The Columbus journal., 1896-10-21
Words OF PATRIOTS.
Prominent Stump Speakers on
Sound Money, Protection and
National Honor.
RECENT CAMPAIGN 0RATORY.
Makers of History Record Utterances
Which Are Bound to Live
for Ages.
What the Republican Party Stands
For.
MAI. MCKINLEY.

For.
MAI. MCKINLEY.
"The political situation of the country
6 peculiar. We have had few parallels
to our present political condition. W.
have but one political party which is
united, and that is ours. (.ApplaIse.)
Discord reigns in all others. Our time
Aoaored opponent, the Democratic party,
= torn and divided. Two national con-
ventions have been held by it and two
aational tickets presented, and their plat
forms are totally different on every sub
ject and in almost every section. The
R6pulist party has merged its organizes
t3oa 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
0resident. Great laughter and ap-
plause.)
~Happily the Republican party was
never more closely united than now both
q fact and in spirit, and there were
0eyer better reasons for such union, and
never greater necessity for it than now.
lCheers and cries of That's risht.D 1t
II welded, devOtedly welded, to :,arty
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 will stop debts and Deficiencies and
make the treasury of the United States
0nce more safe and sound in every par
ticular. (A%pplause.) 1t stands for 4 re-
CiprOcity that seeks out the markets of
the world for our surplus agricultural
and manufacturing products without sur
!endering a single days wages that be-
longs to the American workman. ZAP
laause.) 1t believes in preserving a
1ome market for the American farmer
(aPpiause). in the opening of the Ameri-
ean factories for the American working
0an (applause), and the opening up of a
foreign market wherever it can be lone
With profit to all the great interests Of
the United States.
1T is. too. for sound money great
deeringl, every dollar worth 100 cents
(renewed cheering), every dollar as good
- gold Continued cheering), and it is Op-
posed alike to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. and the issuance of ir-
fedeemable paper money to which the
Il!ied party seemed firmly committed.
Aver at a parity with gold. 1t proposes
- keep that silver money in circulation
and preserve side by side gold and silver
and paper, each the equal to the other,
and each the equal of the best, and
the best never to he inferior to the best
-~~~v % Al,
Of the world. loud cheering.) It
viii continue to favor a policy that will
give work to American citizens zap |
plause), markets to American farmers
(eries of That's what We WANT. and
sound money to both. Tremendous
Cheerings and cries of 'Hurrah for Nc
Kinley!D We are now convinced after
three years Of experience, whatever may
have been our political relations in the
past, of the truth of the observation of
Webster. made more than half a century |
ego. You will recall that he said: |
That is the truest American policy |
which shall most usefully employ Ameri-
eustain the whole American population
1Great %applause.)
~Agriculture. commerce and manufac-
lures will prosper together or fail to-
Gether. Equally true also were the
words of John Quincy Adams. That the
We L VI lIIS dSTICultuEuls mlu. /
ing and manufacturing nation are SO
linked in unison that no permanent cause
prosperity to one of them can Operate
without extending its influence to the
0ther.' (Applause.) We cannot have
commercial growth and expansion with
national and individual honor.
w cannot have commercial prosperity
the s~trictes. integrity both Of
government and citizen. (Renewed an
Paause and cries of That's right.O The
financial honor of this government is of
lo0 vast importance. is entirely too "a.
ered to be the football of party politics.
Great applause and cries Of Good,
yced.( The Republican party has main
lained 1t and is pledged to maintain il.
Il has more than once stood between
DaOd faith and dishOnor and when il
Eave mp the control of the government
Dur national honor had never before been
D high and unquestioned. lApplause.J
The Republican party is pledged to main
hin the credit of the government which
name and honor. and this it will do un-
1er any circumstances and at n cost.
cheering.)
1T taxed the credit of the government
y the days of the war to its utmost ten
non to preserve the government itself.
which. under God. it was happily en-
lbsed to do: Following that mighty
- 0SSsO H. ilSeu ouT cTeuIt ulS0pf IMAM
It had ever been before and made II
eQual to the Oldest and wealthiest ma
Of the world. (Applausc and
Ties of That's right 1t is pledged
10 maintain interrupted the currency
y the country of whatever form or
kind that has been used by national au,
thOrity. 1t made the old greenback as
sood as gold and has kept it as good as
Iold ever since. 1t has maintained every
of American mOnev who%bo. 81
'er or paper. equal to gold. and it will
~ lake any backward step. Great an ,
Aause and cries of Good. good.O No |.
'arty ever went out of power which left
party. (Cries of That's right.1 .
)1f great war debt was more than two :
hirds paid Oh, our currency unquestioned. ,
credit untarnished, the honor of the :
lnioa unsullied. the country in it, ma :
IN conditions stronger than il had i
Sef been before: the workingmen better /
0Q3oXed and better paid than ever BE- /