Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-06-16

Ing hats. Mr.. Reed shook Lis head in response
to the continued calling. Dat the convention
would not be satisfied without him. The ap-
plause continued until Mr. Rccd rising, his
straw hat in his hand, picked his way to the
aisle and walked down to the chairman's plat
form. He spoke briefly. praising the party for
Its achievements in the past and congratulatins
1t on its prospects for the future
THE SECoND DAY.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, June 9.-The republic
an national convention met at II O'Clock yes
terday morning and The report of the committee
naming Gov. Mckinley, Of Ohio, as permanent
chairman YVES ratified. Upon taking the chair
Mr.. Mckinley said
"GENTIEMEN OF THE CONVENTIONS: 1 thank
your for The honor Of presiding at the ninth ma
honal convention OF the republican party. A
republican convention means something. They
have always meant some thing. Republican con-
vensions say what they mean and mean what
they say. They declare principles and policies
una purposes, and when intrusted with power
they execute and enforce them [Cheers.] The
hrst national convention Of the republican party
thlrty-slx years ago met in the city of Phila-
6clphia. The platform of That convention reads
to-day moro like an inspiration than
the affirmation OF a political party Every
provision Of that great instrument made
by the fathers OF our party is in the statutes
Of our country to-day. [Cheers. Everyone of
them has been embodied into public law and
that cannot be said Of the pa torn of any polit-
tcal organization in this or any other country in
the worlG. Whenever there is anything to be
done in this country and by this country and
for this country. the republican party is called
upon to do it. [Applause.] $50,
There is one thing that can be said OF our
organization which cannot be said OF any other.
It can look backward without shame or
humiliation and it can look forward with
cheer and exultation. That cannot be
said Of any other political organization IN
the United States
gentlemen Of the convention, we are he1e
to-day to make q platform and q ticket that
will commend themselves to the conscicnccs
and the intelligence and the Judgment of the
American people, and we will do it. Loud
cheers Whatever is done by this con-
vention will meet the approval of the
American people in November of this year.
lRenewed cheers1 We have already heard
q republican year. Rhode Island has
spoken. [Applausel Only yesterday Oregon
spoke, elect!ng three republican representatives
TO the congress OF the United States. [Cheers.]
When we get through with this convention it's
conclusions will be the law of republican action,
as they will be the assurance Of republican vic
tory. We are for q protective tariff and for reci-
procity [Great applause.l We propose to take
no backward step upon either of those great re-
pu blicap principles. [Applause.l
I'VE stand Tor protective tariff, because it
represents the American home. the American
ireside, the American family, the American
gil, and the american boy, and their
hslest possibilities OF American citizen
ship [Applause.l We propose to raise our
money to pay public expenses by taxing
tie products OF other nations, rather than by
taxing the products OF our own. [Applause.]
Tie democratic party believes IN direct taxa
ton; that is. taxing ourselves. We don't be-
heve in that principle, so long as we can find
anybody else to tax. Laughter and APP
plause.] The protective tariff not only
does every thing which revenue tariff can do
in raising all needed revenues, but a pro-
teative tariff does more than that "A protective
tariff encourages and stimulates American in
dpstries and gives the widest possibilities to
American genius and American effort. ZAP
plause.] Does anybody know what tariff reform
means? tCfies OF mo, no. u And yet that is to
be the platform of our political opponents this
year. WHAT does it mean? You can
study Mr.. Clcveland's utterances, from the
first one hN made in New York, when he said
he didn't know anything about the tariff, until
his last ons in Rhode Island, and you go away
ignorant end uniformed as to what tariff re-
form means.
'Sincc the war there have been three great
tariff reform bills proposed by the democratic
leaders, and none of them alike; no two Of
them with the same free list, no two of them
with tho same tariff list, no two 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 Mr.. Mills, you may
go to Mr. Springer, and you will find that they
differ totally But you may go to the house Of rep
resentatives at Washington which was elected
distinctively upon what they call a tariff reform
issue, with two-thirds majority in the house.
and what do you find? That they have passed
three bills. Let me name them: First,
free tin and steel or iron plates on which
tin is coated taxed, the finished prod
uct free and the raw material bearing
duty. 9 Second. free wool to the manu-.
facturer and tariff cloth to the consumer.
Third, free cotton ties to the cotton states and
tariff hoop iron to all the rest OF the states.
That is their symbol Of tariff reform. Gentle.
men OF the convention, how do you like it:
This contest that you enter upon is for the
maintenance OF protection and reciprocity. Bnt
want to say here that there is not line Of that
tar1n bill, that is not American; there is not
paragraph that Is not patriotic; there is not a
page that does not represent true Americanism
and the highest possibilities of American citizen
ship l-Applausc.l We are to declare ourselves
upon other Ques lions here to-day We are
TO declare ourselves upon the question CT
Tree ballot and Q fair count Applause
No platform should ever be made by re.
publican convention that did not reiterate that
great constitutional guaranty. No repub-
hcan speech should ever be made that did not
insist-fnally and resolutely insist-that that
great stitutional guaranty shall be living
birthright, not the cold formality Of con,
stttutional enactment, but living
thing, which the poorest and hum.
best may confidently enjoy and which
the highest and most powerful dare not DENY.
lGreat applause.] We can well leave to the
committee ON resolutions the duty Of making q
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