New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-22
GOgERNOR MKINLEY'S SPEECH

The ratlfcatlOn meeting last HlSHt VI 'Hc
Republicans at the Carnegie Music Hall was a
rare feast of reason. Grandly attended, warm
" sympathetic, full of enthusiasm for Repub-
lican principles and candidates, it was prom
Use of splendid victory in November The
people of New-York had opportunity there to
learn why many delegates at the Minneapolis
Convention favored the nomination of Gov
ernor Mckinley against his will, and how
powerfully he can advocate Republican prin-
ciples.
| OF the immediate effect of his great speech
it is hardly necessary to say anything scarce
ly a single sentence was not followed by gen
eral applause, and what was said by him, the
candidate by nearly all regarded as nearer the
nomination than anybody else except President
Harrison was received with hearty applause.
He gave assurance that the Republican party,
which makes no mistakes in its National Con-
yentOns, which made none in selecting Lincoln,
Grant, Hayes or Garfield, and none in nom
mating in 1884 that grand American who
would have been President but for fraud, made
none in nominating Benjamin Harrison In
1888 or in nominating him for reelection this
year.
Then Major Mckinley leapcd at once into
the nedru OF the QcDdIc VI 1917, shoNhS 'h"'
even Lord Salisbury had been compelled to
acknowledge the force of American ideas, and
that 1.-THE New-York Suns had warned It's
readers that the Chicago Convention was only
ratification of Harrison's nomination. Strong
er than Mr. Cleveland four years ago, Presl-
dent Harrison was incomparaby stronger now
when his Administration had been proved
and was by fair men of all parties honored
The new tariff, he said, was but an infant IN
1890; now it was nineteen months old and
able to speak for itself Prices had been artl-
fcially lifted then, but had to come down, as
prices of everything had come down, except
wages of labor The greatest foreign com
merce ever known and especially the greatest
export trade, had been realized under this new
tariff. Some tariff either British or an
American. the country must have, and Gov
ernor Mckinley was in favor of the tariff which
put the largest possible burden Oh the foreigner
and the least possible burden on the Amcrl-
can. No other 6O,O0O,OOO of people in the
world consume as much as the people of this
country, and foreign manufacturers who want
admittance into this, the best market of all
the world, ought to pay for it.
Just here Governor Mckinley made the most
telling point OF the evening" AHciICdH> "cic
ready for Free Trade he declared, whenever
foreign nations would raise the wages of labor,
ard the standard of living for laborcrs, to the
American level and not one hour sooner. Until
that time he held that true Americans would
steadfastly uphold the American system OF
duties, because these only enabled the country
to maintain the American scale OF wages and
of living Tor wage earners With great force
Governor Mckinley appealed to young men
| to remember that substantially all the prin-
| ciples of the first Republican PLATFORM adopted
| thirty six years ago. have now been embodied in
the Constitution and laws of the Nation and
were by men of all parties hailed unspcak
| able blessings. 1t was for the Republican
party yet to 60 forward to make labor secure
| here against foreign competition, TO give To
| every American citizen in every State the pro-
| lection of Just laws in the exercise Of his
| franchises. and to make the flag Of the country
| honored abroad as well as at home.
Ii was strong and convincing speech, and
| in no other respect more gratifying to the great
| audience than in its warm and enthusiastic ap-
proval of the nominations made at Minneapolis.
| The thrilling earncStncss Of the speaker was
quickly answered by the glowing conviction
of the audience, and the eloquent words of the
speaker for Harrison and Reid will live in the
memory of multitudes with Governor McKin-
ley's brilliant defence Of the Republican Ma
tional policy.
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