The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-13
Speaks in Behalf of the Notification
Committee n1Hd &c at ffss
PAYS TRIBUTE IIoaIMl'KlNLEy.
No Presidential Term it9our History
SO, Crowded With Gtsat Events.
Maintained the Credit and Upheld
the Standard Of the .Nation-Will
Have Faithful and Earnest Sup
port of the Party. ny


Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, CT Massn-
chusetts, spoke to-day Us follows:
"aIr. Presldcnt:-Thls committee, rep
resenting every state I'M the union, aud
the organized territories,of the United
States, was only appointed to announce
to you; formally, you're nomination by
the Republican national convention,
which met in Philadelphia on June 10.
last, as the. candidate OF the Republic
can party for President Iof the United
States for the term beginning March
4. 1901. To be selected by the Republi-
can party as their candidate for this
great office is always oneso the highest
honors which can be given to any man.
This nomination, however, comes tc
you, sir. under circumstances which
give 1t q higher significance and make
it an even deeper expression of honor
and trust than usual. you were nomi-
mated unanimously atA Philadelphia.
You received the Enforced vote OF ev-
cry delegate, from every state and cv-
cry territory.
Reflection of Deeper Harmony.
"The harmony Of sentiment which al
pears on the face OF the record was but
the reflection OF the deeper harmony
which existed in the heaFts and minds
OF the delegates. Without faction. WITH
out dissent. with profound satisfaction
and eager enthusiasm. you were nomi-
mated for the presidency by the united
voice of the representatives Of our great
party, in which there 81 neither sign of
division nor shadow ofzGTnlng. Such
unanimity. always Egmarkablc, Is
here the more impressive: because Il
accompanies second nomination tc
tha.great office which You have held 70:
four years. 1t is not the facilr triumph
OF hope over experience, .but the sober
approval of conduct and character test
ed in many trials and tried by heavy
and extraordinary Responsibilities
With the: exception or Gle period IN
which Washington organfzed the nation
and built the state, and Of those other
awful years when Lincoln led his peo-'
J pie through the agony,ob civil war and
saved from destruction the work Of
Washington. there has iiever been
presidential term in 6uF history sc
crowded with great events. so filed
with new and momentGus questions as
{ that which is now drawinsito Its end.
True to the declarations, which were
made at st. Louis in 1896. ,YoIl. sir. uni
ted with the Republicans m Congress in
the revision Of the tariff and the re-
establishment of the protective policy.
Led in I'LL the Great Measures,
you maintained our credit and up.
held the gold standard, leading the
party by your advice 70 the passage, OF
the great measure which is to-day the
bulwark of both. You ED again. in the
policy which has made; Hawuli| a, pos.
session OF the United, Stetes- On all
these. questions you fulfilled the hopes
and justified the confidence, of the peo-
I pie. who four years aeo'Gput trust in
our promises. But on an lhese qucs-
tions, also. you had as guides. not only
your own principles. the well considered
results of years Of training and reilcc-
ton, but also the plain -decla rations OF
the national convention. which nomlna-
ted you in 1896. Far q tffefent was 1t
when the Cuban question. which we
had also promised to settle. brought
. first, war, and then peatt;i with Spain.
Congress declared wa. but you, as
commander-in-chef, had TO carry 1t on.
You did so. and history records unbro.
ken victory from the first shot Of the
Nashville to the day when tie proto-
col was signed. The pcace.t you had to
1 make alone. Cuba, Eorto Rico, the
Z Philippines; you had toIpSsumc alone
the responsibility OF taking them all
from Spain. Alone, ard Weighted with
the terrible responsbllEty-of the un-
checked war powers OF the constitution
you were obliged TO govern these Is
, lands and to repress rebellion and dis
order in the Philippines. No pcrty creed
defined the course you were TO follow.
Courage. foresight. conprahensIop of
American interests. beth now and in
the uncharted futures faith in the
American people and In their fitness
for great tasks. were taken your only
guides and counselors
This Great, New Policy.
Thus, you framed aid put in opera.
ton this great. new POLICY which has
made us at once mastetS OF the Antilles
and great eastern power, holding
/. firmly our possessions on both sides of
the Pacific.
The new and strange ever exists
fear, and the courage and presence
which accept them, always arouse critI-
clsm and attack. Yet Il great depart
ure and q new policy were never more
quickly justified than tfose undertaken
bytyou. On the possession OF the Phil
ipplncs rests the Admirable diplomacy
which warned MI nations that Amcrl-
can trade was not to be Shut from Chi
ma. 1t ls to Manila thui we owe ability
TO send troops and ships In this time
OF stress to the defenStJof our minis
tiers. our missionaries. cur consuls and
our merchants in Chinhs ihstead of be.
Ing compelled TO leave our citizens to
the casual protection o. other powers.
us would have been unavoidable had We
: lung the Philippines away and with
drawn from the orientii;Rest assured.
Sir. that the vigorous measures which