Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-12
Senator Lodge in Eloquent Speech
Informs Mckinley Of
Nomination.
SEN. WOLCOTT NOTIFIES ROOSEVELT
Party Goes to Oyster Bay on Special
Train From New York Clty-Gentle.
men Are Introduced to Mrs. Roose.
yelt-Hospitably Receives Party.

Canton, Ohio, July 12.-Chairman
Lodge and the members of the notifi-
cation committee together with Chair
man Hanna and the members of the
national committee arrived shortly af-
ter II o'clock. They Immediately en-
tered carriages and were driven to
the presidents house where President
and Mrs. Mckinley welcomed them
from the front porch. There were a
number of distinguished men on the
porch including Hanna, Postmaster
General Smith, Cornelius s. Bliss,
Henry c. Payne and Judge Day.
Senator Lodge Immediately mount
ed small standing block and deliv-
cred his speech. He spoke as fol-
lows:
Mr.. President. This committee,r rep
resenting every state in the Union,
and the organized territories of the
United States, was duly appointed to
announce to you, formally, your NOM
.ination by the republican national
convention, which met in Philadel-
phia on June 10, last, as the candi-
date Of the republican party for presf-
dent Of the United States for the
term beginning March 4, 1901.
To be selected by the republican
party as their 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, sir, under Circumstance
es which give it a higher significance
and make it an even deeper expires,
sion Of honor and trust than usual. !.
You were nominated unanimously at
Philadelphia. You received the unforc.
ed vote of every delegate from every
state and every territory.
The harmony of sentiment which
appears on the face of the record was
but the reflection of the deeper har-
mony which existed in the hearts and
minds Of the delegates. Without
faction, without dissent, with pro.
found satisfaction and eager enthu-
siasm, 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 una
nimity, always remarkable, is here
the more impressive, because it ac.
companies a second nomination to the
great Office which you have held for
four years. 1t is not the facile tri-
umph of hope over experience, but the
sober approval of conduct and char.
acter tested in many trials and tried
by heavy and extraordinary responsi.
bilities. With the exception Of the
period in which Washington organiz-
ed the nation and built the state, and
of those other awful years when Lin,
coin led hiss people thru the agony OF
civil war, and saved from destruction
the work of Washington, there never
has been presidential term in our
history SO crowded with great events
so filled with new and momentous
questions, as that which is now draw.
ing to it's end. True to the declara.
tions which were made at st. Louis
in 1896, you, sir, united with the re
publicans in congress in the revision
of the tariff, and the re-establishment
of the protective policy,
You maintained our credit and up.
held the gold standard, leading the
party by your advice to the passage
of the great measure, which is today
the great bulwark 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 declarations of the ma
tional convention which nominated
you in 1896. Far different was ii
when the Cuban question which we
had already promised to settle
brought first war, and then peace
with Spain. Congress declared war
but you, as commander-in-chief, had
to carry it on. You did SO, and histo
ry records unbroken victory from the
first shot of the Nashville" to the
day when the protocol was signed
The peace you had to make alone
Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines