Lovelock tribune. (Lovelock, Nev.) 1898-1912, 1908-09-25
DETAILED ACCOUNT OF
THE CONVENTION HERE

Convention called to order soon after
20 O'Clock ~ Dr. Samueis, chairman of
he county central committee.
Judge Langwith and George Wood
appointed committee of two to escort
chaplain Meehan to the stage, who
,ffored short invocation, as follows:
In the name of the Father and OF
she Son and of the Holy Ghost.
Direct, o Almighty God, our ae-
tions by Thy holy Inspirations, and
tarry them on by thy gracious assist
nee, SO that every prayer and good
york of ours may always begin by
Thee and through Thee be happily
ended.
"Amen.' -
Paul McCulloch of Golconda was
unanimously elected temporary chair
man and Thos. Nelson and Carl Hayi-
land were appointed committee to
escort him to the platform. Upon as
suming the gavel, Mr.. McCulloch mare
brief speech, saying in part:
assure you, gentlemen, that |
feel highly honored at this election
As man who cast his first and last
and all intervening votes for the Re-
publican candidates, 1 tender you my
heartfelt thanks for this distinction.
1T was many years ago that the
great Republican party first came into
power, at time when the country
was disrupted by internal strife-a
time when the South Wished to secede
from the Union and the North was by
no means a unit on the proposition OF
this rebellion. Through the
efforts of Fremont, Lincoln, Grant AMI
other illustrious members of our party
the breach was healed and nothing
under the sun en- ever again threaten
our country with disruption.
From the days of Lincoln down to
the present our best men have been
put forward for the high office of pres.
ident-and they were all men ct
whom we are winding up with
our glorious Roosevelt. prolonged
cheers.)
We are now entering upon another
and our party has selected
as its standard bearer man posse ssed
of more and greater qualifications for
the position than any other aspirant for
the high ofice-William H. Taft. pro
longed eheers).
- His services to his country on the
cneh, IN the Philippines and as secre-
,ary of war are an open book, which
may be read by ali All his official acts
have been open to the inspection Of the
: ople, and they may e depended upon
10 eApress their approval OF the man
~ their verdict in November.
f'It is now in our hands to determine
how Nevada will stand this year Four
years ago we rolled up a handsome
for our wonderful president.
Theodore Roosevelt ard it is for us to
main in the Republican column.
''In all parties there are good and
bad men, but in the great Republican
party there are fewer of the latter
than in any other political organization
ever formed.
1.-THE underlying principle of our
party, and the one on which it was
founded and has maintained it's suprem-
acy, is protection, and to this great
tenet we must tenaciously cling.
"The Democratic party has ever
been the champion of free trade. On
this issue it elected a president and
and this party in congress
was responsible for the notorious
Wilson bill, which was so iniquitous a
measure that Grover Cleveland refused
to sign it. But it is a matter of history
that the party's present presidential
was one of its most strenuous
supporters.
1.-THE tariff is now being assailed..
viii it not be better to nave it revised