The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-07-13
Chairman of the Committee Tells President
Mckinley He Has Been Renominated.
incidentally Refers to Some Other Things and Says That the
Party Has Been Satisfied With the Way Things Were
Run During His Regime and Wants Him to
Run 1t Again.

Mr.. 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 9
last, as the candidate Of the Republi-
can party for president of the United
States for the term beginning March 4,
1901. To be selected by the Republican
party as their candidate for this great
Office is always one Of the highest hon
ors which can be given to any man.
This nomination, however, comes to
you, sir, under circumstances which
give it higher significance and make
it an even deeper expression of honor
and trust than usual. You were NOM
mated unanimously at Philadelphia.
You received the unforced vote of every
delegate, from every state and every
territory. The harmony of sentiment
which appears 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, 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
neither sign of division nor shadow OF
turning. Such unanimity, always re-
markable, Is here the more impressive
because 1t accompanies a second NOM
ination to the great office which you
have held for four years. 1t Is not the
facile triumph of hope over experiment,
but the sober approval of conduct and
character tested in many trials and
tried by heavy and extraordinary re-
sponsibilties. With the exception Of
the period in which Washington organ
lied the nation and built the state and
of those other awful years when Lin
coin led his people through the agony
of civil war and saved from destruc-
tion 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 as that which is drawing to
it's 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-
establishment of the protective policy.
You maintained our credit and upheld
the gold standard, leading the party by
your advice to the passage of the great
measure which is today the bulwark
of both. You led again in the policy
which has made Hawaii a possession of
the United States. On all these ques-
tions you fulfilled the hopes and justi-
fed the confidence Of the people, who
four years ago put trust in your prom
ises. But on all these questions also,
YOU had as guides not only your own
principles, the we'll considered results
of years of training and reflection, but
also the plain declarations OF the ma
tional convention which nominated you
in 1896. Far different was it when the
Cuban question, which we had also
promised to settle. brought first war
and then peace, with Spain. Congress
declared war, but you, as commander
in-chief, had to carry 1t on. You did
SO, and history records unbroken victory
from the first shot of the Nashville"
to the day when the protocol was sign
ed. The peace you had to make alone.
Cuba, Porto Rico. the Philippines. you
had to assume alone the responsibility
of taking them all from Spain. Alone
and weighted with the terrible respon-
sibility of the unchecked war powers OF
the constitution, you were obliged to
govern these islands, and to repress re-
bellion and disorder in the Philippines.
No party creed defined the course you
were to follow. Courage, foresight,
comprehension of American interests,
both now and in the unchartered fu-
ture, faith In the American people and
in their fitnesa for great tasks, were
then your only guides and counsellors.