The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-03
LONG PRESIDED.
Secretary of the Navy Is Made
Permanent Chairman.
Of the Stat Republican Conven-
tiOn at Massachusetts.
ROOSEVELT IN 1904
Platform Endorses the Admin
istratiOn of the President.
And Pledges Him Bay States
Support in the Future.

Boston, Mass. Oct. 3.-The following
ticket was nominated by the Republican
state convention by acclamatiOn:
For tGovernor-John L. Bales, present
lieutenant governor
Lieutenant Governor-Curtis Guild, jr.,
Boston.
Secretary of the Commonwealth-Wm
NJ. Olin. Boston.
Treasurer and Receiver General-Ed
ward S. Bradford, Springfield
Auditor of Accounts-Henry E. Tur-
ner, Maiden
Attorney General-Herbert Parker,
| Lancaster.
Boston, Oct 3.-With every plan ma
tured for quickly and harmoniously
completing their work. the delegates to
the Republican state convention as
sembled in the Boston theater today to
nominate a ticket to be voted for IN
| November Ex-Secretary of the Navy
John d. Long was chosen as permanent
chairman. In assuming the position he
spoke in part as follows:
ADDRESS OF SECRETARY LONG.
1.-The lesson of political parties is
poorly learned if it be merely lesson
of personal friction and partisan tri-
umphs and the hunt for place. 1t should
be a lesson of wise policy for the de-
VelOpment and prosperity and hOnOr OIL
our beloved country in that way an un-
erring guide for the future. So swift
is the oblivion which hides personality
that few remember many. even of the
/ leading names connected with the last
Democratic administration. but nobody
forgets that its four years were years
of the lean kind and the thin ear of
hard times and low wages. of mills
closed, of capital alarmed. of reduced
employment, of the old story of collapse
so true and so often told. And yet the
men to whom the policy that brought
this result was due were honest men
and the republic was able to endure
their government-for their allotted
/ term But not longer. Then came the
policy of the Republican party. Then
came Mckinley AS If by magic as if
it were a food of sunshine. came the
most prosperous years the country has
| known. They have not put silver
an Improvement. and who would set it
back? That prosperity is the direct re
suit of the policies and principles of the
Republican party and While the Repub-
sion it has learned that they are the very
spring of its present industrial and
commercial greatness and glory
The ex-secretary of the navy here
paid brief but eloquent tribute to the
memory of President Mckinley and
passed on to a review of President
Roosevelt's administration beginning
with a glowing eulogy of the president
and commencing the members of the
cabinet in the administration of their
various departments and saying he was
sure there was no demand for change.
In searching for an issue he declared
that prosperity was never greater; the
civil service never cleaner and as for
finance that question was settled six
years ago.
The tariff, too, was a settled question
Continuing, the speaker said:
rs it the issue of trusts? Then point,
if you can. to a more earnest honest
and unceasing effort than that of the
administration of President Roosevelt
to deal with this question. If the out
cry against trusts means an attack
upon all aggregations of capital, then II
is an idle and unreasonable outcry, be-
cause it is impossible to accomplish the
great works and enterprises of the
present time in the interest of the peo-
pie at large except by accumulated cap
I ital Just as it is necessary also to ac-
c1Inl1Iate labor ard both have similar
rights and responsibilities in this re-
sDect
ssIf the outcry is against those mon
! opolies and combinations. the object OF
,, which is to grind the people and work
ruin to their daily fortunes, that outcry
is right and the monster should be
throttled; and it is the Republican par
ty which is today solicitiously and ac-
tivelv aking every preparation to dea
) with these evils as it has dealt with
: all others.
s'Is the issue our colonial system? Is
E it imperialism? 1t might have been si1
months ago, DuI lIIlDSIld1ISll1 - AAON
2 past history
= 1t was our duty, he declared, to take
, the Philippines and to resore law anc
: order in them. Tt is our duty he con
tended, to raise them to the ablnty O
! government and then if they shal
prefer independence to give it to them
!. although the question of their inde
pendence IS and must be, an academic
one, not oNly at present but in view o
Y their condition. for some time to come
= In closing he said: ''Shall the flag come
/ down? Yes, we answer. if it stands
5 only for military occupation and subju
cation. No, we will answer the F1llDl
i nos if it shall stand for american in
] fiuence ideas. laws and institutions anC
1 American assimilation"
r The delivery of ex-Secretarv Long
E speech was frequently interrupted b.
I the plaudits of the delegates Especial
2 ly was this the case at the close of tn
speakers eulogy of Mckinley and hi
praise of Roosevelt. The platform wa
then presented, and is as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
: The Republican party is in power il
e nation and state because it has bes
o served the interests of the citizens /
e it is to remain in power it must continu
to make just laws and. through its rep
e resentatives. administer them honsetl
and eQuita bly,. The Republicans o
= Massachusetts and her people withou
: distinction of party have paid thei
: tribute of honor and reverence to tn
- great ndlt1C AO4AAC VI W AlAAdA1l III
8 Kinley We have cause for profoun
gratitude that in the providence of Go
: the burden he laid down is borne by
!; worthy successor. Theodore Roosevelt
n has addressed himself to the duties {
;. his high office with wisdom and couragt
He has had no secrets from the Amer
ican people. He has spoken to them ou
of the abundance of a brave and homes
y heart He has addressed himself fear
lie lessly to the difficult problems whic
le have arisen since he succeeded to III