The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-04-22

manding physical and mental endoW- ments. While we may have our pref erences, it Is a cause for thankfulness to Almighty God, who has built us up as nation, that in the event of the election of either of the prominent re- publican candidates before the people the country Is sure to have an adminis- tration sound on protection and safe in its financial measures, and, further, every one of those candidates is so clean handed, with character so im- maculate that islander and detraction will find no place in the coming con- test.
 That convention at St. Louis may see fit to turn the neighboring state of Iowa, a leading and powerful state in the councils of the west, and summon to leadership one of her sons, who has answered the call of his country on the field of battle, which he left only to serve her in the arena of congress sional debate. For more than thirty years has he studied the great question of government. It may be, that the safe, sound, conservative, William B.. Allison, (cheers), will be called to the presidential chair.
 No presidential campaign yet ever forgot the state of New York, for veal or woe, that great aggregation of forces will be heard from, and possibly, we shall call to leadership the venerable but sturdy governor, that honest mer- chant prince, that accomplished and distinguished diplomatist, that genial and courtly gentlman, that sound and yfoprol1S G1,onpior ,eUi p Morton (Cheers.)
 Or they may again draft into service that statesman of unspotted character, of greatest experience, of superb abil- ity not so cold but that he is even now in middle life enjoying his second hon. eynoon, and perhaps all the nearer the hearts of his countrymen for that reason, for all the world loves a lover, be he in palace or cottage. I say this country will stand well at home and abroad and the people will prosper with Benjamin Harrison again in the white house.
 Or will they turn their eyes to the old Pine Tree State, and call from the leadership of congress, it's honored speaker, big, brainy, sturdy, aggressive, pugnacious. powerful, Thomas B. Reed. He has led the hosts of our army to much deserved victory In congress. He has shown democratic obstructionists that the rules of congress were made to expedite business and not to paralyze the government. We love him for the enemies he has made. He has always been true and courageous in advocating the best measures for the prosperity of his country. Protection and sound money find an exponent in him.
 His administration would be a bril- liant one.
 Continued applause and tiger; cheer upon cheer)
 Or the convention may turn to the state of Sherman, of Grant, of Hayes, of Garfield, the new Connecticut of the west, the apparent successor to Vir- ginia, which used to be called the home of presidents, and they may call to the presidential chair, one who is not unknown in the state, or in any other state in the union where men labor, one whose name is the synonym for protection, and whose name alone is a platform in itself, one who has risen from the ranks by his own ability; that successful lawyer, that brave soldier and courageous and intrepid command CT, that wise and fearless statesman thoroughly imbued with American ideas, who believes in the strict and honest payment of every debt or obli- gation, whether of his own private business or of this great and glorious nation, that brilliant leader of men, that matchless orator MT. Mckinley of Ohio. Cheers, waving of handker- chiefs and hats thrown in the air, del egates rising in ali parts of the room.) I have said that we shall demand a sound financial plank in our platform and I believe it, and I express only the belief of every true citizen when I say, that there never should be the slightest question as to our views on this topic. What party instituted and successful ly managed our financial system dur ing the war? What party, after our democratic friends said it never could be done resumed specie payments? What party created the splendid sur plus? Granted that we have done all this, will not the people trust us to continue in the same honorable career? I believe they will. Do not obscure or unnecessarily multiply the issues. Pro- lection is the thing to fight for. We were beaten on that issue, because the people were fooled; let us win on it now that their eyes are open. Give the peo- pie work to do. Give idle hands en- ployment. So legislate that the wheels of the mill shall turn again; brush the cobwebs from the looms, and the finan- cial questions will be easily settled. We have good money now, but the people have no work to do by which to earn it. Give the toilers work Give the toilers work.
 Throw then our banner to the winds. Let us inscribe thereon Protection to Home Industries" American Wages for American Workmen:" Home Markets for Home Products" Honest Money for Honest Labor;" Prevention of Pauper Immigration" with these principles and with the candidate who shall best represent them, we shall car ry every northern state, and some of the solid south and usher in the coming century under skies bright with prom ises kept and hopes fulfilled and the God of battles and the God of peace the God whom our fathers reverenced and adored, and whom we love, shall lead this country into fields of accom- plishment for the elevation and devel- opment of mankind, beyond our most ardent dream.
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