The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-12
PARTY OF LOFTY PURPOSE
LICdNISM--WHAT TT VAS,
 AND WHAT IT STILL IS.

the Party Illustrious With Great Deeds
 Will Guard With Sleepless Vigilance the
 Country's Honor, as it Guarded Its Life
 in Its Mightiest Crisis-Duty of Citizen-
 ship in the Present Hour Clearly Set
 Forth-Speech Loudly Applauded.
 Canton, O., Sept. 11-An hour and half after the Vermonters had depart ed 2,500 citizens of Lorraine county, Ohio, filed into Major McKinley's yard. Following these closely came delega- tion from Erie, Pa, consisting of the Lincoln club of that city and delegates to the league convention recently held in Erie The sun was fiercely hot and three people succumbed and were car- ried unconscious from the crowd.
 When Major Mckinley appeared there was 8 shout that was heard blocks away. Judge John w. Steele spoke for the people of Lorraine county and Judge J. F. Downing for the Erie people. Major Mckinley made one speech, answer for both delegations. He said:
 
 home. I know something of the great resources of Lorraine county, but above all, know and value the splendid spir- it of loyalty and patriotism of it's peo- pie. (Cheers.) I bid the Lincoln club of Erie welcome. You bear the most honored name in republican annals and none more illustrious in the annaus of our country. It is not the property of any political party, but belongs to the ages. {Applause.)
 Tt is full of inspiration and embod- ies every republican doctrine and rep resents the best aims and purposes of Americans, Abraham Lincoln's career put to shame the false doctrine now so insiduously promulgated-tha there are class divisions in the United States. Tremendous applause.) Humble of birth, surrounded by poverty, forced by circumstances to acquire unaided whatever education he had, he forged his way to the front reaching the high est place in the gift of free people and the greatest place in the world. (Ap- plause and cries of We'll put Mckinley there, too.9
 Tt is gratifying to us to know that on the great questions which are divid- ing us this year MT Lincoln stood from the beginning of his early manhood where we are to-day. We have the sat isfaction of knowing that in the strug- gle we are close to him and his approv- al of the truths we approve No man has shown more thorough knowledge of the tariff and its effects upon pros- perity than he. Forty three years he made an address upon the subject of tariff and taxation and their influence upon the condition of the country, which do not think has been excelled by anybody before or since.
 Listen to his descrition of the condi- tion of the country at the time when he spoke and how wildly it portrays the times in which we live: For sever al years past the revenues of the gov- ernment have been unequal to its ex- penditure and consequently loan after loan, sometimes direct and sometimes indirect, in form have been resorted to. By this means a national debt has been created and Is still growing on us with a rapidity fearful to contemplte-a ra- pidity only reasonably to be expected in time of war.
 You would think that Abraham Lin- coin was describing the three years from 1893 to 1896. (Applause) Is it any wonder when the national convention in May, 1860, a resolution was passed which is the same doctrine that we ad- vocate now. The Lincoln platform of 1860 is the republican platform of 1896. (Great chearing) I am glad to meet the Pennsylvanians. There is no surer safety for our institutions than the manifestation of intelligent and pat riotic interest by the young men of the United States. America is the coun- try of the greatest and freest opportu- nity We have no hereditary ruler or privileged class.
 s1rhere are two great incentives to American manhood, the realization of individual ambition and patriotic de- votion to country. The more active and intelligent the participation of ev- cry citizen in the affairs of state, the freer and purer the greater will be the government Here represented in this great assembly ar men of every avoca- tion and professions; but you are here because you want neither free tEhde nor free silver. (Great cheers) We do not delegate to anybody our right to govern. Indifference to our duties as citizens vii inevitably be followed by incompetency and corruption in public affairs. The discussion, such as we are having now and at last the sober, intelligent use of the ballot is the surest foundation upon which our institutions can rest and takes the place of revolution in despotic gov ernment. (Great applause.)
 "The republican party has always been the party of lofty purpose. It never had an aim which did not en- brace the common good of all No political party has ever been formed which so appeals to the intelligence and enthusiasm of the young men. It never waged a contest in all its great past which more strongly appeals to the best sentiments and the noblest aims of both young and old as to-day. Its past is illustrious with great deeds and it still maintains the lofty purpose which has characterized it from the be- ginning It stands for country now and will guard with Sleepless vigilance its honor as it guarded it's life in the mfghtiest crisis in our history. (Great cheering.) Gentlemen, for the assur- ance of support rendered me thank you one and all most heartily Fight ing under the banner of protection to labor and home industry, reciprocity. +~if To