The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-29


the United States, is a most distinguished
honor for which / would not conceal
my hgh appreciation, although deeply
sens lble OF the great responsibilities Of
the trust and my inability to bear them
without the generous and constant sup
port of my fellow countryn1el. Great as
IS the honor conferred, equally arduous
and important Is the duty imposed. and
in accepting the one l assume the other,
relying upon the patriotic devotion of
the people to- the best interests Of our
beloved country and the sustaining care
and aid of Him, without whose support
ali we do IS empty and vain.s Should the
people ratify the choice OF the great
convention fer which you speak, my only
aim will be to promote the public good,
which in America is always is the good
of the greatest number, the honor of the
country and the welfare of the people
The questions to be settled IN the ma
tional contest this year are as serious
and important as any of the great gov
US in the past quarter of a century
They command our sober Judgment, and
settlement free from partisan prejudice
and passion beneficial to ourselves and
betting the honor and grandeur of the
republic. They teach every iHEercst Of
our common country. Our industrial SUI
premacy our productive capacity, our
business and commercial propArity. our
labor and It's rewards, our national credit
and curreAcy, our proud 1naiie al honor
and our splendid free citizeNship-the
birthright of every American--are all in
volved in the pending campaign and
thus every home in the land Is directly
and intimately connected with their
proper settlement. Great are the issues
involved in the coming election and eager
and earnest the people for their right
determination. Our domestic trade must
be won back, and our idle working
people employed in gainful occupations
at American wages. Our home market
must be restored to its proud rank of
first in the world, and our for
eign trade, so precspitately cut off
by adverse national legislation. reopened
on fair and equitable terms for
our surplus agricultural and .narufactur-
ing products Protection and reciprocity
twin measures of true American policy
should again command the earnest en-
iEglon. Public confidence must be re-
sumed and the skill. the energy and the
capital Of our country find ample en-,
and defended against the unequal com
petition and serious disadvantages with
which they are now contending the
raise enough money to meet both It's cur
rent expenses and increasing needs It's
revenues should be so raised as to pro-
with the highest possible drain upon their
resources, and maintain that high stand
ard of civilization which. has-distinguished
its existence The income of the govern
ment, repeat, should equal its necessary
and proper expenditures. A failure to
pursue this policy has compelled the
government to- borrow money. in a time
Of Of peace to sustain . its credit and pay its
reysrs,sd ,,svs;s,o and that too, as speedily as
regardless of past party ties or aff1l ;ations
that 1t is our paramount duty to provide
adequate revenue for the expenditures of
IDENTIFY administered. This the Republican
party has heretofore done, and this ! con-
power in the Executive and Legislative
branches Of our government. The ma
tonal credit which has thus far for
@ Of the goyyernms,nt, there win Pc no neees-
the public debt. The Complain: 81 the
people is not against the administration
for borrowing money and issu'riss 55rsfs
against the ruinous policy which has
made this necessary, owing to the policy
which, has been jnaugurated. The in
the deficiency in the United States treas
Try, except as it is repienished by loans.
and in the distress of the people who
mand for either their labor and The pro
ducts cf their. labor. Here is the fun
damental. trouble, the remedy for which
ing all the years of Republican con-
tTol following resumption, there was a
stead reduction Of the public debt.
tanned, and our currency and credit pre-
served without depreciation taint or sus-
pacion; Pic. II We would restore this policy
for more than thirty years under the
most trying conditions ever known in
this country the policy by which we
made and bought more goods at home
and sold more abroad, the trade balance
would be quickly turned in our favor,
and gold would come TO US and not go
from us in the settlement of all such bal
ances in the future.
The party that supplied, by legislation.
the vast revenues for the conduct of our
greatest war, that promptly restored the
credit of the country at its close, that
from its abundant revenues paid off a
large share of the debt incurred in this
war, and that resumed specie payments
and placed our paper currency upon a
trusted to preserve both our credit and
currency with homer, stability and inviol-
ability. The American people hold the
financial honor of our government as
sacred as Our flag, and can be relied upon
to guard it with the same sleepless vigi-
lance. They hold its preservation above
ed that party ties avail nothing when the
spotless credit of our country is threat
ened The money! Of the United States,
paper, silver or gold. must be as good as,
the best in the world. 1t must not only
be current at its full face value at home,
out II must p6 cOuHleu DIT PAR III any
and every commercial centre of the globe.
The sagacious and far-seeing policy Of
the great men who founded our govern
ment, the teachings and acts of the
wisest financiers al every stage in our
history, the steadfast faith and splendid
achievements of the great party to which
we belong, and the genius and integrity
of our people have always demanded
this, and will ever maintain it. The
dollar paid to the farmer, the wage-earn-
-er and the pensioner must continue for
ever equal in purchasing. and debt-paying
power to the dollar paid to any govern
ment creditor.
The contest this year will not be waged
upon lines of theory and speculation, but
in the light of severe practical experi-
ence and new and fairly acquired knowl-
edge. The great body Of our citizens
intend to have. They know for what the
Republican stands and what its retnrn
to power means to them. They realize
that the Republican party believes that
abroad and everywhere proclaim their de-
votion to the principles of q protective
tariff which, while supplying adequate
revenues for the government, will restore
American production and serve the best
interests of American labor and develop
ment Our appeal, therefore, is not to
a false philosophy or vain theorists, but,
the plain. practical people whom Lincoln
loved and trusted and whom the Re-
publican party has always faithfully
striven to serve.
The platform adopted by the Republ,-
can National Convention has received
my careful consideration and has my un-
qualified approval 1t is matter of
be to you and Republicans everywhere,
and TO all our people, that the express