The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-20

mt Republican Convention Lauds State and National ofcers--Tribute to Late Senator 0. H. PIatt--states That Have Done Least for Labor Are MeIn- Ocratic-Capable State Administration Worthy of Note.
 In his speech to the delegates to the republican state convention held at the Hyperion theater last night, Congress- man George l.. Lilley, of Watsro try, said.
 Gentlemen of Convention:-
 Two thoughts must stimulate our memories as we assemble as Repub- Iicans in this biennial convention. The first is for the great man who led In the deliberations of the last similar gathering. We may well pause to rem der A silent tribute to him brought to tbis commonwealth and to our party such distinction by his nobility of character and great achievements in the nations affairs It Is with pro- found sense of my unworthiness to oc- cupy, even temporarily, a post that he graced with so much wisdom and charm, that I acknowledge the great honor of succeeding to the duty last committed to the distinguish and lamented Orville H. Platt.
 The second thought Is that this is the golden jubilee year of the Republi- can party It was in the summer of 1856, fifty years ago that our party entered the arena of national affairs. During the first years of its power, the statesmen in charge of the destiny of the party and of the nation were con fronted with the greatest and most difficult problems that were ever forced upon political organization-the pres- ervation of the Union, the abolition of the national disgrace of slavery the eradication of the doctrine of secession, the restoration of the eleven wayward Confederate states to their places under the Stars and Stripes, the transforma- tion of the federal government from a precarious league Into an indssoluble and indestrucible nation. How these were met and solved matter of glo- glorous history.
 It is a great thing, gentlemen, to be a humble private in the ranks of this militant and successful organization We may be pardoned for recalling ir this Jubilee year few of its great achievements.
 REPUBLICAN ACHIEVEMENTS.
 Most of these have been accomplish in the face of bitter and persistent Democratic opposition. Some of these achievements have been: The resump. tion of specie payment and the restora tion to it's full value of every American dollar: the extension to the remotes corners of the land, of our mail service now the greatest and most efficient bus iness organization on earth; the adop- tion of the gold standard and, alway: since the Morrill, tariff of 1861, the pro lection of our labor and industries and finally, the heroic and successful grappling with the new problem of tht trusts.
 This latest work is as yet unfinisht There has not been time for the com plete solution of what is as vast al economic question as was slavery { social and secession a political problem If the future may be Judged b! the past we may rest assured that tn virile and courageous Theodore Roose welt will not leave his office without a completely settling this new issue a did Araham Lincoln the great ques tions for the solution ot which an all wise Providence seemed to have calle the martyr president.
 The constructive acts of the Repub lioan party ir the ffty-ninth congress alone entitle it to the lasting gratitud