Evening star., 1896-06-18

increasing. when the homes owned un-
mortgaged by the people are more numer-
Gus day by day and month by month, when
the schools are most crowded, the fairs
most frequent and happy conditions most
universal in the nation. then are the prom
ises fulfilled which make these United
States of America the home of the op-
pressed and the land Of the free.
1t is to meet these conditions and to meet
them with a candidate who represents
them and about whom there can be no
question, that New York presents to you
for the presidency. under the unanimous
instructions of two successive republican
state conventions. the name of her gov
ernor. Levi p. Morton.
Word for New York.
New York Is the cosmopolitan state of
the Union She is both barometer and
thermometer OF the changes of popular
opinion and popular passion. She has been
the pivotal commonwealth which has de-
cided nearly every one of the national cleo
tions in this generation. She has more
Yankees than any city in New England,
more southernerS than any community in
the south and more native-bOrn westerners
than any city in the west, and the repre-
sentatives of the Pacific coast within her
borders have been men who have done
much for the development of that glorious
region These experienced and cosmopoli-
tan citizens. with their fingers upon the
pulses of the finance and trade of the
whole country, feel instantly the conditions
that led to disaster or to prosperity,
Hence, they swing the state sometimes to
the republican and sometimes to the dem
ocratic column.
I'm the tremendous effort to break the
hold which democracy had upon our COM
monwealth and which it had strength
ened for ten successive years, we selected
as our standard-bearer the gentleman
whom l present on behalf of our state here
today. and who carried New York. and
nnk hn Loo ., ~,
dred and fifty-six thousand majority
I'VE are building navy, and the white
squadron is a forerunner of commerce
which is to whiten every sea and carry our
flag into every port of the world. Not our
wish, perhaps nor our ambitions probably
but our very progress and expansion have
made us one of the family of nations. We
can ne longer. without the hazard of un-
necessary frictions with other govern
ments. conduct our foreign policy except
through the medium of a skilled diplo-
macy.
Best Type of Business Man.
For four years as minister to France,
when critical questions of the import of
our products into that country were immi-
nent, Levi z. Morton learned and practiced
successfully the diplomacy which was best
for the prosperity of his country. None of
the mistakes which have discredited our
relations with foreign nations during the
ministratons. He is the best type of the
American business man-that type which
Is the ideal school. the academy and the
college; that type which the mother pre-
SentS to her boy in the western cabin and
in the eastern tenement she is marking
out for him a career by which he shall rise
from his poor surroundings to grasp the
prizes which come through American lib
er;y and American opportunity. You see the
picture The New England clergyman on
his meager salary. the large family of boys
and girls about him. the going out
with their common school education. the
boy becoming a clerk in a store, then
granted an interest in the business, then
becoming its controlling spirit, then claim
ing the attention of the great house in the
city and called to partnership, then him
self the master of great affairs.
Overwhelmed by the incalculable con-
ditions of civil war. but with undaunted
energy and foresight, he grasped again the
elements of escape out of bankruptcy and
of success. and with the return of pros
perity he paid to the creditors who had
compromised his Indebtedness every dollar
principal and interest. of what he owed
them. The best type of successful busi-
ness man, he turns to politics, to be q use
fu- member of Congress, to diplomacy to
be successful minister abroad, to the ex-
ecutive and administrative branches of
government. to be the most popular Vice
President and the presiding officer of that
most august body, the Senate of the United
States.
Present COnditiona
our present deplorable Industrial and
financial conditions are largely due to the
fact that while We have a President and a
cabinet of acknowledged ability, none of
them have had business training or ex-
perlence. They are persuasive reasoners
upon industrial questions. but have never
practically solved industrial problems.
They are the book farmers, who raise
wheat at the cost of orchids and sell 1t at
the price of wheat. With Levi F. Morton
there would be deficiency to be met by
the issue Of bonds; there would be no
blight on our credit which would call for
the services OF syndicate; there would be
no tFlh1ns with the delicate intricacies of
finance and commerce which would mar
alyZe the operations of trade and manufac
ture
w hoover may be nominated by this con-
Ventlon will receive the cordial support. the
enthusiastic advocacy of the renubucsnS
of New York, but in the shifting condI
tions OF our commonwealth, Gov. Morton
can secure more than the party strength,
and without question in the coming can
vass, no matter what issues may arise be-
tween now and November, place the em-
pire state solidly in the republican col
umn.
Gov. Hastings Speech.
Mr Chairman end Gentlemen of the Con-
yention:
.Pennsylvania comes to this convention.
giving you the cordial assurance that who
ever may be our national standard bearer.
he will receive Of all the states In the
Union the largest majority from the kew
stone state.
There have been no faltering footsteps
in Pennsylvania when the tenets of renuh
icanism have been at stake Our party's
principles have always been held as sacred
as Independence Hall or the memory of her
dead soldiers. Havirg within her borders
more American citizens. relatively who
own the homes in which they live: whose
principal daily avocation is to subdue and
develop her great storehouses of native
wealth: whose wage earrers skilled and
unskiiied. receive, one year with another
the highest average American wage rate
the republicans Of Pennsylvania, by their
chosen representatives, come 10 this con-
veation and. with You. demand, and their
every Interests demand. system of ma
tonal currency equal to the best in the
world.
'They demand as well that the govern
ment they love and for whose flag thew
have fought. and stin stand ready to de-
ferd, shall pay its debts IN money and not