The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-16

give to the Republican party and its glori-
Gus principles your united and hearty sup
port Great applaase.) 1t is difficult. to
appreciate until the fact is known what
Snls great auoiehce coming from s'ster
assemblage one-fourth of the voting popu-
lation of the Republican party and one
county. tApplause.) 1t means, my coun-
strymen, not that you are interested in me
personally, but that you have a deep and
ever abiding interest in your country and
your country's honor. Great cheering and
cries of Interest in Mckinleyi9 1t means
too, that you are deeply. interested in the
rightful settlement of the great national
questions which divide us and which are
10 be settled by your votes ana those OF
your countrymen next November. CAP
plause.) / especially glad TO welcome
the citizens of Somerset county to my
home. (Applause.) 1 recall that in the
years of the past, / have visited your
once your generous hospitality; and trust
that the future will permit me to again
visit that delightful spot and renew our
former friendly relations. Cheers)
Your spokesman says that the people
OF your county are devoted to farming.
Numbering how far you are from home I
should think you were devoted to Repub-
do not recall time since the days of the
civil war that there has been so much
solicitude for the rightful outcome of
national election as this year. All the peo-
pie are reading and studying and informing
themselves in larger degree than ever
Popular inquiry was never so great and
popular interest was never profound. 1t
Is gratlfylng, too, that the masses of our
countrymen are seeking the right for the
sake of the right, that they may pursue
the. right: They want to know only what
Is best for the county, what will truly
promote their own welfare and insure the
grandest results for the common good.
AR fse pe)t,ca, 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. (Applause) Discord reigns in
all others. Our time-honored opponent, the
Two national i CONVENTIONS have u been Vi held
by it, and two national tickets presented,
and their platforms are totally different on
every subject and in almost every section.
The Populist party has merged its organi-
cation into that of the Chicago Democratic
their allies are for the most part harmoni-
Gus except THAI each one has q distinct
and different candidate for Vice President.
<Great laughter and applause.)
REPUBLICANS UNITED.
Happily, the Republican party was
never more closely united than now, both
in fact and in spirit and there never
better reasons for such union and never
greater necessity for it than now. Cheering
and cries of That's rightly 1t is welded,
devotedly welded, to party principles. 1t
stands as it has always stood-for
American protective tariff, which shall
raise enough money to conduct the several
departments of the government, including
liberal pensions to the Union soldiers
tremendous cheering and hurrahs for Nc
Kinely); tariff will stop debts and de-
ficiencies, and make the treasury of the
United States once more safe and sound in
every particular. (Applause.)
1t stands for reciprocity that seeks
out the markets of the world for our sur
plus agricultural and manufacturing prod
ucts without surrendering a single days
wages that belongs to the American work
1ngman. (Applause.}
1T believes in preserving home market
for the American farmer (applause), in the
opening of the American factory for the
American workin5man (applause) and the
opening up a foreign market wherever that
can be done with profit to all the great in
terests of the United States. (Renewed APP
plause.)
cheering), every dollar worth 100 cents
Tenewed cheering), every dollar as good as
gold Continued cheering), and it is opposed
alike to the free and unlimited coinage of
silver and the issuance of irredeemable pa
per money to which the allied party
has always kept silver at a parity with
gold. 1t proposes to keep that silver money
in circulation and preserve side by side
gold and silver and paper, each the equal
of the other. and each of the best, and
the best never to be inferior to the best
money known to the commercial nations
of the world. Tremendous cheering.)
1T will continue to favor policy that
plause). markets to American farmers
tcries of That's what we want.O, and
SOUND money TO DO1D. TREMENDOUS cneer-
ing and cries of 'Hurrah for McKinley0
I'VE are now convinced after three years
of experience, whatever may have been our
political relations in the past of the truth
of the observation of Webster, made more
than a half century ago. You will recall
what lie said, that is the truest American
policy which shall most usefully employ
American capital AM. American labor and
best sustain the whole American popula-
ton. (Appause.) Agriculture, commerce
and manufacturing Will prosper together or
languish together.
John Quincy Adams: The great interests
of this agricultural, mining and manufac-
turing Nation are SO linked in unison to-
gether that permanent cause of pros
perity to one of them can operate without
extending its influence to the other. Gap
1--WE cannot have commercial growth
and expansion without national and indi.
has gh We cannot have
cial prosperity without the strctest in
tegritE both of government and citizen.
right.o The financial honor of this gov
eminent is of too vast Importance, is en-.
party politics. Great applause and cries
of Good, 'Good.D The Republican party
has maintained it and is pledged to main
tain it. 1t has more than once stood be-
tween good faith and dishonor, and when
it gave up the control of the government
so high and unQueStioned. (ApplauSe.)
lat ANY COST"
1.-The Republican party is pledged to main
tain the credit of the government which |
is intimately associated with its spotless
name and honor, and this it will do under
any circumstances and at any cost. Great
cheering.) 1t taxed the credit of the gov
eminent in the days of the war to it's ut
most tension to preserve the government
itself which, under God, it was happily
Enabled to do. Following that mighty
struggle it lifted our credit higher than
it had ever been before and made it equal
TO the Oldest and wealthiest nations of the
world applause and cries of That's
right)
TT is pledged to maintain uncorrupted the
currency of the country of whatever form
or kind that has been used by national
authority. 1t made the old greenback as
good gold and has kept it good as
gold ever since. 1t has maintained every
form of American money, whether silver
or paper, equal to gold. and it will not take
any backward step. Great applause and
cries of Good Good.D No party ever
nifcent record as the Republican party.
1Cries of That's right.D Our great war
debt was more than two-thirds paid off
our currency unquestioned; our credit I'M
furnished; the honor of the Union unsul-
lied; the country in its material conditions
stronger than it had ever been before; the
workingman better employed and better
paid than ever before, with prosperity in
every part of the Republic, and in no part
an idle workingman who wanted to work.
ITremenduous applause.)
Consider. my fellow citiZens, the adj
vancement we made between 1880 and 1890