The Dickinson press., 1896-10-24
WORDS OF PATRIOTS.
Prominent Stump Speakers on
Sound Money, Protection and
National Honor.
RECENT CAMPAIGN oRA1oRy,
Makers Of History Record Utterances
Which Are Bound to Live
for Ages
What the Republican Party stands
MAI. MCKINLEY.

'The political situation of the country
10 peculiar. We have had few parallels
to our present political condition. We
have but one political party which is
united, and that is ours. (Applanse.)
Discord reigns in all others. Our time
honored opponent, the Democratic party,
is torn and divided. Two national con-
ventions have been held by it and two
national tickets presented, and their plat
forms are totally different on every sub
ject and in almost every section. The
Populist party has merged its organiza-
ton into that of the Chicago Demo-
cratic and st. Louis silver o-rganizationsi
and their allies are for the most part
harmonious except that each M has a
distinct and different candidate for vice.
president. Great laughter and apll
Plause.) !,
"Happily the Republican party was
never more closely united than now, both
in fact and in spirit, and there werd
never better reasons for such union, and
never greater necessity for it than now,
CHEERS and cries of That's rightly It
is welded, devotedly welded, to :,arty
principles. 1t stands as it has always
stood, for an American protective tariff
which shall raise enough money to con!
duct the several departments of the gov
eminent, including liberal pensions to-
the Union soldiers. tremendous cheer
ing and hurrahs for Mckinley A tariff
that will stop debts and Deficiencies and
make the treasury of the United States
once more safe and sound in every par,
ticular. (Applause.) It stands for a re-
ciprocity that seeks out the markets Of
the world for our surplus agricultural
and manufacturing products without SUR
rendering a single days wages that bel
longs to the American workman. Gap!
plause.) 1t believes in preserving a
home market for the American farmer!
(%applause), in the opening of the Amcri-
can factories for the American working
man (applause), and the opening up of a
with profit to all the great interests Of
the United States.
at is. too. for sound money great
cheering), every dollar worth 100 cents
~(renewed cheering), every dollar as good
as gold Continued cheering), and it is op;;
coinage Of silver, and the issuance Of If.
allied party seemed firmly committed.
Great %applause.) It has always kept
silver at q parity with gold. 1t proposes
to keep that silver money in circulation
and paper, each the equal to the other;
the best never to be inferior to the best
money known to the commercial nations
of the world. cloud cheering.) 1t
will continue to favor. a policy that will
RPlause): markets to American farmers
sound money to BOTH. TREMENDOUS
cheerings and cries of 'Hurrah for Nc
Kinley!1 We are now convinced after
three years of experience, whatever may
have been our political relations in the
Webster, made more than half a century
ago. You will recall that he said:
That Is the truest American policy
which shall most usefully employ Ameri-
can capital and American labor and best
sustain the whole American population
(Great applause.)
lures will prosper together or fail to-
kether. Equally true also were the
words of John Quincy Adams, That the
great interests Of this agricultural, min
Ing and manufacturing nation are SO
Of prosperity to n of them can operate
ether (Applause.) We cannot have
commercial growth and expansion with
out national and individual honor.
without the strictesr integrity both Of
government and citizen. @Renewed ap-
plause and cries of That's rightly The
financial honor of this government is of
too vast importance, is entirely too sa-
cred to be the football of party politics.
Great applause and cries of Good,
good.2 The Republican party has main.
1t has more than once stood between
good faith and dishonor and when it
gave up the control of the government
our national honor had never before been
% high and unquestioned. (Applause.)
The Republican party is pledged to main
tain the credit of the government which
is intimately associated with its spotless
der any circumstances and at any cost.
(Great cheering.)
at taxed the credit of the government
In the days of the war to its utmost ten
sion to preserve the government itself,
which, under God, it was happily en-
.b1 I, to t. DE- I3f+.d Following one Clas;+ that h9t,a mighty thty
It had ever been before and made it
equal to the Oldest and wealthiest ma
cries Of That's right.D It is pledged
to mai1tain uncorrupted the currency
of the country of whatever form or
kind that has been used by national au-
thority. It made the old greenback as
good % gold and has kept it as good as
gold ever since. It has maintained every
form Of American money, whether sill
YER Or paper. equal to gold, and it viii
not take any backward step. (Great an
plause and cries of Good, good.) No
party ever went out of power which left
20 magnificent a record as the Repub-
lcan party. llCries of That's right.)
thirds paid of, our currency unquestioned.
our credit untarnished, the honor of the
union unsullied, the country in its ma.
teria1 conditions stronger than it had
ever been before: the w%orkingmen better
employed and better paid than ever be-
tore, with prosperity in every part Of the