Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-02

the American name. There have been no
years of inaction in his career. He has
been continuously engaged in weighty tasks
and each successive service has been char
acteriZed by an increasing influence upon
most vital questions.
Secretary Taft has exceptional familiar
ity with conditions in the distant Orient
in Japan, in China. We may rest assured
will continue. Moreover, the future prom
ises that the slumbering millions of China
will awake from the lethargy of ages, and
she then will realize that the morning dawn
of fresher life and wider outlook comes to
her across the broad Pacific from free
America, her truest friend and helper. We
covet no portion of her territory. We de-
sire from her, as from all nations. increa sed
good will and that mutual respect which
knows neither buster nor cringing on eithef
side. Thus in this new era of larger rela-
tions, Secretary Taft, with his comprehen-
sion of national and international subjects,
would furnish a certainty of peace and sus
tanned prestige.
Under him, at home and everywhere, this
mighty people would have an assured conf
dence in the secure development and prog
ress of the country and would rest safe in
the reliance that a chief executive was at
the helm, who, in peace or In war, would
guide the destinies of the nation with
strong hand and with gentle, patriotic
heart.
And so to-day, in the presence of more
than ten thousand, and with the inspiring
thought of the weil-nigh ten thousand times
ten thousand who dwell within our borders
l nominate for the Presidency that perfect
type of American manhood, that peerless
representative of the noblest ideals in our
national life, William H. Taft of Ohio.
BOuten Lauds Cannon.
Congressman Henry Sherman Boutell,
in nominating Speaker Cannon for the
presidency, said:
His opponents dwell upon his years as
a handicap, but with him years have
brought no signs of age, but only the wis
dom of experience and its serene philosophy.
No one of this generation has demonstrated
so often or so successfully his capacity for
attracting the confidence and the affections
of his fellow citizens. Nineteen times he
has been elected to high office by the voters
of a district that has no superior in the
United States for intelligence and patriot
ism.
Posterity will revere forever the name of
Abraham Lincoln. not alone because he freed
the slaves, but rather because he emanci-
pated his countrymen from thraldom TO ig-
noble ideals in our civil and political life.
And posterity will honor always the name
of Theodore Roosevelt, not alone because
more than any living man he has Iightened
the burdens of the weak. but rather because
he has emancipated his countrymen from
thraldom to unworthy Ideals in the world
of business and finance.
And the name of Cannon will always be
linked with that of Roosevelt as the Speak
er who stood by the President and helped
to crystalline his policies into law. To
whom could we intrust with greater conf
dence the perfection and extension of these
policies in execution of the peoples will?
Mr.. President and gentlemen OF the con-
ventiOn. l nominate the Republican can
didate for President of the United States
the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, who cast his first vote for Lincoln
entered Congress under Grant and crowned
generation of service as Roosevelt's
strongest and bravest ally, Joseph G. Can
non of Illinois.
Cochems Names La Toilette.
In presenting the name of Senator La
Toilette Henry f. Cochems said:
We believe that the pioneer in this move
ment who was good enough to break the
stubborn soil and plant the seed, is good
.nough to reap the golden harvest and bring
1t home to the people in its bounty. Through
all the years Roberi NJ. La Toilette has
stood like "a bold mountain about whose
SUBMITS the hurricanes have raved in vain
and upon whose base the angry waves have
beat their surge, mistaken and unshak-
able" For ten years he has carried this
var upon tie point of eis sword and from