The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-27
M'KlNLEY'S DOCTRINE.
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that laid the foundation of our splendid
political fabric. For more than a hundred
ana twenty years it has stood the shock OF
battle from without and from within and
is stronger and more patriotic to-day than
1t has ever been as will be seen by its
vote week from tomorrow. cloud
cheerS.) New Jersey has the distinction OF
being one OF those glorious thirteen original
States. She not only has the distinction OF
membership in that original family but
she is full of historic memories and sacred
historic events leading UP to our national
independence.
Il am glad to meet you members of this
old and historic company, twenty-eight
years old and bearing the honored name of
trelinghuysen, one OF the most illustrlous
not only in the annals of your State, but
in the annals of the Nation as well; "a
name that is synonymous with protection
to our industries and to our national honor;
name that is synonymous with honest
finance, good currency and public and pri-
vate morality. | am glad to welcome you,
my fellow-citizens from the State and
home of my distinguished associate the
national ticket, that splendid typical rep
reSentatiVe American, that honest citizen,
that incorrupt1ble statesman Garret A.
Hobart. cloud and prolonged cheers)
NO ordinary event could have brought
you thousand miles to the city of Canton !;
no ordinary political contest could have as
sembled on this lawn thousands and tens
of thousands of men and women from every
quarter of this country. 1t is only because
in the public mind there exists a belief
that we are confronted with great public
peril and because we mean by votes to
shun and avoid it. This is the meaning of
it all. We have experienced only calamity
by following false teachers We do not
propose TO experience another and even
greater calamity by following the same
teachers. loud cheers.) We have already
withstood the experience of partial free
trade IL policy, the result of which your
eloquent spokesman has so fifty described
a policy that has brought idleness to our
workingplen and extinguished the fires in
many furnaces. This has been your ex-
perlence Tor The past three and d half years
1T is proposed now to add TO that. as
we had suffered
fatal heresy that somehow or another peo-
pie get rich by debasing our currency.
ployment and now they want to reduce the
value of the money in which they are paid
So that we suffering I'm both directions
What we want in the United States Is
a stable tariff law that will raise enough
money to pay all the current expenses OF
the government: that will obvate the
plus to wipe out the existing debt In 1888
the government paid off its entire debt. 1t
Iieved IL never could be paid off. VT was
to S45. 000. 0o00 after 1872 and by pur-
suing a protective policy Tor thirty-ftve
years every dollar was paid. By pursuing
the same policy from 1861. to 1898 we paid
off more than two billions of dollars and
If our pros oerity had not been interrupted
and the Republican policy not abandoned
we would have wiped it all off by to-day.
cloud cheers.)
to that good American patriotic. protective
policy that stands for the American people
and American development against all the
world besides. Then We want to pursue
sound financial system and nave every dol
lar in this country as sound as the gov
itself and unquestioned in its
integrity as the flag that waves above us.
We want public honor kept invioiate We
want to teach and practice reverence for
public law, respect for our incorruptible
judiciary: love OF our free institutions. love
for our flag and zeal for public and pri-
waite honor. Let that be the shield of ex-
allied American citizenship. cloud cheers.)
II am glad to meet you here this MORN
ing. / remember years ago to have been
in your State and city. Twenty years ago
I spoke IN the city of Trenton | was then
7, young man and we were battling then as
now. for honest money, for an honest dol
lar and a protective tariff. Then. later on
spoke in the chief city of New Jersey
your home city. the city of Newark This
was four years ago. [ was the guest OF
this brilliant company-thc Frelinghuysen