The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-28

vote" and Chairman Lodge was kept
busy with his gavel trying to MAIN
tain sufficient order for the speaker to
be heard. AS he closed the comven-
! ton again demanded vote ana the
chairman announced that the roll OF
states would be called for the vote OH
the nomination for president. At
1887 the vote began.
The roll was called and each state
voted for Mckinley all the way down
the roll.
Senator Lodge announced that
President Mckinley had been nomi-
mated unanimously
After the nomination there was a
parade with huge elephant, which
caused more amusement than ap-
plause. Around the elephants neck
were entwined garlands of flowers.
Laughter and applause were mingled
as. the great emblem was borne about.
The demonstration in honor of the
presidents nomination lasted five
minutes and then the chairman called
for order for the further event in
store. Col. Lafayette Young Of Iowa
at 1886 took the platform to nominate
Gov. Roosevelt for vice president He
withdrew the name of Dolliver and
offered that of Roosevelt in an elo-
quent speech.
The responses came thick and fast
and the nomination was made by &C
clamation. This practically ended the
conventions work.
journed sine die
Chairman Lodge spoke in part as
follows:
Senator Lodges Address.
In 1897 we took the government and the
country from the hands of President
Cleveland. His party had abandoned him
and were Joined to their idols, of which
he was no longer one. During the last
years of his term we had presented to us
the melancholy spectacle of a president
result was that his policies were
in ruin. legislation was at a standstlll
and public affairs were in a perilous and
jty. had vanished, and with it all posi-
blity of intelligent action demanded by
the country at home and abroad. 1t was
AZ lllttleSllIlS, DuL ny no means SlIl6 uldT
display of Democratic unfitaess for the
practical work of government. To the
political student it was instructive to
the country 1t was extremely painful, to
| business disastrous.
We replaced this political chaos with a
president in thorough accord With his
party, and the machinery of government
began again to move smoothly and eff
fectiveiy. Thus we kept at once our prom
sc of better and more efficient admins
tration. In four months after the inau-
n nj w
passed a tariff bill. For ten years the
artificial agitation in behalf of what was
humorously called tariff reform, and Of
what was really free trade, had kept
business in ferment. and had brought a
treasury deficit, paralyzed industries, de-
preston. panic, and finally continuous
agined. Would you know the result of
our tariff legislation, look about you;
Would you measure Its success, recollect
that 1T is no longer an issue. that our
opponents. free traders as they are do
not dare to make it an issue; that there
is not q state in the Union today which
protection. Never was a policy more
fully justified by its works, never was a
promise made, made by any party more abso-
But there is one question which We
will put to the American people in this
campaign which includes and outweighs
We're in the depths Of adversely under
the last Democratic administrations; you
are on the heights Of prosperity today.
a change in your president and in the
party which administers your govern
ment?. How long viii your good times
give political power to those who cry
nothing but Woe, woe!' the lovers of ca
I lanlity and~foes Of prosperity who hold
sd tb In business to be
business would improve? Do You think
that prices would 2iad remain STEADY
crease when that result of the election
was known? Business confidence rests
largely upon sentiment. Do you think that
sentiment would be a hopeful one the
day after Bryan's election? Business
confidence is delicate plant, Do you
think it would flourish with the Demo
cratic party? Do you know that if Bryan
were elected the day after the news was
flashed over the country wages would go
down, prices would decline. and that the
forging ahead over calm waters. with fair
breezes and with swelling canvas. would
begin to take in sail and seek the shell
Dor? Do you not know from recent and
bitter experience what that arrest of
movement, that fear of the future, means?
reduction of employment, the increase of
the unemployed. lower wages, hard times.
distress, unhappiness. We do not say
that we have panaceas for every human
i'll. We do not claim that any policy
we. or anyone else. can offer will drive
from the world sorrow and suffering and
poverty. but we say that so far gov
crnment and legislation can secure the
prosperity and we'll being Of the American
people, our administration and our poll
cies will do it. We point to the adver-
sity of the Cleveland years lying dark
behind US. 1t has been replaced by the
prosperity Of the Mckinley years. Let
them make whatever explanation they
will, the facts are with u.s."
1t is on these facts that we shall ask
for the support of the American people
What we have done is known. and about
what we intend to do there is neither Sc
crecy nor deception. What we promise
we will perform. Our old policies arc
here, alive, successful and full of vigor
Our new policies have been begun, and
| for them we ask support.
When the clouds of impending civil
| war hung dark over the country in 1861
we took up the great task then laid upon
| US and never flinched until we had car
| ried it through to victory. Now, at the
\ dawn of a now century. with new poll
| cies and new opportunities opening before
| us in the bright sunshine of prosperity
| we again ask the American people to in.
| trust us with their future. We have pro,
| found faith in the people. We do moi
distrust their capacity of meeting ths
| new responsibilities, even as they me-
| the old. and we shall await with conf
| dence. under the leadership of William
| Mckinley, the verdict of November.
TO AMI1SE TUE CLAL