The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-07-04
McKfnleY,s Hesnonsc

Canton, O., June Ex-senator Thurs
ton and Gentlemen of the Notification
Committee of the Republican National
Committee: To be selected as their
presidential candidate by a great party
convention, representing SO vast a num-
Der of the people of the United States is
a most distinguished honor, for which /
would not conceal my high apprecia-
ton, although deeply sensible of the
great responsibilities of the trust and
my n ability to bear them without the
generous and constant support of my
fellow countrymen. Great as the honor
conferred, equally arduous and import
ant Is the duty imposed, and in accept
Ing one l assume the other, relying upon
the patriotic devotion of the people to
the best interests of our beloved coun-
try II the sustaining care n aid OF
Him, without whose support all we do
is empty Inc vain. Should the people
ratify the choice of the great V
ton for which you speak, my only aim
will be to promote the public good.
which in America is always the good Of
the greatest number, the honor Of our
country and the welfare of the people.
The questions to be settled in the ma
tional contest this year are as serious
and important as any OF h great gov
ernmental problems that have confront
ted us in the past quarter of a century.
They command our sober judgment and
a settlement free from partisan preju-
dice and passion, beneficial to ourselves
and BETTING the honor and grandeur of
the republic. They touch every inter-
est of our common country,
Our industrial supremacy, u pro-
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mercial prosperity, our labor and its re-
wards. our national credit and cur
rency, our proud financial honor and our
splendid free citizenship-the birthright
of every American-are involved in the
pending campaign, and thus every
home in the land is directly and init
mately connected with their proper set
Element. Great are the issues involved
In the coming election and eager and
earnest the people for their right deter
minatIon. Our domestic trade must be
won back, our idle working people en-
ployed in gainful occupations at Amerl-
can wages. Our home market must be
restored to its proud rank of first in the
world, and our foreign trade, SO precipi-
lately cut off by adverse national legis-
lation, reopened on fair and equitable
terms for Ii surplus agricultural and
manufacturing products. Protection
and reciprocity, twin measures of a true
Amerlcanpolicy, should again command
the earnest announcement of the gov
ernn1ent at Washington. Public conf
dence must BY resumed and the skill, the
energy and the capital of our country
find ample employment at home, sus-
talned, encouraged and defended
against the unequal competition and
serious disadvantages with which they
are now contending. The government
of the United States must raise enough
money to meet both its current expen-
SEES and increasing needs. Its revenues
should be so raised as to protect the ma
terial interests of u people, with the
lightest possible drain upon their re-
sources, and maintain that high stand
ard of civilization which has distin-
gulshed our country for more than a
century OF Its existence.
Government Income.
The income of the government, I re-
peat, should equal It's necessary and
proper expenditures. A failure to pur-
sue this policy has compelled the gov
eminent to borrow money. In q time OF