The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-09-14
Convention Opened at Springfield
by Mammoth Rally.
M'KlkLEY WAS IN ATTENDANCE
After Great Parade, Speeches by the
Governor and Ex- Governor For.
aker Were Delivered.

five thousand people were IN town at
the opening of the republican state
campaign. The city was handsomely
decorated. The parade started at 1890
p. M, and it took over 80 minutes, four
and eight abreast to pass a given point.
The procession was nearly two miles
long. Fully 5000 men were in line.
The speaking began at 2:S0. Senator
Sherman was chairman, and spoke
first. General Bushnell followed, then
Governor Mckinley, then Ex-Governor
Foraker. General Jones, candidate for
lieutenant governor. closed the speak
ing. Governor Mckinley left immedi-
ately for the G. A. r. encampment At
Louisville
MKINLEY'S WORDS.
Governor M'Kinley said i'll part: 1T
is the purpose of the people of this coun-
try in the next national contest to give
the republican party full control and
firmly believe it is of the highest mo-
ment that we inaugurate that work
here in Ohio and this year make certain
the election of a republican United
States senator All differences and di-
visions, If any, that have heretofore
existed should be swept away now and
forever and all republicans should rally
as one man to secure decisive major
ity in both branches of the legislature,
which shall make certain and trium-
plant the election to the United States
senate Of Ex-Governor Foraker, the
choice of the republicans of the state
Governor Mckinley summarized the
platforms of both the republican and
democratic parties in Ohio. He con-
f1Ila taH no al In CT
Ohio democracy had declared for sound
money After criticizing the foreign
and domestic policy of Cleveland's adj
ministration, the governor asserted that
the real subject of contention in Ohio
is the tariff.
Has the democratic party of Ohio
changed its views since September 1894,
and is it now willing that the protective
tariff duties which are retained by the
Brice-Gorman-Wilso act shall remain
and the law be a permanent settlement
of the tariff question? 1 say the law,
using the language of Mr.. Cleveland,
(which puts the wool of the farmer on
the free list and acts for the protection
of the coal and iron ore of corporations
and capitalists will not receive the APP
proval of the people of Ohio by their
votes in November next. 1t is loudly
proclaimed throughout the democratic
press that prosperity has come. / sin
cerely hope that it has. Whatever pros
perity we have has been a long time
coming, and after nearly three years
of business depression, ruinous panic
and painful and widespread suffering
among the people pray that we may
be at the dawn of better times and of
enduring prosperity. I believed it
cry successive republican victory. I
have urged for two years past that the
election of a republican congress would
strip the democratic party of the power
to further cripple the enterprises of the
country and would be the return of
confidence and permanent prosperity,
which will only come when the demo-
cratic party is voted out of power in
every branch of the national govern
ment.
ION the subject of money the repub-
lican party stands where it has always
stood, for good money, whether gold
silver or paper, to be under the nation
al authority at all times and every
where and interchangeable, with which
we honestly measure the exchanges OF
people and deceive and cheat nobody
1t must be as sound and strong as the
government itself and as free from
stain or faint as the flag of our coun
try"
FORAKER'S SPEECH.
Ex-Governor Foraker followed Nc
Kinley in a speech, of which the follow
ing is a synopsis:
He laid especial stress on the failur
of the democratic administration to car
ry out its pledges and specified whicl
he believed to be injurious statute
passed by the party. Reverting to tn
national democracy, he continued: "a
it was the mere incoming of the demo
cratic party that destroyed our pros
perity, so too, it is the incoming of tn
republican party into power that is re
storing prosperity" He criticized tn
senate in its passage of the Wilson bi
and said that the statute was far fror
meeting the peoples wants,
TT will not be necessary" he sale
''to do away completely with the pres
ent tariff, but it will be necessary I
make some very radical changes in tn
provisions and to add to it some yer
important amendments before it wi
ever give satisfaction to the America
people. The changes will be so numel
Gus and so vital that practically a ne
law will be necessary. The whole sui
ject Of the tariff will have to be r,
vised on a protection line, with a vie
to making such rates of duty as
raise enough revenue to support tn
government and afford such protectio
as may be necessary to enable us
maintain our markets, our Oversize
industries, our skilled mechanics an
enable us to pay the American stan,