The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-27

IL Luz OQC, d1lu SeucllOT Clarence Ds Z
Clark of Wyoming.
Included among the invited guests
were personal and political friends OF
the president in New York state, life
long friends and neighbors on Long
Island, including the pastors Of the
oyster Bay churches and the officials
of the national and New York state
republican organizations.
Those present numbered about 125.
1t was necessary to limit the number
on account of the isolation of Saga
more Hill and the lack Of facilities for
the accommodation Of a larger as
sembly
committeeman were received by
President Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt
and National Chairman George B.
Cortelyou. All Of the guests Of the
president were gathered on the
veranda and as the occupants Of each
by the president and each was pre-
scented to Mrs. Roosevelt.
At the conclusion of the informal
reception the ceremony of notifica-
ton began. While the members Of
the family, the house guests and some
sembled> on the veranda, majority
Of these in attendance gathered on the
lawn facing the veranda.
OpCSthCI SdlllOu Speaks
When Speaker Cannon rose to de-
liver his speech Of notification he was
greeted with applause. His speech
is as follows:
Mr. President: The people Of the
United States, by blood, heredity, educa-
ton and practice, are a self-governins
people. We have sometimes been SUBJ
ject to prejudice and embarrassment from
harmful conditions, but we have out.
grown prejudice and overcome conditions
as rapidly as possible, having due regard
to law and the rights of individuals. We
have sometimes made mistakes, from
false sense Of security or from a desira
to change policies instead OF letting well
enough alone, merely to see what would
happen; but we have always paid tha
penalty of unwise action at the ballot
box and endured the suffering, UNTIL UNI
der the law, thru the ballot box, we have
returned to correct policies. Tested by
experience, no nation has so successfully
solved all problems and chosen proper
policies as our nation. Under the lead
Of the republican party for over forty
years, the United States, from being
third-class power among the nations, has
become in every respect first The people
rule. The people ruling, it is necessary
that they should be competent to rule
Competency requires not only patriotism
but material well-being, education, stats-
craft
The people, under the lead of the re-
publican party, wrote upon the statute
books revenue laws, levying taxes upon
the products Of foreign countries seek
ing our markets, which replenished our
treasury but were SO adjusted as to en-
courage our people in developing, diversi-
flying and maintaining our industries. at
| the same time protecting our citizens
laboring in production against the COM
petition of foreign labor.
This policy Of protection has always
been opposed by the opponents Of the
republican party and is opposed by them
today. In their last national platform.
adopted at st. Louis, they denounce pro.
lection as robbery. They never have
been given power, but they proceeded by
word and act to destroy the policy 81
| protection.
Silence Of Democracy.
Their platform is as silent as the grave
touching the gold standard and our cur
| rency system. Their chosen leader, after
| his nomination, having been as silent al
the sphinx up to that time, sent his teie-
gram saying in substance that the gold
standard is established and that he WIN
govern himself accordingly IL he should
| be elected
right late than never. It Is better to Be
right In one thing than wrong in all things.
l wonder II 1t ever occurred to him that
| II his vote and support for his party's
candidate in 1896 and 1900 had been de-
| cfsive we would now have the silver stand
ard. I wonder what made him send that
telegram after he was nominated and why
he did not send it before. When did he
have a change of heart and judgmentf
| And does he at heart believe in the gold
/ standard and our currency system, or does
he try now to reap where he has not
sown? If, perchance, he should be elected
| by forcing together discordant elements, I
submit that, with democratic house OF
representatives or house and senate, there
would be no harmonious action in legisla-
ton or administration that would benefit
the people, but that doubt and discon-
tent would everywhere distress production
and labor. Consumption would be cur
tailed In short, we would have an ex-
/ perience similar to that from 1893 to 1897.
If this chosen leader and his friends are
converts to republican policies, should not
they bring forth fruits meet for repent
ance" before they ask to be placed in the
| highest positions to affect the well-being
of all; or, II they profess all things to all
men. then they are not worthy the con-
i fdence of any man. If clothed with pow
/ er, will they follow in the paths of legis-
llation according to their loves and votes
as manifested by their action always here
tofore, or will they stand by, protect and
joSASAO IA6 SOlu SLdaodlo c1ttO JUL Cui
Irency system that have been created un-
der the lead of the republican party?
4 Correct revenue laws, protection or free
trade, the gold standard and our cur
|rency system, all depend upon the senti-
ment Of the majority of people as
voiced at the ballot box. A majority may
change our revenue laws; a majority may
q change our currency laws; majority may
9 destroy the gold standard and establish
1.-The silver standard, or, in lieu of either OF
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