The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-05
PLATT NAMES
HIS TICKET.
Slate Goes Through at Saratoga
Without Break
OdelI For Governor and Wood
ruff For Second Place.
GOV. BLACK IN LINE.
Makes the Speech Placing Odell
in Nomination.
Woodruff's Name Put Forward
by Senator DepeW.
Governor Roosevelt Addresses
the Convention.
GOV. BLACK IN LINE.
Makes the Speech Placing OdeIl
in Nomination.
WOOdruff's Name Put Forward
by Senator Depew.


Saratoga, N. Y, Sept 5.-The state
Republican convention in session here
today nominated the following ticket:
For Governor-B. B. Odell, jr., OF
Orange.
Woodrun, OF Kings
For Secretary of State-John T. AIc-
Donough, Of Albany
For Comptroller-William ]. Morgan
Of Erie
For State Treasurer-John P. jacket
of Cayuga.
For Attorney General-John J. Davies
of Oneida
For State Engineer-EdWard A Boad
of jefferson
Perhaps the most interesting feature
of the convention was the fact that the
speech nominating Benjamin B. OJell
for governor was made by former Coy
ern3r Frank s. Black. who has been
ou-side the organization breastwocks
since Theodore Roosevelt defeated him
two years ago when he desired a re-
inclination For a long time Mr.. Black
and his close friends. Abraham GrubeT
and former District Attorney William NJ.
sWolcott, of New York, were very Dittar,
and at the party primaries week or
50 ego, Mr.. Gruber was obliged to fight
TO maintain his leadership OF the
Twenty-first assembly district, New
York, against an opponent who was be-
heved to have Senator Platt's sympathy.
Mr. Gruber won, and since that time
efforts have been made by friends of
both sides to bring about a reconcilia-
tiOn between the former governor and
his friends and Senator Platt, with the
result that AIr- Black today made the
principal nominating speech
BLACK NAMES ODELL
Mr. Black said the issues now before
the American people were discussed and
settled four years ago
There is not a new one here he
continued. The ghost of anti-imperial-
ism which stalks to and fro between
Lincoln and Bloomington, with occa-
Sional manifestations in Boston, is not
and can not be made an issue. This
country IS and has been committed to
the policy of growth, and it can not be
swe-ved from that policy by new scare
crows erected along the way.
The issues now are as they were in
1896. They were then met and under
stood and as completely as the Spanish
fleet at Santiago they were sunk and
run ashore. The Democratic party since
then has been engaged in prying some
of them off the rocks and trying to make
them float That will never be done.
again, and if they are the American
people will not embark on them while
they have fiuttering at their mastheads
flags with the Democratic inscription of
disorder, disappointment and despair.
THAT party seems never to under
stand the temper or intelligence of the
people 1t has endeavored in every cam
paign for forty years to make the dis
cssrded heresies of the preceding cam
paign presentable by joining a live
heresy to the old dead ones.
1T is not by principles alone that the
success, the power of the Republican
party has been achieved The best Of
causes may fail if they have not also the
best OF representatives. The successful
advocate of a cause is so faithful that
he would die for it, but so strong that
f4ra n md fhcV n .a1
most unbroken fortune of the Republi-
can party has been that when ever the
emergency has arisen no matter how
tempestuouS the course, there was always
a pilot who could steer il and bring The
ship to port without throwing the cargo
overheard.
I'VE have already selected the pilot
for the national craft He has been over
the course once; he has steered with such
success and skill that even in the tur-
bulence that has surrounded him he has
gained the confidence of his fellow citi-
zens and increased his own renown to
degree almost without example,
Mr. Black closed with a eulogy of Mr.
Odell, whom he presented for the CUB
ernatorial nomination
DEPEW NOMINATED WOODRUFF.
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew present
ed the name of Timothy L. Woodruff
for lieutenant governor He opened with
a statement of the Importance of New
York's interest in national affairs and
cc1AA t&-AN WINS ~ NAAC CAlCAA O1 lHOSG
interests no campaign in this
state could be considered a
local one. The Spanish war was
reviewed by the speaker and an arraign-
ment by the speaker followed in which
Mr.. DepeW said:
Free silver, free trade assaults on the
supreme court and efforts to throw awav
the results of the war, a coWarCiIy dis
position to scuttle are threatening the
strongholds Of national faith. national
credit and national power Our fight is
to hold the fort. For that purpose we
require as our leaders in our state men
of demonstrated capacity, public men
who in official relations to the affairs of
our policies and measures, and polite
ians who have been so in touch with the
party that they can maintain harmony
within the ranks and present an irnpreg-
nable front and lead a resistless attack
against the forces of the enemy.
I'VE are fortunate. peculiarly so. > in
our candidate for president In every
state he is the chief and
the Republican candidates in every stare
are generals of corps. divisions and brig
ades in that commonwealth. It is an
inspiring commission to be general in
the Republican army corps of the state
chief as William Mckinley. The policies
of his administration which have been
the principles that he has been the ablest
advocate of for the last 20 years have
given unprecedented national prosperity
and rescued industry from paralysis As
commander-in-chiefo of the armies of the
country. he conducted q war upon sea