Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-06-17
Why He Should be Reelected


No better reasons could be given for
Harrison's re- election than those stated IN
Depew's speech placing him in nomination
at Minneapolis, the latter part si Whieh
was as follows:
The great names which adorn the
roll of Republican statesmen and soldiers
are still potent and popular. The great
measures Of the Republican party are still
the best of the history of tho Century.
The unequaled and unexampled story oil
Republicanism in its promises and In It's
achievements stands unique in the record
Of parties in governments which are iree.
But we live in practical times, facing
practical issues which affect the business,
the labor and the prosperity of to-day.
The campaign will be won or lost, not upon
the bad record of James X. Polk, or OF
Franklin Pierce, or of James Buchanan
not upon the good record of Lincoln or
Grant, or of Arthur, or Of Hayes,or OF uar-
6eld. 1t will be won or lost upon the pol
lev. foreign and domestic, the industrial
measures and the administrative acts OF
the administration of Benjamin Harrison.
Whoever receives the nomination OF this
convention will run upon the judgment OF
the people, as to whether they have been
more prosperous and happy, whether the
country has been in better condition at
home and stood more honorably abroad
under these last four years of Harrison and
Republican administration than during the
proceeding four years of Cleveland and
Democratic government.
Not since Thomas Jefferson has any ad-
ministration been called upon to face and
solve so many or such difficult problems as
those which have been exigent in our con-
ditions. No administration since the or
ganixation of the Government has met diff
fculties better or more to the satisfaction
of the American people.
Chill has been taught that, no matter
how small the antagonist, no community
can with safety insult the flag or murder
American sailors. Germany and England
have learned in Samoa that the United
States has become one of the powers ofthe
World, and no matter how mighty the ad-
versary, at every sacrifice, American hon
- viii be maintained. The Bering Sea
question. which was the insurmountable
obstacle in the diplomacy of Cleveland and
of Baysrd, has been settled on a basis
which sustains the American position un-
Al m~As3~~ts,x, .h~n have lotar,,;uoJ nur
right
The dollar of the country has been plac-
ed and kept in the standard Of commercial
nations, and coin has been agreed upon
with foreign Governments, which, by max
ing bi-metalism the policy of all nations,
may successfully solve all our financial
problems. The tariff tinkercd with and
trified with to the serious disturbance of
trade, and disaster to business since the
days Of Washington, has been courageous
ly embodied into code-a code which has
preserved the principle of theprotection of
American industries. To it has been add
cd benifcent treaties and wise diploma
cy, which has opened to our farmers and
manufacturers the markets of other coun-
tries.
The navy has been bulded upon lines
which will protect American citizens and
American interests and the American flag
all over the world. The public debt has
bean reduced. The maturing bonds have
been paid of. The public credit has been
maintained. The burdens Of taxation have
been lightened. Two hundred millions of
currency have been added to the peoples
money without disturbance of the ex-
changes. Unexampled prosperity has
crowned wise laws, and their wise admin
istration.
The main question which divides us is,
to whom does the credit of all this belongf
Orators may stand upon this platform more
able and more eloquent than /, who will
paint in more brilliant colors, but they
cannot put in more earnest thought the
Affection and admiration of Republicans for
cur distinguished Secretary Of State. /
v;e,d to no Republican, no matter from
ghich State he halls, in admiration and
-.snact for John Sherman, for Governor
1SoK;nley, for Thomas B. Reed, for Iowa's
areat son, for the favorites of Illinois,
Wisconsin and Michigan.
pnt when am told that the credit for
.ha militant diplomacy of this administra-
.;on belongs exclusively to the Secretary of
csate. for the administration Of its finances
- the Secretary Of the Treasury for the
oon nstruction of Its ships to the Secretary
os thc Navy; for the introduction of Ameri-
OF or M aork into Europe to the Secretary of
srr;culture; for the settlement, so far as
= 5as been settled, of the currency qaes-
- -, "a Senator John Sherman for the
sa.-,nlation Of the tariff laws to Governor
MaT;nlev; for the removal of the re-
a.r;ct;ons placed by foreign nations upon
a. ;rtroduction of American pork to our
W;n;sters Of Paris and Berlin, am tempt
"A "a seriously inquire, who, during the
iast tour years, has been President of the
United states, anyhow
Cesar when he wrote those commen-
,arias which W ere the history Of the con-
nuests Of Europe under his leadership,
modsstIy took the position ofAeneas when
he saia. s'They are the narrative of events,
the whole Of which l saw and the part of
which was.
General Th omas, as the Rock Of Chicka-
,nangha occupies place in our history
,-;th Teonidas among the Greeks, except
,hat he succeeded where Leonidas failed.
TIN I; gbt az Joe Hooker above the clouds
was the poetry of battle. The resistless
vnsh &c Sheridan and his steed down the
raIiav of shenandoah is the epic of our
iyvil war. The march of Sherman from
Atlanta to the sea is the supreme triumph
Of gallsntry and strategy: 1t ,detraots
nothing from the splendor of the fame, or
the merits of the deeds of the heutenants,
TO say that, having selected them with
marvellous sagacity and discretion, Grant
still remained the supreme commander Of
the National Army.
All the proposed acts of any admins
tration, before they are formulated, are
passed upon in Cabinet council, and the
measures and suggestions of the ablest
secretaries would have failed with lesser
President. But for the great good of the
country, and the benefit Of the h Republican ca
mgeestiye mind, the indomitable courage,
the Intelligent appreciation Of situations,
and the grand magnanimity of Benjamin
Harrison.
tits an undisputed fact that during the
few months when both the Secretary of