Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-06-18
HIGHLY PRAISED.
Ger. Nevins on the National Ad-
ministration.
OHIO REPUBLICANS IN CONVENTION.
The Party Claimed to Have Done All 1t
Could Be Expected To-McKinley
and EI-Speaker Reed Greatly
FIattered.

kinney as its standard bearer OF the |
party in the ensuing campaign was |
called to order at 2 o'clock p. m in the |
Grand opera house by Hon. A. L. Con- |
ger, of Akron, chairman Of the repub- |
Hcan state central committee.
The nomination of Gen. R NJ. Nevin, |
of Dayton, as chairman of the conven- |
ton was agreed to by unanimous vote
On being introduced by Col Conger the
brilliant Ohio orator was received with
prolonged applause. He opened his ad-
dress with reference to the record of
the republican party and then dealt at
length with the policy which had been
pursued by the republicans and demo-
Gratis of Ohio for the past few years.
He then proceeded in this vein:
LET US turn for few minutes from
a review of state politics to a contem-
plation of national affairs. As ] have
said, the people of Ohio trust the demo-
cratic party with one term about every
six years; but 1t took four times six
years to induce the people of this
nation to repose like confidence in it
and restore it to power. In 1884, after
almost a quarter of a century of con-
tinuous and unbroken victory, the re-
publican party was accidentally beaten
and Grover Cleveland was elected presi-
dent. In 1883, the people, firing of
him, his platitudes and his party,
turned to the republican party again to
see what it might offer by way of re-
lief. In its platform of principles it
pledged itself in favor of the homestead
laws and of public lands for actual set
tiers; in favor of gold and silver as
the basis of our monetary system; for
free schools; for the rehabilitation of
our merchant marine; pledged itself
against the introduction of foreign con-
tract labor and against the combina-
ton of capital, in trusts or otherwise,
arbitrarily to control trade; pledged it
self for the admission of territories into
the union as states; for just and liberal
pensions to our soldiers and uncom-
promisingly in favor of the American
protective system; promising if again
placed in power it would reform and
readjust the tariff upon the lines of pro
lection to American industry and Amer
lean labor.
"And now, with scarcely more than
half its term expired, appeal to you,
gentlemen, and to the American people,
to say if every plank in that platform
has not been carried out in letter and
in spirit by the pure, patriotic, states
manlil6e and splendid administration of
Benjamin Harrison? If not, name to
me what pledge has been unfulflled,
what promise has been unperformed?
''But the success of the administra-
ton of President Harrison rests not
alone upon promises fulfilled and
pledges redeemed. Its foreign policy
has been such as to command the adj
miration of the world and the applause
of every true American Whether en-
gagged with the trained statesmen of
Great Britain, or the shrewd and crafty
diplomats of Italy, its course has been
so calm, so dignifed, so discreet and
vet so convincing as to wiring approval
from even its political opponents With
him. as part of his administration, are
the wise couselors of his cabinet. AT
his right hand stands man who, for
keen intellect, broad craftsmanship and
devotion to American interests and
American progress, is the peer Of any
man who has ever lived, who lives to-
day, or ever will live, James G. Blaine.
On his left, at the head of the treasury
department, have been placed two dis
tinguished sons of Ohio, William
Window and Charles Foster. Surround
ing him is galaxy of statesmen whose
sole aim is the public good, while back
of him, power indeed, stood a repub-
lican congress. In the senate, recog-
nized as among the first and foremost
of its wise, patriotic, conservative and
faithful members, was our own John
Sherman. At the head of the house of
representatives was a gentleman from
Maine whom the democrats were
pleased to call ''the car" During the
war, when any measure was introduced
in congress seeking to perpetuate the
union, maintain our armies or crush
the rebellion, a universal howl went
up from the democratic party that
it was unconstitutional" and so,
when Speaker Reed started out to
see to it that business should be done
upon business principles and by bust
ness methods like universal howl was
raised by that party that he was ''vio-
lating the precedents of a hundred
wears" Well, he said. he knew that,
and went right ahead But he did
more. In everything that relates to
the introduction and dispatch of public
business he turned the hands upon the
clock of parliamentary progress ahead
for a hundred years to come. And
when our democratic friends take pos
session of the house of representa-
tiyes next December and follow in
his footsteps, as follow they will-for
they always do-they will find them
selves Just two hundred years ahead of
where they would have been if Tom
Reed hadn't been speaker of the house
of Representatives of the Fifty-frst con-
gress.
"But not to these alone is all the
glory. There stood upon the floor of the
house of representatives, as chairman
of its ways and means committee,
another man whose services need
mention. His name is indissolubly
linked with that act that is bring
ing to-day, and as the years go by will
bring in greater measure, prosperity to
the American people-a man who haV-
ing led upon the floor of the house to
the support of every important measure
an unbroken column of republicans,
will be chosen by reclamation to-mor-
row to lead the republican hosts of
Ohio to victory this fal-Wfliam Nc
Kinley, Jr."
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