The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-01
Prominent Stump Speakers on
Sound Money, Protection and
National Honor.
RECENT CAMPAIGN ORATORY.
Makers Of History Record Utterances
Which Are Bound to Live
for Ages.
What the 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. (ApplaIse)
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-
ton 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 APP
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 now.
CHEERS and cries of That's right.) 1t
is welded, devotedly welded, to :iarty
principles. 1t stands as it has always
stood, for an American protective tariff
which shall raise enough money 10 con-
duct the several departments of the gov
eminent, including liberal pensions to
the Union soldiers. Tremendous cheer
ing and hurrahs for MckinleyD A tariff
that will stop debts and Deficiencies and
make the treasury of the United states
a sOnn1
ticular. (Applause.) 1t stands for re-
ciDrocity 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 tie American workman. Cap
plause) 1t believes in preserving a
home market for the American farmer
(applause), in the opening of the Ameri-
can factories for the American working
man (applause), and the opening up OF a
foreign market wherever it can be done
with profit TO all the great interests of
the United States.
1T is, too, for sound money great
cheering), every dollar worth 100 cents
(renewed cheering), every dollar as good
as gold continued cheering), and II is on.
posed alike to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and the issuance of ir-
redeemabe paper money TO which the
allied party seemed firmly committed.
Great applause.) 1t has always kept
silver at parity with gold. 1t 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 checring) 1t
will continue to favor n policy that will
give work to American citizens zap
plause), markets to American farmers
(cries of That's what we want,D, and
sound money TO both. Tremendous
cheerings and cries of 'Hurrah for Nc
Kinley!) 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 a century
ago. You will recall that he said:
That Is the truest American policy
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, to,
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
other (Applause) We cannot have
commercial growth and expansion with
out national and individual honor.
1--WE cannot have commercial prosperity
without the strictest integrity both of
government and citizen. tRenewed ap-
plause and cries of That's right.D The
financial honor of this government Is of
too vast Importance, Is entirely too sa-
cred to be the football of party politics.
Great applause and cries of Good,
good.D The Republican party has main
tanned il and Is pledged to maintain IL.
haa ha hot ~ m
good faith and dishonor and when il
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 the government which
name and honor. and this il will do un-
der any circumstances and at any cost.
Great cheering.)
cit taxed the credit of the government
In the days of the war To its utmost ten
sion to preserve the government itself,
which. under God. il was happily en-,
abed to do. Following that mighty
struggle IL lifted our credit higher than
il had ever been before and made IL
equal to the oldest and wealthiest ma
tons of the world. applause and
cries of That's right.) IL is pledged
10 maintain interrupted the currency
of the country of whatever form OF
Kind that has been used by national au-
thority Ii made the old greenback as
good as gold and has kept II az good as
gold ever since. IL has maintained every
form of American money, whether sill.
yer or paper. equal to gold. and IL will
not take any backward step. Great APP
plause and cries Of Good. goodo Nc
party ever went out of power which left
so magnificent a record as the Repub.
lican party. (Cries of That's right. 7
Our great war debt was more than two.
thirds paid off, our currency unqucstioned
our credit untarnished, the honor of the
union unsullied, the country In it's ma.
terial conditions stronger than IL had
ever been before; the workingmen better
employed and better paid than ever be
fore, with prosperity In every part Of the