The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09

St. Louis, July s.-Hon. L. Irving Handy of Wilmington. Del, made the following speech placing in nomination the name of Judge George Gray:
 Gentlemen of the Convention:
 Delaware offers to you her bravest noblest and best Ours Is a small state and it would be idle to invite you to come 10 Delaware for a Presidential candidate merely to win our electoral vote. But this is not competition between states to determine which is largest or which is greatest. You are about to nominate not state, but a man. and l submit that 1t is better to take a great man from lit- tie state than a little man from a great state
 Not because he Is a Delawarean, al- though we exult in the knowledge that with US he has spent his life, but be- cause he Is great and good and true, we present George Gray for your considera- tion and decision. We present him as a citizen of the United States for not one of all the states lies outside the boundaries of his patriotism and affection.
 Make him President and all the states which lie within the-four corners of our continental domain will find that this man, who merely happens to be a resi- dent of Delaware, Is in truth as broad as the continent in his sympathies and outlook.
 New York can find in him a candidate close to the hearts of her democratic vot- CTS, and yet free from all factional bit- terness and party divisions His election to the presidency would be the triumph of no particular part of our party in that great commonwealth but victory for the whole democracy in the Empire state.
 Nebraska Could Be Content. Nebraska might well be content to sees him take our banner from the hands of her heroic sen. who has twice gallant 1 ly carried it in the great fight, and re- jolce to see that old banner in these new hands, on a kinder day and fairer field, carried to complete and lasting Yictory--content because the Delawarean, like the Nebraskan, Is man of principle, not merely a man of policy, man whose hope and faith and aspirations are in the great masses of the common people, and as President his concern would be first to protect the rights and conserve the interests of the people whom God made. instead of using the government to pro- mote unduly the persons made by act Of legislature, commonly called corporations. The southern states might well rejoice to see him in the presidential chair. He is blood of their blood and bone of their bone In mighty debate in the United States senate 1t was his true blade that slew outright once and forever the propo- sition to fetter, by a force bill. the south ern people who were struggling face to face with the most treatening conditions that men ever confronted under free in- stitutions. He does not live too far south to be elected to the presidency at this time, but he is far enough south to under stand and appreciate the conditions which obtain in that broad, fair and hopeful por- ton of our common country. As I may 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 man. ner and with manifest truth I say to you of the southern states that with you, too. will have a man of your own once more in the White House.
 islands Would Bless Ills Name.
 Not only the states which have a 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 be- lieves in home rule. He has a passion for human liberty He wants to see all men given an opportunity for self government. Make him president and he will find a way by which every interest of this country will be. protected and safe guard ed and law and order insured, and yet the little brown men of the distant is- lands will be permitted to taste at last the sweets of human liberty and home rule. They will know oppressors no more, and oppression itself will become in the Philippines like an evil dream which has passed.
 All the nations of the earth will learn to hold him in honor because he will walk in the path of peace. No rough rider he! His ideal is of happy, prosperous, con- tented people. He would seek no bloody A>~< itself satire upon the congress, the courts and upon the settled practices and usages of national and international law. It summoned the congress into nasty and futile extra session and virtually ad- iourned it, leaving behind in it's flight from Washington full calendars and un- accomplished tasks.
 It made war which is the sole power of congress without It's authority thereby usurping one of it's fundamental preroga- tives. It violated plain statute Of the United States as we'll as plain treaty obligations, international usages and con stitutonal laws; and has done so under pretense of executing great public policy which could have been more easily af- fected lawfully, constitutionally and with honor. It forced strained and unnatural constructions upon statutes usurping judicial interpretation and substituting congressional enactment decree
 It withdrew from congress their custom ary duties of investigation which have heretofore made the representatives of the people of the states the terror of evil- doers
 It conducted a secrective investigation of It's own and boasted of a few sample convicts while it threw a broad coverlet over the burdens which had been their chosen field of operative abuses. and kept ! in power the superior officers under whose administration the crimes had been committed
 It ordered assault upon some monopolies but paralyzed by its first victory, 1t flung out the flag of truce and cried out that 1t would not run amuck'--leaving Its future purposes beelouded by its vac ciliations.
 Appeal to the Country.
 Conducting the campaign upon this declaration, of our principles and pur- poses, we invoke for our candidates the support not only of our great and time- honored organization, but also the active assistance of all our fellow citizens who disregarding past differences upon ques- tons, no longer in~issue, desire the per- petuation of our constitutional govern ment as. framed and established by the fathers of the republic.
 NUMEROUS CANDIDATES ARE
 NAMED FOR THE PRESIDENCY
 DURING AN ALL NIGHT.SESSI0N