The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-08-18

great mistake-the nomination of a
third ticket
This election" he said. lis not going
TO be settled by the newspapers nor by
the politicians nor by the capitalists.
but by the people. Now, if we are GO
ing to defeat Mckinley we must all
throw our solid support in behalf of
William Jennings Bryan. Great ap-
I pIause) Then, when he sits in the
presidential chair, which he will, we
! VIII have some influence with the ad-
! mlnlstratlOn; we will be able to say
that we were with him from the be-
! ginning. l think the first consideration
| Is TO defeat Mckinley, but l think it is
! just as important to elect Mr.. Bryan
Il did not vote for him four years
| ago; am strong advocate of the gold
! standard and l think he is mistaken
about the money question. but | also
! think he is thoroughly honest and sin
cere. believed his advocacy of the
! rauhcauon of the treaty of peace with
SPAN was perfectly right and logical.
ana that was what first determined me
to vote for him. l don't believe any
candidate for president ever before had
the courage to say to a convention that
II II did not put into its platform a
thlng which he believed to be right. it
would have to look for some other can
dldate. (Great applauSe) | want to see
that kind Of man in the presidential
chair. Since the time of Lincoln | don't
believe such a speech has been made
as Mr.. Bryan made here one week ago.
Ihere is no mfncing matters in that
speech; you know just what he would
do
By a standing vote the convention
adopted resolution expressing SYM
pathy with Carl Schurz, in the death of
his son.
d. c. TillOtson of Kansas. chairman
OF the committee on permanent organ
lzation, reported in favor of George S. |
Boutwell, for permanent chairman
Governor Boutwell, was accorded a |
great demonstration when he took the |
gavel. He said: !
Having in mind many of the hon |
ors that have received from my coun- |
trymen in times past, l shall, when this
day IS gone. have no more favorable
recollection of any one of them than | |
snail OF this. This is a historic occa-
sion. If the peril of this country is
what we think it is; if the question be-
lore you and your countrymen is the
question OF the continuance of the re-
public then no greater question has
ever been committed to an assembly
OF men or to the country. We are Cd
posed TO Imperialism. We are in favor
of republican form of government,
We respect the teachings of our an
ceStry. the glory of the history they
have left to US; and, standing between
the past and the future it is our duty
TO transmit to posterity the peace of
the fathers and the institutions that
they founded That is your mission to-
lay as the representatives of forty-five
states OF this Union. 1t may be rep
'esentatlon without an organized con-
'tituency, but it is a representation
hat speaks for itself and for the people
If the country and for the generations
hat are advancing to take our places.
md 1t is a representation that has !
light to speak; representation that
viii be heard at Washington today;
heard over the world; speaking as we
10 for the preservation of republican
Institutions; representing the American !
epublic, the light of which. if 1T shall
70 out. will never be rekindled on the I
urface Of the earth S
Il charge that the policy upon which t
his administration has entered will
lean the abandonment of the peace I
pom which our government was found a
d; that it win change the republic l
lto an empire. The first of the means 7
efore us for the preservation of the 4
'nion, if our allegation is true. is the Il
verthrow of the ADMINISTRATION. |
Il am not disposed to make issues .
18th men, but my former friend and
ellow citizen, Mr. Long, the secretary "
the navy, has made remark which II
itself may not appear very signifi- n
ant but, nevertheless, l choose to a
AXE some comment upon it. Mr. Long
lys what we call imperialism is only h
cry, and that the anti-imperialists are W
w in number and of no considerable n
nportance. That may be true; a CEN z
Is has not been taken, and we don't b
past of numbers. But nineteen CEN ri
Iries ago a cry was heard in the will
,rness of Judea-heard by only few:
1t now we are crying for an open
9TH of justice for ali people. repent
ice for the wrong that has been done N
the past and reformation in the fu-
re.
I'VE have accomplished something.
lie anti-imperialistic leagues have A.