The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

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 argue an unques-
toned and overwhelming triumph for the Re
publican 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 and wise in plat
form and in candidate.
The last few years have been campaign 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 rememb mber that there is a vast constitu-
ency which has little fealty to parties or TO
carnations, but votes for the man and the
principles which are in accord with their views
in the administration of the country. 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 q compact
neighborhood of great commonwealth, in
which are concentrated the majority of the
population, of the manufactures and OF the
industrial energies of the United Sta3es, has
found that business and credit exist only with
the stability of sound money.
1t has become the fas hion of late to decry
business as unpatriotic. We hear much of the
''sordid considerations of capital, "empioy-
ment," industrial energies" and prosperous
labor" The United States, differing from the
medieval conditions which govern older
countries, differing from the militarism which
is the curse of European nations, differing
from thrones which rest upon the sword, is
pre-eminently and patrloticslly commercial
and business nation. Thus commerce and
business are synonymous with patriotism.
When the farmer is afeld sowing and reaplng
the crops which find market that rernuner-
ates him for his toll, when the laborer and
the artisan find work seeking them and not
themselves despairing of work, when the wage
of the toiler promises comfort for his family
and hope for his children, when the rail is
burdened with the product of the soil and of
the factory, when the spindles are humming
and the furnaces are in blast. when the mine
is putting out its largest product and the
national and individual wealth is constantly
increasing, when the homes owned unmort-
gagged by the people are more numerous 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 promises fulfilled which make
these United States of America the home of the
oppressed and the land of the free.
1t is to meet these conditions and to meet
them with 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 sue
cessiye Republican State conventions the
name of her Governor Levi P. Morton
New York is the cosmopolitan State of the
Union. She is both barometer and ther-
mometer OF the changes of popular opinion
and popular passion. She has bee the pivotal
commonwealth which has decided nearly every
one of the National ections in this genera
tion. 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
representatives of the Pacific Coast within her
borders have been men who have done much
for the development OF that glorious region
These experienced and cosmopolitan citizens
with their fingers upon the pulses of finance
snd trade of the whole country, feel instantly
the conditions that lead TO disaster or to pros
perity. Hence they swing the State some time
to the Republican and some time to the Demo-
cratic column.
In the tremendous effort to break the hold
which Democracy had upon our common
wealth, and which ii had strengthened for ten
successive years. we selected as our standard
bearer the gentleman whom present on be-
half of our State here to-day, and who carried
New York and took the Legislature with him,
by 1885, 900 majority.
We are building navy, and the White
Squadron is forerunner of a commerce which
is TO whiten every sea and carry our flag into
every port of the world. Notour wish, perhaps,
nor our ambitions probably, but our very
progress and expansion have made us one of
the family of nations. We can no longer. with
out the hazard of unnecessary frictions with
other Governments. conduct our foreign policy
except through the medium of a skilled
diplomacy.
For four years as Minister to France. when