Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-05-18
JUDGE HEYBURN'S SPEECH
Address Delivered at the Repub.
lican Convention Held in
This City May 8.
PARTY STRONGER THAN EVER
The Porto Rican, Expansion and Other Ques
tons Of National importance Dis.
cussed-FuIfiIls All Promises.

Following is the speech delivered at
the Republican State Convention in this
city May 8 by Judge w. B. Hepburn:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE Con-
vENTIoN: l can't refrain from thanking
you for the honor of your choice to pre-
side over your deliberations: can't re-
train from expressing the appreciation
which feel, in common with all the del
egates who have come to this beautiful
city today, at the pleasant reception you
have given us and the perfect arrange
ments that you have made for our COM
tort and our entertainment. Beautiful
sunshine and the green trees in this
beautiful valley are i'll perfect keeping
with the spirit that pervades the entire
land today, and here, with these sur
roundings, we are in the very shrine of
republicanism.
Every emblem about you and every
sentiment expressed by these notices is
in thorough accord and harmony with
the principles of republicanism and the
principles of AmericauisuI. These have
grown to be synonymous terms-Ameri-
canism and republicanism. All that
there is today of Americanism i'll this
land bounded by the shores of this con-
tinent, or within the shores of any land
on earth all that there is today of Amer
icanism is due to the republican party.
1t was created, it has been preserved, it
will be perpetuated by that party alone,
and it is for the purpose today that we
are assembled of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT an
nouncing new principles, but reannoun-
cling the cardinal, fundamental principles
upon which this government rests. These
principles are our platform. We have
nothing to add to them; nothing needs
to be added to them. We have only to
raise up our voice for freedom, human
freedom and human rights, and we have
announced everything that needs to be
written in the republican platform.
1t is said that on occasions such as this
the party in power is always on the de-
fensive. suppose we mean by that that
we are called upon, as every representa-
tive of the people under this government
is called upon when question is raised
to give the reason for our action, give the
reason for the things that we have done
in the past, give reasonable explanation
of our intentions as to the future, in order
that the people may know what their
representatives are doing, have done and
propose to do. We stand in that position
today before the people of the state OF
Idaho, assembled here as we are to choose
from out our midst who shall speak for
Idaho in the national republican conven-
tiou to be held at Philadelphia to selec,
the next president and ce-presdent oil
the United States.
Fellow-citizens, while this is not time
for speechmaking and l am not here foi
the purpose of making a speech, it is fit
ting that there shall be such declara
ton of the policy and the principles O
the republican party here today as thai
there may be no question unanswered in
j
the minds of the people as to the issue:
upon which we propose to stand in the
coming campaign. ] do not assume to
speak for the national republican party
further than when l speak within tn,
lines UHat have been SO settled and deter
, mined that we know where they are ant
| can rely upon them. We need only nov
to speak as to the future action of tina
J party. We can judge it by its past.
is content to stand upon that past So
\ as is true of the national republican
party, it is true of the republican part
in the state of Idaho.
Four years ago, when we stood i'll
relative position to that in which W
stand today, there were wide difference
of opinion among the republicans {
1 this state and those that had always aft
y lated with that party. The party ha
y been out of power for four years, durin
= which time things had gone far astra,
c Prosperity had departed from our Ian,
The people were in distress, pleading an
crying for relief. The question par;
r mount i'll their minds was, How shall "
te be relieved from the distress of the hour
Innumerable physicians arose to prescril