Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-07-02


pletely meets the requirements of the |
American people; and no other man |
SO absolutely commands their hearts |
and their affections. The shafts of |
envy, malice, Islander and detractiOn |
lie broken and harmless at his feet. |
They have already been shot and |
shot in vain, and the quiver is empty |
and he untOuched; and that il so be- |
cause the people know him, trust |
him, believe i'm him, love him, and no |
effort to disparage him can succeed. |
They know that he is patriotic, |
and they know that he il an Ameri- |
can of Americans. They know he is |
wise, that he is able and true. and |
that they want him for president of
the United States. They have
already so declared, not i'm this or
that state or section, but i'm all the
States and all the sections of our
country, from ocean tn ocean and
from the Gulf tn the lakes. They ex-
pect us To give them a chance to vote
for him. 1t is our duty to do it. IL
we discharge that duty we will give
joy tn their hearts, enthusiasm to
the campaign and triumphant vic
tory to our cause; and he i'm turn
will give us an administration under
which the country will enter upon a
| new eIs of prosperity at home and of
glory and honor abroad. BY all
| those tokens of the present. all these
promises for the future, i'm the name
of the forty-siX delegates of Ohio, l
submit his claims to your cunsidera-
ton. loud cheering.)
Senator Thurston i'm seconding
the nomination spoke i'm part as fol-
lows:
OmnipOtence never sleeps. Every
great crisis brings leader. For
every supreme hour Providence finds
a man. The necessities of '96 are
almost as great as those of 81.
True, the enemies of the nation have
ceased to threaten with the sword,
and the constitution of the United
States no longer tolerates that
shackles shall fret the limbs of men;
but free trade and free coinage hold
no less menace to American pro-
gress than did the armed hosts of
treason and rebellion. If the voice
of the people is indeed the voice of
God, then William Mckinley is the
complement of Abraham Lincoln.
Yea, and he will issue a new emanci-
patton proclamation to the enslaved
SONS of toll and they shall be lifted
up into the full enjoyment of those
privileges, advantages and oppor-
tunities that belong of right to the
American people.
Under his administration we shall
command the respect of the nations
of the earth; the American flag will
never be hauled down; the rights of
American citizenship will be enforced;
abundant revenues nrovidedi foreign
merchandise will remain abroad, our
gold he kept at home; American ill.,
lstitutiQns will be cherished and up
held; all governmental obligations
scrupulously kept; and ON the
escutcheon of the republic will be
indelibly engraved the American
} policy, "protection, reciprocity and
sound money"
My cauntrymen, let not your
hearts he troubled, the darkest hour
is Just before the day, the morning
bright and clear. Lift up your hope
/ full faces and receive the light; the Re
, publican party IL coming back to
power, and William Mckinley will
be president of the United States.
, In an inland manufacturing city,
! on election night, November, '4,
after the wires had confirmed the
news of a sweeping Republican vic
= tory, two workingmen started to
climb to the top of great smoke
: less chimney. That chimney had
, been built by the invitation and upon
: the promise of Republican protective
, Legislation. In the factory oyeI
{ which 1t lowered was employment
J Efor twice a Thousand men. Its
! mighty roar had heraIded the pros
! pefity Of a whole community. II
/ had stood a cloud by day and 9
: pillar Of fire by night for a busy, In,
c dustrious, happy people. Now
bleak, blackened, vOiceless and dis
: manteled, like a grim specter Of evil,
3 it frowned down upon the hapless
r lefty where poverty. idleness, stag
: nation and want attested the com,
plete disaster Of the free trade ex'
! pertinent.
Up and up and up they climbed
! watched by the breathless multitude
y below. Up and up and up, until al
] last they stood upon it's summit
r and there In the glare of the electric
lights, cheered by the gathered
thousands, they unfurled and nailed
9 an American flag. Down in tht
happy tears of hope-and mothers
!. lifting up their babes. invoked thu
y bIessing of the flag; and then i'm
e passioned lips burst forth in song
Z the hallelujah of exulting hosts, thu
> mighty paean of peoples Joy
y That song, the enthusiastic million,
e sing 1t yet:
r Hurrah, hurrahl we bring the Jubilee;
q Hurrah, hurraht the Gag that makes us free
b So we sing the chorus from the mountain
It Hurrah ior Mckinley and proteetioni