Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-05

said and actually done by republican states
! men. But when Col. Bryan went to Ken
| lucky, at the time when, under an infa-
nous election law, the state was to be
| stolen by his friends from the officers who
| had been lawfully returned as elected by
the democratic returning boards, and gave
| his sanction and the weight of his great au-
| thOrity as democrat to the thieves, where
| then was his idea of consent of the gov
! erned? These citizens of Kentucky, who
| were to be deprived of their rights and
governed without their consent. were not
| tribes of archipelago in the Pacific
| ocean. but they were men who had per-
| formed heroic service for a hundred years
| in the battle for liberty and citizenship.
| Mr. Depew closed with the statement
| that the republican ticket in this state
| would be greatly strengthened by the nomi-
! nation for lieutenant governor of Timothy
| l.. Woodruff. who, he said, represented in
| its best sense the business man in politics
and who meets all the requirements OF the
| ever-dscussed question in the colleges Of
| the educated man in politics"
MIR. OdeIi's Address.
| Mr.. Odell, in accepting the nomination,
| said in part:
Important as the state issues are they
are overshadowed by the greater matters
involved in the national campaign. To my
mind the paramount issue is the re-eec-
ton of Mckinley, who has ably kept all
pledges. Re-elect him and the policies al
ready in force and to be inaugurated will
place us upon a higher plane than ever be-
fore, and shall enjoy the full fruition
of our hope for general prosperity. Every
dollar of obligation will continue to be
| worth one hundred cents, and wherever
our flag floats il will be respected because
American manhood has baptized it with
its blood
Mr.. Odell for governor and Mr. Woodruff
for lieutenant governor received the unanf-
Nous vote of the convention on the first
roll call The ticket was then completed
as above by the secretary being instructed
to cast the ballot of the convention for
the denomination of the present secretary
of state controller. treasurer, attorney gen.
eral and state engineer. This concluded the
conventions work and a committee was ap-
pointed to invite Governor Roosevelt to ad-
dress the gathering. The nominee for Vice
President responded and was given an ova-
tton as he mounted the platform.
Congratulated by Roosevelt.
Mr.. Roosevelt, in opening, congratulated
the convention on the men nominated, and
referred to the fact that the republican
party had been in power for six years in
this state. The republicans had always
kept their pledges, he said, and the party
felt that 1t had the right to challenge the
support Of all men who desire the govern
ment to be administered with cleanliness
and efficiency.
Referring to national affairs, and state
ments made that the Senate would prevent
the enactment of free silver legislation even
though Mr.. Bryan and a democratic House
were to be elected, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
'If the people of this country declare in
favor Of Mr.. Bryan and elect Bryanite
Congress next fall they will have declared
in favor of free silver as well as of every
doctrine enunciated in the Chicago platform
of '06, and reiterated in the Kansas City
platform of 1900; and when the people have
thus declared themselves, the representa-
tives whom they have elected and sent to
Washington cannot and will not act other
wise than they have been directed at the
polls to act. The election of Mr.. Bryan this
fall would be the peoples mandate for free
silver and as such II would tell upon every
senator who has felt doubtful how to act in
the past.
THE men who directly or indirectly
help Mr.. Bryan in this contest must under
stand that any vote cast except for the
election of President Mckinley is vote for
free silver and social disorder, vote for
the partial reputation Of our debts and for
the absolute upsetting of our financial and
industrial systems: and upon all such men
will rest forever afterWard the heavy re-
sponsibility of having plunged the business
world into disaster, the laboring world into
| misery, and of having tainted with dishonor
the national name.
What 1t Would Mean Abroad.
$50 much for what the success of our op-
ponents would mean at home. Abroad gen.
| tlemen. their success would mean that the
nation was to cringe before the honora BILE
| task which 1t has so honorably begun, and
to take down the flag under which we are
| introducing in the Philippines, not only such
order, but such liberty, had never been
known in the islands before, and to hand
| them back to the unspeakable tyranny of a
| corrupt oligarchy.
There is no such thing as militarism or
imperialism at stake in the contest. These
are terms only used to frighten the foolish
| II 1t is militarism TO be in the Philippines
| then 1t is militarism to be in Hawai- and
| Alaska. If 1t is militarism to put down the
Tagal banditti. then it is militarism to put
| down an Apache outbreak. Anti-imperiaI-
| ism is the name by which they seek to dis
| guise their policy of contraction For,
| mind you, we have already expanded, and
we are In the Philippines by the same moral
and legal right that we are in New Mexico
and Idaho. The nation has not sought it's
new responsibilities, but the nation does
not shrink from them. AS strong man
races mis- work as 1t comes. and does each
task allotted to him without fiinchine so
this great nation, the greatest republic upon
which the sun has ever shone now stands
at the opening of a new century, not seek
Ing In unmanly fashion how to avoid its
work. but facing its responsibilities In a
calm, a sober and a reSolute spirit
'Ihe task that now confronts us is but as
childs play compared to the task confront
ed by the generation that fought to a finish
the great civil war. That calls for but a
fraction of this nations giant strength, and
we appeal to every American jealous of the
nations good name and proud in the meas
ure OF honor and renown of American ctti-
zenship to stand with us now and declare
in unmistakable terms that we are a nation
OF men and not nation of weakings and
that we as little fear to face our duty In the
FAR Islands OF the eastern seas as we fear
to face our duties at home.'
At the close of Governor Roosevelt's 9
speech the convention adjourned sine die.
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