The San Francisco call., 1904-07-09
NoMINATEs GENERAL MILES.
David OveTmeyer Wants Former
Commander of Army for President.

ST. LOUIS. July S.-General Nell
son A. Miles was placed in nomina-
ton for President by David over
meyer, who said:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Con-
vention-I nominate for President a son of
Massachusetts. He is also an adopted son Of
OF great ability, Of great attainments and Of
great achievements A soldier. a statesman.
served his country long and well who has
fought for his country. who has bled for his
country and who. through long years. periled
his life for his country and has earned the
wreath Of fame with which 1 ask you TO deck
his noble brow
Sprung from that nursery OF American no
bility, the American farm; descended from a
long line Of devoted and heroic patriots; born
TO an Inheritance Of lofty chivslry, at his
country's call he bounded to the battlehsld, a
flaming young Hercules.
Without a regular military education. at
first rejected as too young to be a captain,
in three years thereafter he was major gen.
eral-
whose stern. unyielding front of steel and
flame the flower Of foe as brave ever
bore arms was hurried, again and again, in
vain. Wounded at Fair Oaks, severely
wounded at Fredericksburg, desperately and
apparently mcrtally wounded at Chancellors-
vile, borne from the field as If dead. with
crimson laurels thick upon him. he survived
ID fight still more bloody fields and TO re-
ceive the praises of every great captain Of
The stars said Meaghren. that blaze
upon his shoulders were called down from the
skies by the magnetism of his sword" and
the great Grant has declared in his memoirs
that this boyish chieftain was equal to the
/ part performed by himself.
At tie 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 de
Nastation and des-air in all directions and
region impossible. The man 1 present was
sent against them. With sleepless vigilance,
with tireess energy, with consummate STRAIT
egy, with relentless purpose. with fortitude
unsurpassed in the annals Of time. with cour-
age that faced death at every step, on noun
tain wilds and through wateriess wastes
where men, famishing. 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 pursu~ and overthrew
the fierce Cheyenne, the terrible Sioux and
the bloody Apache driving their broken rem
nants beyond the boundaries OF the United
States hurting Sitting Bull into British Amer
lea and Geronimo into Mexico and capturing
hm there. thus breaking forever the power
or the barba rian. clearing the plains Of the
cruel, implacable. beleaguering savage and
/ CTening their vast areas TO the peaceful mil
lions who now inhabit them and the unnum-
bered millions who shall follow. For this
eleat service he received the thanks Of Ari-
zona. New Mexico. Montana and Kansas.
SAYS HE LIBERATED CUBA.
Cicero has said "Grecian nations give the
slain tyrants'' and shall we hesitate to crown
with the ehaplet he has Won him who slew
the dragons Of the wilderness and conquered
the demons Of the desert?
Having pacfed the plains he rose through
merit alone TO the head of the army To him
the armies OF Spain surrendered. He liberated
| Cuba and carried glad tidings of peace and
liberty 10 Porto Rico.
/ with the eye Of prophet and the wisdom Of a
4 statesman, he pointed out the way TO remove
/ from it's parched and desolate face the old
/ despair and cause il TO answer the touch OF
\ the tiller with glorious bloom. with ample
/ verdure and smiling plenty While others were
dreaming and wondering he told them how
Egypt. Assyria. Persia. India. China and
japan sustained enormous populations by sci
entifc and judicious control of the natural sup
ply OF water. And he has told US recently
that the money squandered in misgovernment
Of so-called colonies would water all OF our
arid lands build highways for the whole
country.
A lover of nature. he pleads for trees and
! fields and fruits and harvests.
In his solcitude for his fellow men, in his
anxiety for the welfare OF the whole people
I 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.
Fllial and fraternal, he pleads for hearth
and home and all the blessed ties Of family
and friendship. and all the sacred sentiment.
and tender sympa thies and exalted and revereni
| virtues Of domestic life The hero of hun.
| military service the nations greatest cham.
pion for peace War has not biunted his sen
| sibilites. perverted his sentiments or hardened
! his heart. but IL has developed in his great
heart pity and mercy. compassion and con
| sideration.
STOOD BEFORE KINGS.
At the command of his country he stoos
before kings: he has circled the elobe am
visited. officially. every civilized nation benea n
| the sun and witnessed the mighty pageants 81
! earth. Yet neither the Splendors of royalt,
| nor the magnineence OF inlherial power coult
| tempt his fcalty to free institutions or l,Ir,
him from the path Of democracy With nm
4 shaken faith in human nature he cherishe,
1 the ideals OF his youth and the traditions ~
the fathers Of the republic Though he bs,
| traversed every land and sailed on every sea
/ yet he loves the while. this free cosmopolitan
/ old friends. old themes and keeps his bovhoo1
/ dreams in sight