Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-12
SLATE GOES THROUGH
New York Republicans Meet
in Convention Today.
DEPEW GETS OVATION
ELOQUENT SPEECH ON ASSUMING
TEMPORARY CHAIR.
Speaks Forcefully of the Party's Pro-
gress and the Policy of Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
DEPEW GETS OVATION

NEW YORK, April 12-The republican
state convention to elect delegates to the
national convention at Chicago met at noon
! today in Carnegie Hall. Early in the FORE
| noon the corridors of the Fifth Avenue Ho.
| tel began to fill up with republican poll.
| ticians from all parts OF the state and by
| 10 o'clock practically all OF the leaders and
| most of the delegates were gathered there.
| There was comparatively little discussion
| of today's convention as such. 1t being REQ
| ognized by all concerned that the details
| Of the convention were already settled az q
| result of the conferences of yesterday and
| Sunday. The gossip in the corridors was
| largely confined to the national situation.
Senator Platt selected as his alternate
| at-large former State Senator ]. Sloat
| Fassett. and this made the complete list
| to be named late this afternoon az fol-
| lows
Delegates-at-large: Senator Thomas c.
| Platt: alternate. j. Sloat Fassett; Senator
| c. M. Depew. alternate. Louis Stern;
| Governor b. B. Odell. jr.. alternate Eras-
| H. C. Brewster.
The electors-at-large to be selected by
| the committee are Former Mayor Schieren.
Brooklyn. and George Urban. jr., of Buff
| falo.
AS a prelude to his assuming the chair
| mansh1p of the state committee Governor
| Odell this morning was elected member
| OF that body from the twentieth district.
The Fassett- -Gillett Contest.
During the roll call which followed the
formal opening of the convention former
State Senator ]. Sloat Fassett announced
| that no compromise had been agreed upon
in the thirty-third congressional district
| where Mr.. Fassett and Representative
Charles w. Gillett have both been nom-
mated for Congress- Tho rnottar Mr
| sett added. would be settled out of COURT
| after the delegates had returned home
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew was intro
duced as temporary chairman. The sena-
tor, who was received with prolonged
| cheers, spoke in part as follows:
Speech Of Senator Depew.
Since We last met four years ago death
| has removed the great leaders of that cam
paign. Mckinley, the best loved of Pres
| idents; Hanna, the most extraordinary or
| ganizer and political leader of our period
| and Thomas b. Reed, who rescued the
House of Representatives from chaos and
by his genius enabled it to transact public
business. All fell in the prime of life and
| in the midst of their usefulness.
Leaders may die, but the great party
which followed them. after worthy tributes
to their memory, passes on to grapple with
and solve, as 1t has ever done, the problems
which always arise in free governments,
and to solve them In the interest of the
people. The party of Lincoln and of Grant
/ of Hayes and of Garfield and Arthur Of
Harrison and of Mckinley of Seward and
of Blaine leaves the memory of its great
statesmen who have departed to the tender
care of grateful country. Their fame
! and their achievements part of the best
history of the republic.
In the Front Rank Among Nations.
1.-The far-seeing mind and the courage OF
| our business men,. the skill of our artisans.
our farmers and miners, have placed
us in the front rank among the producing
nations of the world. In the midst of pros
perity never before equaled of employ
| ment, markets and opportunities never be-
| fore possessed we tried the experiment for
| four years of a new policy. From the ruin
! which involved all emerged, under
Mckinley and Roosevelt. Not only that,
| but more, we have repaired the disasters
| from 1893 to 1897.
| I'VE have opened the closed factories and
| n ills; we have built UP new industries and
removed every trace of the devastations OF
semi-free trade and unsound currency. The
! distress from putting into legislation false
| theories may be greater in our commercial
and industrial age than those which follow
| ed in the track of armies in former gener-
| ationS. The task of the republican party
| when it came into power with Mckinley
| and a republican Congress to remove
| handicaps upon American enterprise and
energy and furnish the bases for prosperity.
Best Tribute to Prosperity.
'It is the best tribute to the prosperity
resulting from the measures which came
! after 1896. and to the inherent honesty of
| American business men. that nine-tenths OF
| those who were compelled to take advan-
tage of this remedial measure have since.
| in their abundant success, paid principal
and interest of their indebtedness.
! president Roosevelt might have let
| war go on between Panama and Colombia.
He might have commenced fruitless nego-
I'tiations with Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
| He might have transferred the whole ques-
| tion to Congress. weakly abandoning his
| executive responsibility; but the mandate
| of the American people was upon him to
| build the isthmian canal and the Congress-
| by the unanimous vote of the senators ana
| members of the House of Representatives
| on the republican side and large number
! of senators and members of the House on
| the democratic side have affirmed the WIS.,
dom and the constitutionahty OF MS course.
Issues Clearly Defined.
Happily for our party, we are not walt
ing to be told what we are to believe by the
national convention, nor is our candidate
| composed as yet. of inchoate qualities.
| Every republican In this broad land knows
| in what we believe and knows for whom he
| is going to vote. The campaign is to bo
| conducted by the opposition almost solely
against the tariff and President Roosevelt.
1--WE accept the challenge upon the Ding
| ley bill, and point to what II has accom-
plshed. We will not make any general re-
vision of its benehcent provisions. but as IN
the case of the Porto Rcan, the Cuban and
the Philippine tariffs we will modify It's
practical application as its necessities re-
quire, but we will not have those modihcar
tons made by It's enemies.
.srhe completion of the istbmian canal
will bring the cities on the Atlantic coasS
nearer the orient than the ports OF con-
tfuental Europe or Great Britain Its con-
struction will revolutionize the commerce
of the world and intellectually promote the
position and prosperity of the United States
A Large Navy to Meet Expansion
The Presidents advocacy Of a large navy
which viii, make us the second maritime
power of the world is wise and far-sight-
ed policy to meet the expansion OF com-
merce which must come to us by the 18TH
mian canal and the open door from Amer
lean diplomacy.
ITO ask for an open door for the surplus
products of American industry with neithss