Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-07-01
What We Stand For.

Gentlemen of the convention. we are
here today to make a platform and a
ticket that will commend themselves to
the conscience and intelligence and judg-
ment of the American people. prolonged
applanse And we will do it, CHEERS.
Whatever is done by this convention
either as to platform or as to ticket Will
receive the approval of the American peo-
pie IN November of this year Great ap-
plause)
We have already heard come of the
notes of victory, for this is Republican
wear. Rhode Island has spoken. ZAP
plause.) Only yesterday Oregon spoke,
electing three Representatives-three Re-
publican Representatives-to the Con
eress of the United States, and when we
get through with this convention its con-
clusions will be the law of Republican
action. as they will be thu assurance of
Republican victory. CApplause.)
FOR PROTECTION AND RECIPROCITf.
We are for Protective Tariff and for
reciprocity. Great applause.) We pro-
pose to take no backward step upon either
one of these great Republican principles.
(Applause.) We stand for a Protective
Tariff because it represents the American
home. the American freside, the Amerl-
can family, the American girl, the bmeri-
can boy and the highest possibilities OF
American citizenship. (Applause.)
We propose to raise our money for pub
lie expenses By taxing the products of
other nations rather than by taxing the
products of our own. (Applause.)
The Democratic party believes in direct
taxatIon.-that is, in taxing ourselves-
lint we do not believe in that principle so
long as we can find anybody else to tax.
Our Protective Tariff not only does
everything which a revenue tariff is doing,
raising all needed revenues; bnt Pro-
tective Tarlff does more. A Protective
Tariff encourages and stimulates Ameri-
can industries and gives the widest pos
sibilities to American genius and Ameri'
can effort. Does anybody know what
tariff "reform" is Ono, now and laugh
ter.) And that is to be the platform of
our political opponents this year. What
does it meant You may study President
Clevtland's utterances from the first one
he made in New York, when he said he
did not know anything about the tariff,
until his last one in Rhode Island, and
Won come away ignorant and uninformed
as to what tariff reform" means.
WHAT IS TARIFF "REFoRM."
Since the war there have been three
great tariff reform" bills proposed by
Democratic leaders, none Of them alike,
neither of them with the same free list,
neither of them with the same tariff list,
Ia M
duty. but all made by the Democratic
party upon the principle to symbolic
and represent tariff "retorm." You may
90 TO Mills. You NAV 60 to Springer and
Won will find they differ totally but you
NAV 20 to tho House of Representatives
at Washington which was elected dis
tinctiIely upon what they call tariff
oreform" issue, with two-thirds majority
in the House, and what do you find 7
They PASS three bills. Let me name
them:
First Free TIN plate, leaving sheet
steel, from which it is made, fairfield.
That is, the finished product free and the
raw material bearing duty,
Second-Free wool to the manufactures
and fairfield cloth to the consumer.
Third-Free cotton ties to the cotton
States and Tariffed hoop-iron to all the
rest of the States.
That is their idea of tariff reform"
Gentlemen of the convention, how do you
like IT.
This contest that we enter upon is for
the maintenance of Protection and reci-
procity (appliuse), and | want to Say
here that there isn't line in that tariff
bill that is not American there is not a
passage that is not patriotic there is not
a page that does not represent true Amerl-
canism and the highest possibilities OF
American citizenship. Great applause }
Governor Mckinley at Minneapolis.