The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-18
INDIANA IS PROUD OF
HER '"FAVORITE SON"
Governor Frank Hany Renders Tribute to Services of
Wce-Presdent Fairbanks.

power of thoughtful, deliberative &C.
ton. She has looked with deep So
licitude upon what has seemed to her
to be high and arbitrary exercise of
power having for its purpose the &C.
complishment of an immediate end,
conscious that what you do here will
avail you nothing unless your action
is afterward approved and ratified by
the calm judgment of just and
thoughtful people.
New England, Indiana calls to you,
and to you, New York, and to you,
Pennsylvania, and to you, Virginia,
and to you, Kentucky. The blood of
all is in her veins-of New England
Puritan, of New York Dutchman, of
Pennsylvania Quaker, of Virginia Cav
alier, of Kentucky Frontiersman. She
is akin to all. And in the name and
by the ties of her common kinship she
appeals to all. Are none of you to
give consideration to her appeal? And
Ohio, she calls to you and upon you
she has an especial claim. He whom
she presents was born upon your soil
and nourished at your bosom. Can
you forget your own? Can the mother
deny the child whose character and
deds have brought her only honor and
distinction? And Illinois -, Indiana
appeals to you for Ohio's son whom
she has adopted and whom she has
come to love as her very own, and re-
Ic Inf hA fc jeh h0r
and your friend, and that he is closely
identified with your people, is worthy
of the best traditions of their past, and
shares their highest present aspira
tions. And Iowa. Indiana calls to you;
thousands Of your sons are Hoosier
bred and born. Her call to you is the
call of the mother to her child. Filial
affection should give you quick and
willing ear. Are you. too. to deny
her claim? And California, Oregon
and Washington, Indiana has word
for you. Her candidate is, and for
twelve years has been, keenly alive to
the peculiar importance to you of
American predominance in the Pacific.
Given your commission now, he will
not forget. And you, Porto Rico and
Hawaii and the Philippines, he knows
and understands your needs. He loves
liberty and values it above all things.
not for himself alone. but for you. and
for all men everywhere. If he is
called to administer government in
this land, the purposes of the gentle.
liberty-loving Mckinley as to you will
find contamination. The seas will
not be wide enough to separate you
his solicitous care. Indiana calls to
all, the North, the South: the East. the
West She offers you no mystery, no
unknown, untried statesman. Twice
she herself has given him high COM
mission and each time at it's expiration
she found her commission unstained.
The people Of the nation have once
commissioned him. Indeed. he now
holds their commission. Here in this
hall, four years ago, the party put the
seal of its approval upon him. It's
spokesman then declared: He repre-
sents in his personality, in his beliefs,
in his public service. in his high char
acter,a II the splendid record the re-
publican party has made, a man who
will typify the highest am
billions and the noblest purposes of the
republican party. Other spokesman
of the party then said: He is presiden-
tial caliber"; He is presidential fig
ure of full size" And to him, Elihu
Root, the present great secretary of
State, speaking for the republican
party Of the whole country, in notify
ing him of his nomination for vice
president, most truthfully said: You
have the character and ability to gov
ern wisely and strongly should you
become president. Many indeed
among our people have already turned
toward you as a suitable candidate to
be elected directly to that great office"
The nomination comes to
you in accordance with the best meth
DDS and practices of representative
government. It was the result of
long and earnest consideration and
discussion by the members of the con-
vention. 1t was not the chance pro-
duct of an excited hour. and it was not
upon the demands of any powerful in
fluence-political or otherwise-con-
straining the Judgment of the dele
gates. 1t was not made for the pur-
pose of conciliating possible malcon-
tents or Of swelling the campaign fund
of the party. No bargains or in
trigues contributed to it. No suppress
sions of the truth or misleading of the
convention as to your principles and
opinions were necessary to bring it
about 1t was the deliberate, inform
ed and intelligent judgment of the del
egates, from every state and territory
and it was their unanimous judg-
ment.'
So this mans present high commits
sion came to him. So his honors have
always come. And so the great hon.
or about to be bestowed by you should
come to whomsoever it shall fall upon.
indeed it must come so II it is to receive
popular approval and have intrinsic
value-come without the demand of
any powerful influence-political or
| otherwise-constraining the judgment
| of the delegates; come without bar