Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-21

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SENATOR JOSEPH B. FORAKER.
ALBANIA yields to Ohio and I thank
Alabama for that accommodation. Ala
bama has so yielded, however, by reas-
on of fact that would seem in some
sense to make the duty that has been
assigned to me superfiuous duty;
for Alabama yielded because of the
fact that our candidate for the presi-
dency has in fact already been non-
mated. He was nominated by the dis
tlnguished senator from Colorado,
when he assumed the duties of tempor-
ary chairman. He was nominated
again yesterday by the distinguished
senator from Massachusetts, when he
took the office of permanent chairman,
and he was nominated for the third
time when the senator from Indiana
yesterday read us the platform And
not only has he been thus nominated
by the convention, but he has also
been nominated by the whole American
people. From one end of the land to
the other, in every mind, only one
and the same man is thought of for
the honor which we are now obout to
confer, and that man is the first choice
OF every other man who wishes repub-
lican success next November Upon
this account it is indeed not necessary
for me or anyone else to speak for him
here or anywhere else. He has al
ready spoken for himself; and to all
the world. He has a record replete
with brilliant achievements. 1t COM
prehends both peace and war and con-
stitutes the most striking illustrate IN
possible OF triumphant, inspiring fidel-
ity and success in the discharge of
public duty. Four years ago the Amer
lean people confded to him the highest
and most sacred trust. Behold with
what results. He found the Industries
of the country paralyzed and prostrat-
ed; he quickened them with new
life that has brought the American
people prosperity unprecedented in all
history. He found the labor of this
country everywhere idle; he has given
it everywhere employment. He found
it everywhere in despair; he has made
it everywhere prosperous and buoyant
with hope. He found the mills, shops,
factories and mines everywhere closed;
they are now everywhere opan And
while we here deliberate, they are send
ing their surplus produce in commer-
cial conquest to the very ends of the
earth. Under his wise guidance our
financial standard has been firmly
planted high above and beyond the as
sault, and the wild cry of Ii to 1 so
full of terror and long hair in 1896
has been put to everlasting sleep along
side of the lost cause and other cher
ished democratic heresies, in cata-
rpr pr,,1,c of
diplomacy never eXcelled and rarely
sequalled, he has overcome swhat at
times seemed insurmountable difficult.
ties and has not only opened to us the
door of China, but he has advanced our
interests in every land. When we nom
mated him at st. Louis we knew he
was wise, brave, patient, faithful, de-
voted, and we knew the greatest pos
sible triumphs of peace would be his;
but we then little knew that he would
be called upon to encounter the trials
of war. That unusual emergency
came. IT. came, unexpectedly, and in
spite of all he could honorably do to
avert it. 1t came to find the country
unprepared for it, but it found it
equal to the emergencies, and it is no
eNaggeration to say that in all Americ-
an history there is no chapter more
brilliant than that which chronicles
with him as our commander-in-chief,
our victory on land and sea- In hun
dred days. we drove Spain from the
western hemisphere girded the earth
with our acquisition and filled the
world with the splendor, of our power.
The American name has new and
greater significance now, our flag has
a new glory. 1t not only symbolizes
human liberty and political equality at
home, but it means freedom and in
dependence for the long suffering pat
riots of Cuba, complete protection, ed
ucation, enlightenment uplifting and
ultimate local self-goyernment and en-,
ioyment of all the blessings of liberty
to the millions of Porto Rico, and the
Philippines. What we have so glor-
iously done for ourselves We propose
most generously to do for them.
s.We have so declared in the platform
that we have adopted. A fitting place
this is for this party to make such
declaration, here in this magnificent
city of Philadelphia where evidence
so abounds of the rich blessings the
republican party has brought to the
American people. Here at the birth
place of the nation, where our own
declaration of independence was ad-
opted and our constitution formed,
where Washington, Jefferson, Hancock,
John Adams and their illustrions asso-.
ciates wrote the immortal work, here
where centered SO many historic men,
cries that stir the blood, flush the
cheek, and excite the sentiments of
human liberty and patriotism is in
deed the most fitting place for the par
ty of Lincoln, Grant, Garfield and
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