The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1896, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1896. DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. The Republicans of the United States, assembled by their representatives in Na- tional Convention, appealing for the popularand historical justification of their claims to the matchless achievements of thirty years of Republican rule, earnestly and con- fidently address themselves to the awakened intelligence, experience and conscience of their countrymen in the following declaration of facts and principles: For the first time since the Civil War the American people have witnessed the calamitous consequences of full and unrestrained Democratic control of the Govern- ment. It has been arecord of unparalleled incapacity, dishonor and disaster. In ad- ministrative management it has ruthlessly sacrificed indispensable revenue, entailed an unceasing defiait, eked out ordinary current expenses with borrowed money, piled up the public debt by $262,000,000 in time of peace, forced an adverse balance of trade, kept a perpetual menace hanging over the redemption fund, pawned American credit to alien syndicates and reversed all the measures and resuits of successiul Republican rule. In the broad effect of its policy it has precipitated panic, blighted industry and trade with prolonged depression, closed factories, reduced work and wages, halted enterprise and crippled American production while stimulating foreign production for the American market. Every consideration of public safety and individual interest demands that the Government shall be rescued from the hands of those who have shown themselves incapable of conducting it without disaster at home and dishonor abroad, and shall be restored to the party which for thirty years administered it with unequaled success and prosperity. A PROTECTIVE TARIFF. We renew and emphasize our allegiance to the policy of protection as the bulwark of American industrial independence and the foundation of American development and prosperity. This true American policy taxes foreign products and encourages home industry; it puts the burden of revenue on foreign goods, it secures the Ameri- can market for the American producer; it upholds the American standard of wages for the American workingman; it puts the factory by the side of the farm, and makes the American farmer less dependent on foreign demand and price; it diffuses general thrift and founds the strength of all on the strength of each. Inits reasonable appli- cation it is just, fair and impartial, equally opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly, to sectional discrimination and individual favoritism. We denounce the present Democratic tariff as sectional, injurious to the public credit and destructive to business enterprise. We demand such equitable tariff on foreign imports which come into competition with American products as will not only furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of the Government, but will pro- tect American labor from degradation to the wage level of otherlands. We are not pledged to any particular schedules. The question of rates is a practical question, to be governed by the conditions of the time and of production; the ruling and uncom- promising orinciple is the protection and development of American labor and indus- try. The country demands a right settlement, and then it wants rest. RECIPROCITY WITH OTHER NATIONS. We believe the repeal of the reciprocity arrangements negotiated by the last Republican administration was a national calumity, and we demand their renewal and extension on such terms as will equalize our trade with other nations, remove the restrictions which now obstruct the sale of American products in the ports of other countries and secure enlarged markets for the products of our farms, forests and factories. Protection and reciprocity are twin measures of Republican policy, and go hand in hand. lished. Protection for what we produce, Democratic rule has recklessly struck down both, and both must be re-estab- free admission for the necessaries of life which we don't produce, reciprocal agreements of mutual interest which gain open markets for us in return for our open domestic industry and trade and secures our own market for ourselves. builds up foreign trade and finds an outles Protection builds up Reciprocity market to others. for our surplus. PROTECTION TO SUGAR PRODUCERS. We condemn the present administration for not keeping faith with the sugar pro- ducers of this country. The Republican p: the production on American soil of all the for which they pay other countries more th; WOOIL:. AND arty favors such protection as will lead to sugar which the American people use, and an $100,000,000 annually. WOOLENS. To all our products—to those of the mine and the field, as well as to those of the protection. shop and the factory—to hemp—to wool, the product of the great industry of sheep hushandry, as well as to the finished woolens of the mill—we promise the most ample MERCHANT MARINH. We favor restoring the early American policy of discriminating duties for the up- building of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American ships—the product of American labor, employed in American shipyards, sailing under the Stars and Stripes, and manned, officered and owned by Americans—may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce. THE FINANCIAL ISSUR. The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1879; since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our curreacy or impair the credit of our country. We are, thereiore, opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international agreement with the leading commercisal nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be ob- tained the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to main- tain inviolably the obligations of the United States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth. PENSIONS FOR VETERANS. American people. The veterans of the Union armies deserve and should receive fair treatment and generous recoghition. Whenever practicable they should be given the preference in the matter of employment, and they are entitled to the enactment of such laws as are best calculated to secure the fulfiliment of the pledges made to them in the dark days of the country’s peri.. We denounce the practice of the Pension Bureau so recklessly and unjustly carried on by the present administration, of reducing pensions and arbi- trarily droppir.g names from the rolls, as deserving the severest condemnation of the FORBIGN RELATIONS. Our foreign policy should be at ali times firm, vigorous and dignified, and all our interests in the western hemisphere carefully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian Islands shoutd be controlled by the United States and no foreign power should be per- mitted to interfere with them. rated by the United States, and by the purchase of the Danish Islands we should se- cure a proper and much-needed naval station in the West Indies. ARMENIAN MASSACRES. The Nicaragua Canal should be built, owned and ove- The massacres in Armenia have aroused the deep sympathy and just indignation of the American people, and we believe that the United States should exercise all the influence it can properly exert to bring these atrocities to an end. In Turkey, Ameri- can residents have been exposed to the gravest dangers and American property de- stroyed. There and everywhere American citizens and American property must be absolutely protected at all hazards and at any cost. ‘We reassert the Monroe doctrine in its full extent and we reaffirm the right of the TUnited States to give the docirine effect by responding to the appeals of any American State for friendly intervention in case of European encroachment. We have not in- terfered, and shall not interfere, with the existing possessions of any European power in this hemisphere, but those possessions must not, on any pretext, be extended. We hopefully look forward to the eventual withdrawal of the European powers from this hemisphere and the ultimate union of all the English-speaking part of the continent by the free consent of its inhabitants. INDEPENDEHNOCE OF CUBA. From the honr of achieving their own independence the people of the United States have regarded with sympathy the struggles of other American peoples to free themselves from European domination. We watch with deep and abiding interest the heroic battle of the Cuban patriots against cruelty and ovopression, and our best hopes go out for the full success of their determined contest for liberty. The Government of Spain, having lost control of Cuba and bein . unable to protect MONROHE DOCTRINEH. the property or lives of resident American citizens or to comply with its treaty obliga tions, we believe that the Government of the United States should actively use its influence and good offices to restore peace and give independence to the island. ENLARGEMENT OF THE NAVY. The peace and security of the Republic and the maintenance of its rightful influence among the nations of the earth demand a naval power commensurate with its porition and responsibility. We therefore favor the continued enlargement of the navy and a complete system of harbor and seacoast defenses, IMMIGRATION LAWS. For the protection of the equality of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen against the fatal competition of low-priced labor, we demand that the immigration laws be thoroughly enforced, and so extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write. CIVIL. SERVICE. The Civil Service law was placed on the statute book by the Republican party, which has always sustained it, and we renew our repeated declarations that it shall be thoroughly and honestly enforced and extended wherever practicable. FREE BALLOT. ‘We demand that every citizen 6f the United States shall be allowed to cast one free and unrestricted ballot, and that such ballot shall be counted and returned as LYNCHING CONDEMNED. "~ We proclaim our unqualified condemnsation of the uncivilized and barbarous practices, well known as lynching or killing of human. beings, suspected or charged cast. with crime, withount process of law. NATIONAL ARBITRATION. ‘We favor the creation of a National Board of Arbitration to settle and adjust dif- ferences which may arise between employer and employed engaged in interstate com- merce. FREE HOMESTEADS. We believe irf an immediate return to the free homestead policy of the Republican party and urge the passage by Congress of the satisfactory free homestead measure which has already passed the House and is now pending in the Senate. ADMISSION OF TERRITORIES. ‘We favor the admission of the remaining Territories at the earliest practicable date, having due regard to the interests of the people of the Territories and of the United States. All the Federal officers appointed for the Territories shall be selected from bona fide residents thereof, and the right of seli-government shall be accorded as {ar as practicable. ALASK A REPRESENTATION. ‘We believe the citizens of Alaska shonld have representation in the Congress of the United States, to the end that needful legislation may be intelligently enacted. SUMPTUARY LEGISLLATION. We sympathize with all wise and legitimate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of intemperance ana promote morality. RIGHTS OF WOMEN. The Republican party is mindful of the rights and interests ol women. Protection of American industries includes equal opportunities, equal pay for equa! work and protection to the home. We favor the admission of women to wider spheres of useful- ness, and welcome their co-operation in rescuing the country from Democratic and Populistic mismanagement and misrule. Republican party. Such are the principles and policies of the By these principles we will abide and these principles we will put into execution. We ask for them the considerate judgment of the American people. Confident alike in the history of our great party and in the justice of our cause, we present our platform and our considerations, in the full assurance that the election will bring victory to the Republican party and prosperity to the people of the United Btates: the platform and proceeded to put in | nomination Governor Levi P. Morton. He | did so in these words: Mr. Chairmen snd Gentlemen of the Conven- tion: National Republican Conventions have | been epoch-makers. They have formulated the principles, originated the policies and sug- | gested the measures which in the history of the United States form its most progressive pe- riods. They bave nominated for the Presi- dency statesmen and soldiers, who were the leaders of the people in their onward march to | larger liberty and brosder industrial condi- tions. No party, no matter however glorious its achievements or how brilliant its success, can relv upon the past. Its.former triumphs are only its certificates of character, which must | be met by continuing effort as beneficent and wise as anything of which it boasts. The party which is to permanently govern & country and is secure in its past must 1ot only be equal to the present, but must forecast and provide for | the future. The Republican party has held possession of the Government of the United States for more than a generation, becaunse it hes triumphantly met these conditions. The unequaled successes of the Republican party, its hold upon the country and its mas- terful infiluence upon affairs have been due to the fact that in every crisis its principles have solved the problems of the hour and its se- lected leader has been the man for the occa- sion. The greatest moral and patriotic ques- tions which a free people were ever called upon to meet were slavery and secession in the days of our organization. But with on and Liberty” as our watchword and with Lincoln as our leader we saved the Re- public and emancipated the slave. The pas- sionate and critical issues of reconstruction were successfully met and the hostile sections happily united by a policy of concilistion which could only secure the consent of the victors and the assent of the conquered by the infiuence of the soldier President wno had the confideuce of the armies wanich he had led in triumph and the enemies whom he had paroled with honor. In a period when progress halted because of the distrust of commonwealths and their citizens of each other the later and bet- ter judgment of the country expressed its ac- knowledgment to the non-partisanship and judicial fairness of Hayes and Evarts. The youth who came to manhood after the civil war and knew little of its agonies or its animosities found a glorious example of American possibility and achievement in the canal driver, the college student, the school principal, the college president, the Union general, the illustrious debater in the House of Representatives, the brilliant and magnetic Garfieid. In defeat and in victory, for the policies which stood for the development of American industries, for America for Ameri- cans whether native or naturalized, and for the reciprocity which bound the North Ameri- can and South American continents together, we had the plumed knight oi our enthusiasm and our love, James G. Blaine. AS & new gen- eration came to majority, to whom tke past was & legend, the present, the difficult task of development and prosperity and the future theory without experience, the Repub- lican party again happily practiced, in its con- trol of the executive and legislative branches of the Government, that policy of the protec- tion.of American industries and that practice of sound finance which gave to the Republic its era of greatest prosperity and 1ts period of the largest recurns for capital, the fullest em- ployment for labor and the highest wages for work in the bistory of our Nation in the clos- ingyeer of the administration of that able and sccomplished stateeman, Benjamin Har- rison. A few weeks preceding the convention of four years ago at Minneapolis I bad an after- poon with Mr. Blaine. With marvelous in- tuition he forecast the future. He said: «gSubstantially all the forces of opposition, of distrust and of disappointment, of theory and of imaginetion which sccumulate -ageinst a party that has been in power for over thirty years are mow concentrated for an assault upon-our position, and are certain to succeed. The Demoecratic party and its allies of Popu- lism and of il other isms are destined in this campaign, no matter who is our candidate or what is our platform, to secure possession of the Government.”” The country knows to ite, Joss, its sorrow and its grief, that the predic-| tion has been fulfilled in every part. In its fulfillment the United States has the ex- perience and Europe has the business and prosperity. ‘We meet to take up the broken cord of Na- tional development and happiness and link it once more to the car of progress. Ourindustries stegoant, our manufactures paralyzed, our egriculture disheartened, our artisans urem- ployed, our finances disordered, our treasury bankrupt, our credit impaired, our position among the nations of the world questioned, all look to this convention and call upon its wisdom for hope and rescue. The conditions created by the practice of | Demoeratic policies, the promise of Demoeratic measures and tne differences of Democratic statesmen would seem to argue an.unques- tioned and overwhelming triumph for the Re- publican party in the coming election. No matter how brilliant the promise, no matter how serene the outlook, it is the part of wisdom, with the uncertainties of politics and our recent experience of the tragic shifting of issues, to be careful, prudent and wise in plat- form and in candidate. The last few years have been a campaign of university extension among the people of the United States, and while we may in platform and candidate meet all the requirements of party obligations and party expectations, we must remember that there is a vast constitu- ency which has little fealty to parties or 1o or- ganizations, but votes for the man snd the { principles which are in accord with their views in the sdministration of the country. The whole country, north, south, east and west, without any division in our lines, or out of them, stands, after what has happened in the last three years, for the protection of American industries, for the principle of reciorocity and for America for Americans. But & compact neighborhood of great commonwealths, in which are concentrated the majority of the population, of ‘the manufactures and of the industrial energies of the United Stales, has found that business and credit exist only with the stability of sound money. It has become the fashion of late to decry business as unpatriotic. We hear muck of the “sordid considerations of capital,” “employ- ment,” “industrial energies” and “prosperous labor.” The United States, differing from the medieval conditions which govern older countries, differing from the militarism which is the curse of European nations, differing from thrones which rest upon the sword, is pre-eminently and patriotically a commercial and a business nation. Thus commerce and business are synonymous witn patriotism, ‘When the farmer is afield sowing and reaping the crops which find a market that remuner- ates him for his toil, when the laborer and the artisan find work seeking them and not themselves despairing of work, when the wage of the toiler promises comfort for his family and hope for his children, when the rail is burdened with the product of the soil and of the factory, when the spindles are humming and the furnaces are in blast, when the mine is putting out its largest product and the national and individual wealth is constantly increasing, when the homes owned unmort- gaged by the people are more numerous day by dey end month by month, when the schools are most crowded, the fairs most frequent and happy conditions most universal in the Nation, then are the promises fulfilled which make these United States of America the homeof the oppressed and the land of the free. Itis to meel these conditions and to meet them with a candidate who represents them | and about whom there can be noquestion, that | New York presents to you for the Presidency under the unanimous instructions of two suc- cessive Republican State conventions the name of her Governor, Levi P. Morton. New York is the cosmopolitan State of the Union. She is both & barometer and ther- mometer of the changesof popular opinion and populsr passion. She has been the pivotal commonwealth which has decided nearly every one of the National elections in this genera- tion. She has more Yankees than eny eity in New England, more Southerners than any community in the South and more native-born Westerners than anycity in the West and the representatives of the Pacific Coast within her borders have been men who have done much for the development of that glorious region. These Rxperienccd and cosmopolitan citizens with tBeir fingers upon the pulses of finance snd trade of the whole country, feel instantly the conditions that lead 10 disaster or to pros- perity. Hence they swing the State some time to the Republican and some time to the Demo- cratic column, In the tremendous effort to break the hold which Democracy had upon our common- wealth, and which it had strengthened for ten successive years, we selected as our standard- bearer the gentlemau whom I present on be- half of our State here to-cay, and who carried New York and took the Legisiature with him, by 156,000 majority. We are building a navy, and the White Squadron is a forerunner of a commerce which is to whiten every sea and carry our flag into every port of the world. Notour wish, perhaps, nor our ambitions probably, but our very progress and expansion have made us one of the family of nations. We can no longer, with- out the hazard of unmecessary frictions with other Governments, conduct our foreign policy, except through the medium of a skilled diplomacy. For four years as Minister to France, when MENINLEY - BApGES, / Scenes on the Streets of St. Louis During the Early Work of Rival Boomers. [Skétched for *‘The Call’’ by J. Kahler.] critical questions of the import of our products into that country were imminent, Levi P. Morton learned and practiced successfully the diplomacy which was best for the prosperity of his country. None of the mistakes which have discredited our relations with foreign nations during the past four years could occur under his administration. He is the best type of the American business man—that type which is the ideal of the school, the academy and the college, that type which the mother pre- sents to her boy in the Western cabix and in the Eastern tenement as she is marking out for him & career by which he shall risefrom his poor surroundings to grasp the prizes which come through American liberty and American opportunity. You see the picture. The New England clergyman on his meager salary, the large family of boys and girls about him, the sous going out witn their common school education, the boy becoming the clerk in a store, then granted an interest in the business, then becoming its controlling spirit, then claiming the attention of the great house in the city and called to a partnership, then himself the master of great affairs. Overwhe.r.:¢ | by the incalculable conditions of civil war, but with undeunted energy and foresight, he graped agein the elements of escape out of bankruptey and of success, and with the return of prosperity he paid to the creditors who had compromised his indebted- ness every dollar, prineipal and interest, of what he owed them. The best type of a successful business man, he turns to politics, to be & useful member of Congress; to diplo- macy, to be a successful Minister abroad; to the executive and administrative branehes of government, to be the most popular Vice- President and the presiding officer of that most sugust body—the Senate of the United States. Our present deplorable industrial and finan- cial conditjons are largely due to the fact that while we ‘have a President and a Cabinet of acknowledged ability, none of them have had business training or experience.- They are per- suasive reasoners’ upon industrial questions, but have never practically solved indnstrial problems. They are the book farmers who raise wheat at the cost of orchids and sell it at the price of wheat. With Levi P. Morton there ‘would be no deficiency to be met by the issue of bonds, there would be no blight on our credit which would call for the services of & syndicate, there would be no trifiing with the delicate intricacies of finance and commeree which would paralyze the operations of trade ana manufacture. ‘Whoever may be nominated by this conven- tion will receive the cordial support, the en- thusiastic advocacy of the Republicans of New York, but in the shifting conditions of our commonwealth, Governor Morton can secure more than the party strength, and without question in the coming canvass, no matter what issues may arise between now and No- vember, place the Empire State solidly, in the Rcpublican column. Mr. Depew’s speech repeatedly elicited bursts of laughter and applause, particu- larly one bumorous interpolated passage in which he said: “1 wonder what our erring, bolting brothers will say when they arrive at the celestial city, which is governed by re- publican principles, and are met there by St. Peter with a golden key.”* As he sat down he was loudly cheered.’ FORAKER NAMES McKINLEY. When the State of Ohio was called Jo- seph B. Foraker of that State, ex-Gover- nor and Benator-elect, came fo the plat- form and amid great applause proceeded to put Mr. McKinley in nomination. He said: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Con- vention: It would be exceedingly difficult, if not entirely impossible, to exaggerate the dis- agreeable situation of the last four years. The grand aggregate of the multitudinous bad re- sults of & Democratic National edministration may be summed uv as one stupendous disaster. t1has been a disaster,however,notat least with- out at least this one redeeming feature—that it has been fair; nobody has escaped. [Loud laughter.] Ithas fallen equally and alike on 1l sections of thé country and on all classes of our people. The just and the unjust, the Re- publican and the Democrat, the rich and the poor, the high and the low, have suffered in common. Poverty and distress have overtaken busi- ness; shrunken values have dissipated for- tunes; deficiencies of revenue have impover- ished the Government, while bond issues and pond syndicates have discredited and scandal- ized the country. Over against that fearful penalty is, how- ever, to be set down one great, blessed, com- ‘pensatory result—it has destroyea the Demo- cratic. party. [Cheers and laughter The proud columns which swept the country in 1892 are broken and helpless in 1896. Their bossted principles, when put to the test, have proven to be delusive fallacies and their great leaders have degenerated into warring chief- tains of petty and irreconcilable factions.. Their approaching National Convention is but an approaching National nightmare. No man pretends to be able to predict any good result to come from jt. And no man is seeking the nomination of that convention except only the limited few who have advertised their nnfitness for any kind of a public trust by proclaiming their willingness to stand on any sort of a platform that may be adopted. [Launghter.] The truth is the party which would stand up under the odium of human slavery, opposed to the war for the preservation of the Union, to emancipation, to enfranchisement, to re- construction and to specie resumption is at last to be' overmatched and undome by itself. It is writhing in the throes and agoniesof final dissolution. No human ageuncy can pre- vent its absolute overthrow ‘at the next elec- tion except this convention. If we make no mistake here the Democratic party will goout of power on the fourth day of March, 1897, [applause] to remain out of power until God in his infinite wisdom and mercy and good- ness shall see fit once more to chastise his people. [Loud laughter and applause.] 8o we have not made any mistake. We have adopted a platiorm which, notwithstand- ing the scemes witnessed in this hall this morning, meets the demands and expectations of the American people. It remains for us, as the last crowning act of our work, to meet again that same expectation in the nomina- tion of our candidates. 4 What is that expectation? What is it that the people want? They want as their candi- date something more than a good business man [alluding to Mr. Depew’s characterization of Governor Morton]. They want something more than & good Republican. They want something more than a popular leader. They want something more than a wise political statesman. They wants man who embodies in himself not only these essential qualifica- tions, but those in addition which in the high- est possible degree typify, in name, in charac- ter, in record, in ambiiion, {n purpose, the ex- act opposite of all that is signified and repre- sented by that free-trade, deficit-making, bond- issuing, labor-assassinating Democratic ad- ministration. [Cheers.] 1stand here to present to this convention such a man. Hisnameis William McKinley. At this point pandemonium was let loose and the convention gave up to unre- strained vyelling, cheering, hornblowing, whistling, catcalling and all the other devices common to such occasions. A number of red, white and blue plumes which, carefully wrapped up, had been brought into the convention earlier in the proceedings, were uncovered and waved, while almost every delegate seemed to be wildly gesticulating with either a fan or a flag in the air. The band tried in vain to compete with the ear-splitting clamor, but at last the strains of *‘Marching Through Georgia’’ caught the ears of the crowd and it joined in the chorus and gradually quieted down. Then & portrait of McKinley was hoisted onaline with the United States flag on the gallery facing the platform and the cheering began over again, to which the band respondea by playing ‘‘Rally Round the Flag,” the convention joining in the chorus. - After at least twelve minutes of this kind of proceeding the chair began to rap for a restoration of order, but without avail. Governor Foraker stood through all this wild scene smiling his approval. Mr, Hepburn of Iowa had in the mean- time been called to the chair by Senator Thurston, but just when he had nearly re- stored order Mrs. H. W. R, Strong of Cal- ifornia, who had presented the plumes in honor of Ohio’s choice, made her appear- ance on the floor waving one of them and another uncountrollable burst of temporary insanity occurred. During the interval of confusion a three- quarter face, life-size sculptured bust of McKinley was presented to Foraker by the Republican Club ot the University of Chicago. The portrait was ina mahogany frame decorated with red, white and blue ribbons. It was accepted by Governor Foraker in dumb show. After twenty-five minutes of incessant turmoil and interruption Mr. Foraker was allowed to resume his speech. He said that from what had occurred, it was evi- dent that the convention had heard of the candidate before. His words, however, seemed to have lost much of their fire and fervor, because they came in such close contact and contrast with the unbounded exuberance of the convention. For some time he could not secure a hearing. He spoke of the great champions of Repub- licanism in the past, eulogizing Mr. Biaine particularly, and continued. But, greatest of all (measured by present re- quirements), the leader of the House of Rep- resentatives is the author of the McKlnley bill which gave to labor its richest rewards. No other name completely meets the require- ments of the occasion, and no other name so absolutely commands all hearts. Al the sbaits of envy and malice and slander and libel and detraction that have been aimeaat him lie broken and harmless at his feet. The quiver is empty and he is untouched. That is be- cause the people know him, trust him, belleve in him, love him and will not permit any hu- man power to disparage him unjustly in their estimation, They know he is an American of Americans, They know he is just and able and brave; and they will elect him for President ot the United States. [Applause.] They have already shown this—not in this or that State, nor i this or that section, but in all the Statesand in all the sections from ocean to ocean and from the guli to the lakes. They expect of you to give them & chance to vote for him. It isour duty to do it. If we discharge that duty we will give joy to their hearts, enthusiasm to their souls and triumphant victory to our cause. [Applause.] And he, in turn, will give us an administra- tion under which the country will enter on a neweraof prosperity at home and of glory and honor abroad. By all these tokens of the present, and all these promises of the future, in the name of the forty-six delegates of Ohio, I submit his claim foryour consideration. [Great Applause.] THURSTON’S SECONDING SPEECH Senator Thurston of Nebraska was recog- nized by Temporary Chairman Hepburn and seconded the nomination of McKin- ley. He said: e Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Con- vention: This is the year of the people. They are conscious of their power; they are tena- cious of their rights; they are supreme in this convention; they are certain of victory now and in November. They have framed the issue of this cam- paign. What is it? Money? Yes, moneyl Not that which is coined for the mine-owner at the mini or clipped by the coupon-cutter from the bond, bat that which is created by American muscle on the farms and in the fac- tories. The Western mountains clamor for silver and the Eastern seashore cries for gold, but the millions ask for work—an opportunity to labor and to live. The prosperity of a nation is in the em- ployment of its people, and, thank God, the electors of the United Siates know this great economic truth at last. The Repub- lican party does not stand for Nevada or New York alone, but for both; not for one Btate, but for all, Its platform is as broad a8 the land, as National as the flag. Repubii- cans are definitely committed to sound cur- rency, but they believe that in a government of the people the welfare of men is paramount to the interests of money. Their shibboleth for this campaign is “Frotection.” From the vantage ground of their own selection they cannot be stampeded by Wall street panics or free coinage cyclones. Reports of interna. tional complications and rumors of war, pass them u(lmzm by; they know thet the real enemy of erican prosperity is free trade, and the best coast defense is a protective tartff. They do not fear the warlike prepara- tions of Europe, but they do fear its cheap manufactures. Their real danger is not from