The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-25

I
l. mo orator was equal to the task of
MAJ tainipg their interest. But events
! have stirred that interest to the pro-
| foundest depth of our society" ZAP
! plause-1
"What the orator and the pamphleteer
could not dc. bitter experience that has
intruded itself into every home and into
many brought starvation, has done and
| is doing today. Our friends may en-
deavor to persuade the American people
I that this period of depression is only one
of those periodic panics that they say at
intervals more or less cetain, necessarily
| fall upon us.
'Some may endeavOr to persuade you
that the influences that have brought 1t
about we're climatic or seismatic, but |
believe l do not state it too strongly
when l say that the common mind-the
close observance of those who are edu-
Gated and instructed by facts rather than
given to refined theories has settled up
on the cause of this present disastrous
depression.
Times Fun of Apprehension.
''They find that cause in the attempt
to wipe out protective legislation, and to
substitute for it the doctrines of a rev.
enue tariff They find it in that uncer-
tainty which has intruded itself into
every mans business enterprise, which
has paralyzed his energies and which
has compelled the wheels to stop while
this great issue was being concluded.
"The American workman is realizing
today that it is not possible for him to
separate himself in interest from the
manufacturer who employs him; that he
cannot listen to the wild and vicious ap-
peals which have been made to him,
strike at the men who give employment
to labor, without bringing the blow back
in recoI upon himself and upon his
family. Applause
"The times are full of unrest, disaster
and apprehension. l believe today that
all the tumult of this wild sea would be
stilled as by the voice of Omnipotence if
the grand Industrial and commercial
that there would be no attempt to strike
down protection in American legisla-
tion. [Applause.]
''The Republican party is friendly to
the restitution of silver to a place of
honor among the money metals of the
world. (Applause). Some of my friends
in the west thought / was uttering new
doctrines when L declared that be-
lieved the free use of silver upon
an international agreement that would
assure its continued equality
with gold, would do more than any
thing that 1 knew of save the establish
ment of the protection principle, to bring
again prosperity into our commerce.
(Applause)
1.-The trouble upon this question has been
that some of our western friends would
not receive any man as the friend of sill
yer who believed that we could not coin
it freely and maintain its parity with
gold except by Gaming into an agreement
with other great commercial nations of
the world.
''They should have been more liberal
l believe today that we can see in Eng
land, the nation that has stood most
strongly against the larger use of silver,
and in Germany, a nation that has fol-
lowed England, the clear indications
of the growth of a sentiment for an
international agreement upon this
question. 1t is increasing in power and
l believe if rightly and wisely encour-
aged and directed from America it will
finally bring other nations by the com
pulsion of their own necessities into ac-
cord with US upon this subject" [Ap-
plause.
Mr.. Harrison then closed with warn
ing to the Republicans against over-conti-
dence, in which he said there was grave
danger to the success of the party.
The committee on resolutions reported
the following platform, which was
adopted and is as follows:
The Platform.
We, the Republicans of Indiana in del
egate convention Assem- bled reaffirm our
faith in the progressive principles of the
Republican party. We believe in poll
cies past and present, best calculated to
the people.
The administration of President Har-
risOn and the congressional legislation of
that party were wise, pure and patriotic
and we point to the marked contrast be-
tween the home and foreign policies of
that administration and the present trav-
esty on government inflicted on the whole
people. We believe in the republic doc
trine of protection and reciprocity, which
furnishes a home market for the pro-
ducti0ns of factories and our
farms and protects the American la
borer against the competition of the
pauper labor of Europe. We denounce
the unwise and unpatriotic action of the
Democratic party in attempting to elm
mate the reciprocity principle from our
tariff system, thereby closing a large
foreign market to products of American
farmers and depressing agricultural in
terests.
We denounce the present attempt of a
Democratic congress to overthrow and
destroy the American Industrial system,
a course that with the general fear of a
violent readjustment of the country's
business to free trade basis has in
creased the national debt and has plunged
the country into the most disastrous
business depression of its history: has
closed numerous banks and factories
throughout the country, has thrown
countless numbers of American citizens
out of employment. has compelled able
bodied and industrious men to humiliate
themselves by asking for charity and
has filed our broad land with free soup
houses and food markets.
National Currency Favored.
We believe in currency composed of
gold, silver and paper, readily converti-
bic at taxed standard of value and en-