Arizona republican., 1896-06-19

Walt uHGl1 congress S6uuS IO uilu q tariff which shall put money in the treasury and wages ill the pockets of the American workingman. We want president who will protect at all haz- ards the gold reserve of the treasury who will see to it that no obligation of the government is presented which | is not paid in whatever coin the cred itor chooses to demand and who never forgets that the nation which pays 1 with honor, borrows with ease.
 We want a man who will guard the safety and dignity of the Nation at home and abroad and who will always and constantly be firm and strong in dealing with foreign nations, instead of suddenly varying a long course or
 weakness and indifference with con- vulsive spasm of vigor and patriot ism. Above all we want a man who
 will lead his party and act with it and
 who will not by senseless Quarrels be-
 tween the White House and the cap
 itol reduce legislation and execution
 alike to imbecility and failure.
 Such is the man we want for our great office in these bitter times when the forces of disorder are loosed and the wreckers with their false lights
 gather at the shore and lure the ship of state upon the rocks. Such man, fit for such deeds, am now about to
 present to you. He needs no praise from me. for he has proved his own title to leadership. From what he is and what he has done we know what
 he can do. For twenty years, in vic l tory and defeat, at the head of great
 majorities and of small majorities
 alike, has led his party in congress
 with power which no man could
 dispute and with an ability which
 never waned. I have seen him with
 maddened opposition storming about him, carry through that great reform
 which has made the house of repre-
 sentatives the strong and efficient body
 it is today. I have seen him during the past winter guide a great majority
 so that they have met every demand put upon them and made no errors
 which could burden the Republican party in the campaign before us. Be- fore the people and in the house he has ever been the bold and brilliant cham pion of the great Republican policies
 which adopted have made us prosper
 ous and abandoned have left ruin at
 our doors. He is thorough American,
 by birth, one who loves his country
 and has served it in youth and in man.
 hood, in war time and in peace. His
 great ability, his originality of thought
 his power of debate, his strong will } are known of all and are part of the
 history of the last twenty years. His
 career is as spotless as his private
 character is pure and unblemished. He } is trained statesman, fit for the heav- : fest task the country can impose upon , him. He demands the confidence of his party and his country. He is a leader , We know it because we have seen him lead. TO those who have followed him , he has never said "Go," but always , Come.
 } 1 have the honor, the very greai honor, to present to you, as a candidate , for your nomination, the speaker of the . National house of representatives Thomas B. Reed, of Maine.
 . c. T. Littlefield, of Maine. was the second for Reed, saying in part:
 5 The nominee of this convention vii l be the next president of the republic l That the Republican party is to be l victorious in the coming campaign l whoever it's candidate may be, has Ions since been settled by the manifold : blunders, worse than crimes, that have l been committed by the Democratic 3 party. It has demonstrated its inca pacity to direct the affairs of the Ma 5 tion in full measure heaped up, run . ming over. It was intrusted with DOW 7 CT by forgetful and forgiving peo
 pie, at time of unexampled prosper 9 lty with an overfowing National treas
 ury, an unlimited public credit, labo l fully and proftably employed, wheel s turning, looms moving, furnaces glow l ing and machinery humming with tn, c music that attends profitable industry
 We have had change in admins e tratlon and party, change of systen }. and method and complete reversal o 0 result. In 1896 we see the perfect con e verse Of the picture presented in 1892 t In that great achievement of Demo t cratic statesmanship the confesse : m1sbegotten offspring of cowardice e perfldy and dishonor, a tariff for de y ficiency only, Professor Wilson de 5, clared that he had just begun to "shel e the protected industries of the north d The opening gun of his campaig Il was sufficient to drive timid capital t IS inaccessible retreats, eXtinguish tn
 fires, silence the loom, paralyze indus h try, turn honest labor into the stree > and plunge the country into a cond )f ton of business depression hitherto UT IT known to this generation of bushes e men.
 e- The stern logic of events has give r. the American people an object lesso le upon the most stupendous scale Fe it the next four years the Republica of party will again take charge of tt le business of the country. The occasio