The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-03-12
HOT FOR VIM. N k|NLtY
OHIO REPUBLICAN coN'hNli
SENATOR FORAKER SOUNDS
THE KEY NOTE
ANOTHER KENTUCKY COMPLICATION.
Tho Republican, Dunlap, Withdraws Ills
coptest-Revolutionary Methods Are
Lacked for Today-Kansas he
publicans Endorse Mckinney

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hands entertained the crowd IN iions
the building until the conventioh "' w
called TO order at p. M, and that was az
many of the visitors saw OF ne"iu
,,bot is called the Mckinley convention
Among the Ohio congressman anu o'n.
nrominent Republicans on the stage s''
v-Socretorv of the Treasury roster
Covornor Bushnell occupied one OIL 'hc
boxes. The first demonstration ""'
when Chairman Ickes escorted oella'oi
elect Foraker to the presiding object
chair and from that time on one aeiiloh-
stration followed another on the men'ioi'
of McKinley's name or reference 10 lil"'
After prayer by Rev. ]. G. Watt, Chair-
man ]. NJ. Ickes reviewed the MchihleS
campaign in Ohio and the two campaigns
succeeding his administration, ana st"tpu
that at the State convention IN Aahes'ii'e
last year the party entered INTO pleuse
nc sacred AS the trinity. That pledge
marked an important epoch Ill the his
tory of Ohio Republicanism. 1t prom
ised to make Bushnell governor FORAKER
senator and to use every honorable means
to make Mckinley president Two parts
of the trinity had been fulfilled and the
Republicans of Ohio now assembled 10
enter sincerely into the faithful eXecu,
ton of the third part-unanmous anu
unqualified support of Mckinney lor lhe
presidential nomination.
stratiOn that it was some time before MI.
| Ickes could introduce Senator-elect
| Foraker as the temporary chairman OF
the convention. When Mr. Foraker was
introduced there was another boisterous
scene, which was repeated often as ne
proceeded. He spoke as follows:
Everybody knows that no matter
what question may be discussed in the
coming campaign, the one, great, tower
| ing, supreme issue in the contest OF lo9o
will be whether, for the next four years,
this country shall be ruled by Democracy
or by Republicanism (applause), and
every one knows in advance what the
verdict will be (applause), for even our
| Democratic friends understand and can
see that the sweeping victories OF last
year, are to be followed by still greater
and grander triumphs this year. Zap
plause.)
"The GAINESVILLE convention promised
the Republicans of Ohio that they would
this year enthusiastically support the
| candidacy of Governor Mckinley Tap
plause) The time has come to redeem
| that pledge and we are here to redeem it.
In every district and county convention
so far held this year in this State he
has already been endorsed. We assemble
now as the representatives of the Repub-
| leans of the whole State for the purpose
of doing the same thing. (Applause)
| We owe it to ourselves as well as to him
to do it with spirit, to do it in such man
ner, in short, as will signify to the whole
Nation that he has now and will have
mt the st. Louis convention the united,
hearty, cordial and unqualified support of
Ohio"
1T is due, however, to the Republi-
cans of Ohio, and especially to Governor
Mckinley himself, that it should be said
here and now that our preference for
him is not conceived in any spirit of
antagonism or hostility to any other man
whose name is mentioned in connection
with that high honor lapplause).
1.-THE Republicans of Ohio do not lack
Levi =. Morton, nor VIM. B. Allison
nor Matthew Stanley Quay, nor any
other great leader who has been men
toned in connection with that honor
| On the contrary, we admire and love
| them all and if the convention should
| disappoint us and give its honor to one
of them, we here and now pledge to
him in advance that the electoral vote
of SOhio by the largest majority ever
given in the history of the State. II
| is not that we Love Caesar less, but
Rome more great applause).
william Mckinley is our own. He
lives here in Ohio and has always liveC
in our midst (applause).
"He is our friend, our neighbor. on
fellow citizen, our fellow Republican
Shoulder to shoulder with him we hay,
been fighting the battles of Republican
ism in this State for a generation. W.
know him and he knows us. We know
his life his character, his public ser
vices and his fitness for the place fo
which he has been named. He ha.
| been our soldier, comrade, our repre-
sentative in congress, our governor. BY
all these tokens we here today present
him to the Republicans of the otho,
| States of the Union as our choice and
ask them to make him theirs great an
plause).
in this connection it should be re-
mcmbered that he is identified with MI
| that is good, glorious and grand in the
history of Republicans (applausp(
| When but mere boy, he shouldcrcC
his musket and marched away after th,
flag to the music of the Union TO max,
a record for gallantry and heroism Al
the front on the battlefield of the Re
public. tremendous applausc),
Returning and entering congress. h,
was soon there distinguished for hi,
eioqueance of speech, his fidelity to duty
ms wise and conservative judgment anf
ms ever patriotic and conscientious re-
gard for the rights of the peonIo
Elsilteen hundred and ninety found hin
Ut lhe mead OF the ways and means com
lnlt!ee ana leader of the house. In thar
posltloh 1t tell to his lot to frame an(
secure the enactment of the NcKinIn,
law, tapplause). That measure ho,
made his name familiar in ali thn worIi
and has made him exceedingly umDon
ular in almost all the world ontsid6p y,
the United States. But it has CORES
pondingly endeared him to his conntr,
men. Time has indicated his iahor
In every section. in every State. in evory
county, IN every municipality. in o,,orI
mine and furnace and forge and ,ro.I.
shop, everywhere throughout nh wi a. y
broad land where capital is invested 'n ~
labor is employed, VIM. Mckinley is th ba
ideal American statesman and tba t ,re
zeal American leader and the vnri+a =,
American idol Applause and cbccr g" "'e
AS the candidate of the RnnnLI;o,,
party, he will command the resnnnt of
all classes and shades of RonnhI ic vi vi
and at the same time command tbn b aIS
OF thousands of patriotic Democrats NV ~
1E
plause). " Nsreat APP
al; All who believe in America. All who
oelleve IN Americanism. all who ho, " NJ