Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-28
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Judge Thurston, OF Nebraska, Predicts Sue.
cess Next Fall-Hc Is Inclined to Jugsle
With the Silver Question-The Tariff the
Leading Issue.
To John NJ. Thurston, of Omaha, the general
counsel for the Union Pacific road, had been
assigned the subject, 'The Republican
party" He said:
Every constitutional amendment which
extends the blessing of human liberty, and
protects the fullest enjoyment of American
citizenship, has been written by the pen of
Republican craftsmanship and ratified by the
vote Of Republican intelligence. Every ex-
isting statute of the United States is the
result of Republican thought, Republican
courage and Republican action.
am here tonight to recall more especially
the great services of the Republican party to
the cause of human labor. 1 assert that Re-
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make labor profitable and honorable than
had Heretofore been done by any OF all gov
ernmental agencies in any four centuries Of
civilized existence. The Democratic party
still insists that it is the right of the Ameri-
can people to buy what they want where
they can buy it the cheapest. 1 deny that.
It is not the right Of any man worthy of
human labor without paying fair price for
the BRAIN and Drawn that enters into its
manufacture.
1 come from the wild and woolly West
that West which has always stood true to
the Republican party. bring with me to-
night campaign cap of 1892, manufactured
by the Black Hills miner from American
tin. And am here to say to you of the
Eastern and Middle States that this great
loyal West will meet you in November on
the platform of Mckinley protection and
Blaine reciprocity.
Our Democratic Congress has made an
issue upon the protection of American wool.
On that issue the Republican party is ready
to appeal to the American intelligence. We
protect, not only the wool on the back of an
American sheep but also the wool on the
head of an American citizen
The Republican party stands for honest
money. 1t does not propose that flag shall
be displayed at the door or the National
Treasury, upon which the cheap Johns of
the country have written-"30 of for cash."
But while the Republican party stands for
honest money, and must necessarily be op-
posed to such a measure as the Bland bifl,
which permits the unlimited coinage of 10
cent dollars, yet the best thought of this
mination as to how far. OF in what manner,
American silver can be placed in
rFSs to differ tbemss,vs snys
and all party declarations are
the result of honest discussion and conten-
tion. For myself, am in favor of such legis-
iation as will permit the American miner to
take 81 worth OF silver, dug from an Ameri-
can mine, representing American enterprise,
intelligence, perseverance, hardship and
labor, to the mint of the United States, and
have the Goddess of Liberty stamped upon
one side and the American eagle upon the
other; and am further In favor of such ad-
ditional legislation as will make it impos-
sible for any man, by contract or otherwise,
to exclude the Goddess of Liberty from the
best American society, or to put the bar sin
lister across the American eagle. What the
American people need is cheap interest, and
n ion xvbi do choo
interest rate by an increased supply of
honest money.
The Democratic party will not win,
Whether its candidate be the man who stole
the Legislature of New York, or the man
who stole the Presidency Of the United
States, the deliberate Judgment of the