The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-25
Our Candidate for President.

publican candidate for President OF
the United States, is undoubtedly
the choice of the masses of the Ameri-
can people who will triumphantly
elect him in November. The people
want Mckinley to be the next Presi-
dent of the United States and they
will see to it that he is elected. The
delegates to the National Convention
were wise in listening to the voices of
the epeople who wanted Mckinley, be-
cause they believed he would be able
to extricate the county from the
dire calamity which has resulted to
business which has followed the re-
peal of the Mckinley tariff law and
the substitution therefor of Demo
cratic free trade measure. We be-
lieve that Mr. Mckinley is the strong
est possible candidate for the Re-
publican party. His previous public
career has shown him to be an Ameri-
can, heart soul and body, in word
and in deed.
Mr.. Mckinley has earned, and de-
serves, the tribute that has been
paid him. His work upon the tariff
act of 1890, which bears his shame,
was followed by a period of business
activity and industrial prosperity
such as this country had never be-
fore experienced. That prosperity
was checked only when it was posi-
lively known that the administra-
tior of the country had passed into
the hands of the party pledged to
Free-Trade, a party which gained its
temporary power solely by its ability
to distort facts and misrepresent the
truth. Naturally its career was
brief.
We trust that President McKinley's
first official act will be to summon
Congress together for the purpose Of
promptly repeating the un-American,
deficiency raising Tariff bill that still
disgraces our statutes. We do not
look for restoration of the Mckinley
Tariff act of 1890 in toto, because in
dustrial conditions change from year
to year, from month to month, from
day to-dav. A Tariff that was Pro
tective to American labor then may
not be so to-day, and American labor
must be Protected. Specific duties
must be substituted or the ad va
loren rates now in force.
We regret that fully year must
elapse before Protection can be as
sured to American labor and indus
tries, because foreign manufacturers
will avail themselves of the interval
to stock up our markets with their
goods, to the detriment of our own
interests. But this is a part of the
price paid for the political folly of
1892 The trainers of our next Pro
tective Tariff will be confronted
with several conditions. An enlarge
ment of the public debt and a sdef
cheney of the public revenue must be
promptly met. Heavy expenditures
have been authorized. for which
provision must be made. But a Pro.
tective Tariff, that will afford employ.
ment to every American who is will
ing to work will meet all such con
ditions.
i Mr.. McKinley's experience and
suggestions will be invaluable
in this. respect In all uther
national affairs also he will
be guided solely by the patriotic
spirit that he possesses. Should he
err in any instance, it will be on the
American side, if that can be called
an error, as he may view it. Ameri
can interests may be safely intrusted
to President McKinley's hands
whenever occasion. calling fer the
exercise of his careful judgment may
arise during the declining DAYS o.
the nineteenth century or in the
dawn of the new century that vii
we trust, find him the true, honora
BILE and upright President of the
United States as he has been one oil
~ - w AACAiO1 ctOiC cIllQ DuO
lie and private citizens. While we
congratulate Majcr Mckinley upon
his nomination we still more con
gratulate the American people upon
their representative, who will lead
the party of Protection to victory.
: Mark Hanna was unanimously
elected chairman of the New Nation
al Republican committee. Hon
Franklin Murphy of Newark, will
probably succeed Hon. Garret A
Hobart as a member of the Nationa
committee from New Jersey.
We favor restoring the earl,
American policy OF discriminatin.
duties for the upbuilding of ou
merchant marine and the Protection
of our shipping in the foreign carry
ing trade, so that American shipping
the product of American labor. EN-
DlOyed in American shipvards coil