Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-19


CHICAGO. June 1s.-congressman
Theodore T. Burton of Cleveland re
ceived an ovation when he arose to
place in nomination William Howard
Taft for the presidency. His speech
was an able effort. II times brilliant
in citing the history OF Ohio and its
men and their influence in the Repab-
lican party. He said:
This convention enters upon the
grave responsibility of selecting a
presidential candidate with the ST.
rene assurance that the Republican
party will continue to rule this peo-
pie. What assembled multitude IA
any iland has ever pointed the way TO
such beneficent results for home and
for the progress of the whole human
race. as the recurring conventions of
this grand old organization? Yet We
do not rely alone upon. the record oil
that which it has accomplished. ~
emphasize. even more its supreme
qualification To solve the problems OF
the present.
IT is especially appropriate that
! this gathering should be held in this
| marvellous city of Chicago, whence
/ the steel hands of commerce reacA
cut in every direction, over plain and
river and mountain, to almost bound
/ less distance, bringing the richest
/ treasures OF a continent to lay litt-lL
at your feet. Here it was THAI the
righteous uprising against slavery
1 and Bourbonism, spuug from the ma
| lions conscience, raised its first tri-
lumphant voice when Abraham Lin
coin was nominated. And here,
lagain. VITA notes of thunderous ac-
claim, enraptured throngs greeted the
naming of Garfield, of blaine, of Har-
rison. and OF Roosevelt
Again Ohio presents a candidate to
1.-THE national Republican convention,
In seven stubb0rnly contested presi-
Dental campaigns, sons of her sacred
soil have led the embattled Repubi-
can hosts to victory. The Buckeye
state has assuredly contributed her
share of statesmen and generals for
the upbuilding OF tae nation But
that of which we are prouder still il
her staiwart citizenship-the might
lest buIwaTk OF the republic in every
commonwealth up Of Ameri-
cas- free yeomen, ever ready to re-
spond to the tocsin of alarm in days
of peril, or to crush corruption when
! ever il raises its menacing head.
From the citizenship Ohio, in the SUI
preme emergency of the civil war,
sent forth more than two hundred
thousand soldiers for cur country S
! defense. a formidable array easily
1 SURPRISING in numbers the world
/ conquering legions of imperial Gaze
sar, and even larger than any .s-my
! ever mustered by Britain Tor the
tended field. But transcendent above
/ all is the fact taat Ohio il one of a
matchless union of states linked to-
getner in everlasting bonds of am
i ity and constituting an empire won
i dCrful in power and almost immeas-
| urable in extent. Each sovereign
/ state alone would occupy but a sub
| ordinate place in the great current OF
/ the worlds events, but when repre-
/ scented by-o one of the forty-six bright
| stars on . field Of STAINLESS blue, ev'
cry one forms part of an emblem OF
union and of strength more beautiful
far than the most brilliant constel-
lation in the heavens.
1 We welcome the friendly rivalry oi
candidates from other states-from
the great empire state, the keystone
state. Indiana, Illinois, and Niscon-
sin, forming with Ohio a broad eX'
panse extending IN unbroken sweep
from old ocean TO the uppeTmOst
hound Of the greatest Of inland seas
E.acn OF these presents a leader
among leaders whose achievements
and renown are not confined to the
; narrow limits sof a single common
, wealth. Today with fervid earnest
ness we wage contest for the prize
Tomorrow, united for the fray and
quickened by a common fiery zeal
the champions of all the candidates
will go forth with mounting enthusi
: asm TO vanqu:zh the foe.
! The most perplexing questions OF
. today arise from the bountiful 'deyel
, opmenf of our material wealth. Sue
, development can not occur without
the creation of inequalities and dan
gers to the social fabric / mos
strenuously deny that the AmerrUdi
business man or the American cit
zen cherishes lower standards than
| the citizens of any other country
The American people are by nc