Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-13
OFFICIAL NO rIce
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| Wheh fresiuent Mckinley, smiling
| and happy. came out to meet his dis
ltinguished visitors. he was greeted with
cheer on cheer. Then Senator Lodge
stepped forward and after a cordial
hand clasp with Mr.. Mckinley, said:
Senator Lodges Speech.
Mr.. President:
This committee. representing every
state in the Union. and the organized
territories of the United States, was duly
appointed to announce to you. formally
your nomination by the Republican ma
tional convention. which met in PhiIadel-
phia on June 10 last, as the candidate o!
the Republican party for President of the
United States for the term beginning
| March 4. 1901. To be selected by the Re-
publican party as its candidate for this
great office Is always one of the highest
| hOnors which can be given to any man
This nomination. however comes to you
higher significance and make it an even
deeper expression of honor and trust
| than usual. You were nominated unani-
mously at Philadelphia. You received the
enforced voice of every delegate from
every state and every territory
The harmony of sentiment which APP
pears on the face of the record was but
| the reflection of the deeper harmony
which existed in the hearts and minds OF
| the delegates. Without faction, without
dissent. with profound satisfaction and
4 eager you were nominated
for the Presidency by the united voice OF
the representatives of our great party in
which there is neither sign of division nor
shadow of turning. Such unanimity. al
ways remarkable, is here the more i'm
pressive. because it accompanies a second
| nomination to the great Office which you
| have held for four years. 1t is not the
| facile triumph of hope over experience.
character tested in many trials and tried
| by heavy and extraordinary response
| bilities.
With the exception of the period in
| which Washington organized the nation
and built the state. and of those other
awful years when Lincoln led his people
| through the agony of civil war and saved
| from destruction the work of Washing
| ton. there has never been a Presidential
| term in our history so crowded with great
events. so filled with new and moment
| Gus questions. as that which is now draw
| ing to its end. True to the declarations
which were made at st. Louis in 1896.
| you. sir. united with the Republicans in
| Congress in the revision of the tariff and
| the re-establishment of the protective
| policy.
You maintained our credit and upheld
| the gold standard. leading the party by
your advice to the passage of the great
| measure which is. today. the gulwark of
both. You led again in the policy which
has made Hawaii possession of the
| United States on all these questions
| you fulfilled the hopes and justified the
| confidence of the people. who four years
| ago put trust in our promises. But on all
| these questions, also you had as guides.
| not only your own principles. the we'll
| considered results of years of training
and reflection, but also. the plain declara-
| tons of the national convention which
| nominated you in 1896
| Far different was it when the Cuban
| question. which We had also promised to
settle brought. first, war. and then peace,
| with Spain. Congress declared war. but
you. as commander-in-c chief. had to
| carry it on. You did so. and history re-
| cords unbroken victory from the first
shot of the Nashville to the day when the
protocol was signed. The peace, you had
| To make alone.
| had to assume alone the responsibility OF
| taking them all from Spain. Alone, and
| weighted with the terrible responsibility
of the unchecked war powers of the con-
| stitution. you were obliged to govern
| these islands. and to repreSS rebellion and
| disorder in the Philippines. No party
| creed defined the course you were to fol-
| low. Courage, foresight. comprehension
of American interests, both now and III
| the uncharted future faith in the Ameri-
| can people and in their fitness for great
| tasks, We're then your only guides ana
| counSellOrs.
| Thus. YOU framed and put in operation
| this great new policy which has made us
| at once masters of the Antilles ana Il
| great Eastern power. holding firmly our
| possessions on both sides of the Pacihc.
| The new and strange ever eNcites fear.
| and the courage and prtsclence which ac-
| cept them. always arouse criticism ana
| attack. Yet great departure ana a new
| policy were never more quickly JuStllltoi
| than those undertaken by you. On the
possession OF the Philippines rests the ad-
| mirabe diplomacy which warned All ma
| lions that American trade was not to be
| shut out from China. 1t Is to Manila that
we owe the ability to send troops ana
| ships in this time of stress to the de-
| fence of our ministers, our missionaries.
| our consuls and our merchants in CHINA.
| instead of being compelled to leave our
citizens to the casual protection or otner
| powers as would have been unaVoldabie
| mad we flung the Philippines away, ana
| withdrawn from the Orient.
| Rest assured. sir. that the vigorous
| measures which you have thus been en-
abled to take, and that all further meas
| ures in the same direction which you
may take for the protection of American
lives and property. will receive t the
| United States. who are now, as always.
| determined that the American citlZen
shall be protected at any cost in all MS
| rights everywhere and at all times.
| Ii is to Manila again. to our fleet In the
| bay and our army on the land, that we
| shall owe the power. when these scenes
of blood in China are closed, TO eAac 9
PREPARATION. to enforce stern justice, and
| to insist, in the final settlement. upon an
| open door to all that vast market Tor our
| fast growing commerce Events. hoNlis
| with terrible rapidity, have been swift
| witnesses to the wisdom of your actloil IN
the East. The Philadelphia convention
| has adopted your policy both IN the An
titles and the Philippines and has made 1t
their own and that of the Republlcah
| party. ~-.,x nc.
| s,lres to us the continuance of that poliCy
| abroad and in our new possessions. 10
| entrust these difficult and vital questions
TO other hands. at once incompetent anu
| hostile would be a disaster to US ana d
| still more unrelieved disaster to our pos
| terity Your election means not only pro-
| lection to our industries but the malnIe-
nance of a sound currency and OF the
| gold standard, the very corner stones Oh
| 9,,r economic and financial welfare.
should these be shaken. as they would De
| nv the success of our opponents, the
| whole fabric of our business confidence
and prosperity would fall into rum Your
defeat would be the signal for the az
vance of free trade, for the anarchy Oh
y debased and unstable currency, loi
| business panic. depression and marc
| times and for the wreck of our foreign
| Yoiir election and the triumph OF the
| Republican party-which we DeleVe 10 pE
as SIRE as the coming Of the day-wllI
| make certain the steady protection OF our
| Industries sound money. ana NlSorou,
and Intelligent foreign policy Ihey VIII
| continue those conditions of good govern
| ment and wise legislation. SO essential 10
! the prosperity ana well-being whlch hase
| Messed nur country in such abundance