Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-22
REPUBLIoAns IN CONVENTION.

Meeting OF the Delegates ofthe Re.
publican League OF the United states
Music Hall I'm Cincinnati Packed
During the Mass Meeting Last Eve.
ntng-major McKinley,s Speech.
CINCINNATI, April 21.-Music hall was
packed last evening on the occasion of the
public mass meeting of the National Repub-
ican league. General Thurston, chairman
of the meeting, introduced General Charles
Il. Bartlett of New Hampshire as the first
speaker. Mr.. Bartlett said that on ques-
tions relating to the organization of the
government and the mechanism necessary
to perform its functions there should not
be any difference of opinion between
political parties. The republican party
was pledged to fundamental policy in
this government-that Is, free honest
ballot and fair count. 1t was not enough
for the republican party to have an honest
ballot in some places and not in others.
1t must have it everywhere The govern
ment was under solemn obligations to take
efficient measures to secure to citizens the
full and free enjoyment of the rights it
confers. To this it was pledged in its or
ganic law. Let US take care of home rights
and if anybody wants to know how we
stand abroad let him ask little Ben Harri-
son in the white house. Here the crowd
took the speaker breath away with cheers
that lasted a minute, and were followed
by three cheers for Harrison). The speak
or then said if Harrison should happen to
be absent let him ask the secretary of
state. (Here the cheering broke out wild
ly again, continued for some time and
wound up in three cheers for Mr. :Blaine).
The speaker said: "We are all shouting
protection, but here around the ballot box
is where protection should begin with pro-
lection of American citizenship"
General Thurston then said: 'T have the
honor to present to you the next governor
of Ohio and one of the future presidents
of the United States, Hon. William M. No
Kinley, jr." ~.-~
This was cheered loud and long and was
followed by three cheers for Mckinley in
each of the prospective characters in which
he was introduced.
Major Mckinley said that the great
parties of to-day could trace their heridity
to the great parties dominant at the very
foundation of the government. The ma
tional idea and the states rights idea be-
gan to divide men as early as 1887. He
said the republican party grew out of the
whig party, which was an immediate de-
scendant of the federalist party. It was the
party of Clay, Webster, Hamilton, Wade,
Lincoln and Garfield, and the democratic
party was the party of Calhoun and Til
den. One great glory of the republican
party was that it could look into the past
without blushing and it could look into
the future without fear. The speaker then
sketched the history of the democratic
party in the Kansas and Nebraska legisla-
ton and the proposition of the United
States to consider the bill to buy Cuba, to
extend slavery, for which it voted down a
proposition to consider the homestead law. ]
He said further that the democratic party
opposed the greenback when it was ne
peace at any price when we were at war
for the life of the nation; it opposed the
resumption of specie payments; it opposed
the emancipation proclamation. 1t has
been the party of opposition. 1t has OPP
posed every measure of advancement of
the nation. 1t opposed protection. [Im-
mense cheering. To the charges against
the Fifty-frst congress that it was expen-
sive, he said: Yes, it used great deal of
money, but it paid its debt and a large ar
rearage of Indebtedness left over by the
Fiftieth congress. But it it kept all
its pledges save one - the elections
congress that it did not pass that bill.
We stamped the life of reputation. The
speaker here made a comparison of the
state of finances in the administrations of
Cleveland and Harrison. AS to the circu-
lation of currency, he said if ore was need
ed it would be forthcoming, but whether
it be gold or silver or paper it must be
worth just what it's face says its value is.
To the charge that the mission of the party
had ended he said it would not end till the
American ballot was as sacred as the Amer
lean home.
After short addresses by John NJ. Lang
ston of Virginia and Al. Lester of Spring
field, ILL, the meeting was adjourned.