The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 20, 1900, Page 4

FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1900 NEW YORK DELEGATION TO NAME WOODRUFF HILADELPHIA, June 19.— ant Goverror TimothyL. Woodruft il be presented to -the Nation t onvention as the ca: York for V Presi- to do thi ate it was decided t he would accept the Vice Presidential situ- a, because it is asserted akes this move to m Tk " nto the convention with a candidate d vet hoping that Roosev be nominated. S Hanna has delegates to su pominate any ca not known that ctions to Wood- con that he please! ult. peral the idea seems to be preva- hat Secretary Long is the most fa- didate, with a probabllity that till be nominated. Gov- belleves that, his wishes ted by his own delega- ut of the race. Hanna's Pointed Statement. n to-night, hat is the sit Sena- rosevelt is out of it and will not be put to Senator Hanna . e way he answered it. i wa nother effort during thg day t e the delegates to Roosevelt. he effort was made by New yivania. Platt and Quay, reir lieutenants, worked all da Roosevelt the candidate. The which had been checked and t was begun early in the E s were circulated. was quoted as saying abso- accept if nominated. having had a ed the nomina- s of rumors were In situation did not clear ne very jeuten- | is to be a fight. The nomination is not to be made without a contest. . Senator Hanna is deing ali he can to defeat Roo: velt and has determined to continue on that line to the end. He is lining up the | friends of the administration against Roosevelt. In this he is acting in har- | ¢ with the to vote for him for Vice President. Long and Dolliver. The next serious proposition that con- | fronts Mr. Hanna is what he shall do a: Platt then tried to get an admission between Long and Dolliver. There is a | from Hanna to support Odell, and this pe r sentiment for Dolliver in the | Was refused on the ground of being unjust West that is hard to overcome. Long is garded as a passive kind of a candidate, nd whil n he does not attract the delegates. But he is Mr. Hanna's personal choice and is preferred by the President. Dolliver's | friends have pointed out to Senator H that the lowa candidate has now got into the fight so far that he wants to win, to which Hanna replied that defeat | would not injure Dolliver. ready acquired a great deal of promi- nence, s Senator Hanna, and he will not be injured if he should be defeated by a candidate like Secretary Long. In making the fight against Roosevelt Senator Hanna finds the opponents of Roosevelt divided, some for Long and some for Dolliver. The question of trans ferring the vote from one to the other without neminating the man they wish is the difficult problem. “If we can’t do it, then we have not got control of the convention,” sald Senator Hanna. “If the friends of the President cannot agree upon a candidate, and by their differences cause the nomination of a man that is not wanted and does not want the place they will have to take the responsibility for it.” The Senator did not belleve that there would be a loss of more than a few votes, although Dolliver men in the West de- clare- that they will not vote for Long d there seems to be a large number of astern men who are now for Long who ay they prefer Rooseveit to Dolliver. He had al- One thing definitely developed. There vishes of Roosevelt, who urged all delegates visiting him not e no objection is urged against | This is one of the chances that Senator Hanna is willing to take in the fight he is | making. Platt and Hanna Confer. The conferences between Senator Hanna nd Senator Platt were an interesting | feature of the Vice Presidential contest. Hanna talked to Platt as he had talked to Odell and Quay the day before. He told him that because Platt does not want Roosevelt in New York was no reason why he should attempt to force him upon the party in national politics. [ to the other candidates in the field. Platt asked for time and the matter went back | to the New York delegation. The contest has not assumed any such definite form as to even approximate the relative strength of the three candidates, for.the votes for the others in view of the developments cannot be considered more | than complimentary. The action of dif- ferent delegations have some significance. New Jersey with 20 votes and California | with 18 declared for Long. Other States evinced a desire to support any candidate agreeable to the administration, while there are a number of States in the West that are determined to vote for Roose- {velt. In Maryland there was a curious | | action. The delegation was favorable to Roosevelt, but decided to take him at his word and not support him. Then they | hea: that the administration was for | L 1d a number of them sent word to { Hanr at Long's nomination would make it difficult to carry that State on ount of the feeling for Rear Admiral Schley, who is a native of Maryland. The delegates preferred to vote for Dolliver for these reasons. The Kansas delegation determined to vote for Roosevelt and told him so. Wis- | consin Is another State which seems to be determined to vote for Roosevelt, While there has been a great deal of talk about the influence of the adminis- tration in the Vice Presidential contest { It is taken for granted that the President favors Long or the Secretary would not be a candidate, but no one seems to have t authority to use the President’'s name in a way to make the delegates feel obliged to vote for any particular candidate. It was rumored that to-day a message had been received from the President, faying that the convention must remain untrarrmeled and the administration must not be brougkt into the matter in any way. To whom it was sent, if at ali could not he Jearned, although it was sald Senator Hanna had received such a mes- sage. The Senator, when asked if he had received a telegram to that effect, replied that he had not recéived a telegram from the President since he had been in Phila- delphia. ‘Woodruff Is Heard. The New York delegation met at 10:15 P. m., sixty delegates being present. Gov- ernor Roosevelt was greeted by when he entered the room. Chalrman Depew said the meeting was called for the purpose of deciding whether the New York State delegation should act upon a nomination for Vice President. Governor Roosevelt had made a state- ment of his position, but that statement had not stopped the sentiment {n his fa- vor. He moved tha: Lieutenant Governor Woodruff be allowed the privilege of the floor and this was ordered. Mr. Woodruff said: “I have from the beginning of the con- sideration of this subject occupied one po- sitien and that was that if at any time it should be apparent that the copvention desired or demanded the nomination of Governor Roosevelt, he should feel him- self oblged to respond favorably; I would not be in line against him. Otherwise I would ask for the support of the delegates of the State of New York, a considerable number of whom at one time and another have told me that they would give me their support. I thank them. I find from all I have heard since [ have been here that the delegation wants Governor Roose- velt nominated for Vice President. I be- lleve that a very large majority, not only a very large majority, but practically all of the members of this delegation desire it. Having no preference for any other man, it does seem to me impossible that cheers | he could resist such a demand. For that reason I have not asked any member to support my candidacy. arrived when it should be determined | whether or not New York is to have a candidate—Governor Roosevelt or some- | body else, because I belleve It mecessary | | to the success of the Republican party as | far as the Republican party is concerned. We ought to have the Vice Presidential | nomination. Our State will be the bat- | tle ground In the campaign. If Governor | Roosevelt or some other man from New | York State is not nominated by the con- | vention our success will certainly be im- periled. The conditions have been such during the past few days that it does | eem to me that this delegation should | settle the matter among themselves. The | Governor himself, being a delegate, can argue his own case.” Roosevelt Speaks Plainly. ! He | to ask you to take the words I have ut- tered at their face value. If you dont think I mean them you don’t believe in | me for Vice President or anything else. | But if you think I mean them, then [ ask you to stand with me. After a long | consultation with my men, not a few of | whom are present here to-night, I defin- | itely took the position that I did not wish | to be nominated for Vice President; that if the Republican party chose to renom- | inate me for Governor I should be pleased to accept. I took that position not in the least from regard to my own predilec- tions, but in the belief that there I could do the best service—the best work—be- cause I have never felt that I had a right to say that if nominated I should refuse. Certain men have seemed to doubt me as | to what T mean to say. | “Now, gentlemen, I want to repeat to | you the last sentence, word for word, of the statement I made yesterday.” | not decide upon Governor Rooseve | said, when the Governor had earnestly The Governor then said with emphasis: | “I earnestly ask that every friend .‘1[ mine n the convention will respect my “It seems to me that the time has now | wishes and my judgment in the matter, | “T know that and I ask it now of you, my fellow dele- | gates, of you, my friends, who cannot be | any more jealous than I am of the grand name of the party and the party’s success in New York State.” (Applause.) Teddy Taken at His Word. Mr. Waldo of Kings urged the delega- tion to take Governor Rooseveit at his word. He urged that the delegates agree upon a candidate, but they certainly cuum‘ it, he ! requested them not to support him. There was then but one candidate before the delegation, Mr. Waldo said, who had an, considerable support, und that was Lieu- tenant Governor Woodruff, an1 the whole | delegation had supported him, as Gover- nor Roosevelt was not a candidate. He Governor Roosevelt spoke next. closed by moving that Lieutenant Gover- | sald: | nor Woodruff be made the choice of the “Gentlemen and Delegates: After Ms- | gelegation for Viee President. 9 tening to the equally generous and dig-| jJames R. Howe seconded the nomina- | nified statement of the Lieutenant Gov-| ¢jon. ernor it is due to him that I should say | = 1ieutenant Governor Woodruff then one word as to my position. It is simply | cay. If T thought I could be nominated by | this convention I certainly would encour- age the sentiment which my frignd from Brooklyn has pressed. But thle is an uncertainty as to whether I can bg nom- inated even If presented by the State. | There is not a man in the room who does | not know that Governor Roosevelt can be nominated and that he would be satisfac- | tory to every man In the convention. | There may be those who for reasons best known to themselves but not to me seek | to nominate some one else. No one else could be nominated wlio would be near as strong. “Under these circumstances it does seem to me that Governor Roosevelt ought to be the selection of New York State, nat necessarily that the delegation shouid | present his name, but that he should take the nomination. Unless this delegation decides upon some one the nomination will | | Governor Roosevelt. go elsewhere—to a State where the Re publican majority is a hundred thousan Turning to Governor Roosevelt he said: you are absolutely sincers and I know that you desire the uberna- torial nomination, but there is no ques- tion that the feeling among ates here makes your nominat | inevitable. As lung as there | biti y of accepting the nom on u‘ right that you uld receive it by accla= T on fitchell declared that there was ly one man who could s ]l;r'fl‘ the ket and that was Roose we do * he said, “let us present not pre: e.) no one. e Woodruff the Candidate. General Francis Greene said: “T thini 1t would be a serfous mistake to nominate Governor Roosevelt for rious mistake for t party In New Yc velt himself. t, he 1 e fMce of Governor. is ubtful if_any one else can be ¢ vernor. I thin.. if he is mot th for Governor we will lose t ew York and thereby the nation. ew York ought the Roo! me: n for the a ice Presidency. h turn? The Lieutenant Gov- worthy candidate. Edward Lauterbach of has been one of the most ers of the Roosevelt Viece Pr boom, made an earnest appeal fo it to nomination. H by saying, after a passionate Roosevelt to take the nomination think we ought to sct any candidate, but simply let the convention do so, and Governor Roosevelt no declining will be nominated.” Chairman Depew_said_the question be- fore the body was Mr. Waldo's motion to make Mr. Woodruff the candidate. I[n an instant a delegate jumped to his feet and made a motion to substitute the name of There were cries of 0, and several counter-motions to lay on the table and adjourn were made. Finally a brief recess was taken after the Kings County men made a last appeal for Nr. Woodruff. When the gavel fell again Mr. Depew put the Woodruff motion and the dele- gates carried it with a few dissenting votes, and the caucus adjourned. — 0404000004008+ 0600400000+00000000000600 . - « « - L d . € . L 4 . * . ® . It will be interesting to know that tion at the first Republican conventio After staying in Newark for several the So Baptist He was p streets for the s igned from the pulpit in 185 a of Kentucky in 1844 Mr. d been appointed chaplain for the co me period R B . 2 S S S .¢M+M6—04+0+0+0fl+0—0+0—0—0—0—0—e+—0—0—0—0—@+ CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS Continued From Second Page. hat shines on you blesses them also, and the before your door darkens théir homes They are naturally expansionists in rm plaine and mountains, and when a_great tical party attacking the y of thegnation and lending encourage- to insurrectionists who are shooting down soldiers and resisting the auithority of the sovernment of the United States, all other uestions fade and are forgotten, and they find themselves standing shoulder fo shoulder in the runks of the Republican party, keeping step always “to the music of the Union. To Upbuild Ocean Marine. There is more to follow this summary of & few of the jeading measures passed by a Ré- can Congress and approved by a Republi- an President. Before ihe expiration of Mr. cKinley's first term we shall have passed a lew relieving certain articles from a portion at least of the burdens they now carry because act, and meanwhile we 1 of surplus revenues, already paid and called in for cancellation $43,000,000 of outstand- ing bonds. The coming winter will see enacted into law legislation which shall revivify and upbuild our American ocean marine and enable us to compete on falr terms with the sub- sidized ships of foreign nations which now 50 mr)-dr.! monopolize the carriage of American goods And above all we shall, having then before us the report of the able commission now ascertaining the most favorable route, pass a law un- | der which we shall build and own and operate as property of the United States, under exclusive American dominion and control, a2 ship canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific. ‘Thyough it in time of peace the commerce of the World shall pass. If we shall be Unhappily engaged in war, the canal shall carry our war- ships and shell exclude those of the , and under conditions which shalli viclate no treaty stipulations. “This is the brief account of our stewardship for four years. a portion of period we were involved in a war that for a tyme paralyzed business and commerce and ve taxed heavily the resources and than ours: and for the past year or more we ve been employing an army of some 50, ng insurrection against our au away. No industry has feir a- strain extraordinary expenses, nor have prosperity. £ : i o i the general sum of that, the iation of the every issue that campaign, The to find_some suits of our that question, ready to meel § " H H i § i i i = % 3 F % i L E | During the cutbreak of hostil of the United experience on the horrors of i 4 REV. EDGAR M. LEVY, CHAPLAIN OF THE REPUBLICAN NA- TIONAL CONVENTION. born at St. Marys, Southern Georglia, nearly elghty vears ago, and He was was ained in the Baptist ministry went to Newark, N. J., where he tool “hurch and went to Philadelphia. Mr. Levy was pastor Epiphany Baptist Church at Thi: years. ut stor of the Tabernacle at Thirty-seventh and * Rev. Dr. Levy delivered the invoca- n in Philadelphia forty-four years ago. in 1844. After being ordained Mr. Levy k charge of the South Baptist Church. years he resigned his pastorship of ixth and Chestnut streets for After forty years of constant ser- Mr. Levy's first vote was cast for Levy was surprised to hear that he nvention. He Is 80 years of age. 4. people, and a conflict seemed inevitable, he faced popular clamor and heated counsels, and still believed that the wrongs of Cuba could be remedied and redressed without an appeal to the arbitrament of war. The folly of Spain and the indignation of the American people forbade a peaceful solution. Then the President, seconded by a Republican Congress, before a gun was fired, declared to the world the lofty and unselfish motives that alone actuated the nation. No man now, or in the centuries to come, when history, which alone “triumphs over time,” recounts the mar- velous story of the war which changed the map of the world, shall ever truthfully say that this republic 'was animated by any but the noblest purposes. Recorded time tells of no such war, for it was fought, with bloody sacrifice, by a great and free republic, for the freedom of another race, while its own liber- ties were unassailed. This is not the time or the occasion to dwell upon the incidents of the war, crowded with successive victoriés and illumined with count- less examples of individual bravery and gal- lant conduct. Its living heroes are honored by a generous country; its dead have ennobled the race and will live forever in the hearts of a gratetul people. Throughout all its anxious days the President, commander in chief of our armies and our navies, planned and directed with unerring hand. His diplomacy saved us from threatened international complications. From the commencément of hostilities until their close the conduct of the war was unas- sallable, and the paltry criticisms of two years fo o already buried in the limbo of ob- vion, In August, 1895, a prelimi executed at Washington, foll by the ses sions of the Peace Commi of the United States and Spain, in Paris, commencing in Oc- tober of that year. Public Interest in this country_concerning these negotiations was in- tense. “Until our soldiers and sallors had landed at Manila we had known little of the condi- tions of the people of the Ehilippines. We soon ascertained that the crueftles and oppressions existing in Cuba were mild compa: with the treatment to which 8,000,000 of people in thoss islands were subjected. ' We realized that if we relinquished the archipelago to Spain we consigned its inhabitants again to a condition worse than slavery, worse than barbarism. We had put our hands to the plow, and every in- stinct of honor and humanity forbade us to turn back. A universal demand arose from all over the country that we should retain our hoid upon these islands, afford thelr people the protection of our laws, 1ift them out of their unfortunate condition and fit them, if possible, for self-government. Any 'ment by our commissioners to give back the Philippines to Spain, reserving for ourselves an island or a coaling station, would have aroused a universal i protocol was | v { | ndtional 4 tion, and would never hav, : b;en ratified by the representatives of the peo- ple. Philippines Must Be Liberated. No man saw this ®o clearly as did the Presi- dent. In his advices to the Commissioners he t0ld them it was imperative that we should be governed only by motives that should exalt the nation; ‘territorial expansion was our i RASGAAAEEASRGRRE o= F SN BB IDI DD WP S American canal. We found it impoverished by vears of colonial misgovernmént and without any system of revenue Jaws. Soon after the peace Its people were further stricken by flood and famine. We assumed toward them every | obligation which and friendshl | could prompt. ‘We contributed as a nation | large sums of money to ameliorate t | ditton and to_enable them to plant and garner | their crops. Then we said to them, “'We shall e you a just and equitable form of free I ernment, With power to manage your airs, Until you shall devise proper and clent methods of revenue and taxation, your | needed funds shall be raised as follows: “You | shall pay upon your imports 15 per cent of the present tariff rate governing importations into the United States, which means an aver uty of about 7 per cent. All the necessari f life and building materials for the struc tures you need shall be free. On the lst day of March, 192, all these dutles shall cease in any event, and shall cease sooner if before that time you can arrange for the needed revenues of the island.” The recommendations of the President were fully and satisfactorily complied with; the people of the lsland are content, the vast mass of the American people approve, and we have avoided precedents that might vex us when we come to deai With the problems that finally await us in the estab- lishment of our permanent relations toward the people of the Philippine Islands. Power in New Possessions. There has been much discussion during the past few months in respect to the extent of ‘he power of this country to deal with Tcrto Rico and other possessions, and it has been fre- quently contended by the Democracy: that as.| soon as we became the owners of any of these islands the constitution of the United States at once extended over them, or in the ratorical but misleading phrase, ‘“The constitution fol- lows the flag.” The argument is specious, but it will not bear investigation. The same ques- tion was raised in 1803, at the time of the Louisiana purchase, and the doctrine was then established by Congress that we could acquire foreign sofl by purchase, that Congress had the right to establish there such government as it saw fit, and that the constitutioc did not of its own force extend over such ierri- tory. The doctrine was never questioned uatil in Calhoun’s time it was sought to be Jenied in the effort to extend human slavery inte the Territorie The Supreme Court of the United States has more than once determined the question and the contention concerning it now by our oppo- nents s not because anybody believes that the laws we have enacted for the government of the island are unjust, but in order to embarrass the administration in dealing effectively with our new possessions. The flag went to Mexico in 1845—the constitution did not. The flag went to Cuba and was carried intc Santiago and is there yet. But our constitution not only is there but we are busy encouraging Cuba to prepare & constitution of her own. When any portion of our territory becomes a Sovereign State then is our constitution its cornerstone. In the territory of the United States not in- cluded within State boundaries Congress alone Getermines the extent to which the provisions of the constitution extend. Conditions in Cuba. The circumstances associated with our pos- sesslon of Cuba are mew and unparalleled in the history of conquests. The cruelties practiced upon its people induced the war. Before we commenced hostile proceedings, however, and that the world might know that our bands were clean and that we were not animated by lust for territory we solemnly disclaimed any die- position or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over the island except for its pacification and asserted our determina- tion, when that was accomplished, to leave the govérnment and control of the island to its people. To this declaration we still rigorously ad- here. When we took possession at the close of the war we found the conditions existing in Cuba to be deplorable. Under. the conservative and wise management of Generals Brooke and Wood vast improvements have been effected and we have given the people the first good government they have ever known. We found its cities beds of pestilence. We have stamped out ‘vellow fever and made Havana as healthy & city as exists at that latitude. We took its starving reconcentrados who had survived the | war, and its other poverty-stricken people, and fed ‘and clothed them. We organized a public school system, and have everywhere established law and order. This had first to be done. Then followed a compliance of the terms of the treaty which gave the Spanish inhabitants until’ April 11 to determine whether or not they would register as citizens or preserve their allegiance to Spain. Meanwhile a care- ful census of the island was made. Then came the fixing of the qualifications for the right of suffrage, which were fairly bestowed. The island was divided into municipalities and the registration provided for. And on yesterday, the 15th of June, municipal elections were held all_through the island, as the first and pre liminary step toward the establishment of a national government and the adoption of a con- stitution. b Have Made Americans Blush. And in this connection it is fitting to eay that the peculations and frauds committed in Cuba by subordinate officials have made every American blush with shame, and until the last of the guilty men is arrested and convicted and sentenced that shame will know no abate- ment. It 1s no more to be charged to the party than would a theft by a trusted em- ploye be charged against the character of the merchant who employed him. The party that shields and protects dishonest officials forfeits public confidence, not the party that exposes and punishes them. The Republican party has been rarely the victim of misplaced con- fiderice in fits officlale. In this instance the appointments were made with the greatest care, many of them from the classified service. ‘Whenever fraud has been discov- ered the guilty have been pursued unsparingly and with the greatest publicity. S0 has it been with these. thievi: Postotfice officials, so has it been always. the vast aggregate of business-transacted e ernment the dishonest man s nn.h:nflbm- tect'on certain. The great humiliation is that the thefts were from the people of island toward whom we sustain a tion, and whose confidence we ask. That Gov- ernment makes good the loss is not dul-onm-fimm (% DRaihbacve to Scimauats uk 16 care In dealing with thess Deople for " whom e, have pourel out our Wagt sbd framsare,: and whom we hope some day to welcome on :ll! l!'p‘l“ e we *N r 3 ‘We are dealing with Cuba in a not only of fairness but of ity of absolute take over its lmm-&‘-t control, that they ' ‘we shal a Tule cltizens tion at government this — TR, tect that which fs rightfully ours; to avenge a wrong it to rpetrated upon Us, and to gus emisphere from any attempt by foreign to further extend their rule over its sofl. ' THEhas been our creed, and we have looked forward with hope and with confidence to the time when these United States. lying be- tween the two oceans should lead among the nations of the earth, mot by right of the sword, but because the character and high in- telligénce of our people and the marvelous re- sources ‘of odr country would enable us, in the peaceful rivalry of commerce, to dominate eventually the markets of the world. To that end we had, for more than a hundred years, held ourselves aloof from foreign complications and sought to make ourselves strong from with- in, with no thought of colonial conquest. Cannot Abandon Islands. The future of nations, however, iike the fu- ture of man, i hid from mortal vision, and, no more than man may a nation choose its own duties. When this war ended and we faced our victory in all its completeness we found elght millions of people.living upon uncounted islands delivered into our hands. Abandonment of them would be confession that while the oppredsion by Spain of a million and a half of Cubans demanded our armed interference, greater barbarity and cruelty to millions of Filipinos, less able to protect themselves, was a subject of no concern to us. No clvilized na- tion in the world, no Christian nation, could have turned these people back to Spain. Our commissioners, when they insisted upon our retention of the Philippines, volced the senti- mentg and wishes of the American people; and this hation has assumed with open eyes and with full realization of the difficulties which may be encountered, the grave responsibilities imposed upon us by the treaty of Paris. ‘e are told that the islands are rich in all the products of the tropics, In mineral wealth, and in the possibilities of their future develop ment. So much the better. But if they were as barren as the Libyan desert we would have taken them just the same. We haven't been there Jopg, but long enough to reach two conclusions: One is that the first thing we intend dolng is to suppress the Tazal insurrection and to pstablish law and order throughout the archipelago. That is the thing we shail do. Aud the last, the very thing we intend doing, Is to consider, even for a moment, the question of giving up or of abandoning these {slands. We are actually owners of the Philippines by an undisputed and indubitable title. We are there as the necessary and logical outcome of our victory over Spain. There are upward of a thousand lslands sprinkled upon that southern sea, peopled by more than elghty Eribes of difering tace and language, and hav. ing absolutely nothing in common with each other. Most of these tribes welcome our comin and are grateful for our protection. The Tagal tribe, hostile not only to us but to most of the native tribes, are in insurrection against our authority. They have neither a government nor the capacity to conduct one, and are wag- ing a vredatory guerilia warfare whieh would be turned against the other native tribes if we let them alone. ‘What would the Democracy have us do? Give them up to rapine and bloodshed and leave the islands as flotsam and jetsam on the face of the waters? There are parallels in our own history. We urchased Florida from Spain in 1821, when it Bad fonr thoosand white setilers, for five mil- ifon of dollars and other valuable considera- tions. The Seminoles, natives of the soll, brave, resolute, having greater intelligence and character that the Tagals, disputed our possession. We sent Andrew Jack- son down to fight them and it ook us twenty-one years to subdue them and send what was left of them west of the Mississippl. If the “Anti-everythings'' had lived then they would, I suppose, have urged us to turn over Florida to Osceola, the Aguin- aldo of the Seminoles! Would you, after the war with Mexico and the Gadsden purchase, have given the great area south and west of the Arkansas to the red Apache? Not so did our Tathers construe their duty, and as they bullt, so shall we, their sons. _ Many Obstacles Encountered. The insurrection agaist our legitimate au- thority, which for the time impedes our efforts to establish a government for the Filipinos, In- volves us in a sacrifice of lives and of treas- ure. The obstacles we encounter in the island of Luzon mre many, but the chief inspiration and encouragement of the Tagal insurrection come from the Democratic headquarters in the United States. Partisanship bas proved stronger thun patriotism, even while our soldlers are be- ing murdered by marauding bandits, and If it were not for the hope held out to Aguinaldo by American sympathizers the insurrection In the Philippines would long ago have ended. The obstacles to the establishment of a civil government in the {slands are many, but we shail overcome them. Mistakes wili ‘undoubt- edly be made, but we shall remedy them. We shall in time extend over that archipelago the aegls of our protection sid of free government and we shall gradually but surely Jift up these alien and savage races into the light of efvil- ization and Christianity. Meanwhile, American enterprige and ingenuity and push may be de- pended upon to develop the resources of the lands and make them an added sonrce of wealth to our country. The wise statesmanship of the President has already brought from the countries of rope a recognition of our right to share in the vast commercial advantages which will follow the opening of the Chinese Empire to foreign trade; the Nicaraguan canal will be soon con- structed: Hawall, with its valuable hlsbm’, is ogra we possess. thy best of the Samogn Islands, with its magnificent roadway; the Phil- ippines are almost at the door of China, and if counsels of fear do not prevail this generation will see the American natlon giraling half the globe with its flag, extending its forelgn com- merce to the uttermost of the earth, and taking its place among t world-nations, & power for good, for peace and for righteous- ness, Never aince '64, when the voters of the coun- try were called upon to determine whether the efforts of Abraham Lincoln to preserve Union should be continued, or whether they should be abandoned and other measures attempted, have questions so vital been pre- sented to ‘the American people for settiement. Their decision, must determine the maintenance or the degradation of both our national credit and our natlonal honor. A mmv.fi' E dent could paralyze the operation of new currency law as effectively as If it were wiped from our statute books. A Democratic vl tory would infuse new life into the Tagal surrection, cost us the lives of thousands of our gallant army in the Impair y our ige, 1f power, us a P not our almost every hamlet in the land, returns an advocate of their retention. Our dead are bu- ried along the sands of Luzon, and on its soll no foreign flag shall ever salute the dawn. Whatever may be In store for us in the new and unbeaten track upon which we are enter- ing, we shall not be found ‘‘with the unlit Our_way is new, | jlamp and the ungirt loin.” but it is not dark. In the readjustment of world-conditions, where we must take our place with the other great natlons of the earth, we shall move with caution, but not with fear. We seek only to lift up men to better things, 0 bless and not to destroy. The fathers of the republic accepted with courage such re- sponsibilities as devolved upon them. The same heavens bend over us and the same power that shielded them will guard and protect us, | for what we seek is to build still more firmly, always upon foundations of probity and of virtue, the glorious edifice of the republic We stand at the dawn of the new century. | Before it shall have reached its meridian the youngest here will have passed beyond this life | or beyond the sphere of usefulness. New re cruits will step into the ranks as we fall out This_very year thousands of young men will for the first time exercise the right of citizen- ship and cast thelr ballots at the national election. The safety of this republic must ever rest in ‘‘the courage of young hearts and the | vigor of a noble manhood.” Youth is buovant | and hopeful. No snarling criticism, or gospel of a little America, or prophecy of despair | will find response from hearts that beat full and strong with courage and with faith, and whose creed it is that “God's in His heave : All's right with the world.” Whatever elge In the past has suffered change or decay, the Republican party, which for forty vears has been identified with everything en- nobling and uplifting in our history was never as vital, as virile and as vigorous as to-day. And the heritage we shall transmit to the new century, to the coming generation and to their children, and to their children's children, shall be a record clean and untarnished, an unquenchable faith in free institutions, an un- alterable belief in the patriotism of the people and an undving love of liberty and of country. Wolcott’s a Keynote Speech. Senator Woleott has a clear, resonant volce which penetrated to the farthest recess of the hall. He speaks, however. with great rapidity, and this, perhaps, somewhat spoiled the effect of his speech. But the thousands before him were in | thorough sympathy and he had no dif- ficulty in striking a responsive chord. When, with outstretched arms, he pr dicted the triumphant election of the Re- pubiican ticket in November the audience surrendered, and when he first mentioned President McKinley's name he could not proceed for a minute oWing to the demon- stration. As he rehearsed the history of the four years of Republican administra- tion, the prosperity which had blessed it, the victories it had won, the glorious out- come of the Spanish-American war, the campaign of misrepresentation in connec- tion with the Philippines which its ene- mies had inaugurated and which it had met, the convention repeatedly broke into B e e o o 2 SECER SCRS SCE S SR S SR DN legislation which had been placed on the statute books, and its deepest note was the rosperhi; of this country and the legislation which made_its continuation possible if the present administration was continued in power. That was the theme to which the demonstratiqn of the con- vention clung. When he said that the old lssue of the Eemocrazs was dead and that they were driven to find new issues in a war which they had been most anxious to precipitate, the convention rose, but the outburst was even greater when he first mentlon of expansion was also the nal for a demonstration. enator Wolcott paced up and down of the platform as he procecded, and several times consulted his hotes. He is not at his best in a pre- pared speech, and his admirers were pos. sibly a little disappointed. He concluded his speech at 2:12 o’cloek. The Indiana delegation led the applause when Senator Wolcott announced that the thieving postoffice officials in Cuba would be hun down, Probably the greatest demonstration occurred when he said that we would establish law and order in the Philippines, and.that the last thing to be considered was to give up the islands. The delegates got on their feet and cheered when he declared that our sol- diers were buried in the sands of Luzon and we would never give up the sofl that keld our dead. e spoke an hour and ten minutes and as his briliant peroration closed there was another enthusiastic demonstration of ap- proval, delegates standing on chairs and waving hats, umbrellas and handker- chiefs, while at the same time the band added the enlivening strains of a patriotic air. _Mr. Wolcott recelved man{ heart; handshakes from those about him, an then turned to the convention, announcing the long list of secretaries and officials previously agreed upon. Governor Taylor Recognized. There was a momentary lull, and then g(r. W:‘klxgtt. gazing out at the assem- e, s . “Covernor Taylor of Kentucky is rec- o%vary eye was turned toward the cen- ter of the hall, where a gaunt, black garbed figure, with the swarthy face of an In stood awaiting a pause in the hurrah which his name evoked. “Come to the platform, Governor; they want to see you,” called out Mr. Wolcott. The much-talked-of man from Kentucky moved up the aisie to the platform, re- ceiving a cheer as Senmator Wolcott ad- van to.m him. There was a mo- menn.ryu uuthe convention ’:;nrd, apparently expectin; l-reocb zhof Igmc the dramatic incidents in Kol;‘- slg along the front tucky. But, instead of that, in a pipin; voice, Governor Taylor seconded tl'm’ne:'mE inations of the various officials who had been announced, and, this done, left the -u.“a.l ‘The nominations were made unan- ‘Mr. Payne of New Yorl nnoun the chalrman, and again all eyes mrfifi to the center of the hall, where this time the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee was seen. He moved that the rules of the last convention prevail until SERGEANT-AT-ARMS WISWELL CONVENTION. D e S S o *o e @ D e e v b OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL * G+ 00 D000 edededeidedesiesisieisiesieie@ Connecticut—Charles F. Brooker. Florida—John G. Long. Georgia—Judson W, Lyons. 1daho—George L. Shoup. Illinois—Greame Stewart. Indiana—Ha: C. New. lIowa—Ernest E_Hart. Kansas—David W. Mulvane. Kentucky—John W. Yerkes. Louisiana—A. T, Wimberly. applause. Maine—Joseph H. Manley. | Vi keynote speech, covering the | Maryland—T. C. McComas. R L e Massachusetis—G. V. L. Meyer. Michigan—Willlam H. Elliott. Minnesota—Thomas Shevelin. | Montana—William Nevada—P. L. Flanagan. New Hampshire—Charles T. Means. New Jersey—Franklin_Murphy. New York—Frederick S. Gibbs. North Dakota—Alexander McKinsey. Ohio—George B. Cox. Oregon—George A. Steel. Pennsylvania—M. 8. Quay. Rhode Island—B. Frank Brayton. division among the dnifi;'fi{»f(‘cmfll 2 ABe on ‘and the West on | South Carolina—B. A. Webster. the financial issue was a thing of the | South Dakota—J. M, Green | past and that those who had eft the t-nneme—vbmerw 3 Browkn low. party four years ago in the West were re- ;'dernll:{l‘l—llm b B‘!’!‘r’v';:. = turning on the issue of expansion. The | (JrElAA e Bowden. West Virginia—N. B. Scott. Wisconsin—Henry C. Payne. Wyoming—Willls Van de Vanter. Arizona—Willlam M. Griffith. Indian Territory—Willlam M. Mellette. New Mexico—Solomon Luna. Oklahoma—Willlam Gaines. COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTION& Alabama—J. W. Dimmick. Arkansas—C. W. Rix. California—Chester A. Colorado—C. C. Cavender. Connecticut—W. B. Seeley. Florlda—Walter G. Robinson. Geol H._A. Rucker. Idaho—W. B. Heyburn. Tliinots—Martin B, a Indiana—Charles W. Towa—George W.: French. Kansae—M. A, Lowe. Kentucky—W. S. Taylor. Louisiana—Emile Kuntz. MaineFrank C. Payson. Maryland—T. C. Noyes. Massachusetts—Walter Clifford. Michigan—Edward N. Dingley. Minnesota—Cushman K. Davia Mississippi—John R. Lynch. Missouri— D. P. Dyer. Montana—Thomas H. Carter. Nebraska—E, Rosewater. Nevada—O. J. Smith. New Hampshire—J. H. Gallinger. New Jersey—Frederick P. Oleott. New York—Lemuel E. Quigs. North Carolina—J. H. McNamee. North Dakota—P, J. MeCumi Ohio—Joseph B. Foraker. Oregon—John D. Daly. Pennsylvania—Boise Penrose. Rhode Island—Charles Brayton. South Carolina—E. J. Dickerson. South Dakota—G. G. Bennett. ‘Tennessee—Fogter V. Brown. Utah—George Sutherland. Vermont—L. M. Reed. Virginla—S. B. Brown Allen. Washington J. Maston. West Virginia—E. H. Flinn, Wisconsin—. . Treat. ‘Wyoming—W. D. Mondell. Arizona—C. H. Akers. Indian Territory—A. F. Parkinson. New Mexico—E, A. Cannon. Oklahoma—J. R. Tate. While the lists were to the stage Governor Roosevelt was hold- ing a regular levee In the pit. Delegates swa toward him from all directions. The New Mexico delegates, with broad sombreros, climbed over the seats in their his the hen | l§ i eagerness to get to him and shake d. People leaned over the rail of it watc] his every movement. W order had n restored after the con- fusion incident to this scene Mr. Wol- cond ;tnh:oax'zteed'm&l‘ the secretary would reas S Of read various committees. Temporary secretary—Charles M. Johnson of Minnesota. Assistant secretaries—John R. Malloy, Ohio; John R. Beam New Jersey: Luefen Gray, 1l nofs; Gardner P. Stickney, Wisconsin: James | F. Burke, Pennsylvania; W. B. Bochmann, Tennes Warren Bigler, Indiana; John T. Royce, Khneas; F. 8. Gaylord, Connecticut. Reading clerks—Dennis E. Ward, Michigan; E. L. Lampson, Ohio; James H. Stone, Miec san Clerk at president's desk—Asher C. Kinds, Maine. b Otficial reporter—M. W, Blumenborg, District *telly clerke—J. C. Potts, New Jersey; Geo . t H B. ‘Buy'!::nerb'ebrukl. T % e When_the list had been read Represen- tative Cannon _of Illinols was recognized. Rev. Edgar M. Levy, who delivered the | Invocation of the first Republican conven- tion in this city forty-four years ago, white-haired and feeble, then delivered a benediction upon the convention. He sald: e BENEDICTION OF REV. DR. LEVY. Almighty God, our Heavenly Father: How exceilent is thy name in all the earth! The whole world is full of thy glory. Unto thee do we lift up our hearts in humanity, love Bat ven | and praise. We give thee most hearty thanks for our nal, social and national blessings. Thou cast our lines in pleasant places and us a goodly heritage. Thou has not deait so with any other people. Because of thy favor our land is even now smiling with fertiitty and beauty; our cities and towns are filled with the hum of industry and our country places with the songs of happy reapers. Thou hast given unto us wise rulers, brave defenders of the land and the sea and just and equal laws by which every man may sit under his own vine and fig tree with none to molest or make | Bm afraid. We thank thee for the coming together of this august assembly of representative men from ‘all parts of the nation, and for that | sreat convention held in this city so los o, | &0 which Arst flung the banner of wAfversal freedom to the breeze of heaven. We praise thee, O Lord, undimmed, the proud reminder of past achlevements and the hope for ALl time to_Some. 'We thank thee for our honored President: for his wisdom, discretion, manly courage and un- blemished character, and we besecch of thes that his life and heaith may be precious in thy_sight. and us thou hast in thy Foodness Ven him to us. so. If It please th flours of his administration of our Governmens be prolonged. Bless those assoclated with him in authority. May they ever be found on the side of jusice, loving peace, buf never | eounting life itself too dear to sacrifice for the defense and advancement of the nation’s honor and weltare. Save us, O rightecus Father, from forgetrui- ness of thee, from all pride and vainglory. Let not the ‘profane, the seif-secking or the promoters of strife and discontent rule over us, but only such as shall be a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well. Let | our currency neither be Impaired by inflation | nor diminished by hoarding. Let the rich among us use their weaith with moderatic 4nd as a bemediction to others. Let the pocr, ndastry and temperance, becor Tat thers mever be imons ue an aritoces s either of color, weaith or both, but only intelligence and goodness. Fill our land with truth and righteousness, with schoolhouses 4.l temples of worship, with God-fearing men a virtuous women. Let the example of ow institutions enlighten and bless the earth. And now, we commend to.thes, O God, the deliberations of this convention and il the {ssues thereof. Hless the presiding officers with all sufficiency of wisdom and strength, and preserve all the delegates from sickness, acel- dent and death and permit them to retarn to thelr home, conscious of having discharged their duty to God and their country. And lory sl unto the Father a: unto the Son and unto the Holy Spirit as it was in the begin.ing, as it Is now and ever shall be, world without end. n. HAWAIIAN DELEGATES TO KANSAS CITY whole other rules adopted, and this was | meet Immediately after the adjournment o M""ll'"fiflt of to-day’s session. e h.:l States for the| The clerk read the a volee which | HONOLULU, June 12.—~The Demoeratic wm-m::- members of the various | did not carry fifty the stage | Territorial Convention met last night and n began. It proved a|and the svectators applaud | elected the following delegates to the Na- lous ’?”_ and the convention was | the names of popular leaders as | tional Convention to be held at Kansas ull.‘y’ n recess as the names were | they are called were this pleasure | City: David Kawanakoa, Willlam H. led 1n. The committees are as fol- | of aying tribute to ivorites. Not | Cornwell, Charles T. Wilder, John L. ows: a le name was applai Holt, John H. Wise and W. S. Withers. NATIONAL COMMITTEE. 4 Officers v Temporary ‘The f list of temporary officers Additional Convention News om Fifth Page.