Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-06-11
Speech o. 1. 4. DErn~
Placing BENJAMIN Harrison fn Nom
Gnation for a second Term.

,rake fhis gathering not only no exception to
the rule. bat substantially new departure
That there should be strong convictions and
kheir earnest expression as 70 preferences and
,oIicies. i Characteristic Of the right Of in
iividual Judgment. which is the fundamental
principle Of Republicanism-
We cannot venture On uncertain ground or
yncounter obstacles placed In tn pathway OF
gaccess by ourselves. The Democratic party
now divided. but the hope Of the possession
Il power once more viii make Il in the hIAd
Attle more aggressive, determined and I'M
noFupuious than ever. ~ starts with nfteen
states secure without an effort By processes
and IL continued long enough WIN paralyze
institutions founded upon popular suffrage.
IL has 20 win four more states In fair fight
which are trayesty up0n popular government
states which in the vocabulary Of politics are
denominated doubtful-
The Republican party must appeal 70 the
conscience and the Judgment of the individual
voter in every state in the Union. This Is In
accordance with the principles upon which IL
was founded and the objects for which IL eon-
lends. II has accepted this issue before, and
6bugbt it out with an extraordinary contin-
nance OF success.
The conditions OF Republican victory from
1850 TO lssO were created by Arbaham Lincoln
end Ulysses =. Grant. They were that the
saved republic should be run by its saviors-
the emancipation OF the slaves: the reconstruc-
ton of the states. the reception Of those who
the field. without penalties or punishments,
and 10 an equal share with those who had
fought and saved the nation, in the solemn OBJ
legation and inestimable privilege of Ameri-
can citizenship. They were the embodiment
into the constitution OF the principles for
which two millions of men had fought and q
half million had died. They were the restora-
tion Of public credit. the resumption of specie
payments and the prosperous condition OF
solvent business.
For thirty-fve years they were names with
which 10 conjure and events fresh In the pub
lie mind which were eloquent with popular
enthusiasm.
The great names which have adornedI the
roll of Republican statesmen and soldiers are
still potent and popular. The great measures
of the Republican party are still the best part
OF the history of a century. The unequaled
and unexainpled story of Republicanism in its
promises and its achievements stands unique
in the record Of parties, in governments which
are free.
But we live In practical times. facing prac-
tical issues which affect the business, the
wages. the labor aud prosperity of today. The
campaign will be won or lost, not upon the
bad record of james X Polk, or OF Franklin
Pierce. or OF James Buchanan-not upon the
good record of Lincoln, or of Grant, or of Ar
thur, or of Hayes, or of Garfield. IL will be
won or lost upon the policy, foreign and do
nestle, the industrial measures and adminis-
trative acts of the administration of Benjamin
Harrison. Whoever receives the nomination
of this convention will run upon the judg-
ment of the people To whether they have
been more prosperous and more happy -
whether the country has been In better con-
dition at home and stood more honOrably
abroad under these last four years OF Harri-
son and Republican administration than dur
ing the preceding four years of Cleveland and
Democratic administration.
Not since Thomas jefferson has any admin
istration been called upon to face and solve so
many or such difficult problems those
which have been exigent in our conditions.
No administration since the organization of
the government has ever met difficulties bet
ter or moro to the satisfaction of the Amer
lean people. Chile has been taught that no
matter how small the antagonist, no COM
munity can with safety insult the flag or muir
der American sailors. Germany and England
have learned in Samoa that the United States
has become one of the powers of the world,
and no matter how mighty the adversary, at
every sacrifice, American honor will be main
tanned.
The Behring sea question, which was the
insurmountable obstacle in the diplomacy of
of Cleveland and of Bayard, has been settled
upon basis which sustains the American
position until arbitration shall have deter
mined the right. The dollar of the country
has been placed and kept on the standard of
commercial nations, and convention has
been agreed upon with foreign governments,
which. by masking bi-netalism the policy of
all nations, smay successfully solve all our
financial problems.
The tariff, tinkered with and trifed with, to
the serious disturbance of trade and disaster
to business, since the days of Washington, has
been courageously embodied into q code-a
code which has preserved the principle of the
protection of American industries. To IL has
been added a benefcent policy, supplemented
by beneficial treaties and wise diplomacy,
which has opened to our farmers and manu-
o..
The navy has been builded upon lines which
will protect American citizens and American
interests and the American flag all over the
world. The public debt has been reduced, the
maturing bonds have been paid of. the public
credit has been maintained, the burdens of
taxation have been lightened, two hundred
millions of currency have been added to the
peoples money without disturbance of the ex-
changes. Unexampled prosperity has crowned
wise laws and their wise administration.
The main question which divides us is, to
whom does the credit of all this belong2 Ora
tors may stand upon this platform, more able
and more eloquent than l, Who win paint in
more brilliant colors, but they cannot put in
more earnest thought the affection and adj
miration of Republicans for our distinguished
ex-secretary OF state.
yield to no Republican, no matter from
what state he halls, in admiration and respect
for John sherman, for Governor Mckinley, for
Thomas b. Reed. for Iowa's greatest son. for
the favorites of Illinois, Wisconsin and Mich
igan, but when am told that the credit for
the brilliant diplomacy OF this administration
belongs exclusively to the late secretary of
state; for the administration of its finances to
the secretary of the treasury: for the construc-
ton of its ships 70 the secretary of the navy;
for the introduction of American pork in Eu
rope to the secretary of agriculture; for the
settlement tso far as 1t Is settled of the cur
rency question TO Senator John Sherman; for
the formulation of the tariff laws to Governor
for removal Of the restrictions
placed by foreign nations upon the introduce
ton of American spork to our ministers at
Paris and Berlin-I am tempted to seriously
inquire who, during the last four years, has
been president of the United States. anyhow
All the proposed acts of any administration,
before they are formulated. are passed upon
In cabinet council and the measures and sug-
gcstions of the ablest secretaries would have
failed with lesser president. but for the great
good of the country and the benefit of the Re-
publican party they have succeeded because
of the suggestive mind. the indomitable cour-
age, the Intelligent appreciation of situations
and the grand magnanimity of Benjamin Har-
rison.
months when both the secretary of state and
the secretary of the treasury were i'll. the pres
ident personally assumed the duties Of the
state department and of the treasury depart
ment. and both with equal success. The sec
rotary of state, in accepting his portfolio un-
der President Garfield wrote: .Your adminis-
tration must be brilliantly successful and
strong in the confidence and pride of the pco~
pie and not at all diverting its energies for re-
election. and yet compelling that result by the
logic of events and by the imperious necessi-