The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-16

Mckinley in 1896. did not think that
ne would turn his back upon the eter-
nal peace OF the republic. If Cleveland
or Reed or Bryan had been president
tnere would have been no war in the
rhlnppines; no butehery of inoffer<ive
CHRISTIAN people; no deaths OF brave
American soldiers there; but our flag
would now have been hailed with ac-
claim By new republic
Hallet Speaks For Colorado.
Judge Moses HaIlet of Colorado said
ms state was sure to go for Bryan,
Whatever the action of the convention.
Gamaliel Bradford said he had taken
the long Journey from Boston especially
TO avert what he thought would be a
great mlstake-the nomination of
third ticket.
This election" hezsaid. lis not going
to be settled by the newspapers nor by
the politicians nor by the capitalists,
put by the people. Now, if we are go
ing TO defeat Mckinley We must all
throw our solid support TN behalf of
William Jennings Bryan Great APP
plauSe) Then, when he sits in the
presidential chair, which he will, we
VIII nave some influence with the ad
minlstratlOn: we Will be able to say
that we were with him from the be-
ginning think the first consideration
IS 10 defeat Mckinley. but | think it is
just as important to elect Mr.. Bryan.
L did not vote for him four years
ago; L am strong advocate of the gold
standard and l think he is mistaken
ABOUT the money question, but l also
thlnk ne IS thoroughly honest and sin
cere. 1 believed his advocacy of the
Iatlncatlon of the treaty of peace with
spain was perfectly right and logical,
ara That was what first determined me
TO vote Tor him. l don't believe any
candidate for president ever before had
the courage to say to a convention that
II II did not put into it's platform a
thing which he believed to be right. it
would have to look for some other can
dldate. Great applause.) 1 want to see
that kind of man in the presidential
chalr. Since the time of Lincoln l don't
DelleVe such a speech has been made
as Mr. Bryan made here one week ago.
There is no mincing matters in that
speech; you know just what he would
do
BY standing vote the convention
adopted a resolution expressing SYM
pathy with Carl Schurz. in the death of
his SON.
D. c. Tillotson of Kansas, chairman
of the committee on permanent organ
lzation, reported in favor of George S.
Boutwell, for permanent chairman.
Boutwell, Warmly Applauded.
Governor Boutwell, was accorded a
great demonstration when he took the
gaVel. He said:
Having in mind many of the hon
ors that have received from my coun-
rrymen in times past, shall, when this
da[ is hax
recollection of any one of them than
shall OF this This is a historic occa-
sion. If the peril of this country is
what we think it is; if the question be-
lore you and your countrymen is the
question OF the continuance of the re-
public, then no greater question has
ever been committed to an assembly
or men or to the country. We are op-
posed to Imperialism. We are in favor
OF a republican form of government.
we respect the teachings of our an
cestry, the glory of the history they
nave left to us; and standing between
the past and the future, it is our, duty
TO transmit to posterity the peace of
the fathers and the institutions that
they founded. That is your mission to-
day as the representatives of forty-fiVe
states Of this Union. 1t may be a rep
resentation without an organized con-
stituency, but 1t is a representation
that speaks for itself and for the people
OF the country and for the generations
that are advancing to take our places,
ana 1t is representation that has a
right to speak; "a representa- ton that
Will be heard at Washington today;
heard over the world; speaking as we
do for the preservation of republican
institutions; representing the American
republic, the light of which, if fit shall
go out viii never be rekindled on the
surface of the earth.
~ charge that the policy upon which
this administration has entered will
mean the abandonment of the peace
upon which our government was found
ed; that it viii change the republic
into an empire. The first of the means
before us for the preservation of the
Union, if our allegation is true, is the
overthrow of the administration.
Il am not disposed to make issues
with men, but my former friend and
fellow citizen, Mr.. Long, the secretary
OF the navy, has made remark which |
or itself may not appear very signifi-
can't, but, nevertheless, l choose to
make some comment upon it. Mr.. Long
says what we call Imperialism is only |
a cry, and that the anti-imperialists are |
few in number and of no considerable |
Importance. That may be true; a CEN |
sus bas not been taken, ard we don't |
boast of numbers. But nineteen CEN
turtles ago a cry was heard in the will |
1erness of Judea-heard by only a few; !
but now We are crying for an open 1
path of justice for ali people, repent i
ance for the wrong that has been done |
in the past and reformation in the fu- |
ture'
I'VE have accomplished something. (
The anti-imperialistic leagues have |
made the name and the characteristics |
]f Imperialism known and spoken in /
every palace, every log cabin, an |
every prairie camp on this continent"
Blames Our Course In China.
Governor Boutwell, then turned the
attention of his audience to the condi- |
ION OF affairs in China, declaring his |
belief that it is the intention of the /
powers TO partition China. He added:
IF We had treated China in the /
nonthof June as we would have treated |
treat Britain under similar circum- |
stances there would have been no |
PERIL II q rebellion should occur in /
LONDON and our minister should be in /
)erll of his life, would we send a |
orce up the Thames river to lombard |
London? No We would appeal to |
he diplomats before beginning a mill
AIRY undertaking. Was it not dec
aration of war, when we trained our
runs upon the citadels of the Chinese
empire? Who authorized it? Under
he constitution. congress alone can de-
,lare war. Can the chief magistrate
make war in the absence of a congress
ional declaration of wa?
Who does not see that the delivery
II England's downfall is apDroaching?1
md we are asked to follow her ex-
nipple and tread in the imperial foot
teps or Great Britain, knowing that
hese steps are leading the British en-
IRE TO destruction. Now is the time
or the people to quit this progress to
uin, and the laboring men of this