The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-18
NAME OF TAFT GOES
BEFORE CONVENTION
IN STIRRING SPEECH
Theodore c. Burton, of Cincin-
natl, Places the War Sec
retary in Nomination for the
Presidency.
OHIO MAN LIKENED TO
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Great Burst of Applause as
The Speaker Declares Can
didate's Acts Will Follow
Out the Roosevelt Ideas.

Chicago, June 1S.-When Ohio was
reached in the roll-call of states to-
day, Theodore c. Burton, the delegate
upon whom fell the honor of placing
Taft's name in nomination, arose and
said:
This convention enters upon the
grave responsibility of selecting a
presidential candidate with the serene
assurance that the republican party
will continue to rule this people. What
assembled multitude in any land has
ever pointed the way to such benefi-
cent results for home and for the pro-
gress of the whole human race, as the
recurring conventions of this grand
old organization! Yet we do not re-
ly alone upon the record of that
which it has accomplished. We EN-
phasiZe. even more, its supreme quail
ification to solve the problems of the
present.
it 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 boundless dis
tance. bringing the richest treasures
OF a continent to lay them at your
feet Here it was that the righteous
uprising against slavery and Bourbon
ism, sprung from the nations con
science. raised it's first triumphant
voice when Abraham Lincoln was nom
mated. And here. again. with notes
of thunderous acclaim, enraptured
throngs greeted the naming Of Gar
field. of Blaine, of Harrison. and o1
| Roosevelt.
Again Ohio presents a candidate tc
the National Republican convention
In seven stubbornly contested presi
Dental campaigns. sons of her sacred
soil have led the embattled republican
hosts to victory. The Buckeye State
has assuredly contributed her share Of
statesmen and generals for the up
building of the nation. But that oi
which we are prouder still is her stal
wart citizenship the mightiest bul
warh of the republic in every common
wealth made up of Americas free
yeomen. ever ready to respond to the
tocsin of alarm in days of peril, OIL
to crush corruption whenever it rails
es its menacing head. From this cit
izenship Ohio, in the supreme emergen
cy of the civil war, sent forth more
| than two hundred thousand soldiers
for our country's defense, formidable
array easily passing in numbers the
world -conQuering legions of imperia
Caesar, and even larger than any army
ever mustered by Britain for the tent
ed field But transcendent above al
| is the fact that Ohio is one of the
matchless union of states linked to
gether in everlasting bonds of amity
and constituting an empire wonderful
in power and almost immeasurable il
extent. Each sovereign state alone
would occupy but subordinate place
in the great current OF the worlds
events. but when represented by one
of forty-six bright stars on a field o.
stainless blue every one forms part o.
an emblem of union and of strength
more beautiful far than the mos
brilliant constellation in the heavens.