The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-06-30

plause.) Great heavens the Republican
party from 1860 until this moment moves
On-does what good common sense dictates.
and the country grows to it. Well, now /
will drop that department.
The Republican party is a national party
and believes in diversification of our indus
tries, and the protection of American capi-
tai and American labor, as against the
cheaper labor elsewhere on earth. ZAP
plauSe.)
The United States is great in production
and wealth. How great in wealth? In
1850, $500 in round numbers was the per
capita wealth In 1900. S1,235 was the per
measured by $16,OO0 O0,000,000; in 1900. 1914, :
| OOO,OOO,OOO; now 100000, 100000. Great
| Britain only has an aggregate of wealth of
| SEC, 200, ,OOO, 900, and she has been living and
gathering it for the last 800 years, yet, in a
generation we sprang from $4,000, 600, 600
S4oO, 900, OOU, 200. The United States has one
fourth of it.
Mr.. Cannon dealt effectively with the
question of pure Democratic faith as deliv-
cred by Bourke Cochran, with reconstruc-
| ton and the fight against Greenbackism !;
with what the Republican party has done
to control the trusts, and said that I'm the
past two years the wind and water that
came from over capitalization in forming
the so-called trusts have been squeezed
out and vet every dollar of property, every
particle of property that was represented
by this over-captalzation in two years, is
vet with u.s. In closing he said:
In conclusion, let me again say that we
are proud of the President, we are proud
of the future. The Goth century is to
bring more of good or evil to the hu-
man race than the 10Th century brought
Under what party banner will YOU enlist?
| Under that of the reactionist? Under that
| of the people who sit still or tear down?
| Or will you take service with the party OF
| Lincoln and Grant and Garfield and Harrl-
| son and Mckinley and Roosevelt (cheers
and applause) and help us march on to vic
| tory?
| Speaking of the living in the presence OF
| the dead, we have tears for them and ad-
miration for the great things that they ac--
complished. But the glory OF our race. OF
our civilization, is that each generation
works out its own salvation and marches
| forward to success, and the betterment of
| the condition of mankind, and as they drop
| into the grave, their successors move on to
| the stage of action, holding fast all that the
past has given us, and going in turn gen
| eraton's march further on for the benefit
of the race and of civilization. (Applause.)
| The Democratic press, however reluctant
| ly, was compelled to admit that there was
| no lack of enthusiasm on the closing day of
the convention. 1t was a day of oratory.
The Boston Herald's Chicago special said {:
k"For more than four solid hours nearly 5000
| persons listened to one speech after an
other. The speech-making began at 1880
| O'Clock, and, with about an hour for the
| routine business, continued until 80 i'll the
afternoon. The speeches were OF high
order, and fairly representative of Ameri-
can political life. The audience was splen-
did and inspiring. 1t was a fine looking
! body of spectators" And yet it was what
our Democratic friends would call cut and
dried convention, as the head of the ticket
was named long ago, and before the conven-
tion assembled the second place on the
ticket had been assigned by common con-
sent to Senator Fairbanks. Ex-Governor
Frank Black of New York presented Roose-
velt's name; and was followed by Senator
Beveridge, George Knight of California. ex-
, Governor Bradley of Kentucky, Joseph b.
| Cotton of Minnesota, ex-senator L. II. Car
| ter, Harry Stillwel Edwards of Macon,
Ga, and Harry S. Cummins, the colored
| orator from Baltimore, who spoke for
Roosevelt in the name of his race and made
a good speech. Then the clerk began calling
the roll on a vote for the presidential nomi-
nation. When the requisite number for a
! choice had been reached Roosevelt was de-
J ciared nominated.
| At the close of Governor Blacks speech
| Chairman Cannon walked to the front of
/ the platform waving an old flag, and after
| the tumult aroused by the presentation of
the name of Roosevelt had subsidized the
! delegates were told that this flag had waved
! at all the Republican conventions. AS Mir.
! Cannon waved the flag over the heads of
the delegates it aroused them to the highest
! pitch of frenzy Of the day. Old men in the
! delegations rushed to the platform, and
stretching forth their hands begged to be
permitted to carry the flag. but he would
not trust it with them. The flag is the prop
erty of the Lincoln-McKinley Association,
and has been carried in all Republican con-
ventiouS since the first Lincoln nomination.