Middletown transcript., 1896-07-04
McKINLEY mas spoKaN.

Lno zIlepuuilcdH Ialty before the ..
Louis Convention by submitting To in
terviews. have now heard rom him and
to their credit bs it sail they, or the
majority of them, commend his decla-
rations, madeson Monday TO the com.
mittee witch notified him of his nomi.
nation. The sound money Democrat Is
accept his declarations and are salts
fed, and thousands of them will vote
for him in November unless the results
at st. Louis are very different from
what the present situation Of affairs
indicates. tlooks like free coinage
of silver, 16 to 1, platform and nomi.
nee at Chicago. Whether Senator
Teller and his fellow Republicans can
accept their nominee time only can tell,
but 1t looks like campaign ON fnan-
cial lines, and it is certain that Major
Mckinley suits the east.
But the Republicans have in their
nominee more than candidate whose
views are in harmony with the sound
principles that have been the founda-
tion of the party since the days of
Lincoln, they have a man whose
character his political foes can trust.
.sHe is sincere and honest" he people
say and that counts with them. Senator
Thurston most eloquently referred to
this matter in his official address of
notification. He said
''But your nomination means more
than the Endorsement of a protective
tariff, Of reciprocity. of sound money,
and of honest finances, for all Of Which b
you have steadfastly stood. 1t means
an Endorsement of your heroic youth;
your fruitful years of arduoue public
service; your sterling pairio ism, your
stalwart Americanism; your Christian
character, and the purity, fiji y. and
simplicity of your private life. La all
these things you are the typical Amer
ican for all these things you are
chosen leader of the people"
In his, response Gov. Mckinley said
the st. Louis platform has his unquali-
fed approval and it is a matter of
qualification that its declarations of
principles are SO direct, clear and en-
phatic. OF special matters, he said:
ISSUES OF THE CONTEST.
s'Great are the issues involved in the
coming election, and eager and earnest
the people for their rights and deter
limitations. Our domestic trade must
be won back and our idle working men
employed in gainful occupation at
American wages. Our home market
must be restored to its proud rank of
first in the world, and our foreign trade
so precipitately cut off by adverse
national legislation, reopened on fair
and equitable terms fer our surplus of
agricultural and manufacturing prod
ucts. Protection and reciprocity, twin
measures of true American policy,
should again command the earnest
encouragement of the government at
Washington.
Public confidence must be restored
and the skill, the energy, and the
capital of our country find ample en-
ployment at home, sustained, en-
couraged, and defended against the
unequal competition and serious dis
with which they are now
The government of the
United States must raise enough
money to meet both its current ex-
penses and increasing needs. Its
revenues should be so raised as to pro-
tect the material interests of our people,
with the lightest possible drain upon
and maintain that high |
of civilization which has dis |
tinguished our country far more than
l century of its existence.
The income of the government, l |
repeat, should equal its necessary and
proper expenditures. A failure to1
,ulsue this policy has compelled the
to borrow money ina time
If D ace, to sustain its credit and pay
is daily expenses. This policy should
,e reversed, and that too, as speedily
IS possible. 1t must be apparent to
III, regardless of past party ties or
that it is our paramount
luty to provile adequate revenues for
he expenditures of the government
and prudently admin
stored. The Republican Party has
heretofore Gone his, AMI l confidently
relieve it will do it in the future. when
he party is again intrusted with power
n the executive and legislative
,raLches of our government.
NATIONAL CREDIT MUST BE UPHELD.
The national credit, which has thus
ar fortunately resisted every assault
pOn it, must and will be upheld and
Ii sufficient revenues
re provided for the support of the
overnment there will be no necessity
or borrowing money and increasing
he public d.b>. Tie complaint of the
'eople is not against the administra-
ion for borrowing and issuing binds
0 preserve the credit of the country.
ut against the ruinous policy which
as made this necessary. It's but an
Incident, and necessary ore, to the j
olicy which has been inaugurated.
he inevitable effect of such policy
; seen in the deficiency of the United
tates Treasury, except as it is re-
lenished by loans, aud in the distress
the people who are suffering because /.
t the scant demand for either their {
abor or the products IF their labor. {
Here is the fundamental trouble, the
smedy for which IL Republican opplr- t
unity and duty. During all the years
Republican control following re-
lmption there was steady reduction
the public debt, while the gold re-
srve was sacredly- maintained, and a
UT currency and credit preserved !
'ithOut depreciation, taint or suspic- j
IN. If We would restore this policy
lat brought US unexampled prosperity :
,r more than thirty years under the +
lost trying conditions ever known in !,
lis country, the policy by which we o
Iads ana bought more goods at home b
nd sold more abroad. the trade bal !,
nee would be quickly turned in our n
Ivor, and gold would come to us and
Of go from us in the settlement of all t,
ich balances in the future.
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