The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-23
FROM THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
George A. Knight of California Sec
onds the Nomination of Roosevelt.

OOOASO a. might Oh &aiIIOTn1a Sec
onds the Nomination of Roosevelt.
Convention Hall, Chicago, June "a
SecOndlng the nomination of President
Roosevelt on behalf of California Geo
A. knight said:
Gentlemen of the Convention: Geog-
raphy has but little to do with the sent
timent and enthusiasm that is today
apparent in favor of the one who is to he
given all the honors and duties of an
elected president of the United States
OF America. However. the Pacific slope
and the Islands Chose ocean buoys of
commerce noored in the drowsy tropi-
cal sea) send to this convention words
Of confident greeting with discreet as
surance that your judgment will be en-
dorsed by the American voter and our
country continue its wonderful progress
under Republican success. The time is
ripe for Frightening up ArnericaniSm to
teach with renewed Vigorf the principles
of individual liberty for which the min
ute men of the revolution fought; the
Lincoln liberty, individual liberty
Tor the man, not a black man alone,
any men, all men; the right of labor in
| the air of freedom unmolested and to
be paid for his Individual toll and with
it build his cottage home.
From the press, the pulpit, the school
house, the platform and the street let
the true history of our country be
known that the young men and women
OF America and many old ones, may
know what a price has been paid for
the liberty, peace and union they enjoy
through the devoted patriotism of our
silent heroes of the past Deprivation
and sacrifice already endured for many
years before the old bell in the state
house was given the voice to speak the
glorious sentiment of the age and pro-
claim liberty throughout all the land,
and they were the instruments bywhich
the principle productive of our national
grandeur were set as jewels in our pub
lie coronet. What we prayed for, fought
for, bled for and died for we want cared
for.
Telegraph the world that the Republi-
can party was the first organization
that becko1ed the Iaboring man to his
feet and made him know the quality
and equality of mis- true self. It showed
him the possibility of honest poverty
and has withheld nothing from his ann
bition. 1t took a railsplitter from the
ground floor of a log cabin and set him
with the stars.
Protection to American labor and our
natural resources, climate, soil, agr1-
cultural and mineral wealth, navigable
rivers and safe harbors, wise laws and
clean public men, have made us the
greatest nation of earth today. In ter
ritory we have outgrown the continent;
we are peopling the isles of the sea.
Thus said the Lord: "A great eagle
4 with great wings, long winged and run
of feathers, which had divers colors,
came unto Lebanon and took the high
4 est branch of the cedar. He cropped
off the top of its young twigs and car
ried it into a land of traffic; he set It
4 IN a city OIL lnerc0anLSs ne LOOK also VI
seed of the land and planted 1t IN a
fruitful field; he placed it across great
I waters and set as a willow tree
How like unto our emblem OF free
4 dom he has cropped off the young
/ twigs of our cedar of liberty and car
/ ried them across the ocean to the land
4 of traffic and set them in the city of
merchants. The seed of our land is
there among fruitful fields beside great
waters and set as a willow tree. Our
country is big and broad and grand;
we want a president typical of the
country; one who viii preserve her his
/ tory, enforce her law, teach American
ism and fight the wrong
/ Theodore Roosevelt, thou art the man.
Well may he be proud; he is young,
| the pride of life is his, and time is on
his side: he loves the whole country
and knows no fayorite section, he has
kept the faith with McKinleys mem
DRY and now faces responsibility his
own. He hypnOtiZes obstacles, looks
/ them in the eye and overpoWers all self
| conscious honesty OF purpose
+ Dishonesty, cowardice and dupicfty
Il are never inpuIsive. Roosevelt is i'm
/ pulsive; so be it-he is different
From a Democratic point of view
he is a weird magician OF politics.
They charge him with disrupting a
government on the isthmus, creating
a republic, and unlawfully conniving
at canal They awoke one fine
morning to find the republic of Pan
/ anna an entity, its existence recognized
ing out millions of dollars to ratify
/ his strategic promptness- He wanted
( to give Uncle Sam a job. and he did
it. and Uncle Sam wanted the job
and he took it. He belongs to the
union We see him standing today
with his feet upon the spade, his
/ garments are made Of his Tag his in