Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-06-09
BURTON, ROOT, WEEKS,
ALL GET GLAD HAND
Nominating Burton Willis In
jects First Squirt Of Pep
In Proceedings
Rv Perry Arnold.

COllSeum, chicago, June S.--G. ". L.
hasts today received report of the har-
mony conferences between republicans
and progressives without any great
amount of enthusiasm and promptly
went ahead to nominate their candi-
dates for the presidency.
Mention Of Roosevelt s name by SEN
ator Smoot in reading the report Of the
conferees evoked only one and one-half
minutes of applause and it was not any
too fulsome at that
Call of the roll of states for nominat-
ing speeches was begun at ll;47.
Alabama temporarily passed, Alaska
did not answer and Arizona finally
yielded to New York Governor Whit
man then put Justice Charles Evan
Hughes in nomination. An attempt to
have Colonel Roosevelt invited to ad-
dress the republican convention proved
abortive Delegate Leon Weinberg, of
Maryland, has resolution all ready,
providing an invitation but was fore
stalled when informed that unanimous
consent was necessary for its considera-
/ ton.
Smoot's report was considered with
deep attention, and he frequently had
to pause for applause.
Chairman Harding volunteered the in
formation that the harmony committed
not having been discharged, would CON
tinue its work.
Hughes Nominated.
The prospect at noon was that the
nominating and seconding speeches
would continue for at least three hours
Whitman nominating Hughes, said:
"We are assembled here to name the
standard bearer of the great republican
party. We are here in response to a
demand.
"We are here in response to the de-
mands of the American people, that a
minority president give way to a lead
er, representing the will of the major
ity. We are here to select the next
president of the United Statets,
"The national horizon is dark and
troubled. From afar the lurid flashes
of world war remind us of our own
citizens killed and our own flag insult
ed To the south, we see anarchy en-
croaching on our borders. At Wash.
ington, the president watches and
waits.
"Yet. we must not think the task be.
fore us an easy one. The country is
still at pence, and the maintenance of
peace will be plausibly claimed by the
democratic party. The party hopes that
the country will soon forget tho insults
to our national honor. 1t is its belief
that the people will not long remember
the vacillating diplomacy clothed in
glittering rhetoric which has alarmed
our people, discredited our standing
among the notions and brought us to
the verge of war
New Form Of Prosperity.
"A form Of prosperity is in the land
and few, perhaps, realize its tempo
rary nature or pause to analyze its
cause"
Here Whitman cited the European
war as giving unnatural prosperity
off the devout prayers of all man
kind be answered and our hopes be full
filled, which God grant the frightful
holocaust Of war will end as quickly
and unexpectedly a. II began, and the
product Of European labor will pour
| in upon us, undeterred by q tariff bar,
rier; at prices ruinous to our trade and
! industries, - he continued.
owe must choose q man so great that
he may meet as q true American the
supreme national issues, not only OF the
hour, but Of the future.
"Our party Is rich in men imbued
with the true spirit Of AmericanisrA,
Not one Of them can claim preponder-
ance Of the American spirit in his heart
or in his nature.
owe bring to you today the name Of
man trained in battle for the truth,
tried and found faithful in the admins
tration Of great public trusts, sterling
in his republican ism free from faction
al strife. His private life is above sus-
picion, his public life without flaw,
great lawyer, an effective campaigner
an able executive, a mature Statesman,
learned junst, he, above all others,
combines the essential qualifications of
true leader in this crisis Of the party
and Of the nation"
Quoted Hughes Speech.
As proof Of Hughes standing on re-
publican principles, Whitman quoted
from Hughes speech in 1908, consent
ing that his name be placed in nomi'
nation for the presidency.
The governor quoted Hughes address