Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-07-19
The President Delivers an Adj
dress on the Political Is
sues of the Day.
The Proceedings at Gov. RooseveIt's
Home Were Less Formal than
Those at Canton, and the
AssembIage was Not
Nearly so Large.

WIN vast crowds from the surround
ing towns. Following is Sena tor
Lodges speech:
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-
| lican national convention, which met in
Philadelphia on June 10 last as the can
| didate of the republican party for presi-
dent of the United States for the term be-
ginning March A, 1901. To be selected by
| the republican party as their candidate
for this great office is always one OF the
| highest honors which can be given to any
| man. This nomination, however, comes
| to your, sir, under circumstances whicl
| give 1t higher significance and make ii
an even deeper expression of honor and
| trust than usual. You were nominated
| unanimously at Philadelphia. You re-
ceived the unforced vote of every delegate
| from every state and every territory.
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. with pro-
found satisfaction and eager enthusia SIN, T.,
| you were nominated for the presidency
| by the united voice of the repre- Sc tatiVes
! OF our great party, in which there is no
| sign of dissension or shadow of turning.
Such ananimity, always remarkable, is
here the more impressive, because it oc-
companies 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-
proVal Of conduct and character tested in
| many trials, and tried by heavy and ex-
| traordinary responsibilities. With the ex-
ception of the period in which Washing
states, and of those other awful years
when Lincoln led his people through the
agony of civil war and saved from de-
struction the work of Washington, there
has never been a presidential term In our
history SO crowded with great events, so
| filled with new and momentous questions
Is that w ich is now drawing to an end.
| True to the declarations which were
| made at st. Louis in 1896 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
tai:ed our credit and upheld the gold
standard, leading the party by your ad-
vice to the passage of the great measure
| which is to-day the buwark of both.
| You led again in the policy which has
| m ade Hawaii a possession OF the United
| States. On all these questions you full
filled the hopes of the people, who four
years ago put trust in your promises.
| But on all these questions also. you had
| as guides, not only your own principles
| and the well considered results Of years
Of training and reflection, but also the
| plain declarations of the national conven-
| tion which nominated you in 1896. Far
different was it when the Cuban question,
which we had promised to settle, brought
| first war and then peace with Spain. Con-
eress declared war, but you, as comma nd
| er-in-Chief had to carry it on. You did
| so, and history records unhroken victory
! from the first shot of the Nashville to the
| day when the protocol was signed. Cuba.
| Porto Rico, the Philippines you had to
| assume alone the responsibility OF tax
| inE them al from Spain. Alone and
weighted with the terrible responsibility
| Of the unchecked war powers Of the CON
| stitution, YOU were obliged to govern
| these Islands and to repress rebellions and
! disorder in the Philippines No party
W IN fol
| low. Courage, foresight, comprehension
| Of American interests both now and in the
uncharted future. in the American people,
| and in their fitness for great tasks, were
| then your only guides and counselors.
Thus you framed and put in opera ion
| this great new policy which has made US
| at once masters 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 arouse criticism and
| attack. Yet great departure and new
| policy were never more quickly justified
than those undertaken by you. On the
posse ssion of the Philippines rest the ad-
| mira bic diplomacy which warned all ma
| tions that American trade was not to be
| shut off from China. i is to Manila that
| we owe the ability to send troops and
| ships in this time of distress TO the de-
| ferse of our ministers, our missionaries,
| our consuls, and our merchants in China
| instead of being compelled to leave our
| citizens to the casual protection of other
| powers, as would have been unavoidable
! had we flung the opportunities away and
| withdraw from the Orient.
| Events, moving with terrible rapidity
| have been swift witnesses to he wisdom
| Of your action in the east. The Phila-
| delphia convention had adopted your mol
| icy both in the Antilles and the Philip
| pines, and has made it their own and
that of the repubi! 2an party.
Your election, sin, next November as
sures to us the continuance of that poll
| cy abroad and in our new posse sSiOns. To
! tntrust these difficult and vital questions
| to Others, II once Incompetent and hostile
| would be a still more unreleved disaster
| TO US and to our posterity. Your election
| means not only protection to our indus
| tries, but the maintenance of a sound
currency of the gold Standa I'd. the very
| cornerstone Of our economic and financ!a
| welfare. Should these be shaken, as they
| would be by the success of our opponents
| the whole fabric of our business conf.
dence and prosperity would fan into ruin
| Your defeat would be the signal for the
| advance OF free trade, for the anarchy
| Of a debased and unstable currency. fol
| business panic, depression, and hare
| times, and for the wreck Of our foreign
| policy. Your election and the triumph Of
| the republican party, which we believe tc
| he sure as the com!n ing of the day. vii
| make certain the steady protection Of oul
| industries, sound money, and a vgor
our and intelligent foreign policy. They
| will continue those friends Of good gov,
! errment and wise legislation, so essentia
to the prosperity and well-being which
| have blessed our country in such abund
| ance during the past four years.
Thus announcing to you, sir, YOU
| nomination the republican candidate
| for the presidency, we have the hono
| also to submit to YOU the declaration O
| principles made bv the national conven
| ton, which we trust will receive your ap
| proval We can assure you Of the faith
| ful and earnest support of the republican
| party in every state, and we beg you t
| believe that we discharge here to-day
| with feelings Of the deepest personal graf
| on us by the convention.
The president seemed at his best
His appearance indicated splendit
health and his voice rang out in clar
| ion tones, reaching the vast throns
which surrounded his house and eX
| tended over the lawn and across tn,
| street. Speaking from the same place