Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-19

Payne and Judge w. R. Day. Senator
Lodge Immediately mounted the small
standing block and delivered his
speech of notification.
He said in part: ITO be selected by
the republican party as their candidate
the highest honoTs which can be given
to any man. This nomination, however,
comes to you, sir, under circumstances
which give it a higher significance
and make it an even deeper expression
Of honor and trust than usual. You
were nominated unanimously at Phila-
delphia. You received the enforced
vote of every delegate, from every
state and every territory. The har-
mony of sentiment which appears on
the face of the record was but the re-
Election of the deeper harmony which
existed in the hearts and minds of the
delegates. Without faction, without
dissent, with profound satisfa ctiOn and
eager enthusiasm, 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, always remarkable, is
here the more impressive, because 1t
accompanies second nomination to
the great office which you have held
for four years. 1t is not the facile
triumph of hope over experience, but
the sober approval Of conduct and
character tested in many trials and
tried by heavy and extraordinary re-
sponsibilities. With the exception of
the period in which Washington or
gained 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 de-
struction 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 tariff, and the re-establishmen
of the protective policy. You main
tanned our credit and upheld the gold
standard, leading the party by your
advice to the passage Of the great
measure, which is today the great bull
wark Of both. You led again in the
policy which has made Hawaii a pos
session Of the United States. On all
these questions you fulfilled the hopes
and justified the confidence Of the peo-
pie, who four years ago put trust in
our promises. But on all these ques-
tons elso, you had as guides, not only
your own principles, the well con-
sidcred 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 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 history !!
records unbrcken victory from the |
first shot OF the Nashville TO the day |
when the protocol was signed. The |
peace, you hal to make alone. Cuba, |
Porto Rico. the Philippines-you had |
to assume alone the responsibility Of |
taking them all from Spain. Alone, /
and weighted with the terrible re- /
sponsibility Of the unchecked war pow
srs Of the constitution, you were oblig- .