The San Francisco call., 1896-06-20
A PARTY WITH ONE IDEA.

While the echo of the first shouts of the
peoples approval of the work of the ST.
Louis convention still fingers upon the
ear the Democracy sends out its carefully
prepared counteracting war cry, but
which does not counteract-"Mc Mckinley is
a man with but one idea; the idea of pro-
tection.''
In its blind stupidity the Democratic
party has coined a sentence in derision
that will be taken up by the people as the
cry to arms in defense of the very prin-
ciple to establish which there was in
augurated war which eliminated in
declaration of American Independence 1t
was the Idea of protection" that kept
aglow the fires of the spirit of right, of
justice and freedom, and which moved
the people to make July 4, 1776, the be-
ginning of a new cycle in the onward and
upward advance of humanity. Washing
ton ana his confraternity of human
rights defenders were inspired by but the
"one idea" of protection" against what
ever was calculated to hold the colonies
subservient to foreign nations. What the
Democracy has invented to belittle the
Republican party's leader will return to it
as the boomerang returns to the thrower
Just such campaign enthusiasm be letter
was needed, and the Republican party
thanks the Democracy for it,
Yes, Mr.. Mckinley as candidate of the
Republican party for President stands but
for one idea, which is protection or Ameri-
canism. Since March, 1s93 the people
have been growing in the belief that there
is too much foreignism and not enough
Americanism in the conduct of the affairs
of the Nation, and, like Mckinley, they
have but one Idea" about the matter, and
that is to reverse the order of things and
have more Americanism and less-a good
deal lless-foreignism. Mr.. McKinleys idea
is that when our people are so deprived of
protection against the invasion of their
enemies that every present and future
prospect of advancement is in the clutches
of encouragement, the time has come for
every true citizen of the United States to
have but one idea-the idea that all dis
couraging prospects for the American to
gather for himself the fruit of his labor
should be turned into positive assurances
that what is his is his, with the further
assurance that be shall be protected in his
effort to add to that which is already his
by right of his own industry.
Not only Mr.. Mckinley. but every other
good Republican. has but lone idea-the
idea of protection" But the definition of
protection" as Republicans define it. in
cludes everything that is calculated 10
protect our people against whatever threat
ems to retard them in their social, political
or commercial advancement. Therefore
when a Republican talks about "protec-
tion," he means BY it the adoption of any
policy and the employment of any means
that promise good to the citizen of high
and low degree. Protection does not mean
high custom-house charges merely, but it
means a watchful eve upon every avenue
by which harm could reach the machinery
of the individual, and the Nations pur.
pose to go from strength to strength in all
the ways to better conditions for the enioy-
ment of life, liberty and the harvest OF
ones own honest effort.
The Mckinley lone idea" stands for
true Americanism in all its ramitications,
and hence it includes everything that the
spirit and letter of the Declaration of In
dependence promises to the citizen of the
United States. 1t would not mean more