The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-09
NOMINATING
SPEECH Of HANDY
PLACING THE NAME OF JUDGE
GEORGE GRAY BEFORE
DEMOCRATIC :COEVENrN
At St. Louis for President of the
United States-''No Rough
Rider Hell
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
(Bv Associated Press.)

st. Louis, July Or OllOWlnS Is the
nominating speech made by l.. Irving
Handy placing the name Of Judge
GRAY before the Democratic National
convention in st. Louis:
Gentlemen of the convention:
Delaware offers to you her bravest,
nobIest and best. Ours is small state
and it would be idle to invite you to
come to Delaware for Presidential
candidate merely to win our electoral
vote You are about to nominate
not a state but a man, and | submit
that it is better to take great man
from a little state than little man
from great state.
| Not because he is a Delawarean,
although we eNult in the knowledge
that with lis he has spent his life,
but because he is great and good and
true, we present George Gray for your
consideration and decision. We pre-
sent him as a citizen of the United
States. for not one of all the states
lies outside the boundaries Of his
patriotism and affection.
New York can find in him a candi-
date close to the hearts Of her Demo-
cratic voters and yet free from all
fractional bitterness and party divis-
ions.
Nebraska might we'll be content to
see him take our banner from the
hands of her heroic son, who has
twice calamity carried it in the great
fight. and rejoice to see that old ban
ner in these new hands, on a kinder
day and fairer field carried to COM
plete and lasting victory.
The Southern States might we'll re-
ioice to see him in the Presidential
chair. He is blood Of their blood
and bone of their bone. 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 APP
preciate the conditions which obtain
in that broad, fair and hopeful por-
ton of our common country. AS |
NAV say to the North, to the East and
to the West, that with this citizen of
the United States in the Presidential
office, they will each have a man of
their own, in like manner and with
manifest truth [ say to you Of the
Southern States that with him you
too, will have a man Of your own
once more in the White House.
Not only the States which have q
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 believes in the rights OF
man. He believes in home rule. He
. has a passion for human liberty. lie
wants to see all men given an oppor
itunitv for self government. Make hin
President and he will find a way by
which every interest Of this countr,
will be protected and safe guarded
and law and order insured, and ye
the little brown men of the distant
islands will be permitted to taste a
8 least the sweets of human liberty anC
home rule They will know Oppres
:; sors no more, and oppression itselt
2 will become in thePhilippines like al
evil dream which has passed.
All the nations Of the earth will
; learn to hold him in honor because
= bo IL Of
I. rough rider he! His ideal is of hap
v Ply, prosperous, contented people
q He would seek no bloody glory, n
s which quest treasure is poured out
. science blunted. The truest symbol O
8 our glory in his eyes, would be free
man beneath his own vine and fl
u tree, with his family about him
IS after the toll of the day, with non
= to modest or make afraid, and with n
t predatory trust licensed to take fror
his a part Of his daily wage. To re
lease such an ideal requires no @rea
, standing army, and the pursuit Of
> Will lead TO no international friend
e ship abroad; justice and equality q
home.
For fourteen years he was in tn
senate, elected by Delaware, but serN
ing the whole United States, Tha
'. service was the steady, calm, convin'
ing service of lofty patriot an
" true Democrat. With an intellect {
the first order, guided by judgmer
calm and sure-footed he won the az