Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-06-15
M'KINLEY TO THE FORE.
Address of the Ohio Governor Before the
Minneapolis Convention.


follows:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION:
thank you for the honor OF presiding over
the ninth national convention Of the Re
publican party. Applause. Republican
conventions mean something. They have
always meant something. Applause I
Republican conventions say what they
mean and mean what they say, APP
plause. They declare principles and
policies and purposes, and when intruSted
with power execute and enforce them.
The first national convention Of the Re-
publican party was held thirty-siX years
ago i'll the city OF Philadelphia. The plat
form Of that great convention reads to-day
more like inspiration than the affirmation
of a political party. Great applause.
Every provision of that great Instrument
made by the fathers OF our party, are on
the public statutes of our country to-
day. Applause Every one of them
has been embodied into the public
law, and that cannot be said of
the platform of any other political organ
world [Cheers. Whenever there is any
try try and by this country and
for this country, the Republican party
is called upon to DO it, Applause. There
is one thing that can be SAID about our Or
@
other: 1t can look backward without
shame or humiliation, and it can look for
ward with cheer and eXultatiOn. Great
applause. That cannot be said OF any
political organization other than ours in
the United StoteS.
Thus, gentlemen of the convention we
are here to-day to make platform and a
ticket that will commend themselves to the
conscience and intelligence and Judgment
of the American people. prolonged APP
plause. And we will do it. [Cheers.]
Whatever is done by this convention,
ticket, will receive 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 Republican year. Rhode
Island has spoken. [ApplauSe.l Only
Yesterday Oregon spoke, electlng three
representatives - three Republican rep
resentatives to the Congress OF the United
States-and when we get through with
this convention its conclusions will be the
law OF Republican action, as
they will be the assurance of a
are for a protective tariff and for
reciprocity. [Great applause We pro-
pose to take no backward step upon either
one of these great Republican principles.
APPLAUSE We stand for protective
tariff because it represents the American
American family, the American girl,
and the American boy, and the
highest possibilities of American
citizenship. [Applause.] We propose to
raise our money to pay public expenses by
taxing the products of other nations than
by taxing the products of our own; APP
plauSe. The Democratic party believe
in direct taxation. that is, in taxing our
selves; but we don't believe in that princi-
pie so long as we can find anybody else to
tax.
Our protective tariff not only does every
thing which revenue tariff Is doing, ralS-
ing all needed revenues, but a protective
tariff does more. A protective tariff en-
cOurageS and stimulates American indus
tries and gives the widest possibilities to
American genius and American ef-
fort. Does anybody know what tar
If reform is No, no, and laughter. ]
And this is to be the platform
of our politica! opponents this year. What
does it mean? You can study President
'Cleveland's utterances, from the first one
he 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 unlnformed
as to what tariff reform means.
Since the war there have been
three great tariff reform bills proposed by
the Democratic leaders-none of them
alike, neither of them with the same free
list, neither of them with the same tariff
list, neithee Of them with the same
rates of duty, but all made by the
Democratic party upon the same principle
to symbolic and represent tariff reform.
You may go to Mills, you may go to
springer, and you will find they differ to-
tally; but you MAJ go to the House OF Rep
resentatlveS at Washington, which was
elected distinctively upon what they call a
tariff reform issue, with two-thirds ma
jority in the House, and what
do you find? They passed three
bills. Let me name them. First
free tin plate, leaving sheet steel, from
which it is made, fairfield. That is the
finished product free and the raw material
bearing duty. Second, free wool to the
manufacturer and fairfield cloth to the
consumer. Third, free COTTON ties to the
cotton states and fairfield hoop iron to all
idea of tariff reform. Gentlemen
of the convention, how do you
like it? This contest that we enter upon
is for the maintenance Of protection and
reciprocity [applausel and [ want to say
here that there isn't line in that tariff
bill that is not American; there is not a
paragraph that is not patriotic; there is not
a page that does not represent true Amsri-
canlsm and the highest possibilities of
American citizenship. [Great applause.
We are to declare ourselves upon other
questions here to-day. We are to declare
ourselves upon Iue question OIL Tree
| ballot and a fair count. [Applause.l No
platform should ever be made that
does not reiterate that great
constitutional guaranty; no Repub-
| lllcan speech should ever be made that does
not insist firmly and resolutely that that
great constitutional guaranty shall be a
living birthright not cold fOrmality of
constitutional enactment, but a living
| thing which the poorest and humblest may
confidently enjoy and which the richest
| and most powerful dare not deny.
Applause. We can we'll leave to
the committee on resolutions the
duty of making platform that shall rep
resent 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 platform we 90
out marching to victory, no matter what
name may carry the banner. lGreat ap-
| plauSe.
Calls for Fred DOUGLASS, the colored
orator, elected simply bow Of &C
knowledgment
Henry Bingham, of Pennsylvania
presented the report Of the rules com.
mittee and it was adopted by acclama
ton.
Ex-Gov. Foraker arose in response to