Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-06-16
THE REPUBLICAN, NOMINEES

They were the restoration OF public credit. the
resumption Of specie payments, aud the pros
porous condition OF solvent business. FOR
twenty-five years the were names with which
to couiuTe, and events fresh in the public mind
which were eloquent with popular enthusiasm.
1t needed little else than II recital OF the
glorious story OF its heroes and u state
meut Ct the achievements OF the Repub-
lican party TO retain the confidence Of the peo-
pie. But from the desire for change which Is
characteristic of Tree governments there came a
reversal, there came a check to the progress OF
the Republican party and four years of Demo
cratic administration. These four years largely
relegated to the realms of history past issues
aud brought US face to face with what DemOC-
raGy, its professions and its practices mean to-
day.
OF Republican statesmen and soldiers ara still
potent and popular, The great MEASURES of the
Republican party are still the best part OF the
history OF the century, The uneGualed and
unexampled story Of Republicanism in its
promises and in its achievements stands unique
in the record OF parties i'll governments which
are fres, But we live in practical times,
facing practical issues which affect the bust
ness, the wages, the labor and the pros
perity OF the day. The campaign will be won
or lost, not upon the bad record OF James X.
Polk or Of Franklin Pierce, or OF James Blu
chanan-not upon the good record OF Lincoln,
or of Grant. or of Arthur, or of Hayes, or of
Garfield. 1t will be won or lost npoI the policy.
foreign aud domestic, the industrial measures
and the administrative Rcts OF the administra-
ton OF
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Whoever receives the nomination of this con-
pention will run. upon the JUDGMENT Of the PEG
vie. as to whether they have been more happy,
wheth the country has been in A better eondi-
ton at home, aud stood more holorably
abroad, under this last four yeaIs OF Harrison
and Republican administration than during
the preceding four years OF Cleveland and Dem
ocratic &C government.
Not SINCE Thomas Jefferson has any admins
~tration been called upon to face and solve so
many or such difficult problems as those wnich
have been eEigent in our conditions. No ad-
ministratien since the organization Of govern
ment has ever met the difficulties better or
more to the satisfaction Of the American people.
Chill has been taught that. no matter how small
the antagonists, no community can with safety
insult the flag or murder 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
viii be maintained. Tine Bering sea q estion.
which was the insurmountable obstacle in the
diplomatic circle. has been settled upon a basis
which sustains the American position, unit. ar
bitration shall have determined our right. The
success oil the country is kept on, the
convention has been agreed upon
with foreign governments, which, by making bi-
metallism the policy of all nations, may success
fully solve all our financial problems. Tbs tariff,
tiukered with and triaed With to the serious dis
t1rbance of trade, has been courageous!y en-
bodied into a code-a code which has preserved
tries. To it has been added a heneicent policy,
supplemented by beneficial treaties and wise
diplomacy, which has opened to our farmers and
manufacturers the markets of other countries.
The navy has been builded upon lines which
will protect Americans and American interests
and the flag all over tbs world. The public debt
has been reduced. The maturing bonds have
been paid off. The public credit has been main
tanned. The burdens of taxation have been
lightened. Two hundred millions Of currency
have been added to the peoples money without
disturbance of the exchanges.
PROSPERITY
has crowned wise laws and their wise admins
tration. The main question which divides US
lie. 20 whom does the credit O. all this belong?
Orators may stand upon 'hls platform more
able and more eloquent than ! who viii paint
in more brilliant colors, but they cannot put in
more earnest thought. affection and ad miration
Of Rep ublicans for orr distinguished secretary
o! state. l yield to no Republican, no matter
IRON what state he halls, in admiration and
respect for John Sherman, for Coy. Mckinley,
for Thomas b. Reed, for lowa's great son, for
the favorites oil Illinois. Wisconsin and Michi-
gan. But when | am told that the credit of the
brilliant diplomacy of this admiuistration be-
longs exclusively to the secretary OF state: for
the administration of its finances TO the Eecrs-
tary OF the treasury; for the construction OF its
ships to the secretary OF the navy; for the
duction OF pork into Europe to the secretary OF
the agricultural bureau; Tor the settlement, so
far as 1t 10 settled, of the currency
question to Senator John Sherman: for the for.
mutation OF the tariff laws 10 Gov. McKin'ey;
ior the removal Of the restrictions placed by
foreign stious upon the t.troduetions OF Amer
iean pork to our ministers at Paris and Berlin,
] am tempted to seriously inquire, who, during
the last four years, has been president OF the
United States, anyhow?
UCasar, when he wrote those commentaries
which were the history OF the conquests OF
Europe under his leadership. lnodestly took the
position of Knas when he said, They are the
narrative of events. the whole of which / say
and the part Of which i vas" Gen. Thomas,
as the hero OF Chick mauga, occupies a place in
our history with Leonidus as among Greeks. ex.
cept that ne succeeded where Lecniius failed.
The fight OF Joe Hooker abov. the clouds was
the poetry of battle. The r~esistless rush OF