The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-06-18

| an afternoon WITH MT. DIANE. With
marvellous intuition he forecast the fu-
forces of opposition, of distrust and dis
appointment, of theory and of magma
ton which accumulate against
a party that has been in power for over
| thirty years are now concentrated for an
assault upon our position and is certain
to succeed. The Democratic party and
its allies of Popuism and of all other isms
are destined in this campaign, no matter
who is our candidate or what is our plat
form. to secure possession of the govern.
men," The country knows TO its loss,
has been fulfilled i'll every part. In
its fulfllment the United States
has the experience and Europe has the
business and prosperity.
We meet to take up the broken cord of
national Development and happiness and
link it once more to the car of progress
Our industries stagnant, our manufac-
lures paralyZed, our agriculture disheart-
| ened, our artiZans unemployed, our
finances disordered, our treasury bank
| rupt, our credit impaired, our position
among the nations of the world question
ed, all look to this convention and call
upon its wisdom for hope and rescue.
The conditions created by the practice
| of Democratic policies, the promise of
| Democratic measures and the differences
| of Democratic statesmen would seem to
urge an unQucstiOned and overwhelming.
triumph for the Republican party in the
| coming election. No matter how brilliant
the promise. no matter how serene the
outlook. it is the part of wisdom, with the.
uncertainties of politics and our recent
experience of the tragic shifting of issues,
to be careful. prudent ana wise in plat
form and in candidate.
| The last few years have been Il cam
| paign of university extension among the
people of the United States, and while We
may in platform and candidate meet all
| the requirements of party obligations and
party expectations, we must remember
that there is Il vast constituency which
has little fcalty to parties or to organiza-
! tons but votes for the man and the prn-
ciples which are in accord with their
views in the administration of the cOun-
try. The whole country, north. south.
east and west without any division in our
lines. or out of them, stands, after what
has happened in the last three years, for
the protection of American industries,
for the principle of reciprocity and for
America for Americans. But compact
neighbOrhood of great commemorative, in
which are concentrated the majority OF
the population, of the manufactures and
States, has found that business and credit
exists only with the stability of sound
money.
1t has become the fashion of late to
decry business as unpatriotic. We hear
much of the 'sordid considerations OF
capital" employment" industrial en-
ergies'' and prosperous labor" The
United States, differing from the madiev-
al conditions which govern older coun-
tries, differing from the militarism which
is the curse of European nations, differ
ing from thrones which rest upon the
sword, is pre-eminently and periodically
commercial and business nation.
Thus commerce and business are syn
onymOus with patriotism. When the
farmer is atield sowing and reaping the
crops which find a market that remuner-
ates him for his toll, when the laborer
and the artizan find work seeking them.
and not themselves desparing of work,
when the wage of the toilcr promises
comfort for his family and hope for his
children, when the rail is burdened with
the product of the soil and of the facto-
ry. when the spind,es are humming and
the furnaces are in blast, when the mine
is putting out its largest product and the
national and individual wealth are con-
stantly increasing. when the homes
owned unmOrtgaged by the people are
more numerous udN ny udN anu llOHth
by month, when the schools are most
crowded, the fairs most frequent ana
happy conditions most universal in the
nation. then are the promises fulfilled
which make these United States of Amer
lea the home of the oppressed and the
land of the free.
1t is TO meet these conditions and to
meet them with a candidate who repre-
SCENTS them and about whom there can
10, hat Ny,,l- ,tg,
to you for the presidency under unani-
nous instructions of two successive Re
publican state conventions the name of
her governor, Levi p. Morton.
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 decided nearly every one of the ma
tional elections in this generation. She
has more Yankees than any city in New
England, more southerners than any COM
munity in the south and more native-born
westerners than any city in the west and
the representatives of the Pacific coast
within her borders have been men who
have done much for the developmHnt of
that glorious region. These experienced
and cosmopolitan citizens with their
fingers upon the pulses of the finance
ana Ifdue OF llle WuOle country. reel III
stantly the conditions that lead to dis
aster or to prosperity. Hence they
swing the state sometime to the Republi-
can and sometime to the Democratic
column.
In the tremendous effort to break the
hold which Democracy had upon our
commonwealth. and which it had
strengthened 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 took the legislature with
him, by 100000 majority.
We are building a navy and the
White Squadron is froerunner of q
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 pro-
grcss and expansion have made us one
of the family of nations. We can no
longer without the hazard of unneces-
saly frictions with other governments.
conduct our foreign policy except
through the medium of a skilled dplo-
macy. For four years as minister to
France, when critical questions of the
import of our products into that country
were imminent, Levi =. Morton learned
and practiced successfully the diplomacy
which was best for the prosperity of his
country. None of the mistakes which
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