Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-22
Prominent Stump Speakers on
Sound Money, Protection and
National Honor.
RECENT CAMPAIGN 0RAT0RY.
Makers Of History Record Utterances
Which Are Bound to Live
for Ages.
What the Republican Party Stands
For.
MAI. MCKINLEY.

MAI MCKINLEY.
"The political situation of the country
is peculiar. We have had few parallels
to our present political condition. We
have but one political party which is
united. and that 10 ours. (ApplaIse.)
Discord reigns in Al others. Our time
honored opponent. the Democratic party,
is torn and divided. Two national con-
ventions have been held by it and two
national tickets presented, and their plat
forms are totally different on every sub
ject and in almost every section. The
Populst party has merged its organiza-
ton INTO that of the Chicago Demo
cratic and st. Louis silver organizations,
and their allies are for the most part
harmonious except that each one has
distinct and different candidate for vice.
president Great laughter and APP
plause.)
Happily the Republican party was
never more closely united than now, both
in fact and in spirit and there were
never better reasons for such union, and
never greater necessity for it than now.
CHEERS and cries of That's right.) 1t
is welded, devotedly welded, to .Iarty
principles. 1t stands as il has always
stood, for an American protective tariff
which shall raise enough money 10 con-
duct the several departments of the gov
eminent, including liberal pensions to
the Union soldiers. Tremendous cheer
ing and hurrahs for Mckinley A tariff
that will stop debts and deficiencies and
,,,1-, .f OIL
once more safe and sound in every par
ticular. (Applause) 1t stands for re-
ciprocity that seeks out the markets of
the world for our surplus agricultural
and manufacturing products without sur
rendering a single days wages that be-
longs to the American workman. Gap
plause) 1t believes in preserving
home market for the American farmer
(applause), in the opening of the Ameri-
can factories for the American working
man (applause), and the opening up of a
foreign market wherever it can be done
with profit TO all the great interests of
the United States.
cheering} every dollar worth 100 cents
(renewed cheering), every dollar as good
as gold continued cheerng), and IL Is OPP
posed alike to the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver. and the issuance of ir-
redeemable paper money to which The
Great applause) 1t has always kept
silver at a parity with gold. 1t proposes
TO keep that silver money in circulation
and preserve side by side gold and silver
and paper, each the equal to the other
and each the equal of the best, and
the best never to be inferior TO the best
money known to the commercial nations
of the world. loud cheering.) 1t
will continue to favor a policy that will
give work TO American citizens zap
plause), markets to American farmers
(cries Of That's what we want.D. and
sound money TO both. Tremendous
cheerings and cries of 'IIurrah for Me
kinley!) We are now convinced after
three years of experience, whatever may
have been our political relations in the
past, of the truth of the observation of
Webster. made more than half a century
ago. You will recall that he said
THAT is the truest American policy
which shall most usefully employ Ameri-
can capital and American labor and best
sustain the whole American population.
Great applause)
agriculture, commerce and manufac-
lures viii prosper together or fail to-
gethcr Equally true also were the
words Of John Quincy Adams, That the
great interests Of this agricultural, min
ing and manufacturing nation are so
linked i'm unison that no permanent cause
of prosperity 10 one of them can operate
without extending its influence TO the
other (Applause.) We cannot have
commercial growth and expansion with
out national and individual honor.
I'VE cannot have commercial prosperity
without the strictest integrity both of
government and citizen. tRenewed APP
plause and cries of That's right.o The
financial honor of this government is of
too vast Importance, is entirely too sa-
cred to be the football of party politics.
Great applause and cries of Good
,rnoI y Tho Rannh1irap mn NJ Haa
tanned it and is pledged TO maintain it,
1t has more than once stood between
good faith and dishonor and when il
gave UP the control of the government
our national honor had never before been
so high and unquestioned. applause
The Republican party is pledged 10 main
tain the credit Of the government which
is intimately associated with it's spotlpss
name and honor, and this il will do I'M
der any circumstances and at any cost
Great cheering)
at taxed the credit of the government
I'm the days of the war TO its utmost ten
sion to preserve the government itself
which, under God. it was happily en-
abled to do. Following that mighty
struggle it lifted our credit higher than
il had ever been before and made il
equal 10 the oldest and wcalthicst ma
tons of the world applause and
cries of That's right.O 1t is pledged
to maintain interrupted the currency
of the country of whatever form or
kind that has been used by national au-
thority. 1t made the old greenback as
good as gold and has kept il as good as
gold ever since. 1t has maintained every
form Of American money, whether sill
yer or paper, equal TO gold, and il will
not take any backward step. Great ap-
plause and cries of Good, good.o No
party ever went out of power which left
so magnificent n record as the Repub-
lican party. (Cries of That's right.1
Our great war debt was more than two
thirds paid off, our currency unquestioned.
our credit untarnished, the honor of the
union unsulied, the country in its ma
terial conditions stronger than IL had
ever been before: the workingmen better
employed and better paid than ever be-
fore, with prosperity in every part of the