The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-21
REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION
ELECTRIFIED
Nv the Brilliant and Mastsrful Ad'
dress of Permanent Chairman
Senator Henry Cabot Ledge.
M'KINLEY'S ADMINISTRATION,
How We Found the Country After
Four Years of Growers Rule.
Discusses Various Issues

accounting the permanent chalrmanshlp
of the Republican national conventio
senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massa-
chusetts, said;
One OF the greatest honoIs that can
fall TO any American in public life Is 70
be called to preside over Republican
rs,Io,al convention. How grent that
honor is you know, but you cannot re-
npza, nor can express the gratitude
which feel to you for having confer
ed 1t upon me. can only say 10 you
in the simplest phrase, that / thank
YOU from the bottom OF my heart
'BegsaI that am. l am even poor In
thanks, and yet thank YOU"
To Nominate Next President
We meet again to nominate the next
preslden. OF the United States. Four
wears have passed since we nominated
the soldier and statesman who is now
president and who is soon to enter up
on his second term. Since the Civil war
no presidential term has been SO
crowded with great events as that
which is now drawing TO close. They
have been four memorable years. 10
Republicans they show record OF
promises kept, of work done of unlore-
seen questions met and answered, To
the Democrats they have been generous
In the exhibition of unfulhlled predie-
tions, in the ruin Of their hopes OF cal
amity, and in futile opposition to the
forces of the times and the aspirations
OF tie American people. wish l could
add that they had been equally instrue-
tive to our opponent, but while 1t is
true that the Democrats. like the BouF-
bons. learn nothing, it is only too evI-
dent that the familiar comparison can
not be completed. for they forget 4
great deal which 1t would be well for
them to remember.
Democrats Abandoned Cleveland.
In 1897 we took the government and
the country from the hands of Prcsi'
dent Cleveland. His party had aban-
doned him and were Joined TO their
idols, Of which he was no longer one.
During the last years Of his term we
had presented to us the melancholy
spectacle Of a President trying to gov
ern without party. The result was
thae his policies were in ruin. leslsla-
ton was at standstill, and public az
fairs were in perilous and incoherent
condition. Party responsibility had
vanished, and with 1t all possibility Of
intelligent action, demanded by the
country at home and abroad. 1t was
an interesting but by no means singu-
lar display OF Democratic untitness for
the practical work of government To
the political student it was instructive.
to the country 1t was extremely painful,
TO business disastrous.
Machinery Began to Work Smoothly.
We replaced this political chaos with
a President in thorough accord with
his party, and the machinery OF gov
eminent began again to move smoothly
and effectively. Thus we kept at snce
our promise Of better and more efficient
administration. In four months after
the Inauguration of President Mckinley
we had passed tariff bill. For ten
years the artificial agitation, in behalf
OF what was humorously called tariff
reform and Of what was really free
trade had kept business in fermant,
and had brought a treasury deficit.
paralyzsd Industries. depression. panic.
and, finally continuous bad times TO a
degree never before imagined Would
you know the result OF our tariff legis-
Iation, look about you.
Would you measure Its success. rec
ollect that it is no longer an issue, that
our opponents, free traders as they are,
do not dare to make 1t an issue, that
there Is not state In the union to-
day which could be carried for free
trade against protection. Never was a
policy more fully justified by its works,
never was a promise made by any party
more absolutely fulfilled.
Now Cuba is Free.
We promised to deal with the Cuban
question. Again comes the reply, W.
have done so. The long agony Of tht
island Is over. Cuba Is free, But
this great work brought with It events
and issues which no man had foressen
for which no party creed had provided
q policy. The crisis came, bringing wat
in its train. The Republican president
and the Republican Congress met the
trials in the old spirit. We fought the
war with Spain. The result Is history
known Of all men. We have the per