Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09

The announcement of General Malone s
name was greeted by enthusiastic approval
from the galleries and portion of the dele
gates. Governor Mckinley was in his seat
with the Ohio delegation, and there was q
hush as the committee approached MIN and
formally notified him of his election. With
a bow, the Governor of the Buckeye State
arose, and arm in arm with the Chairman of
the Notification Committee, marched up to
the platform.
No occasion could have been more fitting
to demonstrate the popularity of the great
American protectionist, and his admirers
were not slow to catch the inspiration OF the
occasion. 1t was nearly q minute before
| the deafening cheers ceased reverberatlng
| through the halls and corridors and when
silence was finally restored Chairman Nc
kinley was introduced by his predecessor
as follows:
| Gentlemen of the Convention:
Before presenting to you your Permanent
Chairman. the Chair desires to thank you
| most heartily for the kind forbearance which
! now have the honor and the distinguished
pleasure to introduce the Hon. William No
hinley, of Ohio. prolonged applause.1
Mckinley Before the Convention.
Temporary Chairman Fassett retired amid
great applause, and after prolonged and re-
newed cheers and waving of banners Gov
ernor Mckinley spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of The Convention:
GCries of three cheers for Mckinley. The
vast audience arose and shook the building
You W for the honor of presiding over the
| Ninth Quadrennial Convention of the Re-
publican party. [Applause1 Republican
always meant something. IApplause.l Re-
| publican conventions say what they mean
and mean what they say. tApplause] They
| declare principles and policies and purposes,
| and when intrlsted with power, execute
| and inforce them. IApplausel
The first National Convention of the Re-
| publican party was held 36 years ago in the
city of Philadelphia. The platform of that
| great convention reads to-day more like
| Inspiration than Affirmation of a political
party. [Great applause1 Every provision
| of that great instrument, made by the
| fathers of our party, are on the public
! statutes of our country to-day. (Applause.1
Every one OF them have been embodied into
| public law, and that cannot be said of the
platform Of any other political organization
in this or any other country of the world.
| tGheers Whenever there is anything to
be done in this country, and by this coun-
try, and for this country, the Republican
party is called upon to do it.
There is one thing that can be said about
our organization that cannot be said about
any other: 1t can look backward without
shame or humiliation, as it can look forward
with cheer and exultation. lGreat ap-
plause.l
Tho People Will Approve at the Polls.
That cannot be said Of any political Or
ganization other than ours in the United
States. Thus, gentlemen of the convention,
we are here to make a platform and
ticket that will commend themselves to the
conscience and intelligence and Judgment
of the American people. Prolonged ap-
plausel And we will do it. [Cheers-l
Sc &l,i1
either as to platform as to ticket will re-
ceive the approval of the American people
| in November of this year. [Great applause
We have already heard some of the notes of
victory, for this is q Republican year. Rhode
Island has spoken. tAppiausel Only yes
terday Oregon spoke, eIecttng three repre-
sentatives three Republican representa-
tives-to the Congress of the United States,
and when we get through with this conven-
tion its conclusions will be the law of Re-
publican action as they will be the assurance
5op Tc5SFs Agpanfs and
reciprocity. IGreat applause.l We pro-
pose to take no backward step up
on either one of these Republican principles.
Applause We stand for a protective tariff
because it represents the American home
and firesides, the American family, the
American girl and the American boy and
the highest possibilities OF American citizen
ship. tApplause.1 We propose to raise our
money to pay public expenses by taxing the
products of other nations, rather than tax
ing the products of our own. [Applause.l
The Democratic Doctrine of Taxation.
The Democratic party believe in direct
taxation-that is, in taxing ourselves; but
we do not believe in that principle so long
as we can find anybody else to tax. Our
protective tariff not only does everything
which arevenue tariff is doing, raising all
needed revenues. but protective tariff
does more. A protective tariff encourages
and stimulates American industries and
gives the widest possibilities to American
genius and American effort.
Does anybody know what tariff reform is?
t"No, no, and laughter1 And that is to be
the plat orm of our political opponents this
year. What does it meanf You may study
President Cleveland's utterances, from the
first one me made in New York when he
said he did not know anything about the
tariff. until his last one in Rhode Island,
and you come away ignorant and unin-
informed as to what tariff reform means.
Since the war there have been three gl eat
tariff reform bills proposed by Democratic
leaders, none Of them alike, neither OF them
with the same free list, neither of them
with the same tariff list, neither o. them
with the same rates of duty. but all made
by the Democratic party on the same prin-
ciples and presented to symbolic tariff re-
form.
You may go to Springer, and you will find
they differ totally; but you may go to the
House OF Representatives at Washington,
which was elected distinctively upon what
they call tariff reform issue, with a two
thirds maj ority in the House, and what do
you tnu? They pass three bills.
SINE Tariff Reform Inconsistencies.
Let me name them. The first. free tin
plate, leaving sheet steel, from which it is
made, tariffed-that is, tie finished product
free and the raw material bearing a duty
Second, free wool to the manufa cturer and
tariffed cloth to the consumer. Third, free
cotton ties to the cotton States and tariffed
hoop iron to all the rest of their States.
That is their idea of tariff reform, gentle
men of the convention; how do you like it7
This contest that we enter upon is for the
maintenance of protection and reciprocity
[Applausel and 1 want to say here, that
there is not a line in that tariff bill that is
notAmerican. There is not q passage that
is not patriotic; there Is not a page that does
not represent true American1sm and the
highest possibilities of American citizen
ship. [Great applause
We are to declare ourselves upon other
questions here to-day. We are to declare
ourselves upon the question of a free ballot |
should ever be made that does not reiterate
that great constitutional guarantee: no Re- |
publican speech should ever be made that |
does not insist nrmly and resolutely that
that great constitutional guaranty shall be |
a livin birthright-not a cold formality of i
constitutional enactment. but a living thing |
which the poorest and humblest may con- |
fidently enjoy, and which the richest and |
most powerful dare not deny. lApplause |
We can well leave to the Committee on |
Resolutions the duty of making platform |
that shall represent the best thoughts and |
the best ideas and the best wisdom of the |
Republican party. When we go out of this |
convention upon true Republican plat |
form, we go out marching to victory, no |
matter what name may carry the banner. |
lGreat applause.]
A Comp iment for Fred Douglass.
At the conclusion of Governor McKin- |
ley's address there were laud cries for Ffel |
Douglass, aid in response the Chairman led |