Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-13
GUESTS WERE TOO NUMEROUS
Not Enough Room for All Who Attended
sthe Marquette Club Banquet.
M'KlNLEY WAS THE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
Given Great Ovation When lie
Arose to Spcak-Scnntor Thurs
ton Spoke of the Impcnd-
Ing Conflict.

ton Spoke of the Impcnd-
Ing Conflict.
CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-When William Nc
Kinley arose to speak tonight at the banquet
in the Auditorium, given by the Marquette
club in commemoraton of the birth Of Abra-
ham Lincoln, 1900 men cheered the Ohioan
with the vehemence of enthusiastic admira-
tion. 1t was the tenth annual banquet given
by the club and it was intended there would
be 1, 200 guests. More than that number by
300 came and an overflow banquet was neces-
sary. The guest Of honor was Mr.. Mckinley.
He spoke to the toast, Abraham Lincoln"
The occasion was particularly notable as
the first public appearance of oho's famous
son in another state since his retirement
from the governorshp to the position Of
private citizen. Among those at the speakers
table besides Mr. Mckinley were the re-
publican governors Of Wisconsin and Penn
sylvania and the republican senators from
Nebraska, North Carolina and Maryland At
every reference to the name of Mckinley or
the word protection" outbursts of cheer
ing followed. The address of the eX-gov-
ernor was enthusiastically magnificent
piece of oratory. He said:
After giving comprehensive sketch and
tribute to Lincoln, in which ,allusion, is
Major Mckinley devoted himself to a con
of poeal nS 9uSest19 as
OF efeMP'ish MP Iincoin. 9E M He SpSinsS ssd anu
A profound common sense is the best
genius for statesmanship and there Is no no
most sagacious and far-seeing statesman
in, the annals Of American history Hi, His
1t is notable that his stand on all public
questions in his earlier as well as his
OF fm Ms have a
Witnessing the, government as we do
today with its debt;;iIcreasing, bond-issu-
words of Lincoln, written more than half
and They read as If "s Written fn
for the, living present, not for the past.
Why do ,, know that as far IN back
field, Mr., .Lincoln offered series of res9;,
tions relating to the tariff, which could well
instantly and unanimously adopted, and
Mr.. Lincoln, was himself appointed to pre-
a" the secs o S bev or hS
Let me read from this address his pro-
found observations upon tariff and taxa.
the country.
LINCOLN ON PROTECTION.
The first Of our resolutions" said Mr..
foregn 'Ip H ea'en sneen Pq
revenue, for the support of ,ths general gov
ernment, and SO adjusted as to protect
lean people; aud the second declares. direct
taxation for a national revenue to be i'm
f"for several years past the revenues Of,
expehditures. exp and conse9uentiy loan after
loan, sometimes direct and sometimes in
direct dire IN form, has been M. res9rted rte TO-, BY
erected, and is still growing us with
rapidity fearful to contemplate rapidity
war. This state of things has been pro
duced by prevailing unwili'rgness ei:hsr
70 @ nhe b tar or T TO RE, to direct
come. Coming expenditures must be met.
The question of the continuance or aban-
donment OF our protective system has been
the one great, overshadowing, vital ques-
ton in American politics ever since Mr..
1887, to which the lamented James G. Blaine
made swift reply from across the sea, and
it viii continue the issue until a truly Amer
firmly established and perpetuated.
1t may, be asked what the next repub,,
WS far e wv vo the raes w sg
be, but they will. measure the difference
between, American and European conditions,
selves from the invasion of our markets by
Oriental products to the injury of American
t@ect @ and exait American labor and promote note
and Increase American production
Gentlemen of the Marquette club, and my
of our party and consecrate ourselves anew
to their triumph; We have but to put our
tot" to the " voice c fp Of the people as it - comes to
us from every quarter; we have but to
paint on our banners the sentiment the
election during the last three years, "Patrl-
otism Protection and Prosperity" to win
another most glorious and decisive national
victory.
FOR EVERYTHING AMERICAN.
Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska
responded to the toast, "The Impending Con-
hct." He began with the statement that
he stood for everything American as against
all the rest of the world. If to love ones
country with ones whole heart: If to be
ready to defend its honor with the last drop
of blood; If to insist upon retaining the
glorious hopes of leadership which Providence
had assigned 1t among the republics Of
the new world; if to cell a halt on further
aggressions and dominion of European
powers in affairs Of the western hemisphere,
was jingosm, then, thank God, he was
lingo. LAS soon as the resolution pending
in the senate defining and reasserting
the Monroe doctrine was passed. as 1t would
be by decisive vote, there was no nation
in all the earth which would for a single
moment seriously contemplate forcible op-
position to the American policy. And moth
ing In modern times had done so much to
guarantee the permanent peace of this re-
public as the recent outbursts of loyalty and
patriotism from the people of all sections of
our common country, who are at last thor
oughly united without regard to party or
sect upon the great American policy of Amer
lea 'or Americans
After ref srring TO the division in the demo-
cratic party on the money question, he said
the republican party was today practically
united and pledged to the policy of American
bimetallism-to the greatest possible use of
gold and silver consistent with the mainte-
nance of the equal purchasing power and
debt paying power Of every dollar, 1t stood
for the protection of every American inter
est, commercial, agricultural, mineral and
manufacturing 1t did not propose to freely
open our markets to the product of foreign
manufacturers or our mines to the cheap
product of foreign mines 1t stood pledged
to international bimetallism whenever
enough of the great nations of the earth were
united with us to guarantee the maintenance
OF worldwide parity between the two
money metals. And in the meantime, the re-
publican party stood committed TO such leg
islation as would provide for the greatest
possible use of the silver product of the
United States, on basis which would make
the American silver dollar the peer Of every
gold dollar.
Senator Thurston closed with tribute to
the guest Of the evening, THE Great Amer
iean-WllIiam Mckinley of Ohio"
"Our Hope in the South" was the sub
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