The record-union., 1896-06-19


brilliant and magnetic Garfield.
In defeat and in victory, for the pol
icies which stood for the development
OF American industries, for America
for Americans, whether native or nat
uralized, and for the reciprocity which
bound the North American and South
American continents together, we had
the Plumed Knight of our enthusiasm
and our love, James G. Blaine.
"As new generation came to the
majority, to whom the past was le-
gend, the present the difficult task of
development and prosperity, and the
future theory without. experience, the
Republican party again happily prac-
ticed, in its control of the executive
and the legislative branches of the
Government, that policy of the protec-
ton of American industries and that
practice of sound finance which gave
to the republic it's era of greatest
prosperity and it's period of the largest
returns for capital, the fullest employ
ment for labor and the highest wages
for work in the history of our Nation
in the closing year of the administration
of that able and accomplished states
man, Benjamin Harrison.
I'VE meet to take up the broken cord
of national development and happiness
and link it once more to the car of pro-
gress. Our industries stagnant, our
manufactures paralyzed, our agricult
ure disheartened, our artisans unern-
Iloyed, our finances disordered, our
treasury bankrupt, our credit impaired,
our position anmong the nations of the
| world questioned, all look to this con-
nd tod
hope and rescue
The conditions created by the prac-
tfce of Democratic policies, the prom
lse or Democratic measures and the
differences of Democratic statesmen
would seem to argue an unquestioned
triumph for the Republican party in
the coming election No matter how
brilliant the promise, no matter how
serene the outlook, it is the part Of
wisdom, with the uncertainties of
politics and our recent experience of
the tragic shifting of issues, to be care
full, prudent and wise in platform and
in candidate
'The whole country, North. South,
East and West, without any division
in our lines, or out of them, stands
| after what has happened in the last
lean industries, for the principle of re-
ciprocity and for America for Amer
leans. But a compact neighborhood of
great commonwealths, in which are
concentrated the majority of the popu-
lation, of the manufactures and of the
industrial energies of the United States,
has found that business and credit
exist only with the stability Of sound
money.
"The United States. differing from
the medieval conditions which govern
older countries, differing from the mill
tarlsm which is the curse Of European
nations, differing from thrones which
rest upon the sword, is pre-eminently
and patriotically a commercial nation
Ihus commerce and business are syn
onymous with patriotism. When the
farmer is af1eld sowing and reaping the
crops which find market which re-
munerates him for his toll, when the
laborer and the artisan find work seek
ing them and not themselves despair
iEg of work, when the wage of the
teller promises comfort for his family
and hope for his children, when the
rail is burdened with the product of
the soil and of the factory, when the
spindles are humming and the fur
naceS are ablaze, when the mine Is
putting out its largest product and the
national and individual wealth are con-
stantly increasing, when the homes
owned unmortgaged by the people are
raore numerous Say by day and month
by month, when the schools are most
crowded, the fairs most frequent and
happy conditions most universal in the
nation, then are the promises fulfilled
which make these United States of
America the home of the oppressed and
the land of the free.
1T is to meet these conditions and
tc meet them with a candidate who
represents them and about whom there
can be no question, that New York pre-
sents to you for the Presidency under
l he unanimous instructions of two sue
cessive Republican State Conventions
the name of her Governor, Levi P Nor
ton.
I'm the tremendous effort to break
the hold which the democracy had up
on our commonwealth, and which it
had strengthened for ten successive
years, we selected as our standard
bearer the gentleman whom 7 present
who carried New York, and took the
Legislature with him by 10000 ma
jority.
Our present depiorable and indus
| trial and financial conditions are large
| ly due to the fact that while we have
q President and Cabinet of acknowl-
edged ability, none OF them have had
business training or experience. They
are persuasive reasoners upon indus
trial questions, but have never practi-
cally solved industrial problems They
are the book farmers who raise wheat
| at the cost of orchids and sell it at the
price of wheat Wl1h Levi p Morton
there would be no deficiency to be met
| By the issue of bonds, there would be
nc blight on our credit which would
call for the services of a syndicate.
there would be no trif1ing with the deli
cate intricacies of finance and COM
merce which would paralyze the op-
erations of trade and manufacture
| Whoever may be nominated by this
| convention will receive the cordial sup
port, the enthusiastic advocacy of the
Republicans of New York, but in the
| shifting conditions cf our common
wealth, Governor Morton can secure
more than the party strength, and
without question in the coming can
vass. no matter what issue may arise
between now and November, place the
Empire State solidly in the Republican
column"
I, Mr. Depew's speech repeatedly elic-
/ tied bursts of laughter and applause
particularly one humorous interpolated
Passage in which he said: II wonder
what our erring boiling brothers will
say when they arrive at the celestial