The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-19
MCKINLEY and HOBART.


Blaine writing to Garfield said ''Then
comes Allison. He is true, kind, reason
able. fair, honest and good. He is
methodical, industrious and intelligent,
and would be splendid man to sail
along with smoothly and successfully"
Complying with the request of the Iowa
delegation, rise to propose to this Con-
ventlon the nomination of him to whom
this heritage was Observation-Disclosures
B. Allison.
1t takes big man to represent the
state of Iowa in the Congress of the
United States tor thirtytiye years, but
Senator Allison is that man.
With the most perfect knowledge of the
details of all our political laws and their
histories, with this statesmanlike jgdg
ment which distinguishes the essential
from the accidental and the imlnutable
froll the transitory, with every look a
cordial smile, every gesture caress,
yet with spirit of such firm mold and
purpose that no bride or feast or palace
could awe or swerve, he has for thirty
live years upon the floor of the House
and Senate been fighting for the interests
or the people; carrying onward and up
ward the nations legislative work; turn
Ing oranks out Of place, unsphering the
eliminating stars Of Democracy ;unmask-
In g the hidden purposes of corrupt meas
ures. until now be holds the place of I'M
halls of that most splendid of capitals.
That which this country has lost, is
that which it now seeks, Protection. :"
10 get it the people have worked hard
prayed fast, paid high and, nov let Them
have it.
Allison does not believe in a tariff for
revenue only, but in q tariff for proteo-
ton and revenue jointly.
he has always insisted that the Proteo-
tive system is the mightiest instrument
for the development of our natural re-
sources and the strongest agency to pro-
tect American wealth and American
labor. Protection built the laborer his
home, American home, and he never
again will welcome therein Democratic
sirens singing free trade songs written
and composed by English bards, for hsv-
ing chiselled the principles of protection
IN his hearthstone, he will at the next
election defend them at his front gate.
The great and important issue which is
just now coming around the corner is
the one OF sound money, and we can no
more dodge 1t than we can gravitatiop.
In this respect the situation is easily
simple, but cert sinly serious. A decis-
lon upon this important question must
be made by this convention aud remem-
Der, gentlemen a nation listens to catch
tho click of it's fate.
For Senator Allison you cannot build
y,
and if you place him upon it he will ssee
to 1t that the dry rot of 16 to does not
steal through Its staunoh timbers.
The United States can no more make
good money by simply placing its symbol
OF sovereignty or mark of authority on
any kind of metal, regardless of it's com
mer cial value or relations to foreign
countries, than it can extend it's domain
by calling a furlong mile.
He believes that the American dollar
should have some grains of sense as we'll
as more of silver. That there can be no
stability to our currency or money, if we
keep adopting such shifting policies that
under them the same piece may be O cop
per cont in one hand or dollar in an
other.
He believes that unlimited coinage
would soon lead TO unlimited bank
ruptoy.
No honest farmer would borrow from
his neighbor bushel of fifty cent wheat
and insist upon paying it back with q
bushel OF TWENTY-FIVE cent oats, and SO
this great Government cannot expect to
keep its credit at the highest point if it
borrows u dollar of gold and insists upon
paying back with fifty cent silver. any
other construction of the word "coin" in
any laws or any contracts to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
The platform of this convention must
~ AOA cO0ha 4HOHOy, oa0 Az C1CNi, ling
ing, unmistskable terms. On any other
construction of it the party may got into
power, but the country would be in dan
ger of falling into the batch of bankrupt
governments, and at the end of the
party's administration it would probably
nave no more of an estate than did
Rabelais, whose will, when opened read
''In the name of God Amen. I have
nothing. owe much. give the rest
to the poor. -
"At the time when nation wildly looks
at nation standing with mute lips
apart" Allison did not meet with
clinohed fist the proffered hand of inter
national adjustment. However, he has
stood unswervingly by the Monroe doc
trine and insisted that the United STATES
should recognize any people struggling
for liberty and Republican institutions,
even il they were insurgents in Cuba.
l ask you to nominate him. II you do.
the people from the sand enshrouded
Mexican line to tho live wife that sepa-
rates US from an unborn daughter on the
North, will shout as in one glad glorious
anthem "The Old Temple of Republican
ism still stands. Flock to it for shelter"
If you do every key note Of the campaign
will be kept at concert pitch. Ii you 90
the White House will be used no longer
as an experiment station.
Nominate him and not now, perhaps,
Ouu WHEN lnc stIlLS ls cFSi LIS AalAc wall
fall like millenial music on your ears.
p Nominate him and thrill of joy will
go from the Vest to the East carrying
on it's trembling way the songs of our
reapcrs only to be lost in tho roar of your
furnaces.
Nominate him and when .our corn
grows gold in autumn's time. our focks
teemlng and our oranges FULL every spin
die will be turning day and night upon
the Merrimac.
If you do this, light will break upon
our darksned land and instantly long
suffering people will hear the surges OF
returning prosperity.
May the spell of Republioanism have
greater power to move you than the spell
of magic words. In this hour of anxiety
expectancy; in this hour pregnant with
history, prophecy and destiny, the grave
gives up its mighty dead. and they are
here-Linooln, Grant, Garfield, Blaine,
yea all the illustrious dead of the Re-
publican party, and mingling with its
living advocates. martyred Lincoln's
spirit pleads with you to see TO it that
'these deadshall not have died in vain"
The speech elected very little enthuns-
tasm, although it was applauded at
some points. The next state to respond
was Massachusetts and Senator Lodge of
hat tpt 10 to no nj,