Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-25
EX-GOVERNOR FRANK S. BLACK
OF NEW YORK MAKES THE
NOMINATING SPEECH.
AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE
The Address Is Fitting Characterised
ton Of the Great Executive and
Echoes the Sentiment of the Enslre
Nation

chicago, June 23.--If the republican
national convention had been quiet
AFFAIR during the first two days, it
made up for the apparent listlessness
To-Day when Theodore Roosevelt and
charles w. Fairbanks were nominated
for the two highest offices in the gift
OF the people of the United States.
me address Of former Governor Frank
5. Black. nominating Mr.. Roosevelt
for the presidency. was the signal for
the opening of the enthusiastic demon.
stratlon and the coliseum fairly shook.
Governor Black paid an eloquent trib-
ute to the man who has been at the
helm OF the ship of state since the
death OF his martyred predecessor.
His address in full follows:
Campaign Already Over.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the
convention: We are here to inaugurate
campaign which seems already to be
nearly closed. So wisely have the
people sowed and watched and tended.
there seems little now to do but
to measure up the grain. They are
ranging themselves not for battle but
for harvest. In one column reaching
from the Maine woods to the PUGET
i Sound are those people and those states
which have stood SO long together, that
when great emergencies arise the ma
ton turns instinctively to them In this
column. vast and solid, is majority
SO overwhelming that the scattered
squads in opposition can hardly raise
another army. The enemy has neither
guns nor ammunition, and If they had
they would use them on each other.
Destitute of the weapons of effective
warfare, the only evidence of approach
ing battle is in the tone and number
OF their bulletins. There is discord
among the generals; discord among
the soldiers. Each would fight in his
own way, but before assaulting his re-
publican adversaries he would first de-
stroy his own comrades in the adjoin-
ing tents. Each believes the weapons
chosen by the other are not only wick.
ed but fatal to the holder. That is
true. This Is the only war OF modern
times where the boomerang has been
substituted for the gun. Whatever
fatalities may occur, however, among
the discordant hosts now moving on
st. Louis. no harm will come this fail
to the American people. There will be
no opposition sufficient to raise con
| f1ict. There are no democratic plans
for the conduct Of the fall campaign.
Their zeal is chiefly centered in discus.
sion as to what Thomas Jefferson
would do If he were living He is not
living, and but few of his descendants
are among the democratic remnants of
today. Whatever of patriotism or wis
dom emanated from that distinguished
man is now represented In this con-
vention
1t is sad day for any party when
its only means of solving living issues
is by guessing at the possible attitude
Of a statesman who is dead This CON
dition leaves that party always a be.
ginner and makes every question new.
| The democratic party has seldom tried
problem on its own account, and
when 1t has its blunders have been it's
only monuments, its courage is remenl-
bered only in regret. AS long as these
things arc recalled that party may
serve as ballast, but it will never steer
| the ship.
Cherries Word, "Foraet."
/ When all the people have forgotten
will dawn a golden era for this new
democracy But the country is not
ready yet to place a party in the lead
whose most expressive motto is the
cheerless word forget" That motto
may express contrition, but it does not
inspire hope. Neither confidence nor
enthusiasm will ever be aroused by any
party which enters each campaign ut
tering the language of the mourner
There is one fundamental plank,
seconded Fairbanks nomination. Ex-
Senator Carter, of Montana spoke
briefly for Fairbanks and received his
Of