The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-09
MIR. RICHARDSON'S ADDRESS.
Formal Notification to Col. Bryan
of His Nomination.
Mr. Richardson said IN mart.

MT Richardson said in part:
MI. Eryan: On the one hundred and
o@enty-Iourth anniversary of the birth
y y ms republic there assembled in
can convention that ever came toeethar
IN IT'S history. This great bodv was
made up of men from every stale and
fraI,l eeprltory R in the Union. They came
with unfeigned enthusiasm for the in
spring cause which brought them to-
sether. Their seven millions of CON
a'itIeHss mad empowered them to frame
pia5Icrm of principles and select a
cdnuleate Tor president and vice presi-
cent of the United States in what they
conceived to be the supremest political
crisis that ever came to orr country
These delegates all realized that the re-.
Puphc is in peril They felt that the
outy was theirs to take such action as
MoutQ rescue the state from the gulf of
imperialism in which it has been plunged
and thus preserve for themselves and
posterlty unimpaired the priceless bless
ihss OF free government and civil lib-
ely cry. You see before YOU today COM
nhttee OF delegates from that convention.
ana Tor whom l speak, upon which is
represented each state and territory.
whose duty 1t is to convey to you in
doIIndi manner the notification that the
august assembly l have mentioned, acting
LOT It's members, their constituents and
Ior all VINO love and cherish liberty every
Where with no dissenting voice, chose
president.
ADOPTED a platform of principles upon
which the campaign we now inaueurat te
shall be conducted.
Ihe declaration of party principles I
Here the duties of our committee might
with propriety end, but l beg INDULGENCE
for few moments.
The delegates assembled at Kansas
CITY did not take hasty action Their
conduct was characterized by the great
est hrmness and determination. In the
alarming condition in which the country
mas Deen placed by the present weak and
Vaclllatlng and un-American administra-
lon at Washington they realized, as do
our fellow citizens generally, that a
change of men and policies is imper-
ously demanded. They proceeded delhi
erately to chose you to lead in the hat
ical faith.
tbs -Four nrt years ago you led the party in
experienced. You then failed to win the
goal, the presidency, but you did more:
you won the respect and admiration OF
your poiltical foes and the ardent love
and devotion of your followers. That
contest was made by ycu against stu
pendous odds, in the fact ef a hostile
pres press, 20 and and with unhappy division in
country that all these unfortunate con-
dttlons do not confront YOU today. It
Is true that you were then bitterly, some
times Wantonly, assailed, and when par
coarse things were said of you and your
party. But you and they survived them
all and were perhaps stronger for them
we trust this campaign will be pitched
on higher plane, and that it will be
conducted In manner worthy Of the
great dignity which attaches to the two
most exalted offices at stake.
1t is true that you and your party
friends have already been charao tcrized
as dishonest and lawless at home, and rs
towards abroad. feel sure, however,
1t will stop at this, or, at least, if such
hyperbolic flowers of speech are used at
AL, it will be in rare instances, and only
then by some one whose coarse MANNERS
before the public are equalied only by
the roughness of his riding habit.
The platform which handed you is
new Declaration of Independence You
will see it takes no step backward upon
any issue of party creed heretofore pro-
mulgated- 1t solemnly asf1rms that the
question of ineprialism is the paramount
issue of this campaign This declaration
did not make it so, but only gave recog-
milton to an admitted fact. The Repub,
licans have made it the issue which in
this campaign. overtops all others They
may well endeavor to run away from 1t.
as they are doing, but they cannot es,
cape it. by their fruits ye shall know
them" was the best philosophy 1900 hun
dred years ago, and it is the best now.
The platform declares that imperialism
means conquest abroad and oppression
at home; it means the strong arm of the
military and its concomitant a great
standing army, which has ever been fa-
tai to all free institutions. 1t was this
that drove from Europe to our shores
millions of our fellow citizens, and which
is constant menace to the liberties of
the people. Large standing armies have
no place in republic. An imperial gov
ernment can only be maintained by brute
force, and without militarisn imperial
ism cannot exist. The union or mating
Of the two brings forth Caesarism, wheth-
er under that or some other name In1-
narialism means death to democracY