The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
The SECOND DAY.

/ was not really opened until Has
o'clock, so slow were the delegates in
/ gathering.
The hall was crowded almost TO its
utmost capacity when Chairman Fas-
sett pounded for order.
The proceedings were opened by Bish-
op H. II. Whipple, of Minneapolis with
prayer.
/ L. E. Walker, of Beatrice, Neb, on
behalf of the Nebraska delegation pre-
sented Temporary Chairman Fassett
with a gavel made from trees grown on
the first homestead in Nebraska The
gavel, he said, was of wood of hard in
growth and was inlaid with silver.
S. c. Lockwood, of Idaho. presented
the report of the committee on organ
ization A wild scene took place when
the committee reported Gov. William
Mckinley, of Ohio, for permanent chair
man.
y magnificent ovation greeted the
| governor when he stepped to the chair
on the platform. Temporary Chairman
Fassett introduced his successor, say
ing: The chairman, gentlemen of the
convention. Before presenting to you
| your permanent chairman. the chair
| desires to thank you most heartily for
the kind forbearance which you have
! extended to him. l now have the honor
and the distinguished pleasure TO intro
duce Hon. William Mckinley, of Ohio. -
Temporary Chairman Fassett retired
amid great applause and there was pro
longed and renewed cheers and waving
of banners, after which Gov. Mckinley
| spoke as follows:
1 thank you for the honor Of presiding over
she ninth quadrennial convention Of the repub-
lican party. [Applause.l Republican oOnven-
tions mean something. They have always
meant something. Applause,1 Republican
conventions say what they mean and mean
what they say. [Applause.l They declare
principles and policies and purposes and when
invested with power execute and en-
force them. IApplause.I The first na-
tional convention of the Republican
party was thirty-sIx years ago in
the city OF Philadelphia The platform Of the
great convention reads to-day more Ike jn-
party. [Great applause.l Every provision Of
that great instrument made by the fathers Of
our party is in the statutes Of our country to-
day. [Applause.1 Eye-y one Of them has been
embodied into public law and that cannot be
said OF tie platform of any other political or
ganiZatiO in this or any other country of the
world Cheers
We are for protective tariff and for reci-
procity. [Great applause We propose to
take no backward step upon either one of these
great republican principles lApplausel We
stand for protective tariff because il repre-
sents the American home the American fire.
side the American family, the American girl
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bilities of American citizenship lApplause. ]
We propose to raise our money 10 pay public
expenses b. taxing the products OF other ma
tiOus rather than By taxing the products Of our
own Applause The democratic party be-
lieves in direct tsxotiOn that is in taxing our
selves. but we don't believe in that prin-
ciple, 50 long as we can find anybody else to tax.
Our protective tariff not only does everything
which a revenue tax is doing. raising all needed
revenues, but protective tariff does more. A
protective tariff encourages and stimulates
American Industries and gives the widest
possibilities 20 American genius and Amer
lean effort Does anybody know what
tariff reform is? CNo, no, and laughter;
and that is 10 be the platform OF our
political opponents this year. What does it
mean You say Grover Cleveland'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,
you come away ignorant and uniformed
as to what tariff reform means. 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, neither of them with the
same rates of duty, but all made By the demo-
cratic party upon the same principle TO SYM
bolize and present tariff reform. You may go
10 Mills, you may 60 to Springer, and you will
u tIa toll brfv m
the house OF representatives, at Washing
ton which was elected distinctively upon
what they call tariff reform issue, with
the two-thirds majority in the house. and
what do you find? They pass three bills Lea
me name them: First, free tin plate. leaving
sheet steel from which it is made. tarined; that
is, the finished product free and the raw mate
rial bearing a duty. Second, free wool 70 the
manufacturer and tsriffed cloth TO the con-
sumer. 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
Henry Bingham, of Pennsylvania,
presented the report of the rules COM
mittee and it was adopted by acclama-
ton.
Ex-Governor Foraker arose in re-
sponse to the call for the committee on
resolutions and requested further time
to consider the resolutions An extern
sion of time was granted and the roll of
states was called for the names Of the
new national committeeman.
When Iowa was called and the re-
election of Clarkson, the Blaine leader,
was announced, cheer after cheer fol-
lowed from the Blaine delegates A
similar demonstration greeted the re-
port of the names of ]. II. Msnley, of
Maine, and William Malone, of Vir-
ginia, and when Missouri was called
and William Warner presented the name
of Richard C, Kerens the Harrison dele
gates made grand counter-demonstra-
ton.
Various resolutions and petitions
which had been introduced and sent to
the clerks desk We're read by title and
referred TO the committee on resolu-
tions
THE next thing on the list Is the
nomination of candidates for the presi-
dency,- said Chairman Mckinley.
A glance at the rules showed that
nominations could not be made under
the rules until the reports of the COM
mittees had been received, and on mo-
tion of Hon NJ. Fl. De Young, of Cali
fornia- the convention adjourned until
10 o'clock this morning.
Arm Torn Prom the SocheA
Quincy, Ill, June 9-Shortly after