Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-03-29

Mckinley, of Ohio, addressed the
Minnesota League of Republican Clubs.
The Governor said:
Mr.. PRESIDENT, GENTLEMEN OF H
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA AND
Fellow CITIZENS
Much has happened since the great Re
publican national convention of 1892 assem-
hled in this hall. The platform and candi-
dates of that great convention, admirable as
they were, were rejected by the people at
the election following; but the people had
no sooner spoken than they realized their
great mistake-a mistake which they now
feel most sensihly and regret most deeply.
The principles enunciated at that conven
ton were true then; they are true now.
They are as dear TO Republicans now as
then; they are better understood and more
ardently supported by the great body OF
the people in the year 1894 than they were
in the year 1892. While the Republican
party failed to carry the election, the
cause for which it contended did not fail.
1t survived the awful disaster and shines
more brightly and ~gloriously than ever
before.
Everything Suffered But Repubiican'sm.
The past year has be en- a long one-the
longest since the war. It has been full OF
changes and experiences which have been
impressive and instructive, but expensive.
All kinds of business have been seriously
disturbed. Investments have been sacrt-
feed; capital has been ~despoiled of its
earnings, and labor, more than all and
dearer to us than all, has succumbed to
the wasting blasts of the great change by
which industry has been cheated of its
just rewards. Everything has suffered
but the Republican cause. Everything
has been blighted but Republican princi-
pies. They lave escaped the mildew
| which has settled upon everything else.
Even the Democratic party has suffered
| a calamity we could bear with resignation
If il had not also carried in it's train the
vast and sacred interests of the people.
The Principles Enunci .ted.
What were the great principles and pol
icies thus enuneiated in this hall? Let
me enumeratc them: A protective tariff,
which shall serve the highest interests of
American labor and American develop
ment; reciprocity, which, while seeking
the worlds markets for u surplus
products, shall not destroy American
wages, nor surrender American markets
for products which can be made at home;
the use of both gold and silver with which
IN measure the exchanges OF the people
and cheat nobody; honest elections, which
are the true sources of public authority;
the extension of u foreign commences
| the restoration of our merchant marine by
home built ships; the creation OF a navy
for the protection of our national interests
and the honor of our flag; the mainten.
ance of the most friendly relations with
all powers and entangling alliances
with none. the reaffirmation of the Mon
roe doctrine, and OF u faith IN the
| achievement of the manifest destiny of
| the republic as the best government OF
| earth in the broadcast and truest sense,
Who would modify these principles
| who would reverse this declared policy
| who would strike from the Republicat
banner a single star or stripes Like oil
| Republican doctrines they are nnchsnge
able. Upon them the Republican party
bases it's claim to future supremacy, and
| impatiently awaits the constitutional op.
portnnity TO make its appeal to the people.
How the Democracy Won.
The Democratic party won In 1892, as in
| every contest since the war in which it has
succeeded, by a campaign of profuse and
| glittering promises. 1t nov stands de
moralized on the field Of performance, and
has, 20 far, signally failed to redeem a
single pledge it made to the people, il
has been for many years denouncing the
tariff, because some men became rich
under it's operations and others poor. The
first year of Democratic control has cured
all that, and the prescription has proved
quite as effective on the poor as the rich,
for it has involved them ali in a common
loss. What devastation and distress hare
been wrought in a single year!
Two Years Contracted.
Let the briefest statement of the bust
ness condition at the close of the year 1899
be contrasted with a like statement OF
that condition at the end of 1863. THE
year 1892" says Dun's Review of Trade,
the best non-partisan authority, 'has been