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McKINLEY'S NOTIFICATION
He Accepts the Republican NOnina'
ton for President-NOtable Speech.
es at Canton.
cENATOR LODGE SpEAES

SENATOR LODGE SPEAKS.
Senator Lodge said:
"Mr. President, this committee,
representing every state in the Union
and the organized territories. of the
United states. was duly appointed to
announce to you formally your nomi-
nation by the Republican national con-
venton, which met in Philadelphia on
June 10 last, az the candidate of the
Republican 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, sirunder circumstances which give
it a higher significance and make it an
even deeper expression of honor and
trust than usual. You were nominated
unanimously at Philadelphia. You
received the vote of every delegate, from
every state and from every territory.
The harmony of sentiment which ap-
pears on the face of the record was but
which existed in the hearts and minds
of the delegates. Without faction,
without dissent, with profound salts
faction and eager enthusiasm you were
nominated for tine presidency by the
united voice of the representatives of
ourgreat party, in which there is neith-
er sign of division nor shadow of turn
ing. Such unanimity, always remark
able, is here the more impressive, be-
cause it accompanies second nOmina-
ton to the great Office which you have
held for four, years. Not the facile
triumph of hope over experience, but
the sober approval of conduct and
character tested IN many trials and
tried by heavy and extraordinary re-
sponsibilitles.
NEW AND MoMENTOUs QUESTIONS
"With the exception of the period in
which Washington organized the ma
ton and built the state and of those
other awful years when Lincoln led
his people through the agony of civil
war, and saved from destruction the
work of Washington, there never has
been presidential term in our history
so crowded with great events, 80 filled
with new and momentous questions as
chat which is now drawing to an end.
Those declarations which were made in
st. Louis in 1896, you, sir, united with
the Republicans in congress in the
placing of the tariff and the establish
ment 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 great bull
wark of both. You led again the
policy which has made Hawaii pos
session of the United States. On all
these questions you fulfilled the hopes
and justified the confidence of the
people who four years ago put trust in
your promises. But on all these ques-
tions, also you had as guides, not
only your own principles, the we'll con-
sidered results of years of training and
reflection, but also the plain declara-
tions of the national convention, which
nominated you in 1896.
"Far different was it when the
Cuban question, which we had already
promised to settle, brought on war and
then peace, with Spain. Congress de-
clared war, but you, as commander in
chief. had to carry it Oh. You did so
and history records unbroken victory in
thefirst shot of the Nashville to the
day when the protocol was signed.
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 weighed with the terrible respon-
sibility of the unchecke ed 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 uncharted future,
faith in the American people and in
their fitness for great tasks, were then
your only guides and counsellors.
M'KINLEY's GREAT POLICY.
"Thus, you framed and put in opera
ton this great new policy which has
made US at once masters Of the Antilles
and a great eastern power, holding
firmly our possession on both sides of
the Pacific.
"The new and strange ever eXcites
fear and the courage and prescience
which accept them always arouse criti-
cism and attack. Yet great departure
and a new policy were never more
quickly justified than those undertaken
by you. On the possession of the
Philippines rest the admirable diplo-
macy which warned all nations that
American trade was not to be shut out
from China. 1t is to Manila that we
owe the ability to send troops and ships
in this time Of stress to the defense OF
our ministers, our missionaries, our
consuls and our merchants in China,
instead of being compelled to leave our
citizens to the casual protection of other
powers, as would have been unavoid-
able had we flung the Philippines
away and withdrawn from the Oriedt.
"Rest assured, sir, that the vigorous
measures which yon have thus been en-
abIed to take, and that all further meas
ures in that same direction which you
may take, for the protection of Ameri-
can lives and property will receive the
hearty support ofthe people of the I'm
| tied States, who are now, as always,
determined that the American citizen
shall be protected at any cost in all his
rights, everywhere, and at all times.
1t is to Manila, again; to.our fleet in
the bay and our army on land, that we
shall owe the power, VA these scenes
of blood in China are eloaed to exact
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