The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-06-23
AN THE PRESENCE MORE THOUSAND, NOMINATE
FOR THE PRESIDENCY THAT PERFECT TYPE OF AMERICAN
MANHOOD, THAT PEERLESS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NO.
sLEsT IDEALS IN OUR NATIONAL LIFE, WILLIAM H. TAFT,
OF OHIO" ,.I

Representative Theodore e. Burton,
Of Ohio, delivered the following ad-
dress at the Republican National
Convention on Thursday last, June
Is, placing in nomination for the Pre-
sidency William II. Taft:
This convention enters upon the
grave responsibility of selecting a
presidential candidate with the Sc
rene assurance that the Republican
party will continue to rule this peo-
pie. What assembled multitude in
any land has ever pointed the way
to such beneficent results for home
and for the progress of the whole
human race, as the recurring con
ventions of this grand old organiza
ton? Yet we do not rely alone upon
the record of that which it has ac
complished. We emphasize, even
more, it's supreme qualification tc
solve the problems of the present.
THE PLACE APPROPRIATE.
1t is especially appropriate that this
gathering should be held in this mar
velous city of Chicago, whence the
steel bands of commerce reach out
in every direction, over plain and
river and mountain, to almost bound
less distance, bringing the richest
treasures of a continent to lay then
at your feet. Here it was that the
righteous uprising against slavery
and BourbOnism, sprung from the ma
tion's conscience, raised it's frs
triumphant voice when Abraham Lin
coin was nominated. And here. again
with notes of thunderOus acclaim, en-
raptured throngs greeted the naminl
of Garfield, of Blaine, of Harrison
and of Roosevelt.
OHIO'S MAN.
Again Ohio presents a candidate t
the National Republican Convention
| In seven stubbornly contested pres
Dental campaigns, sons of her S;
cred soil have led the embattled Re
publican hosts TO victory. The Bucl
eye State has assuredly contribute
| her share of statesmen and general
for the upbuilding of the Nation. BIT
that of which we are prouder still
lher stalwart citizenship-the might
est bulwark of the Republic in ever
commonwealth up of Amer
cas- free yeomen, ever ready to re
Ipond to the tocsin of alarm in day
OF peril, or to crush corruption whel
ever it raises its menacing heat
From this citizenship Ohio, in the 81
preme emergency of the Civil Wa
sent forth more than two hundre
thousand soldiers for our country
defense, formidable array easil
SURPRISING in nubmers the world-co1
quering legions of imperial Caesa
and even larger than any army eve
mustered by Britain for the tente
field. But transcendent above all
the fact that Ohio is one of a mattel
Hess union of States linked togethC
in everlasting bonds of amity an
constituting an empire wonderful
power and almost unreasonable
extent. Each sovereign State alOn
would occupy but a subordinate plac
fin the great current of the world
eI ents, but when represented by or
of forty-six bright stars on a fie
of stainless blue, every one forms pa
of an emblem of union and of strengt
more beautiful far than the mo
brilliant constellation in the heaven
We welcome the friendly rivalry
candidates from other States-frol
the great Empire State, the Keystor
State, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisco
sin, forming with Ohio a broad e
panse extending in unbroken sweC
from old ocean to the uppermo
bound of the greatest of inland sea
Each of these presents a lead,
lamong leaders whose achievement
and renown are not confined to Il
narrow limits of a single cOmmo
wealth. Today with fervid earnes
ness we wage a contest for the pri2
Tomorrow, united for the fray al
quickened by a common fiery ze
the champions of all the candidat
will go forth with mounting enth
siasm to vanquish the foe.
THE ROOSEVELT IDEALS.
The most perpleXing questions
today arise from the bountiful d
velopment of our material wealt
Such a development can not occl
without the creation of inequaliti
and dangers to the social fabric.
most strenuously deny that the An
rican business man or the Americ
citizen cherishes lower standards tn
the citizens of any other country. Il