The Seattle Republican., 1900-08-24
Mr.. FOSTERS SPEECH
That He Should Have Made at the
Tacoma COnVentiOn-But
lie Did Not.

The refusal Of the Idaho Demo-
Gratis to incorporate the Sulzer-Lentz
view OF the recent mining troubles in
their platform indicates quite clearly
that 1or campaign purposes, the ma
terlal must be used great ways from
nome IN order to be made effective.
Mr.. Chairman, gentlemen of the
convention and my fellow Republi-
cans: | thank you for this opportu-
nlty OF addressing the representative
men Of the grand old Republican
party of this state. | have watched
WITH interest your efforts to select
men who shall lead our party to an
other splendid victory; men who
shall take the reins of state govern
nent from the Demo-Pops, who are
growing arrogant in their misuse of
power, and who will sail our gorge
Gus ship Of state along the course of
economy and prosperity.
You have selected that ticket, gen
tlemen, and your work must be ap-
plauded by every Republican within
our ranks. The ticket shall win.
There can be no dissension. Small
differences have been put away, and
you, the delegates of the Republican
party, have come into this conYen-
ton, in this beautiful city Of Taco
ma, which | am proud to call my
home, and cast your votes as one
man. (Cheers.)
Belonging as we do to the party
that has never changed its name; t.
the party of Lincoln, Grant, Gar
field and that stainless statesman
VIM. Mckinley prolonged cheers),
we can follow the flag wherever it
goes-to Cuba, to Porto Rico, to Ha-
wall, to Guam, to the Philippines;
over the Chinese wall and into that
lniquitous den where sits, attired in
his yellow robe Of depravity, the boy
emperor of the celestial kingdom
the veritable yellow kid Of the pow
ers. | say we can follow that flag
from Canton to Shanghai, from Pc
king to Ting-a-ling-ling, and on and
on. (Great applause.) We can fol-
low 1t further, into the very inner
most harem Of the sultan Of Sulu we
will take that flag, and with it will
go civilization and civil service re-
form, honest money, a free ballot
and a fair count. wild cheers.) On
and on we can go, sailing DER all the
oceans, with our never-defeated fac
waving high, until we have rounded
the globe; until at last we can set
our feet upon Plymouth Rock, as did
our Pilgrim forefathers two hundred
and eighty years ago, and shout to
the barbarian Bryanites, even as our
ancestors shouted to the savage In
dians Of Colonial days: "Back, saw
ages! We are Civilization, we are
Christianity, we are of the people,
for the people and by the people!
Back! base tillers Of the soil-make
way for the grand old flag! Make
way for the imperial court of VIM.
Mckinley! Stand back! We have
rounded the world, and again, within
the short space of two centuries, Civ
ilizatiOn westward wends its way.
(Cries of ''HOot, monr)
But it is a new civilization. If
your forests have been cut down we
will cut them up into shingles and
two-by-fours and export them into
the new markets that we have made
If your fields of grain are over-pro-
ductlve we will thrust your bread
stutfs into the mouths Of the heather
Chinese, the foxy Filipinos and the
crafty Cubans! And, by the living
gods, we'll stuff it down their thrOats
with ramrod and say: 'Eat, darn
you, eat-till we tell you to stOp!"
(Terrifc and prolonged applause.5
l tell you, gentlemen of the Re-
publican party, in the words Of Mon
te Cristo, ''The world is
But what's the use? Senator Fos-
ter didn't make the speech.-Taco-
ma News.