Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-08-16
JUNGLE JOE IS
RE.NOM|NATED
For the 18th Time
By District Con-
vention.
MAKES STRONG SPEECH
In Which He Discusses Poll
tical Issues Fearlessly---
Presidential Boom.

Danville, Ill.,, Aug 16.-Speake
Joseph C. Cannon was given splen
did welcome here today upon the oc
casion of his appearance before th'
eighteenth Republican Congressiona
District Convention.
The convention Of the eighteenth
Illinois Congressional district renomi
mated Joseph G. Cannon for the eigh
teenth consecutive time, being hi!
seventeenth nomination by acclama
ton. He had not intended to launcf
a boom for President at this conven
tion, but the pressure of his support
ers was so great as to sweep away his
wishes in the matter. Speaker Can
mons supporters in his district will
urge the state convention to make 6
similar endorsement. Mr.. Cannon'i
speech follows:
Mr.. Chairman and gentlemen of the
convention:-I thank you for this eX
preston of confidence and congratu
late you on the prosperous condition
of the country under Republican ad
ministration. The Republican party
has followed the teachings in the par
able of the wise servant who returned
to his master the talent entrusted tC
his care multiplied ten fold. Clothed
with responsibility for the administra
ton of the government of S0,000,00(
people, we have sought to make a re
turn that will benefit those who en-
trusted the talent to our care. We
have succeeded in making two blades
OF grass grow luxuriantly under Re
publican administration where one
grew feebly before under the Demo
cratic administration.
Since the election of William McKin
ley as President, the business of the
country has doubled and the material
interests of all the people have be
come better than ever before In our
history; aye, better than the condi
tiOn OF any people anywhere or
earth in any time since history began
This Is under the policies of the Re
publican party as enacted into law by
Congress and executed by the Presi
dent. Attribute this condition to what
cause you may, speculate about it as
you will, call it confidence in men OF
measures, the fact remains that 4
exists and that there never has been
recorded anywhere such industrial de-
velopment and such a wave of pros
perity as has swept over the United
States in the last decade.
Under the administration of the
Dingley tariff law there has been a
greater development in all forms oi
industry than has even been reach ed
under any other revenue law since
the government was organized, The
schedules of that law are now sacred
but the principle there embodied is
fundamental. Since the enactment ot
the first revenue law under Washing
ton down to the present time the
periods of adversity have been undol
the policy of free trade or tariff for
revenue only.
Prosperity for One and All.
This remarkable prosperity under
the Dingley law has not been for one
class, but for all the people. It has
touched the artisan, the farmer, ths
manufacturer, and the common labor
OF the country. ALI have felt it's benef
lcent influence, and measure my
words when say that the production
from all kinds of business enterprise
has doubled since that memorable
year OF 1896, when the country in Its
distress turned to William Mckinley
the champion of protection, as the
advance agent Of prosperity. The
capital employed in our industries has
doubled; the total wages paid for Ia
Dor have more than doubled in these
ten years; the farmers have lifte;
tnelr mortgages and are enjoying thu
emDarrassmends of surplus in th'
savings banks; and laborers hav4
ceased Ito hunt for jobs and have be
come the hunted by the jobs; in spite
OF large immigration from other land.
there is more work than workers /,
this country today. Capital Is chean
er than ever before, and money can h,
had at less interest than anywher,
else in the world. The sun of pro,
perity is shining on every part O
our immense stretch Of territory fror
the Atlantic to the Pacific and from
the Great Lakes to the Gulf and th,
Rio Grande. We are at peace with al
the world, and our influence 70
peace, whether 1t be between two grea
powers In the Orient, or among th
smaN republics on the American con
tinent, is felt throughout the world
The record of the servant is his
best and only certificate for continued
employment, and the Republican party
as a servant Of the people, stands to
day in this campaign squarely on it
record.
We have no census figures as tC
business conditions in 1896, but We
have them for 1890, 1900 and 1905
and to supplement these we have the
of1cial message of President Cleve
land, complaining that unparallele,
business distress and lack Of conf
dence marked the greater part of hi.
administration. We also have the
nfyirfo1 ctof fnuapf NJ Sarp.yn1 Honos, orc