The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-16

plause continued until Mr. Reed, rising, his
straw hat in his hand, picked his way to the
| aisle and walked down TO the chairmans plat
FORM He spoke h,icfy. praising the party for
Its achievements in the past and congra tula ting
II on It's prospects for the future
THE SECOND DAY
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, June 9-The republic
! an national convention met at II o'clock yes
tcrday morning anu the report Of the committee
! naming Gov Mckinley, Of Onic as permanent
chairman. was ratified Upon taking the chair
Mr. Mckinley said:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: l thank
your for III: honor of presiding at the ninth ma
; tional con:,nlion Of the republican party.
republican convention means something They
have always meant sonnet thing Republican con-
vehsicns say what they mean and mean what
they say. They declare principles and policies
md purposes, and when Entrusted with power
they execute and enforce them. [ChecrS. The
hrst ma tioEal convention of the republican party
thlrty-siX years ago met in the city Of Phia-
aclphla The platform Of that convention reads
to-day moro like an inspiration than
i the affirmation OF political party. Every
provision OF tina. great instrument made
by the fathers OF our party is in the statutes
Of our country to-day. lChccrs.l Everyone of
them has been embodied into public law and
that cannot be said Of the pa torn of any poit-
! tcal organization in this 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.]
There is one thing that can be said OF our
organization which cannot be said OF any other
1t can look backward without shame or
humiliation and it look forward with
cheer and exultaton. That cannot be
s:' nf any other political organization in
| the Uni Cd States.
gentlemen Of the convention, we are hcs,
| to-day to make platform and a ticket that
will commend Iii, l!SelveS to the conscicnces
ana the intelligence and the Judgment of the
American people and we will do it. Loud
cheers Whatever is done by this con.
vent1on will meet the approval OF the
American people in November OF this year.
tRcnewed checrs.i We have already heard
some OF the notes of victory, for this is a
republican year. Rhode Island has
! spoken. [Applausc.] Only yesterday Oregon
spoke, electjng three republican representatives
to the congress OF tho United States. [checrs.]
Wren we get through with this convention its
| conclusions will be the law of republican action
es they will be the assurance Of republican VIC
tory We are for = protective tariff and for reci-
pro.ity lGreat applause.] We propose to take
| no backward step upon either of those great re-
p, 5lican principles {Applause.l
NV e stand Tor a protective tariff, because it
represents the American home. the American
fireside, the American family, the American
GIL: and the American boy, and their
h'=Eest possibilities of American citizen
slip (App!ausc.l We propose to raise our
m>ney to pay public expenses by taxing
ne products OF other nations, rather than by
tax:ng tho products of our own. App'ausel
TIC democratic purity believes IN direct taxa
Eul that is. taxing ourselves We don't be-
'leVe in that principle, so long as we can find
anybody else to tax. Laughter and up
| rIauseJ The protective tariff not only
d~,s everything which a revenue tariff can do
h,,t
tc>ilve tariff does more than that A protective
tarih encourages and stimulates American in
urstr1es and gives the widest possibilities to
American genius end American effort. lap
plAuse. Dnes anybody know what tariff reform
! means? [Ctjes Of No, no. ~ And yet that is to
be the platform of our political opponents this
year. WHAT does it mean? You can
strdy Mr.. Clcvcland's utterances, from the
first one h~ made in New York when he said
he didn't now anything about the tariff, until
his last on. in Rhode Island, and you go away
ignorant and 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 the 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. lou 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
resen,ativcs at Washington which was elected
dlstl,c lively 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. Second free wool to the manu-
r VII u1o%t,
Third. free cotton ties to the cotton states and
tariff hoop iron t. 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. But
want to say here that there is not line Of that
tarIn oil. that IS not American; there is not a
paragraph that is not patriotic: there is not a
page that does not represent true Americanism
and the highest possibilities of American citizen.
ship. [-Applausel We are to declare ourselves
upon other questions here to-day. We are
70 declare ourselves upon the question CT
o Tree ballot and q fair count Applause. |
No platform should ever be made by q re.
publican convention that did not reiterate that
great constitutional guaranty. No repub-
hcan speech should ever be made that did not
insist-hnally and rcsolutely insist-that that
great constitutional guaranty shall be a living
birthright, not the cold formality of con-
stitutional enactment, but living
thing, which the poorest and hum
hlcst may confidently enjoy and which
the highest and most powerful dare not DENY
lGreat applause. We can we'll leave to the
committee on resolutions the duty Of making a
platform that shall represent the best thoughts
and the best IDEAS and the best wisdom Of the
republican party. (Applause.l When we 20
out of this convention upon d true republican
platform we go marching to victory, no matter
what name we may carry on our banner" lap
plausc.1
Mr.. Bingham, chairman of the committee
| on rules, reported. The substance OF this re-
port provides for the adoption OF the platform
before the nominations are taken up. The rules
OF the Fifty first congress were recommended
and the report was adopted.
The committee on resolutions was given fur
Their time in which to report The roll of states
Tor nominations for national committeeman was
called, and the convention adjourned until IL
o'clock this mornina