Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-12
ELOQUENT REPLY OF CANDIDATE
MASTE ERLY PRESENTATION OF THE ATTITUDE OF HIS PARTY
WITH REFERENCE TO THE NEW ISSUES THAT CONFRONT
THE NATloN-THERE WILL BE NO BACKWARD STEP

harmony which existed in the hearts
and minds of the delegates. Without
faction, without dissent, with pro-
found satisfaction and eager enthus-
iasm you were nominated for the
presidency by the united voice of the
representatives of our great party,
in which there is neither sign of div
ision nor shadow of turning. Such
unanimity, always remarkable, is
here the more impressive, because it
accompanies second nomination
to the great office which you have
held for four years. It is not the
facile triumph of hope over expert
ence, but the sober approval of con-
duct and character tested in many
trials and tried by heavy and extra
ordinary responsibilities. 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 peo-
pie through the agony of civil war
and saved from destruction the work
of Washington, there never has been
a presidential term in our history so
crowded with great events, so filed
with new and momentous questions
as that which is now drawing to it's
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 tar
iff and the re-establishment of the
protective policy. You maintained
our credit and upheld the gold stand
ard, leading the party by your advice
to the passage of the great measures
which is today the great bulwark of
BOTH You led again in the great pol
Icy which has made Hawaii a possess
sion 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 your promises. But on all these
questions also you had as guides, not
only your own principles, the we'll
considered results of years of train
ing and reflection, but also the plain
declarations of the national conven-
tion which nominated you in 1896.
Far different was 1t when the Cuban
question, which we had already prom
ised to settle, brought war and then
peace with Spain. Congress declar-
ed war. but you. as commander-in-
chief, had to carry it on. You did so
and history records unbroken victory
from the first shot from the Nash
vile to the day when the protocol
was signed. The peace you had to
make alone. Cuba. Porto Rico, the
Philippines. You had to assume alone
the responsibility of taking them from
Spain. Alone and weighted with the
terrible responsibility of the uncheck-
ed war powers of the constitution
you were obliged to govern these
islands and to repress rebellion and
disorder in the Philippines. No party
creed defined the course you had to
follow. Courage, foresight. compre-
hension of American interests, both
now and in the uncharted future,
faith in the American people and in
their fitness for great tasks, were
then your only guides and counsel
lors
Thus you framed and put in opera
tion this great new policy which has
made us masters of the Antilles and
a great eastern power holding firm
our possessions on both sides of the
Pacific. The new and strange ever
excites fear and the courage and
prescience which accept them always
arouse criticism and attack. Yet a
great departure and new policy
WclC uCVCA AuOAC JuSllACu
than those undertaken by you. On
the possession of the Philippines,
rests the admirable diplomacy which
warned all nations that American
trade was not to be shut out from
China. It is to Manila, that we owe
the ability to send troops and ships
in this time of stress to the defense
of our ministers, our missionaries,
our consuls and our merchants in
China, instead of being compelled to
leave our citizens to the casual pro-
lection of other powers, as would
have been unavoidable had we flung
the Philippines away and withdrawn
from the Orient. Rest assured sir,
that the vigorous measure which you
have thus been enabled to take and
that all further measures in the same
direction which you may take. for
the protection of American lives and
property. will receive the hearty sup.
port Of the people Of the. United
States, who are now. as always, de-
,stermfned that the, american sctfixen
shall be protected at any cost in all
his rights, everywhere and at all