The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-29
KANSAS IS STRONG
FOR ROOSEVELT
CONGRESSMAN LONG SAYS THE
PRESIDENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN
RlGHT-W. J. BAILEY NoMI-
MATED FOR GOVERNOR.

Wichita, Kan, May 2s.-The Republican
state convention tonight nominated the
| following ticket:
Governor, ex-Congressman W. ]. Bailey
of Baileyville.
Lieutenant-Governo D. ]. Hanna, Hill
City.
Secretary of state. James H. Barrow,
Smith Center.
Auditor Seth G. Wells, Erie.
Treasurer, Thomas T. Kelly, Miami.
Attorney General C. C. Coleman, Clay
Center.
Superintendent of insurance, I. T. Day.
hoff, Hutchison.
Superintendent of public Instruction, c.
H. Luling Wichita.
Supreme justices, six-year term, H. s.
Mason, Garden City; ]. C. Pollock. Ar
kansas City. and A. T. Green. Newton.
Supreme justices, four-year term, A. B.
Ellis Beoit.
Supreme justice. two-year term, F. w.
Cunningham, Emporia.
Congressman at large, c. s. Scott, lola.
The feature of the convention was a
strong Roosevelt sentiment The friends
of Mr.. Bailey controlled the convention
from the start and began by electine
Chairman George +. Cole, who said In
| taking the chair:
Let us bury all our differences let us
do all our fighting against the enemy.
Let us be Republicans let us endorse
thoroughly that splendid Republican, our
President Theodore Roosevelt.
Congressman Long one of the leaders
Of the fight In the House for Cuban reci-
| procty, made a speech in which he said: :
"The Cuban reciprocity bill has passed
| the House and it will pass the Senate,
or there will be an extra session of Con-
gress. If there is an extra session, my
friends in the Fifth district must pre-
pare to take care of my campaign, for
we will stay there until it has passed and
President Roosevelt, our leader now and
Duh leader In 1904''-he got no further
The convention cheered and cheered
again. Long stood still while the dele
gates shouted
Your hearts are right" he said final
ly.
II told President Roosevelt when left
Washington that Kansas was with him
all the time and l think he will know 1t
as we do now. Roosevelt is right now
and he always was right. He is right
because God made him So"
Senator Burton, who until recently OPP
posed the Presidents reciprocity policy,
told the convention that reciprocity with
Cuba was right and necessary. but no
home industry should be injured. A bill
is now being formulated as a substitute
for the House bill. which substitute
would be satisfactory to all interests. he
said
The platform warmly endorses the ma
uonal administration.
The platform reaffirms adherence to the
principles of the national platform of 1900;
eulogises William Mckinley; endorses
Roosevelt in -oJ4; recommends liberal
reciprocal trade relations with Cuba; de-
clares in favor of liberal pensions for the
veterans of the civil war, their widows
| and orphans, and condemns the false
| charges and brutal attacks" to which
| ''the soldiers of this day" are subject
| approves the Attorney Generals enforce
ment of the antitrust laws and records
the party's hostility to combinations ir
restraint to trade; says 1.-The Republican
people of protective tariff was never
more firmly fixed In our national policy
than it is now favors reciprocity; favors
restriction of immigration and construc.
/ ton of the isthmian canal.