The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

the platform and proceeded to put in
nomination Governor Levi P. Morton. He
did so in these words:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conven-
ton: National Republican Conventions have
been epoch-makers. They have formulated the
principles, originated the policies and sug-
gested the measures which in the history of the
United States form its most progressive Pc
RODS They have nominated for the Presi-
dency statesmen and soldiers, who were the
leaders of the people in their onward march to
larger liberty and broader industrial condi-
tions.
No party, no matter however glorious its
achievements or how brilliant its success, can
RELY upon the past. Its former triumphs are
only its certificates of character, which must
be met By continuing effort as beneficent and
wise as anything of which it boasts. The party
which is to permanently govern country and
is secure in its past must not only be equal TO
the present, but must forecast and provide for
the future. The Republican party has held
possession of the Government of the United
States for more than generation, because it
has triumphantly met these conditions.
The unequaled successes of the Republican
party, its hold upon the country and its mas
tertul influence upon affairs have been due to
the fact that in every crisis its principles have
lected leader has been the man for the occa-
sion. The greatest moral and patriotic ques-
tions which a free people were ever called
upon to meet were slavery and secession IN the
early days of our organization. But with
"Union and Liberty" our watchword and
with Lincoln as our leader we saved the Re
public and emancipated the slave. The pas
sionate and critical issues of reconstruction
were successfully met and the hostile sections
happily united by a policy of conciliation
which could only secure the consent of the
victors and the assent of the conquered by the
influence of the soldier President who had the
confidence of the armies which he had led in
triumph and the enemies whom he had paroled
with honor. In period when progress halted
because of the distrust of commonwealths and
their citizens of each other the later and bet
ter judgment of the country expressed its ac-
knowledgment to the non-partisanship and
judicial fairness of Hayes and Evarts.
The youth who came to manhood after the
civil war and knew little of its agonies or its
animoslties found a glorious example of
American possibility and achievement in the
canal driver, the college student, the school
principal, the college president. the Union
general, the iilustrious debater in the House of
Representatives, the brilliant and magnetic
Garfield In defeat and in victory, for the
policies which stood for the development of
American industries, for America for Ameri-
cans whether native or naturalized, and for
the recipr ocity which bound the North Ameri-
can and South American continents together,
we had the plumed knight OF ou7 enthusiasm
and our love, James G. Blaine. AS a new gen.
Grafton came to majority, to whom the
past was 8 legend, the present the difficult
task of development and prosperity and the
future theory without experience, the Repub-
ncan party again happily praeticed, in its con-
troll of the executive and legislative branches
of the Government, that policy of the protec-
tion of American industries and that practice
of sound finance which gave to the Republic
its era of grea test prosperity and Its period of
the largest returns for capital, the fullest en-
ployment for labor and the highest wages for
work in the history of our Nation in the clos
ing year of the administration of that able
and accomplished statesman, Benjamin Har-
rison.
few weeks preceding the conven tion of
four years ago at Minneapolis had an after
noon with Mr. Blaine. With marvellous in
tuition he forecast the future. He said:
"Substantially all the forces of opposition, of
distrust and Of disappointment, Of theory and
of imagination which accumulate against
party that has been in power for over thirty
wears are now concentrated for an assault
upon our position, and are certain to succeed.
The Democratic party and its allies of Popu-
ism and OF all other isms are destined in this
campaign, no matter VINO is our candidate or
what is our platform, 10 secure possession OF
the Government" The country knows to its
loss. its sorrow and its grief, that the predlc-.
tion has been fulfilled in every part. In its
fulfllment the United States has the ex-
perience and Europe has the business and
prosperity.
We meet to take up the broken cord of Ma
tionaI development and happiness and link it
once more to the car Of progress. Ourindustries
stagnant, our manufactures paralyzed, our
agriculture dishesrtened, our artisans urem-
ployed, our finances disordered' our treasury
bankrupt. our credit impaired, our position
among the nations OF the world questioned, all