New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-28
Hill, inKeynote,
Evokes Cheers
For Harding
Former Envoy Attacks VIII
SON Internationalism and
Opposes Compromising
America by the League
"America First Is Plea
Republicans Open State
Convention at Saratoga;
Organize and Adjourn


SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y, July
27.-The unofficial Republican conven.
ton met to-day at noon, and after
hearing DR.. David Jayne Hill, of
Rochester, former Ambassador to Ger
many, make the keynote speech, or
ganized, and then adjourned until to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock. DR..
HIPS speech dealt entirely with ma
tional issues. He attacked the Wilson
League of Nations and praised the Re-
publican Congress for standing out for
the Lodge reservations.
The mention of Senator Harding's
name evoked the greatest applause Of
the day, and reference to Governor
Coolidge called forth a liberal share
Of hand claps and cheers. When Har-
ding's name was mentioned the band
added to the demonstration by playing
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic "
Early in his speech DR.. Hill brought
his audience to its feet when in prayer
full tones he said:
May the serene faith and fidelity
of President Lincoln, the deep human
sympathy of President Mckinley, the
courage and passion for righteousness
of President Roosevelt be with us in
our thoughts and our deliberations to-
day"
RooseveIt's Name Cheered
At the mention of Roosevelt's name
there was a slight murmuring which
grew into a mighty cheer when the
sentence was finished. Two years ago
almost to a day Colonel Roosevelt had
received a tremendous ovation as he
addressed the New York State delega-
ton within twenty-four hours after he
had received the news of the death Of
his son Kermit in a combat with a
squad of German flying machines.
Another portion of his speech which
received vigorous applause was:
Therefore, let US all unite for Amer
lea first; the Constitution first; the
peace and safety of the nation first;
with all forward-looking policies, both
domestic and foreign, to follow, as the
occasion demands them; but let them
all be based on this firm foundation of
solid, continuous and united national
development"
Another paragraph which took the
fancy of the delegates was his sum-
Nations, and especially this:
"The large question is: Shall we
subordinate the Constitution to the
covenant, or shall we state frankly to
all the world that we will never, in the
least degree, compromise the Constitu-
ton of the United States?"
Wilson Policies Assailed
DR.. Hill devoted nearly all Of his
address to criticism of the political
internationalism of Wilson" and the
Democratic attempt to have the League
of Nations ratified without reserva-
tions.
eve meet as great historical
political party at time when the
American people are soon to make the
most farrceching decision since the
founding OF our government" the
ability to insure our peace and happi-
ness, it is now assaulted at its very
foundations. On the one hand, we
are invited to involve this nation in
on the other, we are threatened with
revolutionary conspiracies at home"
The supreme issue Of the hour, he
said, is to preserve the life of the
nation "now doubly endangered" 1t
devolves upon the Republican party
and those who will adhere to it "in
this great emergency" to "save Amer
icanism, as faith and as an achieve
ment, from dissolution and disaster"
"In every great crisis" Mr.. Hill de-
clared, "the Republican party has been
comprehend and to serve the country
as a whole.
"When the Union was made safe the
energies of the Republican party were
bent to the task of binding it firmly
together, in order that all parts might
realize their conference and enjoy the
advantages of their united strength
Through its promotion, the East and
the West were bound together with
bands of steel, stretching across the
continent from ocean to ocean, t-avers-
ing vast plains and scaling the noun
tain barriers, making the polltica
a material fact.
"To render this possible, and tc
develop as whole unutilized re-
sources of mine, and forest, and sheep
fold, and workshop, the party applied
It's policy of protection to American
industries, against an opposition pur
blind to the condition of colonial de
pendence upon Europe, to which tina
opposition, if successful, would have
condemned this vast and resourcefu
country.
Country Saved From Disaster
without that protection of our un
developed industries, instead of beinl
able to enter the Great War as
potent and decisive force, with mu
81 nitions, and ships, and all the applian
ces Of mechanical age, We should no
only have been negligible quantity
but our own land would have been the
prize of the invader and the chic.
victim In the dispositions Of peace.
1T Is disturbing to consider VIVA
might have been our fate as peopl
IL, in 1898, the Republican party had no
taken Its stand against the adoption O.
fictitious and fraudulent dollar. Ant
yet, as some Of US remember, so plau
sible were the sophistries employed b,
the advocates of a millennium to b,
created by the free coinage of silver /?
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