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Show T T T T I I , f T T T 1 I 1 1 f t M1 U TIE HOOSIER Foraker Speaks for I Fairbanks. I Vic Presidential Nomine I Has Mot All Requirements of the Country. i? ' I Man Wio Typifies, as Does Koosevolt, 'j the Noblest Purposes of tho I Bopublican Party. j'! V 2 CHICAGO, June 23. In seconding the nomination of Senator Fair- r banks for the Vice-Presidency Sen- ! ator Foraker of Ohio said: jl; Wo have come hero today for P threo (hlngs: To mako a platform, to h namo fho next President of tho United St States, and to name, also, tho noxt Vice- 1 President of the United States. Wo havo , done two of thoso things and are about fljj to do the third. And wo have dono both l of tho things we have done well. Tho Jl ; platform wo adopted yesterday has al- Jjs ready met tho favorable Judgment of tho t ; American people. It ls tbo counterpart of lp tho best tho Ropublican party has adopt- 8i ed, and if you would know how high Is flj that tribute, recall tho fact now. of which fl' every Republican may Justly feel proud, h that of all thc many platforms we havo P. I) mado in tho fifty years of 6ur party llfo I'll wo would not today strike ono of them S from our record If wo could. Further f, i than that, thero ls not a plank, or a t,'.' declaration, or a thought, or an Idea, In. v one of them that we would erase If we u( had tho power, From the platform of 1S5S 0 . down to that ono adopted yesterday, aU 3 1 aro as solid as a gold dollar. ; Great Questions Recalled. 9 I . If you would know what a tribute is J, hero to Ropublican patriotism, wisdom !' and statesmanship, rocall tho great ques- 1' ' tlons with which the Republican party ,!' , has dealt In making these platforms. They ' ; aro all Imperishable contributions to tho !? political literature of our day. If you '! would know tho measuro of our succory, : ! read also of tho lamcntablo falluro our I Democratic friends have met with ln 51'f making their platforms. Whllo wc aro to- m day proud of the success of ours, our 1 Democratic friends cannot find ono plat- i form they have mado ln all this period ' that does not havo somo features, at least. i of which thoy arc now ashamed. Not all 'I I of them, perhaps-, because thero are somo Democrats who cannot bo ashamed of ' anything. ,j Easy to Select Candidate. .. j On the platform mado yesterday, wo i havo placed our candldato who ls to hood" i- ! the ticket It was not as easy In some of ill tho conventions that hnvo gono bofore to ' ' : name a Republican candldato for tho J; Presidcnoy aa it was for us to namo our "., candldato hero today. In former years, JiJ when wo have been called upon to chooso li between such great leaders us Conkllnc y and Morton and Blaine and Garfield and. ' , Harrison and McKInley, they havo , weighed so evenly, their claims for merit wero so equal, that It was a hardor task. But this time ono man stood head and ., 1 shoulders above all others of our Republican Repub-lican leaders, nominated, as has boon woll said from tills platform, by tho American, rlj pcoplo beforo wo look our soats In this ' J convention. ; Fairbanks Is Nnmed. X On the ticket with him as his associate- 1 for tho Vice-Presidency, wo want to ploco I a man who represents In his personality, ! ln his belief, ln his public service, ln h) j high charucter, all tho splendid record thi Republican party has made, all the great " i declarations of tho former platform, and a man who will typify, as the leader of our ticket will, tho highest ambition and i 1 the noblest purposes of tho Republican H party of the United States. I will not de- . fl lay you with an eulogy of Senator Fair- I banks beyond simply saying that, to all , i who know him personally, as thoso of us . do who have been closely associated with, him in thc public service, ho has met alt '! the requirements. Ho is of Presidential caliber. He has all of the qualification of that high office for which ho ha3 been ' named, and by all of theso potent consld- ' ' orations. In the namo of the forty-six dele- : gates of Ohio. I second the nomination of i ! Senator Fairbanks. il |