Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-08-24
Speaker Renominated for Congress
and Makes Address on Issues OF
The Campaign.
FOR VOTERS TO THINK ABOUT
Calls on the Nation to Support Pres''
dent Rooseveit-Tariff Re-
vision.

/ and renominated Hon. Joseph G. Can
ION for the eighteenth consecutive
time, being the seventeenth nomina-
non by reclamation. There was the
greatest enthusiasm especially over
the prospective candidacy of Mr.. Can
non for president. Mr. Cannon had
not intended TO launch boom for pres
/ ident at this convention, but the pres
sure of his supporters was so great as
to sweep away his wishes in the mat
! ter.
Mr.. Cannons supporters in his own
/ district will likely urge the state con
vention to make similar Endorsement.
/ There seems TO be little doubt that this
| will be done
/ Mr.. Cannon fired the opening gun
of the Republican congressional cam
/ paign by a speech, in part as follows:
| MIR. Cannon's Address.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen OF the
! Convention: | thank you for this eX-
preston of confidence and | conSratu-
\ late you on the prosperous condition
of the country under Republican adj
mnistration. The Republican party
has followed the teachings in the par
able of the wise servant who returned
to his master the talent entrusted to
his care multiplied tenfold. Clothed
with responsibility for the administra-
ton of the government of SO.O00,0oo
people, we have sought to make re-
turn that will benefit those who en-
trusted the talent to our care. We
have succeeded in making two blades
of grass grow luXurantly under Re-
publican administration where one
grew feebly before under the Demo-
cratic administration.
, Since the election of William Nc
Kinley as president the business of the
country has doubled and the material
interests of all the people have become
better than ever before in our history;
aye, better than the condition of any
people anywhere on earth in any time
since history began. This is under the
policies of the Republican party as en-
: acted into law by congress and eXecut-
} ed by the president. Attribute this
condition to what cause you may. spec
ulate about it as YOU will. call II conf
dence in mea or measures, the fact re-
mains that it exists and that there
never has been recorded anywhere
such industrial development and sucil
wave if prosperity as has swept ov-
er the United States in the last decade.
''Under the administration Of the
Dineley staff law there has been a
4 greater development in all forms Of in
n dustry than has ever been reaced I'M
. der any other revenue law since the
u government was organized. The SEIZED.
ules of that law are not sacred. bur
e the principle there embodied is funda
. mental. Since the enactment of the
first revenue law under Washington
down to the present time the periods
of prosperity have been under protec
/ ton, and the periods of adversely have
;. been under the policy of free trade OF
tariff for revenue only
4 All the People Share In 1t.
), This remarkable prosperity under
y the Dineley law has not been for one
> class. but for all the people. 1t has
touched the artisan. the farmer, the
S manufacturer and the common labor OF
J. the country. All have felt its benefi
" cient influence. and | measure my
words when say that the production
from all kinds of business enterprise
q has doubled since that memorable yeal
> of 1896. when the country in its dis
n tress. turned to William Mckinley. the
champion of protection, as the advance
l., agent of prosperity. The capital EN-
: ployed in our industries has doubled il
these ten years; the farmers have lift
ed their mortgages and are enjoying
e the embarrassments of a surplus in ths
It savings banks: and laborers have ceas
h ed to hunt for jobs and have become
l. the hunted by the jobs: in spite O
large immigration from other lands
there is more work than workers il
l. this country today.
% Capital is cheaper than ever before
. and money can be had at less inter
est than anywhere else in the world
- The sun of prosperity is shining OF
* every part of our immense stretch o
territory from the Atlantic to the Pa
~ cific and from the great lakes to tht
70 gulf and the Rio Grande We are a
NJ peace with all the world. and our in
tiuence for peace. whether it be be
n tween two great powers in the Orient
2 or among the small republics on tn,
h American continent, is felt through
out the world.
"The record of the servant is hi
"a best and only certificate for contin
X ued employment, and the Republican
in party. as a servant of the people
stands today in this campaign square
ly on its record.
~ Tariff revision in time of prosperit,
always mas, ana always VIII, malt Dus
o. mess activity, production and CON
merce. The manufacturer will lesser
I'd his output. for he fears to pile up hi
in product unless there is REASONABLE
:, certainty of realizing it's cost and fai
- profit. The farmer halts in making in
prOvementS and consumes less. be
D. cause there is shortened demand TO
OF his products. The decrease in the wage
h. if labor alone pending revision wou
amount to many hundred million do
- lars. Where there is confidence an
u, prosperity without precedent. Their
~ would be doubt and destruction of cor
fidence.
= Must Support the President.
II. 1T is vital that the Republica
party should remain in power for til
coming two years in order that tn
I'd legislative and executive department
It. of the government should continue i
er harmony. If our friends. the enem,
should be successful in electing
house of representatives in Novembe
w next, that body in the siXtieth congress
= would not be in harmony with the sci
ID ate or with the president. There woul
be 'ue-up,' so to speak, in Legislation
10 Furthermore, their success would b
ga claimed by our Democratic friends t
=, be an evidence of dissatisfaction upo
~ the part of the people with the legi.