The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-29

the largest conventions that has ever
responded to the call of the party man.
ayers. Five thousand people were
packed into Memorial hall when the
doors were closed on a crowd that would
in itself have made a respectable as
semblage.
Senator Sherman was given tre-
mendous ovation when he appeared.
When State Chairman Bonner called
the convention to order a few minutes
after 4 o'clock, his voice was scarcely
audible above the din raised by the
partisans Of Ohios big three, and finally
Senator Sherman assumed the gavel,
and, without formality of an introduce
tion, reprimanded the convention like a
parent chiding child for it's misbe-
havior.
Senator Sherman spoke with consider
able energy, and his references to the
currency question were loudly ap-
plauded. Warm greetings were also
given to his naming of Mckinley as
Ohio's presidential candidate, and For
aker as her next senator. Senator Sher-
man spoke as follows:
The primary and fundamental sentiment
or the Republican party is love for our
country, our whole country We are for
the Union. one and indivisible, now and
forever. The Republicans Of Ohio are not
provincial, but national. This is our cor
ner-stone, planted in the first Republican
convention in Ohio in 1855. We stood by 1t
in the storms of war, when Lincoln was
our standard bearer. Our soldiers fought
for 1t under Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
The soldiers of Ohio carried our flag in ev
cry great battle of the war for the pres
ervation of the Union. Other patriotic
citizens and soldiers were equally deserv-
ing or honor and praise, but they could not
carry their party with them. When Grant
was in the Wilderness and Sherman was
before Atlanta, a great party declared the
war FAILURE. ours made 1t q success.
When the war was over we did not treat
our enemies as conquered subjects, but as
erring brethren. We invited them back
into the Union with unabridged powers,
prescribing only one condition, that there
should be no slaves in our country. We
now meet them and greet them as friends,
and, turning our back on dead issues, we
congratulate 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
party developed its civil policy. First of
all it declared its purpose to pay every
debt or obligation contracted during or
since the war, that the public faith should
be unblemished. This promise has been
performed. In spite of all temptation and
the shrieks of Populists, we have dis
charged every obligation contracted dur
ing the war; and especially the highest
and most sacred debt to the surviving
soldiers of the war, their widows and or
phans. The pension roll is roll of honor,
higher in amount than any pension roll
ever before provided by any nation While
tho Republican party Is in power 1t will
only be diminished by the death of PEN
sioners, fate that awaits us all.
undiminishcd Loyalty to Protection.
We are in favor of protective tariff We
had such tariff. While 1t was in force
we had prosperity, good times, and money
plenty We had so diversified our domes-
tic industries that American labor and
American capital supplied nearly all the
wants of the American people. We prefer
to tax foreign productions rather than our
own. We believe that the policy of protec-
tion should be extended to all productions
impartially-to labor on the farm as well
as labor in the workshop. We are opposed
to the Democratic policy of protecting
woolen manufactures and admitting wool
free of duty. We denounce a scheme Of
taxation which annually increases the
public debt more than $50,000,000. This Is
the result OF Democratic ascendancy. The
tariff law of the last congress is partly n
copy and generally a failure, All that is
good Of 1t was taken from the Mckinley
tariff, and the rest of 1t is confessedly a
hotchpotch. The supreme court has al
ready disposed of n part of It. All tho
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
articles, like wool, are entirely repealed
We demand a reform In the tariff not to
promote sectional interests, but to secure
ample revenue and impartial protection Of
domestic Industries. This we can have
only by the election of Republican presi-
dent. We want a change, and for this
change we will have the hearty support
Of a large portion of the Democratic party
Favor n Sound Currency.
We are in favor of a sound national cur
rency always redeemable In coin. All
forms of money should be of equal pur-
chasing power. For fourteen years after
the resumption Of specie payments, while
the Republican party was in power. we
had such a currency. We had gold, silver
and paper money, all bearing the stamp
and sanction of the United States, Of un-
questioned credit and of equal value, pass
ing current not only with the United
world.
Both gold and silver are indispensable
for use In the varied wants OF mankind.
Gold is now and has been for ages the
chief measure of value in International
commerce and the larger transactions of
domestic exchanges. Silver, from It's bulk
and weight, Is not available for the large
payments either at home or abroad. but It
is Indispensable In the minor wants of
mankind. Gold, from Its greater supe-
rior value. cannot be utilized for such pur-
poses.s Therefore It is that both metals
have been coined into money at fixed
ratio. The enormous increase of the pro-
duction of silver in the United States,
Mexico and Australia has disturbed this
ratio, and has lowered the market value
Of silver precisely as u like increase Of pro-
duction has lowered tho price Of other
commodities. 1t is universal law that
price or value is measured by quantity.