The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
NOMINATING STEVENSON.
Speech of Congressman Williams of
Illinois.

Convention Hall, Kansas City, July
6.-Congressman Williams in presenting
the name of sAdtai Stevenson for vice
president said:
nois is grateful to Arkansas for this
evidence of her regard. The united
Democracy of Illinois desires to present
to this convention for the next vice
president Democrat Cheers, who drew
his first breath from the pure Democratic
atmosphere of Old Kentucky (Cheers0
One baptiSed in the great and glowing
Democracy of Illinois, one who has stood
squareIy on every Democratic platform
since he became a voter. One who has
twice represented in congress district
overwhelmingly Republican, one VINO
is not Rough Rider, but a swift rluer
(cheers); not a warrior but a states
man. A man who stands for civil gov
ernment against military rule. A man
who believes that a president or the
United States who ignores the conStlIu-
tion as the present Republican president
has done must be one who loves MS
own glory far more than he loves the
republic. A man who believes Annerl-
can despotism is no better than any
other despotism. A man who places
human blood above human greed A
man who will not trade away the prec-
ious life of an American soldier for a
nugget of gold in the Philippine Islands.
(Cheers.) A man who would not give
the 5000 or $500 brave American SOL
diers whom Mckinley has sacrificed in
for all the islands in all the seas Gap
plause) A man who, during four years
of faithful administration as hrSt as
SiStant postmaster general Of the United
States demonstrated to the country
that he knows a Republican when he
sees one in an office that belongs to a
Democrat. daughter and applause)
Nominate our man and you will not have
to explain any speeches made against
Democracy for he has never made any
kind only Democratic. (Applause). a
man in the full strength of his man.
hood, able to canvass every state of
this union. Gentlemen of the convention,
Illinois make no exaggeration when she
tells you that in that great state the
conditions are far better, the prospects
are much brighter for Democracy than
in 1892, when our candidate for vice
president carried it by 10000 majority.
(Applausce). We have a state ticket
stronger than we ever had before. We
have but one Democracy in Illinois. We
voice the sincere sentiment of the De-
mocracy in Illinois from one end of that
state to the other when we ask you to
nominate a man whose name we shall
present man who has been tried, gone
through the contest and no weak spots
found in his armor, a man whose nigh
character and ability recommend him to
the people in every part of this republic,
a man who possesses the noble attrib
utes of a noble man great enough good
enough to be president of the United
States with a platform that reads like
a Bible and with these two faithful
Democrats standing together, shoulder
to shoulder we can sweep criminal ag-
gression and Mckinley hypocrisy off
the face of the earth.
Gentlemen we now present to you the
choice of the united Democratic party
of our state that distinguished states
ocrat, ex-Vice President Stevenson, of
Illinois. (Great applause).