New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-29
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corporations could employ. I then went
over the matter most carefully, among
others. with your chairman. Mr.. Root, and
we came to the conclusion that the very |
best man could name for task as
difficult and as important as any that was
to be performed in my administration or
that of the present President was the man
whom [ now nominate. We put him in and
he made good.
IT was his business to bring to justice
the Sugar Trust. one of the greatest cor !
porations in this country, which by most
ment officials had defrauded the govern
ment out of literally enormous sums
sums representing vast fortune SO re,
markable was the combination that unit
we put in Mr. Stimson it had proved JIM
possible TO get at the actual facts. MIR.
Stimson got Justice. Mr.. Stimson convict |
ed man after man in the employ of the
Sugar Trust. Mr.. Stimson proved his case
so clearly that the trust threw up It's
hands and returned to the government an
enormous sum.
He secured restitution, he secured pun
ishment We have said on this platform
that stood for justice, that we would
punish the corrupt man in public life and
in business life alike, and that the highest
social political or business affiliations
should not save the offender
Those have been our words and those
have been Mr. Stimson's deeds What we
have said he has done You judge his
future by his past. He has performed a
great and difficult task of incredible inn
portanCe and value, and he has performed
It as literally as no other man that know
in New York could have performed it, Mr..
Stimson has not been a man much in pub
lie office. He has done his duty in the
ranks all his life as a working Republican.
He has shown himself tried and faithful
public servant in a position Of incredible
difficulty.
If we nominate him, his nomination is a
guarantee that every promise made in the
platform Will he kept, I'm letter and in spirit.
for he is of that temper that nothing in
the world could prevent him from endeav- !
oTing to keep the promise. and he has the
trenchant ability that will enable him to
keep ii.
feel that we should put on the platform
that we have made a man whose past
career is in itself an absolute guarantee
that he can and will do the particular work
which he is to he elected TO do, and there
fore I nominate for the high position of
Governor of the great Empire State to head
the Republican ticket Henry L. Stimson.
The conclusion Of Mr.. Roosevelt's
speech was the occasion of another ova-
ton
John Lord O'Brian, of Buffalo. followed
Colonel Roosevelt. and. declaring that
the candidate nominated by this conven-
ton was certain TO be elected, seconded.
on behalf of Erie County. the nomination
OF Mr.. Stimson. The rolicall was pune
tuated by frequent applause from the
friends of both candidates.
When Livingston County was reached
ex-District Attorney Cook. the spokes-
man, said:
we have never seen this man Slim
son. but we sling him three votes" the
total vote of the county being seven
votes. The announcement was received
with an almost unanimous hiss.
Speaker Wadsworth was greatly dis
tressed that a member of his delegation
should have appeared to cast a slur on
Mr.. Stimson. While he did not feel that
Mr.. Cook so intended his remarks, he
expressed MS disgust in empha tic terms.
and as soon as an opportunity presented
itself made the motion to make the
nomination of Mr.. Stimson unanimous.
thereby seeking to make il clear that
Mr.. Cooks sighting remark was not
representative Of the sentiment of the
delegation. Mr. Wadsworth later took
occasion to express his deep regret over
the incident in terms as sincere as if
less emphatic than he employed when
he voiced his sentiments directly to Mr.
Cook
1t soon became evident that Mr. Slim
son would be nominated, and on the close
of the rolcall the chairman announced
that the vote stood: James b. McEwen.
30: T. b. Dunn. IS: William @. Bennett.
242, and Henry l. Stimson, CAS- The
announcement was received with great
enthusiasm. When the cheering had
died away Kingsbury Foster moved that
the choice OF the convention be made
unanimous. motion which was prompt
ly seconded not only 10y Speaker Wads- /
worth but by Messrs. Aldridge, of Mon
roe, and Barnes. of Albany. and by
unanimous consent the secretary was in
structed TO cast the entire vote of the |
convention for Mr. Stimson, an an
nouncement which elected still further !
applause.
When the enthusiasm which had at |
tended the announcement of Mr.. Slim
sons nomination had spent itself. Ray |
g. Smith. OF Onondaga, was recognized |
and placed i'm nomination. Edward |
Schoeneck, Mayor Of Syracuse. for