The Portland daily press., 1900-06-22
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aaii, This was followed by the singing
Of "John Browns body" the galleries
joining In the chorus while the delega-
tions led the singing
Chairman Lodge, as the hurrah began
TO subside, made an effort to restore or
der, but this was only signal for the
crowd to again to break loose. During
the speech OF Senator Foraker, Gov. Roose-
welt paid attention so strictly that there
was an almost anxious look upon his
face. Once or twice, however, he got
away from his intensity aud applauded.
When Foraker finished, Roosevelt arose
with the rest, but undoubtedly with the
prospect of his own nomination on his
mind, only stood silent, not joining in
the cheers and both hands in his pockets
But when Senator Foraker came down
the ais.e he grasped him by the hand and
slapped him on the shoulder, smiling and
laughing alo1d.
1t was exactly 10 minutes when order
was restored and Mr.. Lodge announced {:
1.-THE chair recognizes Gov. Roosevelt OF
New York" Again the multitude were
seized with copyulsions of enthusiasm
and all eyes wers turnst toward Rooss-
welt. He stepped out into the aisle and
strobe to the platform, looking neither
to the right nor the left. Then he turned
and surveyed the sea of waving, cheer
ing humanity. He stood with face grim
ly set and without smile. He made no
acknowledgements, no salutations to the
plaudits, but only calmly awaited the
subsistence of the tumult. AT last he
raised his hand and at his bidding the
demonstrations came to an end. As the
governor stood facing the audience, a
man planted camera directly in front
of him. MIR. Roosevelt saw 1t and faid
sharply: Take that away; take 1t
away" and "a sergeant-at arms rushed
the man and his apparatus out of the
aisle Then Gov. Roosevelt began his
speech in a clear full voice.
ROoSEvELT'S SPEECH.
Governor Roosevelt said
Mr.. Chairman-I rise to second the
nomination Of William Mckinley, the
President who has had to meet and solve
problems more numerous and more i'm
the days of mighty Abraham Lincoln;
the President under whose administra-
ton this country has attained higher
pitch of propserity at home and honor
abroad tSan ever before In its history.
Four years ago the Republican party
standard-bearer In political conflict OF
graver moment to the nation than any
that had taken place since the close Of
the Civil War saw us oEce more re-
united country. The Republican party
nominated him; but, before the cam
n. As.l l.s.sI
the candidate not only OF all Republi-
cans, but of all Americans who We're both
far -sighted enough to see where the true
interest # the country lay, and clear
minded nugh to be keenly sensitive to
the taint Of dishoDor. President Mckin-
ley was triumphantly elected on certain
distinct pledges and those pledges have
been made more than good. We We're
then in a condition of industrial paraly-
sis. The capitalist was plunged in ruin
and disaster; the wage-worker was on
the edge of actual want; the success of
our opponents would have meant not
only immense aggravation of the actual
physical distress, but also stain on the
nation honor so deep that more than
one generation would have to pass be-
fore Ii would be effectually wiped out.
We promised that If President Mckinley
were elected not only should the national
honor be kept unstained at home and
abroad, but that the mill and workshop
should open, the farmer have market
for his goods, the merchant for his wares,
and that the wage-worker should prosper
as never before.
did not say that, by good legislation and
good admins tration, there would come
prosperity to all men; but we did say
that each man should have better
chance to win prosperity than ne had
ever yet had. In the long run the thrift,
nt hA In
diyiduai must always remain the chief
factors in his success. BY unwise or dis
honest legislation or administration ON
the part of the national authorities, all
these qualities in the individual can be
nulIified but wise legislation and upright
administration will give them free scope.
And it was this free scope that We
promised should be given.
Well, we kept our word. The opportu-
nifty has been given, and 1t has been
seized by American energy, thrift and
business enterprise. As result, we
have prospered as never before, and we
are now prospering to degree that
would have seemed incredible four years
ago, when the cloud of menace to our in
dustriaI well being hung black above the
land.
So 1t has been in foreign affairs Four
years ago the nation was uneasy because
right at our doors an American island
lay writhing in awful agony under the
curse of worse than mediaeval tyranny
and misrule. We had our Armenia at our
very doors, for the situation In Cuba had
grown intolerable and such that this ma
tion could no longer refrain from inter-
ference, ana retain its own seif-respect.
President Mckinley turned to this duty
as he had turned to Others. He sought
by every effort possible TO provide for
Spain S withdrawal from the island
which she was SO impotent longer to do
aught than Cypress. Then, when pacific
means had failed, and there remained the
only alternative, we waged the most
righteous and brilliantly successful for
eign war that any country has waged
during the lifetime of the the present
generation. 1t was not n great war, SIM
ply because 1t was won too quickly; but
1t was momentous indeed In its effects.
1t left us, as all great feats must llave
those who perform them, an inheritance
both of honor and of responsibility; and,
under the lead of President Mckinley,
the nation has taken up the task of Sc
curing orderly liberty and the reign of
Justice and law In the islands from which
wa droye the fyranny of SDain with tha