Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-12

III AuA40lAIy D anu WILL ~ AavO OAAO
new problems and responsibilities.
y MHsteetb Hemisphere and our flag
floats over her former territory.
Cuba has been liberated and Our
guarantees to her people will be sac
redly executed. A beneficient gov
,ernlhenrt has been provided for Porto
Rfep.srsJghe Philippines are ours and
American authority must be supreme
It hr oughout the archipelago.
There will be amnesty broad and lib
.eral, but no abatement of our rights,
10 abandonment of our duty. There
must be NO scuttle policy. We will
fulfill in the Philippines the obliga-
tons imposed by the triumphs of our
arms and by the treaty of peace; by
international law, by the nations
sense.o of honor; and more than all, by
the rights, interests and conditions
of the Philippine people themselves.
No outside interference blocks the
way to peace and a stable govern
ment. The obstructionists are here,
not elsewhere. They may postpone,
but they cannot defeat the realiza-
ton of the high purpose of this ma
ton to restore order to the islands
and to establish a just and generous
government in which the inhabitants
shall have the largest participation
Nor which they are capable. The
organized forces which have been
misled into rebellion have been dis
persed by our faithful soldiers and
sailors, and the people of the islands,
delivered from anarchy, plllage and
oppression, recognize American SOW
ereignty as the symbol of peace, JUS
tice and law, religious freedom, ed
ucation, the security of life and prop
erty, and the welfare and prosperity
of their several communities.
We reassert the early principle of
the republican party, sustained by
unbroken judicial precedents, that
the representatives of the people in
congress assembled have full legisla-
tive power over territory belonging
to the United States subject to the
fundamental safeguards of liberty,
justice and personal rights, and are
vested with ample authority to act
for the highest interests of our ma
ton and the people entrusted to its
care"
This doctrine, first proclaimed in
the cause of freedom. will never be
used as a weapon for oppression. I
am glad to be assured by you that
what we have done in the far east
has the approval of the country. The
sudden and terrible crisis in China
calls for the gravest consideration,
and you will not expect from me now
any further expression than to say
that my best efforts will be given
to the immediate purpose of protect
ing the lives of our citizens who are
in peril with the ultimate welfare of
China, the safe guarding of all our
treaty rights and the maintenance of
those principles of impartial inter
course to which civilized world is
pledged. l cannot conclude without
congratulating my c%ountrymen upon
the strong national sentiments
which find expression in every part OF
our common country and, the in
creased respect with which the Amer
lean is greeted throughout the world.
We have been moving in untried
paths, but our steps have been guild.
ed by duty. There will be nc turning,
no wavering, no retreat. No blow has
been struck except for liberty and
!. humanity and none will be. We will
perform without fear every national
and international obligation. The re-
publican party was dedicated to free
dom forty-four years ago. It has been
the party Of liberty and emancipation
from that hour, not of profession,
but of performance. It broke the
shackles of our million slaves and
made them free and to the party OF
Lincoln has come another supreme
opportunity which it has bravely met
in the liberation of 10, 000, 900 of the
human family from the yoke of imper
ialism. In it's solution of great prob
lens, in its performance of high dut
les, it has had the support of mem
bers of. all parties in the past and
confidently invokes their cooperation
in the future. Permit me to express
Mr.. Chairman, m most sincere ap
probation of the complimentary
terms in which you convey the otfic
ial notice of my nomination and my
thanks to the members of the com
mittee and to the great constituency
which they represent for their add
tional evidence Of their favor ant
support.
The audience appreciated the deft tur
| which Mr.. Mckinley gave ito imperial
ism and cheered most heartily. Wine
the president close there were lou
calls for Hama, but Colonel Grant, chair
/ man of the local committee, introduce
| Senator Fairbanks of Indiana, who in
! brief address declared that McKinle
| would be reelected.