Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-08-22
A Ticket That Merits the Support
of Every Voter in the State
All Nominations Were rIade by AcClamation--John
T. Morrison Chosen for Governor and
Burton L. French for Congress.

will put Idaho in the republican
column. The closing scenes OF the
convention were marked with en-
thusiasm, but with no undue haste
and all the delegates departed for
! their homes with their faces beam
ing with hope and their breasts
filled with confidence OF success,
and will put their shoulders to the
wheel and keep pushing until the
goal shall have been reached.
Hon. F. R. Gooding OF this city
was reelected chairman OF thu
state central committee and R. NJ.
McCollum secretary, which alone
will in a degree assure the party
success, as they will be given an
opportunity OF carrying out their
ileas for a vigorous campaign
as they have made an
untiring effort in the direction that
the party may be crowned with
success and that the oors OF the
convention of August 20 and u
will not have been in vain.
Following is the speech delivered
before the state convention by our
townsman Hon. F. r. Gooding.
There were many others but we
have not the time or space to give
them all:
Mr.. Gooding, after the formal re-
marks of congratulation and welcome,
said that it looked to him as he gased
out upon the delegations, that each
county had Wed with it's neighbor in
the endeavor to send its best men and
women to take part in the Republican
council. Continuing, Mr.. Gooding said:
In the great work that you have
before you 1 have all confidence that
you will do it well, and that you will
place a ticket before the people of
that will be an honor to our party The
prospects for party success are bright
in every part of our state, and it only
remains for you, the representatives vi
our party, to place a good ticket before
the people; then with thorough organ
ization, and a vigorous campaign, sue
cess will crown our efforts on Novem-
Der 4. (Applause).
''Since we assembled in convention
in this beautiful city two years ago, an
all wise Providence has seen best to
take from the head OF our nation, and
our party, the matchless William Nc
Kinley, who guided our ship of state so
safely through the war with Spain that
The whole world bowed to him as the
greatest statesman of the age. Under
his wise leadership, as commander-in-
:hief of our army and navy. we DEM |
)nstrated to the whole world our great |
ness as a nation, and as a united peo-
pie, of which we are all justly proud. |
We still grieve for our beloved presi- |
lent, whom we learned to love so well /
'or his great goodness of heart; his de-
yotion to our country and our party |
principles, which, when enacted into |
avs, brought us the blessings of pros
lerity and frightened every fireside in
'ur fair land. While we still feel the
oss of our great leader. yet destiny
eems to be kind to US, as a people. in
irving us so great man for president
IS is Theodore Roosevelt A man,
hough young in years. old in public
ervice. With him a public office is a
ublic trust, and he fills all with the
anne spirit with which he charged up
AN Juan hill when he carried our flag
o victory over the Spanish block
ouses. We love him for his courage
nd bravery. and for the wisdom he has
hown since taking up the unfinished
iork of William Mckinley, and carry
lg 1t to successful and glorious end.
Long applause).
Every Republican should feel proud
I the great work that has been accom- ,
lished by our party in the first half
T the Fifty-seventh congress. Today !
uba is free and independent nation;
,e Chinese exclusion law has been re-
lacted: the bill for the construction OF
lie great isthmian canal has been !
assed. But the most important work
the Fffty-seventh congress--to Idaho
vas the passage OF the irrigation law. I