBJ
serve the law Of nations and maintain
THAT neutrality which we owe to a great
and friendly government, the same spirit
lives today in the genuine feeling of
sympathy we cherish for the brave men
now fighting for their homes in the
veldts of South Africa. 1t prompts us in
our determination to give the dusky races
of the Philippines the blessings of good
government and republican institutions,
and finds voice in our indignant portest
against the violent suppression of the
rights of the colored man in the south.
That spirit will survive in the breasts of
patriotic men as long as the nation en-
dures: and the events of the past have
taught us 1t can find it's fair n free
and full expression only in the principles
and policy of the republican party.
The first n pleasant duty of this
great convention, as well as it's instinct
i've impulse, is to send a message of af-
fectionate greeting to our leader and our
country's president, William McKinley,
In all that pertains to our welfare in
times of peace, his genius has directed
US. he has shown an unerring mastery
OF the economic problems which con-
fronts us, and has guided us out of the
slough of financial disaster, impaired
credit and commercial ~stagnation, up to
70 the nigh and safe ground of national
prosperity and financial stability
Through the delicate and trying events
OF the late war he stood firm, COURAGEOUS
and conservative, and under his leader
snip we nave emerged triumphant, our
national honor untarnished, our credit
unassalled, and the equal devotion of ev-
cry sectlon or our common country to the
welfare OF rhe republic cemented for
ever. Never in the memOry of this gen.
Grafton there has stood at the head of the
government a truer patriot, a wiser or
more courageous leader, or a better ey-
ample of the highest type of American
manhood. The victories of peace and the
victories of war are alike inscribed upon
ms banner. Those of us whose pleasure
anu whose duty have called us from time
- .Ilne into his presence know how free
~ ne mas spent and been spent in his
country's service; but the same vioor-
GUS MANHOOD and clear and patriotic Wis
aon lima him as of old, and give ns
commence and trust for the future of orr
pup because his hand will guide no
and his genius direct. 49,
FOUR YEARS AGO.
tour years g the republican partv at
st. Louis named a ticket which commsnd'
60 the confidence and support of the
american people. 1t bore the names of
TWO eminenlt Americans, each endea ro5
py years of loyal service to their conn
Try n their party. No whisper of per-
sonal attack intruded upon the national
issues Which determined the contast
Ihere was a double safeguard for the
oountry,s welfare. Every true American
knew that If in the d~ispensation of Prov;-
dence GU Leader should be called from
his high place, there stood bak;de him a
statesman devoted and staunch, in whose
hands the vast and weighty affairs of
our country could be we'll and safely en-
trusted. Had Garrett Augustus Hobart
been spared ITO us until today, the work
OF this convention would have been linn
1ted to a cordial n unanimous tndorse-
ment of the leaders of '96. Dis alter
V1sum-and when, a few months ago. our
dear vice president left this sphere Of
for another, he was accom-
panied with the tears and sorrow of ev-
lifted up the high office of vice president
to a nobler plane and to greater dignity
and Importance. He was always the
trusted friend and adviser Of our presi-
dent, age in counsel and wise in judy
ment while to those of us whose great
privilege 1t was for three years to see him
daily in the senate OIL the United States,
and to come under the influence of his
calm and kindly presence, and to grow
nearer to him and more endeared in
friendship as the months rolled around,
his loss is personal and deep. He is no
longer with us in the body, but his in
fiuence still permeates the senate and
Wall for all time make better and kindlier