Show ROOSEVELT SECONDS Now York Joins Ohio in Nomination I of McKinley t Mr Chairman rise to second the nomination of William McKinley the President who had lo meet and solve problems more numerous and more Important Im-portant than any other President since the days of the mighty Abraham Lincoln c Lin-coln the President under whose administration admin-istration i this country has attained higher h pitch of prosperity at home nn abroad than ever In its history Four years ago the Republican party nominated William McKInley as its standardbearer in a political conflict of graver moment to the Nation than any that had taken place since the close of the Civil war saw us once more a reunited t country CANDIDATE OF PEOPLE The Republican party nominated him but 1 before the campaign was many days old he had become the candidate not only of all Republicans but of aJl Americans who were both farsighted enough to see where the true Interest of the country lay and clearminded enough to be keenly sensitive to the taint of dishonor President McKinley was triumphantly triumphant-ly l elected on certain distinct pledges and those pledges have been made more than good We were then In a condition condi-tion of Industrial paralysis The capi tplist was plunged In ruin and disaster dis-aster the wageworker was on the celge of actual want the success of our opponenls would have meant not only Immense aggravation of the actual physical distress but also a strain on the Notions honor so deep that more than one generation would have lo pass before it would be effectually wiped out WHAT WAS PROMISED Wo promised thai If President McKinley Mc-Kinley were elected not only should L the national honor ue kept unstained at home and abroad but that the mine and the workshop would be kept open the farmer have a market for his goods the merchant for his wares and that the wageworker should prosper as never before We did not promise the impossible wo did not say that by good legislation legisla-tion and good administration there would come prosperity to all men but t we did say that each man should have a better change to win prosperity than ho had ever yet had In the long run the thrift industry energy and eayri city of the individual must always remain re-main the chief factor In his success By unwise or dishonest legislation or administration on tho part of the na llonil authorities all those qualities In the Individual can be nullified but wise legislation and upright administration adminis-tration will give free scope And It vvaa this free scope that we promised should be given KEPT OUR WORD Well we kept our word The oppor tunlly has been given and It has been seized by American energy thrift and business enterprise As a result we have prospered as never before and we arc now prospering to a degree that would have seemed Incredible four years ago when the cloud of menace to our Industrial wellbeing hung black above the land I ARMENIA AT OUR DOORS So It has boon In foreign affair Four years ago the Nation wax uneaty because be-cause right at Its doors an American Island I lliy writhing In agony with the curse of worse than the mediaeval tYranny and misrule We had our Armenia at our very doors for the sit I uatlon In Cuba had grown Intolerable and Much lhat this Nation could no longer l refrain from Interference and retain Its own selfrespect WAGED RIGHTEOUS WAR President McKInley turned to this 1 I duty as ho had turned to others HP Fought by every effort possible to pro I vldo for Spains withdrawal from the Island which she Was Impotent longer I to do aught than oppress Then when pacific means had failed and there re malnod the only alternative we waged the most righteous and brilliantly sue cessful foreign war thai any country 1 has aged during the lifetime of the I present generation It was not a great I war simply because It was won too quickly but It was momentous Indeed 1n Its effects It left usas all great i feats must leave those who perform them air inheritance both of honor 1 and of responsibility and under the lead of president McKinley the Nation has taken up UK task of securing or i dcrly liberty and the reign of Justice i j and law In tln > Island from which we drove tho tyranny of Hpaln with the luivsainu aqriouB realization of duty irul I slncoro purpose to perform It that vhns rjnarked the Nations attitude In deal Ingwith I Us economic and financial dim cullies lint face us at home WILL ELECT HIM AGAIN This Is what the Nation has done during dur-ing l the three years that have elapsed since wo made McKlnley President and all this Is what he typifies and stands for We here nominate him again and In I November next we shall elect him again because It has been given to him to personlfv the cause of honor I abroad and prosperity at homo of wiso i loglslallon l and straightforward admin I stra Lion We have done so well our opponents use this very fact as an excuse for I turning us out We have put the tariff I on a foundation so secure we have j passed such wise laws of finance that 1 they actually appeal io the patriotic honest mon who deserted them at the t last l election to help them now because forsooth we have done po well that nobody t need fear their capacity to undo i our work I am not exaggerating This I is i literally the argument lhal Is now addressed lo the gold Democrats as a I reason why they need no longer standby stand-by i the Republican party To all such who may be inclined io listen io these specious arguments I would address an emphatic word of warning WORD OF WARNING I Remember thai admirable though our legislation has boon during the I past three yearn It has been rendered possible and effective only because there was good admlnlsirnllon lo back It I t Wise laws are Invaluable but aClei all they are not os necessary as wise and honest administration of the lawn The best law ever made If admlnis lered by i those who are hostile to it arid who nitan lo break It down can not bo wholly effective and may be wholly ineffective We have at last put our financial log station on a sound basis but no possl blc financial legislation can save us from fearful and disastrous panic If we rust our finances to the msinage mcnl of any man who would bo af ooptahlc to the leaders and guides of the Democracy in Us present spfrli No NcI Secretary of the Treasury who would I be acceptable to or who could without with-out loss of selfrespect servo under the PopullsllcDemocracy could avoid I plunging this country back into financial finan-cial chaos DEMOCRACY HAS RAVED Until our opponents have explicitly and absolutely repudiated the prlncl i pies which in 1SU6 they professed anti I the headers who embody the princl I pies their success moans the undoing of 1 the country Nor have they any longer I even the excuse of being honest In their 1 folly They have raved they havo foamed at the mouth In denunciation 1 of trusts and now In my own State 1 their foremost party leaders including the man before whom the others bow with bared head und trembling knee have been discovered In a trust which really Is of Infamous and perhaps of criminal character a trust in which i these apostles of Democracy lies C prophets of the new ellspensmllon have sought to wring fortunes from the dire need of their poorer brethren I SECONDS THE NOMINATION T rise to second the nomination of Willlan McKInley because with hlin as leader this country has trod the path of national greatness and prosperity pros-perity lth the strides of a giant and 1 because l under him we can and will 1 once more and onwh finally overthrow those whose success would mean for the Nan tio Na-n material disaster and moral disgrace t dis-grace Exactly ns we have remedied the evils which in the past we under took to remedy so now when we say that a sjiall wrong be righted it most assuredly wilhjbe righted PEACE IN ISLANDS We hove nearly succeeded In bring ing pence and order to the Philippines We have sent thither as lo other I I islands toward whose Inhabitants 1 wo now stand ns trustees In the cause of good government men like Wood Taft and Allen whose very names are synonymous of Integrity and guaran j f tees of efficiency Appointees like these with subordinates chosen on grounds of merit and fitness alone arc evi I dences of the spirit and method by 1 which this Nation must approach Its I neu and serious duties Contrast this with what would be the fate of the I Islands under the spoils system so brazenly advocated by our opponents in their last national platform WAS AIDED BY POPOCRATS The war still goes on because the allies In this country of the bloody Insurrectionary oligarchy have taught their foolish dupes abroad to believe that if the rebellion Is kept alive until next November Democratic success at the polls here will be followed by the 1 abandonment of the island that means ihe abandonment to savages who would scramble for what we desert until some I I powciful civilized nation stepped In too d to-o what we would have shown ourselves our-selves unfit to perform W HAT CONVENTION WILL DECIDE t Our success in November means peace in the islands The success ISf our opponents nn Indefinite prolonga l tion i ot misery and bloodshed We Otis c i O-tis convention now renomlnale th i man w hose name is a guaranty against such disaster When we place William McKlnley as out candidate before the i people l we replace the Republican party on record as standing for the perform i ance which squares with promises L as standing for the redemption In ad l ministration m and legislation of the pledges made in the platform and on iho l stump as standing to the upbuild ing of the national honor and Interest abroad and the continuance ai home of the prosperity which has already brought work to the farm and tho wnrlrshrm RESTS WITH PEOPLE We stand on th threshold of a new century a century big with the fate of the great nations of the earth It rests with us now to decide whether In i the opening years of that century we shall inarch forward to fresh tri umphs or whether at the outset we hall deliberately cripple ourselves for tho contest Is America a weakling o shrink from the world work that must le done by 1 the world powers No The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean In either hand Our Nation glorious1 in youth and strength looks Into I the futur with fearless and eyes and rejoices eager as a strong man to run a race We do not stand in craven mood asking to be spared the task cringing as we gaze on the contest No Vu clmlleng the proud privilege of doing this work that Providence allows us and we face the coming years hlgn of heart and resolute of faith thai to our people is given the right to win surh honor and renown as has never mankind yet been granted to the peoples of |