The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-19
concentrated for an assault upon our
position and is certain to succeed.


isms are destined in this campaign, no (
matter who is our cai---iate or what is I
our platform. to secure possession OF the (
government" The country knows to Its {
loss, its sorrow and its grief, that the pre-
diction has been fulfilled in every part /
IN its fulhllment the United States has /
the experience and Europe has the BUSH !
ness and prosperity.
We meet to take up the broken cord OF
national development and happiness ana
link II once more to the CIR OF progress
Our industries stagnant, our manufac-
lures paralyzei, our agriculture dis |
heartened, our artizans unemployed, our |
finances dlsordered our treasury bank
rupt, our credit impaired, our position
among the nations of the world ques-
toned, all look TO this convention ana
call upon its wisdom for hope and rescue. !
THE CONDITIONS CREATED
by the practice of Democratic policies. the
promises OF Democratic measures and the
differences OF Democratic statesmen
would seem to argue an unquesuoned
and Overwhelming triumph for the Repub-
lean party IN the coming election. NO
matter how brilliant the promise, no mat
ter how serene the outlook, it IS the part
OF wisdom, with the uncertainties OF
politics and our recent experience OF the
tragic shifting of issues, to be careful,
prudent and wise in platform and in can
uidate-
The last few years have been cam
paign of uniVer lily extension among the
people of the Tlited States, aid while
we may IN DlallO- III anu CSuQluGlc liicCL
all the requirements of party obligations
and party expectations. we must remem-
Der that there is a vast constituency
which has little fealty to parties or TO
obligations but votes for the man and
the principles which are in accord with
their views in the administration of the
country. The whole country. north, south,
east and west, without any division in our
lines or out of them, stands, after what
has happened in the last three years, for
the principle of reciprocity and for Amer
ica for Americans. But a compact neigh
borhood OF great commemorative, IN
which are concentrated the majority OF
The population, of the manufactures and
of the industrial energies of the United
: lates, has found that business and credit
exist only witL the stability OF sound
money.
1t has become the fashion of late to de-
cry business as unpatriotic. We hear
much of the ''sordid considerations OF
capital" and employment" Industrial
energies and prosperous labor. The
United Stat7;. differing from the medieval
conditions which govern older countries,
differing from the militarisn which is the
curse of European nations, differing from
thrones which rest upon the sword, Is
prominently and periodically COM
lnercial and a business nation. Thus
COMMERCE AND BUSINESS
are synonymous with patriotism. When
the farmer is afield sowing and reaping
the crops which find a market that re-
munerates him for his toll, when the
laborer and the artiZan find work SelSing
them and not themselves despairing OF
work when the wage of the toiler prom
Uses comfort for his family and hope for
his children, when the rail is bhrdened
with the product of the soil and OF the
factory. when the spindleS are hummlng
and the furnaces in blast, when the mine
is putting out its largest product and the
national and individual wealth are con-
stantly increasing when the homes owned
unmortgaged by the people are more num-
erous day by day and month by month,
when the schools are most crowded, the
fairs most frequent and happy conditions
most universal in the nation. then are the
promises fulfilled which make these United
States of America the home of the OPP
pressed and the land of the free.
1t IS to meet these conditions and TO
meet them with a candidate who repre-
sents them and about whom there can
be no question, that New York presents
10 you Tor the presidency under the unan-
imous instructions of two successive Re-
publican state conventions the name of
her governor, Levi P. Morton.
New York is the cosmopolitan state of
the Union. She is both barometer and
thermometer of the changes of popular
opinion and popular passion. She has
been the pivotal commonwealth which has
decided nearly every one of the national
elections in this generation.
SHE HAS MORE YANKEES
than any city in New England, more
SouthernerS than any community in the
south and more native-born westerners
SentativeS of the Pacific coast within her
borders have been men who have done
much for the development of that glor-
louS region These experienced and cos
Inopolitan citizens with their fingers upon
The pulse of the finance and trade of the
the whole country, feel instantly the con-
ditions that lead to disaster or to pros
perity. Hence they swing the state some
time to the Republican and sometime to
the Democratic column.
In the tremendous effort to break the
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nonwealth, and which il had strengthened
for ten successive years, we selected as
our standard-bearer the gentleman whom
/ present on behalf of our state here to-
day and who carried New York. and took
the legislature with him, by one hundred
and ifty-six thousand majority.
WE ARE BUILLNG A NAVY
and the Whate Squadron is a fore-runner
of a commerce which is TO wfiten every
sea and carry our flag into every port
of the world. Not our wish perhaps, nor
our ambitions probably. but our very
progress and expansion have made us one
OF ne family of nations. We can no
Ions II. without the hazard Of unnecessary
frictions with other governments, con-
duct our foreign policy except through
the medium OF a skilled diplomacy For
four years as minister to France, when
critical questions of the import of our
products into that country were imminent
Levi +. Morton learned and practiced
successfully the diplomacy which was best
Tor me property OIL MS country. None
of the mistakes which have discredited
our relations with foreign nations during
the past four years could occur under his
administrations. He is the best type of
the American business man-that type
which is the ideal of school. the academy
and college, that type which the mother
presents to her boy in the western cabin
and in the eastern tenement as she is
marking out for him a career by which
he shall rise from his poor surroundings
TO grasp the prizes which come through
American liberty and American oppor-
tunity.
YOU SEE THE PICTURE.
The New England clergyman on his
meagre salary, the large family of boys
and girls about him. the sons going out
with their common school education. the
boy becoming the clerk in a store, then
granted an interest in the business. then
becoming its controlling spirit, then
claiming the attention of the great house
in the city and called to a partnership
then himself the master of great affairs
Overwhelmed by the incalculable condi-
tions OF civil war but with undaunted
energy and foresight. he grasped again
the elements OF escape out of bankruptcy
and of success and with the return of
prosperity he paid to the creditors who
had compromised his Indebtedness every
dollar. principal and interest, of what he
owned them. The best type of a success
ful business man, he turns to politics. to
be a useful member of congress, 10 diplo-
macy, to be, a successful minister abroad
to the executive and administrative
branches Of government, to be the most
popular vice-president and the presiding
officer of that most august body, the
senate Of the United States. Our present
deplorable
INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL CON
DITIoNS