The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-18

North Carolina just sixty-six years ago.
He is a lawyer. He was states attor-
ney In Illinois from 1861 to 1868. He came
to congress in 1873. He has been here
ever since save the two years from 1891
10 1888. This is his record. and it speaks
for itself. He has just been renominated
for the sixteenth consecutive time.
Uncle joe was temporary chairman
of the Illinois Republican seate conyen-
ton held at Springfield last week. He
made characteristic speech-not one Of
your Beverage keynote" speeches. full
of oratorical fights and dazzling rhetori-
cal sunbursts. but a solid, sensible, valu-
able speech. 1t did not cover half a page
| of solid nonpareil; 1t only took a short
| while TO deliver il, but it was punctured
many times with genuine applause from
more than thousand delegates.
Here is the way Cannon began:
Il thank you for the honor OF presiding
over a state Republican convention. And
If you will bear with me for a few min
utes along the line of president, I viii
add a few words-I trust not many. Our
kind Of people. for a great many hundred
years, have been holding conventions-in
the old country, in the colonies. and for
a century in the republic. The object of
the convention is organization. and you
will always have it so long as you have
a government OF the people. Political
parties stand for policies, and when they
cease to stand for policies they are dead.
And again:
The opposition to the Republican party
since it's formation from decade TO dec
ade has paid it the highest possible COM
pliment The Republican party would
march out. make its contests. accomplish
its mission. reap its victory, write its
legislation into constitution or upon the
statute book. lead in hghting the battles
OF the country. while the enemy marched
IN the rear and fired it's cannon into the
grand old party. But when we succeed
ed and a new issue would come and we
would march out, the enemy would come
into our camping place and say: This
is the place; here will we abide
Then here is a typical sentence:
Suffice it to say that you can take a
search warrant and journey from one
ocean to the other; and you can find no
man in any party anywhere-Republi-
can. Democrat. Mugwump or what-not-
but will endorse the record Of the Re
publican party under Abraham Lincoln.
Ulysses S. Grant and William McKin-
ley"
The old leader then made a few state
ments about Cuba;
From the century standpoint. from the
standpoint Of the public defense. from /
the standpoint Of the proper utilization I
of the Isthmian canal. without being a
h.
phesv that even my old eyes will live TO 1
see the time come when Cuba. the gem Of /
the caribbean. viii knock by her own /
will at the door OF the United States for /
annexation
In the meantime we have been set /
ting her UP in business according 10 our I.
voluntary pledge. taken at the commence
ment Of the war, and we have done a
pretty good job. She has formed her con-
stitution under our direction. She wrote
into her constitution that so long rs she
was in existence she would pledge her
self in the event she could not keep law
and order that the United States might
do So She pledged herself 10 grant Us
naval stations. She pledged herself in
the same constitution that she would not
create a debt so large that her reve-
nues would not carry on her government
and pay the interest on her debt. Why?
Because II she can make treaties with the
European countries. lying as she does at
our very door. she would threaten tho
well being OF the republic OF the United
States,
While we have given her freedom for
her security and our good. we have put
these partial constitutional hobbies upon
her.
What IS our duty TO Cuba She can
not make treaties as other nations. As
- nave become. in one sense her guard (
ian. il is our duty in simple justice "a
see 10 il that she has our market Tor her
products In the United States. How are
vo-i going 70 work II out2 The Republ-
can party will work 1t out b. recip-
rocai trade agreement. by which. without
injury to any industry. 70 any laborer il
our borders her products viii come 70
our markets with a concession that VII
permit them 20 come upon better terms
than the products OF Germany or other
countries. IN turn. under such al agree
nent. sne would provide that or prod
ucts would 10 - her markets or better
terms than the products OF other nations
trade, Under that We would
take most 81 her products Under that
the United States. Of America. from mine
and factory. would furnish her suhstan-
tally with AL that she desires 20 Pu--
chase that Is not created within her oVn
borders Il does not SEEM 70 b under
these conditions. gentlemen ot TIE con
ventioa. Il you viii allow ne hoEeiy
expression. that any nan or party. a.
We say down IN central Illinois that has
sense enough 70 set hen. would see that
this Is the right Kind q "a agreement;
10 make.
Mr.. Cannon then touched On the Phil
ppine situation. the finances. ard con-