The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-22
RoosEvELT's NOMINATION.
Address in Which Colonel Young, of
Iowa, Put the Governors Name
Before the Convention.

Address in Which Colonel Young, of
Iowa, Put the Governors Name
Before the Convention.
The following is the speech of Col
onel Lafayette Young, of Iowa, in pre-
senting the name of Colonel Roosevelt
Gentlemen of the Convention: l
have listened with profround interest
to the numerous indictments pro-
nounced against the Democratic party,
and as an impartial reader of history
1 am compelled to confess that the in
dictments are all only too true. If 1
am to judge, however, by the enthusi-
asm of the hour, the Republican relief
committee sent our four years ago to
carry supplies and succor to the pros
trate industries of the republic has
returned to make formal report that
the duty has been discharged Gap
plause). 1 could add nothing to this
indictment, except to say that this un-
fortunate party through four years of
legislative and administrative control
had made it, up to 1896, impossible for
an honest man to get into debt or to
get out of it Laughter).
But, my fellow citizens, you know
my purpose; you know the heart of
this convention. The country never
called for patriotic sons from any
given family but more were offered
than there was room for on the enlist
ment roll. When this convention and
this great party called for candidate
for vice-president, two voices respond
ed, one from the Mississippi Valley by
birth, another by loving affection and
adoption. 1t is my mission, represent
ing that part of the great Louisiana
purchase, to withdraw one of those and
suggest that the duty be placed upon
the other. l therefore withdraw the
name of Jonathan p. Dolliver, of Iowa,
man born with the thrill of the Lin
coin and Fremont campaigns in his
heart and with the power to stir the
hearts and consciences of men as part
of his birthright. We turn to this 9TH
er adopted son of the great middle
west, and at this moment l recall that
two years ago today as many men as
there are men and women in this great
hall were on board sixty transports
lying off Santiago harbor in full view
of the bay, with Moro Castle looming
up on the right and another fort on
another prominence upon the left, with
| the opening of the channel between.
On boards those transports were 10000
soldiers who had gone from our shores
to liberate another race, to fulfill no
obligation but that of humanity.
Great Spectacle.
'As campaign followers there were
| those who witnessed this great spec
| taclC of that fleet, and on the ship
Gucatan was that famous regiment of
| Rough Riders of the far west and the
| Mississippi valley. (Applause.) In
command of that regiment was that
fearless young American, student
scholar, plainsman, reviewer, historian,
statesman, soldier, of the middle west
by adoption, of New York by birth.
That fleet sailing around the point
coming to the place of landing, stood
| off the harbor, two years ago tomor-
row. and the navy bombarded that
shore to make a place for landing, and
no man who lives who was in that
campaign as an officer as a soldier or
as camp follower can fail to recall
the spectacle; and if he closes his eyes
he sees the awful scenes in that cam
paign in June and July 1885, There
were those who stood upon the shore
and saw these indomitable men land,
landing in small boats through the
waves that dashed against the shore,
landing without harbor, but land they
did, with their accoutrements on and
theil weapons by their sides. And
those who stood upon that shore and
saw those men come on thought they
could see in their faces, Stranger can
10 tA
tiago?' (Applause.)
That is the place they We're looking
for. And the leader of that campaign,
of one of those regiments, shall be
the name that I snail place before
this convention for the office of vice
president of the United States. Gap
plause)
Gentlemen of the Conventional
know you have been here a long time
and that you have had politics in
abundance / know the desire to COM
plete the work of this convention, but
l cannot forbear to say that this occa.
sion has higher significance than one
Of politics. The campaign of this year
is higher than politics. In fact, if
patriotism could have It's way there
would be but one political party and
pul OHe eleClOIdl TICKET III any state
of the Union, because patriotic duty
would enforce it. In many respects the
years 1898 and 1899 have been the great
years of the republic.
There is not under any sun or any
CLINE any man or government that
dares to insult the flag of the United
States. Not one. We are a great and
broader people on account of these
achievements. Uncle Sam has been
made a cosmopolitan citizen of the
world. No one questions his prowess
or his bravery as the result of these
campaigns and as the result of the
American spirit, my fellow citizens,
the American soldier, ten thousand
miles away from home, with a musket
in his hands, says to the aggressor, 20
those who are in favor of tyranny:
Halt! Who comes there? and the
same spirit says to the beleaguered
hosts of liberty: Hold the fort, for I
am coming. Thus spoke the spirit of
Americanism. Now, gentlemen of the
convention, 1 place before you this dis
tinguished leader of Republicansm OF
the United States, this leader of the
aspirations OF the people, whose hearts
are right, and this leader of the as
pirations of the young men OF this
country. Their hearts and consciences
are with this young leader, whom I
shall name for the vice presidency OF
the United States, Theodore Roosevelt