The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-07-06

lection of John Sharp Williams as tenn
porary chairman. The convention
cheered Justify and unanimously rati-
fed the choice. National Committee
of Pennsylvania were appointed COM
mittee to escort Williams to the plat
form. The Mississippian was obliged
to climb over the rail to get on the
platform which afforded much amuse-
ment to the crowd.
Williams was warmly greeted when
he finally faced the big audience and
louder John came from some friends
up in the gallery. Williams voice was
in fair condition but hardly reached the
end of the hall.
Williams began by saying: THE
most important quadrennial event in
the world is the election by the Am
erican people of their chief executive,
rive at a choice by ways of honesty
and intelligence Would to God they
did. At least two minor elections of
a different character are held. There
have always been two great parties
who have elected delegates to conven-
tions for the purpose of selecting can
didates and promulgating a platform.
One of these has selected candidate
and announced it's platform. 1t was
one of the quietest and most unani-
nous occasions that the annals of
history have recorded. The address of
the temporary chairman was in one
sense historical, mostly ancient his
tory and great deal of it bad his
tory 1t was labored attempt to draw
away attention from RoOseveltism and
it's volcanic, eruptive, reckless charac-
ter by dwelling upon the fact that at
some period in it's history the republic
| can party had been a party which did
| things and did them safely. The ora
tor hoped to have the country lose
sight of the fact that it is now in both
| action, of obstruction to reform and
progress, in a word, party whose
| only sacred precept is the shibboleth
drawn from the gamblers table, stand
pat a precept born of cowardice and
fear to move
Williams spoke of the wonderful mu-
tual admiration society of me too
Teddy" and me too (Elihu)" when re-
ferring to Roots perOratiOn, and then
I quoted from Roots speech at Cooper
| Union New York in October 1902, in
which Root said that the tariff law
on the whole has worked we'll, and
| that it is better to endure some slight
inequalities for time than to incur
the uncertainty and disturbance of
business which results from the pro-
| gress of making changes, and he had
heard that the president in his political
tour of the West in the spring Of 1903.
made a speech on the same subject in
identical language.
"Verily," said Williams, two souls
| with but single thought, two speeches
that read like one, and that single
! thought so harmoniOusly expressed is
not to force single special interest to
| take it's lips from the public breast for
fear the public finding them unneces-
sary might shake them all off.
How humorous to praise so highly
our fellow citizen in the White
House, who, in q long line of great
men who have filled the seat he now
occupies has himself found only about
three in his opinion worthy of any
thing like unstinted praise. Washing
ton. Lincoln and himself. Verify other
humorists will have rest of business
Williams quoting Roots speech to
the effect that the republican party is
the medium OF the people IN the eX-
preston of moral sentiment and then
sarcastically went over a list of scan
dals of past and present history in
Guiding the Credit Mobilier, the Degol
yer. Ames whisky ring the long satur-
MALTA of southern reconstruction, the
recent incidents in the postOffice de-
partment and the public lands bureau,
the full sway of the bosses and the
celebrated order of Hell Roaring
Jake" Smith prescribing ten years as
the age above which children were to
be killed in one of the islands of the
Philippines. The speaker ridiculed
Roots statement that offenders have
been relentlessly punished. He said:
The secretary boasts that the per
capita circulation of money among the
people increased from S23.14 in March,
1897. to s31.2 in May last and that the
credit for that and the consequent
prosperity was due to the republican
party. What a curious boast this is