The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-19

these conditions The unequaed sue
cesses Of the republican party, It's hold
upon the country, and its masterful infiu-
ence upon affairs, have been due 10 the
fact that In every crisis It's principles have
solved the problems Of the hour ana Us
selected leader has been the man Tor the
occasion. The greatest. moral and patrio-
tic question which a free people were ever
called upon to meet were slavery and Sc
cession In the early days of our organlza-
ton But with union and liberty" as our
watchword, and with Lincoln as our lead
er we saved the republic and emancipa-
ted the slave.
1t has become the fashion Of late to de-
cry business as unpatriotic. We hear
much Of the "sordid considerations OF capi-
tai" employment" industrial ener-
sfies," and prosperous labor" The Uni
ted States, differing from the mediaevh
conditions which govern older countries,
differing from the militarism which IS
the curse Of European nations, differing
from thrones which rest upon the swOrd,
IS pre-eminenty and periodically COM
merclal and a business nation. Inus
commerce and business are synonymous
with patriotism.
When the farmer is afeld sowing and
reapng the crops which find a market
that remunerates him for his toll, when
the laborer and the artisan find work
seeking them and not themselves despair
ing Of work, when the wage of the toiler
promises comfort for his family and hope
for his children, when the rail Is bur
dened with the product of the soil and of
the factory, when the spindles are hum
ming and the furnaces are in blast, when
the mine is putting out its largest pro-
duct and the uationEl and individual
wealth are constantly increasing, when
the homes owned unmortgaged by the
people are more numerous day by day
and month by month, when the schools
are most crowded, the fairs most frequent
and happy conditions most universal in
the nation, then are the promises fulfilled
which make these United States of
America the home of the oppressed and
the land of the free.
1T is to meet these conditions and to
meet them with a candidate who repre-
sents them and about whom there can be
no question, that New York presents to
you for the presidency under the unani-
nous instructions of two successive re-
publican state conventions the name of
her governor, Levi p. Morton.
New York Is the cosmopolitan state OF
the union. She is both a barometer and
Thermometer Of the changes of popular
opinion and popular passion. She has
been the pivotal commpnwealth which has
decided nearly every one of the national
elections I'M this generation. She has more
yankees than any city In New England,
more southerners than any community in
the south, and more natiVe-born western
ers than any city in the west. and the
representatives of the Pacific coast within
her borders have been men who have done
much for the development OF that glorious
region. These experienced and cosmopoli
tan citizens, with their fingers upon the
pulses of the finance and trade of the
whole country, feel Instantly the condi-
tiOns that lead to disaster or to prospers-
ty. Hence they swing the state sometime
to the republican and sometime 70 the
democratic column.
I'm the tremendous effort to break the
hold which democracy had upon our COM
monwealth. and which II had strength
ened for ten successive years, we selected
whom 1 present on behalf OF our state
here to-day, and who carried New York