The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-06-24
MOK1NLEY's GREAT SPEECH.


ably set FOrth.-Leaping at once into
the Heat of the Canvass of 1S92.-Re-
publicans Have Made no Mistake this
Year.
The first gun in the Republican
National Campaign was fired on Iues-
day night. The point at which it was
aimed was New York city, which has
seen the worst effects of Democratic
misrule. There, where Tammany, now
desirious of controlling affairs at wash
ington, has made its dark record; where
the machinery of elections has been
seized with the deliberate intention OF
perverting the results at the polls in
November, a tremendous gathering, that
might fairly be termed mass meeting,
got together. Before such an audience
Gov. Mckinley was introduced. Then
when the great applause which
greeted him had ended, he said
in part:
Mr.. President, Gentlemen of the Re-
publican Club of New York, Ladies and
Gentlemen Voice from the gallery:
ssDon't forget we are up in Heavenly:
The Minneapolis Convention recorded
the concurring will of the Republican
party (applause) and registered its decree
III UuG
of Indiana (applause), as the Republican
candidate for the President of the United
States, and Whitelaw Reid. of New York
(applause), as the Republican candidate
for the Vice-President of the United
States. Benjamin Harrison was chosen
as the standard-bearer of our great party
because it was the voice of the majority
of that party that he should be chosen,
and in our political organization the
voice of the majority is the choice of all
and we are here tonight, citizens of
New York and representatives from
every State and Territory of the Union,
to speak words of ratification of the
splendid work of the National Con-
vention. (Applause). Republican
National Conventions never make mis-
takes. (Applause). They never have.
The sober sense, the righteous judg-
ment, the enlightened conscience, of
that great party of progress always do
the sensible thing in the National
assembly. (Applause). 1t made no
mistake thirty-six years ago, when it
made its first National nomination for
President of the United States. 1t
selected John c. Fremont (applause), the
great pathfinder, and from that moment
the Republican party has been blazing
the pathway of progress in which man
kind and civilization have walked.
(Applause) 1t made no mistake in 1860
(three cheers given), when it nominated
Abraham Lincoln (great applause), the
immortal, the neYer-to- be-forgotteu
Lincoln. He placed liberty and equality
in the Constitution of the United States,
where it had never been before, and
,,l.ouo cd ~ shall n in fnrayar
Applause). 1t made no mistake in 1864
and 1868; 1854, when it renominated
Abraham Lincoln, and it made no mis-
take when in 1868 it nominated the great
hero of the war, Ulysses S. Grant (great
applause), who closed his lips on the
victory of the Wilderness and refused to
speak, but fought it out on that line
until the final grand surrender at
Appomattox Court House. (Applause).
HE EMBoDIEs REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES.
No mistake when it nominated Hayes
(applause); no mistake when it nomi-
mated Garfield (applause); no mistake
when it put in nomination for the first
time Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana
(great applause), who defeated the chosen
idol of the Democratic party in his own
State (applause), and routed the entire
Democracy of the Union. And it has
made no mistake in putting him in re-
nomination. prolonged applause). He
is the embodiment tonight of every
principle of the Republican party. The
Republican party made no mistake in
1884 (applause, and voice: "What
about BlaineP' THAT splendid Ameri.
can citizen that represents the best of all
American statesmen, for whom and to
whom every heart goes out tonight in
feelings of sympathy for his great family
bereavement; cheated by fraud, over.
taken by a crank, when he would have
been President of the United States
from 1884 to 1888. (Applause).
We have one right to be cheerful
tonight, when Lord Salisbury has given
adherence to our political doctrine OF
protection (applause); and 'The Neu
York SUM- Qaughter), in its leading edi.
torial column to-day, interprets the con.
clusion of the Chicago convention as the
ratification of Benjamin Harrison fol
President of the United States. Is il
any wonder we rejoice tonight? (Cries
of ''No. No.') The stars even are with
us, for they sit in the galleries tonight
(Applause).
WHAT THE PARTY LOVES.
The Republican party loves all its
leaders, every one of them; but it loves
its cause and its country more than any
one of them. (Applause). The Republi.
can party stands to-day, as it has always
stood, fo- an honest currency, whether
it be gold or silver or paper money, and
insists that each shall be the equal of the
other in paying and in legal tender
power. (Applause). The Republican
party is opposed to debased currency
(applause), a currency that cheats the
laboring and industrial classes of the
country, insisting that every dollar that
is put in circulation shall be their right
full and legal and just measure of the
exchanges of our labor and of our pro
ducts. -E
The Republican party believes tonight
as it has always believed, in an honest
ballot and fair count. (Applause). Il
wants this country to understand that il
does not pay TO steal (applause), whether
! it is the suffrage of an individual or the
suffrage of the entire State. 1t insists
and shall forever insist, every section
of, the country, that the constitutions
guarantees shall be respected anC
obeyed; that they shall not be the mere
cold formalities Of constitutional enact
ment, but living birthright which the
poorest and humblest may confidently
enjoy, and which the richest and mos
powerful dare not deny. (Applause).
The Republican party stands tonight
as It has always stood, for protective
tariff Continued applause), an American