Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-06-27
Nomination UnanImous.

The Ohio republican state convention
was held in Columbus on the 10th and
18th instants to nominate state ticket
for the fall election and to select the
battle cry OF the campaign.
! The standard bearer unanimously
chosen is the Hon. William Mckinley,
Jr., and the war cry is protection and
RecipI Ocity."
The convention brought together the
largest number Of republicans that ever
assembled in any one state for such an
event. Every village and hamlet seem
to have its representatives, and the
largest auditorium in the country would
have lacked facilities for the accomoda-
ton of the visitors, to say nothing OF
the townspoople who were anxious TO
vent their enthusiasm upon the nomi-
nation of the great tariff leader.
Gen. Asa Bushnell, OF Clark county,
was selected for permanent chairman,
and L. J. Kessinger, of Athens, for sec
rotary.
Ex-Governor Foraker presented the
name of William Mckinley, jr., for
governor in a stirring speech. The
speaker was enthusiastically applauded
when he arose. and at the mention OF
| Mai. Mex iEley's name the convention
went wild, and when Blaine was re-
ferred to rs that brilliant magnetic
statesman who has taught law TO
Europe with respect to America the
applause was loud and prolonged.
Closing Gov. Foraker said;
Il move you. Mir. Chairman, that the
rules Of this convention be suspended,
and that by reclamation we nominate
TO be our candidate for governor that
brilliant statesman and soldier anu
orator. William Mckinley"
Colonel Robert Harlan, the colored
orator of Cincinnati. seconded Major
Mckinley's nomination ION behalf OF
the 30, coo colored voters OF Ohio"
With one wild hilarious cheer OF az
frmatIon. the convention declared
Major Mckinley nominated for gov
ernor by reclamation. anda committee
WAS appointed TO apprise him OF his
nomination and escort him to the hall.
His appearance was the signal OF an
other outburst of enthusiasm.
The hero of the day received his
honors modestly. Simply bowling his
acknowledgements. he spoke as fol-
lows
accept the nomination you have rendered
me sensible OF the honorard Responsibility II
implies. The election this year is OF unusual
Importance. involving the adrnnistrt OF the
state for the next two years, ana tine election OF
q legislature which Will elect Unlted states
senator, and have the power To redistrict the
state FOR Representatives IN congress under the
new census. Happily we present party With
out division in its ranks. The platform you
have adopted meets my approval. ltannonnces
,Vff 4, sla Nos com
trines Of the republican party. II approves the
administration OF President Harrison, which
has been clean able. conservative and patriotic.
Il has been wise In domestic policy and thor
oughly American in It's foreign. The party is In
favor OF regulated immigration; OF liberal pen.
sous TO our soldiers and sailors; OF u sound
currency: OF gold ana silvhr ana paper money
tnSCd ON coin. The pubic credit ana sound IL
Fan, as must be preserved anu every scheme 10
destroy il must be repolled. The platform en-
dOrses protective tariff. AS long as foreign
products can be found 10 tax which compete
with ours in our market we propose 10 tax them
rather than our own. Democrats prefer TO tax
domestic rather than the imported products.
Their tariff legislation would benefit every
country but our own. We follow in our tariff
policy the teachings OF Washington. Lincoln.
Hpmlin. Clay. Webster and Garfield. They
pursue the fallacies OF Golden. Bright, Cal
houn and the statesman OF the late southern
cOnfederacy. They are pledged now to impede.
II they can, the prosperity OF the country with
business distress anu reverses are the ladder
of their hope Idle furnaces. dismantled facto-
ries. silent mines, unemployed workmen, gen
eral distress are the sure harbingers OF demo
cratic victory. They sheer ut every attempt to
establish new factories and would gladly frown
them down. II Is the same sneer ana frown
which has been exhibited toward our lndustrial
enterprises since 1851. But in spite OF them we
now lead the world in manufactures, agriculture
and mining and we will prosper under the rev
law IN spite of their false omens ana discourag'
ing p,ophesies. They insist that we cannot
n,ula plnfp they said about steel filllS so
they saiG about plate glass and cutlery ana pot
terry. and when you take them to the factory
and show them tin plates they assert with In
tense pleasure that we ARE only making
little" That Is true, bat how much should We
be making: That we are making any is the
sur rise. Tor the protective duty on TIN mas not
yet gone into elect and Will not until the irst OF
July. Reflect for a moment there Is no section
OF the country which is not seeking ny every
manner of inducemcnt TO get manufactures es-
tablished In their midst. They are giving dona-
tions in some communities, they are taxing
themselves and burdening their property for
the sake OF securing industries which Will en-
ploy labor and enlarge their neighOorhOod mar
kets. In the souA, the great center OF Tree
trade, they are Offering freedom from taxation
for ten and twenty years TO those who will bring
their capital and invest in productive enter
prises and this by authority OF state law, ana
while all this is going on the leaders OF the dem
ocratic party are proposing TO tear down the
protective tariff and fnundate this country with
foreign competing products TO displnce those
which these manufactures propose 10 make
and which the people are taxing themselves to
establish. In regard TO the complaint OF free
traders about the increased duties under the
new law. thirty-three and q third per cent OF
them are for the better protection OF the Amer.
lean farmer; twenty-eght are upon wine and
spirits which will hardly burden the farmers;
fvo are upon tobacco and agricultural pro-
ducts.
No like recognition Of the agricultural inter
est can be found In any previous tartn legisla
tim While securing 10 the farmers the home
market by increased protection, the reciprocity
clause is Intended 70 extend his foreign market
and upon terms more favorable than those &c
corded 70 competing agricultural countries. It
Is q significant fact that the articles which the
farmer most frequently buys bears less tarih
than under the law OF 1883, and the products
which he sells bear higher duty than ever be-
fore. The balance OF Major McKinley's speech
was devoted TO state issues.
Andrew l. Harris, q Preble county
farmer, was nominated for Lieutenant
Governor upon the first ballot.
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