Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-12

Canton, July 12.-Chairman Lodge
and members of the notification COM
mittee, together with Chairman Hanna
and members of the national committee,
arrived shortly after II o'clock. They
Immediately entered carriages and We're
driven to the presidents house, where
President and Mrs. Mckinley welcomed
them from the front porch. There We're
Q number OF distinguished men on the
porch. including Hanna. Postmaster
General Smith, Cornelius $. Bliss, Hen
Ty G. Payne and Judge Day. Senator
Lodge Immediately mounted small
standing block and delivered his speech.
LODGES SPEECH.
.Air. President: This committee, rep-
resenting 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 republican national convention.
which met in Philadelphia on June 10
last, az the candidate OF the republican
party for president of the United States
4 for the term beginning March !. 1901.
ITO be selected by the republican
party as their candidate for this great
once Is always one OF the highest hon
Il ors which can be given 10 any man.
This nomination, however, comes to
you, sir, under circumstances. which
give 1t q higher Significance and make
At an even deeper expression of honor
: and trust than usual. You were nomi-
mated unanimously at Philadelphia.
You received the unforced vote OF every
delegate. from every state and every
territory.
.srhe harmony OF sentiment which
appears on the face of the record was
but the reflection of the deeper har-
nony which existed in the hearts and
I minds OF the delegates. Without fac
y ton, without dissent. with profound
satisfaction and eager enthusiasm, you
were nominated for the presidency by
the united voice of the representatives
OF our great party, in which there is
4 neither sign of division nor shadow OF
turning. Such unanimity, always re-
markable. is here the more impressive
because 1t accompanies second nomi-
nation to the great office which you
have held for four years. 1t Is not the
facile triumph Of hope over experience.
but the sober approval of conduct and
character tested in many trials and
tried by heavy and extraordinary re-
sponsibilities. With the exception OF
the period in which Washington organ
ixed the nation and built the state. and
OF those other awful years when Lin
coin led his people thru the agony OF
civil war, and saved from destruction
the work OF Washington, there never
has been presidential term in our his
tory 80 crowded with great events. so
flled with new and momentous ques-
tiuns, as that which Is now drawing te
+ it4 end. True to the declarations which
were made at st. Louis In 1885, you. sir,
united with the republicans in con-
gress In the revision OF the tariff and
the re re-establishment OF the protective
policy.
You maintained our credit and up
held the gold standard. leading the par
" by your advice to the passage OF the
i great measure which Is today the great
bulwark Of both. You led again in the
policy which has made Hawaii pos
session of the United States. On all
these questions you fulfilled the hopes
and justified the confidence OF the peo-
pie, who four years ago put trust in
( tions. also, you had as guides not only
your own principles. the well-consid.
cred results OF years Of training and
reflection. but also the plain declara-
tions 0f the national convention which
nominated you in 1895. Far different
was II when the Cuban question, which
We had already promised to settle
brought nrst war. and then peace, with
Spain. Congress declared war. but you
as commander-in-chief. had to carry II
on. You did 30, and history records un.
broken victory from the first shot oi
i the Nashville to the day when the
protocol was signed. The peace you
4 had TO make alone. Cuba. Porto Rico
the Philippines; you had to. assume
alone the responsibility Of taking then
all from Spain. Alone, and weighted
with the terrible responsibility of tht
unchecked war powers OF the constitu.
flon, you were obliged to govern these
islands, and to repress rebellion and
disorder In the Philippines. No party
creed defined the course you were tt
{ follow. Courage, foresight, comprehen.
sion OF American interests, both nov
and in the uncharted future, faith ir
a the American people, and in their At.
ness for great tasks. were then your
4 r only guides and counsellors.
Thus. you framed and put in opera,
& tion this great new policy which hal
made US at once masters OF the Antille,
and great eastern power. holdins
firmly our possessions on both sides ol
q the Pacific.
The new and strange ever excitei
fear. and the courage and prescience
which accept them always arouse criti.
cisn and attack. Yet. q great depar.
tuIs and q new policy were never more
Il quickly Justified than Those undertaken
By you. On the possession OF the Phil
ippines rests the admirable diplomacy
which warned all nations that a s,erl.
a can trade war NOT to be. shut out from
China. i - to Manils that We owe .ths
atillly % send troops and ships IN thii
time of streas ~ the defense Of our min,
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