Show FROM SIR HUBERT the philadelphia I adgers talbot to the next vice president the republican national convention imir ably finished that which it so well egan when it nominated mr harrison for president by nominating mr reid for vice president mr reids career has been aa brilliant as it is distinguished he baa achieved no honor for he has not faithfully labored or which he has not deserved to achieve he represents in a conspicuous degree the sturdy fibrous material of tho american character of its active vital mind absorbing and exploiting intelligence rising to eminence through well directed endeavor and by the display of those great qualities of mind and heart which denote manhood which is honorable and useful to the world mr reids life has been a singularly active one he ia not only a man of affairs made familiar by experience with those large problems which occupy the thought energy and enterprise of the world of business he has been a publicist a diplomatist and a journalist this latter being his first and best found choice and occupation mr reid as the success sor of horace greenlay in the editorial management and control of abs tbs new york tribune has distinctively honored journalism daily in the pages of that great newspaper which has beai made by him to conform to his lofty ideal of what an american newspaper should be in the narrower though scarcely less difficult field of diplomacy mr reid during his residence in france as the american minister to that country added to the reputation he had previously made as a journalist whose character and work imparted distinction to journalism mr reid was something more than persona grata to the government of france he exercised a distinctive and powerful influence in his office and so well was ha considered and BO effective was his diplomacy abato achieve material commercial advantages for the united states and to strengthen the bonds of good feeling between the two great republics that of tha old world and that of the new mr reid is a man of broad culture of good judgment of attractive personal manner dignified courteous and considerate si he possesses all desirable requisites qui sites for the office to which ho has been nominated and if elected to it ho will be a worthy successor to tho present distinguished incumbent vice president morton philadelphia public ledger |