The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-15
We fight for the Stars and Stripes.

its lines. The senator from Utah read
 an address from the silver camps threatening to ruin the party they l found they could not rule. His decla-
 ration was met with shouts to stand
 not upon the order of his going. Slow ly and impressively that score of men marched out of the convention. The convention rose and as the last of | these who would have had the party barter its principle for votes passed out
 of the building, the great assembly | burst into tumultuous cheering. The
 republican party had gone through the furnace of temptation and the very
 smell of the fire was not upon its gar 1 ments. As the cheering slackened a
 band high up in the gallery started strain of music In an instant ten thousand men and women were sing 1 ing,
 The flag of our country forever,
 Three cheers for the red, white and | blue
 l "The band stopped after a single
 stanza, but those 10000 voices went on, They did not sing as men ordinarily
 sing. They sang with swelling hearts
 and gripping hands and streaming eyes. l IhOS SetlS etS lIiell icldlutio SetIS5
 their terrible hymns when the sword of
 the Puritan smote the riders of the
 king. Not as a song of rejoicing, but
 as summons to battle did that mighty
 assembly sing the song of the flag. As
 they pledged themselves, their lives and their fortunes to keep it's pure folds
 free from stain there seemed to sound through the deep diapason of that l swelling chorus the rattle of the flint locks at Concord Bridge and York town, the ringing of the cutlasses that
 swung behind Hull and Decatur, the
 deep throated booming of the cannon at Gettysburg. From Bennington and the Cowpens, from Lundy's Lane and New l Orleans, from the deep bosom of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, from the living grave of Andersonville and the heights of Lookout Mountain invis- ible singers joined in that mighty oath l that the flag of our fathers carried on l from height to height, the flag that ! bears to-day no taint of shame, shall
 never be trailed in the black waters of | dishonor, but shall fly as of old at the
 masthead, its red white and blue pure
 as the sun, the stars and the sky above it, the pride ofthe American people, l the inspiration of the world"
 1 At the close of Guilds speech there was tremendous cheering, and the band played the Red, White and Blue" the entire audience rising to their feet and singing the air with fervor and pathos. | The chairman then introduced as the last speaker of the evening Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, who was received with chnarc 1oc ctiy y,,jy, F, | Lodge said in substance:
 T had thought we should enter upon | this campaign with an appeal to the American people to restore the repub- lican party to power and that we | should rest that appeal upon the his-
 tory of the last three years-the strong est argument and the best vindication of republican policies. We appeal to
 the people to aid us in winning the vic-
 tory in November because a victory
 of that party which is to-day masquer-
 ading underline livery of the old dem
 ocratic party would mean period of 1 panic, O. disaster, of misfortune in
 comparison with which the last three
 years would seem a bright era of pros-
 perity.
 l "The republican convention met in
 St. Louis on the 18th of last June. That
 portion of the platform upon which the
 sharpest contest arose was the money | plank It matters little to whom the
 credit is due for putting that plank in
 the platform; 1t is the plank that Mas I sachusetts wanted. On that platform,
 plain, direct and sensible, we nominat-
 ed the two candidates whom you have
 come here to ratify. Those of us who
 have the pleasure of knowing our can
 didate for president know him to have
 led a life of which we like to think and
 which is typical of the American home.
 We know him to be the man of pure and honest character. We know him l to be a patriotic American We know | that he Is a man who would cut off the
 right hand with which he drew his
 sword in battle rather than suffer any l taint to come upon the honor of the | United States, or see a creditor of the | United States cheated, from the treas
 ury gates. With him we have put a
 good republican, a sound business man,
 in campaign where the good business
 interests of the country are at stake
 MT. Hobart is guarantee of the sound
 ness of the business principles of the | party which he represents.
 Since the 18th of June there has been
 another convention, a transient collec- 1 tion of persons, met in Chicago They l took possession of the democratic or ] ganization. It is difficult to describe
 what followed Democrats have de- clared, or the populists have declared
 as usual, for tariff for revenue only. ! The republican party stands now as it i has always stood-for protection. The | great people of protection is neither to ] be bartcred away nor pushed into corner. A government with monthly
 deficit is threat to every business in ] the country.
 Give us the power and we will sup ! ply the needful and we will supply it
 in the republican method. in the way
 in which it has been supplied pretty
 much since the foundation of the gov
 ernment-by duties on imports-and in ! that way we will check the outflow of gold
 We stand for the existing standard
 the gold standard of the United States. ] I repeat to you now that in this day, ! when old party lines are breaking
 when ideas hostile to American liberty
 and American ideas are rampant that
 federalist party of Washington's time,
 which placed Lincoln in the chair
 (cheers)-that party lifts up it's stand
 ard-it is a standard to which the good
 and wise men repair: the event is in