Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-12
SENATOR SHERMAN,S SPEECH
Before the Ohio Republican COnyen.
tiOn.

Before the Ohio Republican Conven
tiOn.
The primary and fundamental senti
ment of the Republican party is Low,
Tor our country. our whole country
We are for the the Union, one and in
divislble, now and forever. The Re
publicans of Ohio are not provincial
put national; this is our corner stone
planted in the first Republican Con ven.
ton in Ohio in 1866. We stood by II
In the storms of war, when Lincoln
was our standard bearer. Our soldiers
fought under it, under Grant, Sherman
and Sheridan. The soldiers of Ohio
carried our flag in every great battle
OF the war for the preservation 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 wilderness and Sher-
man was before Atlanta, a great party
declared the war was failure, Ours
made it a success.
We are in favor of protective tariff.
We had such tariff. While It was in
force we had prosperity, good times
ana money plenty. We had so diversi.
lied our domestic industries that Amer
lean labor and American capital sup.
pied nearly all the wants of the
American people. We prefer to tax
foreign productions rather than our
own. We believe that the policy of
protection should be extended to all
productions impartially; to labor on
the farm as well as in the workshop.
we are opposed TO the Democratic
policy of protecting wooden manufac-
turers and admitting wool free of duty.
we denounce a scheme of taxation
which annually increases the public
debt more than $50, 900, 900.
THE NEW TARIFF LAW.
This is the result of Democratic as.
tendency. The tariff law of the late
Congress is partly copy of the Nc.
Kinley law, and generally a failure.
All that is good of it was taken from
the Mckinley tariff and the rest of it
is confessedly hotchpotch. The Su.
prene Court has already disposed of
part of it. All the productions of the
South, from peanuts to whisky, are
carefully protected, while the duties on
the great staple industries of the North
are largely reduced and on some arti.
cles entirely replealed. We demand a
reform in the tariff; not to promote
sectional interests, but to secure ample
revenue and impartial protection to
domestic industries. This we can have
only by the selection of Republican
President We want a change, and
for this change we will have the hearty
support OF a large portion of the Demo.
cratic party.
We are in favor of sound national
currency, always redeemable in coin.
All forms of money should be of equal
purchasing power. For fourteen years
after the resumption of specie pay.
ments, while the Republican party was
in power we had such currency. We
had gold, silver and paper money, all
bearing the stamp and sanction of
the United States, of unquestioned
credit and of equal value, passing cur
rent everywhere. 1t is the reputation
OF one half of all debts. 1t confers no
favors on productions of any kind,
whether of the farm, the workshop or
the mine, for If they get nominally
more dollars for their productions their
additional dollars would have only
one half the purchasing power of the
gold dollars. The great hardship of
this policy would fall upon the work
ingmen, skilled and unskilled, whose
daily wage, measured by the present
standard, is higher than that of any
country in the world. Their wages
will purchase more of the necessaries
of life than the wages paid for similar
labor anywhere outside of the United
States.
GOOD MoNEY DEMANDED.
The Republican party in its national
platform of 1892 demanded good money
of equal purchasing power, whether
coined of silver or gold, or composed of
Udited States notes, based upon the
credit of the United States, maintained
at par with coin. This is the bimetal-
lie policy. There we stand today. 1 |
hope and trust We will stand there for.
ever. We will seek the cooperation of
all nations in maintaining the parity
OF gold and silver coined. If they will
not cooperate with US in this policy,
the Republican party can and, hope,
will do it alone. Good money and
plenty of it is as important to all our
people as equality of rights and privi.
leges.
Let us then, with firm reliance
upon the principles, policy and wisdom
OF the great party to which we belong,
nominate our candidate and declare
our platform, and then make our ap.
peal to the intelligence of the people
of Ohio. In all the great issues made
in the last forty years the Republican
party of Ohio has had the courage to
propose and to do what is right. Let
us follow in the same pathway, and |
we will not only elect Republican