The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-27
SPEECH OF
SEN. CANNON
Notifying President Roosevelt of His
Nomination.

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Roosevelt of his nomination as presi-
dent of the United States, spoke as
follows:
Mr.. President The people of the
United States, by blood, heredity, ed
ucation and practice, are self-gov-
erning people. We have sometimes
been subject to prejudice and en-
barrassment from harmful conditions,
but We have outgrown prejudice and
overcome conditions as rapidly as pos
sible, having due regard to law and
the rights of individuals. We have
sometimes made mistakes, from a
false sense of security Or from de-
sire to change policies instead Of let
ting we'll enough alone, merely to see
what would happen, but we have al
ways paid the penalty Of unwise ac-
ton at the ballot box and endured
the suffering until, under the law,
through the ballot box, we have re-
turned to correct policies. Tested by
experience no nation has so success
fully solved all problems and chosen
proper policies as our nation. I'm
der the lead Of the Republican party
for over forty years, the United
States, from being a third-class power
among the nations, has become in ev-
cry respect first. The people rule.
The people ruling, it is necessary that
they should be competent to rule.
Competency requires not only patriot
ism but material well-being, educa-
ton, statecraft.
The people under the lead of the
Republican party, wrote upon the sta
tute books revenue laws, levying taxes
upon the products Of foreign coun-
tries seeking our markets which re-
plenished our treasury but were so
adjusted as to encourage our people
in developing, diversifying and main
tanning our industries, at the same
time protecting our citizens laboring
in production against the competition
Of foreign labor. Under this policy,
our manufactured product today is
one-third Of the product Of the civil
lied world, and our people receive al
most double the pay for their labor
that similar labor receives elsewhere
in the world, thereby enabling us to
bear the burdens Of citizenship.
Liberal compensation for labor
makes liberal customers for our pro-
ducts. Under this policy Of protec-
ton, our home market affords all our
people better market than has any
other people on earth, and this, too,
even if We did not sell any Of our
products abroad. In addition to this,
we have come to be the greatest ex-
porting nation in the world. For the
year ending the 3Oth of June, 1904,
our exports to foreign countries were
valued at $780, 100000, of which
$3.50, 100000 were products of the
factory. The world fell in our debt
last year $470,OO0,OOO, an increase Of
100000 over the preceding year.
This policy Of protection has al
ways been opposed by the opponents
of the Republican party and is oppos-
ed by them today. In their last ma
tional platform, adopted at St. Louis,
they denounce protection as robbery.
They never have been given power,
but they preceded by word and act
act to destroy the policy of protection
Their platform is as silent as the
grave touching the gold standard and
our currency system. Their chosen
leader, after his nomination, having
been as silent as the sphynx up to
that time, sent his telegram, saying
in substance that the gold standard is
established, and that he will govern
himself accordingly if he should be
elected.
I congratulate him. 1t is better to
be right late than never. Tt is better
to be right in one thing than wrong
in all things. [ wonder if it ever oc-
cured to him that if his vote and sup
port for his party's candidate in 1896
and 1900 had been decisive we would
now have the silver standard I Won
der what made him send that tele-
gram after he was nominated, and
why he did not send it before! When
did he have a change of heart and
judgment? And does he at heart be-
lieve in the gold standard and our
currency system, or does he try now
to reap where he has not sown. If
perchance, he should be elected by
forcing together discordant elements
submit that, with a Democratic