The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-10-22
WORDS OF PATRIOTS. Prominent Stump Speakers on Sound Money, Protection and
 National Honor. REGENT CAMPAIGN ORAT0RY. Makers of History Record Utterances Which Are Bound to Live
 for Ages
REGENT CAMPAIGN ORATORY.
What tho Republican Party Stands
 For.
MAJ. MCKINLEY.

"The political situation of the country is peculiar. We have had few parallels to our present political condition. We have but one political party which is united, and that is ours. (Applaase) Discord reigns in all others. Our time honored opponent. the Democratic party, is torn and divided. Two national con ventions have been held by it and two national tickets presented, and their plat forms are totally different on every sub ject and in almost every section. The Populist party has merged its organiza- tion into that of the Chicago Demo- cratic and St: Louis silver organizations, and their allies are for the most part harmonious except that each one has distinct and different candidate for vice president. Great laughter and ap- plause)
 Happily the Republican party was never more closely united than now, both in fact and in spirit, and there were never better reasons for such union, and never greater necessity for it than new. (Cheers and cries of That's riGht.) IL is welded, devotedly welded, to ?arty principles. It stands as it has always stood. for an American protective tariit which shall raise enough money 10 con duct the several departments of the gov crnment. including liberal pensions to the Union soldiers. Tremendous cheer ing and hurrahs for McKinley) A tariff that will stop debts and deficiencies and make the treasury of the United States once more safe and sound in every par ticular. (Applause.) l. stands for re- ciprocity that seeks out the markets of the world for our surplus agricultural and manufacturing products without sur rendering single days wages that be- longs to the American workman. 'Ap- plause.) It believes in preserving home market for the American farmer (applause). in the opening of the Amcri- can factories for the American working man (applause), and the opening mp of foreign market wherever it can be cone with profit to all the great interests of the United States.
 Tt is, too for sound money (great checringI. every dollar worth loo cents (renewcd chcering), every dollar as good as gold (cOntinued cheering). and it is op.. posed alike 10 the free and unlimited coinage of silver. and the issuance of ir-
 
 allied party seemed firmly committed. IGreat applause.) It has always kept silver at a parity with gold. It proposes to keep that silver money in circulation and preserve side by side gold and silver and paper, each the equal to the other. and each the equal of the best, and the best never to be inferior to the best money known to the commercial nations of the world. Loud cheering.) It will continue to favor policy that will give work to American citizens tap plause) markets to American farmers lcries of That's what we want,D. and sound money tO both. Tremendous checrinGs and cries of 'Hurrah for Me Kinley.J We are now convinced after three years of experience. whatever may have been our political relations in the past, of the truth of the observation of Webster, made more than half century ago. You will recall that he said That is the trucst American policy which shall most usefully employ Ameri- can capital and American labor and best sustain the whole American population. (Great applause)
 Agriculture, commerce and manufac- lures will prosper together or fail to- gethcr. Equally true also were the words of John Quincy Adams, That the great interests of this agricultural, min ing and manufacturing nation are so linked in unison that no permanent cause of prosperity to one of them can operate without extending it's influence to. the other (Applause) We cannot have commercial growth and expansion with out national and individual honor.
 "We cannot have commercial prosperity without the strictest integrity both of government and citizen. (Renewed ap- plause and cries of That's right.o The financial honor of this government is of too vast importance, is entirely too sa- hn ha hnl nf rty, (Great applause and cries of Good, good.o The Republican party has main- tained it and is pledged to maintain it. It has more than once stood between good faith and dishOnor and when it gave up the control of the government our national honor had never before been so high and unquestioned. (Applause.) The Republican party is pledged 10 main- tain the credit of tho government which is intimately associated with it's spOtless name and honor. and this it will do un- der any circumstances and at any cost. (Great checring)
 "It taxed the credit of the government in the days of the war to it's utmost ten sion to preserve the government itself, which, under God, it was happily en- ablcd to do. Following that mighty struggle it lifted our credit higher than it had ever been before and made it equal to the oldest and weathiest na- tions of the world. Applause and cries of That's right.O It is pledged to maintain uncorrupted the currency of the country of whatever form or kind that has been used by national au- thority. It made the old grcenback as good as gold and has kept it as good as gold ever since. It has maintained every form of American money, whether sil- yer or paper, equal to gold, and it will not take any backward step. Great ap- plause and cries of Good, good.o No party ever went out of power which left So magnihcant record as the Hepub- Our great war debt was more than two thirds paid off, our currency unquestioncd. our credit untarnished, the honor of the union unsulied. the country in it's ma teral conditions stronger than it had