The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-06-18
THE COLUMBUS LAM.
Major McKinley's Speech Accepting the
Nomination.

MAYOR Mchlnley's Speech Accepting the
Nomination.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Convention: Iaccept the nomination you
have rendered me, sensible both of the
honor and responsibility II implies. 1t is a
summons OF my party to duty which can
not disregard, and to which yield cheer
full obedience. Coming as it does freely
and heartily and without division, it is a
manifestation of your confidence which
shall always prize, and which l shall ever
strive to deserve. With your hearty good
will and generous assurance, take the
post you have assigned me, relying upon
you and the constituency behind you, for
that support and cooperation which will
crown with victory the work of today.
The election this year is of unusual i'm.
portance, not only because it determines
the political character of the administra-
tion of the State for the coming two years,
but because 1t involves the choice of q
Legislature, whose duty II will be to elect
a United States Senator, who will con-
tinue for six years from March 4, 1893,
and whose further duty it will be to dis.
trict the State for Representatives in Con-
gress under the new census, and wipe
from the statute books the crime against
Republican suffrage, perpetrated by the
present Democratic Legislature.
The contest to which we invite our po-
litical opponents by this early conven-
ton, is one of principle and administra-
ton of ideas and policies, and the issues
we tender must be fully presented, and
fairly tried before the tribunal of the
people. We must meet them frankly
and discuss them thoroughly. need not
remind you that the most efficient organ
ization will be required, and that per
sonai activity will be needed all along the
line from now until the peoples verdict
shall be registered in November. There
must be no over-confldence or indiifer.
ence-earnest and intelligent work, in.
dividual and united, is the demand Of the
hour and the requirement of duty.
Conscious OF party integrity, firm in the
conviction that the party is right, that its
principles are best adapted to the wants
and welfare of the people, we invite the
fullest discussion, and in the end the in
telligent and well considered judgment of
the electors of the State. We avoid no
ssue, we shirk no responsibility, we run
away from from no party doctrine, we
apologies for no public measure of our
making, and are ready TO defend oui acts
against assault frc m any quarter. We do
not invoke our past record as our only
warrant for the confidence OF the people.
although we turn to it with pride and salts.
faction. There is not page of it we
would obliterate il we could, nor is there
line which any lover of freedom or man
kind would strike from its glorious pages.
Can this be asserted by or OF any other
political party? There has been no lack
OF courage and patriotism and devotion TO
the peoples interests by the party in the
past, beginning with the leadership of
Lincoln and Chase, Seward and Wade to
that of Grant and Garfield, Hayes and
Blaine and Harrison, and there will be
none in the future. The party has met
every emergency, has responded to every
call OF country, has performed with fldel-
ity every duty with which ii has been
charged, and has successfully resisted
every enemy of the government and the
people, whether that enemy was seeking
the nations overthrow in open war, the