The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-19
FOR WEBSTER.
Nebraska Wants Him on Ticket
With Roosevelt.
State Republican Convention
Names a Ticket and AdjOurns.

Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 19.-Nebraska Re
publicans in their state convention made
a new record for industry and harmo-
NOUS work. Beginning at o'clock in
the afternoon, the convention trans
acted it's necessary business and was
ready to adjourn three hours later. The
nomination of Court Commissioner John
B. Barnes for associate Justice of the
supreme court had for weeks been fore
casted. and his selection was more in
the nature of a ratification than con-
test. The two successful candidates for
regents of the university, Charles 5.
Allen and W. G. Whitmore, were nomi-
mated on the first formal ballot.
President Roosevelt received the
heartiest commentator and a declara-
ton was made for his denomination.
The unexpected feature of the con-
vention was the adoption by unani-
nous vote of a resolution declaring
John L. Webster of Omaha, one of the
delegates to the convention and one of
the we'll known party leaders of the
state, to be the choice of Nebraska Re
publicans for vice president in 1904.
The resolution was offered just as the
convention was about to adjourn and
was received with enthusiasm. Mr..
Webster expressed his thanks for the
honor. in a speech of considerabl
length
State Chairman H. D. Lindsay called
the convention to order at o'clock and
introduced as temporary chairman for
made the principal address of the day,
congratulating the party on what he
said was united front to a divided
opposition. He declared the Repub-
licans of the state and nation were a
unit on issues and men
Following the appointment of COM
mittees. the ticket was nominated and
addresses made by the nominees.
The report of the committee on reso-
lutions was adopted without change.
The platform begins with a declara ton
of congratulation on the overthrow of
Organism in the home of its nativity,
and continues:
I'VE congratulate the state that we
have made it manifest that there is no
permanent place in American politics
for political leader who bases his
failures or disappointments OF the
people.
1--WE congratulate the state that this
political revolution has been worked
out without the people having been
made to suffer any of the multitude of
calamities so vehemently predicted by
our enemies.
I'VE congratulate ourselves that the
people of the state are enjoying good
prices, good wages, good markets and
good government, and all the manifold
blessings of general prosperity that we
foretold would follow the election of our
late superb and grand American pa
triot President William Mckinley and
whose magnificent policy is now being
carried into full and complete execu-
ton in mastery way by the Strong
will and clear judgment of President
Theodore Roosevelt.
I'm this hard-fought political con-
test, in which for eight years the Re
publicans of Nebraska have been in the
front of the battle. we have educated
our people to an understanding of these
higher political truths which are the
true basis of governmental science, and
have brought them to see that through
the whole web of Republican rule there
may be traced the golden thread of hui
man progress toward a higher and bet
ter state-
1--WE adhere to the American protec-
tive policy of the Republican party
which has increased the revenues and
not impeded trade; which has opened the
doors of mills and factories to millions
of American skilled mechanics and is
returning to them the higher wages
which are the Just recompense of their
toll
THE Republican party recognizes
that legitimate business fairly capital
lied and honestly conducted has in
creased our industries ct home and ex-
panded our trade abroad and enabled
us to successfully compete with foreign
countries in the markets of the world.
but the Republican party is unalterably
opposed to all combinations of capital
under whatever name, having for their
purpose the sitting of competition and