The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18
ELIRU ROOTS SPEECH
Speaks Little of Hughes, Mostly OF
Roosevelt-Hughes In Danger.

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Roosevelt-Hughes in Danger.
Saratoga, n. Y, Sept 1.-THE in
| dications this afternoon were that
Governor Hughes would be renomin'
ated by the Republican state conven-
ton which was called to order at 3
o'clock this afternoon, although there
| were enough delegates opposed to
Hughes to defeat him on the first bal
lot. should they agree on any one can
didate.
The state Republican bosses had
failed to agree upon any one man,
however, up to a short time before the
convention met.
Elihu Root shortly after noon today
declared that as presiding officer he
would not allow his own name to be
presented to the convention.
In addressing the convention, Mr..
Root devoted little time to the admin
istration of Governor Hughes, discus
sing almost entirely the national stu
alton, paying his respects to Bryan
and his policies and insisting that the
nomination to be made should be
made Sin such a way that the Empire
; state shall surely cast her electoral
vote for the Republican candidate for
president of the United States"
After a lengthy review of the Roose-
welt administration and of the Bryan
claim to be regarded as the heir to
Roosevelrs policies Mr.. Root took up
the Democratic slogan. Shall the peo-
pie ule?" with reference to congress.
He said:
"The real trouble is that the Demo
Gratis in the house of representatives
are a minority and cannot have their
own way because they are minority.
( The real Democratic grievance is not
that the majority does not rule, but
: that it does rule.
g consideration of the paramount is
sue now proposed by the Democracy
D forces the conclusion that the drafts
L. men of the Democratic platform are
d to be acquitted of the offense of insult
ing the intelligence of the American
S people by a piece of cheap buncombe
e only because they have fallen into the
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ors of Tooley street, who began their
S proclamation, We, the people of Eng
t land and that they think the people
do not rule because they do not them
selves rule"
n After declaring that President
g Roosevelt might have been renomin
S ated "by rising his finger" and that
l. his advocacy of Taft was "a renuncia
e tion of power exceptional in history,
l. Mr. Root returned again to the assault
l. on Bryan.
d at was skilfull," he declared, "ot
s Mr.. Bryan to say that he is bound by
e the omission of the Democratic plat
Y. form as we'll as by what it contains
t but who dictated the omissions as wei
S as the platform? Can an omission o.
today wipe out public utterances o
d the past and remove them from mem
s DRY as a basis of judgment upon {
A public man? The same eloquent voice
II which now with so much confidence
e is telling how the government
g ought to be conducted was heard II
n Mr.. Bryan's candidacy of 1896 urgin!
l. upon the American people as a pana
cea for all evils the free and unlimited
n. coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to l
n Was he right then? Was his judg
lie ment sound then?
Nov Mr., Bryan proposes tina
t under supervision of the national gov
n eminent everybody shall provide 70
ID the payment of everybody else's debt
by his bank deposit guaranty scheme
1T is prudent to place in his hand
lie the greater power of the presidenc
I'd and above all is it wise to give to him
Of rather than to Mr. Taft, the eXpel
ee fenced Judge, the filling of the fou
T. vacancies in the supreme court of tn
W United States which may be expecte
o, during the next administrations"
s, Mr.. Root closed his address with
A. review of the Cleveland regime an
H. asked as he sat down: Are the pee
70, pie of the United States ready to r.
10. peat that experience OF Democrat
10. government"