The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-05

markets OF the Orient which were being
divided among the great powers of Eur
ope, and next to show that the United
States would bend all resources for the
vindication of it's honor, which it's min
lister and ambassador was beleaguered,
the finest triumph of diplomacy of the
nineteenth century was won in the con-
cession of the open door; the most pic
turesque campaign of history or romance
is successfully ended with the American
flag flying over the imperial palace in
Pekin-
Not only the United States, but every
civilized and semi-civiliZed country OF
miration to the craftsmanship. the gen.
eralship and the diplomacy of William
Mckinley
Coming to the question of expansion
and the argument that policy is opposed
to the spirit of the Declaration Of In
dependence, Senator Depew said:
I'VE all believe in the Declaration of
Independence We all rejoice in the
nrinciples of that immortal document.
There is nothing which Colonel Bryan
can say in his claim for the exclusive
ownership for the things taught in the
Declaration of Independence that has
not been more brilliantly said and act
ually done by Republican statesmen
But when Colonel Bryan went to Ken
lucky at the time when under the in
famous election law, the state was to be
stolen by his friends from the officers
who had been lawfully returned as elect
ed by the Democratic returning lords
and gave MS SANCTION ana lnS weight Oh
his great authority as Democrat to the
thieves where then was his idea of con-
sent of the governed? These citizens OF
Kentucky, who were deprived of their
rights and governed without their con-
sent were not tribes of an archipelago
in the Pacific ocean but they were men
who had performed heroic service for a
hundred years in the battle for liberty
and citizenship.
Mr.. Depew closed with the statement
that the Republican ticket in this state
would be greatly strengthened by the
nomination for lieutenant governor OF
Timothy L. woodruff, who he said rep
resented in its best sense the business
man in politics and who meets all the
requirements of the ever discussed ques-
tion in the colleges of the educated man
in politics"
Mr.. Odell in accepting the nomination
said in part:
they ares overshadowed by the greater
matters involved in the national cam
paign. To my mind the paramount is
sue is the reelection OF Mckinley who
has so ably kept all pledges. Re-elect
him and the policies already in force,
and to be inaugurated will place US
upon a higher plane than ever before
and we shall enjoy the full fruition of
our hope for general prosperity. Every
dollar of obligation will continue to be
worth one hundred cents, and wherever
our flag floats it will be respected be-
cause American manhood has baptised
it with blood
Mr. Oden for governor and Mr.. Wood
ruff for lieutenant governor received the
unanimous vote of the convention on the
first roll call. The ticket was then COM
pleted as above, by the secretary being
instructed to cast the ballot of the con-
vention for the denomination of the
present secretary of state, comptroller,
treasurer, attorney general and state en-
gineer. This concluded the conventions
work and committee was appointed to
invite Governor Roosevelt to address
the gathering. The nominee for vice
president responded and was given an
ovation as he mounted the platform.
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS.
Mr.. Roosevelt in opening, congratula-
ted the convention on the men named
publican party had been in power for six
years in this state. The Republicans
had always kept their pledges, he said
and the party felt that it had the right
to challenge the support of all men who
desire the government to be administer
ed with clean lines and efficiency.
Referring to national affairs and
statements that the senate would pre-
vent the enactment of free silver legisla-
tiOn, even though Mr.. Bryan and Dem
ocratic house were to be elected, Mr..
Roosevelt said.
IF the people of this country declare
in favor of Mr.. Bryan and elect Bryan
lite congress next fall, they will have de-
clared in favor of free silver as we'll as
of every doctrine enunciated in the Chi
cago platform of 1896 and reiterated in
the Kansas City platform of 1900 and
when the people have thus declared
themselves the representatives whom
they have elected and sent to Washing
ton can not and will not act otherwise
than they have been decreed at the polls
to act. Election of Mr.. Bryan this fail
would be the peoples mandate for free
silver and as such il would tell upon ev-
cry senator who has felt doubtful how to
act in the past
THE men who directly or indirectly
aid Mr.. Bryan in this contest must un-
derstand that any vote cast except for
the reelection of President Mckinley is
a vote for free silver and for social dis
order, vote for the partial reputation
of our debts and for an absolute upset.
ting of our financial and industrial sys-
TENS; and upon all such men will rest
forever afterwards the heavy response
bllity of having plunged the business
world into disaster, the laboring world
into misery and of having tainted with
d1shonor the national name.
SO much for what the success of our
would mean at home Abroad,
gentlemen their success would mean
that the nation was to cringe before the
honorable task which it has so honorably
begun and take down the flag under
which we are introducing in the Philip
pines, not only such order, but such
liberty as has never been known in the
islands before and to hand them back
TO the unspeakable tyranny of a corrupt
There is no such thing as militarisfn
or Imperialism at stake in the contest
These are names used only to frighten
the foolish. If it is militarism to be in
the Philippines then it is militarism to
be in Hawaii and Alaska: if it is mill
tarism to put down the Tagal banditti
then it is militarism to put down an
Apache outbreak. Anti-irnperialism is
the name by which they seek to disguise
their policy of contraction. For, mind
you, we have already expanded and we |
are in the Philippines by the same moral |
right that we are in New Mexico and |
Idaho The nation has not sought it's |
new responsibilities, but the nation does
not shrink from them. AS a strong man |
faces his work, as it comes, and does |