Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-10-20
WORDS or PATRIOTS,
Prominent Stump Speakers on
Sound Money, Protection and
National Honor.
RECENT CAMPAIGN 0RAT0RY
Makers Of History Record Utterances
Which Are Bound to Live
for Ages.
RECENT CAMPAIGN 0RAT0RY
What the Republican Party Stands
For.
IAJ. MCKINLEY.

''The political situation of the country
Is peculiar. We have had few parallels
10 our present political condition. We
have but one political party which is
united, and that is ours. (ApplaIse.)
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 aud 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 its 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
distinct and different candidate for vice
president Great laughter and APP
plausc)
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 now.
(Cheers and cries of That's right IT
: is welded. devotedly welded, to .,arty
principles. 1t stands as il has always
stood for an American protective tariff
which shall raise enough money 10 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 viii stop debts and deficiencies and
make the treasury of the United states
once more safe and sound in every par
ticular. tApplause.) 1t stands for n re-
ciprocity that seeks ont the markets of
the world for our surplus agricultural
and manufacturing products without sur
rendering a single days wages that be-
longs TO the American workman. ZAP
pause.) 1t believes in preserving Il
home market for the American farmer
tan factories for the American working
man tapplause), and the opening mp of a
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
trenewed cheering), every dollar as good
as gold continued ch.ering), and it is OPP
posed alike TO the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and the issuance of ir-
redeemablc paper money to which the
allied party seemed firmly committed.
tGreat applause.) 1t has always kept
silver at parity with gold. 1t proposes
10 keep that silver money in circulation
and preserve side by side gold and silver
and paper, each the equal to the other.
and each the equal of the best, and
she best never to be inferior to the best
money known to the commercial nations
of the world. loud cheering.) 1t
will continue to favor policy that will
give work to American citizens Zap
plause), markets to American farmers
tcries of That's what we want,o, and
sound money TO both. tremendous
cheerings and cries of 'Hurrah for Me-
Kinley!D We 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 half century
ago. You will recall that he said:
THAT is the truest American policy
which shall most usefully employ Ameri-
can capital and American labor and best
sustain the whole American population
itGreat applause)
Agriculture, commerce and manufac-
lures will prosper together or fail to-
gether Equally true also were the
words of John Quincy Adams, That the
ing and manufacturing nation are so
linked in unison that no permanent cause
of prosperity TO one of them can operate
without extending its influence to the
other (Applause) We cannot have
commercial growth and expansion with
out national and individual honor.
1--WE cannot have commercial prosperity
without the strictest integrity both Of
government and citizen. (Renewed ap-
pIause and cries of That's right.) The
financial honor of this government is of
too vast Importance, is entirely too sa-
cred to be the football of party politics.
Great applause and cries of Good,
good.D The Republican party has main
tanned it and is pledged to maintain it.
1t has more than once stood between
good faith and dishonor and when Ii
gave MP the control of the government
our national honor had never before been
so high and unquestioned. (Applause.)
The Republican party is pledged 10 main
tain the credit of the government which
is intimately associated with its sp0tless
name and honor. and this ii will do un-
der any circumstances and at any cost
(Great cheering.)
ut taxed the credit of the government
in the days of the war TO its utmost ten
sion TO preserve the government itself,
which, under God, it was happily en-.
abled to do. Following that mighty
struggle it lifted our credit higher than
* had ever been before and made il
equal to the oldest and wealthiest ma
tons of the world. applause and
cries of That's right.o 1t is pledged
of the country of whatever form or
kind that has been used by national au-
thority. Ii made the old greenback as
good as gold and has kept II as good as
gold ever since. 1t has maintained every
form of American money, whether sill
yer or paper, equal to gold, and it will
not take any backward step. Great APP
rlause and cries of Good, gOod.0 No
party ever went out of power which left
so magnificent record as the Repub-
lican party. (Cries of That's rightly
Our great war debt was more than two
thirds paid of. our currency unquestioned
our credit untarnished, the honor of the
union unsullied, the country in its ma
terial conditions stronger than II had
ever been before: the workingmen better
employed and better paid than ever be-
h nroSDorifu IN ri If tho