The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-21
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
RATIFICATION MEETING
Continued from Page One).

hate, and wars shall have ceased, and
all peoples shall dwell together in uni
ty. For Thine is the kingdom and the
power and the glory for ever. Amen.
Root Addresses Convention.
At the conclusion of the prayer Sena-
tor Scott presented Payne with a gavel
on behalf of Chicago committee.
Payne returned thanks. John Mulley,
of Ohio, reading clerk read the call for
the convention.
Senator Scott got a hand as he
stepped to the front to present the
gavel from the Chicago committee to
Chairman Payne, after which the
reading clerk, Malloy, let loose his fog
| duced Elihu Root as temporary chair
man.
| The temporary organization of the
| convention having been effected for
mer Secretary of War Elihu Root of
| New Work, assumed the gavel as tenn
| porary chairman, and in a dignified
speech extolled the administration of
President Roosevelt and reviewed the
| acts of the administration in the cru
cal moments of the historical periods
| of the past four years. He reminded
the delegates and the party at large
| that the opposition to the tariff and
other policies fostered by the republic
can party might create false impress
sions and cause defectOns unless cor
rected. The ex-secretary went on at
actments brought about by the republic
can. party. In part he said:
The responsibility of government
rests upon the republican party. The
complicated machinery through which
the S0000,000 people of the United
States government themselves, an
swers to no single will. The composite
government devised by the trainers Of
| the Constitution to meet the conditions
y
ago, requires the willing cooperation
| of many minds, the combination OF
many independent factors, in every
forward step for the general welfare.
When the course of the next adj
ministration is but half done the re-
publican party will have completed the
| first half century of it's national life.
Of the eleven administratio tons since
| the first election of Abraham Lincoln,
nine-covering a period of SO years
have been under republican presidents.
For the greater part of that time, the
majority in each house of congress has
been republican. History affords no
| parallel in any age or country for the
| growth in national greatness and pow
| Ell and honor, the wide diffusion of the
| people above the hard conditions of
i poverty, the common opportunity for
| educa ton and individual advancement,
| the universal possession of civil and
religious liberty, the protection of
property and security for the rewards
of industry and enterprise, the cultiva-
ton of national morality, respect for
religion. sympathy with humanity and
love of liberty and justice, which have
marked the life of the American peo-
pie during this long period of republi-
can control.
With the platform and the candi-
dates Of this convention, we are about
to ask a renewed expression of popu
lar confidence in the republican party.
we shall ask it because the princi-
piles to which we declare our adher-
of our country require that they should
be followed in it's government.
We shall ask it because the unbrok-
en- record of the republican party in
the past is an assurance of the SINGER
. ity of our declarations and the fidelity
; with which we shall give them effect
Because we have been constant in
; principle loyal to our beliefs and faith
full to our promises, we are entitled tC
be believed and trusted now.
We shall ask it because the char
acter of the party gives assurance OF
good government. A great political
organization, competent to govern. is
not a chance collection of individuals
brought together for the moment as
I the shifting sands are piled up by
} wind and sea. to be swept away, to be
formed and reformed again. 1t is a
| growth. Traditions and sentiments
reaching down through struggles OF