ROUSING, HARMONIOUS AND
ENTHUSIASTIC CONVENTION.
Roosevelt and Fairbanks Chosen by Acclamation as the
Standard Bearers of the Party.
Speaker Cannon Made Permanent Chairman —
Platform Adopted that Contains Several
Clauses of Striking Interest.
Chicago, June 22. —Without a dis
turbing element to impede smooth
operation the first day's program for
the republican national convention i
was carried out like clockwork. Not i
a jarring sound was heard.
With three raps of the gavel Chair- ,
man Payne called the convention to
order at 12:16. ,
He then introduced Rev. Timothy P. ]
Frost, pastor of the First Methodist ,
church of Evanston, 111., who pro
nounced the opening prayer.
Senator Scott, on behalf of the Chi- ,
cago citizens' committee which co- ,
operated with the national committee ,
on arrangements for the convention,
Ihen presented National Chairman ,
Payne with a handsome gavel. It was
large and made for business. A
heavy gold band was inscribed "Mr. ,
Henry C. Payne, chairman republican
national committee, 1904."
Mr. Payne expressed his apprecia
tion of the gift, and announced that
Secretary Elmer Dover, of the na
tional committee, would read the call
of the convention. Mr. Dover delegat
ed Mr. Malloy, of Ohio, one of the
reading clerks, to do the reading.
Chairman Payne recognized Gov.
Van Sant, of Minnesota, to present the
table used by the presiding officer.
It was made by the members of the
South Minneapolis high school and.he
said, had been used at republican con
ventions in Minneapolis, St. Louis and
Philadelphia. He asked the chairman
to use it for this convention, which
would nominate that invincible leader,
Theodore Koosevelt. It was the first
mention of the president's name in •
the convention, and the delegates rose !
to the sound as one man. Cheers rang j
through the hall, and many men j
sprang upon their chairs and waved j
hats, banners and handkerchiefs.
After the applause had subsided !
Chairman Payne in a few words ex- I
pressed thanks for the gavel. He \
then said:
"Gentlenna of the convention, the j
national committee lias selected for j
your temporary chairman Hon. Elihu \
Root. <;f New York."
There vtas another shout from the !
•convention which was prolonged when
Gov. Odell, of New York, rose to move
that the action of the national com
mittal? be approved. Loud and con
tinued applause greeted Gov. Odell ;
and it was some moments before he I
could put his motion. It was at once j
adopted by the convention.
EI.IHT; ROOT.
The keynote to the campaign of \
1904 was sounded by Hon. Elihu Root j
in his speech as temporary chairman. |
His address was a review of the ac
complishments of the present admin- j
istration and a defense of republican !
politics in general. Among other i
things he said:
The responsibility of government j
rests upon the republican party. The j
complicated machinery through which j
the 80,000.000 people of the United !
States govern themselves, answers to j
no single will. The composite govern
ment devised by the framers of the i
constitution to meet the conditions of I
national life more than a century ago, I
requires the willing co-operation of
many minds, the combination of many
independent factors, In every for- j
ward step for the general welfare.
When the course of the next ad- J
ministration is but half done there- I
publican party will have completed I
the first half century of its national j
life. Of the eleven administrations !
since the first election of Abraham I
Lincoln, nine—covering a period of I
thirty-six years—have been under re
publican presidents. For the greater
part of that time, the majority in each
house of congress has been republi
can. History affords no parallel in
any age or country for the growth in
national grentness and power and
honor, the wide diffusion of the com
forts of life, the uplifting of the great
mass of the people above the hard
conditions of poverty, the common op
portunity for education and individu
al advancement, the universal posses
sion of civil and religious liberty, the
protection of property and security
for the rewards of industry and enter
prise, the cultivation of national
morality, respect for religion, sym
pathy with humanity and love of lib
erty and justice, which have marked
trie lit' of the American people dur
ing this long period of republican
control.
With the platform anfl the candi
dates of this convention, we are about
to ask a renewed expression of popu
lar confidence in the republican party.
Four years ago the business of the
cyuntry v.-s luudod with burdensome
internal taxes, imposed during the
war with Spain. By the Acts of
March 2nd, 1901, and April 12th, 1902,
the country has been wholly relieved
of that annual burden of over one
hundred million dollars; and the fur
ther accumulation of a surplus which
was constantly withdrawing the mon
ey of the country from circulation has
been prevented by the reduction of
taxation.
Between the 30th of June, 1900, and
the first of June, 1904, our treasury
department collected in revenues the
enormous sum of $2,203,000,000 and
expended $2,028,0(10,000, leaving uo
with a surplus of over $170,000,000
after paying the $50,000,009 for the
Panama Canal and loaning $4,000,000
to the St. Louis Exposition. Exclud
ing those two extraordinary payments,
which are investments from past sur
plus and not expenditures of current
increase, the surplus for this year will
be the reasonable amount of about
$12,000,000.
Four years ago the regulation by
law of the great corporate combina
tions called "trusts" stood substan
tially where is was when the Sher
man anti-trust act of 1890 was passed.
Our republican administration has !
taken up the subject in a practical, j
sensible way as a business rather |
than a political question, saying what j
it really meant, and doing what lay i
at its hand to be done to accomplish |
effective regulation.
The attorney general lias gone on in |
the same practical way, not to talk j
about the trusts, but to proceed !
against the trusts by law for their 1
regulation. In separate suits fourteen j
of the great railroads of the country j
have been restrained by injunction I
from giving illegal rebates to the fa- j
vored shippers, who by means of them j
were driving out the smaller shippers j
and monopolizing the grain and meat :
business of the country. The beef
trust was put under injunction. The |
officers of the railroads engaged in j
the cotton carrying pool, affecting all
that great industry of the south, were |
indicted and have abandoned their ;
combination. The Northern Securi
ties Company which undertook by j
combining in one ownership the capi- '
tal stocks of the Northern Pacific and j
Great Northern railroads to end traf !
i lie competition in the northwest, has
| been destroyed by a vigorous prose- j
i cution expedited and brought to a
speedy and effective conclusion in the
supreme court under the act of Feb
ruary 11th, 1903.
The right of the interstate com- j
merce commission to compel the pro
duction of books and papers has been ;
established by the judgment of the j
supreme court in a suit against the i
coal carry roads. Other suits have !
been brought and other indictments i
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.
We have at last reached a point j
where the public wealth of farm land '
which has seemed so inexhaustible j
is nearly gone, and the problem of
utilizing the remainder for the build- j
ing of new homes has become of vital j
importance.
The present administration has ;
dealt with this problem vigorously ,
| and effectively. Great areas had been '
unlawfully fenced in by men of large j
I means, and the home-builder had
j been excluded. Many of these unlaw- j
J ful aggressors have been compelled j
| to relinquish their booty, and more
j than 2,000,000 acres of land have been
I restored to the public. Extensive
| frauds in procuring grants of land,
! not for homesteads but for specula
| tion, have been investigated and
j stopped, and the perpetrators have
' been indicted and are being actively
j prosecuted. A competent commission
! has been constituted to examine into
| the defective working of the existing
! laws and to suggest practical legis
i lation to prevent further abuse. That
j commission has reported, and bills
adequate to accomplish the purpose
I have been framed and are before con
| gress.
The postal service has been extend
]ed and improved. Its revenues have
I increased from $70,000,000 in 1595
i to $95,000,000 in IS*J9, and $144,000,000
Jin 1904. In dealing with these vast
j sums, a few cases of peculation,
j trifling in amount and by subordinate
I officers, have occurred there as they
: occur in every business. Neither fear
I nor favor, nor political or personal
j influence has availed to protect the
j wrongdoers. Their acts have been
< detected, investigated, laid bare; they
have been dismissed from their
places, prosecuted criminally, indict
ed, many of them tried, and many of
them convicted. The abuses in the
carriage of second-class mail matter
have been remedied.
We have brought our navy to a high
i state of efficiency and have exercised
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 under
( standing and the common study of the
strategy, the preparation and the co
operation which will make the.j ef
fective in time of need.
The first, administration of Mc-
Kinloy fought and won the war with
. Spain, put, down the insurrection in
> the Philippines, annexed Hawaii, res
i cued the legations in Pekin, brought
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1904.
J ' ' Senator Charles W. Fairbanks. •?
J President Theodore Roosevelt. 1
Porto Rico into our commercial sys
tem, enacted a protective tariff, and
established our national currency on
the firm foundations of the gold stan
dard by the financial legislation of the
50th congress.
The present administration has re
duced taxation, reduced the public
debt, reduced the annual interest
charge, made effective progress in the
regulation of trusts, fostered business,
promoted agriculture, built up the
navy, reorganized the army, resurrec
ted 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 gate
way of the Isthmus, strengthened the
Monroe doctrine, ended the Alaskan
boundary dispute, protected the in
tegrity of China, opened wider its
doors of trade, advanced the principle
of arbitration, and promoted peace
among the nations.
We challenge judgment upon this
record of effective performance in
legislation, in execution and in ad
ministration.
No dividing line can be drawn
athwart the course of this successful
administration. The fatal 14th of
September, 1901, marked no change
of policy, no lower level of achieve
ment. The bullet of the assassin
robbed us of the friend we loved; it
took away from the people the presi
dent of their choice; it deprived civi
lization of a potent force making al
ways for righteousness and for hu
manity. But the fabric of free insti
tutions remained unshaken. The
government of the people went on.
The great party that William McKin
ley led, wrought still in the spirit of
his example. His true and loyal suc
cessor has been equal to the burden
cast upon him. Widely different in
temperament and methods, he has ap
proved himself of the same elemental
virtues—the same fundamental be
liefs. With faithful and revering
memory, he has executed the pur
poses and continued unbroken the pol
icy of President McKinley for the
peace, prosperity and honor of our
beloved country. And he has met all
new occasions with strength and reso
lution and far-sighted wisdom.
And with McKinley we remember
Hanna with affection and sorrow—his
great lieutenant. 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, domes
tic virtue, love of country, loyalty to
high ideals —all these combined with,
active intelligence, with learning, with
experience in affairs, with the con
clusive proof of competency afforded
by wise and conservative administra
tion, by great things already done
and great results already achieved, —
all these we bring to the people with
j another candidate. Shall not these
' have honor in ,our land? Our presi
j dent has taken the whole peope into
; his confidence. Incapable of decep-
I tion, he has put aside concealment.
| Frankly and without reserve, he has
i told them what their government was
i doing, and the reasons. It is no cam
paign of appearances upon which we
\ enter, for the people know the goori
! and the bad, the success and failure,
j to be credited and charged to our ac-
I count. It is no campaign of sounding
| words and specious pretences, for our
! president has told the people with
\ frankness what he believed and what
\he intended. He has meant every
I word he said, and the people have be
| lieved every word he said, and with
| him this convention agrees because
I every word has been sound republican
! doctrine. Come what may here —
j come what may in November, God
| grant that those qualities of brave
j 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.
The roil of temporary officers of the
convention was then read by the
clerk and approved by the convention.
Senator McComas, of Maryland,
then offered the following resolution:
"Resolved, that the roll of states
and territories be now called, and that
the chairman of each delegation an
nounce the names of the persons se
lected to serve on the several com
mittees, as follows: Permanent or
ganization, rules and order of busi
ness. credentials, resolutions; and
further, that the chairmar. of each
delegation send to the secretary's
desk in writing the names of the per
sons selected from his delegation to
serve on the aforesaid committees."
This was adopted.
The chairman stated that the na
tional committee had placed upon the
roll the names of two delegates from
Porto Rico and six from the Philip
pines, with two votes, and asked the
pleasure of the convention upon the
action of the committee before order
ing a roll call.
Senator Foraker moved that the ac
tion of the national committee be ap
proved, and the motion was carried.
The secretary was then instructed
to announce the committees, which
were read to the convention.
The convention adjourned at 2:12.
Chicago, June 23. —Because Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon was the central
figure, the proceedings of the repub
lican national convention yesterday
took on a picturesqueness which was
looked for in vain on Tuesday. From
the moment he was escorted to the
platform to wield the gavel as the
permanent chairman, the entire at
mosphere of the convention changed.
Enthusiasm which had lain dormant
burst forth and the applause rang
true and hearty. He made a speech
and the audience cheered whether he
spoke jocularly or in serious vein. He
was the entertainer; in fact, he was
the convention.
Live party enthusiasm aroused by
the hearty reception given "Uncle
Joe" Cannon" spread even to routine
business and culminated in a contest
over the number of delegates to which
Hawaii was entitled.
THE PLATFORM.
Fifty years ago the republican party
came into existence, dedicated among
other purposes to the great task of ar
resting the extension of human slav
ery. In 1800 it elected its first presi
dent. During 24 of the 44 years which
have elapsed since the election of
Lincoln the republican party has held
complete control of the government.
For 18 more of the 44 years it has held
partial control through the possession
of one or two branches of the govern
ment, while the democratic party dur
ing 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 demonstration that the repub
lican party has commanded the confi
dence of the American people for
nearly two generations to a degree
never equalled in our history, and has
displayed a high capaoity for rule and
government which has been made
even more conspicuous by the inca
pacity and infirmity of purpose shown
by its opponents.
A Review of the Past.
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 lustre even to the traditions
of the party which carried the govern
ment 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, the
standard of values was threatened and
uncertain, labor was unemployed,
business was sunk in the depression
which had succeeded the panic of
1893, hope was faint and confidence
was gone.
We met these unhappy conditions
vigorously, effectively and at once.
We replaced a democratic tariff law
based on free trade principles and
garnished with sectional protection by
a consistent protective tariff, and in
dustry, 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 vol
ume of exports which lias surpassed
imagination. Under the Dingley tariff
labor has been fully employed, wages
have risen and all industries have re
vived and prospered.
We firmly established the gold
standard, which was then menaced
with destruction. Confidence return
ed to business and with confidence an
unexampled prosperity.
For deficient revenues supplement
ed by improvident issues of bonds we
gave the country au income which
produced a largo surplus and which
enabled us only four years after the
Spanish war had closed to remove
over $100,000,000 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 larga
loans at extravagant rates of interest
in order to pay current expenditures,
rose under republican administration
to its highest point and enabled us to
I borrow at 2 per cent, even in time of
i war.
| We refused to palter longer with
I the miseries of Cuba. We fought a
j quick and victorious war with Spain.
We r.et Cuba free, governed the island
j for three years and then gave it to the
i Cuban people with order restored, free
i from debt and connected with the
j United States by wise provisions for
| JUT mutual interests.
We have reorganized the army and
I put it in the highest state of efficiency.
We have passed laws for the im
-1 provemont and support of the militia.
We have pushed forward the build
ing of the navy, the defense and pro
tection of our honor and our interests.
Our administration of the great de
partments of the government has
been honest and efficient and
wherever wrong doing has been dis
covered the republican administration
has not hesitated to probe the evil
and bring offenders to Justice without
regard to party or political ties.
Laws enacted by the republican
party which the democratic party fail
ed to enforce and which were intend
ed for the protection of the public
against, the unjust discrimination or
the illegal encroachment of vast ag
gregations of capital have been fear
lessly enforced by a republican presi
dent, and new laws ensuring reason
able publicity as to the operations of
great corporations and providing ad
ditional remedies for the prevention
of discrimination in freight rates have
been passed by a republican congress.
In this record of achievement dur
ing 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 follow
ing principles:
The Tariff Plank.
Protection which guards and devel
ops 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
principles 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 committed to any other hands than
those of the republican party.
The Gold Standard.
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, estab
lished by the republican party, can
not safely be committed to the dem
ocratic party, which resisted Its adop
tion and has never given any proof
since that time of belief in it or fidel
ity to it.
Our Merchant Marine.
While every other industry has
prospered under the fostering aid of
republican legislation, American ship
ping engaged in foreign trade in com
petition with the low cost of construc
tion, low wages and heavy subsidies of
foreign governments has not for many
years received from the government
of the United States adequate en
couragement of any kind. We there
fore favor legislation which will en
courage and build up the American
merchant marine, and we cordially
approve the legislation of the last con
gress which created the merchant ma
rine committee to investigate and re
port upon this subject.
The Trusts.
Combinations of capital and of labor
are the results of the economic move
ment 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.
Praise for Roosevelt.
The great statesman and patriotic
American, William McKinley, who
was re-elected by the republican
party to the presidency four ( years
ago, was assassinated just at the
threshold of his second term. The en
tire 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 fortu
nate in his successor, to whom they
turned with a trust and confidence
which have been fully justified. Pres
ident Roosevelt 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 republic
an party and to the policies which that
party had declared, he has "lso shown
himself ready for every emergency
and has met new and vital questions
with ability and with success.
His administration has been
throughout vigorous and honorable,
high-minded and patriotic. We com
mend it without reservation to the
judgment of the American people.
Chicago, June 24. —The swift, sure
current of public opinion for the sec
ond time in the history of republican
conventions resulted yesterday in the
selection of a national ticket without
a dissenting voice. Theodore Roose
velt for president and Charles W.
Fairbanks for vice president received
every vote in the convention.
No less than 10,000 men and women
participated in the ratification of the
party program, and the consequent
roar of cheering and liandclapping
was deafening. The band stationed
high among the girders of the hall
was drowned by the tumultous demon
stration. Hats were tossed in the air,
state emblems were waved, and flags
—beautiful tri-colored shimmering
silken flags—fluttered from every
hand as though stirred by a gale.
It was 10:30 o'clock when Speaker
Cannon called the convention to order.
Without preliminaries of any kind he
announced the order of the day and
instructed the secretary to call the
roll for nominations for president. By
agreement Alabama, tbe first state on
the roll, yielded to Now York. That
was the signal for the first outburst of
applause. In the midst of the cheer
ing ex-Gov. Black made his way to the
platform and said in part:
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Convention: We are here to inaugu
rate 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
ure ranging themselves not for bat
tle but for harvest. In one column
reaching from the Maine woe-da to
the Puget. Sound are those pec.ile and
those states which have stood so long
together, that when great emergen
cies arise the nation turns instinctive
ly to them. In this column, vast and
solid. is a majority so overwhelming
that the scattered squads in opposi
tion can hardly raise another army.
The enemy lias neither guns nor
| ammunition, and if they had they
I would use them on each other. Des
| titute of the weapons of effective war-
I fare, 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 assaulting his
republican adversaries he would first
destroy his own comrades in the ad
joining 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 wher»» the boomerang
has been substituted for the gun.
Whatever fatalities may occur, how
ever, among the discordant hosts now
moving on St. Louis, no harm will
come this fall to the American peo
ple. There will be no opposition suf
ficient 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. He is not living
and but tew of his descendants are
among the democratic remnants of
to-day. Whatever of patriotism or
wisdom emanated from that distin
guished man is now represented in
this convention.
But not alone upon the principles
of the republican party are its mem
bers in accord. With the same devo
tion which has marked their adher
ence 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 con
j ferred. 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 con
j tributions 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
I splendid city the symbol of its rise
! and power. Within this unexampled
j multitude is every rank and condition
) of free men, every creed and occupa-
I tion. But to-day a common purpose
J and desire have engaged us all, and
I from every nook and corner of the
| country rises but a single choice to
i fill the most exalted office in the
j world.
Whether we wish it or not, America
|is abroad in this world. Her inter
■ ests are in every street, her name is
'on every tongue. Those interests so
| sacred and stupendous should be
j trusted only to the care of those
j whose power, skill and courage have
1 been tested and approved. And in the
j man whom you will choose, the liigh
j est sense of every nation in the world
j beholds a man who typifies as no
| other living American does, the spirit
i and the purposes of the twentieth
I century. He does not claim to be the
j Solomon of his time. There are
! many things he may not know, but
j this is sure, that above all things
j else he stands for progress, courage
! and fair play, which are the synonyms
i of the American name,
i There are times when great fitness
! is hardly less than destiny, when the
j elements so come together that they
I select the agent, they will use. Events
| sometimes select the strongest man,
' as lightning goes down the highest
! rod. And so it is with those events
j which for many months with unerr
| ing sight have led you to a single
I name which I am chosen only to pro
nounce: Gentlemen, I nominate for
j president of the United States the
I highest living type of the youth, the
i vigor and the promise of a great
j country and a great age, Theodore
I Roosevelt of New York.
Senator Beveridge was recognized
by the chairman for the purpose of
seconding the nomination of Mr.
Roosevelt for president. He was fol
lowed by George A. Knight, of Cali
! fornia. Mr. Knight has a voice which
I fairly thundered through the hall.
The seconding speeches following
that of Mr. Knight were made by
Harry Stilwell Edwards, of Georgia;
ex-Gov. Bradley, of Kentucky; Joseph
B. Cotton, of Minnesota, and Harry S.
Cummings, of Maryland. Mr. Cum
mings is one of the colored delegates
and he told of the colored man's serv
ice to the republican party and his in
terest in President Roosevelt.
The roll was called and the unani
mous vote of delegations was recorded
for Mr. Roosevelt without incident un
til New Jersey was reached. New
Jersey asked unanimous consent that
the roll be dispensed with and that
the secretary of the convention be in
structed to cast the entire vote for
I Mr. Roosevelt. This was done.
Pandemonium broke loose when
Speaker Cannon announced that in
the convention thaie were 991 votes
and 994 had been cast for Roosevelt.
A great picture of the president was
carried about through the hall, it was
followed by a banner carried by the
Oregon delegation, bearing the words:
"First gun, Oregon, 23,804. Roose
velt. Forty per cent, republican gain."
Alabama again yielded its place at
the head of the list when the roll call
was started for nominations for vice
president. The rank was this time
I given to lowa and Senator Dolliver,
I taking the platform, named Senator
! Fairbanks. The speech was an elo
; quent endorsement of the candidate's
j qualifications and was received with
i tremendous applause. Seconding
S speeches were made by Senator De
| pew, Senator Foraker, ex-Senator
I Carter, of Montana, and Gov. i'enny
j packer, of Pennsylvania. AU were
! applauded to the echo and the great
popular demonstration which greeted
, ihe unanimous nomination by the con
vention was an enthusiastic tribute
to the Indiana statesman whose
name was thus joined with Roosevelt,
i The usual resolutions of thanks to
i officers or the convention and to com
mittees on arrangement were adopted
i and the great fcorjy was adjourned.
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