New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-10

went down TO defeat. HIS nomination
here will carry with it absolute GER
tainty Of success in New York State.
ain 1908 the united Republican party
had nominated for it's Presidential can.
didate that eminent statesman and
judge, William Howard Taft. One iig-
ure stood forth prominent in that cam
paign-the champion OF the people, oil
the party, of the truth. He had been
renominated for Governor.
ain the midst Of his own campaign
the West called for him. At Youngs-
town, Ohio, he delivered an address
ton Of the Republican platform ard as
a destructive attack upon the fallacles
Of the Democratic proposals was not
equalled except by his own later
speeches. In Indiana he repeated his
Ohio triumph. Through the states OF
Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Da-
kota he bore the party's banner. In
Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas he pounded
home the truths and pie iges of the
Republican platform. Through Mis-
souri, and Illinois his tour was one
great rally of voters to our standard.
Would that could make you see him,
the master Of logic and effective
speech, establishing himself as the
greatest campaigner OF that or any
other political contest.
Is Sterling Republican.
ain the same year he consented that
his name be placed in nomination for
the Presidency. He signifed his con
sent in a speech full of sterling Repub
lican and patriotic doctrine. Hear him
speak Of the Republican party and its
mission:
"The Republican party is the party
Of stability and the party of progress
It's fundamental policies have deter
mined the course of the nations his
tory largely. They are now without
serious challenge and are moved from
any controversy the issue of which
might be regarded as doubtful.
"'They include the policy of union
in opposition to every divisive senti-
ment or disrupting thing. They in
clude the policy of establishing the
national credit upon a sure founda-
ton in opposition to those financial
vagaries which are now by common
consent relegated to our museum Of
political absurdities.
"'And they also include the policy of
protection TO American industry in the
interest OF the wage earners of our
country, and in order to safeguard
these higher American standards of
living which our people will never
permit to be reduced.
Hughes for Preparedness.
Could any one give a more con-
vincing proof of his Republicanism
Finally. he was sound upon the great
question Of national preparedness. He
said:
eve are devoted TO the interests Of
peace and we cherish no policy of ag-
erosion. The maintenance of our ideals
| is our surest protection. II is our con-
fident aim TO live in friendship with all
| nations and TO realize the aims of a
| free government from the Interrupt
/ tions OF strife and the wastes of war.
| Ii is entirely consistent with these
aims and it is our duty 70 make ade-
quate provision for our defence and to
maintain the efficiency of our army and
navy. And this favor.
mo one could better express the
| fundamental doctrine which underlies
our national defence.
These then, are his principles
sound Republican and patriotic.
81 need not dwell upon his recent
career. OF his most recent patriotic
D
worlds tribunals, his magnificent ut
| terances from the bench are the best
monument.
I'VE have seen him the man Of &C
ton, the champion of the people, the
idol of the electorate, the faithful pub
lie servant, the profound thinker on ma
/ tional issues.
Needed to Restore Confidence.
"He, above all other men. can bring
home to the people the fact that the
Democratic party has failed miserably
! in its stewardship. He, above all other
men, can bring to the people convic-
! ton of the dangers which surround US
/ He, above all other men, can assure
this country that the Republican party,
! the party of progress, of union and of
patriotic achievement, is once more
united and capable of assuming the
helm of the ship of state. He, above
all others, can bring back TO the party
the confidence of the people. He, above
all others, can bring to the country
prosperity, happiness and honorable
peace.
81 do not speak for any man or for
any candidate. | do not claim TO repre-
sent any man for any candidate. The
great State Of New York, through the
lips of its Governor, offers to the peo-
pie and the party, TO the voters of the
party-no, not only to them, to the
great nation-her son, her noblest and
her best.
"I nominate as a Republican candi-
date for President Of the United States
Charles Evans Hughes"