Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-24
WORDS OF PATRIOTS.
Prominent Stump Speakers on
Sound Money, Protection and
National Honor.
RECENT CAMPAIGN 0RATORY.
Makers of History Record Utterances
Which Are Bound to Live
for Ages.
What the Republican Party Stands
For.
MAI. MCKINLEY.


1.-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. (Appla1se)
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 it's 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 a
distinct and different candidate for vice
president. Great laughter and ap-
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 nc W.
(Cheers and cries of That's right.O 1t
is welded, devotedly welded, to party
principles. 1t stands as it has always
stood, for an American protective tariff
which shall raise enough money TO con-
duct the several departments of the gov
eminent, including liberal pensions to
the Union soldiers. Tremendous cheer
ing and hurrahs for Mckinley A tariff
that will stop debts and deficiencies and
make the treasury of the United States
once more safe and sound in every par
ticular. (Applause.) Il stands for re-
ciprocity that seeks out the markets of
the world for our surplus agricultural
and manufacturing products without sur
longs to the American workman. Cap
piause) 1t believes in preserving
home market for the American farmer
tapplause), in the opening of the Ameri-
can factories for the American working
man (applause), and the opening up of
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
cheeringl, every dollar worth 100 cents
(renewed cheering), every dollar as good
as gold Continued cheering), and it is OPP
posed alike to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and the issuance of ir-
redeemable paper money to which the
allied party seemed firmly committed.
silver at a parity with gold. 1t PROPOSES
TO keep that silver money in circulation
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
>
VIII continue to favor policy that viii |
give work to American citizens zap
piause), markets to American farmers |
lcrles OF That's what we wantD and |
cheerings and cries of .Hurrah for Nc.
n nIey!) we are now convinced after
.nree years OF experience, whatever NAV
nave been our political relations in the |
past, of the truth of the observation of |
Webster, made more than half century
a :,:S You will recall that he said:
Ihat is the truest American policy
WI Inch shall most usefully employ Ameri-
sustain the. whole American populations
(Great applause.)
Agriculture, commerce and manufac- |
refher VIII F prosper together or fail to-
words of John Quincy Adams. That the
great interests of this agricultural. min
N; nj ana Manufacturing nation are SO
hnked IN unison that no permanent cause
ot prosperity to one of them can operate
Without extending it's influence to the
.oner, tApplauseD We cannot have
'uf national and individual honor.
we cannot have commercial prosperity
1ne stIictest integrity both of
.lause and cries of That's rightly The |
mar NEAR honor OF this government is of
90. vast Importance. is entirely too sa-
red to be the football of party politics
Great applause and cries of Good
'ood- The Republican party has moin,
4 !. h J.. and IS pledged to maintain it.
1
'ood fesSh and dishonor and whom -
ave up the control of the government !
ur national honor had never before hoe,,
o nigh and unquestioned (AnnIanse1
ne Republican party is pledged I1 mo -
am the credit of the government wbicb
Intimately associated with its snotIess |
ame and honor. and this it will do m :
er any circumstances and at any 800 .
Great cheering) any Gust :
II taxed the credit of the covarn,,o,,. | l
the days of the war to its utmost -, |
ION to preserve the government ;+soIf {
,hlch, under God. it was hanoiIr e-, I
oled TO do Following thar mightr G
trusSle 1t lifted our credit higher fbon
had ever been before and made - {
quaI TO the oldest and weaIthiest ~ /
lons OF the world. Applause and t
res ! OF that's right-O 1t is pledged f
9 M. .hIainsaln interrupted the currency L
snS country of whatever form mr. Q
.Eu tnat ras been used by national an
aority- II made the old s-reenback C ]
ood as gold and has kept If as sood - i
OLD ever since. 1t has nlaintaine5 o, d q
,rm or American money wbefhar 81 6
or or paper, equal to gold and II Lii II
=. take any backward STEP (Great on v
iduse and cries of Good rnod " N
ary ever Went out of power which Lee v
magnIncant n record as the Rennh- I
can party. (Cries of .Tbaf's 1872 a
ur great war debt was more than ~ n
lirds paid off, our currency unouesf;onasI
N credit untarnished, the honor Of fba 3
mon unsullied. the country In ito no v
rini conditions stronger than il had | Il
Ier oeen before; the workinsmen befter | T.
npioyed and better paid than ever he II
re- with prosperity in every part of the a