Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-09
JUDGE GRAY IS URGED
Mr.. Handy dominates Former
Delaware Senator.
NO FACTIONS FRIEND
GAS BROAD AS THE CONTINENT
IN HIS sYMPATHIEs."
Long and Distinguished Career in the
Senate and High Rank on
the Bench.
NO FACTIONS FRIEND

Wilmington, Del, said in nominating Judge
Gray for the presidency:
Gentlemen of the convention: Delaware
offers to you her bravest noblest and best.
Ours is a small state and it would be idle
to invite you to come to Delaware for a
presidential candidate merely to win our
electoral vote. But this Is not a compe-
tition between states to determine which is
largest or which is greatest You are about
to nominate not a state but a man, and
submit that 1t is better to take a great
man from a little state than a little man
from a great state
Not because he is Delawarean, al
though we exult in the knowledge that with
us he has spent his life, but because he is
great and good and true we present George
Gray for your consideration and decision.
We present him as a citizen of the United
States. for not one of all the states lies
| outside the boundaries of his patriotism
and affection.
Make him President and all the states
which lie within the four corners of our
continental domain will find that this man.
who merely happens to be a resident of
Delaware, is in truth as broad as the con-
tinent in his Sympathies and outlook
New York can find in him a candidate
close to the hearts of her democratic voters
and yet free from all factional bitterness
and party divisions. His election to the
presidency would be the triumph of no par
ticular part of our party in that great
commonwealth but victory for the whole
democracy 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 1T In the great fight, and rejoice to
see that old banner in these new hands, on
a kinder day and fairer field carried to a
complete and lasting victory-content be-
cause the Delawarean. like the Nebraskan
is man Of principle. not merely a man
of hoe, P,;Sl
aspiration are in the great masses of the
common people. and President, his con-
Germ would be first to protect the rights and
conserve the interests of the people whom
God made, instead of using the govern
ment to promote unduly the persons made
by act of legsla ture commonly called cor
pOratiOns.
Opposed the Force Bill.
THE southern states might well rejoice
to see him in the presidential chair He is
blood of their blood and bone of their bone.
In mighty deba te In the United States SEN
ate it his true blade that slew outright
once and forever the proposition to fetter,
by force bill, the southern people who
were struggling face to face with the most
threatening conditions that men ever con-
fronted under free institutions. He does
not live too far south to be elected to the
presidency at this time, but he is far enough
south to understand and appreciate the
conditions which 'obtain in that broad, fair
and hopeful portion of our common coun-
try. AS l may say to the north. to the
east and to the west, that with this citi-
zen of the United States in the presidential
office they will each have man OF their
| own. in like manner and with manifest
truth ! say to you 81 the southern states
that with him you. too, Will have man of
your own once more in, the White House.
Not only the states which have a right
to cast electoral votes would be blessed by
such a President, but the islands of the
sea would learn to bless his name. He be-
| lieves in the rights of man. He believes
In home-rule. He has passion for human
liberty. He wants to all men given an
opportunity for self-goyernment. Make
him President and he will find a way by
which every interest of this country will
be protected and safeguarded and law and
order insured, and yet the little brown men
of the distant islands will be permitted to
taste at last the sweets of human liberty
and home rule. They will know oppreSsors
| no more, and oppression itself will become
In the Philippines like an evil dream which
has passed.
''AIl the nations of the earth will learn to
| hold him in honor because he will walk
in the path of peace. No rough rider he!
His ideal Is of a happy. prosperous. con-
tented people. He would seek no bloody
glory. in which quest treasure IS poured
out, young lives cut short and public con-
| science blunted. The truest symbol of our
| glory in his eyes would be freeman be-
meath his own vine and fig tree, with his
| family about him. after the toll of the day,
with none to modest or make him afraid.
and with no predatory trust licensed to
take from him part of his daily wage. To
realize such ideal requires no great
| standing army. and the pursuit of 1t will
| lead to no international disputes or foreign
wars. 1t requires but honor and friendship
| abroad. justice and equality at home.
Il do not need to tell of the personal fit
ness of George Gray for the great office of
| President. You know it. The country
| knows it. He has lived in the white light
| of publicity for twenty years. His public
services have been distinguished and known
Esteemed in the Senate.
For fourteen wears he was in the Senate,
elected by Delaware. but serving the whole
United States. That service was the
| steady, calm. convincing service of a lofty
patriot and true democrat. With an intel
| lect of the first order guided by judg-
| ment calm and sure footed. he won the ad
miration and confidence of our country.
He served on the commission which
made peace with Spain, and we all know
| now that 1t would have been well for our
country If his patriotic advice concerning
| the terms OF that treaty-so earnestly and
eloquently urged-had been needed by the
government.
Upon the bench Judge Gray, as lawyers
illustrious men who adorn the federal
| judiciary.
who shall measure the service he rem
dered the people of this whole land in set
| Ting the great anthracite coal strike as
chairman of the commission of arbitration?
Organized labor knew him and organized
| capital knew him. and when his work was
done they united ffifi the cry, Behold just
and fearless man!'a7f
Gentlemen the whole country knows
| him as you know him. His character is not
concealed. His opinions are wrapped In no
mystery Silence does not hedge him
| round about. Hts 3itiiess Is like city set
| upon hill which cannot be hid
Is Not Ambitious.
with all his .otiier qualities to win ap-
prevail. he has the whining trait of society.
He is not ambitiegs, He does not seek or
desire the. presideneA He would prefer
others to himselftsiWe name him here as
a candidate for President. not because he
longs for the plate Or desires to WELD it's
mighty power, s'tsas n because democracy
needs him and the country needs him.
George Gray Is q name entwined with
| victory Inscribei that name upon your
| banners. and faction will hush dissehsion
| cease His nomination here means your