San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-25
WISCONSIN G. 0 P.

exposition hall and 1t was noon before
President McAlpine called the conven-
ton to order. Rev. DIR. Hunsberger,
of Milwaukee, said n prayer and Gen
eral McAlpine introduced Mayor
Rauschenberger who made a brief
speech of welcome.
Samuel a. Harper, president of the
Wisconsin state league of Republican
clubs, made speech oS welcome in
behalf of Wisconsin state league.
Harper was frequently interrupted by
applause. When he'touched upon the
money question and expressed the
money views of Wisconsin Republic
cans somebody shouted that's the
stuff"
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster who is to make
an address occupied seat on the plat
form.
General McAlpine introduced d. d.
Woodmansee, of Ohio, to respond to
the address of welcome. On behalf of
the young Republicans of the United
States, he thanked the Wisconsin peo-
pie for their welcome. The party he
said was entering on a great campaign
the greatest since the boys went out
in 1860 to save the country. Repudi-
alton and anarchy went hand in hand
and W. ]. Bryan represented those
principles. 1t would be worse, he
said, to open our factories to foreign
labor than to open our minis to the
silver of the world. Who was 1t that
rejoiced i'm the nomination of VIM.
Mckinley? he asked. 1t was the pa
triots of the land. The fathers and
sons who felt their homes needed pro-
lection and as, certain as November
came VIM. Mckinley would be elected
president of the United States. He
told the story of the war days and
how the strains of Home, Sweet
Home" had caused the two armies to
lay down their arms and jump up on
the ramparts to greet each other. A
merican homes today are in danger. z
He closed by calling upon the dele
gates to go home and work and save
their homes. The speech made an
impression and Mr.. Woodmansee was
cheered to the echo.
At this point. President McAlpine
delivered his annual address.
After his address Hon. L. b. Reed,
Of Maine, was called upon.
After brief introduction. Mr.. Reed
said in part: What seemed the great
primeval course that in the sweat of
his face should man eat bread, has
been found in the wider view of the
great cycles of the almanac to be the
foundation of all sound hope, all sure
progress and all permanent power.
To the 100000 people which make
up the great republic the opportunity
to labor means more than to all the
world beside But each individual
man is weak and powerless. Only by
combination, each one with the other,
can good results be had. No more
striking proof of this can anywhere
be found than in that complex union
Of men which makes up the modern
nation and modern enterprise. The
nature of man Graves also liberty and
individuality.
What are the causes of prosperity
and what are the causes of panics?
Are they mysterious things beyond
the human ken? II you will analyze
you win find that whatever the re-
mote causes are, and they are differ
ent every time, the immediate cause
Of prosperity is the confidence Of all
the people in each other and in the sit
uation in the future. When the peo-
pie all work together, when they all
have faith in each other, then pros
perity reigns. After prosperity reigns
for some time, longer or shorter, men
think that hard times are permanent
ly done away with and get wild. Then
some wise man, earlier than the other,
observes that the world cannot alb
sorb all that is made and cannot per-
manently support the enterprises
which Overconfident men have set in
motion and begin to doubt, refuse dis
counts, to hoard money and to call a
halt to speculations. Then the dis
trust spreads and hard times follow.
Then we set to work to climb out of
our trouble, only the process is slow.
While we are climbing out we suffer.
in 1895 we had as great crash as
we had in 1873. All the world went
with us, but for special causes we had
gone further and it is for us longer
way back. In 1892 we thought hard
times had been banished forever. We
were sure that work and high pay
were never more to be separated. But
we were mistaken. The election Of
1892 was a great misfortune. 1t may
be we would have had collapse
then. of this no one can be quite sure.
But if we had been in skillful hands
we would not have got so far nor
suffered so much.
"When the Sherman law was strug-
Cling to be repealed the Democratic
press and even some Republicans told
us repeal would be the final remedy
and business would revive. l never
shared that belief, on the contrary,
Just three years ago, lacking three
days, when was conversiug with
good Democrats took occasion to say
before 5000 men, women and children,
that the repeal of the Sherman law,
was only step in the onward march.
Since then many bad things have hap
..o.a1.d 1aI.,1a1xircz daaIanr in the mira.