The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor
mckinley and Roosevelt.

mean something. 1ney are q WnOle
platform in themselves.
There has never been any question
as to the necessity and wisdom of re-
nominating Mr.. Mckinley to the pres
idency. From the first that event has
been anticipated. At no moment has
there been any question about it.
With the approach of the date of hold
ing the convention the demand for the
denomination OF the President rolled
up from either coast of the continent
and all the region between. This unan-
unity was spontaneous and natural,
the consequence of an administration,
amid greater difficulties than have be-
set the government since the period of
the civil war, that the American peo-
pie have cordially approved and wish to
continue for another term.
AS a statesman and administrator
President McKinley's reputation rests
on a broader foundation than it did
four years ago. Then he was chiefly
known as the leading champion of the
principle of protection to American in
dustry and the author of tariff bill
embodying that principle. Neverhe-
less, the leading issue of the canvass
ending in his election was the financial
one. He stood as the representative of
honest money, and on that issue, pri-
marily, he was elected. Events have
taken protection out of politics as po-
litical issue, and Republicans, by the
enactment of law, have in express terms
made gold the money standard of the
United States.
Not solely as the representative of
an economic principle, or the advocate
of financial policy, but as the leader
in a new, progressive movement in
American affairs, does President Nc
Kinley receive the confidence and COM
mand the support of the people of the
United States at this time. Man pro-
posed the tariff and the money ques-
ton as the leading subjects that should
engage the new executives thoughts
and labors. God disposed otherwise, and
the way in which he met the new and
providential dispensation constitutes
his first title to distinction now and to
the added and unusual honor his party
does him in his denomination, without
single voice raised in opposition, to
the chief executive office of the ma
ton. Under his administration a for
eign war was fought to a speedy and
brilliant end, Cuba was redeemed from
Spanish oppression, the Philippines in
the far east and Porto Rico in the west
were added to the nations territorial
possessions, and the Hawaiian Islands
were annexed. Wisdom, efficiency,
patriotism and humanity have been
the characteristics of his administra-
tration amid the new and strange stu
atoms that suddenly confronted the
President. Responsibilities of the
gravest nature have been met promptly
and courageously, and duty we'll per-
formed, with the minimum of the alloy
of error to which humankind is liable
The Republicans in all this wide
land wanted Roosevelt for Vice Pres
ident. The names of other Ameri-
cans, eminent in the public service,
were submitted to their option, but
they would none of them. The cry
was for Roosevelt, the man who tore
away from the secure paths and bland
ishments of high civic position to en-
dure hardship and face death in Cuba
in the military service of his country.
The Rough Rider, in peculiar and
picturesque way, typifes militant re-
publicanism, and the call to him to
abandon his preconceived notions of
party service and submit his will to the
summons of his sovereign was as i'm
perious as his word to his comrades on
the deadly slopes of San Juan hill.
But Roosevelt stands for vastly more
than what the opposition delight to style
"militarism." His civic career far out
shines his service in the feld-bril-
liant as that Island the mans ca
pacity for arduous civic affairs is really
the foundation of his popularity and
the source of the abiding confidence of
the great mass of his admiring county,
men.
Mckinley and Roosevelt, in Novem-
Der, will sweep this land from sea to
sea. Vermont, the guiding star of re-
publicanism, will set the pace in Sep
TENDER.
That st, Adams Labor Meeting.