The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-06-30
A MOST DISTINGUISHED HONOR
Reply of Governor Mckinley Accepting
the Nomination..

Reply of Governor Mckinley Accepting
| the Nomination.
| Replying to Senator ThurstOn's ad-
dress, Governor Mckinley said
Senator Thurston and Gentlemen of the
| Notification Committee of the Republi-
| can National Convention:
| To be selected as their presidential can
didate, by great party convention repre-
senting so vast a number of people of the
Uuited States, 10 y most distinguished
honor, for which would NOT conceal my
high appreciation, although deeply sensi.
BILE of the great responsibilities of tho
trust, and my inability to bear them with
out the generous and constant support of
my fellow countrymcn. Great as is the
honor conferred, equally arduous and i'm
portant is the duty imposed and in ac-
| cepting the one, / assume the other, rely
ing upon the patriotic devotion of the peo-
| pie to the best interests of our beloved
country, and the sustaining care and aid
of Him without whose support all we do
Is empty and vain. Should the people
ratify the choice of the great convention
for which you speak. my only aim will be
to promote the public good, which in
America is always the good of the greatest
number, the honor Of our country and the
welfare Of the people.
| Serious Questions to BE settled
| The questions to be settled in the ma
tional contest this year are as serious and
important as any of the great. govern
| mental problems that have confronted us
| In the past quarter of a century. They
command our sober Judgment and set
tlement free from partisan prejudice and
| passion, beneficial to ourselves and bett-
ting the honor and grandeur Of the repub
lie. They touch every interest Of our COM
mon country. Our industrial supremacy,
our productive capacity, our business and
commercial prosperity, our labor and its
rewards, our national credit and currency,
our proud financial honesty and our splen-
did free citizenship - the birthright OF
every man-are all involved in the pend
Ing campaign, and thus every home in the
land is directly and intimately connected
with their proper settlement Great are
the issues involved in the coming election
and eager and earnest the people for their
| right determination.
| Domestic Trade Must be Won Back.
| Our domestic trade must be won back
and our idle workmen employed in gain
full occupations at American wages. Our
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proud rank of first in the world, and our
foreign trade, so prccipitately cut OIL by
adverse national legislation, reopened on
fair and equitable terms for our surplus
agricultural and manufacturing products
Protection and reciprocity, twin measures
of true American policy, should again
| command the earnest encouragement OF
the government at Washington. Pubic
! confidence 81 no
the energy and the capital of our country
find ample employment at home, sus-
tained, encouraged and defended against
the unequal competition and serious dis
advantages with which they are now con-
tending. The government of the United
States must raise enough money to meet
both its current expenses and increasing
| needs. Its revenues should be SO raised as
to protect the material interests Of our
people with the lightest possible drain
| upon their resources, and maintain that
high standard of civilization which has
distinguished our country for more than q
| century of its existence. The income OF
the government, repeat, should equal
Its Necessary and Proper Expenditures.
| A failure to pursue this policy has COM
pelled the government to borrow money
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pay its daily expenses. This policy should
be reversed, and that too, as speedily as
possible. 1t must be apparent to all, re-
| gardless Of past party ties, or affiliations,
that it Is our paramount duty to provide
adequate revenue for the expenditures Of
the government, economically and pru
IDENTIFY administered. The Republican
party has heretofore done this and l con-
fdently believe it will do it in the future,
when the party again has been entrusted
with power in the executive and legisla-
tive branches Of our government. The
national credit which has thus far FORUM
ately resisted every assault upon it, must
and will beupheld and strengthened If suf-
ficient revenues are provided for the sup
| port of the government there will be no
necessity for borrowing money and in
creasing the public debt.
| The Real Source Of Complaint.
| The complaint of the people is not
against the administration for borrowing
money and issuing bonds to preserve the
credit of the country, but against the ruin
GUS policy which has made this necessary
1t Is but an incident, and necessary one
to the policy which has been inaugurated
The inevitable effect of such policy Is
seen in the deficiency of the United States
treasury, except as it is replenished by
loans, and in the distress of the people
who are suffering because of the scant de-
lnand for either their labor or the products
of their labor. Here is the fundamental
trouble, the remedy for which is Republi-
can opportunity and duty. During all the
years of Republican control, follow
ing resumption there was a steady
reduction of the public debt, while the
gold reserve was sacredly maintained and
our currency and crehit preserved without
depreciation, taint or suspicion. If we
would restore this policy, that brought us
unexampled prosperity for more than 80
years, under the most trying conditions
ever known in this country, the policy by
which we made and bought more goods at
home, and sold more abroad, the trade
balance would be quickly turned in our
favor and gold would come to us and not
go from us in the settlement of
all such balances in the future.
The party that supplied by legisla-
tion the vast revenues for the conduct of
our greatest war, and promptly restored
the credit Of the country at it's close, and