The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-10-17
Prominent Stump Speakers OF
Sound Money, Protection and
National Honor.
RECENT CAMPAIGN ORATORY,
Makers Of History Record Utterances
Which Are Bound to Live
for Ages,
What the Republican Party Stands
For.
MAI MCKINLEY.


The political situation of the country
is peculiar. We have had few parallels
10 our present political condition. We
have but one political party which is
united. and that is ours. (Applaase)
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 organizations.
and their allies are for the most part
harmonious except that each one has a
distinct and different candidate for vice
president. Great laughter and ap-
plauseO
Happily the Republican party was
never more closely united than now, both
in fact and in spirit, and there were
never better reasons for such union, and
never greater necessity for it than Nc ".
Cheers and cries OF That's right.0 1t
Is welded, deyotedly welded, to party
principles. 1t stands as it has always
stood, for an American protective tariff
which shall raise enough money 10 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 viii stop debts and deficiencies and
make the treasury of the United States
cpce more safe and sound in every par
ticular tApplause) 1t stands for a re
ciprocity tui,t seeks out the markets of
the world for our surplus agricultural
and manufacturing products without sur
rendering a single days wages that be-
longs to the American workman. zap
plause.) 1t believes in preserving a
home market for the American farmer
(appauseD, in the opening of the Amcri-
can factories for the American working
man (appIauSc), and the opening up OF a
foreign market wherever it can be done
with profit to all the great interests Of
the United States.
1T is. too, for sound money great
chperingl. every dollar worth 100 cents
renewed chccrngi every dollar as good
as gold continued chrcriuEl, and II is op-
posed alike to the free and unlimited
coinage oi silver, and the issuance OF r.
rcdeDmgh3c paper money t. which the
allied party seemed firmly committed.
lGrrat aputau~e.) Ir haas always kept
silver al parity with sold. II proposes
10 keep IhIt silver money p circulation
Rua preserve ~lt. hy ~.." gold and silver
and paper. .a.a .ue equal 20 the other,
and each TIE equal d. the best, a-d
the best never g be inferior to the hest
money known 10 the eatH'usFria- uAju4~
Of the world. cloud saanru-b II
vii continue to favor Il policy tual Wll
give work So American citizens taU-
plau~.l markets to American farmers
tcr.rS of 'Tnat'S what we Waut.I. aHi
'...4' .rr.. rfHs So sI ,.1.
chcprug~ and cries ot Iurrah Tor Nc
kiulcy.l W. are now convinced after
three years of experience, whatever may
have been our political relations in the
past If the truth of the observation or
Webster made more than half a century
ago You viii recall that he said:
That is the trucst American policy
which shall most u>efully employ Amcri-
can capital and American labor and best
sustain the whole American population.
Great applauSe1
"Agriculturc commerce and manutac-
lures Will prosper together or fail to-
gether Equally true also were the
words of John Quincy Adams, That the
great interests Of this agricultural. min
ing and manufacturing nation are so
linked in unison that no permanent cause
of prosperity to one of them can operate
without extending its influence to the
other AppaUScl We cannot have
commercial growth ana expansion with
I'VE cannot have commercial prosperity
without the StrctrSt integrity both of
government and citizen lRenewed ap-
plauS,, and cries of That's riEht.D 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.0 The Republican party has main
tanned it and is pledged to maintain it.
Ii 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
so high and unquesticned. (Applause.(
The Republican party il pledged 70 main
tain the credit of the government which
Is intimately associated with its spotleSs
name and honor and this II will do I'M
der any circumstances and at any cost.
Great cheeringl
at taxed the credit of the government
In the days of the war to its utmost ten
Eion to preserve the government itself,
which, under God. II was happily en-
sbled 10 do. Following that mighty
struggle il lifted our credit higher than
1t bad ever been before and made it
equal TO the oldest and wealthiest ma
uons of the world. applause and
cries Of That's right 1t is pledged
10 maintain interrupted the currency
of the country of whatever form or
kind that has been used by national au-
thOrity. 1t made the old CTeenback as
good as gold and has kept it as good as
gold ever since. 1t has maintained every
form of American money. whether sill
yer or paper, equal to gold. and it will
not take any backward step. Great ap-
pIause and cries of Good. good No
party ever went out OF power which left
SO magnificent record as the Repub-
hcsn party. Cries Of That's right. ,
Our great war debt was more than two
thirds paid off. our currency unqucstioned.
our credit uutrnished, the honor of the
union unsulGud, the country in its ma
terial conditions stronger than il had
ever been before: the woUkmgmen better
employed and better paid than ever be
fore. with prosperity in every part of the