Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-09
David 0vermeyerP Places Miles
in Nomination.
EULOGIZES HIS CAREER
PRAISES THE GENERALS RECORD
IN WAR AND PEACE.
Declares That He Believes in the Eco
nomic Doctrines of the Democratic
Party-For Free Filipinos.

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was made by Mr.. David Overmeyer in
nominating General Miles for President:
| Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
| Convention: L nominate for President
son of Massachusetts. He is also
| adopted son of the republic and a friend
of mankind a man of great ability, of
| great attachments and of great achieve
| nients; a soldier. a statesman, pubicst;
| a faithful servant, who has served his
| country long and well. who has fought for
| his country, who has bled for his coun-
| try and who through long years periled
| his life for his country, and has earned
| the wreath of fame with which Task you
| to deck his noble brow.
! Sprung from that nursery of American
nobility, the American farm: descended
| from long line of devoted and heroic
| patriots; born to an inheritance of lofty
chivalry: at his countrys call, he bounded
| to the battlefield flaming young Her.
| cules
| without a regular military education,
| at first rejected as too young to be a cap
! tain. in three years thereafter he was
| major general.
| "A citizen warrior he proved a hero,
| against whose stern, unyielding front of
| steel and flame the flower of foe as brave
| as ever bore arms was hurled again and
| again in vain. Wounded at Fair Oaks, Sc
| verely wounded at Fredericksburg, desper
| ately and apparently mortally wounded at
| charlottesville. borne from the field as if
| dead. with crimson laurels thick upon him,
| he survived to fight on still more bloody
| fields. and to receive the praises of every
| great captain of the civil war.
| " The stars. said Meagher, that blaze
| upon his shoulders We're called down from
| the skies by the magnetism of his sword
| and the great Grant has declared in his
| memoirs that this boyish chic ftain
equal to TIL, part performed by himself.
His Indian Campaigns.
| '.At the close of the civil war the whole
| plain for hundreds of miles east of The
| Rocky mountains. covered with hostile
Indians; marauding. numbering, torturing.
carrying devastation and despair in all
directions. and making the settlement and
development of that region impossible. The
| man l present was sent against Them.
| With sleepleSS vigilance with tireleSS ener-
gy. with cOnsummate strategy. with re-
| lentless purpose, with fortitude uEsur-
passed in the annals of time with courage
| that faced death at every step; on noun
| tain wiidS and through wate rleSS wastes.
| where men furnishing did taste their own
blood to quench the awful thirst; through
| southern sands and northern SHOWS:
| through storms that rocked the earth and
| hid the sky. he and his men pursued and
| overthrow the fierce Cheyenne the terrible
| Sioux and bloody Apache; driving their
| broken remnants beyond the boundaries
of the United States: hurting Sitting Dull
| into British America and Geronimo into
Mexico and capturing him tnere. thus
| breaking forever the power of the bar
| barian, clearing the plains of the cruel.
| implacable. beleaguring savage, and open
| ing their vast to the peaceful mill
| lions who now inhabit them and unnum-
bered millions who shall follow For this
| great service he received the thanks or
| Arizona, New Mexico, Montana and Kan
| sas.
| Cicero has said 'Grecian nations give
| the honors of the gods to those men who
have slain tyrants;' and shall we hesi-
| tate to with the chaplet he has
| won him who slew the dragons of the
wilderness and conquered the demons of
| the desert?
Having pacified the plains he rose
| through merit alone to the head of the
army To him the armies of Spain sur
| rendered He liberated Cuba and carried
| glad tidings Of peace and liberty to Porto
Rico
| Having opened the desert to civiiza-
tion with the eye of prophet and TIE
wisdom of a statesman. he pointed out
! the way to remove from its parched and
desolate face the old despair, and cause
it to answer the touch of the tilier with
| glorious bloom. with ample verdure and
smiling plenty. While others were dream
Ing and wondering he told them how
| Egypt, Assyria. Persia. India, China and
| Japan sustained enormous populations by
| scientific and judcious control of the nat
| ural supply of water. And he has told us
| recently that the money squandered in
disagreement of so-called colonies would
water all of our arid lands. or build high
| ways for the whole country.
"A lover of nature. he pleads for trees
and fields and fruits and harvests.
His Humanity.
"In his solicitude for his fellow men, in
! his anxiety for the welfare of the whole
| people there is profound affection for the
human race an undying devotion to those
institutions which protect and shelter the
weak and the poor from cruelty, avarice
| and ambition.
|
| hearth and home and all the blessed ties
| of family and friendship, and all the sacred
attainments and tender sympathies and
! exalted and reverent virtues of domestic
| life The hero of hundred battles he
| energies from lifetime of military service
| the nations greatest champion of peace.
War has not blunted his sensbilities. PER
| verified his sentiments or hardened his heart.
| but 1t has developed in his great heart
| pity and mercy, compassion and considera-
| ton.
| AT the command of his country he
| stood before kings: he has circled the globe
! and visited. officially. every civilized ma
| ton beneath the sun and witnessed the
mighty pageants of earth. Yet neither the
| splendOrS of royalty, nor the magnifcence
| of imperial power could tempt his fealty
| to free institutions or lure him from the
| path of democracy With mistaken faith
| in human nature, he cheriShes the ideals
| of his youth and the traditions of the
I fathers of the republic. Though he has
| traversed every land and sailed on every
| set, yet loves the Wnlle tnlS Tree cOSlnO-
| politan old friends, old themes and keeps
| his boyhood dreams in sight
| Thine has not stalled him: years have
| not chilled him; experience has not sOured
| him; the tolls. the struggle. the trials of
life have neither weakened nor wearied
| him.
HE is known to the country and to the
| world. He is famous. He Is renowned
| He Is admired and loved by his country-
| men. Strong and cheerful firm yet kind,
afrable yet dignified. stern yet tender. pos
| sessed Of comprehensive mind and wide
| information: accustomed to deep reiiec-
| ton, of gentle manners and engaging. fas
| cinating and noble presence. he bears the
| stamp of extraordinary man, whose
| splendid equipment and towering person.
| atty mark his for the gravest duties, the
| noblest service and the highest honors.
! Born and reared in the east his long
| service brought him in contact with the
| west for more than quarter of a CEN
| fury. No man knows more of the west, its
| needs its sympathies and its aspirations;
| and no man knows the whole country any
| better than he. born democrat, he Is in
| full sympathy with the democratic party
| and it's principles. An anti-imperialist, an