Evening star., 1896-09-16

countrymen are seeking .he right for TIE
sake OF the right, that they may pursue
the right. They want to know only what Is
the best for the country, what will truly
promote their own welfare and Insure the
grandest results for the common good. (Ap-
plauseD
Democrats Torn md Divided.
"Discord reisns in all others. Our time
honored opponent, the democratic party, is
torn and divided. Two national conventions
have been held by it, and two national
tickets presented. and their platforms are
totally different on every subject and in al
most every section.
The populist party has merged it's organ
ization into that of the Chicago democratic
and st. Louis silver organizations, and their
allies are, for the most part, harmonious
except that each one has distinct and diff
ferent candidate for Vice President. Great
laughter and applause)
Republicans United.
Happily, the republican party was never
more closely united than now, both in fact
and in spirit. and there was never better
reasons for such union and never greater
necessity for it than now. 1t is welded, de-
votedly welded, to party principles 1t
stands as it has always Stood for an Amer
lean protective tariff, which shall raise
enough money to conduct The several de-
partments OF the government, including lib
eIal pensions to the Union soldier tariff
will stop debts and deficiencies, and make
the treasury of the United States once
more safe and sound IN every particular
Applause)
Reciprocity and n Home Market
TT stands for a reciprocity that seeks out
the markets of the world for our surplus
agricultural and manufacturing products
without surrendering a single days wages
that belongs to the American workinsman.
| (Applause.)
1T believes in preserving a home market
for the American farmer (applause), in
! opening the American factory for the
| American workingman (applause), and
| opening up foreign market wherever tha
can be done with profit to all the great
! interests of the United States. Renewed
| applause)
Dollars as Good as Gold.
] 1T is. too. for sound money great cheer
ing): every dollar worth one hundred cents
Crenewed cheering); every dollar as good as
gold continued cheering). and it is opposed
alike to the free and unlimited coinage of
silver and the issuance of irredeemable
! paper money, to which the allied parties
seem firmly committed Great applause. )
1t has always kept silver at parity with
| gold 1t proposes to keep silver money in
circuiation and preserve 1t side by side,
| gold and silver and paper each the eoual n
! the other and each the equal of the hest
IL.
| and the best never to be inferior to tn,
best money known to the commercial ma
tions of the world. tremendous cheer
| ing)
| Financial Honor.
| 1--WE cannot have commercial growth and
| expansion without national and individual
honor. applause and cries of That's
! right.) We cannot have commercial pros-
perity without the strictest integrity beth
! of government and citizen. Renewed ap-
plause and cries of That's right.) The
! financial honor of this government is of to-
vast Importance, is entirely too sacred to
be the foot ball Of party politics. Great
applause. Cries of Good, good.)
| THE republican party has maintained II
and is pledged to maintain it. 1t has more
than once stood between good faith ard
dishonor. and when it gave up the con-
troll of the government our national homo
had never before been so high and .un.
questioned. (Applause) The republican
party taxed the credit of the government
| in the days Of the war to its utmost ten.
sion to preserve the government itself
| which, under God. 1t was happily enabled
| to do. Following that mighty struggle Il
lifted our credit higher than it had evel
been before. and made 1t equal to the
oldest and wealthiest nations Of the world >
applause and cries of That's right')