Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-22

dience man planted camera direct
| ly in front of him Mr.. Roosevelt saw
liz and said sharply: Take that away
take it away" and a sergeant-at-arms
rushed the man and his apparatus out
of the aisle.
Then Gov. Roosevelt began his
speech in a clear, full voice. lie said;
Mr.. Chairman: / rise to second the
nomination Of William Mckinley III"
| President VINO has had u meet and
solve problems more numerous and
more important than any other Presl-
dent since the days Of mighty Abra-
| ham Lincoln; the President under
whose administra ton this country has
attained IA higher pitch of prosperity
at home and honor abroad than ever
before in its history Four years ago,
| the Republican party nominated VIII
liam Mckinley as its standard-bearer
in political conflict of graVer moment
to the nation than any that had taken
place since the close Of the civil War
saw US once more a reunited country.
The Republican party nominated him
| but before the campaign was many
days old he had become the candidate
not only Of ali Republicans, but Of all
n EtIltI l'dIlS VINO were bpll iiI i'i'''
enough to see where the true interests
Of the country lay. and clear minded
enough to be keenly sensitive to the
faint of dishonor. President Mckinney
| was triumphantly elected ON certain
distinct pledges and those pledges have
been made more than good. We We're
then in coniitionof industrial p1raIy-
sis. The capitalist was plunged in
| ruin and disaster; the Wagc-Worker
| was on the edge Of actual want: the
| success Of our opponents would have
| meant not only immense aggraNatinn
Of the actual physical distress, but al
! 50 a stain on the nations honor ~
| deep that more than one generation
| would have to pass before il would b.
| cffcctually wiped out. We promised
| that if President Mckinley was elected
not only should the national honor b
| kept unstaiucd at home ana abroad,
! hut that the mill and the workshop
| should open. the farmer have "A mar
kct for his goods. the merchant for his
wares. and that the wagc-Worker
should prosper as never before.
We did not promise the impossible:
We did not say that by x nod legislation
| and < cd administration there would
come prosperity 10 all men, but "" did
say that each man should have a bet
ter chance to win prosperity than he
! had ever set had. IN the hong run thr
/ thrift, industry. energy and capacity
/ of the individual must always remain
the chief factors iu MS success. Hy
| unwisc or dishonest legislation OF ad-
ministration on the part ~ tho ma
tinual authorities. AL these qualities in
! the individual can be- nullifed, but
wise legislation and upright admins
trait n Will give them free scope. And
! it was this free scope that We promis-
ed should bc given.
Well. We kept our word The pppor-
,uuity has been given and it has been
! seized by American energy. thrift ana
| business enterprise A. 4 result We
/ have pruspcreI as never ~ fore ana wa
arr now pruspnring To a degree that
would have seemed incredible four
years ago when the cloud of menace
tp our Industrial wvll being hung
| black above the land.
81 il has been in foreign affairs.
1 Four years ago. the nation was I'M
/ easy because right At our doors AN
American island lay writhnE in aV fui
! agony under the cursa Of worse than
| mrdiarval tyranny ami misrul-. We
! had our Armenia at our very doors.
for tn, situation i'm cuba had grown
/ intulcrahlc ami such that this nation
could no longer refrain from intrrter-
1 rncc and retain its own srlf-rcsp. rt.
President Mckinley turned 10 this duty
aS he had turned to others. He sought
IN every effort possible to provide fnr
SPANS withdrawal from the island
which She was imp0ttnt longer ID dc
auEht than Cypress Then. when ia
citic means had failed ana There rv-
manned the only alternative. Wc WlEni
the most righteous ana brilliantly sue
| ccsSful foreign war that any country
has WaEcd during the lifetime of the
present generation. 1t was not - great
| war, simply because it VAS Won tp'
quickly; but it was momcntpus indeed
in its effects. 1t left us. As all great
| featS must leave those who perform
them. an inheritance both of honor and
Of responsibility: and. under the head
Of President Mckinley. the nation has
taken up Tho task Of securing orderly
liberty and the reign Of justice ana
law in tha islands from which W. druy..
the tyranny of Spain. with the same
serious realization Of duty ana sincere
purpose to perform il. that has mark
"a the national attitude in dealing with
the economic ana financial difficulties
that face us at home.
This is what the nation has done during
the three years that have elapsed since
we made Mckinley President; ana all
this is what he typiics and stands for.
We here nominate him again. and. in
November next. We shall elect him again;
because it has been given to him to per
sonily the cause of honor abroad and
prosperity at home, Of wis" legislation
and straightforward administration. We
all know the old adaEe about swapping
horses while cross sing a stream, and tn,
still older adaGc about letting well
enough alone. TO change from President
Mckinley now would not be merely u
swap horses. 1t would be- to jump OF
the horse that had carried us across ana
wade back into the torrent and to pm;
him for four years more into the Whit,
House means not merely To let well
enough alone, hut to insist that, when
we are thriving rs never before. We sha!
not he plunged back into the abyss of
; shame. and panic and disaster
p. We have done SO well that our OppO.
ncnts actually use this very fact as al