St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-27
Maj. Mckinley, High Priest Of
Protection, Renominated
for Congress.
The Plumed Knight Sends a
Touching Message to the
Convention.
To Make Himself Solid the
Nominee breaches High
Tariff Doctrine.
He Claims That the G. O. p.
Has Kept All Of It's
Pledges.

Fl0uSGS.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 26. The political
demonstration at Massillon to-day, the
accompaniment of which was the nOmi-
nation of Maj, William Mckinley for
congress in the Sixteenth Ohio district,
was one of the greatest that ever oc-
Cured IN Ohio. The Republicans of
the district turned out in great, enthu
siastic body, and proclaimed him their
candidate without the fOrmalitY of the
usual delegate convention. The dis
triet has been sore-formed by the Demo-
Gratis as to give that party natural ma
its, but the Republicans are determined
to elect him. About $4,000 people were
in the city, which was gaily decorated.
Congressman Smyzer early in the day
received the following telegram from
James G. Blaine:
trust your convention today will nomi-
nate Maj. Mckinley for congress. He has
been true and tried for twenty years. On
many occasions he ne, has helped the Rep9b, pub
their obligations and help him by their inter-.
ests. their sympathy and friendship.
Congressman SmyZer introduced
Judge Munson, of Medina, who made
the speech nominating Mckinley. He
reserved McKinley's name to the last,
and as it was pronounced the cheers
and shouts that arose fairly shook the
house. When the vote was called for
by Smyzer. the walls quivered with the
mighty "aye' that went up, and the
crowd cheered and cheered again. Maj.
Mckinley then followed with his speech
of acceptance, which was a mastery
effort. In speaking of the tariff Maj.
Mckinley said: Another purpose we
declared in Chicago, another pledge we
made to the people, to revise the tariff
Oh the lines of protection. How? Let
me recall the platform.
"By such revision as will tend to cheekim i'm
ports of such articles as are produced by our
people, the production of which gives en-
ployuent to our labor, and release from i'm
port duty those articles of foreign production
Except luxuries), the like of which cannot
be produced at home"
No one questions but that the house
has kept that pledge in every respect in
the bill which it has sent to the senate
of the United States. 1t has lowered
duties when they were in the interest
vi UllC pOODIC,dllU lU uQNA IhO SOuloSS
to raise them when to do so was to inau-
rate OF to promote great industries and
enlarge the field of employment for
American men and women. If any
doubt ever existed that the house tariff
bill was a piece of American legis-
lation for the benefit Of the
American people, and in the line Of the
country's largest prosperity, that doubt
must have long since been removed by
the manifestations of opposition which
have come from the leading and COM
peting nations of the word. We said
in our platform of 1888, 1--WE are un-
compromisingly in favor of the Ameri-
can system of protection. We protest
against it's destruction as proposed by
President Cleveland and his party.
They serve the interests of Europe, we
will support the interests of America"
We have given legislative sanction to
this declaration in the bill which has
passed the house with fidelity OF pur-
pose which even our enemies will not
question. The public meetings which
have been held in England and the
exhibitions of temper which have
been witnessed in some OF its great
manufacturing centers and in the par
liamentary bodies of other nations, pro"
must have convinced the most ignO-
rant or incredulous that our foreign
rivals regard the bill not i'll the inter-
ests of Europe, but in the interests of
America. They see nothing in it but a
dimiDutiOn of their American trade and
corresponding
Gain to Our Own Producers.
Of course, it does not please other ma
tions; it was not framed after that fash
ion: the Mills bill did. President
Cleveland's free trade messages re-
ceived only condemnation and bitter
denunciation. That is the precise differ
ence. 1t was not made to please other
nations: it was framed for the people or
the United States as defense to their
industries, as security to their inter-
ests and investments, as a protection to
the labor of their hands and as safe
guard to the happy homes of American
workmen. If it shall be enacted into
law, | venture the prediction, which
will be fully verified, and which
thoughtful men everywhere will con-
firm, when declare that it will bring to
this country a prosperity unparalleled
in the history of the world. And let
me assure you the bill will become a
law. A Republican senate will pass it,
and Republican president will put
upon it his seal of approval as soon as
it shall reach him; and another great
pledge of the Republican party will
have been kept and fulfilled. The con-
gress has passed, and it is now
law. what is known as the
"Customs Administrative Bill" a part
of the great tariff system OF the coun-
try, which protects the honest importer
in the United States against the un-
scrupulous, which protects our own
producers and citizens from the under
valuations, which have been too COM
the great business of importing into
this country out of the hands of dishon-
est men and place where it once was in
the
Hands of Honest Merchants.
1t looks also to the protection of the
revenues of the country, for it is no
torious fact that for twenty-five years
past, by system of consignments and
under-vaIuations and the establishment
of agencies on this side, we have
not collected within 25 or so
per cent of the true valua-
tion of the merchandise imported.
The Republican house found two great
industries in the United States pros
trated by decision of the courts grow
ing out of an error in the tariff law of
1883. They were the manufacturers of
Silk and worsted goods. They had ap-
pealed to Democratic house over and
over again without relief. Their spin
dies had been stopped, and, in case of
worsted goods, the injury not only ap-
piled to the manufacturers and their
workmen, but to the wool growers of
the country. Worsted goods made from
foreign wool were driving from our
market wOolen goods made from Amer