The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-23
EMPIRE REPUBLICANS.
State Nominating Convention
Assemblies at Saratoga.

Saratoga, N. T., Sept. 23.-The Repub-
lican state convention met here today
for the preliminary work incident to
the naming of state ticket and the
drafting of platform. Outside of del
egates and alternates the spectators
were few
Ex-Congressman Lemuel Ell Quigg,
the temporary chairman spoke as fol-
lows:
.This is first Republican state con-
vention that has assembled in New
York since the death of William Nc
Kinley. Nowhere in the land is his
memory more precious. How great he
was, another age which sees the ac-
complishments of this in their ultimate
results will say. How good he was we
know
For eight years the Republicans of
| this state have enjoyed public favor.
We have elected four Republican COVER
nors. One of these. summoned to the
highest destiny that is within the life
of any man to reach, by his progressive
| ideas, his ardent patriotism, his splend-
i'd courage and his lofty integrity has
profoundly impressed the country. Mo-
where is his leadership more cordially
accepted than in his own state.
1.-The American people are better of
today than they ever were before. and
nothing the Democrats can say will dis
turb that solid truth 1t is no wonder
the Democrats are troubled about an
ISSUE
Mr. Quigg praised the work of the
army and decried charges which he de-
clared, had been SO "magnihed by Dem
ocratic malice that the honor of the
| American soldier has become a chief is
sue in this campaign"
1T is not an issue that we shall seek
to avoid" he continued. I'VE may be
surprised that they should raise 1t and
a little mortified. but not in the least
disrnayed. We. for our part. will stand
by our armv. We shall vote to main
tain its honor as it has helped to main
tain ours
"Criticism of the policy which has
been pursued in the Philippine islands
falls fiat on the public ear because when
each practical American applies to him
self the test question-what would do
IL the responsibility were mine?-he can
find no other conclusion than that he
would aim to do precisely what he sees
is being done.
Practical craftsmanship occupies its
belief with present problems. 1t re-
alizes that in this world of change and
rapid movement there is nohing more
foolish than to anticipate too remote a
future. The object it keeps constantly
in mind Is not to create future situa-
tionS, but to give wise shape and safe
direction to present ones. The school
and the ballot box are not the agents
fof oppression. They are the high priests
of liberty, and Republican legislation
has placed them at the service OF the
Philippine people.
Lust of empire is not to be charged
against q party which. with every OPP
tportunity SO to delay the performance
4 of tue conditions of the treaty of Paris
that Cuba must in the end have prayed
for admission into the union, actually
made haste to bring about the estab-
lishment of the Cuban government and
the withdrawal from Cuba of every
semblance of American control. In the
expecta ton of these obligations the Re-
publican party went far beyond the re-
quirements of ordinary good faith and
manifested that lively sympathy with
the national hopes of the Cuban people
which furnishes the best answer that
could be given to the charge that we are
imperialfsts. While every cabinet In Eu-
American government for its generos-
ity and fair dealing, it is reserved to the
Democratic party at home to carp and
cavi1. What more we should do for
II Cuba than has been is easy for free
trader to say; but, to those who believe
in the policy of protective tariff, the
answer comes with more difficulty.
1T is the singular fortune of this
4 country that the political problem mos
people profitably employed, but how
more evenly to distribute the rich re-
wards of their labor. 1t was not alway:
so. 1t is simply the story of soun6
money system and a protective tariff
Twenty thousands of millions of dol
lars have been added in five years t.
the assessed valuation of the real anl
personal property of our citizens. Indi
vidual deposits in national banks hav,
increased in that time more than {
thousand millions. The policy of pro
lection to American industries will no
be abandoned by the Republican party
with which we must compete are les
than enough to maintain a working
mans family in comfort. so long will
our tariff system protect our hom
| mi
The question of trusts and unlawful
combinations has no more connection
with this subject than the penal cod
has with the general business of life
tive system in order to destroy trust
would pull his house down to catch
burglar. There is no business, not one
in which a trust is engaged in whic
ent of the trust. are not also engaged.
There Is no industrial system, wheth
. er protective or free trade in character
where trusts do not flourish. Protectio
! is the foundation stone OF Republican
policy and 1t will not fall before tn
charge that, in enabling everybody l
do better than he ever did before, l
! has enabled some to do too well.
THE Republican party was quick
recognize, when the new industris
: method of combination began to mani
fest itself, that the people needed to
defended against its usurpations an
fort to reach those features of bushes
combination which are unlawful an
Injurious
Put the millionaire In stripes erie
: representative Democratic leader
2 What he means and what his party ha
E come to mean is that those who do nc
r succeed are justified in being offende
! at those who do, and it is this levelin
: spirit, this spirit of socialism, whic
within the last eight or ten years ha
t displaced all the old-time principles Q
. the Democratic party and has come t
be its distinguishing purpose
ell Mr.. Quigg then tool4)np the admin
: istration Of Governor B. B. Odell, whic
h he declared had been among othe
. things a business success, and declares
that It is not partisan but a genera
. testimony which proclaims the admin
!, istration to have been upon the Who'll
= the best that the state of New Yor
has ever known.
In closing he said: "The Republics
| party's strength is derived from the FAC
that it always takes the moral side Q
: an issue. 1t is first conscientious, mex
Y lopportune. The voter who gives his In
r f1uence to the Democratic party helps.
he declared. ito make a dead weight
He who votes with the Republics
party adds to living force"
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