The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

THE CANDIDATES NOMINATED 289
Our hearts are saddened by the circumstance that the last four years have been
strangely stricken in the organization and leadership of the Republican party.
Governor Dingley is dead and gone; his name rendered immortal by legislation
which began the miracle of industrial and commercial progress which opened the
twentieth centurj- in the United States. We miss calm Reed, who put an end to
anarchy in the house of representatives.
ERA OF YOUNGER LEADERS
We are, in a sense—all hail to the old leaders of the Republican party—we are
in a sense face to face with a new era in the political history of the United States, an
era that shall take its character from the traditions of the Republican party and
from the personality of men bom since 1850.
That is the signiiicance, in part, at least, of the unanimous nomination of Theo-
dore Roosevelt as president of the United States, and that, also, is the significance
of the unanimity with which this convention, interpreting the will of the American
people, has called into its service and is about to commission as his associate for the
guidance and leadership of the Republican party, Charles W. Fairbanks, our candi-
date for vice-president.
A farmer boy, a student making his way through college, a country lawyer, a
statesman, a leader of the Republican party, fit for any of its great responsibilities,
I nominate this great Republican and this representative type of the best there is in
the Republicanism of our times—Senator Fairbanks of Indiana.
SENATOR DEPEW FOLLOWS
Cheers and applause followed until Chairman Cannon
finally succeeded in securing order and introduced Senator
Depew of New York.
Senator Depew was received with applause and friendly
cries from all parts of the house. One remark coming from a
delegate, 'Have you had your dinner?" the senator selected
and used as a text and said:
My friend wants to know if I have had my dinner ; but what I am about to say
is in behalf of dinners for the American people. I cannot help contrasting, in listen-
ing to the eloquence with which we have been privileged this morning, what will be
the difiference when our Democratic friends meet on July 6th to go through with their
duty of nominating candidates and adopting platforms. We here have been unani-
mous as to our candidates, all agreed upon our principles, all recognizing and