The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-06-25
MCKINLEY
AND HOBART
Are The Men Nominated For Pres
ident aud Vice President By
The Republicans.
SENATOR TELLER BOLTS


Men-who wosid Not swallow The G.id
Standard Plank The Platform, Promises
Everything Except The On. Thing Tire
People Want
For President, WM. MchISLEN. OF
Ohio.
For Vice President. GaRREr AUGUs-
TUs HOBART, of New Jersey.
These are the nominations made by
the national Republican convention
which met at St. Louis. on Tuesday
June 10th, and adjourned on Thurs
day, June 18th. The nominations We're
made on Thursday.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, or ONO
Was born at Niles, Trumbull county,
O., January -, 1873; educated at the
public schools: enlisted in an Ohio
regiment al the age of Is, and served
through the war, attaining the rank
Of captain and brevet-major; was ad-
mitted To the bar in 1867: served as n
member Of Congress from lS.1 10 lc9l
was chairman of the Committee on
Ways and Means which framed the
tariff of 1890: elected Governor OF Ohio
in 1891. and again in lS9j, his latter
term expiring January IS, 1896.
GARRET AUGUSTUS HOBART, or ONO
Was born at Long Branch, y. j., in
1871: educated at Rutgers College: ad-
mitted to the bar in 1866; chosen City
Counsel of Patterson in ISL; elected
To the lower branch of the Legislature
in 1872, and made Speaker IN 1874:
elected 10 the State Senate in
1877, and served as president of that
body in 1881 ana lsS2; chairman of
State Republican Committee from ls>O
TO 1891: member of Republican Ma
tlonal Committee since lSSL
The Platform Adopted.
The platform adopted is u long, cum-
| bersome compilation of pledges in
which everything on Gods earth Is
promised except the very thing the
people want-fnancial reform.
II begins by eXcorating the Demo-
cratic party in the following words:
For the first time since the civil
| war the American people have now
| witnessed the calamitous conseGuen-
ces of full and unrestricted Democratic
control of the government. Ii has
| been a record OF unparalleled incapac-
ity and dish0nor and disaster. In the
administrative management il has
ruthlessly sacrificed Indispensable rev.
enue, cked cut ordinary current run
ming expenses with borrowed money,
| piled up the public debt $262 ,OO0, 900
in time of peace, forced an adverse
balance of trade, kept perpetual me-
mace hanging over the redemption
| fund for DaWned American credit to
| alien sycIcates, and reversed all the
measures and results OF successful Re-
publican rule.
In the broad effect of ITS policy il
has precipitated panic, blighted in
dustry and trade with prolonged de-
preston, closed factories, reduced
| work and wages, halted enterprise,
and crippled American production,
while stimulating foreign production
for the American market. Every con-
sideration of public safety and indi-
vidual interest demands that the gov
srnment shall be rescued from the
hands OF those who have shown them
selves incapable OF conducting il
without disaster at home ard dishonor
abroad, and shall be restored TO the
party which for thirty years admins
tered it with unequalled success and
and prosperity"
| PROTECTION.
We renewand emphasize our allegi-
ence to the policy OF protection as the
bulwark of American industrial inde-
pendence and the foundation of Amer.
: lean development and prosperity. This
true American policy taxes foreign
products and encourages home indus
, try; it puts the burden of revenue or
foreign goods, it secures the American
market for the American producer, il
uphOlds the American standard o.
| "a 4
, it puts the factory by the side OF tn,
farm and makes the American farmer
, less dependent on foreign demand ant
, prices, it diffuses general thrift an,
: POUNDS the strength of all on tn,
! strength of each. In its reasonable
application it is just, fair and impair
tlal, equally opposed to foreign contro
and domestic monopoly, to sectiona
elimination and individual favorItism
We denoUnce the present Democratic
s tariff as sectional, Injurious To tn
e public credit and destructive to bot
g enterprises. We demand such an equi
: table tariff on foreign imports, whic
9 come into competition with Ameri
:. can products, as Will not only furnis
? adequate revenue for the necessary ex
penses of the Government, but wi
protect American labor from degrade
tion to the wage level OF other lands
d We are not pledged to any particula
schedules. The question of rates is
practical question, to be governed b
the conditions of the time and of pro
! duction; the ruling and uncompron
; ising principle is the protection an
" development of American labor An
: industry. The country demands
right settlement and then il want
, rest.
e RECIPROCITY.
20 We believe the repeal OF the r,
u ciprocity arrangements negotiated b
n the last Republican administrative
was national calamity, and We IL
ir mand their renewal anu extension O
DR. such terms as will equalize our trac
o- with other nations, remove the r,
u strictions which now obstruct the sa
- of American products in the ports
other countries and secure enlarge
8 markets for the products of our farm
Is forests, and factories.
Protection and reciprocity are twi
D. measures of Republican policy and
id hand in hand. Democratic rule ID
w recklessly struck down both, and bo
- must be re-established.
Protection for what We produc
free admission for the necessaries
= ! life, which We do not produce; reel
u. rocity agreements of mutual interes
which gain open markets for US in r
turn for our open market to Other
Protection builds up Democratic j
"g dustry ard trade, and secures our ov
market for ourselves; reciproci
! builds up foreign trade, and finds
- outlet for our surplus.
tic SUGAR AND WOOL
10 We condemn the present admin
IN tration for not keeping faith with t
I'd sugar producers of this country. L
,p- Republican party favOrs such prots
= ton, as will lead to the production
he American soil of all the sugar whi
We the American people use, and for whi
he s1o6 o60 9eo .nn,s,I,- inore III