The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-29
All Products, Says the Senator,
Should Receive Equal
Protection.
FAVORS A SOUND CURRENCY.
But Thinks Gold and Silver Are
Both Indispensable for Man.
kinds Wants.


order here to-day promptly at P. NJ. by
Colonel Joseph c. Bonner chairman of the
State committee. A half hour previous
the hall was packed to its full capacity OF
5000 and many were unable to gain admit
lance. Senator Sherman was given a STIR
ring ovation when he was escorted into
the hall at $3.50 by Congressman Van Voor-
his and Judge Granger. Ex-Secretary Eos
ter, the members of Congress, several can
didates and others were cheered as they
entered. Among the working delegates
were Herman G.. Denison, son of the war
Governor, and Harry Garfield, son of the
murdered President.
While Chairman Bonner, who is men,
Der of Mckinley's staff, was eloquently
congratulating the Republicans on the re-
suit of the last Ohio election and forecast
ing another triumph for next November in
his Introductory speech, Ex-Governor
Foraker entered the hall and a very
boisterous demonstration followed his APP
pearance. After Chairman Bonner had
m ade repeated efforts to secure order and
proceed with his Introductory remarks ex-
Governor Foraker came to the front of the
platform and said:
Gentlemen of the Convention: I hone Won
Will not any longer disturb the deliberations of
the convention. There will be time for us all
to be heard before we leave GAINESVILLE. More
shouting than preyiously.] 1t is a good town
TO stay over night in, and we will stay Just as
long as our business may require At the
proper time, when that viii be IN order will
be very glad indeed to exchange greetings
with you, but beg for the present that you
VIII let the chairman of the Central Commit
tee proceed with his speech in order to expe-
dite the business of the convention [Great
applause.l
Even after this appeal it was with great
difficulty that Colonel Bonner conclud ed
his remarks and introduced Senator John
Sherman as the temporary chairman.
Senator Sherman met the demonstration
at first with the remark that be hoped to
see the Republicans of Ohio keep up such
pitch of enthusiasm till the next Novem-
Der election. The Senator soon com
manded the closest attention and spoke as
follows:
Gentlemen of the Convention: l thank you
for the honor you have conferred upon me in
selecting me to preside over this convention
You have met to designate the next Governor
OF the State of Ohio. You have a good many
candidates before you, but each of them is
worthy OF the highest honor which you can
confer You have the assurance that whoever
you may nominate viii have the hearty sup
port of all the candidates and Of each member
OF the convention. You have also to select
several of the chief executive officers of this
State. need not impress upon you the impor-
lance of selecting those who will honestly and
faithfully perform the duties assigned them
You have a still higher duty, to announce
the principles and policy of the Repub-
ican party in the State OF Ohio and in the
United States. What you viii say here
will have an important influence be-
yond the limits of your State, for the intelli-
gent action of the Republicans of Ohio will
as in the past, indicate the opinions of Repub-
licans in all parts of the United States We
have common faith and creed. We act to-
gether on great matters on principle on small
matters for discipline. The primary and
fundamental sentiment OF the Republican
party is love for our country, our whole coun-
try. We are for the Union one and indivisible
now and forever. The Republicans OF Ohio are
not provincial, but national.
This is our cornerstone, planted in the first
Republican convention in Ohio in 1855. We
stood by it in the storms of the war when Lin
coin was our standard-bearer. Our soldiers
fought for it under Grant, Sherman and Sheri-
dan. The soldiers of Ohio carried our flag in
every great battle of the war for the preserva-
ton OF the Union. Other patriotic citizens and
soldiers were equally deserving OF honor and
praise, but they could not carry their party
with them When Grant was in the Wilder
ness and Sherman before Atlanta, a great party
declared the war a failure. Ours made it a
success. When the war was over we did
not treat our enemies as conquered
subjects, but as erring brothers. We in
vited them back into the Union with una
bridged powers, prescribing only one condition;
that there should be no slaves in our country.
We now meet them and greet them as friends
Turning our back on dead issues, we congratu-
late them on their prosperity, which they did
not and could not have in their condition prior
to the war.
When the war was over the Republican par
ty developed its civil policy. First of all it de-
clared its purpose to pay every debt or obliga-
ton contracted during or since the war, that
the public faith should be unblemished. In
spite OF the temptation and the shrieks of Pop
ulists we have discharged every obligation con-
tracted during the war, and especially the
highest and most sacred debt to the surviving
soldiers OF the war, their widows and orphans
The pension roll is roll of honor, higher in
amount than any pension roll ever provided
by any nation. While the Republican party is
in power it will only be diminished by the
death OF pensioners, fate that awaits us ALL
We are in favor of protective tariff. We
had such a tariff. While it was in force we
had prosperity, good times and money in
plenty. We had SO diversified our domestic in
dustries that American labor and American
capital supplied nearly all the wants of the
American people. We prefer to tax foreign
production rather than our own. We believe
that the policy of protection should be ex-
tended to all productions impartially; to labor
on the farm as well as in the workshops We
are opposed 10 the Democratic policy of pro-
tecting wooden manufactures and admitting
wool free of duty. We denounce scheme of
taxation which annually increases the public
debt more than $50, 600, 900. This is the re-
suit of Democratic ascendency. The tariff law
of the last Congress is partly copy of the Nc
Kinley law, and generally failure. All that
is good of it was taken from the McKin-
ley tariff, and. the rest of it is con-
fessedly hotchpotch. The Supreme Court
has already disposed of part of it. All
the productions of the South, from peanuts to
whisky, are carefully protected, while the du-
ties on the great staple industries of the North
are largely reduced, and on some articles, like
wool, are entirely repealed. Wesdemand re-
form in the tariff, not to promote sectional in
terests, but to secure ample revenue and i'm
partial protection to domestic industry. This
we can have only by the election of Republic
can President. We want change, and for