Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-06-30

TEN, enacted a protective tariff, and
established our national currency on
the firm foundations of the gold stan
dard by the financial legislation of the
56th congress.
The present administration has re-
duced taxation, reduced the public
debt reduced the annual interest
charge, made effective progress in the
regulation of trusts, fostered business,
promoted agriculture, built up the
navy, reorganized the army, resurrec-
ted the militia system, inaugurated a
new policy for the preservation and
reclamation of public lands, given
civil government to the Philippines,
established the Republic of Cuba,
bound it to us by ties of gratitude, of
commercial interest and of common
defense, swung open the closed gate
way of the IsthmuS, strengthened the
Monroe doctrine, ended the Alaskan
boundary dispute, protected the in
tegrity of China, opened wider its
doors of trade, advanced the principle
of arbitration, and promoted peace
among the nations.
We challenge judgment upon this
record of effective performance in
legislation, in execution and in ad-
minstration.
No dividing line can be drawn
athwart the course of this successful
administration. The fatal 18th of
September, 1901, marked no change
of policy no lower level of achieve
ment. The bullet of the assassin
robbed us of the friend we loved; it
took away from the people the presi-
dent of their choice; it deprived civi-
liZation of a potent force making al
ways for righteousness and for hu-
manity. But the fabric of free insti-
tutiOnS remained unShaken. The
government of the people went on.
The great party that William McKin-
ley led, wrought still in the spirit of
his example His true and loyal sue
cessor has been equal to the burden
cast upon him. Widely different in
temperament and methods, he has ap-
proved himself of the same elemental
virtueS-the same fundamental be-
! liefs. With faithful and revering
memory, he has executed the pur-
poses and continued unbroken the pol
icy of President Mckinley for the
peace, prosperity and honor of our
beloved country And he has met all
new occasions with strength and reso-
luton and far-sighted wisdom.
And with Mckinley we remember
Hanna with affection and sorrow-his
great lieutenant. They are together
again.
But we turn as they would have us
/ turn, to the duties of the hour, the
( hopes of the future; We turn as they
would have us turn, to prepare our
selves for struggle under the same
standard borne in other hands by
right of true inheritance. Honor,
/ truth, courage, purity of life, domes-
tic virtue, love OF country, loyalty to
| high ideals-all these combined with
active intelligence, with learning, with
! experience in affairs, with the con
| elusive proof of competency afforded
! by wise and conservative administra-
! tion, by great things already done
and great results already achieved
all these we bring to the people with
| dIOlItI NV lllCoS
have honor in our land? Our presi-
dent has taken the whole peope into
his confidence. Incapable of decep-
ton, he has put aside concealment.
Frankly and without reserve, he has
| told them what their government was
! doing, and the reasons. 1t is no cam
paign of appearances upon which we
enter, for the people know the goOfi
and the bad, the success and failure,
to be credited and charged to our &C
count. 1t is no campaign of sounding
words and speciouS pretences, for our
president has told the people with
frankness what he believed and what
he intended. He has meant every
word he said, and the people have be-
lieved every word he said, and with
him this convention agrees because
every word has been sound republican
doctrine Come what may here
come what may in November, God
grant that those qualities of brave
true manhood shall have honor
throughout America, shall be held for
an example in every home, and that
the youth of generations to come may
grow up to feel that it is better than
wealth, or office, or power to have the
honesty, the purity, and the courage
of Theodore Roosevelt.
The roll of temporary officers of the
convention was then read by the
clerk and approved by the convention
Senator McComas, of Maryland
then offered the following resolution
"Resolved, that the roll of states
and territories be now called, and that
the chairman of each delegation an.
nounce the names of the persons Sc
lected to serve on the several com
mittees, as follows: Permanent Or.
ganization, rules and order of busi
ness, credentials, resolutions; ant
further, that the chairman of eacf
delegation send to the secretary's
desk in writing the names OF The per
sons selected from his delegation II
serve on the aforesaid committees"
This was adopted.
The chairman stated that the ma
tional committee had placed upon th'
roll the names OF two delegates from