The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-18

President. Business Is paralyzed. Con-
fdence Is gone. Enterprise has folded it's
eagle wings and mopes and blinks in the
market place. Our mills are iole and our
railroads crippled. Capital hides itself
and la bor idly walks the streets. There
Is neither a good days wage nor a good
days. work. We have met with
sights abroad and have serious
differences with other nations
The key of the Pacific has slipped from
nerveless hands. Foreign troops have
been landed In this hemisphere. Our own
boundaries have been threatened In
Alaska. The Monroe doctrine has been
defended, but II was not vindicated. The
people of neigh hboring island fighting
for freedom look toward US with impl T.
ing eyes and look in vain. The American
policy which would protect our indus
tries at home and our flags abroad has
faded and withered away. "Look then
upon that picture and this"
"Could you on that fair mountain leave
to feed and fatten on this moor?"
But four short years have come and
gone, and they have brought this change.
What has happened. l will tell you In
word. The Democratic party has been in
power. That is the answer. Upon US
falls the eavyburden of binding up these
wounds and bringing relief 10 all this
suffering. The Democrats deceived the
people by prom ising them the millennium,
promises are all about us today. We have
no promises to make. We pledge ourselves
| only to that which we believe we can per-
| form. We will do our best. That Ia all.
And as In 1850 we saved the Union and
abolished slavery. so now in 1896, we will
| deal with the Democratic legacy OF
| blunders, bankruptcy and misfortune.
We are gathered here to cboose the
next President OF the United States.
| That we Will win the election no man
| doubts. But let us not deceive our
selves with the pleasant fancy that
the campaign is TO be an easy one. IL
| Will be hard battle. IL cannot bo other
wise when so much depends upon the re-
suit. Against the Repu blican party rep
| reseDting fixed American policies,
/ strength, progress and ordsr, Will be ar
rayed not only that organized failure. the
Democratic party. but all the wandering
forces of political chaos and social dis
order. Ii is not merely the Presidency
which is set before us MS the prize. The
prosperity of the country, the protection
| of our industries, the soundness OF our
currency and the national credit are all
staked on the great issue TO be decided
at the polls next November. Upon us
| rests the duty of rescuing the country
4 from misery into whicL IL has been
| plunged by three years OF Democratic
| misrule. 10 drive the Democrats from
| power Is the first step and the highest
duty, but we shall triumph in vain and
In our turn shall meet heavy punishment
at the hands of our people IL we do not
| put our victory to right uses. such a
crisis as this cannot be met and dealt
with by shouts of enthusiasm. We must
| face Ii as our fathers faced slavery and
disuTion with grim determination to
win the battle and that done to take up
our responsibilities in the same spirit
with which we won the fight. Now, as
he IN God tIx hN
| the most strenuous endeavor, and now,
as then, everything dep nds upon the ad-
| min istration we place in office We
| want President who will meet this sit
uation as Lincoln met that of 1861, with
the chiefs of the Republicans about him,
and with rarty and people at his back,
We want President who, on the fifth
dag of next March, will summon Con-
| gress in extra session and refusing to
| make appointments or to deal with
patronage. will say that all else must
wait until Congress sends to him tarj0
| which shall put money in the treasury
| ana wages in the pockets of the Ameti-
can workingman. We want a President
who will protect at all hazards the gold
reserves of the treasury, who will see to
| ii that no obligation OF tho government Is
presented which is not in Whatever coin
the creditor chooses 10 demand, and who
will never forget that the nation which
|
want a man who Will guard the safety
| and dignity OF the nation at home and
abroad and who will always and con-
stantly be firm and strong in dealing
| with foreign nations instead OF suddenly
varying long course of weakness and
| indifference with a convulsive spasm OF
4 vigor and patriotism. fsu we want IT
man who will lead his party end act with
it and who will not by senssless quarrels
| at the White House and thu Capitol re.
| duce legislation and Execution alike to
| i'm beciity and failure. Such IS the ran
| we want for our great office in these hit
ter times WHEN tle forces o! disorder era
loosed and tine wreckers with their false
| lights gather at the shore and lure the
|hip OF State upon the rocks. lie needs
| no praise from me, Tor he has proved his
own title to leadership. From what he
Is and what he has done, we know what
he can do. For 20 years in victory and
defeat, at the head OF great major
1 ities end of small minorities
alike, he has led his party in Congress
with power which no man could dis
| pute,a nd with an ability which never
failed. have seen him With n maddened
| opposition sto,ming about him, carry
through that great reform which has
made a House OF Representatives tho
| strong and efficient body il is today.
have seen him during the rsst winter
| guide great majority so thst they have
| met every demand put upon them and
made no errors which could burden the
Republican party in the campaign before
us. Before the psonle, and in the House
| be has ever been the bold and brilliant
champion OF the great Republican
| policies which adopted have made us
| prosperous and abandoned nave left ruin
at our doors. lie is thorough Ameri-
can, by birth, by descent, by breeding;
one who loves his country and has served
| il In youth and manhood, in war and
| peace. His great ability, his originality
| of thought, his power in debate, his
| strong Will, are known OF all men and are
! part OF the history of the last 20 years.
| His public career is'ss spotless as private
character is pure and unblemished. lie
is a trained statesman, fit for the heaviest
| task the country can impose upon him.
| lie commands the confidence of his party
and his country. He is n leader of men.
| We know IL because we have seen him
| lead. To those who have followed him
he never'said "Go," but-slways "Come. -
lie is entirely fearless. We know II, be-
cause we have seen his courage tested on
a hundred fields. He has been called 10
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