St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-13
ment to .debt-paying, and opposes the con
unuance OF debt-naking policy.
NO SIDE ISSUES.

ment to .dsbt-paying, and opposes the con
tinuanee Of debt-making policy.
NO SIDE ISSUES.
And. gentlemen Of the Marquette club, let
me tell you that the Republican party, true. 1
going to make the campaign this year upon /
It's own ground. not upon its opponents. That
IL to say, the Republicans Of the country are
Ecure the issue on which their party has been
wrecked and the administration stranded. by
taxing up every new incident about which
tfary, they viii not be led OF by side issues,
put they VIII everywhere courageeusly insist
that the people In November shall Judge the
administration and Its party by their works
lions.
Gentlemen of the Marquette club, and my
! IeiioW ciuzens, let us cherish the principles
OF our party and concentrate ourselves anew
to their triumph. We have but to put our
close touch with the people; we have but to
hearken to the voice OF the people, as it
comes to US from every quarter; we have but
to paint on our banners the sentiment the
people have everywhere, expressed at every
election during the last three years, pa
triotism, protection and prosperity" to win
victory. ~
SENATOR THURsToN's WORDS.
Senator John NJ. EThurston, of Ne
braska, responded to the toast, "The
Impending Conflict" He began with
the statement that he stood for every
thing American against all the rest of
the world. If to love ones country
with ones whole heart; if to be ready
to defend its. honor with the last drop
OF blood, If to insist upon retaining
the glorious hopes of leadership which
providence had assigned it among the
republics Of the new world if to call a
halt in further aggressions and donin-
ION or european powers in AFFAIRS OF
the Western hemisphere was jingoism,
then, thank God, he was lingo. AS
soon as the resolution pending in the
senate defining and reasserting the
Monroe doctrine was passed, as 1t
would be by a decisive vote, there was
no nation in all the earth which would
for single moment seriously contem-
plate forcible opposition to the Ameri-
can policy. And nothing in modern
times had done so much to guarantee
the permanent peace Of this republic
as the recent outbursts Of loyalty and
patriotism from the people of all sec
lions of our common country who are
at last thoroughly united without re-
! gard to party or section upon the great
American policy Of America for Amer
| leans.
After referring to the division in the
| Democratic party on the money Ques-
! ton he said the Republican party to-
day was practically united and pledged
to the policy of American bimetallism'
| to the greatest possible use of gold
| and silver consistent with the mainten-
| ance of equal purchasing power and
debt-paying power of every dollar. 1t
| stood for the protection of every Amer
| lean understandable, manufacture
| ing, agriculture and mineral. 1t did
| not propose to freely open our markets
| to the products of foreign manufacture
ers or our minis to the cheap product
of foreign mines. 1t stood pledged to
| international bimetallism whenever
| enough Of the great nations of the
| earth were united with us to guarantee
| the maintenance of a worldwide parity
| between the two money metals. And
in the meantime the Republican party
| stood committed to such legislation as
would provide for the greatest possible
use of the silver product of the United
| States on q basis which would make
the American silver dollar the peer of
every gold dollar. Senator Thurston
closed with a trihuteeto the guest of the
evening, "the greatgAmerican, William
Mckinley, Of Ohio - 49,
JOUR- HOPE sINlcTHE SOUTH.
Senator J. P Pritchard, of North
Carolina, spoke of "Our Hope in the
South" He said it was the Repub-
licanparty's duty to adopt such policy
DIS 10 give dSSuTdIC0- lHdte Tie Jaw iudtc-
rial of that section was to be amply
protected against the competition of
the foreign, trader.7jIt was universally
admitted that inetlIe South there was
concentrated greater resources for the
development of manufacturing and
mining than in any other part of the
world The Mckinley law, rejecting
as it did the patriotic wisdom and
craftsmanship of the Republican party,
stimulated and encouraged every sim
gle industry in which the Southern peo-
pie were interested. He had been
forced to the conclusion that the great
mission of the Democratic party as
now constituted was to carefully pro-
tect and foster the interests of the gil
| country No party could be devoted
to the welfare of this nation which
by legislation Disseminated against
one section in order to build up an
other. Taking the only legislation
placed upon the statute book by the
Democratic party since the war as a
criterion, that party stood before the
American people as the champion Of
the trading and specializing classes of
this and foreign countries. 1t should
be the desire of the Republican party
to strengthen, encourage and establish
permanent and enduring party in
the Southern states, and this could be
accomplished by giving the people to
understand that they were to have
their interests carefully protected. The
senator ended his speech with the pre-
diction that with William Mckinley as
standard bearer on such a platform the
Republicans would carry North Caro-
lima. Virginia, Tennessee, and, per-
haps, other Southern states. 1.-THE op-
portunity of effectually breaking the
solid South is now presented to the Re
publican party of this nation. There
lies the hope of the South
| Gov. Upham, of Wisconsin, also