Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-19
|WoLcQTT's sPNe4
Senator From Colorado Addresses
National Republican Convention.
REVIEWS ADMINISTRATORS WORK
Party Has Reason to Be Proud Of
the Record.
THE DEMOCRACY ARRAIGNED

| Senator Wolcott, on taking charge of the
national republican convention in Philadel-
phia today temporary chairman, spoke
| at length on the party conditions. saying:
Since the first party convention in the country
| there was never one gathered together I'M
| der such hopeful and suspicious circum-
stances as those which surround us today.
| United, proud of the achievements of the
| past four years, our country prosperous and
happy, with nothing to regret and naught
| to make us ashamed, with a record spotiess
and clean, the republican party stands
| facing the dawn, confident that the ticket
it shall present will command public APP
prevail and that in the declaration of its
| principles and its purposes it will voice
the aspirations and hopes of the vast ma
jority of American freemen
The first and pleasant duty of this great
convention, we'll as its instructive i'm
pulse, is TO send message of affectonate
greeting TO our leader ard our countTys
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 prob
| lens which confront US, and has guided
us out Of the slough of financial disaster,
| impaired credit and commercial staSnation,
up to the high and safe ground of national
prosperity and financial stability. Through
| the delicate and trying events of the late
war he stood firm, courageous and con-
sentative. and under his leadership we have
emerged triumphant. our national honor I'M
furnished, credit unassailed. and the
| equal devotion of every section of our COM
mon country to the welfare of the republic
cemented forever. Never in the memory of
this generation has there stood at the head
of the government truer patriot, a wiser
or more courageous leader. or Il better eX-
ample of the highest type of American
manhood. The victories of peace and the
victories of war are alike inscribed upon
his banner. The same vigorous manhood
and clear and patriotic vision animate him
as Of old, and give US confidence ana trust
for the future of cur republic, because his
hand will guide US and his genius direct.
After paying "a high tribute to the mem
DRY of the late Vice President, the speaker
continued:
SO many events of great portent have
been cramrled into the past months tlat
are apt to judge and measure the work
OF this administration chiefly by the cc-
CurrenceS since the outbreak of the Span
ish war. 1t is worth While for us To recall
earlier days.
When MIR Mckinley became President he
took the reins of government after four
years of democratic administration For
the first time in more than generation de-
mocracy had full sway. with both houses
of Congress in party accord with the eXccu-
tive. No summary of The unmerciful DIS
asters of those four years can convey an
idea of 1.-THE of the ruin they wrought
The Democracy Arrai.ncd.
In the four years preceding Mr.. Cleve-
lands admins tration We had paid s26o,Io.-
rD of the national debt; he added S23o."o,-
$50 TO its burden He found a tariff act,
,,,i. ~, ,,.,,,o -, hi. sucoassor ara oirr
;ne -" 60, -. 49, roe,,,;ror,,o,,.s
ireSi"eht' ht'co u i"eet 'i'' ie'i'i'
of our necessary expenditures, to furnish
the needed protection to our farmers ana
manufacturers, ana TO insure 'he stet,iS
and r"muneratiVe employment OF those VINO
labor. instead OF permitting mahptactu.t
and commerce that repose and stability of
law which are essential ior Wolkiiis ou'
economic cchaluons, ne AT once iecuIh-
mehded violent ana Fau!cai chahsts II, rI'
enue ana ttrlff provisions recohihei"d-
tons which ms party IN congress piocteu-
eel partially ana dtSitStfouSiE 10 execute.
In -FOUR years the country witnessed snnie
6""S' commerclhi lhiihfeS' win Ia'iit'eH
.isSrtgatlile more th'h |'"''r''''1. ~
a miIraat Of a. o,n mic. or tw:ce the err
Gle of the globe and with securities amount
ing to nearly $3""~t."i. We're unap!e 10
ieei mn '.'.'' ~ 20
tiouaT hanks closed their doors. with llabili-
ties reaching $Io.Wo.0Go: wool ard all farm
products which tariffs could affect lost tens
OF fhiillois IN .ali,' l"Iin ioi 'sts.n 80
i"itcioStu ny 'liou7'i!i,', 'iii ''t 80 ~ -
sreal "es, "ut ss 'e,'' ,.' az ,i 10 hnH
III value, w na' ~. VI - 49,
peen IN our IavIr .urheu ruiiou1ay asaI' ~
US tlie ilatiolaat u ca, Vi w. ". 80
Us so!u va. o., -, 49,
WIZ soiu -, " - r -; a. 90 - ,r stand
3,in
ny ueIIiiihe ieseiiue VIZ o ,dt, ~
nlett 'iie neoes" ',,aI ~ u, hol ,,f
.iie sphei mr. ; al ~, iia ~
ieieu 'he 10 "'ui,4 ma. pv 81 :. etll' -
n3t lrrefheo.ipe. E'pi una 'eS ,iose WY
rely upon ,i'.Li u',is laru' i III -, 49,
l,aice' anu .tii i'i''i''es ,,.'i's ~. ~
,htm, coiis'itu!Hs tne sirh' mas VI a,ro
American peop!e' weit hi'ue ~ ies i heas
~ 'l4s nui",i vi ".9tH.ei , "
miro OF me iapotins popula,ioli oa me
United otates Wtie tll WI out " sii'.oH ,
iheht ana men ny ,iiou1a'uS, ane anu VII
land clamoring for work or food.
Four years OF coli.herciai misfortune en-
tbaSa cbanged and denressad conditions
but when President Mckinley was inaug-
urated the country was in a state more de-
plorable than had existed for generation.
DimcuIties to Face.
Facing these difficulties the President i'm
n,aa;a,aIy ,,non bis inau.uration convened
Np'-. -'' ,, -, ~
congress LII extra session. anu III d message
Of force and lucidity summarized the legis-