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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
THIRTEENTH
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION,
HELD IN THE CITY OF
Chicago, June 21, 22, 23,
1904
RESULTING IN THE NOMINATION OF
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, of New York, for President
AND THE NOMINATION OF
CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, of Indiana, for Vice-President.
Reported by M. W. BLUMENBERG, Official Reporter.
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THE OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.
Resolved, That the Secretary of this Convention is hereby directed to pre-
pare and publish a full and complete report of the official proceedings of this
Convention, under the direction of the National Committee, co-operating with
the local committee.
The following resolution was adopted at the National Convention held in
Philadelphia in 1900:
Resolved, That the Secretary of this Convention be requested to republish
the official proceedings of preceding Republican National Conventions now out
of print, under the direction of the National Committee.
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OFFICERS OF THE CONVENTION.
VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE NA TIONAL COMMITTEE-
g HON. HENRY C. PAYNE,
\ OF WISCONSIN.
^ SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE
t HON. ELMER DOVER,
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OF OHIO.
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Q TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN OF THE CONVENTION-
HON. ELIHU ROOT,
OF NEW YORK.
PERMANENT CHAIRMAN OF THE CONVENTION
HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON,
OF ILLINOIS.
GENERAL SECRETARY
CHARLES W. JOHNSON,
O OF MINNESOTA.
SERGE ANT- A T-ARMS
WILLIAM F. STONE,
OF MARYLAND.
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The National Committee at its session
prior to the meeting of the Convention
adopted the following reports relative to
the death of Senator Hanna and Senator
Quay, former Chairmen of the National
Committee. The Secretary of the Con-
vention was directed to embody the same
in the volume of Official Proceedings.
Senator PENROSE, of Pennyslvania, reported as follows:
Resolved, That the members of the Republican National
Committee have learned with profound sorrow of the death
of our late colleague, Matthew Stanley Quay. For many
years he represented the great State of Pennsylvania in this
Committee. In several campaigns he served as member of
the Executive Committee. As Chairman of the Republican
National Committee he achieved by his skill, sagacity,
courage and ability, one of the most brilliant victories in
the splendid history of the Republican party. He was ever
found to be a genial friend and a sagacious counselor. His
ripe political experience, matured and well-balanced judg-
ment, and extraordinary knowledge concerning political
affairs, will be greatly missed in the councils of the party.
In his death the country has lost one of the ablest and
best equipped statesmen of his time. He was one of the
most influential, trusted and forceful members of the Senate
of the United States. His many and great public services
to his party and his country are recognized and admitted
by all.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his
family; to the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania; and
that they be printed in the official proceedings of the Con-
vention.
Senator PENROSE moved the adoption of the report.
Report adopted.
The Late HON. MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY, of Pennsylvania,
Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1888).
Died May 28, 1904.
Mr HERRICK, of Ohio, made the following report:
Resolved, That the members of this Republican National
Committee bow their heads in profound sorrow over the loss
of Marcus A. Hanna, distinguished throughout his active
and honorable life by his devotion to principle, his person-
ality, his splendid courage, his sound judgment, his quick
sympathy and spirit of helpfulness, his masterful power of
organization, and his noble qualities of mind and heart.
He touched society and government, labor and capital at
every point. His success was won by industry, consistent
purpose, economy and sacrifice, by loyalty to friends, and
consideration of the rights of his fellowmen. In his great
work on this Committee we learned to lean and rely on him,
to trust him with great labors and responsibility; and he
proved equal to every demand upon him.
In the Senate, in the ranks of labor, in the conferences of
the masters of commerce, in the councils of political leaders
of his country, he was wise, just and patriotic. He was a
statesman in the true sense, an honorable man of affairs, a
helper in the world's work, and we mourn his death at the
very summit of his power and influence with a depth beyond
the strength of *ny ordinary words of ours to express.
Resolved, That a copy of this tribute be sent to his family,
to the Governor of the State of Ohio, and be printed in the
Official Proceedings of the Convention.
Mr. HERRICK moved the adoption of the report.
Report adopted.
The Late HON. MARCUS A. HANNA, of Ohio,
Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1896-1900).
Died February 15, 1904.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, unanimously nominated for the Presidency by the
National Republican Convention at Chicago on June 23, 1904, is without
doubt, of all men living in the United States in these opening years of the
twentieth century, the man best qualified by training and experience for the
high duties of the office of Chief Executive. Training for great and varied
responsibilities in life is of two kinds : first, training in those qualities of
mind, character, and personality that go to make up the man himself; and
second, training in the subjects and the methods that relate to the business
of the office in question. In both of these forms of preparation Theodore
Roosevelt meets every test of fitness. Measured along the line of the first
test, namely, that of personal qualities, the speakers at the Chicago conven-
tion were not wrong in the tributes they paid to Mr. Roosevelt as to quote
from ex-Governor Black "the highest living type of the youth, the vigor,
and the promise of the great country and a great age." Senator Beveridge
was right in characterizing Theodore Roosevelt as one "whose sympathies
are as wide as the Republic ; whose courage, honesty, and vision meet all
the emergencies, and the sum of whose qualities makes him the type of
twentieth century Americanism." Mr. Knight, of California, eulogized Presi-
dent Roosevelt's embodiment of American ideals, aspirations, and character,
whose so-called "impulsiveness" is but the frank, decisive habit that comes
to be the very essence of the character of a man in whose make-up "dis-
honesty, cowardice, and duplicity have no part." Mr. Root closed his great
speech as temporary chairman of the convention with a tribute to Mr.
Roosevelt's personal qualities, and these are the concluding sentences of
that memorable address.
No people can maintain free government who do not In their hearts value
the qualities which have made the present President of the United States con-
spicuous among the men of his time as a type of noble manhood. Come what
may here, come what may in November, God grant that those qualities of
brave, true manhood, shall have honor throughout America, shall be held for
an example in every home, and that the youth of generations to come may
grow up to feel that it is better than wealth, or office, or power, to have the
honesty, the purity, and the courage of Theodore Roosevelt.
HIS CHARACTER NO TOPIC FOR DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
Theodore Roosevelt's character is no topic for difference of opinion
or for party controversy. It is without mystery or concealment. It has
the primary qualities that in all ages have been admired and respected :
physical prowess, great energy and vitality, straightforwardness, and moral
12 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
courage, promptness in action, talent for leadership. But besides exhibiting
these bolder constituents of manhood that one finds in the best of Plutarch's
men, and in the approved figures of all historic periods, Theodore Roose-
velt has in his life of forty-six years, a life lived openly and without any
dark or hidden or regretted chapters, in the presence of a host of friends
and fellow-citizens remained constant and true in the possession and exer-
cise of an added set of virtues, namely, those that the best American fathers
and mothers must prize and desire for their own children. Thus Theodore
Roosevelt, as a typical personality, has won the hearty confidence of the
American people; and he has not shrunk from recognizing and using his
influence as an advocate of the best standards of personal, domestic, and
civic life in the country. He has made these things relating to life and con-
duct a favorite theme in speech and essay, and he has diligently practiced
what he has constantly preached. Thus he has become a power for whole-
someness in every department of our life as a people.
A TRAINING FOR HIGH PUBLIC DUTIES.
But President Roosevelt is not merely the man of trained and mature
personality, with a physical and mental capacity for continuous work, with
a power of concentration that never fails or flags, with a vitality that never
needs artificial stimulant, and with a strength of will as well as of body
that is equal to any emergency. Another man might have these splendid at-
tributes of personal manhood, yet be lacking in the kinds of knowledge and
experience demanded by the highest executive office in the gift of any nation.
A locomotive engineer, a soldier, or the captain of a lake schooner all
men, by the way, whom Theodore Roosevelt cordially respects might pos-
sess an equal measure of Theodore Roosevelt's physical and moral courage,
his native intelligence and his tempered self-control, but might lack alto-
gether the knowledge of public affairs that would be requisite for high
political office. On the other hand, there are men whose information regard-
ing American history, public policy, and statecraft might in some directions
be even wider than President Roosevelt's, while lacking that rounded de-
velopment of personal character that the people of this country earnestly
wish to find in the man who occupies the White House and stands before
the world as their foremost citizen and representative. Mr. Roosevelt is
without question the highest authority in this country to-day upon the ap-
plication of our laws and our system of government to the varied tasks of
the Chief Executive.
He has been before the public for almost a quarter of a century, always
destined to great influence. Yet he has never been a conscious climber
up the ladder of public preferment. He has never used one office as if it
were a stepping-stone on the way to another. He has never taken up any
public task without putting his whole energy into its performance as if it
afforded the supreme opportunity for usefulness to his fellow-citizens.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 13
AS BOY AND MAN.
Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York October 27, 1858. His
father was a greatly respected citizen of New York City, and his mother
was from the State of Georgia. He graduated at Harvard University in
1880. His health had not been good as a boy, but systematic physical train-
ing through the school and college period brought him out strong and well.
He was always interested in American history and politics, and entered
almost immediately on leaving college upon the career which, without the
slightest turning or deviation, he has pursued ever since. He found himself
a Republican by inheritance and tradition, by association, and by his own
independent study of the course of our country's affairs. He determined
to work within that party, believing it to be an organization designed to
promote the country's good, within which men might find sufficient free-
dom for the advocacy from time to time of their own convictions, as
policies might develop and new questions might arise. His first public serv-
ice was in the New York Legislature, to which he was elected in 1881, and
where he served for three consecutive terms.
HIGH IDEALS IN REGARD TO PUBLIC SERVICE.
He attained, almost immediately, a leading position through his frankness
and courage. He saw dawning upon the horizon of practical politics two
new and essential reforms. One was the substitution in place of the spoils
system of a business-like and efficient civil service, and the other, in view
of the rapid growth of our town life, was the improvement of the methods
and character of city government. With intelligence, courage, and convic-
tion he threw himself into both of these lines of active reform work. Thus
he wrote the original civil service law of the State of New York, and as a Re-
publican carried it through the Legislature. He instituted an investigation
into the conditions of municipal government in the metropolis of the country,
and headed the committee that made the inquiry.
Young Republicans all over the United States took note of this resolute
new leader in the great Empire State, and said to one another, if he shows
staying power we shall some day make him President. In 1884, young as
he was, he appeared at the National Republican Convention as one of the
four delegates at large from his State. Some of his most trusted and re-
spected friends in New York and Massachusetts who had been prominent
in the cause of civil service reform did not concur in the Republican choice
of Mr. Elaine for President, and launched an independent movement. Mr.
Roosevelt, however, adhered to the Republican party and supported the ticket,
although Mr. Edmunds, rather than Mr. Elaine, had been his convention
preference ; and he set forth his position in a statement so clear and final
upon the obligations and duties of party allegiance, that he would not to-day
alter a single word.
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SOME DETAILS OF A BUSY LIFE.
In the twenty years from this conspicuous appearance of his at the con-
vention of 1884 to the convention which nominated him in 1904 his position
in the Republican party and in the country has been one of steady growth,
until he has now become firmly established as the highest authority in the
party and the foremost public man of the Nation. From his early days in
College he had been a devoted student of the history, the geography, the
development, and the life in all phases of this great country. While still a
member of the New York Legislature he had acquired a ranch near the
Montana line of North Dakota, where for several years he spent much of his
time, participating actively in pioneer life, and gaining in practical ways an
invaluable knowledge of the processes of evolution through which all Ameri-
can commonwealths have had to pass. His work as a student of books,
meanwhile, was never dropped, even while he was most busily engaged in
the affairs of current politics or in frontier activity. In 1886 he was the Re-
publican nominee for mayor of New York City, but was defeated by Mr.
Abram Hewitt as the Tammany Democratic nominee, around whom certain
conservative interests rallied in the fear that otherwise the third candidate,
Mr. Henry George, might be elected.
It was not until 1889 that Mr. Roosevelt again held an office; but he was
meanwhile in more than one way an active and influential figure in the busy
life of the American people. In 1882 he had published his work on the sec-
ond war with Great Britain, entitled "The Naval Operations of the War Be-
tween Great Britain and the United States, 1812-1815." This at once gave
him a place among writers on American history and also among students of
naval strategy. His next book, which appeared in 1886, was called "Hunting
Trips of a Ranchman." During the following three years, when he had no
official duties, he gave his best energy to the study of the history and de-
velopment of the United States, and embodied that study in a series of
volumes. So industrious was he, indeed, that he brought out in the years
1886-1889 (inclusive) no fewer than seven volumes that will stand perma-
nently to his credit. It was in this period that he entered upon those re-
markable studies of the conquest and settlement of the Mississippi Valley
which have taken form in his four-volume work entitled "The Winning of
the West," of which the first two volumes were given to the public in 1889.
He had meanwhile in 1887 and 1888 contributed two volumes to the "Ameri-
can Statesman" series, one a life of Thomas H. Benton, the other a life of
Gouveneur Morris. In 1888, moreover, appeared his volume entitled "Essays
on Practical Politics," which has more recently been brought out with addi-
tional essays in the volume called "American Ideals." His second book on
frontier life also appeared in 1888 under the title "Ranch Life and Hunting
Trail."
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 15
AS CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER.
Mr. Roosevelt had always been interested in our foreign relations, and
was proposed for Assistant Secretary of State when President Harrison's
administration began in 1889; but he was offered instead what seemed the
less attractive position of civil service commissioner. He took the position
cheerfully and held it for six years. During that period, serving under
President Cleveland as well as President Harrison, he saw the methods of ap-
pointment in the United States almost completely transformed. His activity
and energy in this great work of putting business-like method into the detail
of the public services brought him into close contact with the machinery of
government in all the departments, and into relationship with cabinet of-
ficers, senators, members of Congress, and the whole personnel of administra-
tion. For a young man capable of taking on training, there could have been
no better school than this for subsequent personal direction of that great
administrative machine. And when Roosevelt left the office Commission
he had served his full apprenticeship and was fit for any public work, no
matter what its responsibilities, that might be assigned to him.
AS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF NEW YORK.
He was in his thirty-seventh year when, early in 1895, Mayor Strong
called him from Washington to take the presidency of the Police Board of
New York City. He will be in his forty-seventh year when, early in 1905,
the victor in the pending Presidential campaign will be inaugurated at Wash-
ington. In these ten years his career has led him upward and onward by
swift bounds almost unprecedented in our political history ; but the secret of
his advancement is to be found in the thoroughness of his previous training.
As New York Police Commissioner he was called upon to show great
strength of character in the observance of his oath of office by enforcing un-
popular laws. He left a permanent impress upon the administration of the
great metropolis. He helped to solve some of the most difficult police prob-
lems for all the cities of the country.
AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
He was one of the first to foresee the inevitability of the war with Spain.
He had done what he could for the Police Department of New York, and
meanwhile a Republican administration was coming into power at Washing-
ton. He was appointed by Mr. McKinley as Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, Hon. John D. Long, of Massachusetts, being head of that department.
We were wholly unprepared for war either on land or by sea. Of all men
connected with the administration Roosevelt most clearly perceived the fact
that although armies may be made ready after war breaks out, navies must
be prepared in advance or be worse than useless. When he began to enforce
the necessity of training in marksmanship upon the navy, our standing in
that regard was below that of all the leading naval powers. In less than
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two years, through the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt, our naval gunners led
the world in skill and accuracy.
HIS SERVICE IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN.
When the war broke out Roosevelt felt that his place was at the front,
and that there was no longer need of his services in the Navy Department.
He enlisted as a volunteer, was commissioned with Dr. Leonard Wood to
form the First Regiment of Volunteer Cavalry, known as "the Rough Rideis,"
won honor at Santiago, and with fresh laurels returned from Cuba in the
summer of 1898 as a colonel, recommended by President McKinley for a
brevet brigadier-generalship for gallantry on the field of action.
AS GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.
The political pendulum was swinging strongly toward the Democratic
side in the affairs of New York State. A large sum of money had been
spent to deepen the Erie Canal without effective results, and public opinion
had condemned the Republican party. In this emergency Roosevelt was the
only man in sight who offered the Republicans any chance at all. He was
nominated without conditions, promised the people to investigate the canal
situation thoroughly and to expose and punish whatever wrong-doing he
might find, and carried the State triumphantly because the people had faith
in him. His administration as governor was noteworthy for its efficiency in
managing the affairs of the Empire State, and for its promotion of several
needed reforms. He appointed the charter commission which gave the
metropolis its present revised system of government; he selected the tene-
ment house commission which extended the housing reforms that he had
begun as police commissioner ; he undertook to unify the control of public
educational work in the State; he secured the passage of the far-reaching
franchise tax law ; he presented to the Legislature the most statesmanlike
messages upon the regulation of trusts and corporations and various taxing
reforms that were produced in any State during that period, and he had
before him the certain prospect of a triumphant re-election as governor for
a second term in the autumn of 1900.
AS VICE-PRESIDENT.
His victory of 1898, however, had everywhere attracted attention to his
availability for the national ticket two years later. Mr. McKinley's renomina-
tion was conceded, and the Republicans of the country, especially in the
West, were already talking of Theodore Roosevelt as their probable candi-
date for 1904. He appeared at the Philadelphia convention at the head of
the New York delegation just as he had appeared sixteen years previously
at Chicago. Not only was he the most popular personal figure in the con-
vention, but he was regarded by a large proportion of the delegates, for a
series of reasons, as the most desirable man to be associated with Mr. Mc-
Kinley on the ticket. Hence the nomination which he sought to avoid, but
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 17
accepted when it came as the mandate of the party. He entered upon the
work of the campaign with great enthusiasm, and his work as a speaker was
more effective than that of any other member of his party. The campaign
over, he quietly resumed his literary work (he had already written in 1898
his famous book, "The Rough Riders," and while governor wrote a char-
acteristic life of Oliver Cromwell), visited the Rocky Mountains and wrote
a remarkable description of the hunting of the cougar, and so in place of
K'., expected second term in the intense activities of the governorship of
New York he reconciled himself to the prospects of four years of quiet,
self-repressed, observant, and studious life in the dignified office of Vice-
President.
TAKING UP THE WORK LAID DOWN BY PRESIDENT McKINLEY.
A brief extra session had given him opportunity in his new official capacity
to preside over the Senate. The first regular session of Congress was not
to begin until December, 1901. In September, however, the bullet of the
assassin made vacant the great office so ably and honorably filled by President
McKinley, and on September 14, 1901, at Buffalo, Theodore Roosevelt took
the oath of office as President of the United States, informing the country
that it was his purpose to take up the work as Mr. McKinley had laid it
down. He has been unfailingly true to that promise. No previous Vice-
President ever came into power through the death of the President without
almost immediately calling about him a new cabinet and adopting methods
and policies of his own.
Mr. Roosevelt, with an individuality as strong as that of any other man
of his day, was able to adjust himself at once to the personnel and to the
policies of the McKinley administration, while sacrificing not one whit of his
own personality, and while fixing in every direction the impress of his own
distinctive methods. Mr. McKinley's cabinet remained with him to a man,
one or two of them who had expected to retire Mr. Gage, Mr. Long, and Mr.
Smith, for example keeping their places longer than they otherwise would
have done. Mr. Root, Mr. Hay, and Mr. Knox had the same freedom of
opportunity to carry on their great departments as under Mr. McKinley
himself. Mr. Hitchcock and Mr. Wilson held steadily on their respective
courses. There was unity in the cabinet, there was good-will between the
Administration and both Houses of Congress, and there was harmony and
enthusiasm in the party at large. Senator Hanna, as chairman of the Na-
tional Committee and an influential figure in Congress, remained in close
and confidential relations with the new President to the day of his lamented
death.
HIS NOMINATION IN 1904 A FOREGONE CONCLUSION.
Under these circumstances, with the unshaken confidence of the masses
of the people and with the enthusiastic support of the unofficial rank and file
of the Republican voters, President Roosevelt's nomination at Chicago in
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1904 was a foregone conclusion, even though it had never happened before
that a President who had come into office to fill an unexpired term had
been his party's choice for re-election.
SOME OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S
ADMINISTRATION.
Under President Roosevelt's administration a series of great achieve-
ments can be named, and these will constitute a large part of the claim that
the Republican party makes in this year's campaign for another lease of power.
CUBA.
President McKinley had undertaken to create a new and stable republic in
the island of Cuba, having intimate relations with this country, for our own
advantage and for the best welfare of the people of the island. President
Roosevelt completed that task ; insured the prosperity of Cuba by a mutually
advantageous treaty of commercial reciprocity; established on the south
coast of Cuba a great naval station commanding the Caribbean Sea, and
thus put the stamp of completion upon one of the most brilliant and highly
creditable chapters in the statesmanship of any nation. We had not gone
to Cuba to make war, but to establish peace ; and it has been Theodore
Roosevelt's good fortune to play a leading part in the beginning and the end-
ing of that proud episode.
THE PHILIPPINES.
Again, through Secretary Root, Judge Taft, and their associates and suc-
cessors President Roosevelt has given permanence to the lines of humane
and progressive policy for the Philippines, promoting education and self-
government by every possible means, and working steadily towards the pros-
perity of the islands. His remarkable knowledge of army affairs enabled
him to co-operate the more successfully with Secretary Root in the reor-
ganization of 'our military system. His intimate knowledge of naval affairs
has given the country as well as Congress a very general confidence in the
policy of naval enlargement and efficiency that has been adhered to through
his administration.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
No one understands so well as President Roosevelt the manner in which
a strong navy insures peace for this country. It was the strength of our
navy which made it comparatively easy for the President to prevail upon
Germany and England to withdraw from their blockade of Venezuela and
to submit all points in controversy to settlement by arbitration. In dealing
with the various aspects of this Venezuela question the principles of the
Monroe Doctrine were accepted and strengthened, and the prestige of the
United States as a just and disinterested arbiter in Western Hemisphere af-
fairs was advanced to a point never before reached. President Roosevelt
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 19
was besought to take upon himself the arbitration of certain phases of the
Venezuela dispute, but he sent the case to The Hague, thereby contributing
the greatest practical aid to the cause of a permanent tribunal. The settle-
ment of the Alaska boundary on the basis of the findings of an Anglo-
American commission was also a great triumph of statesmanship for which
President Roosevelt is entitled to the highest credit.
THE ISTHMIAN CANAL.
The Venezuela and Alaska situations exemplified talent of the highest
order in the settlement of critical foreign questions. But, to many minds,
the crowning achievement of Mr. Roosevelt and his administration has been
the removal of all the series of vexatious obstacles that lay in the way of
beginning the construction of the Isthmian Canal. No man in the United
States has been more strongly impressed for many years than President
Roosevelt himself with the necessity of keeping the Isthmian Canal under
the political soverignty and control of the United States Government. His
views on this subject were frankly expressed and highly influential in the
final shaping of the negotiations with England for the abrogation of the
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. When it seemed best to give up the Nicaragua
route, President Roosevelt stood firmly for a proper measure of American
jurisdiction over the Panama zone. At every step of the negotiations, first
with Colombia and then with Panama, his course was marked by good faith in
the highest degree and disinterested statesmanship without a flaw or stain.
The final outcome, that of an independent republic at Panama closely allied
with the United States, was the best solution, probably, that could have been
found, whether for North America, South America, or the commercial na-
tions of Europe ; and the citizens of Colombia itself are already perceiving
that this was the best solution for them, and that they are now certain to
have all the benefits of a canal on the most favored terms, without any of
the dangers, costs, or responsibilities. With his characteristic foresight and
intelligence, the President has already provided for the thorough sanitation
of the canal zone, has appointed a splendidly qualified board of commis-
sioners to construct the canal, and has arranged for the effective policing and
government of the ten-mile strip. If re-elected, he will astonish the world
by the vigor, efficiency, and essential economy with which he will prosecute
this greatest of all engineering tasks.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
In his proclamations enjoining neutrality in the war between Russia and
Japan, President Roosevelt has shown great tact as well as a correct sense of
our position under international law. His leadership in securing from all
great powers, including the combatants themselves, the territorial restriction
of the war, will go upon the record as one of the most beneficent services in
the history of American diplomacy. His promptness in defending American
rights, whether in Turkey, Morocco, Santo Domingo, or elsewhere, has
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promoted peace and good-will rather than animosity. Under his administra-
tion our relations with all nations, foreign governments, and peoples have
been advanced to the highest point of friendliness and mutual respect ever
attained since the beginning of our national life.
INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION.
In the work of internal administration President Roosevelt has shown
himself, on the one hand, thorough in routine and a master of detail ; on
the other hand, strong and constructive in policy. His whole training had
made him pre-eminently fit for the direction of the machinery of the im-
mense executive business of government. Under him the departments have
reached their highest pitch of efficiency. Never before has the work of
skilled and competent men been so much in demand or so heartily appre-
ciated. Never before have the unworthy and the incompetent been so un-
sparingly shut out from the governmental services. In the Postoffice De-
partment there had survived and developed in certain special parts of the
vast organization some favoritism, some fraud, and some flagrant dishonesty
as the bad fruitage of a spoils system for which both parties must share the
blame. These evil conditions had escaped the vigilance of two or three
Congressional investigations ; but President Roosevelt has brought them to
the light, sparing no culprit, however well connected or influentially sur-
rounded. Thus the people know that in him they have an executive un-
equalled in the reduction of the public service to a basis of honesty, efficiency,
and intelligent economy.
It is a great thing to be able to grasp details as well as to formulate
principles ; and to know how to select men as well as to understand the tasks
to which they are assigned. But President Roosevelt, who excels in acting
as Uncle Sam's foreman in running every branch of his great business,
has also shown a remarkable talent for domestic statesmanship and for the
initiating of new and better methods. Thus he has thrown himself into the
task of improving Uncle Sam's physical domain, and as a result we have the
new irrigation policy which is to add to the Nation's wealth, population, and
contentment more than any man can now well estimate. We have also the
new forestry policy, and many other matters of note belonging in particular
to the departments of Secretary Wilson and Secretary Hitchcock, having to
do with the country's material welfare and progress.
THE NEW DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.
One of the greatest constructive achievements of President Roosevelt's
administration has been the setting up of a new cabinet department, that
of Commerce and Labor. This department groups together in a convenient
way a number of public services already existing, and in addition it enables
the Government to utilize more effectively its constitutional power to regulate
commerce between the States for the well-being of the people and, further,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 21
to promote not only the country's prosperity in industry and commerce, but
also its harmony in the relations between the different factors of production.
DIFFICULT PROBLEMS WELL SOLVED.
In everything let it be said that, wherein it has fallen to the President's
lot to deal with problems affecting the relations of capital and labor, he has
not failed to show the highest qualities of courage and the highest sense of
justice, but he has at all times upheld the dignity and the supremacy of the
national Government. The anthracite coal strike reached a point where it
became a grave national emergency, and the President found a way to settle
it which did not strain in the slightest degree his official prerogative, while
it contributed greatly to the prestige of the Government, reassured the public,
and fixed a noble precedent in favor of arbitration at a moment when the
strain between labor and capital was the greatest ever known in this country.
ENFORCEMENT OF THE SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST LAW.
The measures taken by the President through the Attorney-General's of-
fice for the enforcement of the Sherman anti-trust law, however important
they were as respects the particular matters in dispute, found their greatest
importance, after all, in the assurance they gave that the law is still supreme
in this land, that the President as Chief Magistrate will enforce the law
against the greatest corporation as well as against the criminal who breaks
open a letter-box, and that the highest courts, when entered under the
President's instruction by an energetic Department of Justice, will interpret
the laws without fear or favor.
UNFAILING IN HIS SENSE OF JUSTICE,
President Roosevelt has been unfailing in his sense of public dignity and
justice. He has reposed the fullest confidence in his associates in executive
office, and has gloried in their effective devotion to their work, relying upon
them and leaving them unhampered, while himself always in the fullest
sense the President and the leader. His has been an administration without
fads, without favorites, and without scandals. In army and navy promo-
tions, as well as in all appointments to civil office, he has performed his duty
with sole regard to the country's welfare, and with a freedom from bias or
mere personal leaning that has never been surpassed if ever before equalled
in the administration of any American President.
HE KNOWS THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE.
He knows the country and all its interests and resources from North to
South and from East to West. He knows the plain people, in person and in
type, as well as he knows their leaders in industry and education, in church
and state. He has no quarrels ; he bears no grudges ; he is willing and
anxious to work with all men who will deal honorably and faithfully. He
22 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
knows the history of labor, recognizes the services that have been rendered
by associations of working men for mutual benefit, and is so confident in
his sense of good faith in all his dealing with the problems of labor and
capital, that he has no fear of being misunderstood when he speaks with
perfect frankness upon questions as they arise. He knows the Indians and
sees that they have justice. He knows the difficulties that beset the race
problem in the South, but he also holds that in ethics, as under the Constitu-
tion and laws of the United States, a man is a man, no matter what the
color of his skin.
HE HOLDS THE MAN HIGHER THAN THE DOLLAR.
While believing that the rights of property must be regarded and con-
served, he holds the man higher than the dollar. He sees that in a country
like ours, the radical and the conservative alike must demand of their chief
executive that he maintain the law as first and supreme over rich and poor
alike.
AN EXAMPLE TO THE YOUNG MEN OF THE COUNTRY.
To the young men of the country, President Roosevelt sets an example
of the value of a sound mind in a sound body. His career helps them to see
the practical worth of industry, of system, of temperate living ; and helps
them to perceive that faith in the highest public and private ideals still holds
sway in our places of highest honor and power.
CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS
BY JAMES P. HORNADAY.
Charles Warren Fairbanks, senior Senator from Indiana, comes from a
long line of New England ancestry. About a dozen years after the town of
Boston was settled a ship from England brought to the colony one Jonathan
Fayerbanke, his wife, four sons and two daughters. They were Puritans
and their ancestors for many generations had been farmers, a part of the
yeomanry of England. In the struggle between the crown and the people
the Fayerbankes' followed Cromwell.
They came to America like the other Puritans, in search of greater re-
ligious liberty than they had enjoyed in the mother country. Jonathan Fayer-
banke was a type of the New England Puritan of strong mind, strong preju-
dices and an iron determination. His name is identified with the foundation
of the town of Dedham.
Nothing better illustrates the strong-willed character of this pioneer than
an entry in the church record :
"Jonathan Fayerbanke, notwithstanding he has long stood off from ye
church upon some scruples about publik p'fession of faith and ye covenant,
yet after divers loving conferences with him, he made such a declaration of
his faith and conversion to God and p'fession of subjection to ye ordinances
of XT in this Xyt he was readily and gladly received by ye whole church
I4d 6m. 1664."
The Fayerbanke family became well known in the early annals of the
Massachusetts colony. The house in which Jonathan lived near Dedham was
occupied by his descendants until a few years ago, when it became the prop-
erty of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Charles Warren Fairbanks, senior Senator from Indiana, is eighth in
descent from Jonathan Fayerbanke, who settled at Dedham, Mass., in 1636.
The Senator's father, Loriston Monroe Fairbanks, was a native of Vermont,
but before reaching manhood, emigrated to Massachusetts. At Ware, in
the Bay State, he worked in the woolen mills, but later he learned the
wagon-maker's trade, and when he emigrated from Massachusetts to Union
county, Ohio, it was to set up in the wagon-making business and farming.
The Senator's mother, Mary Adelaide Fairbanks, came of a New York
family, the Smiths, of Columbia county, New York. They were early emi-
grants to Union county, Ohio. Her brother, the late William Henry Smith,
founded the Associated Press, and another brother, Charles W. Smith, now
a resident of Pasadena, Cal., was a pioneer in railroad building.
24 CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS.
Senator Fairbanks' earliest recollections date from the log cabin in which
he was born May n, 1852, which stood on the edge of a farm of 216 acres
in Union county, Ohio. His father's neighbors were emigrants from New
England and Pennsylvania, the latter, Pennsylvania Germans, predomi-
nating.
The log house in which the Senator was born was the scene of the first
and only tragedy of his life, and came near ending him at the age of four.
Workmen were engaged in building a new frame house, and were occupying
the old log house as a workshop. The place was filled with shavings, and
the future Senator strayed into the building in the absence of the workmen,
and while replenishing the fire in the stove, he ignited the shavings on the
floor. The flames cut off his retreat and his escape was almost a miracle.
The Senator's boyhood life was such as fell to the average farmer boy.
He was early taught the value of industry and frugality. He worked at
farm work and attended the country schools during the brief terms until he
reached the age of fifteen, when he went to the Ohio Wesleyan College at
Delaware, Ohio, a few miles away. He learned his earliest lessons in Re-
publican party principles under inspiring conditions. His father was an in-
tense anti-slavery man, and gave employment and food and shelter to fugitive
slaves. Charles was only eight years old when the presidential campaign
which resulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln occurred. A year later
he witnessed the uprising of volunteers from among the farmers of the
neighborhood in response to impassioned orations and the roll of the muster
drum. With boyish wonder he saw the great panorama of war unfold. He
heard the enthusiasm attending the enrollment of volunteers. He saw
neighbor after neighbor step forward and subscribe his name to the scroll
of immortal fame. He followed the crowd of enthusiastic advocates of the
Union and haters of human slavery, as they marched to the railroad sta-
tion, and he heard the last farewell shouts which inspired the raw volunteers
as they climbed into box cars and were borne away to the battle fields of the
republic.
The career of young Fairbanks at college was distinguished for sincere
and diligent application to his studies. As a student he won and has since
held the respect and confidence of classmates and faculty. Some of his
closest friends to-day are of the alumni of the Ohio Wesleyan College. It
was as a student there that he met Miss Cornelia Cole, daughter of Judge
Cole, of Marysville, Ohio. They were co-editors of the college paper. The
friendship thus formed ripened into love and as soon as Mr. Fairbanks had
graduated from college and prepared himself for his profession, they were
married.
In college Mr. Fairbanks enjoyed such meager advantages as a farmer
in moderate circumstances could extend to his son. He and a fellow-student
shared a room and did their own cooking. Economy and self-reliance were,
in a measure, necessary, and had they not been, would have been encouraged
by parents who knew the value of them as a foundation for character.
CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS. 25
Young Fairbanks and his room-mate secured much of their supplies from
their parents on the farm, who came Saturday, bringing baskets. They aug-
mented their financial resources by working out of school hours. Young
Fairbanks engaged to do carpenter work and roofing, and in that way secured
a fair education in manual training and the use of carpenter's tools. With
money saved from his earnings as a carpenter he purchased his first law
books that were to serve him is a student of law after leaving college. The
impression made upon his college mates by young Fairbanks was that of a
typical country lad, six feet tall, a little awkward in his movements, slow
of speech, very slim, sincerely devoted to the task of getting through college
and becoming a lawyer, and ambitious. He took a serious view of life, was
not given to college pranks and seldom joked. He graduated with the re-
spect of all and his college life was free from moral blemish. It is not re-
corded that he distinguished himself specially in the matter of scholarship
or prizes, but he was rated as a "good student." After leaving college, young
Fairbanks went to Pittsburg, Pa., where for a time he acted as agent of the
Associated Press, then in its infancy as a news collecting and distributing
agency.
In the campaign of 18/2 he reported the great Democratic and liberal
'Republican rally at Pittsburg, at which Horace Greely made a remarkable
speech.
After remaining in Pittsburg for a year or more, during which he applied
himself assiduously to the study of law, he went to Cleveland, Ohio, com-
pleted his studies, and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of that
State, after attending a term at the Cleveland Law School.
Having secured his admission to the bar, Mr. Fairbanks was married to
Miss Cornelia Cole, the object of his college love, and decided to locate in
Indianapolis for the practice of law. He hung out his shingle in 1874.
Prior to going to Indianapolis, it was suggested that he accept the nom-
ination as member of the Ohio Legislature of his home county in Ohio, and
enter politics. But young Fairbanks had no political ambitions at that time
and elected to follow a professional career.
The early professional career of Charles W. Fairbanks was much the
same as that of the average young lawyer. His first clients were some of
his Ohio neighbors. He had no money except what came to him from his
profession and it came slowly at first. He and his young wife began life in a
boarding house. As the young lawyer's practice grew they furnished a
modest home, and later moved into one of more pretentious architecture and
costlier furnishings. Their present home, into which they moved about three
years ago, is located at 1522 North Meridian street. It is a modest but com-
fortable two-story frame, with a porch extending along the south side,
beautifully shaded and overlooking a large lawn which affords one of the
handsomest building sites in Indianapolis. The Senator's nearest neighbors
are ex-Minister Addison C. Harris and Governor Durbin.
26 CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS.
The years from 1874, when he first commenced the practice in Indian-
apolis, until he was elected to the Senate, were devoted by Mr. Fairbanks to
law. His law library grew with his practice until it became one of the most
extensive, best selected and most used of any in the middle West. Mr. Fair-
banks' clientage grew proportionately. It included some of the leading busi-
ness men of Boston, New York and the large Eastern cities. His fees were
unusually large for the lawyer of that day. Always a zealous Republican,
Mr. Fairbanks found time from a busy professional career to take active part
in every Republican campaign in Indiana. His counsel and assistance were
sought by party leaders. Before he ever held office he had spoken in every
county in Indiana, and was known personally to the voters throughout the
State. He contributed freely of his time and money to the Republican cause.
His speeches, like his other political services, were much in demand. Among
the strong political friendships he made in his early career in Indiana and
which continued unbroken, was that with the Hon. Walter Q. Gresham.
Judge Gresham formed a strong liking for the young lawyer who frequently
appeared in the federal court. He admired his ability, positive qualities and
sincerity, and when in 1888 Judge Gresham's name was taken up by leading
Republicans of the country for the Presidency, Mr. Fairbanks became one
of the judge's enthusiastic advocates. Just prior to the Chicago convention
of that year, Judge Gresham asked Mr. Fairbanks who was at the head of
the Gresham forces in Indiana, to take charge of the Gresham candidacy dur-
ing the convention and direct it
Mr. Fairbanks returned to Indiana and at once actively entered into the
campaign in behalf of the presidential nominee, General Harrison. The strong
personal friendship with Judge Gresham remained up to the time of the lat-
ter's death as Secretary of State in President Cleveland's cabinet. The
mutations of politics did not break or lessen it. Among the treasured posses-
sions of Senator Fairbanks are portraits of his late friend, one of which
adorns the walls of his home library, and the other a conspicuous place in
his office.
While the personal friendship formed in the early political struggles in
Indiana remained unbroken until Judge Gresham's death, the two friends
had nothing in common in their political views during Judge Gresham's later
years. Judge Gresham entertained certain political views which one of his
independent spirit and sympathetic and candid nature found it impossible to
conceal. Once they were known he found a door open and an hospitable
welcome awaiting him in the Democratic party. Mr. Fairbanks shared none
of these views. He was an ardent believer in maintaining the Republican
policy of protection, being in hearty accord with William McKinley. He did
more than any other one person to commit the Republican party in Indian?
to the gold standard in its platform of 1896, preceding the St. Louis con-
vention. In fact, it is generally understood that the money plank in the
State platform was his work, and coming at a critical time, it had a strong
CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS. 27
impression on Republican thought and in moulding a sentiment which led to
the adoption of the sound money platform of 1896.
Major John M. Carson, dean of the Washington correspondents, and
clerk to the ways and means committee when Major McKinley was chair-
man, wrote to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, under date of March 26,
1904, on this point :
"Fairbanks was placed at the head of the Indiana delegation to the St.
Louis convention, and was made temporary chairman of that body, deliver-
ing a speech that attracted wide attention and contributed to fixing the status
of the party on the money question. That convention declared against the
free coinage of silver, and it was largely due to the persistent efforts of Mr.
Fairbanks and a few other sagacious and conservative men that that declara-
tion was made. It has been claimed that the action of the Indiana Republi-
can State convention in 1896 had a very salutary influence on the Republi-
can National convention of the same year in declaring for the gold standard."
Senator Fairbanks' entry as a positive force in national Republican politics
may be said to date from the St. Louis Republican convention of 1896, and
the events leading up to it. While he enjoyed a wide professional and busi-
ness acquaintance from his legal career, having practiced in the leading courts
of the country, and at the same time having enjoyed an acquaintance with
national Republican leaders on account of his participation in the Republican
national conventions of 1888 and 1892, his friends regard the stirring political
events of 1896 as the real signal for the suspension of the professional and
the beginning of the official political career.
Mr. Fairbanks and Major McKinley had been friends of many years'
standing. Both were Ohio born, both ardent members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and in exact accord in their political views. In tempera-
ment their mutual friends believe they were much alike.
Mr. Fairbanks had many clients in Ohio and knew the State and its Re-
publican leaders and traditions appealed to him. It was most natural, there-
fore, that Mr. Fairbanks should attach himself to the fortunes of Major Mc-
Kinley in the preliminary organization leading up to the campaign of 1896.
He took charge of the work in Indiana and was influential in organizing the
State. He impressed his personality upon the convention and its declaration
of principles. He was chosen as a delegate-at-large to the St. Louis con-
vention, and soon afterward it was announced that Major McKinley, whose
nomination was then a foregone conclusion, had invited Mr. Fairbanks to be
temporary chairman of the convention. His speech as temporary chairman
attracted wide attention. It was a keynote for the approaching campaign,
which was to be one of the most important in its results on the financial and
industrial condition of the American people in the country's history.
Mr. Fairbanks' personality was everywhere in evidence in the St. Louis
convention, and his counsel was eagerly sought. In the campaign that fol-
lowed he was invited to speak in nearly all the Northern States, and re-
sponded as far as was consistent with his duty to his party in Indiana. In
"28 CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS.
that campaign and the national campaigns that have followed, he has ac-
cepted invitations to speak, and addressed audiences in nearly every Northern
State from Maine to California. His speeches have always been much in
demand, his audiences for the most part large and enthusiastic.
The State of Indiana which in recent years had developed great indus-
trial activity, particularly in the natural gas belt, showed an interest in the
restoration of the protective tariff. The State was the center, also, of a
strong gold Democratic propaganda. "Sound money and protection" were
the watch-words employed by the Republicans that year to wrest the State,
which had a Democratic Governor and two Democratic United States Sena-
tors, from the Democratic party. In this fight, which was made on the basis
of a thorough political organization of the State, Mr. Fairbanks was easily
leader. He returned from the St. Louis convention with additional political
prestige, if possible, and his friends began the work of organizing the State
in behalf of his Senatorial candidacy. The Republicans carried Indiana on
national and State tickets that year by about 20,000, a surprising victory in
view of the alternating currents of political victory that had characterized
Hoosier political performances for years previously. The Legislature was
safely Republican. In the Republican caucus which followed in January, 1897,
Mr. Fairbanks was nominated for United States Senator on the first ballot
over a field of strong candidates.
Thus Mr. Fairbanks achieved, without serious struggle and with the best
of party feeling, his first ambition to hold office. It was the third time his
name had been before the party for office in Indiana. The first time his
friends brought forward his name Governor Hovey was given the honor
of the caucus nomination. The party was in the minority, and Senator
Daniel W. Voorhees, destined to be defeated by Mr. Fairbanks six years
later, was elected. The second time Senator Fairbanks' name was presented
for the office he received the caucus nomination but was defeated by Senator
Turpie, the Legislature being Democratic. At that time Mr. Fairbanks re-
ceived the unanimous vote of his party in the joint assembly, as he did in
the winter of 1897, which resulted in his election.
Few men have entered the United States Senate under more favorable
conditions than those which attended Senator Fairbanks' advent, March 4,
1897. The day marked the restoration of the Republican party to power
after four years of Democratic rule, accompanied by an industrial and finan-
cial blight that had prostrated American energy. In the White House sat
a President who took his oath of office at the same hour with Senator Fair-
banks, and between whom and the Senator had existed a friendship of many
years' standing. The new Senator wore the distinction of having redeemed
a Democratic State. He was destined by circumstances and ability to play
a conspicuous part in the new administration which was to restore the pro-
tective tariff policy, place the country's finances on a sound basis, wage a
successful war with the kingdom of Spain in the interest of humanity and
play a part in administrative policies, connected with the accession of the
United States to the foremost rank of world powers.
CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS. 29
Mr. Fairbanks took a high rank in the Senate from the day he entered.
He entered actively into the work of the extra session which passed the
Dingley tariff bill, thus increasing the revenues, restoring the surplus and in-
cidentally reinstating the gold reserve redemption fund, the steady diminu-
tion of which during the four years previous, had been of serious concern
to the financial and business interests of the country. He was equally prom-
inent in the legislation revising the currency laws which followed the Dingley
bill as a restorative measure. He had been one of the first to raise his voice
in behalf of maintaining the national credit inviolate, and to that end placing
the currency of the country upon a single gold standard. His early views
on the question are known and the important part he played in committing
the Republican party to a sound money policy. His early zeal for the cause
found expression later in speeches and wise counsel while currency legislation
was being shaped.
Senator Fairbanks went at once to the head of the Senate committee on
immigration. The subject was one which had interested him for years.
He felt there could be no more profitable study than that which concerned
the character of immigration yearly pouring into this country to enter into
the national life and be assimulated with its customs and habits into the
nation's citizenship. To the study of this subject he gave the most earnest
consideration, visiting the immigration stations of the country, and putting
himself in daily touch with the officers charged with the responsibility of ad-
ministering the immigration laws. The results of his research and labors took
the form of a speech which was widely read and commended.
Although Senator Fairbanks afterward took a step higher to the chair-
manship of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, his interest in
the immigration question has never abated. In the last Congress he was
second on the Committee of Immigration.
In the agitation which preceded the declaration of war with Spain, aroused
by reports of Spanish cruelty in Cuba, and brought to a crisis by the blowing
up of the battleship Maine, Senator Fairbanks was one of the President's
closest advisers. He was at the White House almost daily, participating, with
other members of the administration, in conferences that lasted not infre-
quently far into the night, the purpose of which was, if possible, to devise
some way to secure the amelioration of conditions in Cuba without blood-
shed. The cloud of anxiety and care which hung like a pall over these de-
liberations was best expressed in President McKinley's words, uttered on
one of these occasions :
"I do not care for the money that will be wasted, or the property de-
stroyed, but the thought of the human agony and distress that must come to
countless homes almost overwhelms me."
Through this period of popular unrest, which at one time even threatened
to overwhelm Congress, Senator Fairbanks stood with the cool-headed con-
servatives in support of President McKinley's policy.
30 CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS.
In May, 1897, he introduced a resolution, supposed to have had the sanc-
tion of the President, and submitted after careful consideration, as a solution
of the trouble in Cuba. It requested the President to tender his good of-
fices toward securing a cessation of hostilities in Cuba and an amelioration
of the conditions there. Later, when all pacific measures failed, and the Presi-
dent, in a special message to Congress, called attention to his inability to
bring about order through peaceful overtures, and asked Congress to act,
Senator Fairbanks advocated a speedy prosecution of the war. He was
thoroughly in sympathy with the President's policy throughout. The war
over, he vigorously supported the peace measures and voted for the Presi-
dent's policies looking to peace and the holding of the Philippines.
Senator Fairbanks conceived the idea of extending aid to the stricken
inhabitants of the island of Martinique after the volcanic eruption. As soon
as the news of the disaster was confirmed, he prepared and introduced a bill
authorizing the expenditure of $100,000 for relief. The bill promptly passed
the Senate without a reference to a committee. In the House there was
mild opposition raised from the Democratic side, but the bill passed without
serious delay. Senator Fairbanks was thanked by the French Government.
Senator Fairbanks was named by President McKinley as one of the
American Commissioners of the United States and British Joint High Com-
mission, and was Chairman of the American Commissioners. His services
on that Commission is regarded by many as one of the most important and
useful of his public acts. Lord Herschel was President of the British
Canadian Joint High Commission. This Commission held one session at
Quebec, and later a protracted session in Washington, D. C., and practically
reached a conclusion on most of the questions before that Commission ex-
cept the Alaska boundary question, which, within the last year, was referred
to a special Commission, of which ex-Secretary of War Elihu Root, Senator
Lodge, of Massachusetts, and ex-Senator George Turner, of Washington,
were the Commission on behalf of the United States.
The principal questions before the United States and British Joint High
Commission, aside from the Alaska boundary question, were the proposed
abrogation of the Rush-Bagot treaty of 1817, which prohibited the building or
maintaining of war vessels above a certain tonnage on the Great Lakes, the
lake fisheries question and Canadian reciprocity. Since the death of Lord
Herschel, Chairman of the British-Canadian Commission, Sir Wilfrid Laurier
has been the most active member.
Senator Fairbanks has been much in demand throughout the country as a
public speaker. Aside from his political speeches, which have been a feature
of every national and biennial congressional campaign since and including
the campaign of 1896, he has spoken at numerous celebrations and anni-
versaries, and at college commencements, state fairs, and political clubs. His
most notable addresses of this class were his speech to the graduates of Baker
University, Kansas, the address before the monster Labor Day celebration
at Kansas City, in 1902, an address at the Minnesota State Fair, in 1903, a
CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS. 31
speech on the occasion of the celebration of the 25Oth anniversary of the
founding of the town of Lancaster, Mass., and his address on the I25th anni-
versary of the battle of Monmouth.
On account of his close friendship for the late President McKinley, he was
invited to deliver the address at the unveiling of the McKinley monument
at Toledo, Ohio, last year.
He has been the guest and has delivered addresses at the principal
political clubs in New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, St.
Louis, and all the other large cities of the country.
Senator Fairbanks was a delegate-at-large to the Philadelphia convention
of 1900, and was Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, which reported
the national platform that year.
He has been chosen a delegate-at-large from Indiana to the convention of
1904 at Chicago. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1903, at the expiration
of his first term, without opposition in his own party. He received in the
joint assembly of the Indiana Legislature that year a larger majority than was
ever given before to any Republican candidate for the United States Senate in
the history of the State.
Senator Fairbanks was invited by President McKinley at one time to be-
come a member of his cabinet.
From the time Mr. Fairbanks entered the Senate, in March, 1897, until
the present time, he has refrained from engaging in any law practice. He
has given his time absolutely and exclusively to the government service.
Senator and Mrs. Fairbanks have always retained a lively interest in the
prosperity of their alma mater, and the Senator has been for a number of
years one of the trustees. His eldest son and his only daughter are of the
alumni of this institution. Senator and Mrs. Fairbanks are members of the
Meridian Street M. E. Church, of Indianapolis, and the Senator is a Trustee
in the Church.
The children, in the order of their ages, are, the daughter, Adelaide, wife
of Ensign John W. Timmons, of the U. S. S. Kearsarge; Warren C, who
recently married Miss Ethel Cassidy, of Pittsburg, and who is a director of
the Oliver Typewriter Works, in Chicago ; Frederick C., a graduate of
Princeton University, Class of 1903, and who is now a student at the Co-
lumbian University Law School in Washington, D. C. The third son, Rich-
ard, is in the junior year at Yale College, and the fourth son, and youngest
child, Robert, is a student at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., preparing
for Princeton.
Senator Fairbanks' mother is still living, and is nearly seventy-five years
of age. She spends her winters with the Senator's family in Washington,
and the rest of the season is generally spent with her daughter, Mrs. M. L,
Milligan, of Springfield, Ohio. The Senator's father died in the winter of
1900, and is buried at Springfield, Ohio. Senator Fairbanks' only sister is the
wife of ex-Mayor M. L. Milligan, of Springfield, Ohio, President of the
Springfield Foundry Company and other manufacturing plants. He has a
32 CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS.
brother, Newton H. Fairbanks, who is also connected with the same com-
panies. Another brother, W. D. Fairbanks, is President of the First National
Bank of Mansfield, Illinois, and a wealthy landowner and farmer. Another
brother, Luther M., is a capitalist and real estate dealer in Mansfield, Illinois.
He was called to be one of the Trustees of the McKinley Memorial As-
sociation, of which Associate Justice Day, of the Supreme Court, is President,
and was made a member of the Executive Committee of the Trustees.
Senator Fairbanks is President of the Benjamin Harrison Monument
Association of Indianapolis. This Association has raised about $50,000, and
proposes to erect a monument to General Harrison on the site of the new
public building in course of construction in Indianapolis.
Senator Fairbanks' life in Washington is characterized by a generous but
unostentatious hospitality. His family occupies the Van Wyck house, near
Dupont Circle in the residence section of the city. The house is admirably
adapted for entertaining.
Mrs. Fairbanks occupies a social leadership in Washington because of
her charming qualities as hostess, and by virtue of her position as President
General of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
HON. GEORGE B. CORTELYOU, of New York,
Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1904).
REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
GEO. B. CORTELYOU, New York, Chairman.
ELMER DOVER, Ohio, Secretary.
C. N. BLISS, New York, Treasurer.
WILLIAM F. STONE, Maryland, Sergeant-at-Arms.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
EASTERN HEADQUARTERS
No. I Madison Avenue, New York
CHARLES F. BROOKER, Connecticut.
N. B. SCOTT, West Virginia.
FRANKLIN MURPHY, New Jersey.
WILLIAM L. WARD, New York.
C. N. BLISS, New York.
WESTERN HEADQUARTERS
Auditorium Hotel, Chicago.
HARRY S. NEW, Indiana.
FRANK O. LOWDEN, Illinois.
R. B. SCHNEIDER, Nebraska.
DAVID W. MULVANE, Kansas.
GEO. A. KNIGHT, California.
ELMER DOVER, Ohio.
HON. ELMER DOVER, of Ohio,
Secretary of the National Republican Committee.
Republican National Committee
STATE. NAME. P. O. ADDRESS.
Alabama CHAS. H. SCOTT Montgomery.
Arkansas POWELL. CLAYTON Eureka Springs and City of
Mexico.
California GEORGE A. KNIGHT San Francisco.
Colorado A. M. STEVENSON Denver.
Connecticut CHARLES F. BROOKER. . . Ansonia.
Delaware JOHN EDWARD ADDICKS. Wilmington.
Florida J. N. COOMBS Apalachicola.
Georgia JUDSON W. LYONS Augusta and Washington, D. C.
Idaho W. B. HEYBURN Wallace.
Illinois FRANK O. LOWDEN Chicago.
Indiana HARRY S. NEW Indianapolis.
Iowa ERNEST E. HART Council Bluffs.
Kansas DAVID W. MULVANE Topeka.
Kentucky JOHN W. YERKES Danville and Washington, D. C.
Louisiana
Maine JOHN F. HILL Augusta.
Maryland LOUIS E. McCOMAS Hagerstown.
Massachusetts W. MURRAY CRANE Dalton.
Michigan JOHN W. BLODGETT Grand Rapids.
Minnesota FRANK B. KELLOGG St. Paul.
Mississippi L. B. MOSELE Y Jackson.
Missouri THOMAS J. AKINS St. Louis.
Montana JOHN D. WAITE Lewistown.
Nebraska CHAS. H. MORRILL Lincoln.
Nevada PATRICK L. FLANIGAN. . . Reno.
New Hampshire ...FRANK S. STREETER Concord.
New Jersey FRANKLIN MURPHY Newark.
New York WM. L. WARD Port Chester.
North Carolina E. C. DUNCAN Raleigh.
North Dakota ALEXANDER McKENZIE . . Bismarck.
Ohio MYRON T. HERRICK Cleveland.
Oregon CHAS. H. CAREY Portland.
Pennsylvania BOIES PENROSE Philadelphia and Washington,
D. C.
Rhode Island CHARLES R. BRAYTON. .. Providence.
South Carolina JOHN G. CAPERS Charleston.
South Dakota J. M. GREENE Chamberlain.
Tennessee WALTER P. BROWNLOW. Jonesboro and Washington,
D. C.
Texas CECIL A. LYON Sherman.
Utah C. E. LOOSE Provo.
Vermont JAMES W. BROCK Montpelier.
Virginia GEORGE E. BOWDEN Norfolk.
Washington LEVI ANKENY Walla Walla and Washington,
D. C.
West Virginia N. B. SCOTT Wheeling and Washington, D. C.
Wisconsin HENRY C. PAYNE Milwaukee and Washington,
D. C.
Wyoming GEO. E. PEXTON..._. Evanston.
Territories, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Porto Rico
and Philippine Islands
Alaska JOHN J. HEID : Juneau.
Arizona W. S. STURGES Phoenix.
New Mexico SOLOMON LUNA Los Lunas.
Oklahoma C. M. CADE Shawnee.
Indian Territory. .. P. L. SOPER Vinita.
Dist. of Columbia. ROBERT REYBURN Washington, D. C.
Hawaii A. G. M. ROBERTSON Honolulu. P. O. Box 303.
Porto Rico R. H. TODD San Juan.
Philippine Islands.. HENRY B. McCOY
ORGANIZATION OF THE REPUBLICAN CON=
GRESSIONAL COMMITTEE FOR 1904
Headquarters Republican Congressional Committee,
1135 Broadway, New York
OFFICERS
Chairman JOSEPH W. BABCOCK, of Wisconsin.
Vice-Chairman JAMES S. SHERMAN, of New York.
Secretary JESSE OVERSTREET, of Indiana.
Treasurer WM. B. THOMPSON, of Washington, D. C.
Speakers Bureau HENRY CASSON. Manager.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
JOHN A. T. HULL, of Iowa. E. C. BURLEIGH, of Maine.
H. C. LOUDENSLAGER, of New Jersey. J. A. TAWNEY, of Minnesota.
WILLIAM CONNELL, of Pennsylvania. J. R. MANN, of Illinois.
VICTOR H. METCALF, of California. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH, of Ohio.
GEO. L. LILLEY, of Connecticut.
Members.
California Representative VICTOR H. METCALF, Oakland.
Colorado Representative FRANKLIN E. BROOKS, Colo. Springs.
Connecticut Representative GEORGE L. LILLEY, Waterbury.
Delaware Senator J. FRANK ALLEE, Dover.
Idaho Representative BURTON L. FRENCH, Moscow.
Illinois Representative JAMES R. MANN Chicago.
Indiana .Representative JESSE OVERSTREET, Indianapolis.
Iowa Representative J. A. T. HULL, Des Moines.
Kansas Representative J. D. BOWERSOCK, Lawrence.
Kentucky Representative W. G. HUNTER. Burkesville.
Maine Representative E. C. BURLEIGH, Augusta.
Maryland Representative SIDNEY E. MUDD, La Platte.
Massachusetts Representative WILLIAM C. LOVERING. Taunton.
Michigan Representative JOSEPH W. FORDNEY Saginaw.
Minnesota Representative JAMES A. TAWNEY, Winona.
Missouri Representative RICHARD BARTHOLDT, St. Louis.
Montana Representative JOSEPH M. DDCON, Missoula.
Nebraska Representative JOHN J. MCCARTHY, Ponca.
New Hampshire Representative CYRUS A. SULLOWAY, Manchester.
New Jersey Representative H. C. LOUDENSLAGER, Paulsboro.
New York Representative JAMES S. SHERMAN. Utica.
North Dakota Representative B. F. SPALDING, Fargo.
Ohio Representative NICHOLAS LONGWORTH, Cincinnati.
Oregon Senator J. H. MITCHELL, Portland.
Pennsylvania Representative WILLIAM CONNELL, Scranton.
Rhode Island Representative ADIN B. CAPRON, Stillwater.
South Dakota Representative CHARLES H. BURKE. Pierre.
Tennessee Representative H. R. GIBSON, Knoxville.
Utah Representative JOSEPH HOWELL, Logan.
Vermont Representative KITTREDGE HASKINS. Brattleboro.
Virginia Representative CAMPBELL SLEMP. Big Stone Gap.
Washington Representative W. E. HUMPHREYS, Seattle.
West Virginia Representative B. B. DOVENOR, Wheeling.
Wisconsin Representative JOSEPH W. BABCOCK, Necedah.
Wyoming Representative FRANK W. MONDELL, Newcastle.
Hawaii Delegate J. K. KALANIANAOLE Honolulu.
New Mexico Delegate B. S. RODEY, Albuquerque.
Oklahoma Delegate BIRD S. McGUIRE, Guthrie.
CHAIRMEN AND SECRETARIES OF REPUBLI-
CAN STATE AND TERRITORIAL
COMMITTEES
Alabama JOSEPH O. THOMPSON. .. Birmingham.
N. L. STEELE Birmingham.
Arkansas . . .H. L. REMMEL Little Rock.
W. S. HOLT Little Rock.
California GEORGE STONE Palace Hotel, San Francisco.
E. F. WOODWARD Palace Hotel, San Francisco.
Colorado . ..D. B. FAIRLEY 1625 Champa St., Denver.
CHAS. W. COCHRAN 1625 Champa St., Denver.
Connecticut ...MICHAEL KENEALY Allyn House, Hartford.
GEO. E. HINMAN Allyn House, Hartford.
Delaware J. FRANK ALLEE 716 Market St., Wilmington.
WILLIAM D. DENNEY 716 Market St., Wilmington.
Florida . ..HENRY S. CHUBB Gainesville.
JOSEPH E. LEE Gainesville.
Georgia W. H. JOHNSON Columbus.
J. H. DEVEAUX Savannah.
Idaho .. ..J. H. BRADY Boise.
ROBERT HAYES Boise.
Illinois ROY O. WEST Great Northern Hotel, Chicago.
J. A. WHEELER Great Northern Hotel, Chicago.
Indiana JAMES P. GOODRICH English Hotel, Indianapolis.
FRANK A. SIMS English Hotel, Indianapolis.
Iowa R. H. SPENCE Observatory Bldg., Des Moines.
GEO. R. ESTABROOK Observatory Bldg., Des Moines.
Kansas W. R. STUBBS National Hotel, Topeka.
CLYDE MILLER National Hotel. Topeka.
Kentucky RICHARD P, ERNST 317 Gait House, Louisville.
THOS. L. WALKER 317 Gait House, Louisville.
Louisiana F. B. WILLIAMS 117 St. Charles St., New Orleans.
M. J. McFARLANE 117 St. Charles St., New Orleans.
Maine F. M. SIMPSON Bangor.
BYRON BOYD Bangor.
Maryland JOHN B. HANNA 622 N. Calvert St., Baltimore.
JOHN C. SIMERIXG 622 N. Calvert St., Baltimore.
Massachusetts . THOMAS TALBOT 194 Washington St., Boston.
H. H. ATHERTON, JR 194 Washington St., Boston.
Michigan GERRIT J. DIEKEMA 1040 Majestic Bldg., Detroit.
DENNIS E. ALWARD 1040 Majestic Bldg., Detroit.
Minnesota CONDE HAMLIN 218 Manhattan Bldg., St. Paul.
W. E. VERITY 218 Manhattan Bldg., St. Paul.
Mississippi FREDERICK W. COLLINS. Jackson.
T. v. MCALLISTER Jackson.
Missouri THOS. K. NIEDRINGHAUS. Commercial Bldg., St. Louis.
Montana LEE MANTLE Butte.
J. B. COLLINS Butte.
Nebraska H. C. M. BURGESS Murray Hotel, Omaha.
W. B. ALLEN Murray Hotel, Omaha
Nevada GEO. T. MILLS Musser St., Carson City.
E. D. VANDERLIETH Musser St., Carson City.
New Hampshire. JACOB H. GALLINGKR White's Opera House, Concord.
THOMAS F. CLIFFORD White's Opera House, Concord.
New Jersey FRANK O. BRIGGS 144 W. State St., Trenton.
J. HERBERT POTTS 144 W. State St., Trenton.
New York WILLIAM BARNES, JR Fifth Ave. Hotel, New York City.
REUBEN L. FOX Fifth Ave. Hotel, New York City.
No. Carolina. ..THOMAS S. ROLLINS Benbow Hotel, Greensboro.
ROBERT H. McNEILL Benbow Hotel, Greensboro.
North Dakota . . L. B. HANNA Grand Forks.
M. H. JEWELL Grand Forks.
Ohio CHARLES DICK Columbus.
JOHN R. M ALLOY Columbus.
Oregon FRANK C. BAKER Hamilton Bldg., Portland.
E. R. BRYSON Hamilton Bldg., Portland.
Pennsylvania ..BOIES PENROSE 1417 Locust St., Philadelphia.
W. R. ANDREWS 1417 Locust St., Philedalphia.
Rhode Island... FRANK E. HOLDEN 123 Westminster St. Providence.
NATHAN M. WRIGHT 123 Westminster St., Providence.
So. Carolina E. H. DEAS Darlington.
J. H. JOHNSON 2029 Marion St., Columbia.
South Dakota. . FRANK CRANE Pierre.
E. A. WARNER Pierre.
Tennessee J. C. R. McCALL Maxwell House, Nashville.
HARRY A. LUCK Maxwell House, Nashville.
Texas CECIL A. LYON Sherman.
R. L. HOFFMAN Galveston.
Utah . WM. SPRY City & County Bldg., Salt Lake City.
TOM PITT City & County Bldg., Salt Lake City.
Vermont THAD M. CHAPMAN Middlebury.
ALFRED E. WATSON Hartford.
Virginia PARK AGNEW Alexandria.
ASA ROGERS Petersburg.
Washington E. B. PALMER Seattle.
J. W. LYSONS Seattle.
West Virginia. . ELLIOTT NORTHCOTT Parkersburg.
W. E. GLASSCOCK Parkersburg.
Wisconsin THEO. W. GOLDIN ..Hotel Pfister, Milwaukee.
F. R. BENTLEY Hotel Pfister, Milwaukee.
Wyoming J. A. VAN ORSDEL Cheyenne.
R. P. FULLER Cheyenne.
Alaska JOHN T. SPICKETT Juneau.
A. V. R. SNYDER Wrangel.
Arizona W. F. NICHOLS Phoenix.
GEORGE U. YOUNG Phoenix.
Indian Terr CYRUS G. KEAN Wynnewood.
MIKE CONLAN Atoka.
New Mexico. . . . F. A. HUBBELL Albuquerque.
J. J. SHERIDAN Albuquerque.
Oklahoma CHAS. H. FILSON.., . . Guthrie.
VERNON W. WHITING Enid.
Hawaii CLARENCE L. CRABBE. .. Honolulu.
W. W. HOOGS Honolulu.
Porto Rico MANUEL F. ROSSY San Juan.
ORGANIZATION OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
LEAGUE FOR 1904
OFFICERS 1903-4
President J. HAMPTON MOORE. Union Republican Club, Philadelphia.
Vice-President JAMES JAY SHERIDAN, Hamilton Club, Chicago.
Secretary ELBERT W. WEEKS. Guthrie Centre, Iowa.
Treasurer SID. B. REDDING, Little Rock, Ark.
Natiortal League Conventions have been held as follows: December 15, 1887,
TJew York City; February 28, 1889, Baltimore; March 4, 1890, Nashville; April 23,
1891, Cincinnati; September 16, 1892, Buffalo; May 10, 1893, Louisville; June 26,
1894, Denver; June 19. 1895, Cleveland; August 25, 1896, Milwaukee; July 15,
1897, Detroit; Omaha, Neb., July 13, 1898; St. Paul, Minn., July 16, 1900; Chicago,
111., October 2-3, 1902.
Next Convention Indianapolis October, 1904
HON. F. E. COYNE, Postmaster of Chicago,
Chairman of the Local Committee.
THE LOCAL COMMITTEE AND ITS WORK
BY JOHN A. ROWLAND.
Chicago Republicans began early in December to lay plans to secure the
National Convention. The preliminary work was done under the auspices of
the Hamilton Club. It was decided early that Chicago's claims should be
presented by a delegation made up of the leading members of this club, as
well as by the Illinois Congressmen.
Graeme Stewart, Republican National Committeeman for Illinois, accom-
panied by Samuel B. Raymond and Fred W. Upham, left Chicago for Wash-
ington on December 8th to prepare the way for the Hamilton Club dele-
gation, which followed next day. Among those who made up the Hamilton
Club delegation which left for the National Convention on December the 10th,
were:
F. E. COYNE, JUDGE Z. R. CARTER,
E. S. CONWAY, JUDGE C. C. KOHLSAAT,
J. J. SHERIDAN, J. S. RUNNELLS.
H. C. LYTTON, VOLNEY W. FOSTER,
E. A. MUNGER, COL. J. H. STRONG,
W. F. ROLLA, ALD. YOUNG,
ELBRIDGE HANECY, E. J. MURPHY,
FRED M. BLOUNT, A. H. JONES,
J. M. SMYTH. J. T. LENFESTY,
GALE BLOCKI, GEO. B. SWIFT,
JOHN B. PORTER,
Among other prominent men of the city and nation who had promised
assistance were Judge Peter A. Grosscup, George R. Peck, Secretary of the
Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, Speaker Cannon and Senators Cullom and Hopkins.
Arriving at Washington the National Committee opened headquarters at
the Arlington Hotel. On December the loth the entire delegation headed by
Graeme Stewart called upon President Roosevelt at the White House.
James J. Sheridan, President of the Hamilton Club, addressed the President
briefly, outlining the purpose of the Hamilton Club's visit to the National
Capitol. He assured the President that he would be nominated, and that the
convention would be held at Chicago.
President Roosevelt responded briefly, saying that as President of the
United States he must of necessity maintain a neutral attitude but he added
significantly : "I would be a poor American if I were not a good Chicagoan."
When the National Committee met on December I2th it was so certain
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that Chicago would be chosen as the convention city that the National
Committee booked headquarters at the Chicago hotels before the vote was
taken.
Chicago's proposals for entertaining the convention were presented to
the National Committee by Samuel B. Raymond. He stated that Chicago
would guarantee the expenses of the convention, supply a convention hall
with a seating capacity of 12,000, with eleven entrances. Chicago's hotel ac-
commodations he guaranteed to be of the best.
St. Louis and Pittsburg delegations were on hand with proposals. Na-
tional Committeeman Richard C. Kerens introduced ex-Mayor Walbridge of
St. Louis who offered on behalf of St. Louis a bonus of $40,000 in cash and
to defray all the expenses of the convention. Ex-Mayor Walbridge resented
the fact that Missouri had been referred to as hopelessly Democratic. There
were, he said, 360,000 Republicans who wanted the label "hopeless" removed
and "available" substituted.
Senator Boise Penrose of Pennsylvania, presented the claims of Pitts-
burg. He said that a committee of Pittsburg Republicans were outside with
the cash to pay for the convention. "If $100,000 is not enough," he said, "we
will give $500,000, and that would be but a small matter. I understand the
Pittsburg delegation has the cash with them, but they have not taken me into
their confidence to show it to me. They came by the way of Harrisburg,
and I hope the fund is intact."
Only one ballot was necessary. Chicago received 43 votes, Pittsburg 7,
and St. Louis i.
The Chicago committee returned home and the Hamilton Club at once
organized itself into a committee of the whole to perfect the plans for the
convention.
Few difficulties presented themselves to the men who had guaranteed
to meet all the requirements of the National Committee.
In the first place no effort was necessary to make any ostentatious can-
vass for funds. The members of the Hamilton Club knew where the money
to make their pledges to the National Committee good was coming from.
The funds were forthcoming. In the second place the convention hall, a
massive structure of steel, brick and stone was standing ready. No building
had to be transformed or evolved. The fact that the Chicago Coliseum was
ready for the great National Convention simplified the problem.
Only two committees were appointed by the President of the Hamilton
Club. The Political Action Committee was made up as follows :
MARQUIS EATON. Chairman. A. W. BUCKLEY.
KEENE H. ADDINGTON FRANK G. GARDENER.
CLARK S. REED.
The Entertainment Committee consisted of the following members of the
Club:
E. C. WETTEN. Chairman. GEORGE A. MASON.
J. HOWARD HOLBROOK. GEORGE E. SHIPMAN.
J. M. McCONAHEY.
HON. FRED. W. UPHAM, of Illinois,
Treasurer of the Local Committee.
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 39
Larger committees were not necessary for in reality the Hamilton Club,
with its hundreds of members, many of them prominent in national life,
and constituting as a whole one of the most influential Republican organiza-
tions in the country, constituted itself one great committee to see that the
necessary funds were forthcoming, that the convention hall was ready, that
every convention facility was supplied. Then too, the entire membership of
the Hamilton Club constituted itself a reception and entertainment commit-
tee to welcome the party leaders and delegates and to see that their every
want was supplied.
The work of preparing the convention hall for the sessions of the con-
vention was begun early in May. Contracts were let for seats, railings, desks,
decorations, and lights.
The plans for the convention hall included comfortable opera chairs with
hat, cane and umbrella racks for delegates, alternates and spectators. The
delegates were to occupy the space immediately in front of the speakers'
stand. Back of them and separated by a polished rail, were the seats for the
alternates, which in turn were separated from the spectators by another rail.
The press was cared for by seats and desks for 400 men, all on the
speakers' rostrum. Immediately back of the press seats, in a large enclosed
room was the telegraph room with facilities for 200 operators and from which
the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies were radiated to every
city and town in the United States.
Other features of the convention hall plans were hospital rooms in charge
of physicians and trained nurses, police and fire headquarters, a telephone
exchange with a dozen booths for long distance service.
Every seat in the building was to be numbered. The aisles were broad
and the stairways leading to the galleries not only numerous but easy of
ascent.
There was no delay in placing the convention hall in readiness. In fact,
the great auditorium was practically ready for the decorators two weeks
before the date fixed for the convention's opening.
The finishing touches on the convention hall were made on June ipth.
On that date the building was ready and the convention could have been
called to order on that day if it had been necessary.
The interior decorations of the great hall excited the admiration of every
visitor.
Everywhere there was a harmony of color and design. The heroic like-
ness of Marcus Alonzo Hanna, draped in the national colors, hung above the
speakers' platform. There was bunting, but this was not overdone. There
were flags, a dozen groups on each side of the hall, and two larger groups
on each end, just enough of bright color to give life to the yellow of the
vaulted roof and the grey of the iron girders.
Looking down from the balcony, the effect was again pleasing. The
crimson carpet of the speakers' platform stood out like a damask rose in a
bunch of lilies, for all around it were groups, the desks and chairs of the
40 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
representatives of the press, and these were painted a light yellow. The con-
trast was startling and effective. Add to this the light green chairs of dele-
gates and alternates, separated from each other and from the darker ma-
hogany of the spectators' seats by yellow railings, and it was seen that the
color effect was pleasing.
Up above the balconies were rows of live oak branches, which were also
used effectively against the windows at the sides, and at each end of the hall.
From the girders were suspended scores of hanging baskets containing huge
sword plants, while the main floor was banked with palms. Not even in
its greatest gala did Madison Square Garden ever present as beautiful a
picture as did Chicago's Coliseum on the morning as it awaited the gathering
hosts.
Members of the National Committee, Senators, Congressmen and many
delegates paid the convention hall a visit on June i8th. They all united in
pronouncing it the best arranged audience-room they had ever seen and
unstinted in their praises of the Chicago Committee and S. B. Raymond, its
Chairman, and of the work of Sergeant-at-Arms Stone.
Senator N. B. Scott of West Virginia, Chairman of the sub-committee on
arrangements, who arrived in the city late the night before saw the big
convention hall for the first time. He left the Auditorium Annex for the
Coliseum shortly after two o'clock and was soon joined there by R. B.
Schneider, National Committeeman from Nebraska, and Postmaster General
Payne.
At the Coliseum the three men were met by the members of the local
committee which had for weeks been working to make the convention hall
the nearest perfect in arrangements of any in which a national convention
was ever held.
As the members of the party left the Sergeant-at-Arms' room and en-
tered the Republican National Committee room they expressed many favor-
able comments upon the delicate lemon-colored tinting of the room, upon
its good light and cheerfulness. Hundreds of flags were placed in groups
at the ends of the hall and among the beams by the decorators, who were
completing the work the local committee had in hand.
"The hall is admirably arranged," declared Senator Scott. "Everything
is ready for the convention. It could be held tomorrow. Sergeant-at-Arms
Stone is the right man in the right place. The local committee has done
its work most satisfactorily."
Secretary Dover said the convention hall was the best he had ever seen
for the purpose.
"I don't believe a national convention was ever in a better arranged hall.
The on'y criticism I have ever heard was that it is not large enough. The
work has never been so far advanced, I am told, as it is in this hall. The
convention might be held tomorrow, so far as the hall is concerned."
HON. SAMUEL B. RAYMOND, of Chicago,
Member Local Committee.
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 41
CHAIRMAN RAYMOND IS PROUD OF HIS WORK.
"It is the best hall in which a national convention has ever been held,"
he said. "Some people say it is too small, but I predict that in the future
national conventions will be held nowhere else. Chicago will not have to
ask them to come here. They'll come because we have the best convention
hall in the country."
Members of the local and national sub-committees on arrangements were
working together all day on the minor details of the hall. The party of
local and visiting committeemen lingered about the hall until late in the aft-
ernoon inspecting the big structure which was to seat more than 8,000 Repub-
licans the next week.
In the group of local committee members who were at the building were
Samuel B. Raymond, chairman of the local committee; Volney W. Foster,
sub-treasurer of the national committee, who has been active in raising funds
to defray convention expenses ; George R. Peck, a member of the local com-
mittee, and Graeme Stewart, a member of the Republican National Executive
Committee.
All sweeping was ended early on June igth ; after the broom brigade had
ended its work and the smoke of the affray had settled over chairs and rail-
ings in the form of fine dust, a second brigade was sent into action with
damp cloths, and every spot within the walls of the huge structure was pol-
ished as though it were a ladies' drawing room. So it was that the Coliseum
was not only beautiful as a picture, but it was immaculate as well, and this
meant much to those ladies who wished to witness the gathering.
At 3 o'clock on the afternoon of June 20, Sergeant-at-Arms Stone gath-
ered all the appointees in the delegates' section, 400 if there was a man,
and gave them a short exhortation. He insisted that there must be nothing
in their minds for the next few days but work.
The men were separated into divisions and were given heart-to-heart
talks by Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms Owen. He explained in detail what
was to be done by each set of men. He explained not only the routine work,
but went into every possible contingency of fire, panic, and accident, urging
each one to become thoroughly acquainted with the exits and hospital ar-
rangements.
"Find a seat and sit down, on the floor if you can't find any better
place," said Owen. "Remember that everyone who stands in the aisle blocks
the view of someone behind him. The hardest thing of all is to keep your
patience. We will have but thirty policemen inside the building. The re-
sponsibility for making this a model convention rests on you."
Then he formed the men into columns of twos, marched them about the
hall, and distributed them at their respective stations.
Inspector Lavin smiled when he was told that but thirty officers would be
required within the Coliseum.
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Sergeant-at-Arms Stone appointed seventy-five doorkeepers from appli-
cants outside Chicago. The object in appointing out-of-Chicago men was to
prevent Chicago people packing the convention through friendship with the
doorkeepers. David C. Owen was Mr. Stone's chief assistant. He had
charge of the doorkeepers.
Mr. Stone had 500 assistant sergeant-at-arms, 300 doorkeepers, ushers,
messengers and pages, and 100 telegraph operators under his supervision.
He had also made arrangements for a dozen physicians and two trained
nurses to look after persons who may become ill or be injured in any way
during the sessions of the convention. Dr. Frank B. Earle was in charge
of the medical staff and hospital arrangements.
Chairman Raymond's friends on the local committee presented him with
a handsome badge. It consisted of the conventional red, white and blue
ribbon, with two chased silver bars at the top containing the words, "Chi-
cago Committee of Arrangements," and "S. B. Raymond, Chairman." Sus-
pended from the lower bar over the ribbon is an American eagle with out-
stretched wings in silver, and a shield of gold below, surrounded with a
laurel wreath. On the shield are the words, "Republican National Conven-
tion, 1904."
The Chicago Committee on Arrangements wore badges consisting of the
patriotic ribbon over a broader ribbon of white satin with gilt edges and a
gilt fringe. A bronze medallion fastened to the smaller ribbon contains on
a blue enamel center the words, "Republican National Convention, Chicago,
June 21, 1904."
The Late HON. HENRY C. PAYNE, of Wisconsin,
Vice-Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Acting Chairman
after Senator Hanna's Death.
Died Oct. 4, I9O4.
PROCEEDINGS
OK THE
Republican National Convention
HEI.D IN
CHICAGO, ILL.
June 21st, 22d and 23d, 1904
THE FIRST DAY
OPENING EXERCISES THE CALL PRESENTATIONS ELEC-
TION OF TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN, HON. ELIHU ROOT, OF
NEW YORK, AND HIS ADDRESS REVIEW OF THE M'KINLEY-
ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION TEMPORARY OFFICERS-
STANDING COMMITTEES LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSI-
TION.
CONVENTION HALL
CHICAGO, ILL., Tuesday, June 21, 1904.
Mr. HENRY C. PAYNE, of Wisconsin, Vice-Chairman of the Republican
National Committee (at 12:14 o'clock p. m.). The Convention will come to
order. The proceedings will be begun by prayer by the Rev. Dr. Frost, of
Evanston, 111.
PRAYER OF REV. TIMOTHY PRESCOTT FROST, D. D.
Rev. TIMOTHY PRESCOTT FROST, D. D., of Evanston, 111., offered the fol-
lowing prayer :
Almighty God,
"Our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,"
We thank Thee for Thy goodness to the people of this land.
Our sins have been many, but Thy mercies have been great. Thou hast
poured out Thy gifts without measure.
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The opening years of a new century have been freighted with wealth for
hand, and mind, and heart. Best of all, Thou art giving Thyself in a per-
petual offering of Thy life for the life of man.
We do not forget that in the hour of deep sorrow, when the heart of
the nation was darkened by the murder of the nation's chief, there was no
break in the march of Thy purpose, the orderly administration of our gov-
ernment, or the faith of the people in their God. Under the guidance of
Thy Holy Spirit we were brought by our national woes nearer to Thee.
Surely Thou wilt never forsake this people.
May no dominance of greed, no riot of passion, no weakening of religious
conviction or enthronement of matter over spirit, cause the people to forsake
Thee.
May the heritage of honor coming to us from the fathers in memories of
noble sacrifices and valiant deeds, be at once our glad possession and our
sacred trust.
While we are grateful for the past, may we remember that today is bet-
ter than yesterday, and so act that the morrow shall be greater than today.
Wherever our country's flag floats as the symbol of government, even
unto the isles of the sea, may we cleave to the righteousness that exalteth
a nation and cast out the sin that is a reproach to any people.
Save our nation, we beseech Thee, from all the evil things which defile
the home, impair civil liberty, corrupt politics or undermine the integrity of
commercial life.
Bring to naught the schemes of men who would debauch or oppress
human life for the gratification of lust or for personal enrichment or power.
May exaltation come only to men who despise the gain of oppressions
and shake the hands from holding of bribes.
May all sections and races, all sentiments and creeds, all occupations and
interests become united through the Spirit of the Highest into a citizenship
with a passion for righteousness, wherein each individual shall look up to
God as the Father of all, and upon every man as a brother.
We pray Thee to overrule the deliberations, conclusions and issues of this
convention for the good of the American people, and the welfare of man-
kind.
Bless Thy servant, the chief magistrate of our nation. May he and all
others clothed with authority by the sovereign people, be protected by the
powers of Thy Kingdom, and contribute to its ultimate triumph and con-
summation in all the earth.
All nations are Thy children. Guide and keep them by Thy gracious
providence, and hasten the coming of the day when love shall have conquered
hate, and wars shall have ceased, and all people shall dwell together in unity.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever, Amen!
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PRESENTATION OF GAVEL.
Mr. N. B. SCOTT, of West Virginia. Mr. Chairman, on behalf of Hon.
Samuel B. Raymond and his associates of the local committee of Chicago,
who have so ably and so willingly assisted your sub-committee in discharg-
ing its duties in preparing this hall for this convention, I present to you, as
Vice-Chairman of the Republican National Committee, this gavel.
Mr. H. C. PAYNE, of Wisconsin. Senator Scott, through you I wish, on
behalf of the Republican National Committee, to congratulate Mr. Raymond
and his associates on the very successful outcome of their labors, and beg
you to convey to them my grateful appreciation of their courtesy in present-
ing this gavel.
CALL FOR THE CONVENTION.
Mr. H. C. PAYNE, of Wisconsin. Gentlemen, the call under which you are
assembled will now be read by the Secretary of the Republican National
Committee.
Mr. ELMER DOVER, of Ohio, secretary of the Republican National Com-
mittee, read the call for the convention, as follows :
OFFICIAL CALL FOR REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION,
JUNE 21, 1904.
To the Republican Electors of the United States :
In accordance with established custom and in obedience to instructions of
the National Convention of 1900, the National Republican Committee directs
that a National Convention of delegated representatives of the Republican
party be held at the City of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, for the pur-
pose of nominating candidates for President and Vice-President to be voted
for at the Presidential election Tuesday, November 8, 1904, and for the
transaction of such other business as may properly come before it, and that
said Convention shall assemble at 12 o'clock noon on Tuesday, the 2ist day
of June, 1904.
The Republican electors of the several States and Territories, the Dis-
trict of Columbia, Alaska, and Indian Territory, and all other electors, with-
out regard to past political affiliations, who believe in the principles of the
Republican party and endorse its policies, are cordially invited to unite under
this call in the selection of candidates for President and Vice-President.
Said National Convention shall consist of a number of delegates-at-large
from each State, equal to double the number of United States Senators to
which each State is entitled, and for each Representative-at-large in Con-
gress, two delegates-at-large. From each Congressional district and the
District of Columbia, two delegates. From each of the Territories of Ari-
zona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Hawaii and Indian Territory, six dele-
gates. From Alaska, four delegates. For each delegate elected to said Con-
vention an alternate delegate shall be elected to act in case of the absence
of the delegate, such alternate delegate to be elected at the time and in the
manner of electing the delegate.
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All delegates shall be elected not less than thirty days before the meet-
ing of the National Convention. Delegates-at-large shall be elected by pop-
ular State and Territorial Conventions, of which at least thirty days' notice
shall have been published in some newspaper or newspapers of general cir-
culation in the respective States and Territories.
The Congressional district delegates shall be elected by conventions
called by the Congressional Committee of each district, in the manner of
nominating the candidate for Representative in Congress in said district,
provided that in any Congressional district where there is no Republican
Congressional Committee, the Republican State Committee shall appoint
from among the Republican residents in such district, a committee for the
purpose of calling a district convention to elect delegates to represent said
district.
The election of delegates from the District of Columbia shall be held
under the direction and supervision of an electional board composed of Mr.
Chapin Brown, Mr. George H. Harris and Mr. John F. Cook. Such board
shall have authority to fix the date of such election and to arrange all details
and regulations incident thereto, and shall provide for a registration of the
votes as cast, such registration to include the name and residence of each
voter.
The Territorial delegates shall be elected in the manner of nominating
candidates for delegates in Congress, and delegates from Alaska and Indian
Territory shall be elected by popular convention.
All notices of contest shall be submitted in writing, accompanied by a
printed statement setting forth the grounds of contest, which shall be filed
with the Secretary of the National Committee twenty days prior to the meet-
ing of the National Convention. Contests will be acted on by the National
Convention in the order of the date of filing of notice and statement with the
Secretary.
M. A. HANNA, Chairman.
PERRY S. HEATH, Secretary.
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 16, 1904.
(When Mr. Hanna's name was read, the assemblage burst into prolonged
applause. Ed.)
PRESENTATION OF TABLE.
Mr. S. R. VAN SANT, of Minnesota. Mr. Chairman
Mr. H. C. PAYNE, of Wisconsin. I have the pleasure of introducing Gov.
Van Sant, of Minnesota. (Applause.)
Mr. VAN SANT. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Convention : I
have been delegated to present this historic table to the Convention. It was
made by the manual training class of the South Minneapolis high school.
Your acceptance will honor them and encourage industrial education through-
out the United States. The table was first used in 1892 in Minneapolis,
where Indiana's honored son and one of America's greatest statesmen, Ben-
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 47
jamin Harrison, was renominated for President of the United States. (Ap-
plause.)
In 1896 it was again used in connection with the nomination of that be-
loved President, whose election dispelled Democratic gloom and inaugurated
Republican policies, which gave us the greatest era of prosperity our country
has ever known. (Applause.) This will continue as long as the party of
progress is in power.
Then at Philadelphia the same honor was conferred for a second time
upon that distinguished citizen, soldier and statesman. There also this table
was used. We ask you to use it now and make it more historic, for you will
nominate, without a dissenting vote, that fearless, invincible leader, Theodore
Roosevelt. (Applause.) Minnesota not only presents this table, but with
an unbroken record will give her electoral votes to the nominees of this
convention.
Mr. H. C. PAYNE of Wisconsin. I take great pleasure in accepting, on
behalf of the Convention, the table which is before me.
SELECTION OF TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.
Mr. H. C. PAYNE, of Wisconsin. The Republican National Committee
has selected for your Temporary Chairman the Honorable Elihu Root, of
New York (applause), and presents his name for your acceptance.
Mr. BENJAMIN B. ODELL, Jr., of New York. I move that the action of
the Republican National Committee in the selection of a temporary chairman
be approved.
Mr. PAYNE. The question is on agreeing to the motion of the gentleman
from New York, that the action of the Republican National Committee in
the selection of the Honorable Elihu Root, of New York, as Temorpary
Chairman, be approved by the convention.
The motion was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. PAYNE. Gentlemen of the convention, I have the honor to present
the Honorable Elihu Root, your Temporary Chairman. (Applause.)
ADDRESS OF THE TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN (Mr. Elihu Root, of New York) I am deep-
ly grateful, my brethren of the Republican party, for the honor you do me.
I esteem it most highly, and I thank you from my heart.
The responsibility of government rests upon the Republican party. The
complicated machinery through which the 80,000,000 people of the United States
govern themselves, answers to no single will. The composite government
devised by the framers of the Constitution to meet the conditions of national
life, more than a century ago, requires the willing co-operation of many
minds, the combination of many independent factors, in every forward step
for the general welfare.
The President at Washington with his Cabinet, the 90 Senators repre-
senting 45 sovereign States, the 386 Representatives in Congress, are re-
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quired to reach concurrent action upon a multitude of questions involving
varied and conflicting interests and requiring investigation, information, dis-
cussion and reconciliation of views. From all our vast territory with its
varieties of climate and industry, from all our great population active in pro-
duction and commerce and social progress and intellectual and moral life
to a degree never before attained by any people, difficult problems press upon
the National Government.
Within the past five years more than sixty-six thousand bills have been
introduced in Congress. Some method of selection must be followed. There
must be some preliminary process to ascertain the general tenor of public
judgment upon the principles to be applied in government, and some organ-
ization and recognition of leadership which shall bring a legislative majority
and the executive into accord in the practical application of those principles ;
or effective government becomes impossible.
The practical governing instinct of our people has adapted the machinery
devised in the i8th to the conditions of the 2Oth century by the organization
of national political parties. In them men join for the promotion of a few
cardinal principles upon which they agree. For the sake of those principles
they lay aside their differences upon less important questions. To represent
those principles and to carry on the government in accordance with them,
they present to the people candidates whose competency and loyalty they
approve. The people by their choice of candidates indicate the principles and
methods which they wish followed in the conduct of their government. They
do not merely choose between men ; they choose between parties between
the principles they profess, the methods they follow, the trustworthiness of
their professions, the inferences to be drawn from the records of their past,
the general weight of character of the body of men who will be brought
into participation in government by their ascendency.
When the course of the next administration is but half done the Repub-
lican party will have completed the first half century of its national life. Of
the eleven administrations since the first election of Abraham Lincoln, nine
covering a period of thirty-six years have been under Republican presidents.
For the greater part of that time, the majority in each House of Congress
has been Republican. History affords no parallel in any age or country for
the growth in national greatness and power and honor, the wide diffusion
of the comforts of life, the uplifting of the great mass of the people above
the hard conditions of poverty, the common opportunity for education and
individual advancement, the universal possession of civil and religious lib-
erty, the protection of property and security for the rewards of industry
and enterprise, the cultivation of national morality, respect for religion, sym-
pathy with humanity and love of liberty and justice, which have marked the
life of the American people during this long period of Republican control.
(Applause.)
With the platform and the candidates of this Convention, we are about
to ask a renewed expression of popular confidence in the Republican party.
HON. ELIHU ROOT, of New York,
Who was Temporary Chairman of the Convention.
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We shall ask it because the principles to which we declare our adherence
are right, and the best interests of our country require that they should be fol-
lowed in its government.
\Ye shall ask it because the unbroken record of the Republican party in
the past is an assurance of the sincerity of our declarations and the fidelity
with which we shall give them effect. Because we have been constant in
principle, loyal to our beliefs and faithful to our promises, we are entitled to
be believed and trusted now.
We shall ask it because the character of the party gives assurance of
good government. A great political organization, competent to govern, is
not a chance collection of individuals brought together for the moment as
the shifting sands are piled up by wind and sea, to be swept away, to be
formed and re-formed again. It is a growth. Traditions and sentiments
reaching down through struggles of years gone, and the stress and heat of
old conflicts, and the influence of leaders passed away, and the ingrained
habit of applying fixed rules of interpretation and of thought, all give to a
political party known and inalienable qualities from which must follow, in
its deliberate judgment and ultimate action, like results for good or bad gov-
ernment. We do not deny that other parties have in their membership men
of morality and patriotism ; but we assert with confidence that above all
others, by the influences which gave it birth and have maintained its life,
by the causes for which it has striven, the ideals which it has followed, the
Republican party as a party has acquired a character which makes its ascend-
ency the best guarantee of a government loyal to principle and effective in
execution. (Applause.) Through it more than any other political organ-
ization the moral sentiment of America finds expression. It cannot depart
from the direction of its tendencies. From what it has been may be known
certainly what it must be. Not all of us rise to its standard; not all of us
are worthy of its glorious history: but as a whole this great political organ-
ization the party of Lincoln and McKinley cannot fail to work in the
spirit of its past and in loyalty to great ideals.
We shall ask the continued confidence of the people because the candi-
dates whom we present are of proved competency and patriotism, fitted to fill
the offices for which they are nominated, to the credit and honor of our
country.
We shall ask it because the present policies of our government are bene-
ficial and ought not to be set aside ; and the people's business is being well
done, and ought not to be interfered with.
Have not the American people reason for satisfaction and pride in the
conduct of their government since the election of 1900, when they rendered
their judgment of approval upon the first administration of President Mc-
Kinley? Have we not had an honest government? Have not the men se-
lected for office been men of good reputation who by their past lives had
given evidence that they were honest and competent? Can any private busi-
ness be pointed out in which lapses from honesty have been so few and so
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trifling proportionately, as in the public service of the United States? And
when they have occurred, have not the offenders been relentlessly prosecuted
and sternly punished without regard to political or personal relations?
Have we not had an effective government? Have not the laws been en-
forced? Has not the slow process of legislative discussion upon many seri-
ous questions been brought to practical conclusions embodied in beneficial
statutes? and has not the Executive proceeded without vacillation or weak-
ness to give these effect? Are not the laws of the United States obeyed
at home? and does not our government command respect and honor through-
out the world?
Have we not had a safe and conservative government? Has not property
been protected? Are not the fruits of enterprise and industry secure? What
safeguard of the constitution for vested right or individual freedom has not
been scrupulously observed? When has any American administration ever
dealt more considerately and wisely with questions which might have been
the cause of conflict with foreign powers? When have more just settle-
ments been reached by peaceful means? When has any administration
wielded a more powerful influence for peace? and when have we rested more
secure in friendship with all mankind?
Four years ago the business of the country was loaded with burdensome
internal taxes, imposed during the war with Spain. By the Acts of March
2, 1901, and April 12, 1902, the country has been wholly relieved of that
annual burden of over one hundred million dollars ; and the further accumu-
lation of a surplus which was constantly withdrawing the money of the
country from circulation has been prevented by the reduction of taxation.
(Applause.)
Between the 3Oth of June, 1900, and the ist of June, 1904, our Treasury
Department collected in revenues the enormous sum of $2,203,000,000 and
expended $2,028,000,000, leaving us with a surplus of over $170,000,000 after
paying the $50,000,000 for the Panama canal and loaning $4,600,000 to the
St. Louis Exposition. Excluding those two extraordinary payments, which
are investments from past surplus and not expenditures of current income,
the surplus for this year will be the reasonable amount of about $12,000,000.
The vast and complicated transactions of the Treasury, which for the last
fiscal year show actual cash receipts of $4,250,290,262 and disbursements of
$-4,113,199,414, have been conducted with perfect accuracy and fidelity and
without the loss of a dollar. Under wise management the Financial Act of
March 14, 1900, which embodied the sound financial principles of the Repub-
lican party and provided for the maintenance of our currency on the stable
basis of the gold standard, has wrought out beneficent results. On the ist
of November, 1899, the interest-bearing debt of the United States was $i,-
046,049,020. On the ist of May last the amount of that debt was $895,157,440,
a reduction of $150,891,580. By refunding, the annual interest has been still
more rapidly reduced from $40,347,884 on the ist of November, 1899, to
$24,176,745 on the ist of June, 1904, an annual saving of over $16,000,000.
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When the Financial Act was passed the thinly settled portions of our coun-
try were suffering for lack of banking facilities because the banks were in
the large towns, and none could be organized with a capital of less than
$50,000. Under the provisions of that Act, there were organized down to
the ist of May last, 1,296 small banks of $25,000 capital, furnishing, under
all the safeguards of the National Banking system, facilities to the small
communities of the West and South. The facilities made possible by that
Act have increased the circulation of national banks from $254,402,730 on the
I4th of March, 1900, to $445,988,565 on the ist of June, 1904. The money of
the country in circulation has not only increased in amount with our growth
in business, but it has steadily gained in the stability of the basis on which
it rests. On the ist of March, 1897, when the first administration of Mc-
Kinley began, we had in the country, including bullion in the Treasury,
$1,806,272,076. This was $23.14 per capita for our population, and of this
38.893 per cent was gold. On the ist of March, 1901, when the second
administration of McKinley began, the money in the country was $2,467,295,-
228. This was $28.34 P er capita, and of this 45.273 per cent was gold. On
the ist of May last the money in the country was $2,814,985,446, which was
$31.02 per capita, and of it 48.028 per cent was gold. This great increase
of currency has been arranged in such a way that the large government
notes in circulation are gold certificates while the silver certificates and
greenbacks are of small denominations. As the large gold certificates
represent gold actually on deposit, their presentation at the Treasury in
exchange for gold can never infringe upon the gold reserve. As the small
silver certificates and greenbacks are always in active circulation, no large
amount of them can be accumulated for the purpose of drawing on the gold
reserve; and thus, while every man can get a gold dollar for every dollar of
the government's currency, the endless chain which we were once taught to
fear so much, has been effectively put out of business. The Secretary of
the Treasury has shown himself mindful of the needs of business and has
so managed our finances as himself to expand and contract our currency
as occasion has required. When in the fall of 1902 the demand for funds
to move the crops caused extraordinary money stringency, the Secretary
exercised his lawful right to accept state and municipal bonds as security for
public deposits, thus liberating United States bonds which were used for
additional circulation. When the crops were moved and the stringency was
over he called for a withdrawal of the state and municipal securities, and
thus contracted the currency. Again, in 1903, under similar conditions, he
produced similar results. The payment of the $50,000,000 for the Panama
canal made last month without causing the slightest disturbance in finance,
showed good judgment and a careful consideration of the interests of busi-
ness upon which our people may confidently rely. (Applause.)
Four years ago the regulation by law of the great corporate combinations
called "trusts" stood substantially where it was when the Sherman Anti-
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Trust Act of 1890 was passed. President Cleveland, in his last message of
December, 1896, had said:
"Though Congress has attempted to deal with this matter by legisla-
tion, the laws passed for that purpose thus far have proved ineffective,
not because of any lack of disposition or attempt to enforce them, but
simply because the laws themselves as interpreted by the courts do not
reach the difficulty. If the insufficiencies of existing laws can be remedied
by further legislation, it should be done. The fact must be recognized,
however, that all Federal legislation on this subject may fall short of its
purpose because of inherent obstacles and also because of the complex
character of our governmental system, which, while making Federal au-
thority supreme within its sphere, has carefully limited that sphere by
metes and bounds that cannot be transgressed."
At every election, the regulation of trusts had been the football of cam-
paign oratory and the subject of many insincere declarations.
Our Republican administration has taken up the subject in a practical,
sensible way as a business rather than a political question, saying what it
really meant, and doing what lay at its hand to be done to accomplish ef-
fective regulation. (Applause.) The principles upon which the government
proceeded were stated by the President in his message of December, 1902.
He said:
"A fundamental base of civilization is the inviolability of property;
but this is in no wise inconsistent with the right of society to regulate the
exercise of the artificial powers which it confers upon the owners of
property, under the name of corporate franchises, in such a way as to
prevent the misuse of these powers. * * *
"We can do nothing of good in the way of regulating and supervising
these corporations until we fix clearly in our minds that we are not at-
tacking the corporations, but endeavoring to do away with any evil in
them. We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they
shall be so handled as to subserve the public good. We draw the line
against misconduct, not against wealth. * * *
"In curbing and regulating the combinations of capital which are or
may become injurious to the public we must be careful not to stop the
great enterprises which have legitimately reduced the cost of production,
not to abandon the place which our country has won in the leadership of
the international industrial world, not to strike down wealth with the
result of closing factories and mines, of turning the wage-worker idle in
the streets and leaving the farmer without a market for what he
grows.
"I believe that monopolies, unjust discriminations, which prevent or
cripple competition, fraudulent over-capitalization, and other evils in
trust organizations and practices which injuriously affect interstate trade,
can be prevented under the power of the Congress to 'regulate com-
merce with foreign nations and among the several States' through regu-
lations and requirements operating directly upon such commerce, the
instrumentalities thereof, and those engaged therein."
After long consideration, Congress passed three practical statutes : on
the nth of February, 1903, an act to expedite hearings in suits in enforce-
ment of the Anti-Trust Act ; on the I4th of February, 1903, the act creating
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a new Department of Commerce and Labor with a Bureau of Corporations,
having authority to secure systematic information regarding the organiza-
tion and operation of corporations engaged in the interstate commerce;
and on the igth of February, 1903, an act enlarging the powers of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission and of the courts, to deal with secret rebates
in transportation charges, which are the chief means by which the trusts crush
out their smaller competitors.
The Attorney General has gone on in the same practical way, not to talk
about the trusts, but to proceed against the trusts by law for their regulation.
In separate suits fourteen of the great railroads of the country have been re-
strained by injunction from giving illegal rebates to the favored shippers,
who by means of them were driving out the smaller shippers and monopo-
lizing the grain and meat business of the country. The beef trust was put
under injunction. (Applause.) The officers of the railroads engaged in the
cotton carrying pool, affecting all that great industry of the South, were
indicted and have abandoned their combination. The Northern Securities
Company which undertook by combining in one ownership the capital stocks
of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railroads to end traffic com-
petition in the Northwest, has been destroyed by a vigorous prosecution
expedited and brought to a speedy and effective conclusion in the Supreme
Court under the act of February nth, 1903. (Applause.) The Attorney
General says :
"Here, then, are four phases of the attack on the combinations in
restraint of trade and commerce the railroad injunction suits, the cotton
pool cases, the beef trust cases, and the Northern Securities case. The
first relates to the monopoly produced by secret and preferential rates
for railroad transportation; the second to railroad traffic pooling; the
third to a combination of independent corporations to fix and maintain
extortionate prices for meats; and the fourth to a corporation organized
to merge into itself the control of parallel and competing lines of railroad
and to eliminate competition in their rates of transportation."
The right of the Interstate Commerce Commission to compel the produc-
tion of books and papers has been established by the judgment of the Su-
preme court in a suit against the coal carrying roads. Other suits have been
brought and other indictments have been found and other trusts have been
driven back within legal bounds. No investment in lawful business has
been jeopardized, no fair and honest enterprise has been injured; but it is
certain that whenever the constitutional power of the national government
reaches, trusts are being practically regulated and curbed within lawful
bounds as they never have been before, and the men of small capital are find-
ing in the efficiency and skill of the national Department of Justice a pro-
tection they never had before against the crushing effect of unlawful com-
binations. (Applause.)
We have at last reached a point where the public wealth of farm land
which has seemed so inexhaustible is nearly gone, and the problem of utiliz-
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ing the remainder for the building of new homes has become of vital im-
portance.
The present administration .has dealt with this problem vigorously and
effectively. Great areas had been unlawfully fenced in by men of large
means, and the home-builder had been excluded. Many of these unlawful
aggressors have been compelled to relinquish their booty, and more than
2,000,000 acres of land have been restored to the public. (Applause.) Ex-
tensive frauds in procuring grants of land, not for homesteads but for spec-
ulation, have been investigated and stopped, and perpetrators have been
indicted and are being actively prosecuted. A competent commission has
been constituted to examine into the defective working of the existing laws
and to suggest practical legislation to prevent further abuse. That com-
mission has reported, and bills adequate to accomplish the purpose have
been framed and are before Congress. The further denudation of forest
areas, producing alternate floods and dryness in our river valleys, has been
checked by the extension of forest reserves, which have been brought to
aggregate more than 63,000,000 acres of land. The reclamation by irriga-
tion of the vast arid regions forming the chief part of our remaining public
domain, has been provided for by the National Reclamation Law of June
I7th, 1903. The execution of this law, without taxation and by the appli-
cation of the proceeds of public land sales alone, through the construction
of storage reservoirs for water, will make many millions of acres of fertile
lands available for settlement. Over $20,000,000 from these sources have
been already received to the credit of the reclamation fund. Over 33,000,000
acres of public lands in fourteen States and Territories have been embraced
in the sixty-seven projects which have been devised and are under exam-
ination, and on eight of these work of actual construction has begun. (Ap-
plause.)
The Postal service has been extended and improved. Its revenues have
increased from $76,000,000 in 1895 to $95,000,000 in 1899, and $144,000,000
in 1904. In dealing with these vast sums, a few cases of peculation, trifling
in amount and by subordinate officers, have occurred there as they occur
in every business. Neither fear nor favor, nor political or personal influ-
ence has availed to protect the wrong-doers. Their acts have been detected,
investigated, laid bare; they have been dismissed from their places, prose-
cuted criminally, indicted, many of them tried, and many of them convicted.
The abuses in the carriage of second-class mail matter have been remedied.
The Rural Free Delivery has been widely extended. It is wholly the crea-
tion of Republican administration. The last Democratic Postmaster Gen-
eral declared it impracticable. The first administration of McKinley proved
the contrary. At the beginning of the fiscal year 1899 there were about 200
routes in operation. There are now more than 25,000 routes, bringing a
daily mail service to more than 12,000,000 of our people in rural communi-
ties, enlarging the circulation of the newspaper and the magazine, increas-
ing communication, and relieving the isolation of life on the farm.
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The Department of Agriculture has been brought to a point of efficiency
and practical benefit never before known. The Oleomargarine Act of May
9, 1902, now sustained in the Supreme Court, and the Act of July I, 1902, to
prevent the false branding of food and dairy products protect farmers
against fraudulent imitations. The Act of February 2, 1903, enables the
Secretary of Agriculture to prevent the spread of contagious and infectious
diseases of live stock. Rigid inspection has protected our cattle against in-
fection from abroad, and has established the highest credit for our meat prod-
ucts in the markets of the world. The earth has been searched for weapons
with which to fight the enemies that destroy the growing crops. An insect
brought from near the Great Wall of China has checked the San Jose scale
which was destroying our orchards ; a parasitic fly brought from South Af-
rica is exterminating the black scale in the lemon and orange groves of Cali-
fornia ; and an ant from Guatemala is about offering battle to the boll weevil.
Broad science has been brought to the aid of limited experience. (Ap-
plause.) Study of the relations between plant life and climate and soil has
been followed, by the introduction of special crops suited to our varied con-
ditions. The introduction of just the right kind of seed has enabled the Gulf
States to increase our rice crop from 115,000,000 pounds in 1898 to 400,-
000,000 pounds in 1903, and to supply the entire American demand, with a
surplus for export. The right kind of sugar beet has increased our annual
production of beet sugar by over 200,000 tons. Seed brought from countries
of little rain fall is producing millions of bushels of grain on lands which
a few years ago were deemed a hopeless part of the arid belt.
The systematic collection and publication of information regarding the
magnitude and conditions of our crops is mitigating the injury done'by spec-
ulation to the farmer's market.
To increase the profit of the farmer's toil, to protect the farmer's product
and extend his market, and to improve the conditions of the farmer's life;
to advance the time when America shall raise within her own limits every
product of the soil consumed by her people, as she makes within her own
limits every necessary product of manufacture, these have been cardinal
objects of Republican administration; and we show a record of practical
things done toward the accomplishment of these objects never before ap-
proached. (Applause.)
Four years ago we held the Island of Cuba by military occupation. The
opposition charged, and the people of Cuba believed, that we did not intend
to keep the pledge of April 20, 1898; that when the pacification of Cuba was
accomplished we should leave the government and control of the Islands to
its people. The new policy towards Cuba which should follow the fulfill-
ment of that pledge was unformed. During the four years it has been worked
out in detail and has received effect. It was communicated by executive or-
der to the Military Governor. It was embodied in the Act of Congress
known as the Platt Amendment. It was accepted by the Cuban Constitu-
tional Convention on the I2th of October, 1901. It secured to Cuba her
liberty and her independence, but it required her to maintain them. It for-
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bade her ever to use the freedom we had earned for her by so great a sac-
rifice of blood and treasure, to give the island to any other power ; it re-
quired her to maintain a government adequate for the protection of life and
property and liberty, and should she fail, it gave us the right to intervene
for the maintenance of such a government. And it gave us the right to
naval stations upon her coast for the protection and defense alike of Cuba
and the United States. (Applause.)
On the 2Oth of May, 1902, under a constitution which embodied these
stipulations, the government and control of Cuba were surrendered to the
President and Congress elected by her people, and the American army
sailed away. The new Republic began its existence with an administration
of Cubans completely organized in all its branches and trained to effective
service by American officers. The administration of President Palma has
been wise and efficient. Peace and order have prevailed. The people of
Cuba are prosperous and happy. Her finances have been honestly admin-
istered, and her credit is high. The naval stations have been located and
bounded at Guantanamo and Bahia Honda, and are in the possession of our
navy. The Platt Amendment is the sheet anchor of Cuban independence and
of Cuban credit. (Applause.) No such revolutions as have afflicted Cen-
tral and South Africa are possible there, because it is known to all men that
an attempt to overturn the foundations of that government will be confronted
by the overwhelming power of the United States. The treaty of reciprocity
and the Act of Congress of December 6, 1903, which confirmed it, completed
the expression of our policy towards Cuba; which with a far view to the
future aims to bind to us by ties of benefit and protection, of mutual inter-
est and genuine friendship, that island which guards the Caribbean and the
highway to the Isthmus, and must always be, if hostile, an outpost of attack,
and, if friendly, an outpost of defense for the United States. Rich as we
are, the American people have no more valuable possession than the senti-
ment expressed in the dispatch which I will now read :
"Havana, May 20, 1902.
Theodore Roosevelt,
President, "Washington.
The government of the Island having been just transferred, I, as
Chief Magistrate of the Republic, faithfully interpreting the sentiment of
the whole people of Cuba, have the honor to send you and the American
people testimony of our profound gratitude and the assurance of an en-
during friendship, with wishes and prayers to the Almighty for the wel-
fare and prosperity of the United States.
T. Estrada Palma."
When the last National Convention met the Philippines also were under
military rule. The insurrectos from the mountains spread terror among the
peaceful people by midnight foray and secret assassination. Aguinaldo
bided his time in a secret retreat. Over seventy thousand American sol-
diers from more than five hundred stations, held a still vigorous enemy in
check. The Philippine Commission had not yet begun its work.
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 57
The last vestige of insurrection has been swept away. (Applause.) With
their work accomplished, over 55,000 American troops have been brought
back across the Pacific. Civil government has been established through-
out the Archipelago. Peace and order and justice prevail. The Philippine
Commission, guided at first by executive order and then by the wise legislation
of Congress in the Philippine Government Act of July i, 1902, have estab-
lished and conducted a government which has been a credit to their coun-
try and a blessing to the people of the islands. The body of laws which
they have enacted upon careful and intelligent study of the needs of the
country challenges comparison with the statutes of any country. The per-
sonnel of civil government has been brought together under an advanced
and comprehensive civil service law, which has been rigidly enforced. A
complete census has been taken, designed to be there, as it was in Cuba,
the basis for representative government ; and the people of the islands will
soon proceed under provisions already made by Congress to the election of a
representative assembly, in which for the first time in their history they
may have a voice in the making of their own laws. In the meantime the local
and provincial governments are in the hands of officers elected by the Fili-
pinos ; and in the great central offices, in the Commission, on the Bench, in
the executive departments, the most distinguished men of the Filipino race
are taking their part in the government of their people. A free school sys-
tem has been established and hundreds of thousands of children are learning
lessons which will help fit them for self-government. The seeds of religious
strife existing in the bitter controversy between the people and the religious
orders have been deprived of potency for harm by the purchase of the Friars'
lands, and their practical withdrawal. By the Act of Congress of March 2,
1903, a gold standard has been established to take the place of the fluctuating
silver currency. The unit of value is made exactly one-half the value of
the American gold dollar, so that American money is practically part of their
currency system. To enable the Philippine government to issue this new
currency, $6,000,000 was borrowed by them in 1903 in the city of New York ;
and it was borrowed at a net interest charge of i^ per cent per annum.
The trade of the islands has increased, notwithstanding adverse conditions.
During the last five years' of peace under Spanish rule, the average total
trade of the islands was less than $36,000,000. During the fiscal year end-
ing June 30, 1903, the trade of the islands was over $66,000,000. There is
but one point of disturbance, and that is in the country of the Mohamme-
dan Moros, where there is an occasional fitful savage outbreak against the
enforcement of the law recently made to provide for adequate supervision and
control to put an end to the practice of human slavery.
When Governor Taft sailed from Manila in December last to fill the
higher office where he will still guard the destinies of the people for whom
he has done such great and noble service, he was followed to the shore by
a mighty throng, not of repressed and sullen subjects, but of free and peace-
ful people, whose tears and prayers of affectionate farewell showed that
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they had already begun to learn that "our flag has not lost its gift of bene-
diction in its world-wide journey to their shores." (Applause.)
None can foretell the future ; but there seems no reasonable cause to
doubt, that under the policy already effectively inaugurated, the institutions
already implanted, and the processes already begun, in the Philippine Islands,
if these be not repressed and interrupted, the Philippine people will follow in
the footsteps of the people of Cuba ; that more slowly indeed, because they
are not as advanced, yet as surely, they will grow in capacity for self-gov-
ernment, and receiving power as they grow in capacity, will come to bear sub-
stantially such relations to the people of the United States as do now the peo-
ple of Cuba, differing in details as conditions and needs differ, but the same
in principle and the same in beneficent results. (Applause.)
In 1900 the project of an isthmian canal stood where it was left by the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850. For half a century it had halted, with
Great Britain resting upon a joint right of control, and the great undertaking
of de Lesseps struggling against the doom of failure imposed by extrava-
gance and corruption. On the i8th of November, 1901, the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty with Great Britain relieved the enterprise of the right of British con-
trol and left that right exclusively in the United States. Then followed
swiftly the negotiations and protocols with Nicaragua ; the Isthmian Canal
Act of June 28, 1902; the just agreement with the French Canal Company to
pay them the value of the work they had done ; the negotiation and ratifi-
cation of the treaty with Colombia; the rejection of that treaty by Colombia
in violation of our rights and the world's right to the passage of the isth-
mus ; the seizure by Panama of the opportunity to renew her oft-repeated
effort to throw off the hateful and oppressive yoke of Colombia and resume
the independence which once had been hers and of which she had been de-
prived by fraud and force ; the success of the revolution ; our recognition
of the new republic, followed by recognition from substantially all the civ-
ilized powers of the world ; the treaty with Panama recognizing and confirm-
ing our right to construct the canal ; the ratification of the treaty by the
Senate ; confirmatory legislation by Congress ; the payment of the $50,000,000
to the French Company and to Panama; the appointment of the Canal Com-
mission in accordance with law ; and its organization to begin the work.
The action of the United States at every step has been in accordance with
the law of nations, consistent with the principles of justice and honor, in
discharge of the trust to build the canal we long since assumed, by denying
the right of every other power to build it, dictated by a high and unselfish
purpose, for the common benefit of all mankind. (Applause.) That action
was wise, considerate, prompt, vigorous and effective ; and now the greatest
of constructive nations stands ready and competent to begin and to accom-
plish the great enterprise which shall realize the dreams of past ages, bind
together our Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and open a new highway for that
commerce of the Orient whose course has controlled the rise and fall of
civilizations. Success in that enterprise greatly concerns the credit and
honor of the American people, and it is for them to say whether the build-
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 59
ing of the canal shall be in charge of the men who made its building possible,
or of the weaklings whose incredulous objections would have postponed it
for another generation. (Applause.)
Throughout the world the diplomacy of the present administration has
made for peace and justice among nations. Clear-sighted to perceive and
prompt to maintain American interests, it has been sagacious and simple and
direct in its methods, and considerate of the rights and of the feelings of
others.
Within the month after the last National Convention met, Secretary Hay's
circular note of July 3, 1900, to the Great Powers of Europe had declared
the policy of the United States
"to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace
to China, preserve China's territorial and administrative entity, protect
all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and international law,
and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade
with all parts of the Chinese Empire."
The express adherence of the Powers of Europe to this declaration was
secured. The open recognition of the rule of right conduct imposed its lim-
itations upon the conduct of the Powers in the Orient. It was made the
test of defensible action. Carefully guarded by the wise statesman who had
secured its acceptance, it brought a moral force of recognized value to pro-
tect peaceful and helpless China from dismemberment and spoliation, and
to preserve the Open Door in the Orient for the commerce of the world.
Under the influence of this effective friendship, a new commercial treaty
with China, proclaimed on the 8th of October last, has enlarged our oppor-
tunities for trade, opened new ports to our commerce, and abolished internal
duties on goods in transit within the Empire. There were indeed other na-
tions which agreed with this policy of American diplomacy, but no other
nation was free from suspicion of selfish aims. None other had won con-
fidence in the sincerity of its purpose, and none other but America could
render the service which we have rendered to humanity in China during
the past four years. High evidence of that enviable position of our coun-
try is furnished by the fact that when all Europe was in apprehension lest
the field of war between Russia and Japan should so spread as to involve
China's ruin and a universal conflict, it was to the American government
that the able and far-sighted German Emperor appealed, to take the lead
again in bringing about an agreement for the limitation of the field of action,
and the preservation of the administrative entity of China outside of Man-
churia ; and that was accomplished.
Upon our own continent a dispute with Canada over the boundary of
Alaska had been growing more acute for thirty years. A multitude of min-
ers, swift to defend their own rights by force, were locating mining claims
under the laws of both countries in the disputed territory. At any moment
a fatal affray between Canadian and American miners was liable to begin
a conflict in which all British Columbia would be arrayed on one side and all
our Northwest upon the other. Agreement was impossible. But the Alas-
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kan Boundary Treaty of January 24, 1903, provided a tribunal for the deci-
sion of the controversy ; and upon legal proofs and reasoned argument, an
appeal has been had from prejudice and passion to judicial judgment; and
under the lead of a great Chief Justice of England, who held the sacred
obligations of his judicial office above all other considerations, the dispute
has been settled forever and substantially, in accordance with the American
contention. (Applause.)
In 1900 the first administration of McKinley had played a great part in
establishing The Hague Tribunal for international arbitration. The pre-
vailing opinion of Europe was incredulous as to the practical utility of the
provision, and anticipated a paper tribunal unsought by litigants. It was
the example of the United States which set at naught this opinion. The first
international case taken to The Hague Tribunal was under our protocol with
Mexico of May 22, 1902, submitting our contention for the rights of the
Roman Catholic Church in California to a share of the church moneys held
by the Mexican Government before the cession, and known as the Pious
Fund ; and the first decision of the Tribunal was an award in our favor upon
that question. (Applause.)
When in 1903 the failure of Venezuela to pay her just debts led England,
Germany and Italy to warlike measures for the collection of their claims, an
appeal by Venezuela to our government resulted in agreements upon arbi-
tration in place of the war, and in a request that our President should act as
arbitrator. Again he promoted the authority and prestige of The Hague
Tribunal, and was able to lead all the powers to submit the crucial question
in controversy to the determination of that court. It is due greatly to sup-
port by the American government that this agency for peace has disappointed
the expectations of its detractors, and by demonstrations of practical useful-
ness has begun a career fraught with possibilities of incalculable benefit to
mankind.
On the nth of April, 1903, was proclaimed another convention between
all the Great Powers agreeing upon more humane rules for the conduct of
war; and these in substance incorporated and gave the sanction of the civ-
ilized world to the rules drafted by Francis Lieber and approved by Abraham
Lincoln for the conduct of the armies of the United States in the field.
All Americans who desire safe and conservative administration which shall
avoid cause of quarrel, all who abhor war, all who long for the perfect sway
of the principles of that religion which we all profess, should rejoice that
under this Republican administration their country has attained a potent
leadership among the nations in the cause of peace and international justice.
(Applause.)
The respect and moral power thus gained has been exercised in the inter-
ests of humanity, where the rules of diplomatic intercourse have made formal
intervention impossible. When the Roumanian outrages and when the ap-
palling massacre at Kishineff, shocked civilization, and filled thousands of
our own people with mourning, the protest of America was heard through
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the voice of its government, with full observance of diplomatic rules, but
with moral power and effect. (Applause.)
We have advanced the authority of the Monroe Doctrine. Our adherence
to the convention which established The Hague Tribunal was accepted by the
other powers, with a formal declaration that nothing therein contained should
be construed to imply the relinquishment by the United States of its tradi-
tional attitude toward purely American questions. The armed demonstra-
tion by the European powers against Venezuela was made the occasion for
disclaimers to the United States of any intention to seize the territory of
Venezuela, recognizing in the most unmistakable way the rights of the
United States expressed in the declaration of that traditional policy.
In the meantime, mindful that moral powers unsupported by physical
strength do not always avail against selfishness and aggression, we have
been augmenting the forces which command respect. (Applause.)
We have brought our navy to a high state of efficiency and have exer-
cised both army and navy in the methods of seacoast defense. The joint
Army and Navy Board has been bringing the two services together in good
understanding and the common study of the strategy, the preparation and
the co-operation which will make them effective in time of need. Our
ships have been exercised in fleet and squadron movements, have been im-
proved in marksmanship and mobility, and have been constantly tested by
use. Since the last National Convention met we have completed and added
to our navy 5 battleships, 4 cruisers, 4 monitors, 34 torpedo destroyers and
torpedo boats ; while we have put under construction 13 battleships and 13
cruisers.
Four years ago our army numbered over 100,000 men regulars and vol-
unteers 75 per cent of them in the Philippines and China. Under the oper-
ation of statutes limiting the period of service, it was about to lapse back
into its old and insufficient number of 27,000, and its old and insufficient
organization under the practical control of permanent staff departments at
Washington, with the same divisions of counsel and lack of co-ordinating
and directing power at the head, that led to confusion and scandal in the war
with Spain. During the past four years the lessons taught by that war have
received practical effect. The teachings of Sherman and of Upton have
been recalled and respected. Congress has fixed a maximum of the army
at 100,000, and a minimum at 60,000, so that maintaining only the minimum
in peace, as we now do, when war threatens the President may begin prep-
aration by filling the ranks to the maximum, without waiting until after war
has begun, as he had to wait in 1898. Permanent staff appointments have
been changed to details from the line, with compulsory returns at fixed in-
tervals to service with troops, so that the requirements of the field and the
camp rather than the requirements of the office desk shall control the de-
partments of administration and supply. A corps organization has been
provided for our artillery, with a chief of artillery at the head, so that there
may be intelligent use of our costly seacoast defenses. Under the Act of
February 14, 1903, a general staff has been established, organized to suit
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American conditions and requirements and adequate for the performance of
the long-neglected but all-important duties of directing military education
and training, and applying the most advanced principles of military science
to that necessary preparation for war which is the surest safeguard of
peace. The command of the army now rests where it is placed by the Con-
stitution in the President. His power is exercised through a military chief
of staff, pledged by the conditions and tenure of his office to confidence and
loyalty to his commander. Thus civilian control of the military arm, upon
which we must always insist, is reconciled with that military efficiency which
can be obtained only under the direction of the trained military expert.
Four years ago we were living under an obsolete militia law more than
a century old, which Washington and Jefferson and Madison, and almost
every president since their time, had declared to be worthless. We pre-
sented the curious spectacle of a people depending upon a citizen soldiery
for protection against aggression, and making practically no provision what-
ever for training its citizens in the use of warlike weapons or in the ele-
mentary duties of the soldier. The mandate of the Constitution which re-
quired Congress to provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia
had been left unexecuted. In default of national provisions, bodies of state
troops, created for local purposes and supported at local expense, had grown
up throughout the Union. Their feelings towards the regular army were
rather of distrust and dislike than of comradeship. Their arms, equipment,
discipline, organization, and methods of obtaining and accounting for sup-
plies were varied and inconsistent. They were unsuited to become a part
of any homogeneous force, and their relations to the army of the United
States were undefined and conjectural. By the Militia Act of January 20,
I QO3> Congress performed its duty under the Constitution. Leaving these
bodies still to perform their duties to the States, it made them the organized
militia of the United States. It provided for their conformity in armament,
organization and discipline to the army of the United States ; it provided
the ways in which, either strictly as militia or as volunteers, they should be-
come an active part of the army when called upon; it provided for their
training, instruction and exercise conjointly with the regular army; it im-
posed upon the regular army the duty of promoting their efficiency in many
ways. In recognition of the service to the nation which these citizen soldiers
would be competent to render, the nation assumed its share of the burden of
their armament, their supply and their training. The workings of this sys-
tem have already demonstrated, not only that we can have citizens outside
of the regular army trained for duty in war, but that we can have a body of
volunteer officers ready for service, between whom and the officers of the
regular army have been created by intimate association and mutual helpful-
ness, those relations of confidence and esteem without which no army can be
effective. (Applause.)
The first administration of McKinley fought and won the war with Spain,
put down the insurrection in the Philippines, annexed Hawaii, rescued the
legations in Pekin, brought Porto Rico into our commercial system, enacted
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a protective tariff, and established our national currency on the firm foun-
dations of the gold standard by the financial legislation of the s6th Congress.
(Applause.)
The present administration has reduced taxation, reduced the public debt,
reduced the annual interest charge, made effective progress in the regula-
tion of trusts, fostered business, promoted agriculture, built up the navy, re-
organized the army, resurrected the militia system, inaugurated a new policy
for the preservation and reclamation of public lands, given civil government
to the Philippines, established the Republic of Cuba, bound it to us by ties of
gratitude of commercial interest and of common defense, swung open the
closed gateway of the Isthmus, strengthened the Monroe Doctrine, ended
the Alaskan boundary dispute, protected the integrity of China, opened wider
its doors of trade, advanced the principle of arbitration, and promoted peace
among the nations. (Applause.)
We challenge judgment upon this record of effective performance in leg-
islation, in execution and in administration.
The work is not fully done; policies are not completely wrought out;
domestic questions still press continually for solution ; other trusts must be
regulated ; the tariff may presently receive revision, and if so, should receive
it at the hands of the friends and not the enemies of the protective system;
the new Philippine government has only begun to develop its plans for the
benefit of that long-neglected country; our flag floats on the Isthmus, but
the canal is yet to be built; peace does not yet reign on earth, and consid-
erate firmness backed by strength are still needful in diplomacy.
The American people have now to say, whether policies shall be reversed
or committed to unfriendly guardians ; whether performance, which now
proves itself for the benefit and honor of our country, shall be transferred
to unknown and perchance to feeble hands.
No dividing line can be drawn athwart the course of this successful ad-
ministration. The fatal I4th of September, 1901, marked no change of pol-
icy, no lower level of achievement. The bullet of the assassin robbed us
of the friend we loved ; it took away from the people the President of their
choice ; it deprived civilization of a potent force making always for righteous-
ness and for humanity. But the fabric of free institutions remained un-
shaken. The government of the people went on. The great party that
William McKinley led, wrought still in the spirit of his example. His true
and loyal successor has been equal to the burden cast upon him. Widely dif-
ferent in temperament and methods, he has approved himself of the same
elemental virtues the same fundamental beliefs. With faithful and rever-
ing memory, he has executed the purposes and continued unbroken the policy
of President McKinley for the peace, prosperity and honor of our beloved
country. And he has met all new occasions with strength and resolution and
far-sighted wisdom. (Applause.)
As we gather in this convention, our hearts go back to the friend the
never to be forgotten friend whom when last we met we acclaimed with
one accord as our universal choice to bear a second time the highest honor
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in the nation's gift ; and back still, memory goes through many a year of
leadership and loyalty.
How wise and how skillful he was! how modest and self-effacing! how
deep his insight into the human heart! how swift the intuitions of his sym-
pathy ! how compelling the charm of his gracious presence ! He was so
unselfish, so thoughtful of the happiness of others, so genuine a lover of his
country and his kind. And he was the kindest and tenderest friend who
ever grasped another's hand. Alas, that his virtues did plead in vain against
cruel fate !
Yet we may rejoice, that while he lived he was crowned with honor; that
the rancor of party strife had ceased ; that success in his great tasks, the
restoration of peace, the approval of his countrymen, the affection of his
friends, gave the last quiet months in his home at Canton repose and con-
tentment.
And with McKinley we remember Hanna with affection and sorrow his
great lieutenant. (Applause.) They are together again.
But we turn as they would have us turn, to the duties of the hour, the
hopes of the future; we turn as they would have us turn, to prepare our-
selves for struggle under the same standard borne in other hands by right of
true inheritance. Honor, truth, courage, purity of life, domestic virtue, love
of country, loyalty to high ideals all these combined with active intelligence,
with learning, with experience in affairs, with the conclusive proof of com-
petency afforded by wise and conservative administration, by great things al-
ready done and great results already achieved, all these we bring to the
people with another candidate. Shall not these have honor in our land?
Truth, sincerity, courage ! these underlie the fabric of our institutions.
Upon hypocrisy and sham, upon cunning and false pretense, upon weakness
and cowardice, upon the arts of the demagogue and the devices of the mere
politician, no government can stand. No system of popular government
can endure in which the people do not believe and trust. Our President has
taken the whole people into his confidence. Incapable of deception, he has
put aside concealment. Frankly and without reserve, he has told them what
their government was doing, and the reasons. It is no campaign of appear-
ances upon which we enter, for the people know the good and the bad, the
success and failure, to be credited and charged to our account. It is no
campaign of sounding words and specious pretenses, for our President has
told the people with frankness what he believed and what he intended. He
has meant every word he said, and the people have believed every word he said,
and with him this convention agrees because every word has been sound
Republican doctrine. No people can maintain free government who do not
in their hearts value the qualities which have made the present President
of the United States conspicuous among the men of his time as a type of
noble manhood. (Applause.) Come what may here come what may in
November. God grant that those qualities of brave, true manhood shall have
honor throughout America, shall be held for an example in every home, and
that the youth of generations to come may grow up to feel that it is better
HON. GRAEME STEWART, of Illinois,
Member of the Executive Committee.
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than wealth, or office, or power, to have the honesty, the purity, and the cour-
age of Theodore Roosevelt. (Applause.)
PRESENTATION OF GAVEL.
Mr. GRAEME STEWART, of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, at the request of the
local committee, it is my pleasure to present to you, on behalf of the city
of Chicago, this symbol of authority, which I hope you will use during
the sessions of this convention.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The Chair thanks the local committee for
its kindness.
TEMPORARY OFFICERS.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen of the Convention: By direc-
tion of the Republican National Committee, the Chair submits to the con-
vention a list of temporary officers proposed by the committee, which the
clerk will read.
Mr. JOHN R. MALLOY, of Ohio, read as follows :
General Secretary, Charles W. Johnson, Minnesota.
Chief Assistant Secretary, John R. Malloy, Ohio.
Assistant Secretaries : James G. Cannon, New York ; Thomas F. Clifford,
New Hampshire ; Lucien Grey, Illinois ; Willet M. Spooner, Wisconsin ; T.
Larry Eyre, Pennsylvania ; J. T. Wilson, Kentucky ; Rome C. Stephenson,
Indiana ; John H. King, South Dakota ; T. St. John Gaffney, New York ;
Walter S. Melick, California ; Edgar O. Silver, Vermont ; Frank D. Water-
man, New York; George W. Armstrong, Minnesota; James H. Paddock, Illi-
nois; Franklin Murphy, Jr., New Jersey; Edwin W. Sims, Illinois.
Reading Clerks : W. H. Harrison, Nebraska ; Dennis E. Alward, Mich-
igan ; E. L. Lampson, Ohio ; T. W. B. Duckwall, West Virginia.
Clerk at President's Desk, Asher C. Hinds, Maine.
Official Reporter, Milton W. Blumenberg, Illinois.
Tally Clerks: Fred B. Whitney, Illinois; John W. Dixon, Nebraska;
Lucien Swift, Jr., Minnesota.
Messenger to Secretary, Henry F. Daniels, Wisconsin.
Messenger to Chairman, Gurley Brewer, Indiana.
Sergeant-at-Arms, William F. Stone, Maryland.
First Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, David C. Owen, Wisconsin.
Chief of Doorkeepers, Charles S. Montell, Maryland.
Mr. CHARLES DICK, of Ohio. I move that the recommendations of the
National Committee as submitted, be approved by the convention.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the motion
of the gentleman from Ohio that the recommendations of the National Com-
mittee as submitted be approved by the convention.
The motion was unanimously agreed to.
66 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
RULES.
Mr. T. H. CARTER, of Montana. In the interest of the orderly procedure
of business, I offer the resolution which I send to the desk.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Montana submits a
resolution which will be read.
The resolution was read and agreed to, as follows :
Resolved, That until a permanent organization is affected this convention
be governed by the rules of the last Republican National Convention.
COMMITTEES.
Mr. L. E. McCoMAS, of Maryland. Mr. Chairman, I submit for present
consideration the resolutions which I send to the desk.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Maryland offers a
resolution which will be read.
The READING CLERK read as follows :
Resolved, That the roll of States and Territories be now called, and that the
chairman of each delegation announce the names of the persons selected to
serve on the several committees, as follows: Permanent Organization, Rules
and Order of Business, Credentials, Resolutions; And further, that the chair-
man of each delegation send to the Secretary's desk in writing the names of
the persons selected from his delegation to serve on the aforesaid committees.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the resolu-
tion submitted by the gentleman from Maryland.
The resolution was agreed to.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen of the Convention, before direct-
ing the call of the roll the Chair wishes the instruction of the convention
upon the question which he will now state. The National Committee has
recommended placing upon the roll and has placed upon the temporary roll
the names of delegates from Porto Rico and the Philippines. (Applause.)
The Chair does not feel authorized to direct the calling of those names
upon the roll without the instruction of the convention. Will the convention
take action upon the question?
Mr. J. B. FORAKER, of Ohio. I move that the action of the National
Committee in making the direction which has just been stated by the Chair,
be approved by the convention.
Mr. W. B. HEYBURN, of Idaho. I second the motion.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Foraker)
moves, and that motion is seconded by the gentleman from Idaho (Mr.
Heyburn), that the recommendation of the National Committee be ap-
proved by the convention. That recommendation means that two delegates
from Porto Rico and two delegates from the Philippine Islands shall have
seats in this convention, with the power of voting. Are you ready for the
question ?
Mr. L. E. McCoMAS, of Maryland. Pardon me, Mr. Chairman ; there will
be six delegates from the Philippines, with two votes.
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 67
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The Chair will restate the proposition. It
means two delegates from Porto Rico, with two votes, and six delegates
from the Philippines, with two votes. Gentlemen, are you ready for the
question, which is on agreeing to the motion of the gentleman from Ohio,
that the recommendation of the National Committee be approved by this
convention ?
The motion was agreed to.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will call the roll in accordance
with the resolution offered by the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Mc-
Comas).
Mr. OSCAR R. HUNDLEY, of Alabama. I should like to ask what commit-
tee is being called for, or does it embrace all the committees named?
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will again read, for the informa-
tion of the convention, the resolution submitted by the gentleman from Mary-
land (Mr. McComas).
The READING CLERK read "as follows :
Besolred. That the roll of States and Territories be now called, and that the
chairman of each delegation announce the names of the persons selected to
serve on the several committees, as follows: Permanent Organization. Rules
and Order of Business, Credentials, Resolutions; And further, that the chairman
of each delegation send to the Secretary's desk in writing the names of the
persons selected from his delegation to serve on the aforesaid committees.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The roll-call will be proceeded with.
The CLERK proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. JOSEPH G. CANNON, of Illinois. I ask unanimous consent that as the
States, Territories, etc., are called, the Chairmen of the respective delega-
tions send the list to the desk without reading them, and they can be tab-
ulated later.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Illinois asks unani-
mous consent that as the States are called, the list of names be sent by the
Chairmen of the delegations to the desk without reading. Is there objection?
The Chair hears none, and that course will be pursued.
The committees as constituted are as follows :
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Alabama G. B. DEANS
Arkansas FERD HAVIS
California C. E. CLINCH
Colorado S. S. DOWNER
Connecticut MICHAEL KENEALY
Delaware FRANCIS S. BRADLEY
Florida WILLIAM H. NORTHUP
Georgia W. H. MATTHEWS
Idaho DREW M. STANDROD
Illinois WILLIAM A. COLEMAN
Indiana FINLEY C. CARSON
Iowa J. H. HENDERSON
Kansas H. B. MILLER
Kentucky BRUTUS J. CLAY
Louisiana GIRRAULT FARRAR
Maine VORAMUS L. COFFIN
Maryland WILLIAM S. BOOZE
Massachusetts A. H. GOETTING
Michigan C. C. VAUGHN
Minnesota L. O. THORPE
Mississippi THOMAS RICHARDSON
Missouri C. W. CLARKE
Montana JAMES W. FREEMAN
Nebraska W. P. MILES
Nevada P. L. FLANIGAN
New Hampshire SUMNER WALLACE
New Jersey WILLIAM M. JOHNSON
New York GEORGE W. ALDRIDGE
North Carolina T. T. HICKS
North Dakota HUGH H. PEOPLES
Ohio THEODORE E. BURTON
Oregon N. C. RICHARDS
Pennsylvania JAMES A. DALE
Rhode Island FRANK W. TILLINGHAST
South Carolina A. A. GATES
South Dakota C. E. WARNER
Tennessee L. W. DUTRO
Texas C. M. FERGUSON
Utah JAMES H. ANDERSON
Vermont H. W. ALLEN
Virginia J. M. MCLAUGHLIN
Washington CHARLES M. SWEENY
West Virginia VIRGIL L. HIGHLAND
Wisconsin J. W. COCHRAN
Wyoming J. G. OLIVER
District of Columbia JOHN F. COOK
Alaska OSCAR FOOTE
Arizona F. L. WRIGHT
Indian Territory CHARLES W. RAYMOND
New Mexico W. G. SARGENT
Oklahoma W. C. TETIRICK
Hawaii GEORGE R. CARTER
Philippine Islands J. S. STANLEY
Porto Rico R. H. TODD
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 69
COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ORDER OF BUSINESS.
Alabama J. W. DAVIDSON
Arkansas OSCAR DAVIS
California A. RUEF
Colorado E. L. SMITH
Connecticut JOHN T. ROBINSON
Delaware G. LAYTON GRIER
Florida MARK S. WHITE
Georgia S. S. HUMBERT
Idaho JAMES M. STEVENS
Illinois CHARLES E. PERKINS
Indiana CAREY E. COWGILL
Iowa W. S. ELLIS
Kansas W. S. FITZPATRICK
Kentucky JOHN M. BOWLING
Louisiana M. G. BOBE
Maine WOODBURY K. DANA
Maryland RENO S. HARP
Massachusetts JOHN L. HOBSON
Michigan F. A. ROETHLISBERGER
Minnesota GUSTA F. WVDELL
Mississippi E. H. McKISSICK
Missouri H. A. SMITH
Montana W. F. MEYER
Nebraska F. I. FOSS
Nevada H. B. MAXON
New Hampshire WINSTON CHURCHILL
New Jersey MARK FAGAN
New York S. FRED NIXON
North Carolina J. Y. HAMRICK
North Dakota H. M. WHEELER
Ohio H. M. DAUGHERTY
Oregon IRA B. SMITH
Pennsylvania H. H. BINGHAM
Rhode Island ALBERT B. CRAFTS
South Carolina J. W. TOLBERT
South Dakota F. H. DAVIS
Tennessee H. S. CHAMBERLAIN
Texas E. H. TERRELL
Utah L. W. SHURTLIFF
Vermont HENRY S. BINGHAM
Virginia ASA ROGERS
Washington A. W. PERLEY
West Virginia GEO. W. ATKINSON
Wisconsin J. W. BABCOCK
Wyoming J. E. COSGRIFF
District of Columbia ROBERT REYBURN
Alaska J. G. HEED
Arizona E. W. CHILDS
Indian Territory VICTOR M. LOCKE, JR.
New Mexico W. E. DAME
Oklahoma A. H. JACKSON
Hawaii WM. T. ROBINSON
Philippine Islands CHARLES A. WILLARD
Porto Rico. . .
70 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS.
Alabama N. H. ALEXANDER
Arkansas SID B. REDDING
California GEO. W. REED
Colorado JOHN W. SPRINGER
Connecticut GEORGE L. CHENEY
Delaware J. FRANK ALLEE
Florida HENRY S. CHUBB
Georgia CHAS. ADAMSON
Idaho WILLIAM E. BORAH
Illinois GRAEME STEWART
Indiana WINF1ELD J. DURBIN
Iowa J. P. DOLLIVER
Kansas S. H. HAMILTON
Kentucky JOHN W. LEWIS
Louisiana WALTER L. COHEN
Maine SANFORD L. FOGG
Maryland LOUIS E. McCOMAS
Massachusetts EVERETT C. BENTON
Michigan ANDREW B. DAUGHERTY
Minnesota C. H. MARCH
Mississippi WESLEY CRAYTON
Missouri B. F. RUSSEL
Montana JOSEPH M. DIXON
Nebraska C. B. DEMPSTER
Nevada B. H. REYMERS
New Hampshire DANIEL C. REMICK
New Jersey JOHN J. GARDNER
New York GEORGE R. MALBY
North Carolina W. S. O. B. ROBINSON
North Dakota ALEXANDER McKENZIE
Ohio CHARLES B. DICK
Oregon J. M. KEENE
Pennsylvania A. S. L. SHIELDS
Rhode Island ALPHONSE GAULIN
South Carolina J. F. ENSOR
South Dakota R. H. DRISCOLL
Tennessee F. A. RAHT
Texas R. B. HAWLEYv
Utah WILLARD F. SNYDER
Vermont W. SEWARD WEBB
Virginia PARK AGNEW
Washington C. E. BINGHAM
West Virginia W. L. ARMSTRONG
Wisconsin S. S. BARNEY
Wyoming M. C. NICHOLS
District of Columbia JNO. F. COOK
Alaska C. S. JOHNSON
Arizona A. O. BRODIE
Indian Territory EUGENE E. MORRIS
New Mexico W. H. H. LLEWELLYN
Oklahoma SEYMOUR FOOSE
Hawaii W. H. HOOGS
Philippine Islands THEO. C. REISER
Porto Rico JOSE GORNEZ BRIOSO
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 71
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
Alabama A. N. JOHNSON
Arkansas CHAS. T. DUKE
California FRANK H. SHORT
Colorado CLYDE C. DAWSON
Connecticut EDWIN W. HIGGINS
Delaware CALEB R. LAYTON
Florida
Georgia H. L. JOHNSON
Idaho WELDON B. HEYBURN
Illinois ALBERT J. HOPKINS
Indiana ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE
Iowa J. W. BLYTHE
Kansas
Kentucky GEORGE W. LONG
Louisiana J. MADISON VANCE
Maine ELMER P. SPOFFORD
Maryland PHILLIPS L. GOLDSBOROUGH
Massachusetts HENRY CABOT LODGE
Michigan RALPH LOVELAND
Minnesota KNUTE NELSON
Mississippi W. E. MOLLISON
Missouri BOYD DUDLEY
Montana THOS. H. CARTER
Nebraska FRANK WILLIAMS
Nevada E. S. FARINGTON
New Hampshire JACOB H. GALLINGER
New Jersey JOHN F. DRYDEN
New York EDWARD LAUTERBACH
North Carolina
North Dakota H. C. HANSBROUGH
Ohio J. B. FORAKER
Oregon J. U. CAMPBELL,
Pennsylvania JOHN DALZELL
Rhode Island WILLIAM L. HODGMAN
South Carolina E. J. DICKERSON
South Dakota N. L. FINCH
Tennessee DANA HARMON
Texas A. J. ROSENTHAL
Utah GEO. SUTHERLAND
Vermont W. P. DILLINGHAM
Virginia D. LAWRENCE GRONER
Washington J. S. McMILLAN
West Virginia
Wisconsin JOHN C. SPOONER
Wyoming C. D. CLARK
District of Columbia ROBERT REYBURN
Alaska J. W. IVEY
Arizona
Indian Territory WILLIAM H. BARROUGH
New Mexico H. O. BURSON
Oklahoma
Hawaii JONAH K. KALANIANAOLI
Philippine Islands JOHN M. SWITZER
Porto Rico
72 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
PETITIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. CHARLES W. THOMAS, of Illinois. I present a resolution which I
ask to have referred to the Committee on Resolutions without debate.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The resolution will be received and referred
as indicated.
Mr. WILLIAM E. MASON, of Illinois. I have been requested to present a
petition, which I do, and I ask that it be referred to the Committee on Reso-
lutions.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The resolution will be referred to the Com-
mittee on Resolutions.
Mr. ROBERT REYBURN, of the District of Columbia. I submit a resolution,
which I ask may follow the course of the resolutions heretofore presented
that it may be referred without debate.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The resolution presented by the gentleman
from the District of Columbia will be received and referred to the Committee
on Resolutions.
LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION.
Mr. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, of New York. The Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position has sent an invitation to visit the exposition, and I call for its read-
ing.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read as requested.
The READING CLERK read as follows :
To the Republican National Convention,
Gentlemen: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition respectfully invites the dele-
gates and alternates to the Republican National Convention now assembled,
and the representatives of the Press attending, to visit the World's Fair, now
in progress in St. Louis, when the deliberations of the convention shall have
ended. Transportation and admission to the World's Fair Grounds will be
provided.
The participation of the States and Territories and possessions of the United
States, and of over fifty foreign countries, contribute to make this Exposition
thoroughly representative of the progress of civilization and the development
of the human race.
The exhibit of the United States and that of the Philippine Islands are, of
themselves, well worth the visit. The aid extended by the general govern-
ment, through two Congresses, and the interest manifested in the enterprise
by President McKinley and President Roosevelt, establish its National char-
acter. It is held to commemorate the Louisiana Purchase, the acquisition of an
Empire by peaceful negotiations, and to enlighten the people in the progress
and advancement of the world.
Very respectfully,
DAVID R. FRANCIS.
President Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Mr. DEPEW, of New York. I offer the resolution I send to the desk.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New York submits a
resolution which will be read.
The READING CLERK read as follows:
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 73
Resolved. That the thanks of this Convention be extended to the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Company for their invitation; and that the Chair appoint
a committee of five to ascertain and report at the next session of the Conven-
tion arrangements for going to St. Louis and return.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN". Gentlemen, you have heard the resolution.
Are there any remarks to be made upon it?
Mr. DEPEW. Mr. Chairman, I do not think any remarks are necessary.
The invitation itself is eloquent. Nor do I think any remarks are in order
at the present time, when we are still under the spell of one of the few
great orations that we are permitted to listen to in a life time.
Still, as the United States has invested twenty-five million dollars in this
exposition, has invited all the other countries of the world, and they have
come, I think the convention should accept the invitation. It is certainly a
graceful as well as a gracious privilege which is extended to us by the Ex-
position Company.
I know that the educational, the religious, the agricultural, the manufac-
turing, and the scientific interests are all going to St. Louis to see what has
been accomplished up to the present time in their several departments ; and
we can go there and see what has been done in the development of the
United States during this period and what share Republican policies had in
bringing it about. (Applause.)
I am quite sure a similar invitation will be extended to the Democratic
convention when it meets next month. Its members will accept, because
they will be in St. Louis anyway, and they will go there having the only
gratification they have had for half a century, in saying "through Thomas
Jefferson we bought the land." (Laughter.) But it will be our privilege
to say "we cultivated the soil ; we ploughed it ; we planted the seed ; and
the harvest which makes the United States what it is today is ours as well
as yours." (Applause.)
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the resolu-
tion submitted by the gentleman from New York.
The resolution was agreed to.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN appointed as the committee under the resolu-
tion Mr. Depew, of New York; Mr. Carter, of Montana; Mr. Foraker, of
Ohio; Mr. Van Sant, of Minnesota, and Mr. Parker, of Missouri.
Mr. RICHARD P. ERNST, of Kentucky. I move that the convention adjourn
until 12 o'clock tomorrow.
The motion was agreed to, and (at 2 o'clock and 10 minutes p. m.) the
convention adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, June 22, 1904, at 12
o'clock meridian.
THE SECOND DAY
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS THE WISCONSIN
CASE OTHER CONTESTED CASES THE ROLL OF THE CON-
VENTION LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION PETER
JOSEPH OSTERHAUS REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PER-
MANENT ORGANIZATION AND OTHER COMMITTEES HA-
WAIIAN REPRESENTATION.
CONVENTION HALL
THE COLISEUM, CHICAGO, ILL., Wednesday, June 22, 1904.
The convention was called to order at 12:25 o'clock p. m., by Hon. Elihu
Root, Temporary Chairman, who said:
The proceedings of this day will be begun by prayer by the Rev. Thomas
E. Cox, of Chicago, 111.
PRAYER OF REV. THOMAS E. COX.
Rev. THOMAS E. Cox, of Chicago, offered the following prayer :
Our Father Who art in Heaven, we thank Thee for the opportunities of
this day. In all humility we adore Thy sovereign majesty. To Thee we
look for grace and guidance. In Thy hands are the destinies of nations.
Thy Providence enters into the careers of men. There is no just power but
from Thee. Thy will is the sole source of law and good government.
Bless the deliberations of this Convention. Let us not forget those who
have bequeathed to us a glorious history. Give us wisdom and understand-
ing. Drive far from us all self-seeking. Fill us with a love of country, of
peace, of forbearance and of justice. For "Justice exalteth a nation, but
when the wicked bear rule peoples perish." Hasten the day when it shall
be said : "The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and His Christ's,
and He shall reign for ever and ever." Amen.
HON. LOUIS E. McCOMAS, of Maryland,
Who was Chairman of the Committee on Credentials.
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 75
THE CONTESTED CASES.
[Pursuant to the usual practice, the National Committee, prior to the day
of meeting of the convention considered all questions of contest submitted
within the rule embodied in the call, and made up the Temporary Roll of
delegates to the convention.
A formal report of the proceedings and findings of the National Committee
respecting contests was submitted to the Committee on Credentials.
The Committee on Credentials appointed a subcommittee consisting: of
Winfield T. Durbin, J. J. Gardner and E. C. Benton, to examine and report
on the Wisconsin case.
The report of this subcommittee was duly made, and embodied in the report
of the Committee on Credentials and subsequently reported with other recom-
mendations to the convention, and adopted by the convention. These several
reports as made, appear in their proper order below. Ed.]
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. Is the Committee on Credentials ready to
report ?
Mr. L. E. McCoMAS, of Maryland. The Committee on Credentials have
instructed me to submit their report:
June 22, 1904.
Your Committee on Credentials submit the following report in the matter
of the seating of the contested delegations :
They met immediately after the adjournment of the session of the Conven-
tion on Tuesday, June 21, 1904, and organized by the selection of the officers
of the committee. Since that time they have, day and night, almost continu-
ously considered the cases before them until they completed the roll of mem-
bership. In the contests in the Fourth District of Alabama, respecting the
delegates and their alternates, in the contest respecting all the delegates and
alternates from the State of Delaware, in the Second District of Georgia,
the Third District of Mississippi, the First District of South Carolina, the
Thirty-third District of New York, the Second District of Virginia, the
delegates-at-large and their alternates from Texas, the Second and Seventh
Districts of Texas, in the Twenty-first District of Illinois, the Fourth, Sixth
and Twentieth Districts in Ohio, this committee recommend that the action
of the National Committee in making a temporary roll shall be the action of
the Convention.
In the matter respecting the delegates-at-large and delegates from all of
the seven Congressional districts of Louisiana, your committee recommend
76 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
that the delegates-at-large of the contestants and the contestees with their
alternates be admitted to seats in the convention, and that in each of the seven
districts of Louisiana, the delegates of the contestants and contestees with
their respective alternates be also admitted to seats in the convention, and
that each delegate when seated shall have one-half of a vote. And your
committee, therefore, recommend that the aforementioned delegates from
Louisiana with their alternates be placed on the permanent roll of the con-
vention.
In the Fifth District of Missouri your committee recommend that the
delegates, Joseph H. Harris and Wallace Love, and the alternates, Joseph P.
Fontron and W. H. Waggoner, be placed on the permanent roll.
In the case of the contest for delegates-at-large from the State of Wis-
consin your committee unanimously concur with the National Committee in
its unanimous action and recommend that the sitting delegates, John C.
Spooner, J. V. Quarles, Joseph W. Babcock and Emil Baensch, with their
alternates, be placed on the permanent roll of this convention.
Your committee consider it unnecessary to recite the reasons for the de-
cisions in the several cases before mentioned. In the Wisconsin case, how-
ever, your committee believe some additional statement is appropriate. To
the contest over the delegates-at-large and their alternates from Wisconsin,
unusual consideration has been given.
The said contest was patiently heard by the National Committee for six
hours, being argued on behalf of both sides by counsel before said commit-
tee. The books and printed arguments being supplied by both sides to the
individual members of that committee, and at the end of such presentation
that committee being fully advised as to the material facts and the merits
of the controversy, unanimously voted to place on the temporary roll as
delegates-at-large John C. Spooner, J. V. Quarles, Joseph W. Babcock and
Emil Baensch, and M. G Jeffris, D. E. Riordan, Richard Meyer and John
Kehler, alternates.
Your committee after completing its organization took a recess until 4
o'clock and gave notice to the various contestants to appear at that hour.
Soon thereafter your committee decided to take up the Wisconsin contest
over the delegates-at-large from that State. Thereupon Mr. Gilbert E. Roe,
who had submitted to the National Committee an elaborate argument on
behalf of Isaac Stephenson, Robert M. La Follette, J. H. Stout and W. D.
Connor and their alternates, appeared before your committee and submitted
a communication from the contesting delegation, represented in part by him.
This communication is appended to the report of your committee. Your
committee, resenting the false imputation which said communication placed
upon the entire National Committee and upon your committee by its im-
peachment of the good faith of said committees, and upon the National Con-
vention of the Republican party by its assumption that said contesting dele-
gation could not secure a fair and impartial hearing and a determination
according to the truth and right of the case from your committee or by
appeal to this convention, proceeded, notwithstanding the withdrawal of said
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 77
contest by said communication upon the grounds therein stated, in justice
to itself after notice to both sides .to appear, to investigate thoroughly the
facts of said case. By its sub-committee during yesterday, last night and
today, and by the full committee yesterday and today, it investigated the
facts of said case as disclosed by the proofs, documents and briefs of both
sides, availing itself of the proofs, documents and briefs presented by both
sides before the National Committee, and heard also oral arguments by the
counsel of the contestees, to the end that the facts might be fully ascertained
and a just decision reached in said case; and, having fully considered the
same, your committee report it to be their final judgment that the convention
which elected said John C. Spooner, J. V. Quarles, Joseph W. Babcock and
Emil Baensch as delegates at large and their alternates to this convention
from the State of Wisconsin, was the regular convention of the Republican
party in Wisconsin, and that the delegates elected by it are the regularly
elected delegates at large from the State of Wisconsin to the Republican
National Convention, and as such are entitled to seats in this convention.
The report of the sub-committee, which was unanimously approved by your
committee, is appended to and made part of this report.
A copy of the roll of delegates and alternates adopted by your committee
making the permanent roll of this convention, is herewith submitted as part
of their report, and the adoption of the report is recommended.
Respectfully submitted,
L, E. McCOMAS, Chairman.
SID B. REDDING, Secretary.
CONTESTS AS DECIDED BY THE COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS.
ALABAMA.
Delegates. Alternates.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
W. F. Aldrich. W. F. Tebbetts.
V,'. A. Cook. F. O. Dudley.
DELAWARE.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
J. Edward Addicks. John E. Taylor.
J. Frank Alice. George W. Marshall.
John Hunn. Walter Hoffecker.
Caleb R. Layton. Joseph E. Cahall.
Francis S. Bradley. Abrarn E. Frantz.
G. Layton Grier. John C. Townsend.
GEORGIA.
Delegates. Alternates.
SECOND DISTRICT.
J. C. Styles. J. L. Reddlck.
C. G. Ward. E. B. Brown.
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ILLINOIS.
Delegates. Alternates.
TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.
Theodore Koch. John R. Challacombe.
H. N. Schuyler. Charles E. Selby.
LOUISIANA.
(Each delegate given a half vote.)
Delegates. Alternates.
Walter L. Cohen.
Emile Kuntz.
Girrault Farrar.
H. B. N. Brown.
Pearl Wight.
H. C. Warmouth.
W. J. Behan.
L. F. Suthon.
Joseph Fabacher.
J. Madison Vance.
Hugh S. Suthon.
Felix Berhel.
H. W. Robinson.
M. G. Bobe.
Charles W. Godchaux.
W. J. Waguespack.
J. M. Haggerty.
A. J. Jones
F. B. Williams.
Jules Godchaux.
A. H. Leonard.
S. P. Brown.
B. F. Oneal.
C. J. Green.
J. W. Cook.
S. W. Green.
W. T. Insley.
H. B. Taliaferro.
L. J. Souer.
B. V. Baranco.
H. W_ Robinson.
F. J. Webb
AT LARGE.
James E. Porter.
P. H. Segura.
D. A. Lines.
John Marks.
J. W. Porch.
S. A. Knapp.
Andrew Hero.
Gus Lehmann.
FIRST DISTRICT.
C. W. Boothby.
I. G. Wynn.
A. B. Kennedy.
F. R. Tenneret.
SECOND DISTRICT.
A. C. Fowler.
E. F. R. Augustus.
E. J. Thilborger.
W. P. Luck.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Mayer Cahen.
John Tregle.
Jules Dreyfus.
Honore Dugas.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
J. W. Walker.
J. B. Green.
S. Herold.
,W. J. Tatum.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
George W. Stewart.
John W. Robinson.
Henry E. Hardtner.
Leopold Elgutter.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
George J. Duffy.
John Brown.
George J. Reiley.
J. B. Churchill.
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LOUISIANA Contin ned.
Delegates. Alternates.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
C. C. Duson. J. S. Thomas.
J. A. Spencer. Henry Erlich.
G. L. Lasalle. Joseph A. Block.
W. R. Wright. H. Dupuy.
MISSISSIPPI.
(Each delegate given a half vote.)
Delegates. Alternates.
THIRD DISTRICT.
R. A. Simmons. L. T. Marcus.
Charles Banks. R. L. Flagg.
Louis Waldauer. N. L. Lackey.
D. W. Gary. G. A. Lee.
MISSOURI.
Delegates. Alternates.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Joseph H. Harris. Joseph P. Fontron.
Wallace Love.. W. H. Waggoner.
NEW YORK.
Delegates. Alternates.
THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT.
J. Sloat Fassett William H. Prangen.
Arthur E. Valois. William H. Nichols..
OHIO.
Delegates. Alternates.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
O. E. Harrison. David Oldham.
W. L. Russell. Julius Boesel.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
George W. McMurchy. H. M. Brown.
Frank M. Couden. Walter Remley.
TWENTIETH DISTRICT.
J. B. Zerbe. D. C. True.
A. T. Spitzer. George Steele.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Delegates. Alternates.
FIRST DISTRICT.
A. P. Prioleau. Samuel B. Butler.
William F. Myers. A. Collins.
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TEXAS.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Cecil A. Lyon. R. A. Hannay.
R. B. Hawley. Thomas Hall.
C. M. Ferguson. H. G. Goree.
N. M. Rodgers. David Abner.
SECOND DISTRICT.
J. H. Kurth. Fred Deremus.
B. F. Wallace. J. M. Moore.
SEVENTH DISTRIQT.
A. J. Rosenthal. C. W. Ellis.
H. L. Price. Waldo Mathews.
VIRGINIA.
Delegates. Alternates.
SECOND DISTRICT.
George E. Bowden. A. Aronheim.
A. H. Martin. Fred Read.
WISCONSIN.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
John C. Spooner. M. G. Jeffris.
J. V. Quarles. D. E. Riordan.
Joseph W. Babcock. Richard Meyer.
Emil Baensch. John Kehler.
ALASKA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
John G. Held. G. M. Irwin.
Oscar Foote. John W. Steadman.
C. S. Jackson. Albert Fink.
W. T. Perkins. G. B. Baldwin.
W. D. Grant. P. C. McCormick.
J. W. Ivey. Frank J. Kinghorn.
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
John T. McDonough. John S. Leech.
Charles A. Willard. D. W. Smith.
Grant T. Trent. J. L. Pierce.
John S. Stanley. T. C. Reiser.
J. M. Swltzer. W. W. Lewis.
E. C. McCullough. M. W. Creach.
HON. NATHAN B. SCOTT, of West Virginia,
Who was Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Convention.
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REPORT ON CONTESTS BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
COMMITTEE.
Chicago, Illinois, June 17, 1904.
Chairman, Committee on Credentials,
Republican National Convention, Chicago, Illinois.
My Dear Sir: In the matter of the contest for seats in the Republican Na-
tional Convention, the National Committee, at its meeting in Chicago, Juno
16th and 17th, decided to place upon the temporary roll the following:
Delegates.
J. Edward Addicks.
J. Frank Allee.
John Hunn.
Caleb R. Layton.
Francis S. Bradley.
G. Layton Grier.
Delegates.
W. F. Aldrich.
W. A. Cook.
Delegates.
J. C. Styles.
C. G. Ward.
Delegates.
Walter L. Cohen.
Emil Kuntz.
Girrault Farrar.
H. B. N. Brown.
Joseph Fabacher.
J. Madison Vance.
H. W. Robinson.
M. G. Bobe.
J. H. Haggerty.
A. G. Jones.
A. H. Leonard.
S. P. Brown.
John W. Cook.
S. W. Green.
L. J. Souer.
B. V. Baranco.
C. C. Duson.
S. A. Spencer.
DELAWARE.
Alternates.
John E. Taylor.
Geo. W. Marshall.
Walter Hoffecker.
Joseph E. Cahall.
Abram E. Frantz.
John G. Townsend.
ALABAMA.
Alternates.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
W. F. Tebbetts.
F. O. Dudley.
GEORGIA.
Alternates.
SECOND DISTRICT.
J. L. Reddick.
E. B. Brown.
LOUISIANA.
AT LARGE. Alternates.
James E. Porter.
P. E. Segura.
D. A. Lines.
John Marks.
FIRST DISTRICT.
C. W. Boothby.
I. G. Wynn.
SECOND DISTRICT.
A. C. Fowler.
E. F. R. Augustus.
THIRD DISTRICT.
John Stregle.
Mayer Chane.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
W. J. Walker.
J. B. Green.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
George W. Stewart.
John W. Robinson.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Geo. Duffey.
John Brown.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
H. C. Edwards.
Henry Erlick.
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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
MISSISSIPPI.
Delegates. A Iterna tes.
THIRD DISTRICT.
R. A. Simmons. L. T. Marcus.
Chas. Banks. R. L. Flagg.
Louis Waldauer. N. L. Lackey.
D. W. Gary. G. A. Lee.
(Each delegate given a half vote.)
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Delegates. Alternates.
FIRST DISTRICT.
A. P. Prioleau. Samuel B. Butler.
Wm. F. Myers. A. Collins.
Delegates.
J. Sloat Fassett.
Arthur E. Valois.
NEW YORK.
Alternates.
TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.
Wm. H. Prangen.
Wm. H. Nichols.
Delegates.
George E. Bowden.
A. H. Martin.
Delegates.
John C. Spooner.
J. V. Quarles.
Joseph W. Babcock.
Emil Baensch.
Delegates.
Cecil A. Lyon.
R. B. Hawley.
C. M. Ferguson.
N. M. Rodgers.
J. H. Kurth.
B. F. Wallace.
A. J. Rosenthal.
H. L. Price.
Delegates.
VIRGINIA.
Alternates.
Theodore Koch.
H. N. Schuyler.
SECOND DISTRICT.
A. Aronheim.
Fred. Read.
WISCONSIN.
Alternates.
AT LARGE.
M. G. Jeffris.
D. E. Riordan.
Richard Meyer.
John Kehler.
TEXAS.
Alternates.
AT LARGE.
R. A. Hannay.
Thomas Hall.
H. G. Goree.
David Abner.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Fred Deremus.
J. M. Moore.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
C. W. Ellis.
Waldo Mathews.
ILLINOIS.
Alternates.
TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.
John R. Challacombe.
Chas. E. Selby.
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MISSOURI.
Delegates. Alternates.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Jos. H. Harris. Jos. P. Fontron.
Wallace Love. W. H. Waggoner.
A. C. Kinneard. Geo. J. Baer.
J. A. McLane. Jos. Reed.
(Each delegate given a half vote.)
OHIO.
Delegates. Alternates.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
O. E. Harrison. David Oldham.
W. L. Russell. Julius Boesel. ,
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Geo. W. McMurchy. H. M. Brown.
Frank M. Couden. Walter Remley.
TWENTIETH DISTRICT.
J. N. Zerbe. D. C. True.
A. T. Spitzer. Geo. Steele.
Very truly yours,
H. C. PAYNE,
Chairman Republican National Committee.
ELMER DOVER,
Secretary Republican National Committee.
REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON CRE-
DENTIALS ON THE WISCONSIN CASE.
To the Committee on Credentials:
Your sub-committee to whom was referred the Wisconsin case respectfully
report that after listening to statements made by counsel for John C. Spooner,
Joseph V. Quarles, Joseph W. Babcock and Emil Baensch before the Com-
mittee on Credentials, reviewing the printed arguments made by counsel for
Isaac Stephenson, Robert M. LaFollette, James H. stout and W. D. Connor and
the other papers filed in the case, find John C. Spooner, Joseph V. Quarles,
Joseph W. Babcock and Emil Baensch were the regularly elected delegates at
large for the State of Wisconsin and are entitled to seats in the Convention
as such.
WINFIELD T. DURBIN,
J. J. GARDNER,
E. C. BENTON.
Mr. L, E. McCoMAs, of Maryland. I move the adoption of the report of
the Committee on Credentials.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the motion of
the gentleman from Maryland that the report of the Committee on Creden-
tials be adopted.
The report was agreed to.
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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Roll of Delegates and Alternates.
The roll of delegates and alternates referred to in the report is as fol-
lows:
ALABAMA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Oscar R. Hundley Huntsville F. H. Lathrop Birmingham
Leander J. Bryan Montgomery Rivers Carter Birmingham
T. H. Aldrich Birmingham Henry F. Irwin Montgomery
A. N. Johnson Mobile S. S. H. Washington Montgomery
DISTRICTS.
1 James T. Peterson Mobile
G. B. Deans Mobile
2 Chas. H. Scott Montgomery
Nathan H. Alexander. .Montgomery
3 S. M. Murphy Eufaula
M. W. Garden (Alt.) Opelika
4_W. F. Aldrich Aldrich
W. A. Cook Nottingham
5 Joseph O. Thompson,
John W. Jones.
6 Daniel N. Cooper Birmingham
Pope M. Long Cordova
7 H. G. Ashley Asheville
Geo. L. Malone Fort Payne
8 H. V. Cashin Decatur
Wm. T. Hutchens Huntsville
9 James W. Hughes, Sr.,
J. W. Davidson,
G. H. Wilkerson Mobile
A. N. McEwen Mobile
W. S. Reese Montgomery
A. J. Collier Brundidge
A. C. Walters Eufaula
W. F. Tebbets Anniston
F. O. Dudley Clanton
Joseph C. Manning.
W. V. Chambliss,
J. D. Fowler Bankston
C. C. Beverly Greensboro
J. F. Sloan Cedarbluff
R. R. McClesky Boaz
J. H. McWilliams Athens
Seaborn E. York Athens
Joseph H. Montgomery.
N. L. Wilson.
ARKANSAS.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
H. L. Remmel Little Rock G. A. A. Deane Little Rock
Sid B. Redding Little Rock E. J. Mason Portia
Charles N. Rix Hot Springs J. B. Page Hot Springs
M. W. Gibbs... ..Little Rock A. M. Middlebrooks Pine Bluff
DISTRICTS.
1 T. O. Fitzpatrick Colt
Jacob Shaul Marianna
2 Chas. F. Cole Batesville
James W. Grubbs Newport
3 J. F. Henley Marshall
F. S. Baker Eureka Springs
4 E. A. Schicker Texarkana
Louis Friedman Fort Smith
6 Oscar Davis Little Rock
John W. White Russellville
6 Charles T. Duke Monticello
Ferd Havis Pine Bluff
7 A. A. Tufts Camden
W. E. Yaeger Beirne
Henry McPherson Paragould
C. B. Brown Marianna
J. E. Ford Mammoth Springs
E. C. Kinney Judsonia
E. F. Paine Yellville
A. M. Cole Winslow
George Legate Mena
J. A. Foster Harris
W. A. Singfield Little Rock
David G. Hill Little Rock
R. C. Thompson Pine Bluff
Henry Thane Arkansas City
Jeff Russell Hope
Morris Holmes Camden
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CALIFORNIA.
Delegates. AT LARGE. Alternates.
George C. Pardee Oakland E. A. Forbes Marysville
John D. Spreckels San Francisco Abraham Ruef San Francisco
J. W. McKinley Los A ngeles F. K. Rule Los Angeles
George A. Knight San Francisco W. R. Porter Watsonville
DISTRICTS.
1 John C. Bull, Jr Eureka D. D. Dodson Tehama
C. E. Clinch Nevada City F. P. Tuttle Auburn
2 Joseph Steffens Sacramento C. C. Donovan Santa Rosa
W. P. Hammon Oroville William Van Allen Ukiah
3 George W. Reed Oakland T. Olmstead Oakland
W. L. Crooks Benicia J. P. Stow Walnut Creek
4 M. A. Gunst San FYancisco D. D. Sullivan San Francisco
A. D. Porter San Francisco H. G. W. Dinkelspiel. . . .San Francisco
5 Mitchell Phillips San Jose C. B. Braslan San Jose
R. H. Countryman. . .San Francisco J. H. Soper San Francisco
6 Frank H. Short Fresno J. H. Fox Kings
J. G. Priestly Lockford A. W. Wyman Santa Cruz
7 Oscar Lawlor Los Angeles Willis Booth Los Angeles
J. H. Norton Los Angeles G. K. Woodword Los Angeles
8 D. F. Hunt Santa Barbara D. W. Hasson Buena Park
E. D. Roberts San Bernardino A. P. Johnson Riverside
COLORADO.
Delegates. AT LARGE. Alternates.
E. O. Wolcott Walhurst Daniel M. Sullivan Cripple Creek
James H. Peabody Canon City George L. Hodges Denver
Archie M. Stevenson Denver Mrs. O. E. Le Fevre Denver
Thomas F. Walsh Ouray Spencer Penrose Colorado Springs
N. Walter Dixon Pueblo Mrs. C. A. Eldridge. .Colorado Springs
Sylvester S. Downer Boulder William B. Gobin Rocky Ford
DISTRICTS.
1 John W. Springer Denver R. W. Wright, Jr Denver
W. B. Minor Fort Collins E. L. Smith Greeley
2 Charles F. Caswell. .Grand Junction James M. Downing Aspen
Clyde C. Dawson Canon City Percy S. Ryder Rico
CONNECTICUT.
Delegates. AT LARGE. Alternates.
Charles F. Brooker Ansonia Charles M. Jarvis Berlin
John T. Robinson Hartford John W. Atwood Plainfield
Francis T. Maxwell Rockville Charles A. Thompson Melrose
Frederick De Peyster Portland William H. Lyons Meriden
Frank B. Brandegee New London Fayette L. Wright Pomfret
Michael Kenealy Stamford James A. Doughty Torrington
DISTRICTS.
1 Charles C. Blssell Suffield Adgar F. Burndam Hartford
W. H. Hall Wellington Fred O. Vinton Mansfield
2 Charles S. Mellen New Haven William J. Leavens worth. .Wallingford
George L. Cheney .JEssex B. E. Harwood Chester
3 Edwin W. Higgins Norwich Angus Park Hanover
Edwin Milner Moosup George A. Hammond Putnam
4 George L. Rockwell Rideefield Matthew H. Rogers Bridgeport
Donald T. Warner Salisbury Charles M. Beach New Milford
86 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
DELAWARE.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
J. Edward Addicks. John E. Taylor.
J. Frank Allee. Geo. W. Marshall.
John Hunn. Walter O. Hoffecker.
Caleb R. Layton. Joseph H. Cahall.
Francis S. Bradley. Abram E. Frantz.
G. Layton Grier. John G. Townsend.
FLORIDA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
James N. Coombs Apalachicola William H. Lucas Jacksonville
Joseph E. Lee Jacksonville Edward Livingston Marianna
Henry S. Chubb Winter Park William H. Northup Pensacola
Mark S. White Pensacola William A. Fleming St. Augustine
DISTRICTS.
1 George W. Allen Key West M. G. Gibbons.
Henry W. Chandler Ocala George R. McFarlane Tampa
2 W. G. Robinson Gainesville John W. Howell Fernandina
Thomas S. Harris Live Oak J. C. Willie Green Cove Springs
3 Charles F. Buffum Apalachicola A. B. Osgood Madison
W. H. Northup Pensacola P. A. Davidson Pensacola
GEORGIA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
W. H. Johnson Atlanta N. H. Swayne Cedartown
J. W. Lyons Augusta A. Akerman Macon
H. S. Edwards Macon H. M. Porter Augusta
H. L. Johnson Atlanta B. J. Davis Dawson
DISTRICTS.
1 John H. Deveaux Savannah S. Schwarzweiss Waynesboro
Henry Blun, Jr Savannah W. H. Styles Thebes
2 J. C. Styles Dawson J. L. Reddick Shellman
C. G. Ward Hartsfleld E. B. Brown Tifton
3 S. S. Humbert Montezuma G. W. Humphrey Perry
F. P. Mitchell Americus S. H. Hulin Cordele
4 J. S. Garrett Columbus A. A. Douglas Talbotton
Payton A. Allen Newnan E. J. Hlnton Woodbury
5 E. F. Blodgett Atlanta W. E. Hyatt Douglasville
H. A. Rucker Atlanta Thomas Austin Jonesboro
6 R. L. Williams Griffin G. L. Braswell Clinton
P. S. Arnold Fayetteville J. A. Smith Forsythe
7 Charles Adamson Cedartown D. C. Cole Marietta
A. Maxwell Marietta J. F. Leigh Cedartown
8 M. B. Morton Athena J. E. Tate Elberton
J. E. Porche Washington George Cunningham Lexington
9 William H. C. Tate Dahlonega J. R. Smith Winder
A. J. Spence Nelson William Wilson Blueridge
10 A. W. Wimberly Augusta E. D. Smythe Augusta
B.C. May Sandersville C. A. Culpepper Warrenton
11 W. H. Mathews Brunswick W. C. Terrell Ocilla
S. S. Mincey Alley H. Brunner Fitzgerald
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IDAHO.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Weldon B. Heyburn Wallace A. A. Crane
Drew M. Standrod Pocatello
James M. Stevens Blackfoot
W. E. Borah Boise
C. J. Hall Grangeville
Frank R. Gooding Shoshone
Harrison
George C. Parkinson Preston
M. M. McPherson Salmon
B. L. Steeves Welser
Mrs. J. B. West Lewiston
William T. Riley Holley
ILLINOIS.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
S. M. Cullom Springfield W. A. Northcott Greenville
Albert J. Hopkins Aurora Asa C. Mathews Pittsfield
Joseph G. Cannon Danville Paul Morton Chicago
Richard Yates Springfield Samuel Insull Chicago
DISTRICTS.
1 Frank O. Lowden Chicago
Thos. J. Dixon Chicago
2 Wm. A. Coleman Chicago
D. A. Pierce Chicago
3 William H. Webber Blue Island
Edgar F. Olson Chicago
4 Thomas J. Finucane Chicago
M. G. Walsh Chicago
5 John C. Righiemer Chicago
John A. Cook Chicago
6 Fred M. Blount Chicago
William Lorimer Chicago
7 James Reddick Chicago
William E. Mason Chicago
8 Isidore H. Himes Chicago
Frederick Midgely Chicago
9 Graeme Stewart Chicago
John M. Smythe Chicago
10 James Pease Chicago
James A. Patten Evanston
11 Geo. W. Brown Wheaton
C. H. Smith Aurora
12 Walter Reeves Streator
Isaac L. Ellwood De Kalb
13
Edward E. Wilson Chicago
Frank X. Cloidt Chicago
John Hales Chicago
John S. Hair Chicago
George C. Flanner Chicago Heights
Alfred Anderson Chicago
David E. Shanahan Chicago
Peter J. Wendling Chicago
A. W. Miller Chicago
Jas. D. Banks Chicago
William H. Baker Chicago
W. H. Bennett Chicago
Henry J. Sievert Chicago
Frederick Lundin Chicago
Albert W. Lange Chicago
Adolph Herman Chicago
Charles Catlin Chicago
John C. Updegrove Chicago
Amos Pettibone Chicago
William F. Lipps Chicago
H. T. Rockwell St. Charles
W. E. Hall Harvard
Frank N. Enrietto.
Lars M. Noting.
14 Chas. H. Deere Moline
J. D. Diffenbaugh Monmouth
15 Theodore Becker Geneseo
L. A. Jarman Rushville
16
17 Chas. E. Perkins Lincoln
Isaac Hammers El Paso
18 Chas. C. Hitch Paris
Fenton W. Booth Marshall
Wm. M. Graham Aledo
T. C. Allen Oquawka
F. R. Jelliff Galesburg
G. L. Miller Canton
Arthur J. Scrogin Lexington
H. J. Clarke Pontiac
THIRTEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.
Delegates. Alternates.
Franc Bacon Oregon E. W. Montgomery Galena
A. G. Harris Dixon W. W. Gillespie Savanna
SIXTEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.
Delegates. Alternates.
C. A. Pervier Sheffield J.B.Thornton Magnolia
E. I,. Monscr Wenona Prank I,iggett Bradford
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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
ILLINOIS Continued.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT I,ARGE.
19 Vespasian Warner Clinton
Rowland J. Hamlin Shelbyville
20 Marion Stauff er Barry
E. E. Caldwell Havana
21 Theodore Koch Carlinville
H. N. Schuyler Hanna
22 Chas. W. Thomas Belleville
H. F. Reuter Nashville
23 Charles L. Wade Vandalia
Geo. L. Pittinger Centralia
24 Thos. W. Scott Fairfield
Asa Pixley West Salem
26 C. O. Patier Cairo
W. O. Potter... ..Marion
Wiley DeWeese Deland
W. J. Cochran Sullivan
Andrew Russell Jacksonville
Frank Rowden Fielden
John R. Challacombe Hillsboro
Chas. E. Selby Springfield
W. W. Lewis Greenville
Edward Schoening Columbia
George G. Gilbert Mt. Vernon
James B. Jack Robinson
Ross Graham Carmi
W. C. Thompson Golconda
George A. Bell Cobden
C. R. Davis Pinckneyville
Delegates.
INDIANA.
AT LARGE.
Alternates.
Chas. W. Fairbanks Indianapolis
Albert J. Beveridge Indianapolis
Winfleld T. Durbin Anderson
James P. Goodrich Winchester
Eph. Marsh Greenfield
Erastus P. McClure Marion
Howard Maxwell Rockville
J. L. C. McAdams Red Key
DISTRICTS.
1 John H. Osborne Evansville
Joseph Hudspeth Boonville
2 Joseph Voris Bedford
Harve E. Cushman Linton
3 Samuel H. Wulfman. .Huntingburg
Harry McCrain Corydon
4 Jacob M. Bauer Lawrenceburg
Otis W. Olcott Patriot
5 W. R. McKeen Terre Haute
H. C. Robinson Martinsville
6 John J. Wingate Shelbyvilla
Francis T. Roots Connersville
7 John B. Cockrum Indianapolis
William Kothe Indianapolis
8 S. E. Clark Elwood
L. C. Davenport Bluffton
9 George T. Dinwiddie Frankfort
William H. Marker Tipton
10 Finley C. Carson Michigan City
William C. Vanatta Fowler
11 Carey E. Cowgill Wabash
Hood Loveland Peru
12 Isaac Strauss Ligonier
John W. Orndorf Churubusco
13 D. C. Knott Plymouth
Elmer W. Smith Winamac
W. B. Anderson Velpen
George Walters Poseyville
Joseph H. Campbell Bloomington
Milton S. Hastings Washington
John W. Martin Scottsburg
John A. Lingle Peoli
Thomas Wood Franklin
Lewis Tracy Whiteland
William Dorsey Terre Haute
Benjamin F. Davis North Salem
Benjamin F. Koons New Castle
John C. Shirk Brooksville
Marshall Pugh Indianapolis
James E. Twiname Indianapolis
R. K. Allison Decatur
Ora Williamson Red Key
Rankin C. Walkup Crawfordsville
Chas. W. Pigman Delphi
Harry A. Strohm Kentland
Fremont Goodwine AVilliamsport
Edmund M. Wasmuth Roanoke
B. G. Shinn Hartford City
E. C. Rurode Fort Wayne
Norman T. Jackman Auburn
Chas. J. Danielson Knox
F. H. Wurzer ,.. South Bend
HON. R. B. SCHNEIDER, of Nebraska,
Treasurer of the Executive Committee.
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IOWA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
TV. B. Allison Dubuque D. H. Bowen Waukon
J. P. Dolliver Ft. Dodge C. W. Grim Estherville
A. B. Cummins Des Moines F. R. Crocker Chariton
J. W. Blythe Burlington F. W. Simmons Ottumwa
DISTRICTS.
1 M. W. Bailey Washington E. H. Skinner Keosanqua
C. A. Carpenter. .Columbus J'ction
2 G. W. French Davenport
George M. Curtis Clinton
3 E. S. Ellsworth Iowa Falls
O. M. Gillett Independence
4 A. H. Gale Mason City
Harry Green Decorah
5 J. W. Doxsee Monticello
E. E. Clark Cedar Rapids
6 H. L. Waterman Ottumwa
John A. De Muth Melrose
7 John H. Henderson Indianola
John I. Hostetter Colo
8 W. M. Peatman Centerville
H. F. Jaqua Bedford
9 George S. Wright Council Bluffs
W. S. Ellis Red Oak
10 M. Head Jefferson
E. K. Winne Humboldt
11 R. L. Cleaves Cherokee
A. Van der Meide Orange City
C. W. Payne Mt. Pleasant
G. M. Titus Muscatjne
M. A. Raney Marengo
Berton R. Sweet Waverly
I. L. Stuart Hampton
William Smythe Rockford
J. A. Kepler North Wood
S. S. Sweet Belle Plaine
E. G. Penrose Tama
John T. Brooks Hedrick
Ham W. Robinson Colfax
J. H. Wintrode Winterset
T. J. Caldwell Adel
C. T. Hardinger Osceola
J. D. Brown Leon
M. McDonald Guthrie Center
L. F. Potter Harlan
A. J. Cole Britt
S. L. Moore Boone
R. Lipton Ida Grove
J. W. Crum ...Sheldon
Delegates.
KANSAS.
Alternates.
AT LARGE.
M. A. Low Topeka
Joseph H. Richards Ft. Scott
W. S. Fitzpatrick Sedan
Hiram B. Miller Osage City
William H. Mitchell Beloit
Fred D. Smith Kinsley
Albert Sarbach Holton
Richard W. Blue Columbus
B. J. Britton Piedmont
Harry E. Richter Council Grove
William Mackey, Jr Junction City
Carr W. Taylor Hutchinson
DISTRICTS.
1 W. T. F. Donald Atchison
J. W. Fleming Soldier
2 Samuel J. Stewart Humbolt
Frank R. Ogg Olathe
3 George D. Boon Chetopa
Thomas Scurr, Jr Coffeyville
4 J. W. Johnson Hamilton
William Martindale Emporia
5 S. H. Hamilton Clifton
B. Rockwell Junction City
6 Charles E. Hall Russell
Elmer E. Ames Norton
7 W. J. Fitzgerald Dodge City
O. Z. Smith.., ..Wichita
W. E. McCandless Horton
D. A. Hook Leavenworth
John Francis.
Joe Eddy.
William H. Kramer Neodesha
W. A. Elstun Moline
J. B. Carlisle.
H. J. Floersch.
Gomer Davies Concordia
L. B. McChesney Clay Center
G. W. Cross Ellis
N. A. Turner Colby
A. C. Jordan Lyons
Thomas Jackson ..Newton
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KENTUCKY.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
William O. Bradley Louisville John P. Haswell, Jr Hardinsburg
George W. Long Leitchfield Henry L. Howard Harlan
Richard P. Ernst Covington James M. DeWeese Hartford
Edward E. Underwood Frankfort W. H. Parker Beattyville
DISTRICTS.
1 Phillip H. Darby Princeton R. R. Morgan Princeton
J. C. Speight Mayfield
2 James Breathitt Hopkinsville
Elijah G. Sebree Henderson
3 T. J. Sparks Central City
Walter Wilkins Elkton
4 John W. Lewis Springfield
H. F. Troutman Shepardsville
5 Augustus E. Wilson Louisville
Henry L. Stone Louisville
6 William H. Dyer Newport
Henry Scheurman Carrollton
7 Leslie Combs Lexington
W. L. Cannon Midway
8 Brutus J. Clay Richmond
George W. Welsh Danville
9 Charles F. Weaver Ashland
W. G. Dearing Flemingsburg
10 H. Green Garrett Winchester
John M. Bowling Pikesville
11 James Denton Somerset
J. G. Forrester Harlan
D. L. Redden Murray
J. M. Peters Owensboro
Wilbur Cromwell Morganfield
Earl Huntsman Scottsville
J. T. Doores Bowling Green
John W. Downard West Point
W. T. Hawkins Lebanon
B. Bernheim '. Louisville
J. Wheeler McGee .....Louisville
M. C. Ridgeway Falmouth
R. H. Lucky Williamstown
Thomas J. Hardin Monterey
Miles J. Williams Eminence
G. M. Ballard Mt. Vernon
Frank P. James Harrodsburg
John D. Little John Graysoii
H. C. Metcalfe Brooksville
John H. Hardwick Stanton
James P. Adams Slayersville
R. W. Cole Barbourville
W. T. Davis.., ...Pineville
Delegates.
Walter L. Cohen.
Emile Kuntz.
Girrault Farrar.
H. B. N. Brown.
Pearl Wight.
H. C. Wannouth.
W. J. Behan.
L. F. Suthon.
1 Joseph Fabacher.
J. Madison Vance.
Hugh S. Suthon.
Felix Berhel.
2 H. W. Robinson.
M. G. Bobe.
Charles W. Godchaux.
W. J. Waguespack.
3 J. M. Haggerty.
A. J. Jones.
F. B. Williams.
Jules Godchaux.
LOUISIANA.
Alternates.
AT LARGE.
ONE-HALF VOTE EACH.
James E. Porter.
P. H. Segura,
D. A. Lines.
John Marks.
J. W. Porch.
S. A. Knapp.
Andrew Hero.
Gus Lehmann.
DISTRICTS.
ONE-HALF VOTE EACH.
C. W. Boothby.
I. G. Wynn.
A. B. Kennedy.
F. R. Tenneret.
A. C. Fowler.
E. F. R. Augustus.
E. J. Thllborger.
W. P. Luck.
Mayer Cahen.
John Tregle.
Jules Dreyfus.
Honore Dugas.
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LOUISIANA Continued.
Delegates, DISTRICTS. Alternates.
ONE-HALF VOTE EACH.
4 A. H. Leonard. J. W. Walker.
S. P. Brown. J. B. Green.
B. F. Oneal. S. Herold.
C. J. Green. W. J. Tatum.
5 J. W. Cook. George W. Stewart.
S. W. Green. John W. Robinson.
W. T. Insley. Henry E. Hardtner.
H. B. Taliaferro. Leopold Elgutter.
6 L. J. Souer. George J. Duffy.
B. V. Baranco. John Brown.
H. W. Robinson. George J. Reiley.
F. J. Webb. J. B. Churchill.
7 C. C. Duson. J. S. Thomas.
J. A. Spencer. Henry Erlich.
G. L. Lasalle. Joseph A. Block.
W. R. Wright. H. Dupuy.
MAINE.
Delegates. AT LARGE. Alternates.
F. E. Boothby Portland Wm. Dobson Pittsfield
Edwin Riley Livermore E. J. Mayo Foxcroft
John F. Hill Augusta Henry H. Chamberlain Bristol
F. M. Simpson Bangor Richard Webb Portland
DISTRICTS.
1 Ernest M. Goodall Sanford Henry P. Cox Portland
Woodbury K. Dana Westbrook James O. Bradbury Saco
2 Sanford L. Fogg Bath A. G. Staples Auburn
Harry B. Austin Phillips A. H. Shaw Bath
3 A. G. Blunt Skowhegan Byron Boyd Augusta
Elmer P. Spofford Deer Isle Wm. H. Davis Bar Harbor
4 V. L. Coffin Harrington N. M. Jones Bangor
Albert A. Burleigh Houlton H. W. Blanchard Eastport
MARYLAND.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
L. E. McComas Hagerstown Gist Blair Silver Spring
Stevenson A. Williams Bel Air William B. Baker Aberdeen
William H. Jackson Salisbury James H. Baker Pamona
Felix Angus Baltimore Martin M. Mulhall Baltimore
DISTRICTS.
1 Henry M. McCullough Elkton William J. Vannort.
Phillips L. Goldsborough. Cambridge William A. Day.
2 Jas. E. Ingraham, Jr Pikesville Thomas V. Richardson Phoenix
Chas. C. Gorsuch Westminster E. E. Reindollar Westminster
3 D. W. Jones. Caleb F. Bond.
William S. Booze. John Kronmiller.
4 William H. Green. William T. Conn.
Harry S. Cummings. Alexander Williams.
5 Albert A. Blakeney Savage Richard N. Ryan Upper Marlboro
Thos. Parran Annapolis C. B. Henken Annapolis
6 Thos. C. Noyes Tacoma Park W. M. Nihiser.
Reno S. Harp Frederick John R. Rouzer.
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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
MASSACHUSETTS.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
H. C. Lodge Nahant
W. Murray Crane Dalton
John D. Long Hingham
Everett C. Benton Boston
Graf ton D. Gushing Boston
Arthur B. Daniels Adams
Frank B. Stevens Newton
Walter B. Hopkinson. . . .Newberryport
DISTRICTS.
1 James W. Toole Holyoke
William A. Gallup ... North Adams
2 A. H. Goetting Springfield
Henry P. Field Northampton
3 Charles G. Washburn Worcester
Samuel E. Hull Millbury
4 L. Dewart Apsley Hudson
George R. Wallace Fitchburg
5 Frank E. Dunbar Lowell
Geo. E. Kunhardt. .North Andover
6 John L. Hobson Haverhill
James F. Shaw Manchester
7 William Shepherd Lynn
Edward C. Mead Everett
8 Hans L. Carstein Cambridge
William B. Lawrence Medford
9 John Marno Boston
A. G. Ratshesky Boston
10 Robert G. Proctor Quincy
Harrison H. Atwood Boston
11 William W. Davis Boston
James N. Thompson Boston
12 William M. Flanders Newton
Leslie C. Wead Brookline
13 David L. Parker New Bedford
Robert T. Davis Fall River
14 David G. Pratt Middleborough
Sidney O. Bigney Attleboro
John H. C. Church. .Great Barrington
Clifton L. Field Greenfield
"Wilson H. Fairbank Warren
John W. Wheeler Orange
John P. Munroe Worcester
Joseph G. E. Page Southbridge
Elisha M. Whitney Winchendon
Wellington E. Parkhurst Clinton
Charles H. Nowell Reading
Walter E. Parker Lawrence
Walter H. Trumbull Salem
James E. Tolman Gloucester
Frank A. Bayrd Maiden
Joseph T. Wilson Nahant
Jacob Bitzer Arlington
Fred. L. Ripley Winchester
John R. Neal Winthrop
Edward B. Newton Winthrop
William L. Terhune Boston
Frederick W. Bliss Boston
Jacob H. Mock Boston
George W. Phipps Boston
Cornelius R. Day Blackstone
Albert Totten North Attleboro
William A. Andrew Marion
Herbert A. Dean Berkeley
John S. Kent Brockton
Robert A. Hammond.. ...Sandwich
MICHIGAN.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Dexter M. Ferry Detroit James O. Murfin Detroit
Thomas J. O'Brien Grand Rapids E. T. Rowley Bay City
Ralph Loveland Saginaw D. B. K. Van Raalte Holland
Thomas Walters Ishpeming Whitney Watkins Jackson
DISTRICTS.
1 Allen H. Frazer Detroit
E. W. Haas Detroit
2 Charles Lewis Jackson
George D. Jones Wyandotte
3 L. M. Wing Coldwater
F. A. Roethlisberger Hillsdale
4 Charles E. Sweet Dowagiac
A. O. Duncombe Paw Paw
Charles F. Bielman.
Paul F. Bagley.
R. L. Warren.
E. C. Dienzer.
S. S. French
Otto Ihling
R. T. French.
Charles Davidson.
.Battle Creek
. .Kalamazoo
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MICHIGAN Continued.
Delegates. Alternates.
DISTRICTS.
5 William Judson Grand Rapids
H. F. Harbeck Grand Haven
6 F. P. Sayre Flushing
W. C. Huntington Howell
7 William B. Williams Lapeer
Dwight N. Lowell Macomb
8 Coleman C. Vaughn St. Johns
Alonzo B. Markham Caro
9 Thomas Monroe Muskegon
Calvin A. Palmer Manistee
10 Lemeul G. Defoe Alpena
William Reardon Midland
11 Theodore Schmidt Reed City
Andrew B. Dougherty. .Elk Rapids
12 John H. MacLean Ironwood
John W. Wells Menominee
F. P. Hicks Lowell
Brenton F. Hall Belding
O. C. Trask Williamston
Alfred Rice Dearborn
William Dawson Sanilac
John Maywood Huron
Charles T. Reynick.
George T. Campbell.
Gardner T. Sands Pentwater
Frank P. Dunwell Ludington
A. L. Deuel Harbor Springs
Benjamin Bennett West Branch
David Holmes Lake City
J. H. Gibbs Edmore
William J. Galbraith Calumet
Thomas B. White Escanaba
MINNESOTA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Knute Nelson Alexandria E. J. Herringer Ada
Moses E. Clapp St. Paul Frank T. White Elk River
S. R. Van Sant St. Paul A. R. McGill St. Paul
Thomas Lowry Minneapolis T. W. Hugo Duluth
DISTRICTS.
1 E. B. Collester Waseca
John M. Rowley Rochester
2 Gustav F. Widell Mankato
H. C. Grass Slayton
3 W. W. Sivright Hutchinson
J. A. Gates Kenyon
4 F. B. Kellogg St. Paul
E. G. Rogers St. Paul
5 W. W. Heffelfinger Minneapolis
C. A. Smith Minneapolis
6 Frank C. Rice Park Rapids
C. H. Marsh Litchfleld
7 V. B. Seaward Marshall
L. O. Thorpe Willmer
8 Joseph B. Cotton Duluth
Charles P. DeLaittre Aitkin
9 A. D. Stephens Crookston
Amos Marckel Perham
A. S. Campbell Austin
S. A. Langum Preston
E. T. Smith Lakefield
F. L. Humiston Worthington
G. A. McKensie Gaylord
Wm. Hodgson Hastings
P. H. Stolberg Paris
Frank J. Lake Stillwater
Stewart Gamble Minneapolis
T. E. Burns Minneapolis
S. L. Frazier Verndale
George Hanscom Foley
H. Thorson Elbow Lake
C. H. Colyer Wheaton
J. E. Lynds Cloquet
W. R. Gillis Anoka
N. M. Watson Red Lake Falls
Geo. E. Perley Moorehead
MISSISSIPPI.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
L. B. Moseley Jackson E. P. Jones Vicksburg
F.W.Collins Summit B. F. Lacey Shilo
Wesley Crayton Vicksburg W. F. Elgin Corinth
G. C. Cranberry Raymond J. C. Hill Meridian
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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
MISSISSIPPI Continued.
Delegates. Alternates.
DISTRICTS.
1 J. T. Wood Columbus F. H. Powers...
M. A. Blanchard Muldrow
2 S. M. Howry Oxford
E. H. McKissick Holly Springs
3 R. A. Simmons. "I
Charles Banks. i One-half vote
Lewis Waldauer. ea.cb.
D. W. Gary.
4 J. W. Bell Pontotoc
C. A. Buchanan West Point
5 W. J. Price Meridian
J. W. Holmes Meridian
6 W. A. Collins. Hattiesburg
L. J. Piernas Bay St. Louis
7 W. O. Ligon Gloster
Thomas Richardson Port Gibson
8 W. E. Mollison Vicksburg
J. B. Tellowly Ridgeland
One-half vote each.
Starkville
D. W. Sherrod Macon
J. O. Askew Sardis
J. W. Avant Oxford
L. T. Marcus. "|
R. L. Flagg.
N. L. Lackey.
G. A. Lee. J
W. H. Jernagin Jackson
Dudley Johnson Carrollton
J. W. Smith Meridian
T. J. Wilson Meridian
J. C. Tyler Biloxi
E. D. Howell Hattiesburg
J. M. Tyler Bogue Chitto
James S. McCusker Macomb
E. W. Jones Jackson
E. W. Barnes Canton
MISSOURI.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
L. F. Parker St. Louis J. C. Moore Arbella
Robert C. Day St. Louis Walter F. Farmer St. Louis
W. C. Pierce Marysville A. L. Thomas California
C. W. Clarke Kansas City Nelson Crews Kansas City
DISTRICTS.
1 Lee T. Robison Unionville
Ed. S. Brown Edina
2 Ed. F. Daly Chillicothe
Forrest G. Ferris Moberly
3 Boyd Dudley Gallatin
B. P. Seigler Bethany
4 E. M. Birkes St. Joseph
Ed. F. Smith Savannah
5 Joseph H. Harris Kansas City
Wallace Love Kansas City
6 J. R. Hales Rich Hill
O. L. Houts Warrensburg
7 D. A. Murphy Humansville
S. P. Houston Malta Bend
8 Sid C. Roach.
Alfred G. Baker.
9 Taylor Frier Louisiana
A. Kramolowskl Union
10 Louis P. Aloe St. Louis
Fred Essen Clayton
11 Charles H. Witthoeff t . . . . St. Louis
Thomas K. Neidringhaus.St. Louis
12 George C. R. Wagoner.
A. L. Shapleigh.
John S. Newlan Lewistown
J. S. Baker Lancaster
G. D. Vlles Norborne
W. E. Flanders Paris
J. L. Tilton Grant City
Fred W. Coon Princeton
George R. Jones Phelps City
W. T. Clements.
Joseph Fontron Kansas City
W. H. Waggoner Independence
Charles Boisseau Greenfield
C. W. Hight Harrisonville
C. S. Blackmar New Franklin
W. H. Carter Sedalia
Walter Harris.
George G. Sullivan.
Theodore Heege Clayton
Fred H. Smith St. Louis
Hy. Pins, Jr St. Louis
E. W. Moeller St. Louis
W. H. Ludwig.
Clarence T. Case.
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MISSOURI Continued.
Delegates. Alternates.
DISTRICTS.
13 V. V. Ing Greenville Leo Yount Frederickstown
John H. Reppey Hillsboro R. W. Gay Ironton
14 H. A. Smith West Plains C. G. Shepard Caruthersville
H. D. Williams Poplar Bluff G. W. Peck ,. Maiden
15 W. J. Sewall Carthage G. W. Smith South West City
J. W. Coleman Marionville C. W. Curtis Neosho
16 Ben F. Russell Steeleville William H. Lynch Salem
James T. Moore Lebanon Charles H. Covert Houston
MONTANA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Joseph M. Dixon Missoula Nelson Story, Jr.
Lee Mantle. W. F. Meyer.
James W. Freeman. Charles M. Pray.
Thomas H. Carter. W. J. Brennen.
Conrad Kohrs. W. P. Baker.
J. E. Edwards. B. E. Calkins.
NEBRASKA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
John F. Piper Lyons Shelby Hastings.
Harry C. Brome Omaha I. M. Raymond.
E. F. Leflang Lexington C.E.Adams.
C. B. Dempster Beatrice E. K. Valentine.
DISTRICTS.
1 Frank Helvey Nebraska Jesse L. Root.
W. J. CrandaU Firth Chas. H. Halstedt.
2 G. W. Wattles Omaha S. K. Spaulding.
Herman Aye Blair E. A. Benson.
3 Frank Williams Albion Homer Hansen Columbus
Frank Nelson Niobrara William P. Warner Dakota City
4 F. I. Foss Crete William Cook.
Harry M. Childs York O. P. Baker.
5 Alexander Campbell McCook R. L. Keester Alma
Adam Breede Hastings N. C. Rogers Minden
6 W. P. Miles Sidney Harvel J. Ellis Alliance
E. C. Harris Chadron Thomas Wright Ansley
NEVADA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
P. L. Flannigan. L. J. Cohn Reno
E. S. Farington. O. J. Smith Reno
S. L. Lee. H. A. Springmeyer Gardnerville
Barney Reymers. M. L. Roeder Hawthorn
P. R. McNamee. H. B. Maxson Reno
R. S. Meacham. H. Burrell . . .Elko
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NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Jacob H. Gallinger : Concord James M. Lavin Berlin
Henry E. Burnham Manchester Eugene Quirin Manchester
Sumner Wallace Rochester Lycurgus Pitman Conway
Daniel C. Remich Littleton Seth M. Richards Newport
DISTRICTS.
1 Edwin C. Bean Belmont William R. Clough Alton
Rosecrans W. Pillsbury Derry Thomas H. Dearborn Dover
2 Bertram. Ellis Keene Lester F. Thurber Nashua
Winston Churchill Cornish Charles H. Long Claremont
NEW JERSEY.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Franklin Murphy Newark Samuel D. Dickinson Hoboken
John Kean Elizabeth Wood McKee Paterson
John F. Dryden Newark C. E. Breckenridge Maywood
David Baird Camden Griffith W. Lewis.
DISTRICTS.
1 J. A. Van Sant Camden Frank B. Ridgeway Woodbury
William Plummer, Jr. Wm. H. Chew Salem
2 John J. Gardner Egg Harbor L. N. Cresse Ocean City
Bloomfield H. Minch Millville Howard Burr Pemberton
3 Andrew Church. S. S. Taylor Lakewood
Edmund Wilson Red Bank B. S. Crosby Tuckerton
4 James B. Duke. John A. Shields Flemington
C. Edward Murray. Harry A. Garfield Princeton
5 James H. McGraw Madison Alex. Gilbert Plainfleld
A. Blair Kelsey. Frank H. Davis Elizabeth
6 William M. Johnson. . .Hackensack Peter Quackenbush Paterson
William Barbour Paterson Jas. P. T. Tonking. .Franklin Furnace
7 Henry M. Doremus Newark Benj. Graham Montclair
Thomas D. Webb Orange John B. Wood Newark
8 Leslie D. Ward Newark H. C. H. Herold Newark
Ira D. Kipp South Orange Chas. Starr East Orange
9 W. G. Nelson Jersey City T. M. Tenbroeck Bayonne
William J. Davis Harrison Fred'k Dieffenbach Jersey City
10 Aaron F. Baldwin Hoboken Herman Walker Guttenburg
Mark Fagan Jersey City Philip J. Dandt Jersey City
NEW YORK.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Thomas C. Platt Owego Jacob S. Fassett Elmira
Chauncey M. Depew. . . .New York City Louis Stern New York City
Benjamin B. Odell, Jr Newburgh Erastus C. Knight Buffalo
Frank S. Black Troy Henry C. Brewster Rochester
DISTRICTS.
1 John J. Bartlett Greenport George M. Vail Riverhead
Fred P. Morris Flushing Henry Willetts Jamaica
2 Philip T. Williams Brooklyn Wm. E. F. Behrens Brooklyn
George A. Owens Brooklyn George H. Nason Brooklyn
HON. HARRY S. NEW, of Indiana,
Member of the Executive Committee.
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NEW YORK Continued.
Delegates. Alternates.
DISTRICTS.
3_Alfred T. Hobley Brooklyn
John Wirth Brooklyn
4 John K. Neal Brooklyn
Wm. C. Rosenkranz Brooklyn
5 Robert A. Sharkey Brooklyn
Fred'k J. H. Kracke Brooklyn
6 Timothy L. Woodruff Brooklyn
William Berri Brooklyn
7 Michael J. Dady Brooklyn
Jacob Brenner Brooklyn
8 James G. Timolat..New York City
William -Halpin New York City
9 Charles H. Murray. New York City
Edward Lauterbach New York City
10 Thos. Rothmann. Sr.Xew York City
Thos. L. Hamilton New York City
11 John P. Windolph..New York City
Charles B. Page New York City
12 C. N. Bliss New York City
F. Norton Goddard.New York City
13 Elihu Root New York City
Nicholas Murray Butler. N. Y. City
14 Ambrose O. Neal.. New York City
John W. Bennett. Long Island City
15 Lemuel E. Quigg...New York City
Alexander T. Mason N. Y. City
16 Nathaniel A. Elsberg..N. Y. City
William N. Cohen.. New York City
17 Julius M. Mayer... New York City
William M. K. Olcott N. Y. City
18 William H. Ten Eyck..N. Y. City
Edward H. Healy..New York City
19 Wm. L. Ward Port Chester
Wm. Archer Mt. Vernon
20 John P. Roosa Monticello
Edward H. Harriman Arden
21 Louis F. Payn Chatham
John R. Yale Brewster
22 C. V. Collins Troy
James S. Parker Salem
23 Wm. Barnes, Jr Albany
John N. Parker Schenectady
24 George I. Wilber Oneonta
G. D. B. Hasbrouck Kingston
25 E. T. Brackett. ..Saratoga Springs
L. N. Littauer Gloversville
26 George R. Malby Ogdensburg
H. Wallace Knapp Mooers
27 Wm. E. Lewis Utica
J. J. Gilbert Little Falls
28 Patrick W. Cullinan Oswego
Elon R. Brown.., . .Watertown
Wm. H. Caldwell Brooklyn
Isaac Meseritz Brooklyn
George Wolf Brooklyn
Jacob D. Remsen Brooklyn
Richard M. Bennett Brooklyn
John J. Barrett Brooklyn
Alexander Robb Brooklyn
John F. Geis Brooklyn
D. H. Ralston Brooklyn
Wm. J. Seattle Brooklyn
Michael Hines New York City
Louis J. Hoenninger...New York City
Otto A. Rosalsky New York City
Jacob A. Newstead. . . .New York City
Fred L. Marshall New York City
Max Hahn New York City
Joseph T. Hackett New York City
George W. Wanmaker. .New York City
Jacob Kahn New York City
Harry E. Bedell New York City
George B. Agnew New York City
James Stewart New York City
Jastrow Alexander New York City
William H. Williams, Jr....N. Y. City
John Reisenweber New York City
William J. Rogers, Jr. . . New York City
Isaac Newman New York City
Seabury C. Mastick New York City
James Y. Watkins New York City
Ernest F. Eilert New York City
Thomas W. Whittle New York City
George T. Adee New York City
John E. Andrus Yonkers
John J. Brown White Plains
John D. Wilson Newburgh
Arthur S. Tompkins Nyack
George M. Hine Poughkeepsie
Samuel K. Phillips Matteawan
Alba M. Ide Troy
John B. Davis Granvil'e
Henry M. Sage Albany
Thomas W. Winne Niskayuna
E. Reed Ford Oneonta
Martin Cauline Kingston
Jacob Snell Fonda
L. W. Emerson Warrensburg
Royal Newton Parishville
Ben. L. Orcutt Dickinson
Van R. Weaver Utica
Chas. J. Palmer Little Falls
James A. Outterson Carthage
John S. Koster Port Leyden
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NEW YORK Continued.
Delegates. Alternates.
DISTRICTS.
29 Francis Hendricks Syracuse
Henry B. Coman Morrisville
30 John W. Dwight Dryden
George W. Dunn Binghamton
31 S. E. Payne Auburn
John Raines Canandaigua
32 George W. Aldridge Rochester
James Breck Perkins. .. .Rochester
33 J. Sloat Fassett Elmira
Arthur E. Valois Valois
34 James W. Wadsworth Geneseo
Fred C. Stevens.
35 John Grimms, Jr Buffalo
Charles Mosier Buffalo
36 William C. Warren Buffalo
Clark H. Timerman Buffalo
37 S. Fred Nixon Westfield
N. V. V. Franchot.. ... Clean
O. W. Burhyte Brookfield
Howard Newton Norwich
Wm. A. Smyth Owego
Jean L. Burnett Canandaigua
Morris F. Sheppard Penn Yan
James L. Hotchkiss Rochester
Selden S. Brown Rochester
Wm. H. Pranger Hornellsville
Wm. H. Nichols Bath
Francis T. Miller.
Stanislaus P. Franchot.
Charles F. Susdorf Buffalo
Nicholas J. Mock Buffalo
John G. Wallenmeier Tonawanda
Horace F. Hunt Hamburg
Julius Lincoln Jamestown
Frank Utter Friendship
NORTH CAROLINA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Thomas S. Rollins Ashevllle Mark W. Brown Asheville
E. Spencer Blackburn Raleigh Robert H. McNeill Jefferson
B. F. Mebane Shray Claudius Dockery Raleigh
E. C. Duncan Raleigh Louis N. Grant Goldsboro
DISTRICTS.
1 Harry Skinner Greenville
I M. Meekins Elizabeth City
2 H. P. Cheatham.
S. H. Vick Wilson
3 W. S. O'B. Robinson Goldsboro
George E. Butler Clinton
4 Thomas T. Hicks Henderson
C. T. Bailey Raleigh
6 W. T. O'Brien Durham
R. D. Douglas Breensboro
6 A. H. Slocomb Fayettevllle
W. M. King.
7 D. M. Kimbrough Mocksville
John P. Cameron Rockingham
8 Clint Wagoner Slatesville
C. H. Cowles Wilkesboro
9 J. Y. Hamrick Shelby
C. B. Mashburn Marshall
. 8. Lusk Asheville
Thomas Settle Asheville
I. Q. A. Wood Elizabeth City
T. G. Stilley Washington
S. G. Newsome.
M. F. Thornton.
C. B. Hill Newbern
Charles C. Vann.
J. A. Giles Pittsboro
J. J. Reynolds.
R. J. Petree.
C. D. Turner Hillsboro
Fred Rice Wilmington
J. B. Holland Dunn
A. M. Clarke Southern Pines
W. S. Bouges.
Geo. L. Patterson Concord
W. S. Miller Jefferson
T. F. Roland Burnsville
J. J. George Cherryville
James J. Britt Asheville
James A. Logan Asheville
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Delegates.
NORTH DAKOTA.
Alternates.
AT LARGE.
H. C. Hansbrough Devils' Lake
P. J. McCumber Wahpeton
Alexander McKenzie Bismarck
H. M. Wheeler Grand Forks
L. B. Hanna Fargo
H. Peoples New Rockford
B. Prom Milton
V. B. Noble Bottineau
J. S. Metcalf Lakota
C. F. Wagner Rolla
Alvin Schmidt Hillsboro
Andrew Sandager Lisbon
A. H. Gray Valley City
S. M. Ferris Medora
J. F. Mager Pembina
P. P. Lee... ..Minot
OHIO.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Myron T. Herrick Cleveland Chas. H. Grosvenor Athens
George B. Cox Cincinnati Warren G. Harding Marion
Charles Dick Akron John B. Clingerman Springfield
Joseph B. Foraker Cincinnati H. T. Eubanks Cleveland
DISTRICTS.
1 August Herrman Cincinnati
Julius Fleischmann Cincinnati
2 Louis Schwab Cincinnati
Henry W. Hamman Cincinnati
3 J. E. Lowes Dayton
Isaac Hale Middletown
4 E. O. Harrison Greenville
W. L. Russell Lima
5 William Kirtley, Jr Defiance
N. E. Ma thews Ottawa
6 Geo. W. McMurchy.New Richmond
Frank M. Couden Morrow
7 H. M. Daugherty Washington C. H.
Chas. H. May Circleville
8 W. R. Warnock Urbana
Arthur H. Jones Delaware
9 George P. Waldorf Toledo
M. L. Case Bowling Green
10 S. L. Patterson Waverly
H. A. Marting Ironton
11 A. I. Vorys Lancaster
J. P. Bradbury Pomeroy
12 E. O. Randall Columbus
Chas. B. Burr Columbus
13 J. C. F. Hull Bucyrus
Robert Carey Upper Sandusky
14 J. F. Laning Norwalk
John G. Russell Mt. Gilead
15 W. D. Guilbert Caldwell
James Joyce Cambridge
16 Henry Gregg Steubenville
D. O. Rutan Carrollton
17 M. L. Smyser Wooster
S. M. Snyder Coshocton
R. K. Hynicka Cincinnati
Louis Kruckemeyer Cincinnati
Peter W. Durr Cincinnati
Christian Bardes Cincinnati
W. B. Marsh.
James L. Sayler.
David Oldham Sidney
Julius Boesel New Bremen
J. D. Hill Montpelier
W. C. Lawrence Van Wert
H. M. Brown Hillsboro
Walter Ramley Mt. Orab
M. L. Williams Springfield
J. W. Means.. 1 Troy
Howard D. Manington Urbana
H. W. Jewell Delaware
Chas. L. Allen Fayette
Ellsworth Dolph.
Ira A. Sternberger Jackson
C. W. Henkin Gallipolis
Edward D. Ricketts Laurelville
John Ozier McArthur
Frank R. Shinn Columbus
James Miller Marble Cliff
Henry Graef e Sandusky
J. D. Bemis Fremont
A. B. Beaverstock Mansfield
Prof. Andrews Ashland
N. H. Barber Cambridge
Chas. S. Dana Marietta
G. A. Colpritts Barnesville
J. F. McMath.
H. B. Bertolette Shreve
J. J. Rose Coshocton
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OHIO Continued.
Delegates. Alternates.
DISTRICTS.
18 J. W. McClymonds Massillon W. C. Watson East Liverpool
J. S. McNutt Salem John Stanbaugh Toungstown
19 H. T. Sheldon Windham W. I. Metcalf Chardon
L. E. Sisler Akron C. M. Wilkins Warren
20 J. B. Zerbe Euclid D. C. True Lakewood
A. T. Spitzer Medina George Steele Painesville
21 Theo. E. Burton Cleveland Louis Smithnight Cleveland
E. Bayard Cleveland Joseph Carabelli Cleveland
OREGON.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Chas. H. Carey Portland H. W. Coe Portland
H. W. Scott Portland Geo. F. Heusner Portland
W. B. Ayer Portland Sig Sichel Portland
Ira B. Smith Vale H. W. Goode Portland
DISTRICTS.
1 N.C.Richards Sumpter E. F. Riley Portland
J. M. Keene Medford Leslie Scott Portland
2 J. U. Campbell Oregon City W. E. Thomas Portland
S. J. Kline Corvallis C. W. Hodson Portland
PENNSYLVANIA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Samuel W. Pennypacker. . .Harrisburg O. S. Hershman Pittsburg
James Elverson Philadelphia D. H. Thomas Hokendauqua
Francis L. Robbins Pittsburg Jesse L. Hartman Hollidaysburg
O. D. Bleakley Franklin Samuel B. Dick Meadville
DISTRICTS.
1 Israel W. Durham Philadelphia George A. Vare Philadelphia
Henry H. Bingham. . .Philadelphia Wm. J. Milligan Philadelphia
2 Boise Penrose Philadelphia James L. Miles Philadelphia
David H. Lane Philadelphia John K. Myers Philadelphia
3 John C. Bell Philadelphia Joseph H. Klemmer Philadelphia
David Martin Philadelphia Samuel G. Maloney Philadelphia
4 John Weaver Philadelphia George Steer, Jr Philadelphia
A. Lincoln Acker Philadelphia Peter E. Smith Philadelphia
5 John M. Mack Torresdale Peter E. Costello Philadelphia
Horatio B. Hackett. . .Philadelphia John B. Lukens Philadelphia
6 A. S. L. Shields Philadelphia E. W. Paton Philadelphia
Frank Caven Philadelphia Joseph M. Adams Philadelphia
7 Wm. L. Mathues Media Fred T. Chandler Lansdowne
P. J. Lynch West Grove Richard Darlington West Chester
8 Jonas S. Harley Quakertown John T. Fish Fallsington
J. Elwood Lee Conshohocken Israel H. Supplee Bryn Mawr
9 J. Gust Zook Lancaster J. F. Mentzer Ephrata
W. W. Grlest Lancaster H. 8. Stauffer Columbia
10 Reese A. Phillips Scranton John F. Reynolds Carbondale
W. L. Connell Scranton Frank Hummler Scranton
11 H. W. Palmer Wilkesbarre W. S. Tompkins West Pittston
A. C. Leisenring Upper Lehigh L. N. Hammerling Wilkesbarre
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PENNSYLVANIA Continued.
Delegates. Alternates.
DISTRICTS.
12 George R. Patterson Ashland
Heister S. Albright Orwigsburg
13 A. M. High Reading
Harry C. Trexler Allentown
14 E. B. Hardenbergh Honesdale
C. F. Wright Susquehanna
15 A. C. Hopkins Lockhaven
Robert K. Young Wellsboro
16 E. E. White Mt. Carmel
James Foster Danville
17 David McClay Chambersburg
Horace E. Shelby.. New Bloomfield
18 Chas. H. Mullin.Mt. Holly Springs
G. Dawson Coleman Lebanon
19 A. G. Morris Tyrone
Thos. Edward Murphy. .Johnstown
20 James A. Dale York
Solomon D. Mehring. . Llttlestown
21 Americus H. Woodward .. Clearfield
Wilbur F. Reeder Bellefonte
22 Wm. H. Lusk Butler
John M. Jamison Greenburg
23 Frank M. Fuller Uniontown
Thos. S. Crago Waynesburg
24 M. S. Quay Beaver
George W. Johnson New Castle
25 Clark Olds Erie
John J. Carter Titusville
26 Frank Reeder Easton
A. R. Brittain...East Stroudsburg
27 N. E. Graham East Brady
M. C. Watson Indiana
28 W. E. Rice Warren
Alexander McDowell Sharon
29 Charles F. Kirschler Allegheny
James H. Willock Sewickley
30 John Dalzell Braddock
Samuel Harden Church. .Pittsburg
31 Wm. Flinn Pittsburg
D. L. Gillespie Pittsburg
32 John A. Bell Pittsburg
George T. Oliver Pittsburg
David R. James Shenandoah
August Knecht Pottsville
Charles W. Potteiger Reading
Alexander N. Ulrlch Catasauqua
D. W. Sturdevant Laceyville
M. E. Simmons Honesdale
Elias Deemer Williamsport
John Ormerod Coudersport
Fred P. Vincent Laporte
C. M. Clement Sunbury
Robert K. Moore McAllisterville
John C. Taylor Shade Gap
Frank E. Hollar Shippensburg
Chas. Z. Weiss Avon
John G. Anderson Tyrone
Jesse E. Dale Patton
Samuel S. Lewis York
Charles E. Deatrick Hunterstown
James P. Coburn Bellefonte
George Paton Bradford
Porter W. Lowry Butler
Harry S. Denny Ligonier
Samuel A. Kendall Myersdale
N. B. Critchfield Critchfleld
J. J. Zimmerman Rochester
J. B. Donaldson Washington
Frank L. Bliss Corry
A. W. McCoy Meadville
Thos. M. Whilden Lansford
W. A. H. Mitchell Milford
Ira J. Campbell Punxsutawney
James G. Mitchell Hamilton
George Lewis Oil City
Leon Watson Kellettville
George A. Chalfant Etna
Robert K. Cochran Allegheny
Thos. W. Patch Wilmerding
R. W. Cummins Wilkinsburg
Ernest F. Ruesch Pittsburg
A. M. Barr Pittsburg
John F. Cox Homestead
George F. Murray Pittsburg
RHODE ISLAND.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Charles Alexander Barrington George Batchelor Woonsocket
H. Martin Brown Providence Fred W. Allen Providence
Frank W. Tillinghast Johnston George L. Pierce Providence
Alphonse Gaulin, Jr Woonsocket J. Fred Gibson Providence
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RHODE ISLAND Continued.
Delegates. Alternates.
DISTRICTS.
1 Samuel L. Peck Warren John J. Watson, Jr Jamestown
Charles H. Child Providence Nathan M. Wright Providence
2 Albert B. Crafts Westerly Henry B. Kane Narragansett
Wm. L. Hodgman Warwick M. J. E. Legris Warwick
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
E. H. Deas Darlington Robert Smalls.
John G. Capers Charleston R. R. Tolbert.
L. W. C. Blalock Goldville George W. Murray.
W. D. Crum Charleston Wm. T. Smith.
DISTRICTS.
1 A. P. Prioleau Prioleau P. O. Samuel B. Butler.
Wm. F. Myers Walterboro A. Collins.
2 B. J. Dickerson Aiken G. G. Butler Barnwell
W. S. Dixson Barnwell J. M. Jones Saluda
3 Ernest F. Cochran Anderson R. K. Moon Pickens
Joseph W. Tolbert Greenwood J. W. Lee Abbeyville
4 A. A. Gates Greenville
P. S. Suber Laurens
5 W. E. Boykin Camden F. R. Massey Lancaster
J. C. Atkinson Loweryville John F. Jones Blacksburg
6 J. R. Levy Florence P. S. Moseley Henry
J. A. Baxter Georgetown G. W. Johnson Marvin
7 A. D. Webster Orangeburg M.J.Frederic Sumter
J. F. Ensor ....Columbia Green Jackson Columbia
SOUTH DAKOTA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
R. H. Driscoll. John L. Jolly.
Q. E. Andrews. A. J. Lockhart.
A. O. Ringsrud. E. 6. Essenhuth.
C. E. Warner. T. W. Delicate.
F. H. Davis. Ira S. Blewett.
N. L, Finch. C. W. Lane.
John R. Hughes. Henry C. Smith.
Henry Goddard. W. S. Hamilton.
TENNESSEE.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
W. J. Brownlow Jonesboro D. C. Shwab Hartranft
H. C. Evans Chattanooga William Rule Knoxville
F. A. Raht Tullahoma John W. Grant Nashville
L. W. Dutro Memphis J. T. Settle Memphis
DISTRICTS.
1 Dana Harmon Greenville S. H. Gault Rogersville
George E. Boren Bristol W. B. Bachman Bluff City
2 N. W. Hale Knoxville F. W. Galbraith Jefferson City
Harvey M. La Follette.La Follette J. E, Casaidy Loudon
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TENNESSEE Contin ued.
Delegates. Alternates.
DISTRICTS.
3 F. L. Mansfield Athens
H. S. Chamberlain. .. .Chattanooga
4 B. W. Burford Lebanon
John E. Oliver Cookeville
6 Robert H. Hayes Lewisburg
Ernest Caldwell Shelbyville
6 J. C. Napier Nashville
John T. Lattin Nashville
7 James C. Hickman Lynnville
William K. Sheddan Columbia
8 T. A. Lancaster Lexington
A. A. Watson Savannah
9 A. A. Hornsby Martin
H. E. Austin Alamo
10 S. B. Anderson Memphis
C. H. Trimble Memphis
R. M. Copeland Benton
Gus Gate Cleveland
John Hall Wartburg
A. N. Derossett Cumberland
R. H. Davenport Woodbury
J. M. Eakin Fayetteville
S. A. Dabney Clarksville
Joe Stewart Dover
J. S. Beasley Centerville
D. W. Starnes Lawrenceburg
J Samuel Johnson Huntingdon
Abernathy Terry Selmer
Rives Giles Brownsville
F. W. E. Flowers Rutherford
Charles Wilson Memphis
John W. Boyd Mason
TEXAS.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Cecil A. Lyon Sherman R. A. Hannay.
R. B. Hawley -. Galveston Thos. Hall.
C. M. Ferguson. H. G. Goree.
M. M. Rodgers. David Abner.
DISTRICTS.
1 G. M. Guest Harris
Will E. Singleton Jefferson
2 J. H. Kurth Keltys
B. F. Wallace.
3 William M. McDonald Terrell
R. H. Mitchell Tyler
4 C. A. Gray Bonham
Frank Johnson Sherman
6 Ammon S. Wells Dallas
J. J. Cypert Itasca
6 J. Allen Meyers Bryan
G. W. Sledge Cameron
7 A. J. Rosenthal Galveston
H. L. Price.
8 Max Urwitz Houston
F. S. Benson Hempstead
9 O. S. York Edna
N. I. Henderson Galveston
10 Webster Flanagan Austin
John Cain Brenham
11 Charles A. Boynton Waco
Jesse Washington Morlin
12 L. M. Barkley Fort Worth
C. Dickson Cleburne
13 W. S. Simpson Bovine
R. S. Houssells Childress
14 Edwin H. Terrell San Antonio
G. N. Harrison Brownwood
15 Eugene Nolte Saguin
C. G. Brewster Laredo
16 James G. Lowdon Abilene
James A. Smith El Paso
W. T. Hughes Clarksville
R. A. Caldwell Newsom
Fred Deremus.
J. M. Moore.
J. C. Henderson.
S. W. Younger.
W. S. Smith Greenville
Joe Thompson Denison
R. S. Jenkins Dallas
A. M. Morrison Ennis
C. J. Hostrasser Hearns
L. K. Waggoner Groesbeck
C. W. Ellis.
Waldow Mathews.
W. C. Rollins Prairie View
U. W. Allen '. Huntsville
S. C. Autrey Hallettsville
Theodore Baughman Victoria
C. H. Turney Smithville
John Hickey Giddings
A. Wurts Evant
R. E. L. Holland Temple
C. S. Taylor Arlington
C. A. Dickson Cleburne
J. L. Hickson Gainesville
J. E. Lutz Vernon
Henry Terrell San Antonio
George G. Cifford San Antonio
G. W. Smith Kingsbury
Ed. Hunt Floresville
Major Smith Haskell
D. G. Hunt Eastland
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UTAH.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
James H. Anderson Salt Lake City Mrs. Jennie B. Nelson Ogden
George Sutherland Salt Lake City E. D. Woolley Kanab
Willard F. Snyder Salt Lake City Frank W. Fishburn Brigham City
C. B. Loose Provo George Austin Lehi
L. W. Shurtliff Ogden John W. Seeley Mt. Pleasant
H. Bullen, Jr Logan W. P. Colthorpe Vernal
VERMONT.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
-W. P. Dillingham Waterbury H. C. Whitehill Waterbury
W. Seward Webb Shelburne Thomas Mack Vergennes
Hiram N. Turner St. Johnsbury Harley E. Folsom Lyndonville
Henry S. Bingham Bennington Frank L. Greene St. Albans
DISTRICTS.
1 Heman W. Allen Burlington Edward S. Fleury Isle La Motte
James F. Manning Rutland Roger W. Hulburd Hyde Park
2 Charles Downer Sharon George F. Leland Springfield
James Fisk Hooker Brattleboro Frank E. Miles Newport
VIRGINIA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Park Agnew Alexandria J. B. Stovall Danville
S. Brown Allen Staunton A. C. Peachy Newport News
D. Lawrence Groner Norfolk C. N. Keezle Harrisonburg
Campbell Slemp Big Stone Gap Stuart F. Lindsey Bristol
DISTRICTS.
1 C. G. Smithers Cape Charles R. S. Bristow.
Josephus Trader Fittchetts A. S. West.
2 G. E. Bowden Norfolk A. Aronheim Norfolk
A. H. Martin Berkley Fred. Read Newport News
3 Morgan Treat West Point M. J. Enright Sabot
James H. Hayes Richmond J. R. Pollard Richmond
4 Asa Rogers Petersburg George Richardson.
A. W. Harris Dinwiddie John W. Smith.
6 John R. Brown Martlnsville M. O. Cornett.
S. A. Reynolds Vashti John B. Anglin.
6 James M. McLaughlin. .Lynchburg R. I. Roop.
W. Lee Brand Salem Adolphus Humbles Lynchburg
7 John Acker Edom H. L. Lyman.
Charles T. Holtzman Luray A. C. Brown.
8 M. K. Lowry Brooke Joseph L, Crupper Alexandria
W. H. Eggborn Epgbornville F. M. Brooks S wetnan
9 James S. Browning Pocahontas John Eckman Pulaski
J. D. Honaker Rocky Gap M. F. Bowers Bristol
10 J. H. Buhrman Gale R. A. Fulwiler Staunton
William H. Goodwin.. ..Avon H. L. Garrett.
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WASHINGTON.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Charles M. Sweeney Spokane George B. Kandle Tacoma
James M. Ashton Tacoma F. C. Harper Seattle
John G. Lewis Montesano C. F. Miller Dayton
George Donald North Takima Alonzo S. Taylor Everett
A. B. Eastham Vancouver E. G. Ames Port Ludlow
Chas. E. Brigham Mt. Vernon J. R. Welty Chehalis
Levl Ankeny Walla Walla Philip Hilltz Olympia
Erastus Brainard Seattle Geo. W. Dilling Seattle
W. A. Pruder Colfax J. M. Hart Seattle
John S. McMillan Roche Harbor R, F. Johnson Seattle
A. W. Perley.
WEST VIRGINIA
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
A. L. Mallory Parkersburg Byrd Phillerman Charleston
A. N. Pr ichard Manington R. L. Gordon Fayetteville
J. L. Caldwell Huntington S. W. Willey Hinton
George W. Atkinson Charleston S. M. Steele Moundsville
DISTRICTS.
1 John Bodley Wheeling S. C. Gist Wellsburg
Virgil L. Highland Clarksburg Chas. B. Goodwin Weston
2 F. S. Landstreet Davis O. A. Hood Keyser
Charles Lamar Martinsburg Neil J. Fortney Kingwood
3 Enoch Carver Charleston Phil Waters Charleston
Samuel Dixon Macdonald S. C. Dice Lewisburg
4 C. H. Shattuck Parkersburg G. B. Gibbens Parkersburg
W. L. Armstrong Sistersville Porter Stout West Union
5 G. W. Atkinson Bluefleld C. V. White Logan
T. E. Houston Welch Chas. M. Buck Huntington
WISCONSIN.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
John C. Spooner. M. G. Jeffris.
J. V. Quarles. D. E. Riordan.
J. W. Babcock. Richard Meyer, Jr.
Emil Baensch. John M. Kehler.
DISTRICTS.
1 Ogden H. Fethers Janesville Dwight B. Barnes Delavan
George A. Yule Kenosha Nathaniel B. Treat Monroe
2 W. D. Hoard Ft. Atkinson W. E. Moore Doylestown
Frank Hall Madison G. W. Bingham Friendship
3 John G. Clark Lancaster John Knight Mineral Point
R. P. Perry Reedsburg W. R. Graves Prairie du Chien
4 C. F. Pfister Milwaukee J. E. Wildish Milwaukee
E. L. Phillips Milwaukee F. C. Winkler Milwaukee
5 A. W. James Waukesha Curtis Schafer Oconomowoc
W. I. Greene Milwaukee Henry Hinkamp Milwaukee
6 G. A. Knapp Fond du Lac W. E. Talmadge.
Samuel S. Barney West Bend D. B. Doty.
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WISCONSIN Continued.
Delegates. Alternates.
DISTRICTS.
7 W. T. Sarles. Geo. B. Parker.
E. J. Foster. John O. Melby.
8 Wm. Rahr Manitowoc J. G. Griem Chilton
G. A. Whiting Neenah W. B. Angelo Wautoma
9 Frank S. Bradford Appleton William Larson Green Bay
H. P. Bird Wausaukee George Washburn Sturgeon Bay
10 J. W. Cochran Ashland M. J. Walrieh Shawano
L. N. Anson Merrill J. W. Malloy.
11 A. W. McLeod Washburn J. C. Saxton Clear Lake
D. C. Coolidge Downing B. J. Price Hudson
WYOMING.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
F. E. Warren Cheyenne E. W. Stone Cheyenne
C. D. Clark Evanston F. H. Smith Lander
Frank W. Mondell New Castle Melvin Nichols Sundance
James E. Cosgriff Rawlins C. H. King Casper
N. K. Boswell Laramie E. W. Burke Evanston
J. G. Oliver Buffalo Thos. G. Smith Buffalo
ALASKA.
Delegates. , Alternates.
AT LARGE.
John G. Held Juneau G. M. Irwin Juneau
Oscar Foote Juneau John W. Steadman Ketchikan
C. S. Johnson Nome Albert Fink Nome
W. T. Perkins Nome G. B. Baldwin Council City
W. D. Grant Wrangel P. C. McCormick Wrangel
J. W. Ivey Kyack Frank J. Kinghorn Valdez
ARIZONA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Alex. O. Brodie Phoenix J. S. Van Gorder Morencl
W. H. Brophy Bisbee John T. Hogue St. Johns
Jos. H. Kibbey Phoenix E. W. Childs Mammoth
H. B. Tenney Tucson Ben Daniels Nogales
J. X. Woods Winslow W. S. Head Camp Verde
Frank L. Wright Prescott J. W. Dorrington Tuma
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Robert Reyburn Washington E. G. Wescott Washington
John F. Cook Washington James L. Turner Washington
"HAWAII.
Delegates. AT LARGE. Alternates.
George R. Carter. Stephen L. Desha.
Jonah K. Kalanianaoli. Robert W. Breckons.
Wm. H. Hoogs. J. K. Nahale.
Alex. G. M. Robertson. Lincoln L. McCandless.
Wm. T. Robinson. C. H. Dickey.
Eric A. Knudsen. H. H. Brodie.
* Six delegates for this convention only.
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INDIAN TERRITORY.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
P. L. Soper Vinlta D. H. Shawnee Wewoka
W. H. Darrough Vinita E, L.. Cookson Cookson
C. W. Raymond Muskogee J. A. Roper Okmulgee
V. M. Locke, Jr Hamden Wm. Busby South McAlester
Eugene E. Morris Ryan J. H. Leatherman Pauls Valley
George W. Bigham Miami Wm. Mayse Peoria
NEW MEXICO.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Miguel A. Otero. W. H. Greer.
W. G. Sargent. Geo. W. Armigo.
W. E. Dame. Clark M. Carr.
D. J. Leahy. J. Van Houten.
W. H. H. Llewellyn. W. H. Newcomb.
H. O. Burson. H. J. Hagerman.
OKLAHOMA.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
John H. Cotteral Guthrie J B.Dudley Norman
"W. D. Fossett Guthrie O. K. Benedict Hobart
R. A. Lowry Stillwater Geo. Carr Stone
W. C. Tetirick Blackwell J. L. Hoover Elk City
Seymour Foose Watonga O. P. Elliott Mangum
A. H. Jackson ..El Reno E. N. Yates Pawhuska
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
Delegates. AT LARGE. Alternates.
John T. McDonough. John S. Leech.
Charles A. Willard. D. W. Smith.
Grant T. Trent. J. L. Pierce.
John S. Stanley. T. C. Riser.
J. M. Switzer. W. W. Leurs.
E. L. McCullough. M. W. Creach.
PORTO RICO.
Delegates. Alternates.
AT LARGE.
Jose Gomez Brioso. Santiago Veve.
R. H. Todd. Pedro J. Besosa.
LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION.
Mr. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, of New York. On behalf of the committee
appointed in reference to the invitation of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
I submit the report which I send to the desk.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The report submitted by the gentleman from
New York will be read.
The READING CLERK read as follows :
The committee to whom was referred the invitation of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition to delegates and alternates and members of the press
to visit the Exposition, respectfully reports that no formal action by the
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convention is necessary in the premises, the invitation having been extended
to delegates, alternates and members of the press.
For the information of those accepting the invitation, the committee has
ascertained and reports the following:
The Chicago & Alton, the Illinois Central and the Wabash Railroads
tender the courtesies of special trains from Chicago to the Union Station at
St. Louis, carrying delegates and alternates of the Republican National Con-
vention and representatives of the press attending.
These trains will leave at 9 o'clock Thursday night, and arrive in St.
Louis at 6 o'clock Friday morning. The cars direct to the World's Fair
Grounds can be taken at the Union Station, St. Louis.
The Chairman or Secretary of each delegation is requested to report
Thursday morning, the names of those delegates and alternates who desire
transportation, in accordance with the following assignment :
Illinois Central H. J. Phelps, City Passenger and Ticket Agent, 99
Adams street : Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North
Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee.
Chicago & Alton R. Somerville, General Agent, 101 Adams street :
Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, North Da-
kota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming.
Wabash Railway H. Keeran, City Passenger and Ticket Agent, 97
Adams street : Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Maryland.
Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Utah, Ver-
mont, Wisconsin.
Sleeping-car accommodations can be purchased at the respective ticket
offices up to 6 p. m. Thursday, and after that at the respective stations. Re-
clining-chair cars will be furnished to those not desiring to purchase berths.
Delegates and alternates will be identified at the station by the respective
Chairman or Secretary of the delegation immediately previous to departure
of special trains, and transportation to St. Louis will be furnished those who
have not such transportation.
Those finding it necessary to return to Chicago from St. Louis, in order
to use their transportation to their homes, will be provided such transporta-
tion to Chicago on application to C. L. Hilleary, Traffic Manager of the Ex-
position, office : Administration Building, World's Fair Grounds.
Members of the press, credited to the Press Section of the Convention,
will be furnished transportation on presentation of their credentials to Rob-
ert Sommerville General Agent, Chicago & Alton Railway, 101 Adams
street.
Delegates, alternates and members of the press requiring further infor-
mation, are requested to call at the Missouri Headquarters, Auditorium
Hotel.
Admission to World's Fair Grounds will be furnished on arrival of trains
at St. Louis.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The report of the committee will be placed
on file.
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GENERAL PETER JOSEPH OSTERHAUS.
Mr. J. B. FORAKER, of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, I have a note informing
me that General Osterhaus is at the main entrance to the convention hall,
and that he would be pleased to attend this session of the convention.
I need not tell the convention who General Osterhaus is, for all know
that he was one of the most distinguished, gallant and heroic German sol-
diers of the Union Army during the Civil War. (Applause.)
On one occasion when General Sherman directed him to make a move-
ment with his division for the purpose of dislodging the enemy, he made
himself famous by answering and making good his answer, "I will undertake
the execution of your order, and if I find the enemy I will make him hell-
smell." (Laughter.) Since the war General Osterhaus has resided abroad.
He is now about eighty years of age, but his love of this country is as strong
as ever. I move that he be invited to a seat on the stage.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the motion
of the gentleman from Ohio, that General Osterhaus be invited to a seat on
the platform.
The motion was unanimously agreed to.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The Chair will appoint Senator Foraker,
of Ohio, and General Bingham, of Pennsylvania, a committee to escort Gen-
eral Osterhaus to the platform.
General Osterhaus was escorted to the platform by the committee ap-
pointed for that purpose.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen of the convention, I have the
honor and the pleasure to present to you Major General Osterhaus, Corps
Commander of Sherman. (Applause.)
Mr. PETER J. OSTERHAUS. Gentlemen of the convention, allow me to
thank you most heartily for the honor conferred upon me in giving me
permission to appear before you. Having voted for Abraham Lincoln in
1860 and again in 1864, at the moment when Sherman's Army was prepar-
ing for the march to the sea, I can have no other wish than the greatest suc-
cess of your assembly, and the continuance, as the result of your nomina-
tion, of that eminent, able and righteous course which the present Presi-
dent of the United States has pursued. (Applause.)
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The next business in order is the report
of the Committee on Permanent Organization. Is the committee ready to
report ?
Mr. WILLIAM M. JOHNSON, of New Jersey. On behalf of the Committee
on Permanent Organization, I have the honor to present the following re-
port:
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
To the HON. ELIHU ROOT, Temporary Chairman :
The Committee on Permanent Organization begs leave to report the fol-
lowing, for the permanent officers of the convention :
Permanent Chairman, Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, Illinois, Speaker of the House
of Representatives.
General Secretary, Colonel Charles W. Johnson, Minnesota.
Chief Assistant Secretary, John R. Malloy, Ohio.
Assistant Secretaries, James G. Cannon, New York.
Thomas F. Clifford, New Hampshire.
Lucien Grey, Illinois.
Willet M. Spooner, Wisconsin.
T. Larry Eyre, Pennsylvania.
J. T. Wilson, Kentucky.
Rome C. Stephenson, Indiana.
John H. King, South Dakota,
T. St. John Gaffney, New York.
Walter S. Melick, California.
Edgar O. Silver, Vermont.
Frank D. Waterman, New York.
George W. Armstrong, Minnesota.
James H. Paddock, Illinois.
Franklin Murphy, Jr., New Jersey.
Edward C. Simms, Illinois.
Reading Clerks, W. H. Harrison, Nebraska.
Dennis E. Alward, Michigan.
E. L. Lampson, Ohio.
T. W. B. Duckwall, West Virginia.
Clerk at President's Desk, Asher C. Hinds, Maine.
Official Reporter, Milton W. Blumenberg, Illinois.
Tally Clerks, Fred B. Whitney, Illinois.
John W. Dixon, Nebraska,
Lucien Swift, Jr., Minnesota.
Messenger to Secretary, Henry F. Daniels, Wisconsin.
Messenger to Chairman, Curley Brewer, Indiana.
Sergeant-at-Arms, William F. Stone, Maryland.
First Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, David C. Owen, Wisconsin.
Second Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, Chas. H. Henning, West Virginia.
Third Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, Eugene F. Cummings, Indiana.
Fourth Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, T. H. Matters, Nebraska.
Fifth Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, Albert Ferguson, New York.
Chief Doorkeeper, C. S. Montell, Maryland.
Chief Clerk, L. G. Hechinger, Maryland.
We also recommend as honorary Vice-Presidents for each State, the follow-
ing, as selected by the delegations thereof:
Alabama J. W. HUGHES
Arkansas CHAS. W. RDX
California E. D. ROBERTS
Colorado JAMES H. PEABODY
Connecticut DONALD T. WARNER
Delaware JOHN HUNN
Florida WALTER G. ROBINSON
Georgia J. S. GANETT
Idaho C. J. HALL
Illinois... ...CHARLES H. DEERE
HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON, of Illinois.
Who was Permanent Chairman of the Convention.
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. Ill
Indiana ISAAC STRAUSS
Iowa A. B. CUMMINS
Kansas J. H. RICHARDS
Kentucky HENRY L. STONE
Louisiana B. V. BARANCO
Maine ALBERT A. BURLEIGH
Maryland STEVENSON A. WILLIAMS
Massachusetts JOHN D. LONG
Michigan DEXTER M. FERRY
Minnesota C. A. SMITH
Mississippi F. W. COLLINS
Missouri WILLIAM WARNER
Montana LEE MANTLE
Nebraska FRANK E. HELVEY
Nevada R. S. MEACHAM
New Hampshire BERTRAM ELLIS
New Jersey DAVID BAIRD
New York JOHN RAINES
North Carolina T. S. ROLLINS
North Dakota L. D. HANNA
Ohio J. E. LOWES
Oregon C. W. HODSON
Pennsylvania W. M. GRIEST
Rhode Island CHARLES H. CHILD
South Carolina L. W. C. BLALOCK
South Dakota J. R. HUGHES
Tennessee N. W. HALE
Texas WEBSTER FLANNAGAN
Utah HERSCHEL BULLER, JR.
Vermont HIRAM N. TURNER
Virginia JOHN ACKER
Washington GEORGE DONALD
West Virginia C. H. SHATTUCK
Wisconsin EMIL BAENSCH
Wyoming N. K. BOSWELL
District of Columbia JOHN F. COOK
Alaska W. D. GRANT
Arizona W. H. BROPHY
Indian Territory WILLIAM M. MELLETTE
New Mexico FRANK A. HUBBELL
Oklahoma JOHN H. COTTERAL
Hawaii W. H. HOOGS
Philippines J. S. STANLEY
Porto Rico JOSE GOMEZ BRIOSO
Respectfully submitted this 22d day of June, 1904.
G. R. CARTER, Secretary. WILLIAM M. JOHNSON, Chairman.
I move the adoption of the report.
Mr. SHELBY M. CULLOM, of Illinois. I take great pleasure, sir, in second-
ing the motion of the gentleman from New Jersey, who submitted the report,
that it be now adopted.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen of the convention, you have
heard the report of the Committee on Permanent Organization. The question
is on agreeing to the report.
The report was agreed to.
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COMMITTEE TO ESCORT THE PERMANENT CHAIRMAN.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. The Chair appoints the Hon. John D. Long,
of Massachusetts ; the Hon. Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois, and the Hon.
Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, a committee to escort the Permanent Chairman
to the platform.
The committee appointed by the Temporary Chairman escorted Mr. Jo-
seph G. Cannon, of Illinois, to the platform.
The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen of the convention, I present to
you as your Permanent Chairman, the man who holds the gavel of the great
popular legislative body of America with a grip so firm, directs it with a
brain so clear and a heart so sound and fair that he will wield it for many
and many a year to come. (Applause.)
ADDRESS OF THE PERMANENT CHAIRMAN.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN (Mr. Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois). Gen-
tlemen of the convention, for the first time in my life I put in black and
white to say to you enough sentences to contain twenty-five hundred words.
I have tried to memorize it (laughter), but I cannot. I have given it out
through the usual channels to the great audience, and now I must either beg
to be excused entirely or I must do like we do in the House of Represen-
tatives under the five-minute rule, make a few feeble remarks. (Cries
of "Go on!") But that no man shall say that I have not made a great
speech, I will say that from beginning to end I heartily endorse every state-
ment of fact and every sentiment given you yesterday by the Temporary
Presiding Officer in the greatest speech I ever heard delivered at a conven-
tion. (Applause.)
Now let me go on and ramble (laughter). And first it is said that there
is no enthusiasm in this convention. Gentlemen, the great river which has
its thirty feet of water, rising in the mountains and growing in depth and
breadth as it flows down to the ocean, bears upon its bosom the commerce
of that section of the land which it drains ; and it bears it out to the world.
It is a silent river, and yet the brawling river that is like unto the River
Platte out in Nebraska, which is fourteen miles wide and four inches deep,
can make more noise than all the rivers in the world. (Applause.)
Enthusiasm! When we were young folks, twenty years ago (laughter),
and went to see our best girl, one of us was awfully enthusiastic if she
would give us the glance of the eye, the nod of the head, or the "trip-away-
catch me if you can" (laughter), to enter upon the chase. That was awfully
strenuous and awfully enthusiastic. (Laughter.) But, when she said "yes,"
then good relations were established, and we went on evenly throughout
the balance of our lives. (Laughter and applause.)
It is a contest which makes enthusiasm. In 1904, as in 1900, everybody
has known for twelve months past who is to be our standard-bearer in
this campaign. (Applause.) We are ready for business. (Laughter.) I
wonder if our friends, the enemy, would not be glad of a little of our kind
of enthusiasm. (Applause.)
HON. WILLIAM F. STONE, of Maryland,
Sergeant-at-Arms of the Convention and of the National Committee.
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I might illustrate it further, although I do not know that it is necessary.
I see before me some of my farmer friends my colleague, Col. Lowden, and
various others as well as some New York agriculturists. (Laughter.)
Now there is not one of you who raises chickens as I do who does not under-
stand that when the hen comes off the nest with one chicken, she does more
scratching and makes more noise than the motherly hen which is blessed
with twenty-three. (Laughter.) Our friends, the enemy, will have the
enthusiasm; we will take the votes in November. (Applause.)
Let us be serious for a moment. Ours is a government through parties
and through organizations. You once in a while find people who do not
want any parties. But so long as you have eighty million people compe-
tent for self-government, they will organize and will call the organization
a party.
The Republican party, born of the declaration that slavery is sectional
and freedom national (applause), achieved its first success in 1860 with
Abraham Lincoln. (Applause.) Then followed secession; the war for the
Union. You older men recollect it well. We have one of the survivors
here, and I was glad to see this body give him the courtesies of the con-
vention. He helped to make it possible for us to have this convention. (Ap-
plause.)
Forty-four years ago just about now; today, 1904. What a contrast! A
divided country ; a bankrupt treasury ; no credit. The Republican party had
power, and under its great leadership wrote revenue legislation upon the
statute books. It went back to the principles of Washington and Hamilton, and
wrote legislation that would yield revenue, fixing duties upon imports which
were so adjusted as to encourage every American citizen to take part in the
diversification of the industries and the development of the resources of the
country.
Will you bear with me for five minutes while I make a comparison of
the facts then with the condition today? In 1860 we had been substantially
dominated for many years by the free trade party. We were insignificant
in manufactures, great in agriculture. Under our policy, which, with the
exception of four years, has been followed from that time to this, the United
States remains first in agriculture, but by leaps and bounds it has diversi-
fied and increased its industrial enterprises, until today we are the greatest
manufacturing country on God's foot-stool. (Applause.) Today one-third
of all the world's products that come from the factory are made in the
United States, by the operation and co-operation of American capital and
American labor and skill. (Applause.)
Let me make one other statement. Our manufactured product every
year is greater than the entire combined manufactured product of Great
Britain, of Germany and of France. Where do we get the market for it?
Ninety-seven per cent of this great product, which constitutes one-third of
the world's product, finds a market amongst ourselves in the United States.
And yet, of this manufactured product we last year sold to foreign countries
over $400,000,000 worth, twenty-nine per cent of our total exports; and our
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total exports made and make us the greatest exporting nation on earth.
(Applause.)
Made by labor? Yes. Made by labor that works less hours than any
other labor on earth. Made by labor that, conservatively stated, receives one
dollar and three-quarters as against the average for the competitive labor
in the world of one dollar. (Applause.)
Gentlemen, a few rich men do not make markets. Nay, nay. It is the
multiplied millions on farm, in mine and in factory, that work today and
consume tomorrow, who with steady employment and good wage, give us,
with eighty millions of people, a market equal to two hundred millions of
consuming people anywhere else on earth. The farmer buys the artisan's
product. The artisan, being employed, buys the farmer's product. The
wheels go round. You cannot strike one great branch of labor in the
Republic without the blow reacting on all producers.
Are you satisfied with the comparison from the manufacturing stand-
point? If not, let me give you another illustration which perhaps will go
home to the minds of men more quickly than the illustration I have given.
Take the Postoffice Department, which reaches all of the people and
for the support of which no man is taxed a penny. It is voluntary taxation.
In the year ended March, 1861, the year Lincoln came into power, the total
revenues of the Postoffice Department in all the United States were eight
and a half million dollars. Keep that in your minds eight and a half mil-
lion dollars. How much do you suppose it cost to run the service? Nine-
teen million ! It took all the revenue and as much more, and nearly one-
quarter as much more from the Treasury to pay for that postal service.
Gentlemen, the city postoffice of Chicago last year collected more revenues
by almost one million of dollars than was collected by the whole depart-
ment of the United States in 1860. (Applause.)
How is it now? We have on the average reduced postage over one-
half since 1860. Last year the postal revenues were $134,000,000 as against
eight and a half millions in 1860. Keep that in your minds $134,000,000.
And the whole service cost only $138,000,000. We had a deficit of four mil-
lion three per cent and we would not have had that deficit had it not been
that the Republican party, looking out for the welfare of all the people and
conducting the government from a business standpoint, under the lead of
McKinley, followed by Roosevelt, established rural free delivery which cost
$10,000,000. (Applause.) Great Heavens! The Republican party as it
has done from 1860 until this moment, moves forward and does what good
common business sense dictates, and the country grows to it. I will now
drop that department.
The Republican party is a national party and believes in the further
diversification of our industries and in the protection of American capital
and American labor as against cheaper labor elsewhere on earth. (Ap-
plause.)
What do the other people believe in? For sixty years went out the cry,
"free trade throughout the world, and free ships upon the sea." On other
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occasions, "a tariff for revenue only." First one and then the other. It
has always denounced as robbery the Republican policy of protection, and
whenever clothed with power, whatever its pretences, it has thrust the dag-
ger into the very heart of protection.
Are they not going to change? Let us see. Just before the close of
the last session of Congress, New York's eloquent son, Bourke Cochran.
a member of the House of Representatives, got the floor and preached an
old-fashioned Democratic sermon free trade and all that kind of thing
and he did it well ; and there came from the minority side of that House,
without exception, such cheering and crying and hurrahing and applauding
as I never witnessed before in the House of Representatives, because at
last they had the pure Democratic faith delivered to them. (Laughter.)
They were all winter trying, under the lead of Gorman in the Senate
and Williams in the House, to draw together people from Nebraska and
New England and New York and the South and the rest of the country,
and to impress them with the notion that the Democracy should be given
power in this country. They were trying to give the country Dovers pow-
ders.
"Oh," said my distinguished colleague in the House, the minority leader,
following the astute Senator Gorman, "if we come into power, while pro-
tection is robbery, and while we will journey in the direction of free trade
when you clothe us with power, we will not destroy your industries over
night." Great God ! Think of it ! They will not kill you outright, but they
will starve you to death day by day. (Laughter and applause.) They want
to be put on guard to protect the people who are dwelling in peace and pros-
perity under Republican policies.
It reminds me of a fable of Aesop. You know he records in one of his
fables that the wolves said to the sheep, "discharge the dogs" (who were
their natural protectors) "and employ us, and we will take care of you."
(Laughter.) Does the capital of this country and the labor of this country
want to go under the care of the wolf Gorman and Williams and their fel-
lows? I think not.
What a country it is ! And Republicans,, we have to outline the policy
and lead the people in caring for it. We are like the women. We not only
have to take care of ourselves, but as one very bright woman said, "we
have to take care of the men at the same time." (Laughter and applause.)
The Republican party not only has to care for itself, but it has to care for
the minority by wise policies.
How has it been doing it? We preserved the Union under the policy
and leadership of this party. Do you recollect that the opposition party, on
a demand for an armistice and negotiations and compromise, nominated Mc-
Clellan in 1864 and moved heaven and earth to defeat Lincoln? Do you
recollect that when the amendments were adopted they said "nay," "nay," and
even after they were ratified, when the Democrats came into power tem-
porarily in Indiana and Ohio, they passed acts taking back the assent of the
Stales? When, in the seventies, the first battle was fought against green-
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back or fiat money, whatever the Democrats were on the Atlantic coast they
were fiatists out in the Middle West. Step by step through all these forty-
four years, during which if you measure time by events, we have lived two
centuries as compared with any other period of the world's history, they have
pulled back and pulled back ; and when we accomplished an end and it is
necessary to march forward and try to accomplish other objects they have
moved into our old quarters and squatted down and made faces and said,
"You are going to send the country to hell." (Applause.) But we do not
mind it. We move on. (Applause.)
Why multiply words about ancient or recent conditions? Take the coun-
try under the administration of Grover Cleveland, and compare it to the
country under the administration of William McKinley and Theodore Roose-
velt. (Applause.) If a man who will consider conditions and dwell in
recollection for a moment and make a fair comparison, does not endorse the
policies of the Republican party, he would not "be persuaded, though one
rose from the dead." (Laughter.) McKinley; Roosevelt; the passage of
the Dingley act which restored us economic prosperity; the gold standard
act that settled for all time the matter of sound currency; the short trium-
phant war with Spain ; the Philippines and Porto Rico coming under our
flag, with freedom to Cuba, constitute a record that will stand in the future
second only to the record made by George Washington and Abraham Lin-
coln. (Applause.)
When imported anarchy struck down our,great President at a time when
partisan strife had almost ceased, the world paused in wonder and in in-
dignation, not in fear, because, as life went from our great leader and our
great President, there was a young, active, honest, courageous man standing
by the bed-side, who, under the Constitution, was his successor, and he
there said : "I am to be President, to carry out the policies of the Repub-
lican party, and I will journey in the footsteps of William McKinley;" and
the country believed him. (Applause.)
Becoming President, great things have happened in the last three years.
In the old world a single great policy in a generation is the exception. We
have more than that in our progressive country. I have given you the great
achievements under McKinley, his worthy and great predecessor. We had
the consummation of freedom to Cuba wrought out by superior statesman-
ship. Imperialism that was talked about under McKinley has disappeared
as a cry from the face of the earth, with growing civil government and peace
in the Philippines. Did I say from the face of the earth ? I will stick to it,
because the doctrinaire here and the doctrinaire there, whether it be in New
York or in Boston, draws his toga about him and says, "I am wiser than
thou," and after this great question is setttled by the consciences and the
intelligence of all the people, he still cries "Wolf, wolf." Well, under the
Constitution of the United States he has a right to. (Laughter.) Let them
cry. (Applause.)
Greatly bothered, they asked, "What is going to become of the Philip-
pines?" At last we have peace; at last we have growing civil government,
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and as our eighty millions in this twentieth century shall increase from
eighty to two hundred and fifty millions, as we shall go out with production
and commerce, in the fullness of time that territory will be useful to the
United States, whereas in the meantime we will be like a benediction to them.
(Applause.)
The United States is great in production and in wealth. How great in
wealth? In 1850, three hundred dollars in round numbers was the per capita
wealth. In 1900 twelve hundred and thirty-five dollars was the per capita
wealth. In 1860 the wealth was measured by sixteen billion dollars ; in 1900,
ninety-four billions ; now a hundred billions, whereas Great Britain has an
aggregate wealth of only sixty billions, and she has been living and gather-
ing it for the last five hundred years, while in a generation we spring from
sixteen billions to one hundred billions. The world's wealth is four hundred
billion dollars. The United States has one-fourth of it.
But our friends, the enemy, some of whom are little politicians, vex the
air crying "trusts," "trusts," "trusts." Oh, they come out strong with good
lungs as trust-busters. They have been at it ever since 1890. Did they ever
do any busting? (Laughter.) Oh, no. There is no Jericho now, and if
there were, it would never happen again that they would march about its
walls blowing rams' horns seven times until the walls fell down. That is
what the Democrats seem to have been trying to do. (Laughter.)
Trusts? Yes. Great combinations of capital against public policy? Yes.
But the Republican party, always true to the people and its traditions, made
haste to provide under the Constitution legislation that would prohibit these
combinations.
The "Do-Something" party! It slept under Cleveland. Under McKinley
we had the war with Spain and the restoration of prosperity, and the young,
enthusiastic, true man who succeeded McKinley took the oath to see to it
that the laws were executed ; and he has executed the law. By the de-
cisions of the courts such trusts are unlawful, and they are being dissolved.
That is the difference between the two parties. One busts by wind, and the
other busts by law. (Laughter and applause.)
But that is not all. There is no country on earth that has so much
wealth as ours, while interest rates are cheapening and cheapening until today
the credit of the United States commands money at a premium at two per
cent, which is one per cent lower than any other nation on earth can com-
mand it.
Forming combinations? Yes. But all the while, with this great wealth
in individual hands desiring favorable investment, month by month and year
by year enterprising citizens desiring gain establish additional industries.
Take the census of 1900. It is a great thing to have the figures correctly
tabulated. According to the facts, and the census of 1900 shows it, only
fourteen per cent of the factory product came from the establishments of
the so-called trusts in the United States, while eighty-six per cent of the
factory product came from their competitors in individual and smaller
ownership. And it is bound to be that way, as you will see if you will stop
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and think. There are eighty million of our people. If some man conceives
the idea that when he dies wisdom will have departed, and that he can
corner the air and the water and the sun light, he will find eighty million
people, who compose our civilization, who will not only make the law go
into force, but by competition and enterprise will demonstrate that the
declaration of the enemy is a falsehood.
Can you prove it? Yes. Just a minute. In the last two years the wind
and the water that came from over-capitalization in forming the so-called
trusts have been squeezed out. There are people who make "motithbets"
about the price of the securities of watered companies and companies that
have gas on top of the water, made by the printing press, who stand around
and say, "it is the most extraordinary shrinkage in values that was ever
known." "How much?" "Oh, a good many hundreds of millions." The Wall
Street Journal says over a billion six hundred million. And yet every dollar
of property, every particle of property that was represented by this over-
capitalization two years ago is still with us. (Applause.) The fools who
bet the stock to go down and the fools who bet it to go up can fight it out.
It does not make one particle of difference to the eighty million people who
live in the sweat of their faces and do a legitimate business. (Applause.)
They move right on.
Gentlemen, we have the protection that comes from the law, from a sound
and healthful public opinion, from an active and righteous public sentiment,
and we have the protection growing out of the desire of our people to in-
vest hi enterprises in which a dollar of securities represents a dollar of in-
vestment or a dollar of capital ; and when such a factory comes into com-
petition with one which has cost a hundred cents, and is burdened with
another hundred cents common, and another hundred cents gas, and another
hundred cents moonshine, we know the inevitable result looked at from the
inexorable laws of trade and commerce. (Applause.) It is working out.
It is all right.
But says our enemy, "My God ; look at the strikes you are having in
this country." That is their strong suit strikes ; strikes. (Laughter.) Now,
what is a strike? There is first an effort by the employer and the employee
to agree how the profit shall be divided. If the employee does not get as
much as he thinks he ought to get, after arbitration has been tried he strikes.
They quarrel about something or the division of something. It is absolutely
necessary, in order to have a strike, that there should be a profit. Great
God, how many strikes were there under Cleveland when the Democrats had
the running of the country? (Laughter and applause.) Not many, because
the profits were scarce. There is the whole story.
"But," say our enemies, "outrageous things are done by the employer when
he oppresses the laborer, and outrageous things are done by some laborers
when they go on a strike." Yes, outrageous things are done in some of our
best governed churches, as well as amongst those who do not belong to any
church.
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Once in a while a citizen commits larceny. Once in a while a man com-
mits arson. Once in a while a man is guilty of homicide. The law is made
to protect society against the man who will not obey the law and who makes
war on his neighbors. (Applause.) That is what it is for. Yes, there are
law breaking and disorder law breaking in the formation of trusts ; law
breaking at times in the organizations of labor when they go on strike. But
the great body of the American people who own the wealth are not for the
trusts, and the great body of labor, honest men who live in the sweat of their
faces, are not for law breaking in strikes. (Applause.) The law, the
sheet anchor of civilization, is strong enough to pull down the strongest and
strong enough to curb the weaker and the vicious. It is strong enough, like
the grace of God, to throw its arms about the weakest and the poorest and
bring him under its protection. (Applause.) All must obey the law under
Theodore Roosevelt. (Applause.) He has seen and is seeing and will con-
tinue to see that without favor or affection the law shall be supreme and uni-
versal within our borders.
A few more words and I shall have concluded. Our government is of the
people. It is divided into co-ordinate branches the courts, the judges of
which hold office for life or during good behavior; the executive; the Con-
gress, which consists of two co-ordinate branches, the House and the Senate,
great legislative bodies. They could not be otherwise, born as they are of
eighty million people who are competent for self government. (Applause.)
In the Senate the tenure is for six years. The great popular body, near to the
people, that reflects the sentiment of the people, is chosen every two years.
You know that under our form of government the party in power is held
responsible. The function of the minority is to put the majority on good be-
havior by being ever ready to appeal to the people. Let me tell you some-
thing. If our government has a fault, it is that, at times, after an election,
a party is only partially placed in power ; in other words, it is in power on
only on leg in only one or at most two departments of the government. It
may have the Senate ; it may have the Presidency ; or it may have the House.
It goes along on crutches. Yet you want to hold it responsible to public
sentiment. If I had the power I would so change our Constitution that at
every quadrennial election the party that received the popular approval would
go fully into power and let the public have a government according to the
sentiment expressed at the ballot box. (Applause.) But we have not got
it arranged quite that way.
What is the next best thing? You like Theodore Roosevelt? Yes.
Stronger than his party, he will be triumphantly elected. (Applause.) You
like the Senate of the United States? Yes. It is a great body. It will be
Republican for two years more. It cannot be changed short of that time.
The people could change it at the end of four years, electing a third of the
body every two years. You like the policies of the great popular body, three
hundred and eighty-six strong, coming with warrants of attorney from the
people to cast their votes for them.
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If you approve of Roosevelt, if you approve of the Republican policies,
you are short-sighted if you refuse a working Republican majority in the
House of Representatives, because you cannot keep Republican house with-
out it.
I am done. I have already detained you longer than I expected. In
conclusion, let me again say that we are proud of the present ; we are hope-
ful of the future. The twentieth century is to bring more of good or evil
to the human race than the nineteenth century brought. Under what party
banner will you enlist? Under that of the reactionists? Under that of the
people who will sit still or tear down? Or will you take service with the
party of Lincoln, and Grant, and Garfield, and Harrison, and McKinley, and
Roosevelt, and help us march on? (Applause.)
Speaking to the living in the presence of the dead, tears for them and
admiration for the great things that they accomplished, the glory of our race
and of our civilization is that each generation works out its own salvation
and marches forward to success and the betterment of the condition of man-
kind, and as they drop into the grave, their successors move on to the stage
of action, holding fast all that the past has given us and going in turn a gen-
eration's march further on for the benefit of the race and of civilization.
(Applause.)
PRESENTATION OF GAVEL.
Mr. VOLNEY W. FOSTER, of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, the pleasant duty has
been assigned me to present to you this emblem of authority. The firmness
of its wood and the purity of the imposed metal are symbols of the charac-
teristics which you possess in such an eminent degree. I hope you may
live long and that your life may be devoted to the best uses of the Republic.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. I accept the gavel with thanks, and appre-
ciate the kindly sentiment expressed toward me by the citizens of my own
State.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ORDER OF
BUSINESS.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The next order of business is the report of
the Committee on Rules and Order of Business. Is the committee ready to
report ?
Mr. HENRY H. BINGHAM, of Pennsylvania. I am directed by your Com-
mittee on Rules and Order of Business to submit their unanimous report for
the approval of the convention.
In 1888 the rules that had governed the preceding conventions of the
party were gone over with great care and thoroughness. The convention
of that year adopted a set of rules, and from that day to this, the body of the
order of procedure has been changed but in a limited number of its rules or
provisions. Your committee has followed the action of like committees in
preceding conventions, but several changes are made in the rules because of
the inclusion of the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico, and there has been
inserted a rule recommended by the Secretary of the National Committee,
COLONEL CHARLES W. JOHNSON, of Minnesota,
General Secretary Republican National Conventions of 1892, 1896, 1900 and
1904.
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in order that in making up the roll of delegates and alternates and contested
seats, a better submission may be made than has heretofore been made in
the absence of any rule.
In full recognition of the fairness and familiarity of your Presiding Offi-
cer today, in order that he may feel perfectly at home in this convention, as
he always does in the Speaker's chair in the House, we have adopted the
rules of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth Congress, when
not inconsistent with the rules submitted for this convention.
If I can invoke the generous patience of this convention I understand
that copies of the rules have been distributed for the convenience of dele-
gates I will proceed to read the report of the committee.
Mr. BINGHAM proceeded to read the report.
Mr. SHELBY M. CULLOM, of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, I rise to make a
suggestion. Copies of the report which my friend, the gentleman from Penn-
sylvania, is reading are in the hands of the whole convention, and I suggest
whether it is necessary for the gentleman to proceed further with its reading.
Mr. BINGHAM. If the further reading of the report can be dispensed with;
it will be very agreeable to me.
Mr. CULLOM. I ask unanimous consent that that course may be pursued.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Illinois asks unani-
imous consent of the convention, the gentleman from Pennsylvania yielding
for that purpose, that the further reading of the report be dispensed with.
Is there objection? The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered.
The report in full is as follows :
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ORDER OF
BUSINESS.
The Committee on Rules and Order of Business have attended to the du-
ties assigned them, and respectfully report the following rules :
Rule I. The Convention shall consist of a number of delegates from each
State equal to double the number of each Senator and Representative in Con-
gress; six delegates each from the Territories of Arizona, Indian Territory,
New Mexico and Oklahoma; six from Alaska, two from the District of Columbia,
two from Hawaii,* two from Porto Rico, and two from the Philippine Islands;
provided, that during this convention only the order already made as to the
aforesaid delegates from the Philippine Islands, giving them six seats with two
votes, shall continue.
Rule II. The rules of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth
Congress shall be the rules of the Convention, so far as they are applicable
and not inconsistent with the following rules:
Rule III. When the previous question shall be demanded by a majority of
the delegates from any State, and the demand is seconded by two or more
States, and the call is sustained by a majority of the Convention, the question
shall then be proceeded with, and disposed of according to the rules of the
House of Representatives in similar cases.
For this convention only was, by special vote, allowed six delegates. See
page 129.
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Rule IV. A motion to suspend the rules shall be In order only when made
by authority of a majority of the delegates from any State, and seconded by a
majority of the delegates from not less than two other states.
Rule V. It shall be in order to lay on the table a proposed amendment to a
pending measure, and such motion, if adopted, shall not carry with it, or preju-
dice such measure.
Rule VI. Upon all subjects before the Convention the States shall be called
in alphabetical order and next the Territories, Alaska, the District of Columbia,
Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands.
Rule VII. The report of the Committee on Credentials shall be disposed
of before the report of the Committee on Resolutions is acted upon, and the
report of the Committee on Resolutions shall be disposed of before the Con-
vention proceeds to the nomination of a candidate for President and Vice-
President.
Rule VIH. When a majority of the delegates of any two States shall de-
mand that a vote be recorded, the same shall be taken by States, Territories,
Alaska, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippine
Islands, the Secretary calling the roll of the States and Territories, Alaska, the
District of Columbia, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands in the
order heretofore established.
Rule IX. In making the nomination for President and Vice-President, in
no case shall the calling of the roll be dispensed with. When it appears at
the close of any roll-call that any candidate has received the majority of votes
to which the Convention is entitled, the President of the Convention shall
announce the question to be: "Shall the nomination of the candidate be made
unanimous?" If no candidate shall have received such majority, the Chair
shall direct the vote to be taken again, which shall be repeated until some
candidate shall have received a majority of the votes; and when any State
ha announced its votes it shall so stand, unless in case of numerical error.
Rule X. In the record of the votes, the vote of each State, Territory,
Alaska, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands
shall be announced by the Chairman, and in case the vote of any S.tate, Terri-
tory, Alaska, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Porto Rico or the Philippine
Islands shall be divided, the Chairman shall announce the number of votes
for any candidate, or for or against any proposition, but if exception is taken
by any delegate to the correctness of such announcement by the Chairman of
his delegation, the President of the Convention shall direct the roll of mem-
bers of such delegation to be called, and the result shall be recorded in accord-
ance with the vote individually given.
Rule XL No member shall speak more than once upon the same question,
nor longer than five minutes, unless by leave of the Convention, except in the
presentation of the names of candidates.
Rule Xn. A Republican National Committee shall be appointed, to consist
of one member from each State, Territory, Alaska, the District of Columbia,
Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. The roll shall be called and
the delegation from each State, Territory, Alaska, the District of Columbia,
Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands shall name, through its Chair-
man, a person who shall act as member of said committee. Such committee
shall Issue the call for the meeting of the National Convention within sixty
days at least before the time fixed for said meeting, and each Congressional
District in the United States shall elect its delegates to the National Conven-
tion In the same way as the nomination of a member for Congress is made in
said District, and in Territories the delegates to the Convention shall be elected
In the same way as the nomination of a delegate to Congress is made, and
said National Committee shall prescribe the mode of selecting the delegates for
the District of Columbia, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. An alternate
delegate for each delegate to the National Convention, to act in case of the
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 123
absence of the delegate, shall be elected in the same manner and at the same
time as a delegate is elected. Delegates-at-large for each State and their
alternates shall be elected by State Conventions in their respective States.
Twenty days before the day set for the meeting of the National Convention
the credentials of each delegate and alternate shall be forwarded to the Secre-
tary of the National Committee, for use in making up the temporary roll of the
Convention. Notices of contests shall be forwarded in the same manner and
within the same limits of time. And when the Convention shall have as-
sembled and the Committee on Credentials shall have been appointed, the
Secretary of the National Committee shall deliver to the said Committee on
Credentials all credentials and other papers forwarded under this rule.
Rule XIII. The Republican National Committee is authorized and empow-
ered to select an executive committee to consist of nine members, who may or
may not be members of the National Committee.
Rule XIV. All resolutions relating to the platform shall be referred to the
Committee on Resolutions without debate.
Rule XV. No person except members of the several delegations and officers
of the Convention shall be admitted to that section of the hall apportioned to
delegates.
Rule XVI. The Convention shall proceed in the following order of business:
First. Report of the Committee on Credentials.
Second. Report of the Committee on Permanent Organization.
Third. Report of the Committee on Resolutions.
Fourth. Naming members of the National Committee.
Fifth. Presentation of names of Candidates for President.
Sixth. Balloting.
Seventh. Presentation of names of Candidates for Vice-President.
Eighth. Balloting.
Ninth. Call of the roll of States, Territories, Alaska, the District of
Columbia, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines, for names of dele-
gates to serve respectively on Committees, to notify the nominees for
President and Vice-President of their selection for said offices.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
HENRY H. BINGHAM (Pa.), Chairman.
H. B. MAXSON (Nev.), Secretary.
RENO S. HARP (Maryland)
J. M. STEVENS (Idaho)
Assistant Secretaries.
Mr. BINGHAM. I move you, sir, the adoption of the report of the Com-
mittee on Rules and Order of Business.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Pennsylvania moves
the adoption of the report.
Mr. J. B. FORAKER, of Ohio. Mr. Chairman
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. For what purpose does the gentleman from
Ohio rise?
Mr. FORAKER. To offer an amendment to the report.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will send the amendment to
the desk.
Mr. FORAKER. I offer it at the request of the delegation from Hawaii.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The amendment, which is in the form of a
resolution, will be read.
The READING CLERK read as follows :
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Resolved, That the report of the Committee on Rules be amended so as to
allow the six delegates from Hawaii six votes, in conformity with her sister
Territories of Arizona, New Mexico. Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Alaska.
Mr. FORAKER. In support of the amendment I call attention to the fact
that Hawaii is a Territory, made so by legislative enactment, and is entitled
to the same treatment that is accorded every other Territory. Each of the
other Territories is given six delegates. In the call of the National Com-
mittee Hawaii as a Territory was asked to send six delegates, and Alaska,
which is not a Territory, but only a district, was asked to send four dele-
gates. This committee has reported that Alaska shall have six delegates,
and Hawaii, which is a Territory, shall have only two delegates, and that
every other Territory shall have six delegates. We do not object to Alaska
having six delegates if the committee see fit so to provide, but that Hawaii
should be discriminated against is what is complained of on the part of the
Hawaiian delegation, and I think justly.
Governor Carter, who represents that delegation, is on the platform, and
I would be glad to have the convention hear him. (Applause.)
Mr. GEORGE R. CARTER, of Hawaii. Gentlemen of the convention of the
Republican party, there seems to be an impression in some quarters that
Hawaii is not a Territory. I rise to assure you that Hawaii is on the map
of the United States and among the Territories of America, and not in the
list of its possessions. (Applause.) Twelve good, stalwart Republicans
have traveled five thousand miles to show our allegiance to this party. (Ap-
plause.) We are too good American citizens to sit still in the face of dis-
crimination, and too loyal Republicans to see this convention take action
which will injure it even in the isles beyond the sea; those emerald isles,,
the paradise of the Pacific. (Applause.) God grant that it may not occur,
but in the struggle of the future if there should arise a contest on the Pacific
Ocean, Hawaii will be necessary to America, and the people of Hawaii will
not be found wanting. (Applause.)
Mr. A. J. HOPKINS, of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, I trust that the amend-
ment offered by the gentleman from Ohio will not be adopted by this con-
vention, and that the enthusiasm which was displayed by the delegate from
the Hawaiian Islands will not carry the members of this convention away
from what is just and proper in determining the personnel of a great na-
tional convention. I do not yield even to the delegate from Hawaii in my
admiration for those islands, and in my zeal to support any legislation that
will benefit the people of the islands.
It was my province and my pleasure by my vote to assist in making the
Hawaiian Islands a part of the United States, and ever since that time I
have voted always for legislation that would benefit their people. But when
we come to a great national convention, we should not treat the people of
the islands any better than we treat the people in a congressional district in
the State of Illinois, or in the Empire State of New York.
Under the rules which have been proposed here by this committee, the
great congressional district in Illinois that the Speaker of the House of
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Representatives represents, having a population of two hundred thousand
people, is entitled to only two delegates in this convention. The Islands of
Hawaii have a population of only one hundred and fifty thousand. I wish
to know whether we are prepared now to give one hundred and fifty thou-
sand people in that little Territory, greater privileges in this convention than
we give a congressional district in the State of Illinois, or in the State of
New York, or any of the other great States that form this mighty Republic?
The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Foraker) has stated that Hawaii is a
Territory, but I do not recognize that she is entitled, simply by reason of
that fact, to the same representation that we would give a million people
in the Territory of Oklahoma, or that we would give two hundred thousand
people in one of the congressional districts in the State which he so ably
represents in part in the Senate of the United States. If it be a question
of Territory, then I should be in favor of cutting down the representation
from the Territories rather than to give the one hundred and fifty thousand
people in the Hawaiian Islands a representation of six delegates in a na-
tional convention.
You must remember, gentlemen, that we are establishing a precedent here
today. We have only one candidate now, and the net result will be the same
whether we have two delegates or six delegates from the Hawaiian Islands.
But if we once establish the precedent, the time may come when the six
delegates representing the one hundred and fifty thousand people of the Ha-
waiian Islands may determine who our standard-bearer shall be. (Applause.)
And that is one of the reasons why I am opposed today to the increase of
the representation from Hawaii. You must remember that this is an act of
grace upon our part. When the campaign comes upon us, when we are
fighting the common enemy, and seeking to carry to triumphant success Re-
publican principles, to elect a Republican President, these people in the Ter-
ritories and the Hawaiian Islands cannot give us any aid. They may by
their votes give us a candidate who would imperil an electoral ticket in one
of the great States of the Republic. Hence, without taking up your time
further, I trust the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio will
be voted down. (Applause.)
Mr. WILLIAM M. K. OLCOTT, of New York. How about the six votes
from Alaska?
Mr. HOPKINS. I said I should be willing to cut down that representation
rather than to increase this.
Mr. J. W. BABCOCK, of Wisconsin, obtained the floor.
Mr. J. B. FORAKER, of Ohio, addressed the Chair.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Bab-
cock) is recognized. If he does not press recognition at this time
Mr. BABCOCK. I will withhold for the present.
Mr. J. W. MCKINLEY, of California. California desires to press for rec-
ognition.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Wisconsin was first
recognized; does he withdraw his request?
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Mr. BABCOCK. Yes, sir.
Mr. J. B. FORAKER, of Ohio. Mr. Chairman
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Under the rules, the gentleman from Ohio
(Mr. Foraker) having spoken once, he cannot speak again, although the Chair
will submit a request for unanimous consent in his behalf, if desired.
Mr. A. J. HOPKINS, of Illinois. I ask unanimous consent that the gentle-
man from Ohio be heard.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Illinois? The Chair hears none.
Mr. J. B. FORAKER, of Ohio. Mr. Giairman, and gentlemen of the con-
vention, there is much in what was said by the distinguished gentleman from
Illinois (Mr. Hopkins) with which we all sympathize, and when the proper
time comes for making another precedent, we will all listen to his reason-
ing. But I submit that it is too late to raise the objection which in this case
has been made.
I call attention again to the fact that Hawaii is a Territory of the United
States. (Applause.) She has been given a territorial government, and that
action of the Congress of the United States was in accordance with the pro-
visions of the law annexing Hawaii. Hawaii, therefore, stands before us
when it comes to the matter of representation, in precisely the same light
that every other Territory stands before us. (Applause.)
New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma and the Indian Territory were all by the
call of the National Committee allowed six delegates. I think they might
perhaps have lessened that representation without giving cause to anybody
to make just complaint, but they did not do it. They gave each six dele-
gates, and recognizing that Alaska is not a Territory, but only a district, they
provided that Alaska should have four delegates.
The population of Hawaii is as great as the population of Alaska, and
greater. The population of Hawaii is as great as the population of Arizona,
and greater. The population of Hawaii is almost as great as the popula-
tion of New Mexico. There is not, therefore, I submit, any just reason for
saying now, after Hawaii has sent here at great expense six delegates all the
way from the Islands to represent her in response to our call, that we will
draw the line and cut her down to two.
The committee has given, and the convention will be giving, if it approves
the action of the committee, six delegates to Alaska, a district, when only
four were authorized; and six delegates to New Mexico and Arizona, each,
when Hawaii, a Territory with substantially equal population, is to get but
two. That is a discrimination against which we complain. What we want
is that all shall be treated alike, and when the next call is issued the matter
can be considered, and if it shall then be deemed wise to make a change
in representation, it can be made at that time on some basis just to all. But
we ought not to make it now, as an act of discrimination, after Hawaii, in
response to our invitation, has sent six delegates all the way from Hawaii.
We should not now exclude four and admit only two of the six. (Applause.)
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Mr. J. W. BABCOCK, of Wisconsin. Mr. Chairman, as a member of the
Committee on Rules I wish to say that the delegates from Hawaii have al-
ready been seated in this convention and occupy seats on this floor at the
present time. The National Committee and the Committee on Rules re-
ported identically the same, that the six delegates should cast two votes. The
Committee on Rules desires to deal equitably as far as possible, and in this
case gave Porto Rico, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands and the District of
Columbia two votes each.
I appeal to the delegates of this convention, and call their attention to the
character of the population in the respective political subdivisions. The Dis-
trict of Columbia with three hundred thousand intelligent American people
has but two delegates. The gentleman has stated that Hawaii has one hun-
dred and fifty thousand people. The records show that but a short time
ago Hawaii had more than two hundred thousand ; that the population de-
creased to about one hundred and twenty-five thousand, and today is prob-
ably one hundred and forty thousand, according to the best information we
can get.
Mr. Chairman, as has been well stated by the gentleman from Illinois
(Mr. Hopkins), are we to give territory, far distant from the shores of our
mainland, which was not a part of the Louisiana purchase, as much repre-
sentation as other Territories which form a part of the mainland here? Are
we to give a population of one hundred and twenty-five thousand in those
islands the same representation as a Territory in the United States? I do
not wish, gentlemen, to make any criticism of the character of the population
of the respective localities, but I suggest that gentlemen make a mental
comparison of the population of the islands, to which it is asked that we
give six delegates, with three Representative districts in the great State of
New York, which would be entitled to an equal number of delegates dis-
tricts inhabited by strong, intelligent American citizens. And yet this amend-
ment proposes to give those islands the same representation in the great
national convention ; that their delegates are to come here, representing one
hundred and twenty-five thousand people, with the same voice that six hun-
dred thousand people in the great State of New York have.
Mr. Chairman, if the convention purposes seriously to consider this
amendment, I want to add another political subdivision. I want the District
of Columbia to have six representatives ; I want the State of Wisconsin, in
which I reside, to have seventy-eight. We have just as good Republicans
there as in any other State in the Union, and I can not see, Mr. Chairman,
why we are not entitled to the same representation as any other equal area of
territory. (Applause.)
Mr. J. W. McKiNLEY, of California. Mr. Chairman, those who are seek-
ing the adoption of this amendment have not complained of any bad faith or
unfairness on the part of the committee, but they do say that the theories
upon which the committee have acted are not in accordance with those upon
which representation is to be determined according to the precedents and
according to the other portions of this report.
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The gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Babcock) raises the question not
only as to population, but also as to the character of that population. Both
of those matters as to representation from the Territories are false quantities
because, as far as the population. is concerned, they are not applicable to the
rules under which the representation of Territories is determined. Character
of population has no bearing whatever upon the representation of either
States or Territories. (Applause.) Time after time the Republican party
has turned down the proposition to determine anything with reference to
representation upon the basis of the character of the population. They have
recognized the fact that in the Southern States the numbers that largely go
to make up the population belong to a party which is not to be represented
in the halls of a Republican gathering. They have laid down the proposition
' that Republicans wherever they are are entitled to adequate representation,
and that the character of the population is not to be considered and is not
a proper element for consideration in this matter.
The State of California, which I represent, standing at the gateway
through which come the Hawaiian representatives, recognizing the importance
of the extension of our interests throughout the Orient, recognizing the fact
that the Republican party in determining representation from the Territories
looks to the future as well as to the present, believes that, in recognition of
our great policy, we should extend our hands to the Hawaiians coming here
from their homes over five thousand miles distant, nearly three thousand of
which are across the sea. We believe they should have such representation
as will enable them to go home to their people and say that from a Repub-
lican convention they received a welcome and a God-speed which encourages
them to feel that in the future, as in the past, the great Republican party
extends its protecting power to the islands of the sea and to all people, what-
ever their character may be. (Applause.)
Mr. HENRY H. BINGHAM, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman, in order that
there may be no misunderstanding as to the action of your Committee on
Rules, I will state that the matter of the increase of representation from
Hawaii was considered by your committee, and it was determined that they
should have the same representation in this convention, as well as in the
future, as they have had in the past. We increased the representation of
Alaska from four to six. Alaska has been on the roll of national conven-
tions for many years, and her original increase was from two to four, and for
the last sixteen years her representation has been four. Alaska has poured
into the industries and treasury of the country millions upon millions of
dollars, and in recognition of that industry and tribute to the Republic, we
increased the representation from four to six. (Applause.)
Now further, it must not be forgotten that perhaps in the future the
contests may be closer in determination than they are in this convention,
where it seems to be an easy line of expression to determine who shall be
our standard bearers. Had the Territories in the convention in Cincinnati
which nominated President Hayes had the representation that they have in
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this convention, they could have changed and perhaps would have changed
the determination of that convention.
There are now from the Territories, from Oklahoma, Porto Rico, the
District of Columbia, Hawaii, etc., all told, thirty-eight representatives in
this convention ; they have nine members of the National Committee ; and
in defense of your Committee on Rules, I submit that we were acting in per-
fect fairness when we continued, as we did, the rule giving two as the repre-
sentation from Hawaii.
Now a word as to the action of the National Committee. In their call
for this convention they called for six delegates and alternates from Hawaii.
The National Committee went beyond their authority. The authority under
which the National Committee in the organization of the next convention will
operate is the rules adopted by this convention. The National Committee in
existence a few days ago operated under the rules of the convention of 1900
at Philadelphia. That convention determined that Hawaii should have two
delegates.
Now, with full recognition of the patriotic and the party sentiment that
has brought here this representation thousands of miles from Hawaii, and
in consonance with the action of the convention yesterday in giving represen-
tation to the Philippines, I offer to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Foraker)
and would ask his acceptance of a substitute, which I think will cover future
policy as well as meet the sentiment expressed with reference to the credit-
able performance on the part of the delegates from Hawaii in journeying to
this convention. The substitute, which I will now read, follows the action
of the convention yesterday with reference to the Philippine Islands :
"That the representation of Hawaii shall be two delegates ; provided, that
this shall not impair the rights and privileges of the six delegates already
seated in this convention."
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Pennsylvania moves
an amendment, by way of substitute, to the amendment of the gentleman
from Ohio. The substitute will be read.
The READING CLERK read as follows:
"That the representation of Hawaii shall be two delegates ; provided, that
this shall not impair the rights and privileges of the six delegates already
seated in this convention."
Mr. J. B. FORAKER, of Ohio. I wish to say in answer to the question
propounded to me by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Bingham) that
I do not see why, if this substitute is to be now adopted, it should not be
made to apply to Alaska, Arizona and New Mexico as well, because they
have no greater population, and neither New Mexico nor Arizona has any
advantage over Hawaii, all being Territories alike.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the substi-
tute offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Bingham) for the
amendment submitted by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Foraker). (Putting
the question.) : The "ayes" seem to have it.
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Mr. J. B. FORAKER, of Ohio. A division.
Mr. M. G. WALSH, of Illinois. A roll call.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Under the rule a roll call can be ordered
on the demand of two States. Does any State demand a roll call?
Mr. J. W. McKiNLEY, of California. California demands a roll call.
Mr. H. C. HANSBROUGH, of North Dakota. North Dakota seconds the
demand.
The demand was also seconded by Mr. J. B. Foraker on behalf of Ohio
and by Mr. John W. Springer on behalf of Colorado.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will call the roll of States, and
the chairman of each delegation will report the yeas and nays.
Mr. J. B. FORAKER, of Ohio. It is requested that the substitute be again
read. Some delegates wish to hear it again.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. In the absence of objection, the Clerk will
again read the substitute.
Mr. FORAKER. If it is not too late, I move to amend the substitute by in-
cluding Alaska, Arizona and New Mexico.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. That can not be done, as the roll call has
been ordered.
It has been requested that the substitute be again read. The Clerk will
read it.
The READING CLERK again read the substitute.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will call the roll on the question
of agreeing to the substitute offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania
(Mr. Bingham) for the amendment proposed by the gentleman from Ohio
(Mr. Foraker).
The Clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. SHELBY M. CULLOM, of Illinois (when Illinois was called). I ask the
convention to allow Illinois to be passed for the moment.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. In the absence of objection, Illinois will be
passed for the time being.
Mr. GEORGE R. CARTER, of Hawaii (when Hawaii was called). Hawaii
does not vote.
The roll call was concluded.
Mr. SHELBY M. CULLOM, of Illinois. Illinois is now prepared to vote.
She casts 34 yeas and 20 nays.
Mr. M. G. WALSH, of Illinois. I challenge the vote of Illinois, and call
for a poll of the delegation.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The vote of Illinois is challenged. Upon
what ground does the gentleman challenge the vote ?
Mr. EDGAR F. OLSON, of Illinois. Upon the ground that I do not think the
poll of the delegation has been completed.
Mr. SHELBY M. CULLOM, of Illinois. Mr. Chairman, the report made to
the chairman of the delegation was as I stated it to be. If there is any mis-
take about it
Mr. M. G. WALSH, of Illinois. I withdraw the challenge.
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 131
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Illinois withdraws his
challenge, and the vote will stand as recorded.
The result was announced, Yeas 495, Nays 490, as follows :
States or Whole Number
Territories. Delegates. Yeas. Nays.
Alabama 22 4 18
Arkansas 18 1 17
California 20 .. 20
Colorado 10 . . 10
Connecticut 14 .. 14
Delaware 6 1 6
Florida 10 .. 8
Georgia 26 .. 26
Idaho 6 .. 6
Illinois 54 34 20
Indiana 30 28 2
Iowa 26 .. 26
Kansas 20 20
Kentucky 26 18 8
Louisiana 18 9 9
Maine 12 4 8
Maryland 16 16
Massachusetts 32 32
Michigan 28 14 14
Minnesota 22 . . 22
Mississippi 20 .. 20
Missouri 36 14 22
Montana 6 4 2
Nebraska 16 14 2
Nevada 6 6
New Hampshire 8 2 5
New Jersey 24 10 14
New York 78 71 7
North Carolina 24 12 12
North Dakota 8 . . 8
Ohio 46 2 44
Oregon 8 . . 8
Pennsylvania 68 68
Rhode Island 8 8
South Carolina 18 9 9
South Dakota 8 .. 8
Tennessee 24 17 7
Texas 36 1 35
Utah 6 1 5
Vermont 8 8
Virginia 24 24
"Washington 10 . . 10
West Virginia 14 14
Wisconsin 26 26
Wyoming 6 1 5
District of Columbia 2 2
Alaska 6 6
Arizona 6 6
Indian Territory 6 6
New Mexico 6 6
Oklahoma 6 2 4
Hawaii *6
Philippine Islands 2 2
Porto Rico 2 2
Totals 994 495 490
*This Convention only.
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So Mr. Bingham's substitute for the amendment offered by Mr. Foraker
was agreed to.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The question is upon agreeing to the
amendment as amended.
The amendment as amended was agreed to.
Mr. HENRY H. BINGHAM, of Pennsylvania. I call for a vote on the adop-
tion of the report.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the report
of the Committee on Rules and Order of Business as amended.
The report as amended was agreed to.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The next business in order is the report
of the Committee on Resolutions. Is the committee ready to report?
Mr. HENRY CABOT LODGE, of Massachusetts, rose.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from
Massachusetts.
Mr. HENRY CABOT LODGE, of Massachusetts. Mr. Chairman, I am in-
structed by the Committee on Resolutions, by a unanimous vote, to make the
following report:
Fifty years ago the Republican party came into existence dedicated among
other purposes to the great task of arresting the extension of human slavery.
In 1860 it elected its first President. During twenty-four of the forty-four
years which have elapsed since the election of Lincoln the Republican party
has held complete control of the government. For eighteen more of the
forty-four years it has held partial control through the possession of one
or two branches of the government, while the Democratic party during the
same period has had complete control for only two years. This long tenure
of power by the Republican party is not due to chance. It is a demonstra-
tion that the Republican party has commanded the confidence of the Amer-
ican people for nearly two generations to a degree never equaled in our his-
tory, and has displayed a high capacity for rule and government which has
been made even more conspicuous by the incapacity and infirmity of purpose
shown by its opponents.
The Republican party entered upon its present period of complete su-
premacy in 1897. We have every right to congratulate ourselves upon the
work since then accomplished, for it has added luster even to the traditions
of the party which carried the government through the storms of Civil War.
We then found the country after four years of Democratic rule in evil
plight, oppressed with misfortune and doubtful of the future. Public credit
had been lowered, the revenues were declining, the debt was growing, the
administration's attitude toward Spain was feeble and mortifying, and stand-
ard of values was threatened and uncertain, labor was unemployed, busi-
ness was sunk in the depression which had succeeded the panic of 1893, hope
was faint and confidence was gone.
HON. HENRY CABOT LODGE, of Massachusetts,
Who was Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions.
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 133
We met these unhappy conditions vigorously, effectively, and at once.
We replaced a Democratic tariff law based on free trade principles and gar-
nished with sectional protection by a consistent protective tariff; and indus-
try, freed from oppression and stimulated by the encouragement of wise laws,
has expanded to a degree never before known, has conquered new markets,
and has created a volume of exports which has surpassed imagination. Un-
der the Dingley tariff labor has been fully employed, wages have risen, and all
industries have revived and prospered.
We firmly established the gold standard which was then menaced with'
destruction. Confidence returned to business, and with confidence an unex-
ampled prosperity.
For deficient revenues, supplemented by improvident issues of bonds, we
gave the country an income which produced a large surplus and which en-
abled us only four years after the Spanish war had closed to remove over
one hundred millions of annual war taxes, reduce the public debt, and lower
the interest charges of the government.
The public credit which had been so lowered that in time of peace a
Democratic administration made large loans at extravagant rates of interest
in order to pay current expenditures, rose under Republican administration
to its highest point and enabled us to borrow at 2 per cent even in time of
war.
We refused to palter longer with the miseries of Cuba. We fought a
quick and victorious war with Spain. We set Cuba free, governed the island
for three years, and then gave it to the Cuban people with order restored,
with ample revenues, with education and public health established, free from
debt, and connected with the United States by wise provisions for our
mutual interests.
We have organized the government of Porto Rico, and its people now
enjoy peace, freedom, order, and prosperity.
In the Philippines we have suppressed insurrection, established order, and
given to life and property a security never known there before. We have
organized civil government, made it effective and strong in administration,
and have conferred upon the people of those islands the largest civil liberty
they have ever enjoyed.
By our possession of the Philippines we were enabled to take prompt and
effective action in the relief of the legations at Peking and a decisive part
in preventing the partition and preserving the integrity of China.
The possession of a route for an isthmian canal, so long the dream of
American statesmanship, is now an accomplished fact. The great work of
connecting the Pacific and Atlantic by a canal is at last begun, and it is due
to the Republican party.
We have passed laws which will bring the arid lands of the United States
within the area of cultivation.
We have reorganized the army and put it in the highest state of efficiency.
We have passed laws for the improvement and support of the militia.
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We have pushed forward the building of the navy, the defense and protec-
tion of our honor and our interests.
Our administration of the great departments of the government has been
honest and efficient, and wherever wrongdoing has been discovered, the Re-
publican administration has not hesitated to probe the evil and bring offend-
ers to justice without regard to party or political ties.
Laws enacted by the Republican party which the Democratic party failed
to enforce and which were intended for the protection of the public against
the unjust discrimination or the illegal encroachment of vast aggregations
of capital, have been fearlessly enforced by a Republican President, and new
laws insuring reasonable publicity as to the operations of great corporations,
and providing additional remedies for the prevention of discrimination in
freight rates, have been passed by a Republican Congress.
In this record of achievement during the past eight years may be read the
pledges which the Republican party has fulfilled. We promise to continue
these policies, and we declare our constant adherence to the following prin-
ciples :
Protection, which guards and develops our industries, is a cardinal policy
of the Republican party. The measure of protection should always at least
equal the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad. We insist
upon the maintenance of the principle of protection, and, therefore, rates of
duty should be readjusted only when conditions have so changed that the
public interest demands their alteration, but this work cannot safely be com-
mitted to any other hands than those of the Republican party. To intrust
it to the Democratic party is to invite disaster. Whether, as in 1892, the
Democratic party declares the protective tariff unconstitutional, or whether
it demands tariff reform or tariff revision, its real object is always the
destruction of the protective system. However specious the name, the pur-
pose is ever the same. A Democratic tariff has always been followed by
business adversity: a Republican tariff by business prosperity. To a Repub-
lican Congress and a Republican President this great question can be safely
intrusted. When the only free trade country among the great nations agitates
a return to protection the chief protective country should not falter in main-
taining it.
We have extended widely our foreign markets, and we believe in the adop-
tion of all practicable methods for their further extension, including com-
mercial reciprocity wherever reciprocal arrangements can be effected con-
sistent with the principles of protection and without injury to American ag-
riculture, American labor, or any American industry.
We believe it to be the duty of the Republican party to uphold the gold
standard and the integrity and value of our national currency. The main-
tenance of the gold standard, established by the Republican party, cannot
safely be committed to the Democratic party, which resisted its adoption
and has never given any proof since that time of belief in it or fidelity to it.
While every other industry has prospered under the fostering aid of Re-
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 135
publican legislation, American shipping engaged in foreign trade in compe-
tition with the low cost of construction, low wages and heavy subsidies of
foreign governments, has not for many years received from the government
of the United States adequate encouragement of any kind. We therefore
favor legislation which will encourage and build up the American merchant
marine, and we cordially approve the legislation of the last Congress which
created the Merchant Marine Commission to investigate and report upon this
subject.
A navy powerful enough to defend the United States against any attack, to
uphold the Monroe Doctrine, and watch over our commerce, is essential to the
safety and the welfare of the American people. To maintain such a navy
is the fixed policy of the Republican party.
We cordially approve the attitude of President Roosevelt and Congress
in regard to the exclusion of Chinese labor, and promise a continuance of
the Republican policy in that direction.
The civil service law was placed on the statute books by the Republican
party, which has always sustained it, and we renew our former declarations
that it shall be thoroughly and honestly enforced.
We are always mindful of the country's debt to the soldiers and sailors of
the United States, and we believe in making ample provision for them and in
the liberal administration of the pension laws.
We favor the peaceful settlement of international differences by arbitra-
tion.
We commend the vigorous efforts made by the administration to protect
American citizens in foreign lands, and pledge ourselves to insist upon the
just and equal protection of all our citizens abroad. It is the unquestioned
duty of the government to procure for all our citizens, without distinction,
the rights of travel and sojourn in friendly countries, and we declare our-
selves in favor of all proper efforts tending to that end.
Our great interests and our growing commerce in the Orient render the
condition of China of high importance to the United States. We cordially
commend the policy pursued in that direction by the administrations of Pres-
ident McKinley and President Roosevelt.
We favor such Congressional action as shall determine whether by special
discriminations the elective franchise in any State has been unconstitutionally
limited, and, if such is the case, we demand that representation in Congress
and in the electoral colleges shall be proportionally reduced as directed by the
Constitution of the United States.
Combinations of capital and of labor are the results of the economic
movement of the age, but neither must be permitted to infringe upon the
rights and interests of the people. Such combinations, when lawfully formed
for lawful purposes, are alike entitled to the protection of the laws, but
both are subject to the laws and neither can be permitted to break them.
The great statesman and patriotic American, William McKinley, who was
re-elected by the Republican party to the Presidency four years ago, was
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assassinated just at the threshold of his second term. The entire nation
mourned his untimely death and did that justice to his great qualities of
mind and character which history will confirm and repeat.
The American people were fortunate in his successor, to whom they turned
with a trust and confidence which have been fully justified. President Roose-
velt brought to the great responsibilities thus sadly forced upon him a clear
head, a brave heart, an earnest patriotism, and high ideals of public duty and
public service. True to the principles of the Republican party and to the
policies which that party had declared, he has also shown himself ready for
every emergency and has met new and vital questions with ability and with
success.
The confidence of the people in his justice, inspired by his public career,
enabled him to render personally an inestimable service to the country by
bringing about a settlement of the coal strike, which threatened such disas-
trous results at the opening of winter in 1002.
Our foreign policy under his administration has not only been able, vig-
orous, and dignified, but in the highest degree successful.
The complicated questions which arose in Venezuela were settled in such
a way by President Roosevelt that the Monroe doctrine was signally vin-
dicated and the cause of peace and arbitration greatly advanced.
His prompt and vigorous action in Panama, which we commend in the
highest terms, not only secured to us the canal route, but avoided foreign
complications which might have been of a very serious character.
He has continued the policy of President McKinley in the Orient, and
our position in China, signalized by our recent commercial treaty with that
empire, has never been so high.
He secured the tribunal by which the vexed and perilous question of the
Alaskan boundary was finally settled.
Whenever crimes against humanity have been perpetrated which have
shocked our people, his protest has been made, and our good offices have been
tendered, but always with due regard to international obligations.
Under his guidance we find ourselves at peace with all the world, and
never were we more respected or our wishes more regarded by foreign na-
tions.
Pre-eminently successful in regard to our foreign relations, he has been
equally fortunate in dealing with domestic questions. The country has known
that the public credit and the national currency were absolutely safe in the
hands of his administration. In the enforcement of the laws he has shown
not only courage, but the wisdom which understands that to permit laws
to be violated or disregarded opens the door to anarchy, while the just en-
forcement of the law is the soundest conservatism. He has held firmly to
the fundamental American doctrine that all men must obey the law; that
there must be no distinction between rich and poor, between strong and
weak, but that justice and equal protection under the law must be secured
to every citizen without regard to race, creed, or condition.
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 137
His administration has been throughout vigorous and honorable, high-
minded and patriotic. We commend it without reservation to the considerate
judgment of the American people.
(The reading of the report was received with great applause.)
Mr. LODGE. Mr. Chairman, I move the adoption of the report of the Com-
mittee on Resolutions which I have just read.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the report
of the Committee on Resolutions.
The report was unanimously agreed to.
ION PERDICARIS.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. With the consent of the convention the
Chair will direct the Clerk to read a dispatch from Washington, which has been
verified, received through the courtesy of the Scripps-McRae Newspaper
Association.
The READING CLERK read as follows:
"The following message was sent in consequence of a dispatch received
from Admiral Chadwick, which intimated very strongly that the Moroccan
government was not acting in good faith. The exact hitch in the negotia-
tion has not been made public.
"Bulletin.
"Washington, June 22.
"Secretary of State Hay has sent instructions to Consul General Samuel
R. Gummer, as follows :
"We want either Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." (Applause.)
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The next order of business is the calling
of the roll by States for the presentation of names of persons chosen mem-
bers of the Republican National Committee, and also for the presentation
of names of persons chosen honorary Vice-Presidents. The Chair is in-
formed that the Secretary has a full report as to both of these rolls, and if
there be no objection he will read the same, and if they are not proper, cor-
rections can be made as they are read.
The Reading Clerk proceeded to read the list of names presented by the
various delegations for members of the Republican National Committee.
Mr. H. W. ROBINSON, of Louisiana (when the nomination of Louisiana
was read). Mr. Chairman
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. For what purpose does the gentleman rise?
Mr. ROBINSON. I rise to make a correction for Louisiana.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state it.
Mr. ROBINSON. We ask permission to withdraw the nomination already
made by us, and that Louisiana be passed until tomorrow morning.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Is such the request of the delegation? If
so, in the absence of objection, it is so ordered.
The Reading Clerk concluded the reading of the list, which, as finally made
up, is as follows :
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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
GEORGE B. CORTELYOU, New York,
Chairman.
ELMER DOVER, Ohio,
Secretary.
CORNELIUS BLISS, New York,
Treasurer.
WILLIAM F. STONE, Maryland,
Sergeant-at Arms.
State. Name.
Alabama CHAS. H. SCOTT
Arkansas POWELL CLAYTON
California GEORGE A. KNIGHT
Colorado A. M. STEVENSON
Connecticut CHAS. F. BROOKER
Delaware JOHN EDWARD ADDICKS
Florida J. N. COOMBS
Georgia JUDSON W. LYONS
Idaho W. B. HEYBURN
Illinois FRANK O. LOWDEN
Indiana HARRY S. NEW
Iowa ERNEST E. HART
Kansas DAVID W. MULVANE
Kentucky .JOHN W. YERKES
Louisiana
Maine JOHN F. HILL
Maryland LOUIS E. McCOMAS
Massachusetts W. MURRAY CRANE
Michigan JOHN W. BLODGETT
Minnesota FRANK D. KELLOGG
Mississippi L. B. MOSELEY
Missouri THOMAS J. AKIN
Montana JOHN D. WAITS
Nebraska CHAS. H. MORRILL
Nevada PATRICK L. FLANIGAN
New Hampshire FRANK S. STREETER
New Jersey FRANKLIN MURPHY
New York WM. L. WARD
North Carolina E. C. DUNCAN
North Dakota ALEXANDER McKENZIE
Ohio MYRON T. HERRICK
Oregon CHAS. H. CAREY
Pennsylvania BOIES PENROSE
Rhode Island CHAS. R. BRAYTON
South Carolina JOHN G. CAPERS
South Dakota J. M. GREENE
Tennessee WALTER P. BROWNLOW
Texas CECIL A. LYON
Utah C. E. LOOSE
Vermont JAMES. W. BROCK
Virginia GEORGE E. BOWDEN
Washington LEVI ANKENY
West Virginia N. B. SCOTT
Wisconsin HENRY C. PAYNE
Wyoming GEORGE E. PEXTON
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 139
TERRITORIES, ETC.
Alaska JOHN G. HEID
Arizona W. S. STURGES
New Mexico SOLOMON LUNA
Oklahoma C. M. CADE
Indian Territory P. L. SOPER
District of Columbia ROBERT REYBURN
Hawaii A. G. M. ROBERTSON
Porto Rico R. H. TODD
Philippine Islands HENRY B. McCOY
HONORARY . VICE-PRESIDENTS.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will now read the list of hon-
orary Vice-Presidents.
The READING CLERK read as follows :
States or Territories Name.
Alabama J. W. HUGHES, SR.
Arkansas CHAS. N. RIX
California E. D. ROBERTS
Colorado JAMES H. PEABODY
Connecticut DONALD T. WARNER
Delaware JOHN HUNN
Florida WALTER G. ROBINSON
Georgia J. S. GARRETT
Idaho C. J. HALL
Illinois CHARLES H. DEERE
Indiana ISAAC STRAUSS
Iowa A. B. CUMMINS
Kansas J. H. RICHARDS
Kentucky HENRY L. STONE
Louisiana B. V. BARANCO
Maine ALBERT A. BURLEIGH
Maryland STEVENSON A. WILLIAMS
Massachusetts JOHN D. LONG
Michigan DEXTER M. FERRY
Minnesota C. A. SMITH
Mississippi F. W. COLLINS
Missouri WM. WARNER
Montana LEE MANTLE
Nebraska FRANK HELVEY
Nevada R. S. MEACHAM
New Hampshire BERTRAM ELLIS
New Jersey DAVID BAIRD
New York JOHN RAINES
North Carolina T. S. ROLLINS
North Dakota L. B. HANNA
Ohio J. E. LOWES
Oregon C. W. HODSON
Pennsylvania W. W. GRIEST
Rhode Island CHARLES ALEXANDER
South Carolina L. W. C. BLALOCK
South Dakota J. R. HUGHES
Tennessee N. W. HALE
Texas WEBSTER FLANAGAN
Utah HERSCHEL BULLEN, JR.
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States or Territories Name.
Vermont HIRAM N. TURNER
Virginia JOHN ACKER
Washington GEO. DONALD
West Virginia C. H. SHATTUCK
Wisconsin EMIL BAENSCH
Wyoming N. K. BOSWELL
District of Columbia JOHN F. COOK
Alaska W. D. GRANT
Arizona W. H. BROPHY
Indian Territory WILLIAM M. MELLETTE
New Mexico FRANK A. HUBBELL
Oklahoma JOHN H. COTTERAL
Hawaii W. H. HOOGS
Philippine Islands J. S. STANLEY
Porto Rico
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
Mr. J. H. GALLINGER, of New Hampshire. Mr. Chairman, I offer a res-
olution for the. consideration of the convention.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New Hampshire sub-
mits a resolution which will be read.
The READING CLERK read as follows :
"Resolved, That the Republican National Committee be, and it is hereby,
empowered to fill all vacancies in its membership."
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the resolu-
tion presented by the gentleman from New Hampshire.
The resolution was agreed to.
ADJOURNMENT.
Mr. JOHN KEAN, of New Jersey. I move, Mr. Chairman, that the con-
vention adjourn until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
Mr. GRAEME STEWART, of Illinois. I second the motion.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The question is on agreeing to the motion
of the gentleman from New Jersey, which the gentleman from Illinois sec-
onds, that the convention adjourn until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
The motion was agreed to; and (at 3 o'clock and 50 minutes p. m.) the
convention adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, June 23, 1904, at 10 o'clock
a. m.
THIRD DAY
ADDRESS OF HON. FRANK S. BLACK, NOMINATING THEODORE
ROOSEVELT FOR PRESIDENT SECONDING SPEECH BY HON.
A. J. BEVERIDGE HISTORIC FLAG OTHER ADDRESSES BY
HON. GEO. A. KNIGHT, HON. H. S. EDWARDS, HON. WM. O.
BRADLEY, HON. JOSEPH B. COTTON, HON. HARRY S. CUM-
MINGS ROOSEVELT UNANIMOUSLY NOMINATED ADDRESS
OF HON. J. P. DOLLIVER NOMINATING CHARLES W. FAIR-
BANKS FOR VICE PRESIDENT SECONDING SPEECH BY
HON. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW OTHER ADDRESSES BY HON.
J. B. FORAKER, HON. S. W. PENNYPACKER, HON. THOMAS H.
CARTER FAIRBANKS UNANIMOUSLY NOMINATED FOR VICE
PRESIDENT NOTIFICATION COMMITTEES RESOLUTIONS-
ADJOURNMENT.
CONVENTION HALL
THE COLISEUM, CHICAGO, ILL., Thursday, June 23, 1904.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN (at 10 o'clock and 30 minutes a. m.) The
convention will be opened with prayer by Rev. Thaddeus A. Snively.
PRAYER OF REV. THADDEUS A. SNIVELY.
Rev. THADDEUS A. SNIVELY, of Chicago, 111., offered the following prayer:
Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, Infinite and Eternal, Creator and
Preserver of all mankind, with profound reverence we acknowledge Thee
as the source of life and strength, the Giver of every good and perfect gift.
Blessed Lord, we pray Thee for our country, the dear land for which our
fathers fought in the long strife for human liberty. Tftou hast made it the
land of the free and the home of the brave. We pray so to guide us by Thy
power and wisdom that our liberty may never degenerate into license, and
that our people may be brave, not simply with brute courage to face force and
violence, but with the higher moral power which makes us strong to battle
for truth and honor and noble principle.
We beseech Thee to give to our whole nation the strong desire and pur-
pose to uphold law and order and to seek noble character and true integrity
as the most sublime achievements of the race. Grant, we pray Thee, that
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the benumbing touch of material possessions, or the lust of power, may never
blind us to the true greatness and glory of moral advancement. Help us
ever to remember that the fathers of this government were patriots of
never-dying fame because they believed that poverty and defeat with unsul-
lied honor are far better than vast wealth and world-wide influence purchased
at the cost of shame. We beseech Thee, O Thou God of love and peace, to
keep from us all those who would overthrow the old standards of peace and
harmony and brotherhood; and grant that the sense of true brotherly love
and mutual respect may prevail among all classes and conditions of our peo-
ple; that peace and justice may be our aim and ambition both within and
beyond our borders.
In this seedtime of the year, we pray to bless the harvest. May abundant
crops be the reward of the husbandmen, whose labors make possible the
feeding of the vast multitudes of Thy children abundant increase of grain
and fruits to keep in busy movement the mighty engines of commerce and
the looms and machines of human industry that thus hunger and idleness
and want may be kept far away from our people and prosperity dwell within
our country.
Our Heavenly Father, we pray Thee to send Thy blessing upon all our
country and all our people, and especially upon all those in authority, upon
the President of the United States, upon the Governors of all the States,
upon the Congress of the Nation, and upon the Legislatures of the different
Commonwealths, and upon all who occupy places of trust and responsibility;
that they, knowing whose ministers they are, may above all things seek Thy
honor and glory.
Upon this great multitude here gathered, we ask Thy blessing. Keep before
us, we pray Thee, high motive and lofty aim, and grant, in Thy infinite good-
ness, that this convention may have its part in holding aloft the highest ideals
and most glorious standards of true citizenship. Wilt Thou so direct their
deliberations that the best results for our dear country may be advanced by
their work, that thus they may do their part in helping to the ordering and
settling of all things upon the surest foundations, that peace and happiness,
truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all
generations.
Finally we pray for all the people of this land, that Thou wouldst direct
us, O Lord, in all our doings with Thy most gracious favor and further us
with Thy continual help ; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in
Thee, we may glorify Thy Holy Name, and finally, by Thy mercy, obtain
everlasting life, through Him who hast taught us to say
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom
come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass
against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil :
for Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever.
Amen.
HON. FRANK S. BLACK, of New York,
Who Made the Address Placing Theodore Roosevelt in Nomination for the
Presidency.
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FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read an announcement.
The READING CLERK read as follows:
"On the 6th day of July at Jackson, Mich., will be celebrated the fiftieth
anniversary of the birth of the Republican party, the time and place where
it received its name. Secretary Hay will deliver the principal address and
Senator Fairbanks and others will be present and speak. A cordial invita-
tion is extended to all."
NOMINATION OF CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The next business in order is the calling
of the roll of States for the presentation of names of candidates for Presi-
dent of the United States.
The Clerk proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. OSCAR R. HUNDLEY, of Alabama (when Alabama was called). The
State of Alabama requests the privilege and the distinguished honor of yield-
ing its place upon the call to the State of New York. (Applause.)
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Alabama yields to New York.
Mr. Frank S. Black, of New York, was escorted to the platform.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. It is my privilege and great pleasure to
introduce to this convention my ex-colleague in the House of Representatives
from the great Empire State, one cf the most magnificent orators, and a
Republican by nature ex-Governor Black. (Applause.)
NOMINATING SPEECH OF MR. FRANK S. BLACK, OF NEW YORK.
Mr. BLACK, of New York. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Conven-
tion : We are here to inaugurate a campaign which seems already to be
nearly closed. So wisely have the people sowed and watched and tended,
there seems little now to do but to measure up the grain. They are rang-
ing themselves not for battle but for harvest. In one column reaching from
the Maine woods to the Puget Sound are those people and those states
which have stood so long together, that when great emergencies arise the
nation turns instinctively to them. In this column, vast and solid, is a ma-
jority so overwhelming that the scattered squads in opposition can hardly
raise another army. The enemy has neither guns nor ammunition, and if
they had they would use them on each other. (Applause.) Destitute of the
weapons of effective warfare, the only evidence of approaching battle is in
the tone and number of their bulletins. There is discord among the generals ;
discord among the soldiers. Each would fight in his own way, but before as-
saulting his Republican adversaries he would first destroy his own com-
rades in the adjoining tents. Each believes the weapons chosen by the
other are not only wicked but fatal to the holder. That is true. This is the
only war of modern times where the boomerang has been substituted for the
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gun. (Laughter.) Whatever fatalities may occur, however, among the dis-
cordant hosts now moving on St. Louis, no harm will come this fall to the
American people. There will be no opposition sufficient to raise a conflict.
There will be hardly enough for competition. There are no Democratic
plans for the conduct of the fall campaign. Their zeal is chiefly centred
in discussion as to what Thomas Jefferson would do if he were living.
(Laughter and applause.) He is not living, and but few of his descendants
are among the Democratic remnants of to-day. Whatever of patriotism or
wisdom emanated from that distinguished man is now represented in this
convention. (Applause.)
It is a sad day for any party when its only means of solving living issues
is by guessing at the possible attitude of a statesman who is dead. (Laugh-
ter and applause.) This condition leaves that party always a beginner and
makes every question new. The Democratic party has seldom tried a prob-
lem on its own account, and when it has its blunders have been its only
monuments, its courage is remembered only in regret. (Laughter and ap-
plause.) As long as these things are recalled that party may serve as ballast,
but it will never steer the ship. (Applause.)
When all the people have forgotten will dawn a golden era for this new
Democracy. But the country is not ready yet to place a party in the lead
whose most expressive motto is the cheerless word "forget." That motto
may express contrition, but it does not inspire hope. (Applause.) Neither
confidence nor enthusiasm will ever be aroused by any party which enters
each campaign uttering the language of the mourner. (Applause.)
There is one fundamental plank, however, on which the two great parties
are in full agreement. Both believe in the equality of men. The difference
is that the Democratic party would make every man as low as the poorest,
while the Republican party would make every man as high as the best. (Ap-
plause.) But the Democratic course will provoke no outside interference
now, for the Republican motto is that of the great commander, ''never in-
terrupt the enemy while he is making a mistake." (Laughter and applause.)
In politics as in other fields, the most impressive arguments spring from
contrast. Never has there been a more striking example of unity than is now
afforded by this assemblage. You are gathered here not as factions torn by
discordant views, but moved by one desire and intent, you have come as the
chosen representatives of the most enlightened party in the world. You meet
not as strangers, for no men are strangers who hold the same beliefs and
espouse the same cause. You may separate two bodies of water for a thou-
sand years, but when once the barrier is removed they mingle instantly and
are one. The same traditions inspire and the same purposes actuate us all.
Never in our lives did these purposes stand with deeper root than now. At
least two generations have passed away since the origin of that great move-
ment from which sprang the spirit which has been the leading impulse in
American politics for half a century. In that movement, which was both a
creation and an example, were those great characters which endowed the
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Republican party at its birth with the attributes of justice, equality and prog-
ress, which have held it to this hour in line with the highest sentiments of
mankind. From these men we have inherited the desire, and to their memory
we owe the resolution, that those great schemes of government and humanity,
inspired by their patriotism, and established by their blood, shall remain as
the fixed and permanent emblem of their labors, and the abiding signal of
the liberty and progress of the race. (Applause.)
There are many new names in these days, but the Republican party needs
no new title. It stands now where it stood at the beginning. Memory alone
is needed to tell the source from which the inspirations of the country flow.
A drowsy memory would be as guilty now as a sleeping watchman when
the enemy is astir. The name of the Republican party stands over every door
where a righteous cause was born. Its members have gathered around every
movement, no matter how weak, if inspired by high resolve. Its flag for
more than fifty years has been the sign of hope on every spot where liberty
was the word. (Applause.) That party needs no new name or platform
to designate its purposes. It is now as it has been, equipped, militant and in
motion. The problems of every age that age must solve. Great causes
impose great demands, but never in any enterprise have the American people
failed, and never in any crisis has the Republican party failed to express the
conscience and intelligence of that people. (Applause.)
The public mind is awake both to its opportunities and its dangers. No-
where in the world, in any era, did citizenship mean more than it means to-
day in America. Men of courage and sturdy character are ranging themselves
together with a unanimity seldom seen. There is no excuse for groping in
the dark, for the light is plain to him who will but raise his eyes. The
American people believe in a man or party that has convictions and knows
why. They believe that what experience has proved it is idle to resist. A
wise man is any fool about to die. But there is a wisdom which with good
fortune may guide the living and the strong. That wisdom springs from
reason, observation and experience. Guided by these this thing is plain, and
young men may rely upon it, that the history and purposes I have described,
rising even to the essence and aspirations of patriotism, find their best con-
crete example in the career and doctrines of the Republican party. (Applause.)
But not alone upon the principles of that party are its members in accord.
With the same devotion which has marked their adherence to those principles,
magnificent and enduring as they are, they have already singled out the
man to bear their standard and to lead the way. No higher badge was ever
yet conferred. But great as the honor is, the circumstances which surround
it make that honor even more profound. You have come from every state
and territory in this vast domain. The country and the town have vied with
each other in sending here their contributions to this splendid throng. Every
highway in the land is leading here and crowded with the members of that
great party which sees in this splendid city the symbol of its rise and power.
Within this unexampled multitude is every rank and condition of free men,
every creed and occupation. But to-day a common purpose and desire have
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engaged us all, and from every nook and corner of the country rises but a
single choice to fill the most exalted office in the world. (Applause.) He
is no stranger waiting in the shade to be called suddenly into public light.
The American people have seen him for many years and always where the
fight was thickest and the greatest need was felt. He has been alike con-
spicuous in the pursuits of peace and in the arduous stress of war. No man
now living will forget the spring of '98, when the American mind was so
inflamed and American patriotism so aroused ; when among all the eager
citizens surging to the front as soldiers, the man whom this convention has
already in its heart was among the first to hear the call and answer to his
name. Preferring peace but not afraid of war; faithful to every private obli-
gation yet first to volunteer at the sign of national peril ; a leader in civil
life and yet so quick to comprehend the arts of war that he grew almost in a
day to meet the high exactions of command. There is nothing which so
tests a man as great and unexpected danger. He may pass his life amid ordi-
nary scenes and what he is or does but few will ever know. But when the
crash comes or the flames break out, a moment's time will single out the hero
in the crowd. A flash of lightning in the night will reveal what years of
daylight have not discovered to the eye. And so the flash of the Spanish War
revealed that lofty courage and devotion which the American heart so loves
and which you have met again to decorate and recognize. His qualities do
not need to be retold, for no man in that exalted place since Lincoln has been
better known in every household in the land. He is not conservative, if con-
servatism means waiting till it is too late. (Applause.) He is not wise, if
wisdom is to count a thing a hundred times when once will do. (Applause.)
There is no regret so keen, in man or country, as that which follows an
opportunity unembraced. Fortune soars with high and rapid wing, and who-
ever brings it down must shoot with accuracy and speed. Only the man with
steady eye and nerve and the courage to pull the trigger brings the largest
opportunities to the ground. (Applause.) He does not always listen while
all the sages speak, but every day at nightfall beholds some record which if
not complete has been at least pursued with conscience and intrepid resolu-
tion. He is no slender flower swaying in the wind, but that heroic fibre which
is best nurtured by the mountains and the snow. (Applause.) He spends
little time in review, for that he knows can be done by the schools. A states-
man grappling with the living problems of the hour he gropes but little in the
past. He believes in going ahead. He believes that in shaping the destinies
of this great republic, hope is a higher impulse than regret. He believes that
preparation for future triumphs is a more important duty than an inventory
of past mistakes. (Laughter and applause.) A profound student of history,
he is to-day the greatest history maker in the world. (Applause.) With
the instincts of the scholar, he is yet forced from the scholar's pursuits by
those superb qualities which fit him to the last degree for those great world
currents now rushing past with larger volume and more portentous aspect
than for many years before. The fate of nations is still decided by their
wars. You may talk of orderly tribunals and learned referees ; you may
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sing in your schools the gentle praises of the quiet life ; you may strike from
your books the last note of every martial anthem, and yet out in the smoke
and thunder will always be the tramp of horses and the silent, rigid, up-
turned face. Men may prophesy and women pray, but peace will come here
to abide forever on this earth only when the dreams of childhood are the
accepted charts to guide the destinies of men. (Applause.) Events are
numberless and mighty, and no man can tell which wire runs around the
world. The nation basking to-day in the quiet of contentment and repose
may still be on the deadly circuit and to-morrow writhing in the toils of war.
This is the time when great figures must be kept in front. If the pressure
is great the material to resist it must be granite and iron. Whether we wish
it or not, America is abroad in this world. Her interests are in every street,
her name is on every tongue. Those interests so sacred and stupendous
should be trusted only to the care of those whose power, skill and courage
have been tested and approved. (Applause.) And in the man whom you
will choose, the highest sense of every nation in the world beholds a man
who typifies as no other living American does, the spirit and the purposes of
the twentieth century. (Applause.) He does not claim to be the Solomon
of his time. There are many things he may not know, but this is sure, that
above all things else he stands for progress, courage and fair play, which are
the synonyms of the American name.
There are times when great fitness is hardly less than destiny, when the
elements so come together that they select the agent thy will use. Events
sometimes select the strongest man, as lightning goes down the highest rod.
And so it is with those events which for many months with unerring sight
have led you to a single name which I am chosen only to pronounce: Gen-
tlemen, I nominate for President of the United States the highest living type
of the youth, the vigor and the promise of a great country and a great age,
Theodore Roosevelt of New York. (Applause.)
A HISTORIC FLAG.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will read an announcement.
The READING CLERK read as follows :
"This flag, staff and all, just as you see it, save the wear and tear, was
carried in the Republican National Convention held in Chicago in 1860, and
was waved at the moment of the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for Presi-
dent, and was hoisted on the platform of the convention.
"It has been waved in every Republican National Convention since 1860
at the moment of the nomination of the Republican candidate for President.
It is the property of the Lincoln-McKinley Association of Veteran Voters
of the United States.
"Capt. F. L. Withaupt, of Willow Springs, Mo., the bearer hereof, who
is a nephew of the late Judge Arnold Krekel, who was a delegate to the Re-
publican National Convention of 1860, is hereby commissioned to carry the
priceless gem and souvenir to the Republican National Convention to be held
forty-four years after in the same city on June 21, A. D. 1904, and wave it at
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the moment of time the nominee shall be named by the convention." (Ap-
plause.)
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN (holding the flag in his hand). It prophesied
victory in 1860 ; its like has been baptized on a hundred battlefields since ; and
it is as safe today under the leadership of the Republican party, headed
by Theodore Roosevelt, as it ever was. (Applause.)
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen of the convention : I have the
pleasure of introducing to you a man whom you know and whom all know
of, one of Indiana's favorite and favored sons, who always when he has a
message insists on a hearing, and in the hearing the people are gratified, en-
tertained, informed and enthused. (Applause.)
SECONDING SPEECH OF MR. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, OF
INDIANA.
Gentlemen of the Convention : One difference between the opposition
and ourselves is this : They select their candidate for the people, and the
people select our candidate for us. (Cheers.)
This was true four years ago when we accepted the people's judgment and
named William McKinley (applause), whose perfect mingling of mind and
heart, of wisdom and of tenderness, won the trust and love of the Nation
then and makes almost holy his memory now. (Applause.) His power was
in the people's favor, his shrine is in the people's hearts. (Applause.)
It is true today when we again accept the people's judgment and name
Theodore Roosevelt (cheers), whose sympathies are as wide as the Republic,
whose courage, honesty and vision meet all emergencies, and the sum of
whose qualities make him the type of 2Oth century Americanism. (Applause.)
And the 2Oth century American is nothing more than the man of '76 facing a
new day with the old faith. (Cheers.)
Theodore Roosevelt, like William McKinley, is the nominee of the
American fireside. (Cheers.) So were Washington and Jefferson in the
early time ; so was Andrew Jackson when he said "The Union : It must be
preserved;" so was Abraham Lincoln (applause) when, the Republic saved, he
bade us "bind up the Nation's wounds;" and Grant (applause) when, from
victory's very summit his lofty words, "let us have peace" voiced the spirit of
the hour and the people's prayer. When nominated by parties, each of these
great Presidents was, at the periods named, already chosen by the public
judgment. And so today, the Republican party, whose strength is in its
obedience to the will of the American people, merely executes again the
decree which comes to it from the American home in naming Theodore Roose-
velt as our candidate. (Cheers.)
The people's thought is his thought, American ideals, his ideals. This is
his only chart of statesmanship and no other is safe. (Applause.) For the
truest guide an American President can have is the collective intelligence and
massed morality of the American people. (Applause.) And this ancient
rule of the fathers is the rule of our leaders now. (Applause.)
HON. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE. of Indiana,
Who Seconded the Nomination of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt for the
Presidency.
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Theodore Roosevelt is a leader (applause) who leads (applause) ; because
he carries out the settled purposes of the people. Our President's plans,
when achieved, are always found to be merely the nation's will accom-
plished. And that is why the people will elect him.
They will elect him because they know that if he is President we will get
to work and keep at work on the Canal. (Cheers.) After decades of delay
when the people want a thing done, they want it done. (Applause.)
They know that while he is President the Flag will "stay put" (cheering),
and no American advantage in the Pacific or the world be surrendered.
Americans never retreat. (Cheers.)
While he is President no wrong-doer in the service of the Government
will go unwhipped of justice. (Applause.) Americans demand honesty and
honor, vigilant and fearless. (Applause.)
While he is President, re-adjustment of tariff schedules will be made only
in harmony with the principle of protection. (Cheers.) Americans have
memories. (Applause.)
While he is President peace with every nation will be preserved at any cost,
excepting only the sacrifice of American rights ; and the vigor with which he
maintains these will be itself a guarantee of peace. (Cheers.)
The American people will elect him because, in a word, they know that he
does things the people want done ; does things, not merely discusses them
does things only after discussing them but does things ; and does only those
things the people would have him do. (Applause.) This is characteristically
American; for wherever he is, the American is he who achieves. (Cheers.)
On every question all men know where he stands. Americans, frank them-
selves, demand frankness in their servants. No mystery was ever made
President of the United States, or ever will be. (Great cheering, renewed.)
Uncertainty is the death of business. The people can always get along if
they know where they are and whither they are going. (Applause.)
His past is his proof. Every great measure of his administration was
so wise that, enthusiastically sustained by his own party, it won votes even
from the opposition.
Do you name Cuban reciprocity? The opposition resisted and then oppo-
sition votes helped to ratify it. (Applause.)
Do you name corporate legislation? The opposition resisted and then
opposition votes helped to enact it. (Applause.)
Do you name the Canal that largest work of centuries, the eternal wed-
ding of oceans, shrinking the circumference of the globe, making distant
peoples neighbors, advancing forever civilization all around the world? This
historic undertaking in the interest of all the race, planned by American
statesmanship, to be wrought by American hands, to stand through the ages
protected by the American flag (cheers) ; this vast achievement which will
endure when our day shall have become ancient, and which alone is enough
to make the name of Theodore Roosevelt illustrious through all time this
fulfillment of the Republic's dream accomplished by Republican effort, finally
received votes even from an opposition that had tried to thwart it. (Cheers.)
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Of what measure of Theodore Roosevelt's administration does the oppo-
sition dare even to propose the repeal? And when has the record of any
President won greater approval?
And so the people trust him as a statesman. (Applause.) Better than
that, they love him as a man. (Cheers.) He wins admiration in vain who
wins not affection also. In the American home that temple of happiness
and virtue where dwell the wives and mothers of the Republic, cherishing
the beautiful in life and guarding the morality of the Nation in the
American home the name of Theodore Roosevelt is not only honored but
beloved. (Cheers.) And that is a greater triumph than the victory of battle-
fields, greater credit than successful statesmanship, greater honor than the
Presidency itself would be without it. (Cheers.) Life holds no reward so
noble as the confidence and love of the American people. (Applause.)
The American people ! The mightiest force for good the ages have
evolved. (Cheers.) They began as children of liberty. They believed in
God and His providence. They took truth and justice and tolerance as their
eternal ideals and marched fearlessly forward. Wildernesses stretched before
them they subdued them. Mountains rose they crossed them. Deserts ob-
structed they passed them. Their faith failed them not and a continent was
theirs. (Applause.) From ocean to ocean cities rose, fields blossomed, rail-
roads ran; but everywhere church and school were permanent proof that
the principles of their origin were the life of their maturity. (Cheers.)
American methods changed, but American character remained the same.
They outlived the stage coach, but not the Bible. (Applause.) They
advanced but forgot not their fathers. Applause.) They delved in earth,
but remembered the higher things. (Applause.) They made highways of
the oceans, but distance and climate altered not their Americanism. (Ap-
plause.) They began as 1 children of liberty, and children of liberty they re-
main. They began as servants of the Father of Lights, and His servants they
remain. And so into their hands is daily given more of power and oppor-
tunity that they may work even larger righteousness in the world and scatter
over ever widening fields the blessed seeds of human happiness. (Cheers.)
Wonderful beyond prophecy's forecast their progress ; noble beyond the
vision of desire their future. In 1801 Jefferson said that the United States
(then) had "room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thou-
sandth generation ;" three generations behold the oceans our boundaries.
(Cheers.) Washington never dreamed of railways. Today electricity and
steam make Maine and California household neighbors. '(Applause.) This
advance, which no seer could have foretold, we made because we are
Americans because a free people with unfettered minds and unquestioning
belief joyfully faced the universe of human possibilities. (Applause.) These
possibilities are not exhausted ; we have hardly passed their boundaries. (Ap-
plause.) The American people are not exhausted; we have only tested our
strength. (Applause.) God's work for us in the world is not finished; His
future missions for the American people will be grander than any He has
given us, nobler than we now can comprehend. And these tasks as they come
HON. GEORGE W. KNIGHT, of California,
Who Seconded the Nomination of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt for President.
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we will accept and accomplish as our fathers accomplished theirs. (Ap-
plause.) And when our generation shall have passed and our children shall
catch from our aging hands the standard we have borne, it will still be the
old flag of Yorktown and Appomattox and Manila Bay (cheers) ; the
music to which they in their turn will then move onward will still be the
strains that cheered the dying Warren on Bunker Hill and inspired the men
who answered Lincoln's call (cheers) ; and the ideals that will be in them
triumphant as they are in us, will still be the old ideals that have made the
American people great and honored among the nations of the earth. (Cheers).
This is the Republican idea of the American people (cheers) ; this the
thought we have when we nominate today our candidate for the Nation's
chief; this the quality of Americanism a Republican standard-bearer must
possess. (Applause.) And this is just the Americanism of Theodore Roose-
velt. (Cheers.) Full of the old-time faith in the Republic and its destiny;
charged with the energy of the Republic's full manhood ; cherishing the ordi-
nances of the Republic's fathers and having in his heart the fear of God ;
inspired by the sure knowledge that the Republic's splendid day is only in its
dawn. (Applause.) Theodore Roosevelt will lead the American people in
paths of safety to still greater welfare for themselves, still broader better-
ment of the race and to the added honor of the American name. (Cheers.)
Indiana seconds the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt. (Demonstration,
etc.)
SPEECH OF MR. GEORGE A. KNIGHT, OF CALIFORNIA.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. We will now receive a message from the
Golden Gate, delivered by that great civilian, lawyer and orator, whose speech
is "like apples of gold in pictures of silver."
Mr. KNIGHT. Gentlemen of the Convention : Geography has but little to
do with the sentiment and enthusiasm that are today apparent in favor of the
one who is to be given all the honors and duties of an elected President of
the United States of America. However the Pacific slope and the islands
(those ocean buoys of commerce moored in the drowsy tropical sea) send to
this Convention words of confident greeting with discreet assurance that your
judgment will be endorsed by the American voter and our country continue
its wonderful progress under Republican success.
The time is ripe for brightening up Americanism ; to teach with renewed
vigor the principles of individual liberty for which the minute men of the
Revolution fought. The Lincoln liberty, and individual liberty for the man,
not a black man alone, any man, all men. The right to labor in the air
of freedom unmolested, and be paid for his individual toil and with it build
his cottage home.
From the press, the pulpit, the school house, the platform and the street,
let the true history of our country be known, that the young men and women
of America, and many old ones, may know what a price has been paid for the
liberty, peace and union they enjoy through the devoted patriotism of our
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silent heroes of the past. (Applause.) Deprivation and sacrifice were
endured for many years before the old bell in the statehouse was given voice
to speak the glorious sentiment of the age, and proclaim liberty throughout all
the land, and they were made the instruments by which the principles produc-
tive of our national grandeur were set as jewels in our Republic's coronet.
What we prayed for, fought for, bled for and died for we want cared for.
(Applause.)
Telegraph the world that the Republican party was the first organization
that beckoned the laboring man to his feet, and made him know the quality
and equality of his true self. (Applause.) It showed him the possibilities
of honest poverty and has withheld nothing from his worthy ambition. It
took a railsplitter from the ground floor of a log cabin and set him with the
stars.
Protection to American labor, and our natural resources, climate, soil,
agricultural and mineral wealth, navigable rivers and safe harbors, wise laws
and clean public men, have made us the greatest nation of earth today. In
territory, we have outgrown the Continent ; we are peopling the isles of the
sea.
When I look over this Convention and see representatives from Alaska
carrying as their banner an American Eagle it brings to my mind the words
of sacred writ that seem prophetic : "A great eagle with great wings, long
winged, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came unto Lebanon, and
took the highest branch of the cedar. He cropped off the top of his young
twigs and carried it into a land of traffic ; he set it in a city of merchants. He
took also of the seed of the land and planted it in a fruitful field ; he placed it
by great waters and set it as a willow tree."
How like unto our emblem of freedom, he has cropped off the young
twigs of our cedar of liberty and carried them across the ocean to the land
of traffic and set them in the city of merchants. The seed of our land is
there among fruitful fields, beside great waters and set as a willow tree.
With our growth as a nation we are satisfied but there are some things
that require more than a passing glance. Far back in the time of the Revo-
lutionary War when the dark clouds of oppression and losses in battle seemed
to shut out the last glimmering spark of day, upon the bold prominent height
of the White, Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains could be found standing
alone the Patriot Beacon Watch of the Revolution, while our armies slept
under the darkness he kept watch and from crag to crag and peak to peak
his watch fire was a signal to warn the sleeping army of approaching danger,
and from every mountain top within the thirteen colonies those patriots'
watch fires lighted up the dark pathway of their future destiny.
While today we struggle not with an obstinate soldiery, nor hear the ex-
citing drum beat of war, dark clouds of a social disorder have settled over a
portion of our beloved country. The poisonous virus of Socialism is among
us, and the vicious anarchist seeks to lead his fellow by the torch of the
incendiary. Three times our flag has drooped ; three times the muffled drum
was heard.
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Socialism can never live in this Republic (applause), and the anarchist has
no home with us ; he must put out the torch, for standing upon the mountain
top of our historic past, the beacon watches of old signal to us to follow their
light and fear not follow the light of a Washington for its purity of pur-
pose follow the light of Jefferson and Seward and Sherman and Lincoln,
Grant and McKinley, and all the other great ones who built for us this
perament home.
Our country is big and broad and grand ; we want a President typical of
the country, one who will preserve her history, enforce her law, teach
Americanism and fight the wrong. Theodore Roosevelt, "thou art the man!"
(Applause.) Well may he be proud, he is young, the prime of life is his,
and time is on his side ; he loves the whole country and knows no favorite
section ; he has performed his sacred promise, he has kept the faith with
McKinley's memory and now faces responsibilities his own. He hypnotizes
obstacles, looks them in the eye, and overpowers with self-conscious honesty
of purpose. (Applause.)
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive ; Roosevelt is
impulsive (applause), so be it, he is different. The party needs him more
than he needs the party.
From a Democratic point of view, he is a weird magician of politics.
They charged him with disrupting a government on the Isthmus, creating a
republic and unlawfully conniving at a canal. (Laughter.) They awoke one
fine morning to find the Republic of Panama an entity, its existence recognized
by foreign nations and Congress paying out millions of dollars to ratify his
strategetic promptness. (Applause.)
He wanted to give Uncle Sam a job, and he did it ; and Uncle Sam wanted
the job and he took it. He belongs to the union. We see him standing today
with his foot upon the spade, his garments are made of his flag, there is a
smile on his face, and his heart is gladdened as he looks at the golden
sunrise of his commercial future.
Barnacle bottomed ships of the great salt sea will greet the Great Father
of Waters and make every town on his banks a maritime city. (Applause.)
The owner of the farm, factory, and mine will become familiar with names
he never knew, and write strange addresses on the exports he sends across
the unharvested ocean. Australia New Zealand Yokohoma Hong Kong
Manila Honolulu and Corea, will be some of the new names the new South
will be glad to know, and their children will bless the President that gave
them their wonderful opportunities for trade.
The blessings of this great work cannot be told in words, and figures will
get wabbily and unsteady with their load when you chalk them on the black-
board of time.
We want this younger Lincoln the Keeper of our great eagle we want
him with his hands on the halyards of our flag, we want him the Defender of
our Constitution and the Executive of our Law, and when we have used
him and the best years of his young manhood for the good of the nation, he
will still be holding the banner of liberty with stars added to its azure field,
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its history sacred, its stripes untarnished, and by command of the majority
hand it to the American partiot standing next in line. (Applause.)
SPEECH OF MR. H. S. EDWARDS, OF GEORGIA.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen of the Convention, it is a com-
paratively easy matter to keep the Republican faith in the State of Illinois
where we have local success. The policies of the party spread over the
whole country, bringing prosperity to those who do not support us politically
as well as to those who do. It is my great pleasure to introduce to you one
of those who come from the State of Georgia, that keep the leaven and
fight the fight, although from time to time they fail. But they will live, and
even these old eyes will live, to see Georgia give an electoral vote for a
Republican President. (Applause.)
MR. EDWARDS. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention : It is
eminently fit and proper that a Georgian should on this occasion second the
eloquent speaker from New York, that the voice of the Motherland should
blend with the voice of the Fatherland to declare that the destinies of
America shall for four years more be entrusted to the great son born of the
union of the two Empire states. (Applause.)
I do not belittle the influence of a father when I say that if the iron in
a son's nature be derived from him, the gold is coined from the heart of the
mother whose lap has cradled him. And because I believe this, because the
lesson at the mother's knee is the seed that sends a stalk toward heaven and
opens far up its axillary blossoms in the morning light, because the lofty
ideals of manhood are rooted deeper than youth, because that which a man
instinctively would be has been dreamed for him in advance by a Mother,
I claim for Georgia the larger share in the man you have chosen your leader.
(Applause.)
The childhood of the good woman who bore him was cast near where the
Atlantic flows in over the marsh and the sand. There she first built her a
home in the greatness of God. Womanhood found her within the uplifting
view of the mountains in a land over which the Almighty inverts a Sapphire
cup by day and sets his brightest stars on guard by night. And there,
fellow countrymen, the soul of your President was born. Those of us who
know and love him catch in the easy flow of his utterance, and feel in its
largeness of thought and contempt of littleness the rythm of the ocean on
the Georgian sands and the spirit of the deep. In his lofty ideals and hope-
fulness, in his fixedness of purpose and unchanging rockribbed honesty we
hear the mountains calling. In his daring, his impulsive courage, his uncon-
querable manhood, we see his great brother the Georgia volunteer in the
hand to hand fights of the Wilderness, the impetuous rush up the heights of
Gettysburg and the defiance of overwhelming odds from Chattanooga to
Atlanta. We look on him as a Georgian abroad, and if in the providence of
God it may be so we shall welcome him home some day, not as a prodigal
son who has wasted his gifts but as one who on every field of endeavor has
honored his great mother and worn the victor's wreath. (Applause.)
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Coming into the position of the martyred McKinley, the youngest Chief
Magistrate that has ever filled the Presidential chair, without the privilege
and advantage of preliminary discussion and consultation, he gave the coun-
try a pledge that he would carry out the policies of his predecessor. It was
a master stroke of genius, applauded alike North and South. His conception
of the duties of his high office as enunciated by him at Harvard was, "to
serve all alike, well: to act in a spirit of fairness and justice to all men; and
to give to each man his rights." He has kept this pledge; he has lived up to
this fine conception of his duty. The pledge involved a completion of the
work begun in Cuba and an honorable discharge of the promises made to our
struggling neighbor. The flag of an independent Republic floats over Havana
today and all men know that we have kept faith with the Cuban people.
Leaving the details to engineers, he has cut as by a single stroke, the Panama
Canal through mountains of prejudice and centuries of ignorance! In the far
Philippines our flag floats, a guarantee of redemption, pacification and de-
velopment. His conception of duty has led him into difficult places in
dealing with the internal affairs of our own country; he has met every issue
bravely and ably and demonstrated not only that prompt and decisive action is
often the highest expression of conservatism but that it is safe to trust the
impulse of a man who is essentially and instinctively honest. (Applause.)
Fellow Countrymen, after nearly four years of Theodore Roosevelt, we
find the army and navy on a better footing, our trade expanded, the country
at peace and prosperous and our flag respected in every quarter of the globe.
The American people will not withhold from him the applause of manly
hearts. I am proud that my great State, the Empire state of the South,
shares in the glory of his achievements, as it will share in their benefits !
(Applause.)
It is not pretended that the section from which I come to you, is, as
a section in sympathy with your political party. But I am as sure as that
I stand here, that the great majority of intelligent business men in the South
are in sympathy with the controlling principles of your platform and op-
posed to those of your opponents as last declared. And I am equally sure
that they recognize and respect the fearless honesty of your leader! Head-
lines are not history, nor does the passionate partisan write the final verdict
of a great people. History, despite the venom of the small politician, will do
him the justice to record that he has gone further than any man who has
occupied the White House since the civil war, to further the vital interests of
the South. The standard of appointments has been the same for Georgia as
for New York. He has insisted on efficiency and integrity as the chief
tests, North and South alike. Of the thousand or more original post office
appointments in Georgia under his administration not one has within my
knowledge been criticized by even the unfriendly and partisan press of the
State. A Southern man, General Wright, by his appointment holds the
honor of this country in trust in the far Philippines, and on him your Presi-
dent relies for the advancement and development of the 7,000,000 people who
are there working out their destinies. Two judges of first instance, one a
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Democrat and one a Republican and both from Georgia, are there by his
appointment to administer the laws. In the army there and here in the navy
and in all the divisions of the civil government Southern men have felt
the friendly touch of his hand. The character of these appointments and his
whole policy give the lie to those designing knaves who charge him with
stirring up strife between races and arraying section against section. "I am
proud of your great deeds: for you are my people!'' This was his greeting to
a Southern audience, and no honest man doubts that he meant it. (Ap-
plause.)
The South shares in the magnificent prosperity which our great country
has achieved under the Republican party. Especially has she felt the benefi-
cent effect of your policies during the last eight years ; and the hardest fact
your opponents have to contend with is the fact that your financial policy
has been tested and found to be sound and efficient. They have sufficed for
eight years at least, and the Democratic partisan who has twice in that time
been led captive behind the silver car of Bryan must be optimistic beyond
expression if he believes that the country will suffer alarm over the prospect
of four years more of prosperity. The South deals in cotton goods, cotton
seed products, coal, iron, oil and lumber, and business enterprises in connec-
tion with these and other industries have increased and multiplied. Traveling
from Washington to Macon, one is never off a first class railroad nor long
out of sight of the smoke of a mill. The people who conduct these and
kindred enterprises, who are raising cotton at from ten to sixteen cents per
pound, wheat at from seventy-five cents to a dollar per bushel, whose coal,
iron and lumber are in demand throughout the world, whose home market is
assured and whose lands are rapidly increasing in value, are not yet alarmed
over the prospect of another Republican victory, under Roosevelt. They are
not alarmed over the digging of a canal at Panama that will give them direct
communication with five or six hundred millions of people who need the
products of their fields and factories. Nor are they alarmed that increased
railway and river transportation will be required to move these products to
Southern ports, or that from these ports, under a Republican administration,
yellow fever, the South's dread enemy has been banished, millions saved an-
nually to the taxpayers and the business year raised from nine months to
twelve.
The prosperity of the South is wrapped up in the policies of the Republi-
can party and Southern people are beginning to realize it. Southern business
sentiment indicates an increasing distrust of the policies of the Democratic
party. In 1896 Georgia, accustomed to enormous Democratic majorities, gave
94,000 votes for Bryan and 60,000 for McKinley. North Carolina cast 174,000
votes for Bryan and 155,000 for McKinley. Virginia gave 154,000 for Bryan
and 135,000 for McKinley. And this was according to Democratic counts.
Maryland and West Virginia cast Republican majorities in both 1896 and
1900. In Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina in 1900 twelve to fifteen per
cent of the people who had voted in '96 stayed away from the polls and sacri-
ficed their last opportunity to worship the "popular idol." An analysis of
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election returns shows that the distrust of Democracy was most pro-
nounced and conspicuous in centers of trade, manufactures, and commerce.
Fellow Countrymen, we of the South believe in Roosevelt, and in his
ability to meet every issue at home and abroad, triumphantly. We believe
that he is animated by a spirit of patriotism as broad and as bright as has
ever streamed from the White House over our beloved country ; and we
believe that when he has fulfilled his mission, he, the son of the North and
South, will carry with him the consciousness that Fatherland and Motherland,
once divorced in sadness, through him and because of him have been drawn
together again in the bonds of the old affection. And we believe that when
he goes at length into the retirement of private life, he will go beloved of all
patriotic Americans, from Canada to the Gulf and from Ocean to Ocean.
Mr. Chairman, in behalf of the Motherland I second the nomination of
Theodore Roosevelt. (Applause.)
SPEECH OF WILLIAM O. BRADLEY, OF KENTUCKY.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Why introduce a man whom every one
knows. Suffice it to say that he comes from that State and of that people
who take their politics like their whiskey straight. (Laughter and ap-
plause.)
Mr. BRADLEY. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Convention : The
Republican Party has made no mistakes ; therefore, it has no apologies to
offer. It has broken no promises ; therefore, it enters no plea of confession
and avoidance. It offers no guaranty for the future save the record of its
past. (Applause.)
It points to an enormously increased commerce, at home and abroad.
To free homes given to free people. To a war waged to drive the tyrant from
Cuba, and a promise faithfully kept to give to the people of the island a stable
form of government. To an improved army and navy whose deeds of valor
have added imperishable glory to American arms. To the erection of
churches and school-houses, and the inaguration of civil government in the
Philippines. To the best financial system on the globe. To a system of
protection which has given to our people the best home and foreign market
in the world. To the universal prosperity now prevailing throughout the
Republic. To a generous system of pensions, provided for those who fought,
and the families of those who died, that the Union might be preserved. To
the most gigantic rebellion of all time courageously met and completely sub-
dued. To the shackles of bond-men melted in the red flames of war, and to
stars preserved, and yet others fixed, in the firmament of freedom. (Ap
plause.)
We can not stand at the base of Bunker Hill Monument, as prophesied by
Toombs, and call the roll of our slaves ; but we can stand on any spot of the
earth and call the long roll of Republican statesmen and soldiers the most
distinguished and illustrious that the Nation has produced, who rendered im-
possible the fulfillment of that prediction. (Applause.)
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For nearly half a century, the record of the Republican Party has been
so interwoven with the country's history that each is a part of the other, and
neither can be written without including the other. Indeed, during that time
the Republican Party has been the country.
In diplomacy, in progress, in the arts and sciences, in prosperity and ad-
versity in peace and war, at home and abroad, on land and sea, the Republican
Party has been true to every trust, equal to every emergency, has continually
elevated and advanced the standard of American honor and glory, and now
proclaims to the world that in the lexicon of patriotic endeavor and achieve-
ment there is no such word as "fail." (Applause.)
And during all these eventful years, the Democratic Party has resisted
every step of advancement and progress. It has been a stupid objector, a
miserable malcontent and a common scold. For two Presidential terms it
administered public affairs, and during each, crippled commerce, unsettled
and decreased values, paralyzed industry, closed manufactories and made it
necessary for public charity to provide food for the starving unemployed. It
has exchanged its time-honored principles for dangerous heresies, and be-
trayed its leaders, until it is without a leader and in anxious search of a plat-
form. It has abandoned its Moses and is unable to discover a Joshua. It
does not certainly know what it wants ; and if it did, would not know where
to find it. It does not know what it is for; and if it did, would not know how
to express it. It does not know what to do ; and if it did, would not know how
to do it. (Applause.)
Men of the North, we come from the battle-fields consecrated to free-
dom with the blood of your brave sons. We are the custodians of your pa-
triot dead, and each year commemorate their deeds and decorate their graves
with flowers. In their names, and by their memories, the disfranchised South
appeals to you for justice. Shall it be said that your sons marched, and fought
and died in vain? Shall it be said that a nation can exist part slave and part
free? Are people free who are forced to bear the burden and yet denied
the highest privilege of citizenship? If it be true that warrant may not
be found in the Constitution to prevent disfranchisement, then we beg
that you no longer permit the disfranchised and oppressed to be estimated for
the purpose of increasing the electoral strength of their oppressors. (Ap-
plause.)
Though the grape is crushed, and the grain is ground, they produce neither
wine nor bread for the persecuted men of the South.
Surrounded by difficulties, striving in vain to be free, they instinctively
turn to the brave, true man who has said that he would not close the door of
hope on a struggling race. The Southern Republicans are devoted to him
and will follow him with all the affection and enthusiasm with which the
"Old Guard" followed Napoleon. They have unshaken faith in his superb
courage, even-handed justice and unsullied honor. (Applause.)
We have not forgotten how, when the war clouds hung dark in the na-
tion's horizon, he sacrificed office, and left a happy home, and a beloved
wife and children, to bare his bosom in the storm of battle. The same pa-
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triotism and courage that inspired him then has animated him throughout
his administration. When others stood appalled in the presence of the great
strike, he cheerfully, and with alacrity, assumed a responsibility not officially
incumbent upon him, and bravely springing into the breach, succeeded in
procuring a settlement that brought tranquillity to the representatives of
capital, and smiles and sunshine into the faces and homes of the humble
laborers. (Applause.)
He unhesitatingly measured swords with the giant corporation, which
threatened the people with wrong and oppression, and brought it into sub-
jection.
He knows how and when to plan, and, better still, how and when to exe-
cute. Alert of mind, he has quickly seized every opportunity. In the pro-
curement of concessions for the Panama Canal, he accomplished more in a
few hours than his predecessors accomplished in more than a hundred
years. He did not attempt to unloose, he cut the Gordion knot.
His enemies say, that he can not be trusted ; but the people know that one
who always does the right thing, at the right time and in the right way, is en-
titled to their implicit confidence. (Applause.)
His enemies say, that he is unsafe. His record proves that he is unsafe
only to the lawless, the trickster, the grafter and those who deny equal pro-
tection of the law to any class of American citizens. But in the discharge of
the great trusts devolved upon him, he has proven a harbor of safety.
His enemies predicted, that he would involve the Nation in war ; but
all his victories have been those of diplomacy and peace, and today he enjoys
the respect and friendship of every foreign power.
He has not been the pliable instrument of any man, or set of men. He
is the creator, not the creature of public sentiment. He is not controlled by
popular clamor, but hews to the line, let the chips fall where tney may. He
is not a laggard, a time server or an idle dreamer. He loses no opportunity on
account of timid doubt or annoying hesitation He is not a follower, but every
inch a leader. He is not an imitator, but thoroughly original, guided alone by
a clear conception of right and the genius of common sense.
He boldly and fearlessly advances ; he never sounds the retreat. Im-
bued with never-failing courage, tempered with sound and conservative
judgment; brilliant as a meteor, yet steady and certain as the sun in its
course ; gifted with broad and intelligent statesmanship ; fixed in lofty pur-
pose, he is the embodiment of American ideas, American vigor and the most
exalted type of American manhood.
He was born to fulfill a mission. That mission in part accomplished will
be completed in coming years, and his name shall go ringing down the cen-
turies with those of the immortal few "who were not born to die."
In Kentucky we-have "contended against principalities and powers and the
rulers of darkness." We have, in truth, fought with all manner of beasts, not
at Ephesus but at Frankfort. We are nerving ourselves for the coming
conflict, and in November next hope to break the chains which partisan legis-
lation has thrown around us and restore freedom to the State which gave
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birth to Abraham Lincoln and holds within its bosom the ashes of Henry
Clay. (Applause.)
SPEECH OF MR. JOSEPH B. COTTON, OF MINNESOTA.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen, I take great pleasure in intro-
ducing to you one of those young men who are doing things in the Republic.
He comes from Duluth, at the head of the "unsalted sea."
Mr. COTTON. Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the Convention: Re-
sponsive to the swelling chorus of millions of voices from all over the Re-
public, we are here to name as our standard bearer the gifted son of the
Empire State, who bas in his make-up all the resolute spirit and vigor of the
imperial West and in whose veins courses the rich, warm blood of the daunt-
less South-land. Nominating and seconding speeches here are of no mo-
ment, for his nomination has already been made by the American people them-
selves. We have only to select his running mate, proclaim the doctrines of
our faith, and go forth and overwhelm once more the cohorts of a distracted,
distempered and dismembered Democracy.
Our Democratic friends in this year of grace are destined to be mere idle
dreamers and only seers of visions. Dissentious, they lack faith and have no
issue. Why, just now they are trying to let go of the "Orator of the Platte"
and his fustian "Cross of Gold." They now say that "Free Silver" is dead
because the Almighty put too much gold in the lap of Old Mother Earth.
Concealing their real purpose, they no longer openly champion Free Trade.
They clamor only for a Republican revision of the Dingley Tariff. Has
it come to this, that with Chamberlain of England they are at last openly be-
come Protectionists? Overwhelmed by the rebuke of the people, they now
profess to be really anxious to keep the American Flag where it is, regard-
less and unmindful of whether the Constitution follows the Flag, or the Flag
follows the Constitution. Truly, can any good thing come out of this Demo-
cratic chaos and reluctant acquiescence in the triumph of Republican poli-
cies? In fifty history-making, creative years what policies, domestic or for-
eign, fiscal or industrial, expansive or constructive, has the Democratic Party
embodied into the National thought or woven into the fabric of the Republic?
An obstructionist always, it has been a participant, in spite of itself, in a
national glory and a greatness to which it has long since ceased to con-
tribute. Our virile young nation presses on with undying energy. Its foot-
prints are everywhere. It impresses its character upon every land. It is
unthinkable that at the very threshhold of our world-work the American
citizen will again experiment and imperil our all by turning over the reins of
Government to an inconstant, incapable and inert Democracy? To fulfil the
Republic's mighty destiny, the guiding, shaping, controlling spirit must and
will be the Republican Party.
The Republican Party has had and will ever have a glorious mission. It
has always been a party of action. Its promises have always been crystallized
into exact performance. For fifty years it has labored to advance the sub-
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stantial progress of all the American people. It is making of America the
dominant world power. It has written into law the promises of fifty years in
respect of an Isthmian Canal. It has built up and firmly established by pro-
tective policies a nation which must eventually secure, for the surplus prod-
ucts and industry of her people, the markets of all the earth. Its thought is
along constructive lines and for the expansion requisite to meet the Nation's
industrial needs rather than for Democratic isolation. It has built up
American industries, protected American labor and safeguarded the American
home. It has permanently secured the nation upon the gold standard, the
standard of stability and enlightened civilization. In the olden day the
Crusader, armor-clad, rode valiantly away to rescue the Holy Land from
ruthless devastation. So, in this our day, the Republican party is carrying
forward the Stars and Stripes for the uplifting of mankind and the suprem-
acy of a civilization which finds its highest type in our glorious American
Republic.
Mr. Chairman, the great Northwest, whence I hail, teems with hundreds of
thousands of enthusiastic Republicans. You know their worth and their
fealty. On their behalf I am commissioned to second the nomination of
their choice for President of these United States. We need and demand today
a wise and dauntless mariner to take our soundings and shape our course. In
this history-making hour, at the dawn of a century big with the potentialities
of individual and national life, when the Republic advances full speed upon
a future we cannot know, in all the excitement of the individual struggle for
wealth and self-aggrandizement, in the midst of tendencies toward municipal
and governmental corruption, and when keenest minds seem largely bent
upon profit without recompense, all born of an inherent weakness which can-
not be ignored but must be met, we have only to name our cnoice for Presi-
dent for all the world to know that his name is a synonym for courage, for
untiring energy, for loyalty to principle, for uprightness, for rugged honesty.
No words of any man are needed to tell you that he is pre-eminently qualified
to be our inspiring leader. We are proud of his distinguished career and of
his great service to the nation. We endorse his unswerving devotion to the
hiehest ideals of government and his stalwart Americanism. We support him
for his lofty character ; for his manifest genius ; for his splendid personality,
and for his superb moral courage. Four years ago, the Republican Party
placed him beside the immortal McKinley and with such standard bearers,
with such a cause, we marched to a glorious victory- When the assassin's
ignoble work was accomplished, and amidst the Nation's tears, showered with
the Nation's love, the gentle McKinley passed to the Ages and was crowned
with the wreath of immortal fame, the intrepid and aggressive Roosevelt
faced and was equal to the grave responsibilities of the Presidency. He has
kept the faith. By force of his character and his works he has extended, at
home and abroad, the influence and greatness of the Republic. His name has
come to be a symbol everywhere of American manhood, American valor,
American honesty and American supremacy.
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Obeying a mandate both pleasing and supreme, on behalf of the great
State of Minnesota and the mighty Empire of the Northwest, whose growth
and prosperity will ever keep full pace with the giant tread of the Nation
itself, I desire to second the nomination of that intrepid leader, that potent
statesman, that master workman upon the greater Republic, that tried, trust-
ed and incomparable public servant, the President now, the President again
to be, THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
SPEECH OF MR. HARRY S. CUMMINGS, OF MARYLAND.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen of the Convention : God's
chosen people dwelled in bondage four hundred years. They wandered in the
desert forty years. It was a long reach from Pharaoh to Solomon's temple.
It is my privilege to introduce an American citizen whose people were
brought from a servile condition forty years ago to freedom, and who, with
equality before the law, have learned to live in the sweat of their faces, and
have made better progress in one generation than any servile race ever made
before in the history of the world. (Applause.)
Mr. CUMMINGS. Gentlemen of the Convention: I have been admonished
that the greatest service I can do the great American people today, and the
opportunity of my life to make a hero of myself, is to speak as briefly as
possible. (Applause.)
For the distinguished honor of seconding the nomination of that grand
type of the American citizen, Theodore Roosevelt, I am profoundly grateful.
Fortunate indeed is it for this government that it has had during the eight
years just passed a political organization such as ours to meet face to face
with undaunted courage and determination, the many perplexing questions
which have arisen during that period.
Equally fortunate has been our party to have had within its ranks during
this crucial period such men as our able, wise and patriotic McKinley of be-
loved memory and our capable, courageous and aggressive Roosevelt upon
whose young though ample shoulders the mantle of the great McKinley fell.
Whether the questions affected our internal or external relations, they have
been boldly met and wisely solved.
We have carried to the Filipino, the Porto Rican, and the Cuban the torch
of light and intelligence, relieved them from the burdens and oppressions of
despotic rule, established civil government among them and are teaching them
the blessings of liberty and independence. (Applause.)
The Panama Canal, "The Key of the Universe," the construction of which
has for centuries been the dream and fancy of more than one government,
has under the prompt and decisive action of this administration been taken
from the realm of cloudland and dreamland and its completion in the near fu-
ture has become a certain and fixed fact. (Applause.)
The wise leadership of our party has kept so well adjusted our tariff and
currency legislation, that prosperity abounds in the land, labor is plentiful, the
laborer is well paid and contented, capital multiplies and seeks additional out-
lets for investments and enterprises.
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In a word, we have given a full and complete report of the stewardship
committed to our care during the past four years. It becomes the duty of this
convention to name a general who we hope and believe will lead the great
republican host to victory in the coming election. A man who will in every
way measure up to the responsibilty of the high office of President of this
country. Such an one in the person of our Chief Executive has been ably
and eloquently placed before you and heartily do we all endorse what has
been said. (Applause.)
"By their fruits ye shall know them." Theodore Roosevelt brings to this
party and the nation at the close of his administration the precious fruits of
three years of able and faithful service.
The solemn promise made by him when gloom and distress o'ershadowed
the nation, when stout hearts grew faint, when fears and misgivings were
abroad in the land, when the nation bowed in tears for her fallen hero, that
promise, made at a most trying time in our country's life, has been kept
to the letter, and he brings as an evidence of such, the plans and purposes
of his martyred predecessor fully developed and completed.
He is above all things, a true, honest, earnest and patriotic American citi-
zen. (Applause.)
He is a leader of unflinching courage, a man of wisdom, a man of action.
(Applause.)
He is open and frank, free from intrigue and concealment, in his life and
walk and conduct, he stands unapproached and unapproachable. (Applause.)
He is a broad man ; broad in intellect, broad in sympathies ; broad in
soul ; he lends a listening ear to the cry of the down trodden and oppressed,
and with strong and ready arm encircling the weak and helpless he bids them
rise and hope and live. (Applause.)
He is a just man, and believes that a man should be judged by merit and
merit alone; and that the just rewards of faithful and patriotic service should
be withheld from no one for any cause whatever. (Applause.)
With a vision unclouded by bias or prejudice, he sees through the outer
clay clad in different hues, the man within and there beholds the image of the
Divine Master, indicating the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of
Man. (Applause.)
Criticism, bitter, severe, unreasonable, has only served to make him the
more devoted to his country's welfare.
He believes that corruption and dishonesty in private life and in public
office should be unearthed and exposed and punished, no matter who the
guilty party may be or how high in official life he may stand.
He believes that respect for and obedience to law are the foundation upon
which this government must rest and that the violation of the oath of office
is little less than treason.
He believes that the Constitution of the United States and every amend-
ment thereof should be rigidly enforced and that its violation by whatever
subterfuges or undirectness of expression should be condemned and remedied.
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He is for these good and sufficient reasons, the man whom the people of
every section and in every walk of life, want for this high office.
First of all, the powerful Christian and moral sentiment of the nation
demands his nomination, and every Christian and moral agency will be exer-
cised for his election. (Applause.)
The laboring interest demands him.
The farmer as with happy heart he gathers in his bounteous harvest
stands ready to do battle for his return. The miner who in contentment
digs away in the bowels of the earth sees in him his salvation from op-
pression and encroachment.
The business man, and the capitalist to whom this administration has
brought abundant success eagerly await his nomination. So surely as he is
nominated by this Convention today, so surely will he be elected by the people
in November.
With his nomination and election, what an inspiring prospect opens up be-
fore the party and the Nation? With it will come new efforts to promote a
greater prosperity and a larger measure of happiness to all who dwell within
our borders.
With it will come that calm and peaceful assurance that while prosper-
ous, happy and contented at home, a wise, safe and skillful diplomacy guards
and protects our every interest throughout the civilized world.
And finally with it will come an advanced step towards the fulfillment of
the great mission of the Republican Party.
And that mission will not be performed until every section of our Con-
stitution and every amendment thereof shall be respected and made effective,
and until every citizen of every section, of every race and of every religion
shall proclaim in one grand chorus of that Constitution, "Thou art my shield
and my buckler."
God grant that in our party's struggle to reach that time, it may ever have
a man to place before the American people, for their suffrage, who has the
courage, the honesty, and the aggressiveness of Theodore Roosevelt. (Ap-
plause.)
VOTE FOR CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. If there are no other nominations of candi-
dates for President, the Clerk will call the roll.
The Clerk proceeded to call the roll.
MR. FRANKLIN MURPHY, of New Jersey (when New Jersey was called) :
Mr. Chairman, New Jersey asks unanimous consent that the further calling
of the roll be dispensed with, and that Theodore Roosevelt be chosen by ac-
clamation.
Cries of "No, No."
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. There is objection to the request of the
gentleman from New Jersey.
MR. MURPHY. I withdraw the request.
The roll call was concluded, and resulted as follows :
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Whole For
Number of Theodore
Delegates. Roosevelt.
Alabama 22 22
Arkansas 18 18
California 20 20
Colorado 10 10
Connecticut 14 14
Delaware 6 6
Florida 10 10
Georgia 26 26
Idaho 6 6
Illinois 54 54
Indiana 30 30
Iowa 26 26
Kansas 20 20
Kentucky 26 26
Louisiana 18 18
Maine 12 12
Maryland 16 16
Massachusetts 32 32
Michigan 28 28
Minnesota 22 22
Mississippi 20 20
Missouri 36 36
Montana 6 6
Nebraska 16 16
Nevada 6 6
New Hampshire 8 8
New Jersey 24 24
New York . ..78 78
Whole For
Number of Theodore
Delegates. Roosevelt.
North Carolina 24 24
North Dakota 8 8
Ohio 46 46
Oregon 8 8
Pennsylvania 68 68
Rhode Island 8 8
South Carolina 18 18
South Dakota 8 8
Tennessee 24 24
Texas 36 36
Utah 6 6
Vermont 8 8
Virginia 24 24
Washington 10 10
West Virginia 14 14
Wisconsin 26 26
Wyoming 6 6
District of Columbia... 2 2
Alaska 6 6
Arizona 6 6
Indian Territory 6 6
New Mexico 6 6
Oklahoma 6 6
Hawaii *6 6
Philippines 2 2
Porto Rico 2 2
Totals .. ...994 994
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The total number of votes in the convention
is 904. Theodore Roosevelt has received 994 votes ; and it only remains for
me to announce that Theodore Roosevelt, of the State of New York, is
your candidate for the Presidency for the term commencing on the 4th
of March, 1905. (Applause.)
NOMINATION OF CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The next business in order is the nomina-
tion of a candidate for Vice President. The Clerk will call the roll of States
for the presentation of candidates.
The CLERK proceeded to call the roll.
Mr. OSCAR R. HUNDLEY, of Alabama (when Alabama was called). The
State of Alabama requests the privilege and the honor of yielding its place on
the roll call to the State of Iowa.
*This convention only.
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NOMINATING SPEECH OF MR. J. P. DOLLIVER, OF IOWA.
Mr. J. P. DOLLIVER, of Iowa, was escorted to the platform.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The Chair presents Senator Jonathan P.
Dolliver, of the State of Iowa. (Applause.)
Mr. DOLLIVER. Gentlemen of the Convention : The National Republican
Convention, now nearly ready to adjourn, has presented to the world a moral
spectacle of extraordinary interest and significance. It is a fine thing to see
thousands of men, representing millions of people, fighting in the political
arena, for their favorite candidates, and contending valiantly for the success
of contradictory principles and conflicting doctrines. Out of such a contest,
with its noise and declamation, its flying banners, its thunder of the captains
and the shouting, the truth often secures a vindication, and the right man
comes out victorious. Sometimes, however, wisdom is lost in the confusion,
and more than once we have seen the claims of leadership swallowed up in
contention and strife.
We have the honor to belong to a convention whose constituency in every
state and territory, and in the islands of the sea, has done its thinking by quiet
firesides, undisturbed by clamor of any sort, and has simplified our responsi-
bilities by the unmistakable terms of the credentials which we hold at their
hands
At intervals of four years I followed the banner of James G. Elaine
through the streets of our convention cities, from Cincinnati to Minneapolis,
and did my full share to see that nobody got any more applause than the
great popular leader who had captured my enthusiasm long before I was
old enough to vote.
Not even his defeat served to diminish the hold which our champion had
upon the hearts of those who followed him, and it has required a good deal
of experience to enable them to understand the lesson of his defeat. Other
conventions have met to settle the fate of rival chieftains ; we meet to record
the judgment of the Republican millions of the United States.
They have based their opinion upon the facts of the case. They have
not concluded that we have the greatest President of the United States since
Washington. They know how to measure the height and depth of things
better even than Professor Bryce, when he deals with the superlatives which
find their way into all well-regulated banquets after midnight. They have
not forgotten the grave of Lincoln, which has become a shrine for the pil-
grimage of the human race. They remember still the day when the Canon
of Westminster opened the doors of that venerable monument to admit the
name of the silent American soldier into the household of English-spoken
fame.
They have passed no vainglorious judgment upon the career of Theodore
Roosevelt. They have studied it with sympathetic interest from his boy-
hood, as he has risen from one station of public usefulness to another, until
at length, before the age of 45, he stands upon the highest civic eminence
known among men. Their tears fell with his as he stood in the shadow of
HON. J. P. DOLLIVER, of Iowa,
Who Made the Address Placing Senator Fairbanks in Nomination for
Vice- President.
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poor McKinley's death, and as a part of his oath of office, asked the trusted
counsellors who stood by the side of the fallen President to help him carry
forward the work which he had left unfinished, and while his administration
deserved the tribute which it received in this convention from the eloquent
lips of our temporary chairman, it is because he has executed in a manly
way the purpose of the Republican party, and interpreted aright the aspira-
tions of the American people. Nor can there be a doubt that, if in the years
to come, he shall walk steadfastly in the same path, he will be numbered
among the great leaders of the people who have given dignity and influence
to their highest office.
But the judgment of the Republican party is not only united upon its
candidate it is unanimous also upon the fundamental principles for which
it stands. I think the convention has been fortunate in harmonizing the
minor differences which unavoidably arise in a country like ours, where
speech is free, and where printing is free. We stand together on the propo-
sition that the industrial system of the United States must not be undermined
by a hostile partisan agitation and that whatever changes are necessary in
our laws, ought to be made by the friends, or at least the acquaintances, of
the protective tariff system. The things upon which we are agreed are so
great, and the things about which we differ are so small, that we are able,
without sacrificing sincere Republican convictions anywhere, to unite as one
man in defense of our common faith.
The roll-call of this convention is a reminder, not without its melancholy
suggestion, that the veterans of Republican leadership are transferring the
responsibilities which they have borne, to the generation born since 1850.
The children of the men who laid the foundations of the Republican party
are here to begin the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary. A heavy hand
has been laid since we met at Philadelphia upon the men who guided the
counsels of the party. Nelson Dingley, whose name is associated in im-
mortal reputation with the industrial and commercial miracles which opened
the new century, is gone, and within the borders of the same state lies all
that is mortal of Thomas B. Reed, who put an end to anarchy in the American
house of representatives ; dear old uncle Mark Hanna, whose face has looked
down with the benediction of an old friend upon our deliberations, we shall
see no more ; within the past few days we buried Matthew Stanley Quay in
the bosom of the commonwealth which he loved, and which, in spite of the
malice and calumny which pursued him while he lived, never failed in its
affectionate confidence in him, while over the whole four years has hung the
shadow of the national affliction which left the American people in sackcloth
and ashes.
We stand at the beginning of the new era, and while the Republican party
leans upon the counsel of its old leaders, it has not hesitated to summon to
the responsibilities of public life the young men who have been trained under
their guidance to take up the burdens which they are ready to lay down, and
finish the work which comes to them as an inheritance of patriotism and
duty. That is the significance of the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt, and
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that is the explanation of the call which has been made by the Republican
party without a dissenting voice, upon Charles W. Fairbanks, to stand by the
side of the President in the guidance and leadership of the Republican party.
While he has not sought to constrain the judgment of the convention,
directly or indirectly, he has kept himself free from the affectation which
undervalues the dignity of the second office in the gift of the American peo-
ple, and I do not doubt that his heart has been touched by the voluntary ex-
pression of universal good will which has already chosen as one of the
standard-bearers of the Republican party of the United States. The office
has sought the man and he will bring to the office the commanding person-
ality of a statesman equal to any of the great responsibilities which belong
to our public affairs. A leader of the senate, the champion of all the' great
policies which constitute the invincible record of the Republican party dur-
ing the last ten years, his name will become a tower of strength to our cause,
not only in his own state, but everywhere throughout the country. A man
of affairs, the whole business community shares the confidence which his
political associates have reposed in him from the beginning of his public life.
The quiet, undemonstrative, popular opinion which has given the Republican
party a platform upon which all Republicans can stand with no dissenting
voice, here or anywhere, has long since anticipated the action of this con-
vention in adding to the national Republican ticket the name of Senator Fair-
banks of Indiana. I take pleasure in presenting his name, honored every-
where throughout the United States, as our candidate for Vice President.
FIFTY YEARS OF EMANCIPATION.
SENATOR DEPEW'S RATTLING SPEECH SECONDING NOMINATION OF FAIRBANKS.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew made the first speech seconding the nomina-
tion of Senator Fairbanks for vice-president at the Republican national con-
vention held in Chicago, on June 23. A remark coming from a delegate,
"Have you had your dinner ?" was used by the Senator as a text. He said :
My friend wants to know if I have had my dinner, but what I am about
to say is in behalf of dinners for the American people. [Laughter and
cries of "Good."]
I cannot help thinking, in listening to the eloquence with which we have
been entertained this morning, what will be the difference when our Demo-
cratic friends meet on July 6 to go through with their duty of nominating
candidates and adopting a platform. We here have been unanimous upon
our candidates, all agreed upon our principles, all recognizing and applauding
our great statesmen, living and dead, and agreeing with them, while on the
other hand in that convention there will be the only two living exponents
of Democratic principles.
On the one side will be their only president, rising and saying, "Be sane,"
while on the other side, in opposition will come their last candidate for presi-
dent saying, "Be Democrats." The two are incompatible. [Laughter and
applause.]
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I present two thoughts which it seems to me in the flood of our oratory
have been passed by. There has been criticism of this convention that it was
without enthusiasm and perfunctory and would occupy little place in history.
But this convention is an epoch making convention because it marks the
close of fifty years of the life of the Republican party.
That fifty years if we should divide recorded time into periods of half a
century the fifty years from 1854 to IO 4 would concentrate more that has
been done in this world for the uplifting of humanity than all the half cen-
turies which have preceded.
While this half century has done so much in electricity, so much in steam,
so much in inventions, so much in medicine, so much in surgery and in
science, its one distinguishing characteristic will be that it was the half cen-
tury of emancipation emancipation all over the world, led mainly by the
American thought and the success of the American experiment.
But when for our purpose we look back over the accomplishment of this
half century we find that the best part of it, that which has made most for
the welfare of the country, most for emancipation, has been done by the
Republican party.
Just one word to throw the picture on the wall. In 1854 the Missouri
compromise was repealed and the territory whose purchase is now being cele-
brated at St. Louis was dedicated to slavery, and in 1863 Abraham Lincoln
freed the slaves. [Applause.]
In 1854 Jarnes Buchanan at Ostend issued the manifesto to buy or con-
quer Cuba for slavery, and in 1900 William McKinley set up Cuba as an in-
dependent republic. [Applause.] In 1854 the first cable flashed under the
Atlantic ocean, and the use of this tremendous discovery came from a Re-
publican president who was the only president since the formation of the
country who had presided over the destinies of a free people, with freedom
in the constitution, and the Declaration of Independence no longer a living
lie.
AMERICA'S COMMERCIAL PROGRESS.
So it is also in diplomacy. Fifty years ago those of our people who were
located among the semi-civilized nations of Asia and Africa placed them-
selves under the protection of the consuls of Great Britain or the Euro-
pean government most influential in that territory. Today an American
fleet appears in the harbor of Tangier, and the secretary of state sends the
thrilling message, "We want Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." [Cheers.]
Now, it was only sixty years ago, ten years preceding the birth of the
Republican party, when that great wit and great writer, Sydney Smith, asked,
In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book or goes to
an American play or looks at an American picture or statue? What does
the world yet owe to American physicians and surgeons? What new sub-
stances have their chemists discovered or what old ones have they analyzed?
What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Ameri-
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cans? What have they done in mathematics? Who drinks out of American
glasses or eats from American plates or wears American coats or gowns or
sleeps in American blankets?
The answer is that from the figures coming yesterday from the Depart-
nient of Commerce and Labor we discovered that this year $450,000,000 of
manufactured articles from American looms and factories go into European
markets to compete with the highly organized industrial nations of the world
in their own market places. [Applause.]
An American can start and go around the world and not leave his coun-
try. He can cross the Pacific to Yokohama in a Northern Pacific steamer.
He rides through Japan and China on American electrical appliances. He
goes 6,000 miles across the Siberian railway in American cars, drawn by
American locomotives. In Spain, alongside of their orange groves, he finds
California and Florida oranges. In France he drinks wine labeled French
which has come from San Francisco. [Laughter and applause.]
He crosses the Nile upon a bridge made in Pittsburg. [Applause.] In
an English hotel he goes to his room near the roof in an elevator manufac-
tured in New York. His feet are in carpets made in Yonkers. On the
banks of the Ganges he reads his cables by an electric light run by an Ameri-
can and made in America. He goes under old London in tunnels dug and
run by American machinery and American genius, and then he goes to New-
castle and finds that the impossible has been profitably accomplished, and
coals American coals are carried to Newcastle. [Laughter and applause.]
Now, my friends, while we represent the positive, the convention which
meets on the 6th of July represents that element unknown heretofore in
American politics, the opportunist. It is waiting for bankruptcy, waiting for
panic, waiting for industrial depression, waiting for financial distress.
There was an old farmer upon the Maine coast who owned a farm with
a rocky ledge running out into the ocean and called Hurricane Point; on it
ships were wrecked, and he gathered his harvest from the wreckage, and, in
his will, he wrote, "I divide my farm equally among my children, but Hur-
ricane Point shall be kept for all of you forever, for while the winds blow
and the waves roll the Lord will provide." [Great laughter.] But we have
put a lighthouse on Hurricane Point, a lighthouse of protection, with a re-
volving light shedding golden beams over the ocean, and American com-
merce in going and coming is absolutely safe. [Applause.]
Time eliminates reputations. One or two men represent a period. There
are very few statesmen who are remembered by succeeding generations.
The heroes of the civil war on both sides are reduced in popular recollection
to two names. Issues and events, which make history, bring out qualities
of greatness in those specially gifted for statesmanship and government.
The constructive genius of the country was first in the Federal, then in the
Democratic, then in the Whig and for the past half century in the Repub-
r .can party. This is the result : In our first era the leaders were Washing-
ton, Hamilton and Adams, Federalists ; in the second era, Jefferson and
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 171
Jackson, Democrats ; in the third era, Webster and Clay, Whigs ; in the
fourth and most productive era of all that makes life worth living and citi-
zenship valuable, Lincoln, Grant and McKinley, all Republicans. [Ap-
plause.]
We love Roosevelt because of his "indiscretions." When everybody else
thought it foolish his foresight provided powder and ball for Dewey. When
the financial world said it was folly to enforce the laws the supreme court of
the United States justified the wisdom of the president. Who calls him rash,
impetuous and tumultuous? It is the statesmen who enacted the Wilson bill,
with its attendant distress, bankruptcy and ruin ; the statesmen who would
have given us silver at 16 to i, with the inevitable collapse of our home in-
dustries and our foreign markets ; it is the statesmen who would give up the
Philippines and would have lost the opportunity to build the isthmian canal
while discussing questions of international law and constitutional preroga-
tives. [Applause.]
To Roosevelt's "impulsiveness," "rashness" and "indiscretions" we owe the
settlement of the coal strike, which, if continued, would have produced
among a freezing people in the great cities and among millions thrown out of
employment, because of manufactories shut down, suffering, riot and revolu-
tion. We owe to Roosevelt's "indiscretions," "rashness" and "impetuosity"
the removal of the fear and the perils of gigantic trusts by proving that they
are the creatures of and within the power of the law. We owe to Roose-
velt's "indiscretions," "rashness" and "impetuosity" the solution of the prob-
lem of 400 years, the realization of the hope of the statesmen of this coun-
try for more than a half of a century, the fruition of the dream of Columbus
and the welding of the east and the west and gaining of the Pacific ocean
and the Orient for our commerce, in the concession of the right and the
beginning of the work of the construction of the isthmian canal. If, as our
opponents say, the campaign is Roosevelt, we follow the fortunes of our
young leader, confident of victory. [Applause.]
OFFICE OF VICE-PRESIDENT.
And now, gentlemen, it seems to me we have not attached enough impor-
tance to the office of vice-president of the United States. [Applause.] It
was not so among the fathers. Then of the two highest potential presi-
dential possibilities one took the presidency, the other the vice-presidency.
But in the last forty years ridicule and caricature have placed the office
almost in contempt.
Let us remember that Thomas Jefferson, let us remember that old John
Adams, let us remember that John C. Calhoun and George Clinton and
Martin Van Buren were vice-presidents of the United States. Eighty mil-
lion people want for vice-president a presidential figure of full size.
He presides over the senate, but he does more than that. He is the
confidant of the senators. He is the silent member of every committee. He
is influential in that legislation which originates and which is shaped in the
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senate, and now that we have become a world power, now that treaties make
for either our prosperity, our open door or closed harbors, he is necessarily
an important factor in the machinery of the government.
By the tragic death of McKinley the vice-president was elevated to the
presidency, and today for the first time we have renominated the vice-
president who thus came to be the president. [Applause.]
All that has been said here about Theodore Roosevelt is true, but the
highest tribute to him is that the American people for the first time unani-
mously demand that a vice-president shall be the elect of their choice for
the presidency of the United States.
Now, gentlemen, it is my privilege in looking for vice-presidential pos-
sibilities to announce what you all know that we have found a vice-presi-
dential candidate of full presidential size. [Applause.] Everybody knows
that if the towering figure of Theodore Roosevelt had been out of this
canvass one of the promising candidates before this convention for president
of the United States would have been Charles W. Fairbanks. [Applause.]
And New York, appreciating his great ability as a lawyer, appreciating
the national name he has made for himself as a senator, appreciating his
dignity, his character and his genius for public affairs, seconds the nomina-
tion of Charles W. Fairbanks for vice-president of the United States. [Pro-
longed applause and cheering.]
SPEECH OF MR. J. B. FORAKER, OF OHIO.
Mr. J. B. FORAKER, of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, we have come here to do
three things : Make a platform, name the next president of the United
States, and also name the next vice president of the United States.
We have done two of these things, and are about to do the third. We
have done both of the things we have done well. The platform we adopted
yesterday has already met the favorable judgment of the American people.
It is the counterpart of the best the Republican party has ever adopted, and,
if you would know how high is that tribute, recall the fact of which every
Republican may justly feel proud that, of all the many platforms we
have made in the fifty years of our party life, we would not today strike one
of them from our record if we could.
Further than that, there is not a plank, or a declaration, or a thought, or
an idea in one of them that we would erase if we had the power. From the
platform of 1856 down to the one adopted yesterday, all are as sound as a
gold dollar. If you would know what a tribute is here to Republican patriot-
ism, wisdom and statesmanship, recall the great questions with which the
Republican party has dealt in making these platforms. They are all im-
perishable contributions to our political literature.
If you would further know the measure of our success, read also of the
lamentable failure our Democratic friends have met with in making their
platforms. While we are today proud of the success of ours, they cannot
find one platform they have made in all this period that does not have some
HON. JOSEPH B. FORAKER, of Ohio,
Who Seconded the Nomination of Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks for
Vice- President.
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features at least of which they are now ashamed. Not all of them, perhaps,
because there are apparently some Democrats who can hardly be ashamed
of anything. (Laughter.)
On the platform made yesterday we have placed our candidate who is to
head the ticket. It was not as easy to some of the conventions that have
gone before to name a Republican candidate for the presidency, as it was for
us to name our candidate here today. In former years, when we have been
called upon to choose between such great leaders as Conkling and Morton
and Elaine and Garfield and Harrison and McKinley, they have been matched
so evenly, their claims for merit were so nearly equal, that it was a hard
task. But this time one man stood head and shoulders above all others of
our Republican leaders, nominated, as has been well said, from this platform
by the American people before we took our seats in this convention. We
could choose only him.
On the ticket with him, as his associate for the vice presidency, we want
now to place a man who represents in his personality, in his beliefs, in his
public services, in his high character, all the splendid record the Republican
party has made ; all the great declarations of all our platforms ; a man who
will typify, as the leader of our ticket will, the highest ambitions and the
noblest purposes of the Republican party of the United States. (Applause.)
I shall not detain you with a eulogy of Senator Fairbanks beyond simply
saying that to all who know him personally, as those of us do who have been
closely associated with him in the public service, he meets all the require-
ments so eloquently stated by Senator Depew. He, indeed, is of presidential
calibre. He has all the qualifications for the high office for which he has
been named, ancj, by all of these tokens and considerations, in the name of
the 46 delegates of Ohio, I second the nomination of Senator Fairbanks.
(Cheers.)
SPEECH OF MR. SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER, OF PENN-
SYLVANIA.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen of the convention, to every
arch there must be a keystone. In the Republican arch Pennsylvania by name
and in fact is the keystone. (Applause.) I had three of a kind, and now I
take great pleasure in introducing the fourth, Governor Pennypacker, of the
State of Pennsylvania. (Applause.)
Mr. PENNYPACKER, of Pennsylvania. Gentlemen of the convention : The
first national convention of the Republican party was held in that city in west-
ern Pennsylvania which rivals in wealth, in enterprise, in energy, the great
mart along the shores of the inland lakes wherein, after the lapse of nearly
half a century, we meet today. Pennsylvania may well claim to be the leader
among Republican States. The principles which are embodied in the platform
of the party as we have adopted it are the results of the teachings of her
scholars and statesmen. Her majorities for the nominees of that party are
greater and more certain than those of any other State. (Applause.) She
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alone of all the States since the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, has
never given an electoral vote against a candidate of the Republican party for
the Presidency. (Applause.) She is generous and unselfish in her devo-
tion. During the period of half a century that has gone no son of hers has
been either President or Vice President. She has been satisfied, like the Earl
of Warwick, to be the maker of kings. (Applause.) She has been content
that you should have regard to the success of the party and the welfare of
the country rather than to the personal interests of her citizens.
The waters of the Ohio, rising in the mountains of Pennsylvania, roll
westward, bearing fertility and men to the prairie lands of Indiana. The
thought of Pennsylvania turns with kindred feeling toward the State which
has produced Oliver P. Morton, Benjamin Harrison and the brave Hoosiers
who fought alongside of Reynolds on the Oak Ridge at Gettysburg. (Ap-
plause.) She recalls that Abraham Lincoln and Uncle Joe Cannon, both of
them wanderers from the South to reach distinction in the North, before
they came to Illinois had a preliminary training in Indiana. (Applause.)
She well remembers that when her own Senator, he who did so much
for the Republican party, and whose wise counsels, alas ! are missing today,
bore a commission to Washington, he had no more sincere supporter than the
able and distinguished statesman who then, as he does now, represented In-
diana in the United States Senate. (Applause.)
Pennsylvania with the approval of her judgment and with glad anticipa-
tion of victory in her heart, following a leader, who, like the Chevalier of
France, is without fear and without reproach, seconds the nomination for the
Vice Presidency of Charles W. Fairbanks, of Indiana.
SPEECH OF MR. THOMAS H. CARTER, OF MONTANA.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen of the convention, we have had
four of a kind. Wonderful to relate, here is a fifth ace Tom Carter, of
Montana. (Applause.)
Mr. CARTER, of Montana. Gentlemen of the convention, it will be at
once consoling and reassuring to you for me to announce that I do not rise
to make a speech, but merely to deliver a message.
You will all recall how upon a historic day eight years ago the inter-
mountain country, theretofore solidly Republican, became tempest tossed and
disconcerted. It will be remembered with regret that since 1892 Republican
electoral votes in the Rocky Mountain country have been few and far be-
tween. I am here today to say to you that from the Canadian line to the
south line of Colorado, and from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean each
and every vote will be cast for Theodore Roosevelt in the Electoral Col-
lege. (Applause.)
The manner in which this happy result has been brought about is well
worth a moment's consideration. We all recall the kind, considerate and wise
administration of affairs by William McKinley and his successor as Presi-
dent guided, aided and assisted by the venerated Mark Hanna, of Ohio. (Ap-
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 175
plause.) Of all those who have been sympathetic through good and evil re-
port, while standing inflexible for the cardinal principles of the party, one
of the strongest and most comforting who have helped has been Charles W.
Fairbanks, of Indiana, whose nomination I second. With Roosevelt and
Fairbanks the West will be secure. (Applause.) I thank you. (Applause.)
WITHDRAWAL OF MR. R. R. HITT'S NAME.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Are there further nominations? (Cries
of "No, No.") If not, by unanimous consent, the further call of the States
will be dispensed with.
Mr. SHELBY M. CULLOM, of Illinois. Before any vote shall be taken,
Mr. Chairman, I desire to say one word. Illinois had the great honor of
having a candidate for the office of Vice-President, the Honorable Robert
R. Hitt. (Applause.) A day or two ago I received a telegram from that
distinguished gentleman stating that as the sentiment of the country seemed
so unanimous for Senator Fairbanks, he desired that I should withdraw his
name from consideration in connection with the great offce.
Therefore, Mr. Chairman, the Illinois delegation met together, accepted
the suggestion of Robert R. Hitt, and determined to give its solid vote to
Charles W. Fairbanks for Vice-President of the United State. (Applause.)
NOMINATION OF CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
Mr. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, of New York. Mr. Chairman, I ask unani-
mous consent that the roll call be dispensed with and that Senator Fair-
banks' nomination be made by an unanimous viva 1'oce vote.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New York asks
unanimous consent that the roll call of the States be dispensed with, and that
Senator Fairbanks be chosen unanimously by this convention as our candi-
date for the vice presidency.
Mr. W. P. MILES, of Nebraska. Mr. Chairman, the Nebraska delegation
withholds for just a moment its consent to that request.
On behalf of Nebraska's candidate for the Vice-Presidency, the Nebraska
delegation extends greeting to Indiana. It .recognizes that in Roosevelt and
Fairbanks we have a combination of character and intelligence worthy of the
aspirations and traditions of the Republican party, and we, therefore, second
the nomination. (Applause.)
Mr. L. F. PARKER, of Missouri. I am unanimously instructed by the
delegation from Missouri to say that Missouri recognizes, and cheerfully rec-
ognizes, the practically unanimous will of this convention, and withdraws the
name of Cyrus Walbridge as its candidate for the Vice Presidency of the
United States. It further instructs me to cast its unanimous vote for Charles
W. Fairbanks for that honor. (Applause.)
Mr. HENRY BLUN, JR., of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, Georgia instructed
her delegation to cast her ballot for one of her sons, but realizing that sound
money makes sound banks, and that sound banks make certain Fairbanks
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(laughter), she withdraws, and Georgia seconds the nomination of the gen-
tleman from Indiana, Mr. Charles W. Fairbanks. (Applause.)
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from New York (Mr. Depew) that the roll call on the question of
nominating a candidate for Vice President be dispensed with, and that the
nomination of Mr. Fairbanks be made by acclamation. The Chair hears none.
All those who are in favor of the nomination of Charles W. Fairbanks, will
say "aye."
The vote was unanimous in the affirmative.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. It only remains for the Chair to declare by
the unanimous choice of the convention Charles W. Fairbanks of the State of
Indiana, is our candidate for Vice President for the term commencing on
the 4th of March, 1905. (Applause.)
(There were calls for Mr. Fairbanks.)
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. Senator Fairbanks is not in the hall.
COMMITTEES TO NOTIFY THE NOMINEES.
Mr. J. P. DOLLJVER, of Iowa. Mr. Chairman I offer the resolution which
I send to the desk.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Iowa offers a reso-
lution which will be read.
The READING CLERK read as follows :
Resolved, That the Permanent Chairman of this Convention, Hon. Joseph
G. Cannon, of Illinois, be appointed chairman of the committee to notify Hon.
Theodore Roosevelt of his nomination for President; and that Temporary
Chairman, Hon. Elihu Root, of New York, be appointed chairman of the
committee to notify Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks of his nomination for Vice-
President; and that the committee notify the candidate for President on July
27th, and the candidate for Vice-President on August 3rd.
The GENERAL SECRETARY (Mr. C. W. Johnson). The question is on
agreeing to the resolution offered by the gentleman from Iowa.
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS.
Mr. KNUTE NELSON, of Minnesota. I submit for consideration the reso-
lution which I send to the desk.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Minnesota presents a
resolution which will be read.
The READING CLERK read as follows:
Resolved, That the Secretary of this Convention is hereby directed to prepare
and publish a full and complete report of the official proceedings of this con-
vention, under the direction of the National Committee, co-operating with the
local committee.
The resolution was agreed to.
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 177
THANKS TO CONVENTION OFFICERS.
Mr. W. B. HEYBURN, of Idaho. I offer the resolution which I send to
the desk.
The resolution was read, and unanimously agreed to, as follows :
Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention are tendered to the Temporary
Chairman, the Permanent Chairman, the Secretary and his Assistants, the
Sergeant-at-Arms, and his Deputies, Clerk at the Chairman's desk, the Reading
and Tally Clerks, the Official Reporter, and the Messengers.
THANKS TO THE CITY OF CHICAGO, ETC.
Mr. FRANKLIN MURPHY, of New Jersey. I offer a resolution and ask for
its present consideration.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New Jersey offers a
resolution which will be read.
The READING CLERK read as follows :
Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention are hereby tendered to the Hon.
Samuel B. Raymond, Chairman, and the members of the Chicago Committee on
Arrangements; the members of the sub-committee of the Republican National
Committee, the citizens of Chicago, etc., for the hospitable and perfect pro-
vision made for the sessions of the convention, and the entertainment of the
delegates, alternates and visitors.
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
178 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY HONORABLE THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will now read the names of the
members of the committee appointed to notify Honorable Theodore Roosevelt
of his nomination.
The READING CLERK read as follows :
States or Territories Name.
Alabama J. O. THOMPSON
Arkansas H. L. REMMEL.
California GEORGE C. PARDEE
Colorado CHARLES F. CASWELL
Connecticut CHARLES S. MELLEN
Delaware FRANCIS S. BRADLEY
Florida JAMES N. COOMBS
Georgia H. S. EDWARDS
Idaho WELDON B. HEYBURN
Illinois ISAAC L. ELLWOOD
Indiana W. R. McKEEN
Iowa GEORGE M. CURTIS
Kansas W. T. F. DONALD
Kentucky CHARLES F. WEAVER
Louisiana EMIL KUNTZ
Maine ERNEST M. GOOD ALL
Maryland FELEX ANGUS
Massachusetts CHARLES G. WASHBURN
Michigan CHARLES E. SWEET
Minnesota WALTER W. HEFFELFINGER
Mississippi L. B. MOSELEY
Missouri W. C. PIERCE
Montana CONRAD KOHRS
Nebraska GURDON W. WATTLES
Nevada E. S. FARINGTON
New Hampshire ROSECRANS W. PILLSBURY
New Jersey LESLIE D. WARD
New York CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW
North Carolina I. M. MEEKINS
North Dakota V. B. NOBLE
Ohio GEORGE P. WALDORF
Oregon S. J. KLEIN
Pennsylvania FRANCIS L. ROBBINS
Rhode Island H. MARTIN BROWN
South Carolina A. D. WEBSTER
South Dakota G. E. ANDREWS
Tennessee T. A. LANCASTER
Texas W. S. SIMPSON
Utah WILLARD F. SNYDER
Vermont JAMES F. HOOKER
Virginia S. BROWN ALLEN
Washington J. G. LEWIS
West Virginia J. L. CALDWELL
Wisconsin O. H. FETHERS
Wyoming C. D. CLARK
District of Columbia JOHN F. COOK
Alaska J. W. IVEY
Arizona.. A. O. BRODIE
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Indian Territory GEORGE W. BIGHAM
New Mexico M. A. OTERO
Oklahoma W. D. BOSSETT
Hawaii ERIC A. KNUDSON
Philippines E. C. McCULLOUGH
Porto Rico R. H. TODD
COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY HONORABLE CHARLES W. FAIR-
BANKS.
The PERMANENT CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will now read the names of the
members of the committee appointed to notify Honorable Charles W. Fair-
banks of his nomination.
The READING CLERK read as follows :
State or Territory. Name.
Alabama L. J. BRYAN
Arkansas T. O. FITZPATRICK
California M. A. GUNST
Colorado THOMAS P. WALSH
Connecticut CHARLES C. BISSELL
Delaware G. LAYTON GRIER
Florida JOSEPH E. LEE
Georgia E. F. BLODGETT
Idaho C. J. HALL
Illinois VESPASIAN WARNER
Indiana JOSEPH HUDSPETH
Iowa J. W. DOXSEE
Kansas O. Z. SMITH
Kentucky JAMES BREATHITT
Louisiana C. C. DUSON
Maine EDWIN RILEY
Maryland JAMES E. INGRAM, JR.
Massachusetts WM. SHEPHERD
Michigan THOMAS WALTERS
Minnesota AMOS MARCKEL
Mississippi R. A. SIMMONS
Missouri E. S. BROWN
Montana J. E. EDWARDS
Nebraska H. M. CHILDS
Nevada H. B. MAXSON
New Hampshire EDWIN C. BEAN
New Jersey EDMUND WILSON
New York ELIHU ROOT
North Carolina B. F. MEBANE
North Dakota B. PROM
Ohio GEO. W. McMURCHY
Oregon N. C. RICHARDS
Pennsylvania W. L. CONNELL
Rhode Island SAMUEL L. PECK
South Carolina W. D. CRUM
South Dakota H. GODDARD
Tennessee A. A. HORNSBY
Texas C. DICKSON
Utah.. L. W. SHURTLIFF
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Vermont JAMES F. MANNING
' Virginia C. G. SMITHERS
Washington A. B. EASTHAM
West Virginia ENOCH CARVER
Wisconsin A. W. McLEOD
Wyoming F. W. MONDELL
District of Columbia ROBERT REYBURN
Alaska W. D. GRANT
Arizona J. X. WOODS
Indian Territory CHAS. W. RAYMOND
New Mexico D. J. LEAHY
Oklahoma JNO. H. COTTERAL
Hawaii A. G. M. ROBERTSON
Philippine Islands JOHN M. SWITZER
Porto Rico JOSE GOMEZ BRIOSO
FINAL ADJOURNMENT.
Mr. GRAEME STEWART, of Illinois. I move that the convention do now
adjourn sine die.
The motion was agreed to; and (at 2 o'clock and 22 minutes p. m.) the
Chair declared the convention adjourned without day.
Official Notification of Candidates
ADDRESS OF HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON
Notifying President Roosevelt of his Nomination for President
at Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 27, 1894.
Mr. President : The people of the United States, by blood, heredity, edu-
cation and practice, are a self-governing people. We have sometimes been
subject to prejudice and embarrassment from harmful conditions, but we
have outgrown prejudice and overcome conditions as rapidly as possible,
having due regard to law and the rights of individuals. We have some-
times made mistakes, from a false sense of security or from a desire to
change policies instead of letting well enough alone, merely to see what
would happen, but we have always paid the penalty of unwise action at
the ballot box and endured the suffering until, under the law, through the
ballot box, we have returned to correct policies. Tested by experience, no
nation has so successfully solved all problems and chosen proper policies
as our nation. Under the lead of the Republican party for over forty years,
the United States, from being a third-class power among the nations, has
become in every respect first. The people rule. The people ruling, it is
necessary that they should be competent to rule. Competency requires not
only patriotism but material well-being, education, statecraft.
The people, under the lead of the Republican party, wrote upon the statute
books revenue laws, levying taxes upon the products of foreign countries
seeking our markets, which replenished our treasury, but were so adjusted
as to encourage our people in developing, diversifying and maintaining our
industries, at the same time protecting our citizens laboring in production
against the competition of foreign labor. Under this policy, our manufac-
tured product today is one-third of the product of the civilized world, and
our people receive almost double the pay for their labor that similar labor
receives elsewhere in the world, thereby enabling us to bear the burdens of
citizenship.
Liberal compensation for labor makes liberal customers for our prod-
ucts. Under this policy of protection, our home market affords all our peo-
ple a better market than has any other people on earth, and this, too, even if
we did not sell any of our products abroad. In addition to this, we have
come to be the greatest exporting nation in the world. For the year ending
the 3Oth of June, 1904, our exports to foreign countries were valued at $i,-
460,000,000, of which $450,000,000 were products of the factory. The world
fell in our debt last year $470,000,000, an increase of $75,000,000 over the
preceding year.
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This policy of protection has always been opposed by the opponents of
the Republican party, and is opposed by them today. In their last national
platform, adopted at St. Louis, they denounce protection as robbery. They
never have been given power but they proceeded by word and act to destroy
the policy of protection. Their platform is as silent as the grave touching
the gold standard and our currency system. Their chosen leader, after his
nomination, having been as silent as the sphynx up to that time, sent his
telegram, saying in substance that the gold standard is established, and that
he will govern himself accordingly if he should be elected.
I congratulate him. It is better to be right late than never. It is better
to be right in one thing than wrong in all things. I wonder if it ever
occurred to him that if his vote and support for his party's candidate in
1896 and 1900 had been decisive we would now have the silver standard. I
wonder what made him send that telegram after he was nominated, and why
he did not send it before! When did he have a change of heart and judg-
ment? And does he at heart believe in the gold standard and our currency
system, or does he try now to reap where he has not sown? If, perchance,
he should be elected by forcing together discordant elements, I submit that,
with a democratic House of Representatives or House and Senate, there
would be no harmonious action in legislation or administration that would
benefit the people, but that doubt and discontent would everywhere distress
production and labor. Consumption would be curtailed. In short, we would
have an experience similar to that from 1893 to i%97- If this chosen leader
and his friends are converts to Republican policies, should not they "bring
forth fruits meet for repentance" before they ask to be placed in the highest
positions to affect the well-being of all ; or, if they profess all things to all
men, then they are not worthy the confidence of any man. If clothed with
power, will they follow in the paths of legislation according to their loves
and votes as manifested by their action always heretofore, or will they stand
by, protect and defend the gold standard and our currency system that
have been created under the lead of the Republican party?
Correct revenue laws, protection or free trade, the gold standard and
our currency system, all depend upon the sentiment of the majority of our
people as voiced at the ballot box. A majority may change our revenue
laws ; a majority may change our currency laws ; a majority may destroy
the gold standard and establish the silver standard ; or, in lieu of either or
both, make the treasury note, non-interest-bearing and irredeemable, the sole
standard of value.
Sir, let us turn from the region of doubt and double-dealing, the debatable
land, to the region of assured certainty. The Republican party stands for
protection. It stands for the gold standard and our currency system. All
these dwell in legislation enacted under the lead of the Republican party
and against the most determined opposition of the Democratic party, includ-
ing its leader and candidate. These being our policies, and having been
most useful to the country, we have confidence in and love them. If it be
THIRTEENTH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. 183
necessary from time to time that they should be strengthened here and con-
trolled there, the Republican party stands ready, with loving, competent
hands, to apply the proper remedy. I say "remedy." Being our policies,
we will not willingly subject them to their enemies for slow starvation on
the one hand or to sudden destruction on the other.
Since the Republican party was restored to power, in 1897, under the lead
of McKinley, our country has prospered in production and in commerce as it
has never prospered before. In wealth, we stand first among all the nations.
Under the lead of William McKinley, the war with Spain was speedily
brought to a successful conclusion. Under the treaty of peace and our
action, Cuba is free ; and, under guaranties written in her constitution and
our legislation, it is assured that she will ever remain free. We also acquired
Porto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, by a treaty, the ratification of which
was only possible by the votes of Democratic Senators. Civil government
has been established in Porto Rico, and we are journeying towards civil
government in the Philippines as rapidly as the people of the archipelago
are able to receive it ; and this, too, notwithstanding the false cry of "im-
perialism" raised by the Democratic party and still insisted upon, which led
to insurrection in the Philippines and tends to lead to further insurrection
there. The record of the Republican party under the lead of William Mc-
Kinley has passed into history. Who dares assail it?
In the history of the Republic, in time of peace, no executive has had
greater questions to deal with than yourself, and none have brought greater
courage, wisdom and patriotism to their solution. You have enforced the
law against the mighty and the lowly without fear, favor or partiality. Un-
der the constitution, you have recommended legislation to Congress from
time to time, as it was your duty to do, and when it was passed by Congress,
have approved it. You have, under the constitution, led in making a treaty
which was ratified by the Senate and is approved by the people, which not
only assures, but, under the law and appropriations made by Congress, pro-
ceeds with the construction of the Panama Canal.
The Republican party} under your leadership, keeps its record from the
beginning under Lincoln of doing things, the right thing at the right time
and in the right way, notwithstanding the opposition of those who oppose
the right policies from the selfish or partisan standpoint. They dare not
tell the truth about your official action or the record of the party and then
condemn it. They can, for selfish or partisan reasons, abuse you personally
and misrepresent the party which you lead. It is true, however, that, so far,
their abuse of your action and their alleged fear of your personality is in-
significant as compared with the personal and partisan carpings against Lin-
coln, Grant and McKinley when they were clothed with power by the peo-
ple. Those whose only grievance is that you have enforced the law and
those who carp for more partisan capital will not, in my judgment, reap the
harvest of success. The Republican party for you and under your leader-
ship appeals to the great body of the people who live in the sweat of their
184 OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
faces, make the civilization, control the Republic, fight its battles and deter-
mine its policies, for approval and continuance in power.
The office of President of the United States is the greatest on earth, and
many competent men in the Republican party are ambitious to hold it, yet
the Republican convention met at Chicago, June last, and cordially, with one
accord, nominated you as the candidate of the party for President. I am
sure all Republicans and a multitude of good citizens who do not call them-
selves Republicans, said "Amen."
In pursuance of the usual custom, the convention appointed a committee,
of which it honored me with the chairmanship, to wait upon you and inform
you of its action, which duty, speaking for the committee, I now cheerfully
perform, with the hope and the confident expectation that a majority of the
people of the Republic will, in November next, approve the action of the
convention by choosing electors who will assure your election to the Presi-
dency as your own successor.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS REPLY
The President replied, as follows :
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Notification Committee :
I am deeply sensible of the high honor conferred upon me by the repre-
sentatives of the Republican party assembled in convention, and I accept
the nomination for the Presidency with solemn realization of the obligations
I assume. I heartily approve the declaration of principles which the Re-
publican National Convention has adopted, and at some future day I shall
communicate to you, Mr. Chairman, more at length and in detail a formal
written acceptance of the nomination.
Three years ago I became President because of the death of my lamented
predecessor. I then stated that it was my purpose to carry out his principles
and policies for the honor and the interest of the country. To the best of
my ability I have kept the promise thus made. If next November my coun-
trymen confirm at the polls the action of the convention you represent, I
shall, under Providence, continue to work with an eye single to the welfare
of all our people.
A party is of worth only in so far as it promotes the national interest, and
every official, high or low, can serve his party best by rendering to the peo-
ple the best service of which he is capable. Effective government comes
only as the result of the loyal co-operation of many different persons. Th-
members of a legislative majority, the officers in the various departments of
the Administration, and the Legislative and Executive branches as towards
each other, must work together with subordination of self to the common
end of successful government. We who have been entrusted with power
as public servants during the past seven years of administration and legisla-
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tion now come before the people content to be judged by our record of
achievement. In the years that have gone by we have made the deed
square with the word ; and if we are continued in power we shall unswerv-
ingly follow out the great lines of public policy which the Republican party
has already laid down ; a public policy to which we are giving, and shall
give a united, and therefore an efficient, support.
In all of this we are more fortunate than our opponents, who now appeal
for confidence on the ground, which some express and some seek to have
confidentially understood, that if triumphant they may be trusted to prove
false to every principle which in the last eight years they have laid down
as vital, and to leave undisturbed those very acts of the administration be-
cause of which they ask that the administration itself be driven from pow-
er. Seemingly their present attitude as to their past record is that some of
them were mistaken and others insincere. We make our appeal in a wholly
different spirit. We are not constrained to keep silent on any vital ques-
tion ; we are divided on no vital question : our policy is continuous, and is
the same for all sections and localities. There is nothing experimental about
the government we ask the people to continue in power, for our performance
in the past, our proved governmental efficiency, is a guarantee as to our
promises for the future. Our opponents, either openly or secretly, according
to their several temperaments, now ask the people to trust their present
promises in consideration of the fact that they intend to treat their past
promises as null and void. We know our own minds and we have kept of the
same mind for a sufficient length of time to give to our policy coherence and
sanity. In such a fundamental matter as the enforcement of the law we do
not have to depend upon promises, but merely to ask that our record be
taken as an earnest of what we shall continue to do. In dealing with the
great organizations known as trusts, we do not have to explain why the
laws were not enforced, but to point out that they actually have been en-
forced and that legislation has been enacted to increase the effectiveness of
their enforcement. We do not have to propose to "turn the rascals out," for
we have shown in very deed that whenever by diligent investigation a pub-
lic official can be found who has betrayed his trust he will be punished to
the full extent of the law without regard to whether he was appointed under
a Republican or a Democratic administration. This is the efficient way to
turn the rascals out and to keep them out, and it has the merit of sincerity.
Moreover the betrayals of trust in the last seven years have been insignifi-
cant in number when compared with the extent of the public service. Never
has the administration of the government been on a cleaner and higher
level ; never has the public work of the nation been done more honestly and
efficiently.
Assuredly it is unwise to change the policies which have worked so well
and which are now working so well. Prosperity has come at home. The
national honor and interest have been upheld abroad. We have placed the
finances of the nation upon a sound gold basis. We have done this with
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the aid of many who were formerly our opponents, but who would neither
openly support nor silently acquiesce in the heresy of unsound finance;
and we have done it against the convinced and violent opposition of the mass
of our present opponents who still refuse to recant the unsound opinions
which for the moment they think it inexpedient to assert. We know what
we mean when we speak of an honest and stable currency. We mean the
same thing from year to year. We do not have to avoid a definite and con-
clusive committal on the most important issue which has recently been be-
fore the people, and which may at any time in the near future be before
them again. Upon the principles which underlie this issue the convictions
of half of our number do not clash with those of the other half. So long
as the Republican party is in power the gold standard is settled, not as a
matter of temporary political expediency, not because of shifting conditions
in the production of gold in certain mining centers, but in accordance with
what we regard as the fundamental principles of national morality and wis-
dom.
Under the financial legislation which we have enacted there is now ample
circulation for every business need ; and every dollar of this circulation is
worth a dollar in gold. We have reduced the interest-bearing debt and in
still larger measure the interest on that debt. All of the war taxes imposed
during the Spanish war have been removed with a view to relieve the peo-
ple and to prevent the accumulation of an unnecessary surplus. The result
is that hardly ever before have the expenditures and income of the govern-
ment so closely corresponded. In the fiscal year that has just closed the
excess of income over the ordinary expenditures was nine millions of dol-
lars. This does not take account of the fifty millions expended out of the
accumulated surplus for the purchase of the Isthmian Canal. It is an ex-
traordinary proof of the sound financial condition of the nation that instead
of following the usual course in such matters and throwing the burden
upon posterity by an issue of bonds, we were able to make the payment out-
right and yet after it to have in the treasury a surplus of one hundred and
sixty-one millions. Moreover, we were able to pay the fifty millions of dol-
lars out of hand without causing the slightest disturbance to business con-
ditions.
We have enacted a tariff law under which during the past few years the
country has attained a height of material well-being never before reached.
Wages are higher than ever before. That whenever the need arises there
should be a readjustment of the tariff schedules is undoubted ; but such
changes can with safety be made only by those whose devotion to the prin-
ciple of a protective tariff is beyond question ; for otherwise the changes
would amount not to readjustment but to repeal. The readjustment when
made must maintain and not destroy the protective principle. To the farmer,
the merchant, the manufacturer this is vital ; but perhaps no other man is
so much interested as the wage-worker in the maintenance of our present
economic system, both as regards the finances and the tariff. The standard
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of living of our wage-workers is higher than that of any other country,
and it can not so remain unless we have a protective tariff which shall al-
ways keep as a minimum a rate of duty sufficient to cover the difference
between the labor cost here and abroad. Those who, like our opponents,
"denounce protection as a robbery," thereby explicitly commit themselves
to the proposition that if they were to revise the tariff, no heed would be
paid to the necessity of meeting this difference between the standards of
living for wage-workers here and in other countries : and therefore on this
point their antagonism to our position is fundamental. Here again we ask
that their promises and ours be judged by what has been done in the imme-
diate past. We ask that sober and sensible men compare the workings of
the present tariff law, and the conditions which obtain under it, with the
workings of the preceding tariff law of 1894 and the conditions which that
tariff of 1894 helped to bring about.
We believe in reciprocity with foreign nations on the terms outlined in
President McKinley's last speech, which urged the extension of our foreign
markets by reciprocal agreements whenever they could be made without
injury to American industry and labor. It is a singular fact that the only
great reciprocity treaty recently adopted that with Cuba was finally op-
posed almost alone by the representatives of the very party which now
states, that it favors reciprocity. And here again we ask that the worth of
our words be judged by comparing their deeds with ours. On this Cuban
reciprocity treaty there were at the outset grave differences of opinion
among ourselves ; and the notable thing in the negotiation and ratification of
the treaty, and in the legislation which carried it into effect, was the highly
practical manner in which without sacrifice of principle these differences
of opinion were reconciled. There was no rupture of a great party, but an
excellent practical outcome, the result of the harmonious co-operation of
two successive Presidents and two successive Congresses. This is an illus-
tration of the governing capacity which entitles us to the confidence of the
people not only in our purposes but in our practical ability to achieve those
purposes. Judging by the history of the last twelve years, down to this
very month, is there justification for believing that under similar circum-
stances and with similar initial differences of opinion, our opponents would
have achieved any practical result?
We have already shown in actual fact that our policy is to do fair and
equal justice to all men, paying no heed to whether a man is rich or poor;
paying no heed to his race, his creed, or his birthplace.
We recognize the organization of capital and the organization of labor as
natural outcomes of our industrial system. Each kind of organization is to
be favored so long as it acts in a spirit of justice and of regard for the
rights of others. Each is to be granted the full protection of the law, and
each in turn is to be held to a strict obedience to the law; for no man i;
above it and no man below it. The humblest individual is to have his rights
safeguarded as scrupulously as those of the strongest organization, for each
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is to receive justice, no more and no less. The problems with which we
have to deal in our modern industrial and social life are manifold ; but the
spirit in which it is necessary to approach their solution is simply the spirit
of honesty, of courage, and of common sense.
In inaugurating the great work of irrigation in the West the Administra-
tion has been enabled by Congress to take one of the longest strides ever
taken under our Government toward utilizing our vast national domain for
the settler, the actual home-maker.
Ever since this continent was discovered the need of an Isthmian Canal
to connect the Pacific and the Atlantic has been recognized ; and ever since
the birth of our nation such a canal has been planned. At last the dream
has become a reality. The Isthmian Canal is now being built by the Gov-
ernment of the United States. We conducted the negotiation for its con-
struction with the nicest and most scrupulous honor, and in a spirit of the
largest generosity toward those through whose territory it was to run.
Every sinister effort which could be devised by the spirit of faction or the
spirit of self-interest was made in order to defeat the Treaty with Panama
and thereby prevent the consummation of this work. The construction of
the canal is now an assured fact ; but most certainly it is unwise to entrust
the carrying out of so momentous a policy to those who have endeavored to
defeat the whole undertaking.
Our foreign policy has been so conducted that, while not one of our
just claims has been sacrificed, our relations with all foreign nations are now
of the most peaceful kind ; there is not a cloud on the horizon. The last
cause of irritation between us and any other nation was removed by the
settlement of the Alaskan boundary.
In the Caribbean Sea we have made good our promises of independence
to Cuba, and have proved our assertion that our mission in the island was
one of justice and not of self-aggrandizement; and thereby no less than by
our action in Venezuela and Panama we have shown that the Monroe Doc-
trine is a living reality, designed for the hurt of no nation, but for the pro-
tection of civilization on the western continent, and for the peace of the
world. Our steady growth in power has gone hand in hand with a strength-
ening disposition to use this power with strict regard for the rights of oth-
ers, and for the cause of international justice and goodwill.
We earnestly desire friendship with all the nations of the New and Old
Worlds ; and we endeavor to place our relations with them upon a basis of
reciprocal advantage instead of hostility. We hold that the prosperity of
each nation is an aid and not a hindrance to the prosperity of other nations.
We seek international amity for the same reasons that make us believe in
peace within our own borders ; and we seek this peace not because we are
afraid or unready, but because we think that peace is right as well as advan-
tageous.
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American interests in the Pacific have rapidly grown. American enter-
prise has laid a cable across this, the greatest of oceans. We have proved
in effective fashion that we wish the Chinese Empire well and desire its integ-
rity and independence.
Our foothold in the Philippines greatly strengthens our position in the
competition for the trade of the East ; but we are governing the Philip-
pines in the interest of the Philippine people themselves. We have already
given them a large share in their government, and our purpose is to increase
this share as rapidly as they give evidence of increasing fitness for the task.
The great majority of the officials of the islands, whether elective or ap-
pointive, are already native Filipinos. We are now providing for a legis-
lative assembly. This is the first step to be taken in the future ; and it
would be eminently unwise to declare what our next step will be until this
first step has been taken and the results are manifest. To have gone faster
than we have already gone in giving the islanders a constantly increasing
measure of self-government would have been disastrous. At the present
moment to give political independence to the islands would result in the
immediate loss of civil rights, personal liberty and public order, as regards
the mass of the Filipinos, for the majority of the islanders have been given
these great boons by us, and only keep them because we vigilantly safe-
guard and guarantee them. To withdraw our government from the islands
at this time would mean to the average native the loss of his barely-won civil
freedom. We have established in the islands a government by Americans
assisted by Filipinos. We are steadily striving to transform this into self-
government by the Filipinos assisted by Americans.
The principles which we uphold should appeal to all our countrymen,
in all portions of our country. Above all they should give us strength with
the men and women who are the spiritual heirs of those who upheld the
hands of Abraham Lincoln; for we are striving to do our work in the spirit
with which Lincoln approached his. During the seven years that have just
passed there is no duty, domestic or foreign, which we have shirked ; no
necessary task which we have feared to undertake, or which we have not
performed with reasonable efficiency. We have never pleaded impotence.
We have never sought refuge in criticism and complaint instead of action.
We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our
promises ; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we
have made and are making.
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ADDRESS OF HON. ELIHU ROOT
Notifying Senator Fairbanks of his Nomination for
Vice-President
Elihu Root, in delivering his notification speech, said :
"Senator Fairbanks The committee which now waits upon you was ap-
pointed by the National Convention of the Republican party held in Chicago
in June, and its agreeable duty is to notify you of your nomination as the
Republican candidate for the office of Vice-President of the United States
for the term to begin on the 4th day of March, 1905.
"We give you formal notice of that nomination, with assurance of the
undivided and hearty support of the great party which has executed the peo-
ple's will in the government of this country for the better part of the last
half century. The nomination comes to you in accordance with the best
methods and practices of representative government. It was the result of
long and earnest consideration and discussion by the members of the con-
vention. It was not the chance product of an excited hour, and it was not
upon the demand of any powerful influence political or otherwise con-
straining the judgment of the delegates. It was not made for the purpose
of conciliating possible malcontents or of swelling the campaign fund of the
party. No bargains or intrigues contributed to it. No suppressions of the
truth or misleading of the convention as to your principles and opinions were
necessary to bring it about. It was the deliberate, informed and intelligent
judgment of the delegates from every State and Territory, and it was their
unanimous judgment.
IMPORTANCE OF OFFICE.
"It is a great office to which you are called. John Adams, and Thomas
Jefferson, and George Clinton, and John C. Calhoun, and Martin Van Buren
and many others whose names are illustrious in the history of our country,
have filled it. It is an office of high dignity and immediate, ever-present
importance. The credit and honor of our country are greatly concerned in
the character and conduct of the man who presides over the Senate of the
United States that powerful and august body, of which you are already so
experienced, so useful and so honored a member.
"But the Vice-President has other grave duties of imperative obligation.
When the people elect a President under our political system they do not
merely select the man for the office ; they give their approval to certain con-
trolling principles and policies of government ; and the administration of
which the Vice-President is a part is bound to give effect to these principles
and policies. The primary duty of the Vice-President, to be always ready
to take up the burden of the Presidency if occasion requires, carries with it
the duty to be always ready to continue unbroken the policies which the
people have entrusted to the administration for execution. For the due
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performance of this duty the Vice-President should be familiar with the
conduct of affairs by the administration as it proceeds, a part of its coun-
sels, and imbued with a knowledge of its labors, its perplexities and its
motives, that can come only from intimate association and confidence and
sympathy.
IN SYMPATHY WITH THE PRESIDENT.
"Too often it has happened that after excited contests for the Presiden-
tial nomination the candidate for Vice-President has been selected from the
defeated faction for the purpose of appeasing their resentment, and that
after election he has remained antagonistic in spirit and a stranger to
the counsels of the President whom he may be called upon to succeed. Hap-
pily we are now in no such case. The people would fain see again such
relations of sympathy and loyal helpfulness for the public good as existed
between President McKinley and Vice-President Hobart ; and the personal
relations between President Roosevelt and yourself, your mutual esteem and
good understanding assure us that these happy conditions will come again
after the 4th of next March. We count upon your wisdom and experience
and loyal aid as an element of ever-present strength in the coming adminis-
tration.
"As to the supreme responsibility of the Vice-Presidency in case of suc-
cession to the Presidency, we shall all pray, and no one more earnestly than
yourself, that it may not come to you. But we are not at liberty to ignore
the possibility that it may come. Sad and bitter experience admonishes us
that provision for succession to the Presidency is no idle form. Of the last
twelve Presidents elected by the people of the United States five nearly one-
half have died in office and have been succeeded by Vice-Presidents. A
serious obligation rests upon the political parties which select the candidates
between whom the people must choose, to see to it that they nominate men
for this possible succession who have the strength of body and mind and
character which shall enable them, if occasion comes, to take up the burdens
of the great Presidential office, to endure its trying and exhausting demands,
to meet its great responsibilities, and with firm hand and clear vision to
guide the Government of the country until the people can express their
choice again.
"Our opponents of the Democratic party have signally failed to perform
this duty. They have nominated as their candidate for the Vice-Presidency
an excellent gentleman, who was born during the Presidency of James Mon-
roe, and who before the 4th of March next will be in the eighty-second
year of his age. Before the next administration is ended, he will be ap-
proaching his eighty-sixth birthday. It is no disparagement of this gen-
tleman, for whom I believe we all have the highest respect, to say that he
shares the common lot of mortals, and that the election of any man of such
great age would furnish no safeguard to the American people against dis-
aster which would ensue upon the death of a President with a successor
not competent to perform the duties of the Presidential office. It is com-
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mon experience that very aged men, however bright and active they may
appear for brief periods, can not sustain long-continued, severe exertion.
The demands of the Presidential office upon the mental and physical vitality
are so great, so continuous and so exhausting as to be wholly beyond the
capacity of any men of eighty-five.
SUCCESSION OF PRESIDENCY.
"The attempt by such a man to perform the duties of the office would
with practical certainty be speedily followed by a complete breakdown, both
of body and of mind. In contemplating the remote possibility of the elec-
tion of the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, the people of the coun-
try are bound to contemplate also as a necessary result of such an election in
the case of the President's death, that others, not chosen by the people, and
we know not who, would govern in the name of a nominal successor unable
himself to perform the constitutional duties of his office ; or worse still, that
serious doubt whether the Vice-President had not reached a condition of
"inability" within the meaning of the constitution would throw the title to
the office of President into dispute.
EFFECT OF GOVERNMENT.
"The serious effect of such an event upon the Government and upon the
business interests and general welfare of the country, and the serious effect
even of the continual menace of such an event, must be apparent to every
thoughtful mind.
"In your election, on the other hand, this chief requirement will be fully
met. In the full strength of middle life you are prepared for the exhausting
duties of the Presidency. Your successful and distinguished career, the abil-
ity and probity with which you have already discharged the duties of high
office, the universal respect and esteem of the people of Indiana who have
delighted to honor you, the attachment of hosts of friends throughout the
Union all assure us that you have the character and the ability to govern
wisely and strongly, should you become President. Many indeed among
our people have already turned toward you as a suitable candidate to be
elected directly to that great office.
"It is the earnest wish of your party and of many good citizens who have
no party affiliations, that you shall accept this nomination, and that you shall
be elected in November to be the next Vice-President of the United States.
In expressing to you this wish, we beg to add an assurance of our own per-
sonal respect, esteem and loyalty."
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SENATOR FAIRBANK'S REPLY
Senator Fairbanks made a brief reply to Elihu Root's address, accepting
the Republican Vice- Presidential nomination. He spoke as follows :
"Mr. Root and Gentlemen of the Committee : I thank you for the very
generous terms in which you have conveyed the official notification of my
nomination for Vice-President of the United States. The unsolicited and
unanimous nomination by the Republican party is a call to duty which I am
pleased to obey.
"I accept the commission which you bring with a profound sense of the
dignity and responsibilities of the exalted position for which I have been
nominated. My utmost endeavor will be to discharge in full measure the
trust, if the action of the convention shall meet the approval of the American
people.
"The platform adopted by the convention is an explicit and emphatic dec-
laration of principles in entire harmony with those policies of our party which
have brought great honor and prosperity to our common country, and which,
if continued, will bring us like blessings in the future.
FOUNDATION OF NATIONAL STRENGTH.
"The monetary and economic policies which have been so forcibly rean-
nounced, lie at the very foundation of our industrial life, and are essential
to the fullest development of our national strength. They give vitality to
our manufactures and commerce, and if impaired or overthrown, there would
inevitably ensue a period of industrial depression, to the serious injury of
the vast interests of both labor and capital.
"The Republican party, since it preserved the integrity of the Republic
and gave freedom to the oppressed, never rendered a more important service
to the country than when it established the gold standard. Under it we have
increased our currency supply sufficiently to meet the normal requirements
of business. It is gratifying that the convention made frank and explicit
declaration of the inflexible purpose of the party to maintain the gold stand-
ard. It is essential not only that the standard should be as good as the best
in the world, but that the people should have the assurance that it will be
so maintained.
ENEMIES OF SOUND MONEY.
"The enemies of sound money were powerful enough to suppress men-
tion of the gold standard in the platform lately adopted by the Democratic
national convention. The leader of Democracy in two great national cam-
paigns has declared since the adjournment of the convention that as soon as
the election is over, he will undertake to organize the forces within the
Democratic party for the next national contest, for the purpose of advanc-
ing the radical policies for which his element of the party stands. He
frankly says that the money question is for the present in abeyance. In
view of these palpable facts, it is not the part of wisdom to abandon our
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vigilance in safeguarding the integrity of our monetary system. We must
have not only a President who is unalterably committed to the gold stand-
ard, but both Houses of Congress in entire accord with him upon the subject.
"In Congress and not with the President rests the supreme power to
determine the standard of our money. Though the chief executive should
oppose, the Congress, acting within its independent constitutional authority,
could at any time overthrow or change the monetary standard.
PROTECTIVE POLICY.
"The wisdom of our protective policy finds complete justification in the
industrial development of the country. This policy has become a most vital
part of our industrial system and must be maintained unimpaired. When
altered conditions make changes in schedules desirable, their modification can
be safely entrusted to the Republican party. If they are to be changed by
the enemies of the system along free trade lines, uncertainty would take the
place of certainty and a reaction would surely follow, to the injury of the
wage-earners and all who are profitably employed. Uncertainty undermines
confidence, and loss of confidence breeds confusion and distress in commercial
affairs.
"The convention was wise not only in its enunciation of party policies,
but in its nomination of a candidate for the Presidency. During the last
three years President Roosevelt has been confronted with large and serious
questions. These he has met and solved with high wisdom and courage.
The charges made against him in the Democratic platform find an irrefutable
answer in his splendid administration, never surpassed in all the history of
the Republic, and never equaled by the party who seeks to discredit it.
ROOSEVELT'S RE-ELECTION DEMANDED.
"The election of the President is imperatively demanded by those whose
success depends upon the continuance of a safe, conservative and efficient
administration of public affairs. We have an ample record of deeds done,
of beneficent things accomplished in the public interest. The vast business
of the Government has been well administered. The laws have been en-
forced fearlessly and impartially. The treasury has been adequately supplied
with revenue, and the financial credit of the Government was never better.
Our foreign trade balance continues to increase our national wealth. We
have adopted an irrigation policy which will build homes in the arid regions
of the West. The Panama Canal, the hope of centuries, is in course of con-
struction under the sole protection of the American flag.
"We have peace and great prosperity at home and are upon terms of good
neighborhood to the entire world. The conditions constitute the strongest
possible assurance for the future.
"Later I shall avail myself of a favorable opportunity to submit to you,
and through you to my fellow-citizens, a fuller expression of my views con-
cerning the questions now in issue.
"Permit me again to thank you and to express the belief that we may
confidently submit our cause to the candid and patriotic judgment of our
countrymen."
The Letters of Acceptance
THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER
Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 12. President Roosevelt's letter accepting the
Republican nomination for the Presidency was given out today It follows
in full:
Hon. J. G. Cannon, Chairman Notification Committee :
My Dear Sir: I accept the nomination for the Presidency tendered me
by the Republican National Convention, and cordially approve the platform
adopted by it. In writing this letter, there are certain points upon which I
desire to lay especial stress.
It is difficult to find out from the utterances of our opponents what are
the real issues upon which they propose to wage this campaign. It is not
unfair to say that, having abandoned most of the principles upon which they
have insisted during the last eight years, they now seem at a loss, both as to
what it is that they really believe, and as to how firmly they shall assert their
belief in anything. In fact, it is doubtful if they venture resolutely to press
a single issue ; as soon as they raise one they shrink from it and seek to
explain it away. Such an attitude is the probably inevitable result of the
effort to improvise convictions ; for when thus improvised, it is natural that
they should be held in a tentative manner.
The party now in control of the Government is troubled by no such diffi-
culties. We do not have to guess at our own convictions, and then correct
the guess if it seems unpopular. The principles which we profess are those
in which we believe with heart and soul and strength. Men may differ
from us ; but they cannot accuse us of shiftiness or insincerity. The policies
we have pursued are those which we earnestly hold as essential to the
national welfare and repute. Our actions speak even louder than our words
for the faith that is in us. We base our appeal upon what we have done and
are doing, upon our record of administration and legislation during the last
seven years, in which we have had complete control of the Government. We
intend in the future to carry on the Government in the same way that we
have carried it on in the past.
A party whose members are radically at variance on most vital issues, and
if united at all, are only united on issues where their attitude threatens wide-
spread disaster to the whole country, cannot be trusted to govern in any
matter. A party which, with facile ease, changes all its convictions before
election, cannot be trusted to adhere with tenacity to any principle after
election. A party fit to govern must have convictions. In 1896 the Repub-
