The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-06-19

| uuCeu DIS tue ttlupOIdrf CudiIiudh IuiS
afternoon. In view of the attitude he
had assumed earlier in the history of
| this convention ON the question Of the
| Endorsement of President Roosevelt it
was freely predicted that he would JUS
tify himself in his change of attitude.
He did nothing of that kind, neither did
he forget the President in his address,
which gratified his friends and surprised
those who might be termed his political
| enemies
The proper tribute was duly paid the
| nations chief executive in words that
burned with eulogy and eloquence.
| Those who expected the senator to get
into the pyrotechnic class were disap-
| pointed and at the same time pleased
and gratiied. His keynote to the con-
| vention of a republican gathering, which
embraced the most distinguished men
in the party, was of an entirely different
character from what has distinguished
| similar efforts by other men who have
appeared as the spokesman of the party.
| 1t was built on broader lines and en-
braced views that are not circumscribed
by the narrow limits of state. His adj
dress was calm discussion, with a de-
cided philosophic tinge, of all the ques-
| tions that have concerned the people
both in the state and the nation. His
] only individual expression which might
be termed slogan" was his warning
to the democrats and others to keep
hands off, and not disturb the prosper
Gus conditions that now prevail in the
country.
When Senator Hanna was introduced
by State Chairman J. B. Clingerman he
was obliged to make repeated bows to
the vast audience. When quiet was re-
stored he said:
SENATOR HANNA'S SPEECH.
II congratulate the republican party
of Ohio upon this splendid representa-
tive body; and l speak for the repub-
lican party of Ohio the hope and the
wish that your deliberations will be gov
erned by good judgment and proper
spirit. Applause Standing today in
the morning of new century and look
ing back over that period which we have
just marked as our first century, there is
everything to emphasize that feeling of
pleasure and pride and to make every
man, whether born in Ohio or whether a
citizen by adoption, feel that it has been
a privilege to be Buckeye. Long con-
tinued applause
while much of our progress and
present situation is due to the hardy
pioneers who hewed their way through
the forests and built for themselves their
homes, l claim that, in the light of ex-
perience in the last half century, we owe
as much to the fundamental principles
of the republican party for the benefits
that have come to our people. Pro-
longed applause. Forests may stand
eral wealth may lie undisturbed for
centuries, unless there be something to
quicken the impulses which find re-
spouse in the hearts and ambition of
every man who has duty to himself
and his family to perform.
without that incentive, without the
return for labor and capital, there must
be no result. Oh, my fellow republi-
cans, standing on the threshold of this
new century, should we not be proud and
grateful that we have been part of
and connected with the party whose
principles and politics have done so
much for our developments Great APP
plause.
HUMAN LIBERTY AND PROTECTION.
THE republican party laid the foun-
dation stone Human liberty and pro-
lection to American industries and the
American workingman are placed in the
sacred archives of our country's history
and form its foundation stone.
"And since that time stone by stone
has been added to that structure, every
one as hard and indestructible as gran
lite itself, every one composed in its
component parts, with mixture of
principles which filed and made COM
plete the whole. And as it was raised
year by year, tried by experience, en-
couraged by success, today standing
here in the presence of this great au-
dience, let me point to that magnificent
structure, the monument to the prin-
ciples of the republican party, and let
that party write the inscription upon its
base in letters which all who run may
read: Hands Off prolonged ap-
plause the delegates rising to their feet
and cheering vociferously.
Time and patience have builded that
best husbandry have contributed to it,