The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-06-23
SEWELL TALKS.
He Thinks the Republican
Ticket Is the Strongest
That Could Have
Been Made.
PREDICTS GREAT SUCCESS
McKinley's Fame as War
President Winner-Noth-
ing About Roosevelt.
PREDICTS GREAT SUCCESS

Especial to 'aThe Jersey City News."]
CAMDEN, June %, 19O0-United States
Senator Sewell, who is one of the busiest
men in the country. got down to his rail
road duties yesterday, after four days
of close attention to the work Of the
National Convention, of which he was one
of the conspicuous figures Asked as to
his views of the ticket named on Thurs
day, the Senator talked more fully than
is his custom, and ne seemed very deep
ly impressed with the present situation
and eager for the campaign to open. Said
he:-
81 can hardly see that it is necessary
for any public man to give an expression
of his views on the ticket nominated by
the Republican Convention. 1t is GER
tainly strong ticket, probably the
strongest that could have been made.
'It has been the well-settled conviction
of the people of this broad land that the
Administration of President Mckinley
has brought prosperity to this country
and revived the dropping spirits of the
workingmen and women. His Adminis-
tratfon has brought new hope and en-
ergy to everybody, and has brought the
country to the most prosperous condi-
ton that it has ever enjoyed. Upon one
occasion only has the country been
nearly so prosperous. That occasion was
eight years ago, when we had reached
almost as prosperous a condition of af-
fairs as we now enjoy. Then followed the
flight of the Democratic Administration
and then the election of President Nc
Kinley.
There has not been the shadow of a
doubt as to the general desire of the
people at large having their wishes graft
fed by the unanimous vote of the Re
publican Convention for President Nc
Kinley. the man who was successful in
framing the Mckinley tariff bill, from
which our era of prosperity dates, and
which era was renewed under his general
direction when Congress made the Dingley
tariff bill law. The people have not for
gotten the man who was called upon to
take up unexpected duties and who did
them to the satisfaction of all, by reason
of our strained relations with Spain He
arrayed the fighting force of the army
and navy in such an incredibly short space
of time that one hundred days sufficed to
retire the flag of Spain from the caribbean
Sea and the islands of the Pacific. These
great achievements, demonstrating the
power of the man in peace and his states
manship in war, could result in nothing
else but a desire on the part of the Ameri-
can people that he should remain at the
head of the nation for four years more.
'tAs to the office of Vice President, there
were many gentlemen of distinction not
desirous of pushing themselves for such u
high honor, but who, nevertheless, would
have felt called upon to have accepted
the nomination if given them.
1.-THE general sentiment of the delegates
in the convention seemed to be for Col
onel Roosevelt, and this feeling was shown
on the outside to a very considerable ex-
tent. The men who were endeavoring to
assist the delegates to arrive at some con-
clusion, finally decided that as the unani
nous nomination of the President was as
sured, that it would be well to have the
whole ticket placed before the public in a
manner that would demonstrate a
unanimity of sentiment in relation to it.
This was done. Never have L seen in any
convention such harmony and so much
good feeling, and we go before the public
not alone with clean men, but men of the
highest success in life, who have carved
their own way in the esteem of their fell
low-citizens from one end of the country
to the other And I predict greater sue
cess than we have ever had before in the
election of our ticket"