The San Francisco call., 1896-06-24
Devotion to the Candidates
Promised by the State
Leader.
AN INTERESTING CAMPAIGN.
Why tie Country Must Be Rescued
From the Evils of Demo.
cratic Rule

NEW YORK, n. Y, June 23.-The first
big ratification meeting of the approach
ing campaign was held tonight at the
Carnegie Music Hall. The meeting was
held under the auspices OF the Republican
County Committee to indorse the nominees
of the St. Louis convention. Thomas c.
Platt was the principal speaker. He was
wildly cheered. He said:
81 greet you, ladies and gentlemen, as a
Republican whose pride in his party,
whose respect for its courage, whose faith
for its principles, whose confidence in its
success and whose devotion to its candi-
dates were never greater than they are this
minute.
I'VE are entering upon the most inter-
esting campaign in which the Republican
party has engaged since the issues of the
Civil War were determined. The contrasts
afforded in the history of the last three
years between Republican and Democratic
rule are fully convincing, and we go for
ward to rescue the country from the evils
of free trade and to save it from the evils
of free silver
"Under the pretense, MIR. Chairman, of
protecting the people against the power
and greed of capital, the Democratic party
is always proposing measures, the surest
and speediest effect of which is to render
the people more than ever incapable of
self-protection. The Dem ocratic party OBJ
tanned power upon the assurance that free
trade would take the profits then going to
the employing classes and hand them
overto the wage-earners. But the resul t
was there were no longer any profits for
anybody. And now the Democrats are
singing the siren song of 'Cheap Money
They ssy if you will make law declaring
that so cents worth of silver shall be as
mpetent for all purposes as 100 cents
worth of gold the creditor class will lose
its advantage over the debtor class, and
every body will have enough. My friends,
there's nothing in it. When you can
legislate sense into the heads of fools;
virtue nto the hearts of knaves, and peace
into the souls of the restless and unhappy
then and not until then will you be able
to equaliZe the conditions in which the
human family lives. Pending that time,
l want the dollar that my employer gives
me for my labor to be as good as the dol
lar he extracts from me for rent and food
and clothes.
1--WE cannot lose on the issue of protec-
ton and honest money. The forty five
votes of New England protest that we
shall win. The thirty-six votes of New
York protest that we shall win. The
thirty-two votes of Pennsylvania, the ten
of New Jersey, the twenty-three of Ohio,
the twenty-four of Illinois, the thirteen oil
Iowa, the ten of Kansas, the fourteen OF
Michigan, the nine of Minnesota, the
twelve of Wisconsin, the eight of Ne
braska, all sure Republican States, are the
assurances that we shall win, and back OF
all else is the convincing fact that we are
practical people, and with the Democratic
folly to decide our judgment we know
when we have had enough of a bad
thing.
The Republicans of New York are
united in behalf of the candidates that
were nominated and the platform thai
was adopted at st. Louis. l hope they
will be no less united in all matters that
affect the welfare of the party and the
honor of their State. l am always ready
to set the example of cheerful acquiesene.
in the will of the majority"