Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-09
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OF lnterrOgatng LDe gentleman luFbueI. L
simply desire to ask the chairman whether
the business of the committee is such that
il is ready now or will soon be ready TO re-
port 70 the convention a list of the uncon-
tested delegates and alternates.h lAp-
plause.l
Gen. Cogswell-"The question would
seem almost to answer itself. 1t cannot
take long 70 report a list Of uncontested
delegates Laughter.l
The Chairman-"Are you ready for the
question
There being no objection the committee
is extended permission until they have COM
pleted their report The next order OF
business is the report OF the Committee on
Permanent organization, b. Z. Lockwood,
Of Idaho" Cheers greeted the appearance
Of Chairman Lockwood, who submitted the
following report:
1--WE recommend for Permanent Chair
man of this convention Hon. VIM. McKin-
ley, OF Ohio. Prolonged applause. Your
committee further recommends for Perma-
nent Secretary or the convention Charles
w. johnson, of Minnesota; and the recon-
mendatiOn of the committee further is that
the temporary working force Of secretaries,
reading clerks and assistant secretaries be
the same permanent officers Of this cOnve1-
ton. Your committee further recommends
an honorary secretary aud honorary vice
president for each of the States and the
committee desires also TO suggest that the
delegations from the following States send
a report 10 the desk for Yice-president and
secretary, who up TO this time have not re-
ported TO the committee: Alabama, North
Carolina, Louisiana, Maine, Kentucky, Ne
bras5a, Arizona, Indian Territory and
Utah.
MIR LockwOod-'T move the adoption Of
the report on permanent organization"
The report was unanimously adopted.
The Chairman-"The Chair will appoint
as committee TO escort the permanent
chairman to the chair Hon. Samuel Fassen-
den, Senator SpOOner and General Ma
hOnen
The announcement of Gen. Mahone's
name was greeted by enthusiastic approval
from the galleries and portion Of the del
egates. Gov. Mckinley was in his seat
with the Ohio delegation and there was
somewhat Of u hush as the committee ap-
preached him and formally notified him Of
his election. With bow the Governor Of
the Buckeye State arose and arm in arm
with the chairman of the notification COM
mittee 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. IL was nearly minute be-
fore the deafening cheers ceased reverber-
ating through the halls and corridors, and
when silence was finally restored Chair
man Mckinley was introduced by his pred
ecessor as follows:
Gentlemen of the Convention-Before
presenting 10 YOU your permanentpchalr-
man, the chair desires to thank you most
heartily for the kind forbearance which
YOU have extended 10 him (applause). l
now have the honor and the distinguished
pleasure TO introduce the Hon. William Nc
kinley, Of Ohio.n Prolonged applause.
Temporary Chairman Fassett retired
amid great applause, and after prolonged
and renewed cheers and waving OF ban
uers, Governor Mckinley spoke as follows:
Il thank YOU for the honor Of presiding
over the ninth National Convention of the
Republican party. Applause Republi-
can conventions say what they mean and
mean what they say. Applause.
"They declare principles and policies
and purposes, and when entrusted with
power, execute and enforce them. Ap-
plause The first National Convention Of
the Republican party was held thirty-siX
wears ago in the city Of Philadelphia. The
platform Of that great convention reads
today more like inspiration than the af-
frmatiou Of a political party. Great ap-
plause
Every provision Of that great instrument
made by the fathers OF our party are on
the public statutes Of our country to-day.
(Applausel Every one Of them has been
embodied into public law aud that cannot
be said of the platform Of any other pollti-
cal organization in this or any other coun-
sL- IThna-- ar.
there is anything to be done in this country
and bv this country 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. IL can look backward
without shame or humiliation, or il can
look forward with cheer and eXultation.
Great applause. That cannot be said of
any political organization other than ours
in the United States. This time, gentle
men Of the convention, we are here TO
make Q platform and ticket that will
command themselves 10 the conscience and
intelligence and Judgment Of the American
people prolonged cheers, ane we will do
il (cheers). Whatever is done by
this convention, either as 70 platform
or as 10 ticket, will receive the
approval of the American people In No
vem0er of this year. Great applause. J
We have already heard some Of the notes OF
victory for this is a Republican year,
Rhode Island has spoken. [Applause. J
Only yesterday Oregon spoke, elec,ing
three epreSentatives-three Republican
representatives TO the Congress of the Uni
ted 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 Republican victory.
Applause
We are for a protective tariff and for re-
Ciprocity Great Applause.) We propose
10 take no backward step upon either Of
these great Republican principles. We
stand for a protective tariff because il rep
reseuts the American home and hreside,
the American family, the American girl
and the American boy and the highest pos
siOIlities OF American citizenship. Zap
plause)
We propose TO raise our money TO pay
public expenses by taxing the products of
other nations rather than by taxing the
products OF our own. (ApplauSe) The
Democratic party believes Ia direct taxa
tion. that is, in taxing ourselves, but we
eo NOT believe in that principle 50 long as
we can find any body else to tax.
.'Our protective tariff not only does
everything which a revenue tariff can DO,
raising all needed revenues, but protec-
tive tariff does more. A protective tariff
encourages and stimulates American in
dustries and gives the widest possibilities
TO American genius and American effort.
Does ANYBODY know what tariff reform is 2
ICries Of no, no, and laughter. " And that
is 10 De the platform Of our political op-
poneuts this year What does it mean Z
You say study President Cleveland's ut
terraces from the first one he made in New
York when be said he did not know any
thing about the tariff until his
last one in Rhode Island and you
come away Ignorant and uninformed ss 10
what tariff reform means. Since the war
there have been three great tariff referm
hills DropOsed by the Democratic leaders,