Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-09
His Name Presented to the Con-
ventiOn by His Friend, L.
Irving Handy
A CITIZEN OF WHOLE COUNTRY.
Long Service in the Senate aud on
The Bench EmincntIy Fits Him
For President.

st. Louis, Mo, July S.-When Della
ware was reached IN the call of the roll
OF the states for presentation Of candi-
dates TO the Democratic convention, L.
Irving Handy OF Wilmington responded
and presented the name Of Judge
George Gray OF his state lie spoke as
follows
Gentlemen of the Conventon--Dela
ware offers to you her bravcst noblcst
and best ours is small state and IT
would be idle to invite you to come
to Delaware for a presidential candi-
date merely to win our electoral vote.
But this Is not competition between
states to determine which is largest or
which is greatest You are about to
nominate not a state, but a man, and
I submit that II Is better TO take
great man from a little state than a
little man from Il great state,
PRESENTED FOR CoNSIDERA.
TON.
Not because he Is a Delawarean, al
though we cxult in the knowledge that
with us he has spent his life, but be-
cause he Is great and good and true,
we present George Gray for your con-
sderation and decision. We present
him as citizen of the United states,
for not one of all the states lies outside
the boundaries Of his patriotism and
affection.
a BROAD MAN.
Make his president and all the states
which lie within the four corners of
our continental domain viii find that
this man, who merely happens to be q
resident OF Delaware, Is In truth as
broad as the continent In his sympa-
thies and outlook.
New York can find in him a candi-
date close to the hearts Of her Demo-
cratic voters and yet free from all fac
tional bitterness and party divisions,
| His election to the presidency would
| be the triumph OF no particular part
| Of our party In that great common
wealth, but victory for the whole De-
mocracy IN the Empire state,
| Nebraska might well be content to
| see him take our banner from the
| hands of her heroic son, who has twice
| CALAMITY carried II In the great fight,
and rejoice TO see that old banner in
| these new hands, on a hinder day and
| fairer field, carried to n complete and
lasting victory--content because the
| Delawarean like the Nebraskan Is a
man of principle, not merely Il man Of
| policy, q man whose hope and faith
and aspiration are I'm the great masses
| OF the common people, and as president,
his concern would be first to protect the
| rights and conserve the interests of
| the people whom God made, instead
Of using the government to promote
unduly the persons made by act Of leg
islature commonly called corporations.
CHAMPION OF ME SOUTH,
The southern states might well re-
joice to see him in the presidential
| chair. lie is blood OF their blood and
bone Of their bone, In mighty debate
| In the United states senate II was ms
| true blade that slew outright once ana
forever, the proposition TO tetter, by a
| force bill, the southern people who were
| struggling face 10 face with the most
threatening conditions that men ever
| confronted under free institutions. lie
does not live too far south TO be elected
to the presidency at this time, but he "
far enough south to understand ana
appreciate the conditions which obtain
In that broad. fair and hopeful portion
of our common country AS may say
TO the north, to the east and to the
west, that with this citizen OF the
| United states IN the pVesueuNal VI
flee. they will each have man OF tnell
own, I'm like manner and with manifest
truth say TO you OF the southern
states that with him you, too, viii have
| a man Of your own once more In the
| White House.
| ISLANDS WOULD BLESS HIM
Not only the states which have 9
right 10 cast electoral votes would b'
blessed by such president, but the isl
ands OF the sea would learn to bless
his name He believes In the rights o.
man lie believes in home rule. H'
has n passion for human liberty III
wants 10 see all men given an oppor
tunity for government, Make hin
president and he will find a way b!
which every interest Of this countr!
win be protected and safeguarded, an'
law and order insured, and yet the it'll
brown men Of the distant Islands vii
be permitted 10 taste at least the sweet
of human liberty and home rule, Inc
will know oppressors no more, ana op
pression Itself viii become In the PM
ippines like an evil dream which ha
passed.
NATIONS WOULD HONOR HIM
All the nations Of the earth viii lear