The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

industry as it has that OF the sheriff. Then
the sunshine of prosperity Illuminated the
whole land. Now our people grope, shiyer
and wait in the benumbing shadow of sd
versity and distress Even Cleveland has dis
| covered that we are confronted by Condition
of business depression. Then surplus over
flowed the treasury; now d1hct drains its
vaults.
The stern logic of events has given the
| American people a logic lesson on the most
| stupendous scale. But one lesson is taught.
! It is so plain that che may run that readeth
itn Another change is decreed. 1t only
waits the slow turning of the hand on the dial
plate of time to be registered. For the next
! four years the Republican party VIII again
| take charge of the business OF the country.
win il remain in power for decades, shaping
in harmony with its high destiny the policy
| of the Republic? The action OF this conven-
1 ton in selecting nominee VIII determine
We stand here as the representatives of this
great party, charged with the responsibility of
deciding whether the lease of power, which
an indignant, exhausted, exasperated people
stand ready to give US, shall be for years or
| decades. We are called upon to act for the
welfare of the whole party, not to express per-
/ sonal preferences The occasion demands our
greatest man, our foremost leader. he should
not be the representative of any special policy
or any single principle of the party lie must
| be the representative OF all interests, al ele-
|
and no South, no East and no West. He must
have private life and public record, OF the
| lawful, hawless, untarnished by suspicion, I'M
sulied by calumny, a life upon which the CAL
! cium light of a campaign can cast no shadow
He must have opinions and the courage TO
declare them, and when he has only declared
| them to ''stand," like Luther, If need be, Tor
| ever He must have commanding ability, in
tegrity above suspicion. He must be unswery-
/ ingly loyal to all the principles OF the party.
! He must have thorough knowledge OF the
science of practical government, an intelligent
apprehension OF the true destiny of the repub-
| lie a sincere purpose, manly independence,
freedom from obligations, entanglements and
alliances. He must be unselfish in his devotion
to the welfare OF the whole party, inhexible IN
determination, indomitable in courage. he
| must have Americanism broad enough and
| rugged enough to maintain the dignity OF the
| Republic and the rights OF its citizens In every
land and on every sea; an Amer1csn1sm that
/ with due regard to international duties can
extend the hand of sympathy to our fellow
! men wherever they are struggling for freedom;
| an Americanism that does not look upon the
| flag as piece of mere textile fabric, but sees
! in it the emblem of great and powerful peo-
| pie consecrated to liberty and freedom by the
| expenditure of uncounted treasure and the
sacrifice of innumerable heroic ana patrlotlc
lives.
| come to you from State that has always
followed in victory or defeat the standard of
| the party, that ever since the party was born
of its aspirations for freedom has cast its vote
! for its candidates; that will cast its vote Tor
the nominee of this convention, whoever he
may be, and bring to you candidate who by
his twenty years of battle FOR the party in the
House of Representatives has demonstrated
| his possession of these qualifications in a pre-
eminent degree. He has rendered conspicu-
ous and enduring service to the party and the
Nation, service that was not within the power
or ability of any other to render. He trampled
under footimmemorial precedentin order that
the party that had been entrusted by the
country with the transaction of its business
might discharge its duties and see that the
business of the country was done.
The universal practice Of the Republican
nd Democratic parties had been such as to
justify the statement of Mills in speaking of
the Democracy, 'that we propose to exercise
control OF the House, just as much as if we
were still in the majority, because we know
that. our minority is strong enough to make
US virtual rulers" res ulting in government
of the minority and not of the majority, COM
plete subversion of the fundamental principle
of representative government.
With this condition he was confronted at
the assembling of the Fifty-fir Congress. He
found the House of Representatives a body Of
obstruction. He made 1t q deliberative, legis-
Iatiye, business body. He found 1T kissing
and q by-word. He made 1t the instrument of
the peoples will, one of the glories of the Re-
public.
A determined minority stood like a lion in
its path to thwart and defeat, but it made it
possible for the Republican party to fulfill its
pledges to the people.
But for his overmastering courage and In
flexible determination, the Mckinley bill would
have been nothing but legislative dream.
The most venomous, rahcorous and vitupera-
tive abuse known to partisan hatred was
poured upon him by defeated, baf1ed, ex-
asperated minority. He became the center of
q whirlwind Of denunciation and calumnia-
ton the country over. His political future
was staked upon the ISSUE He never hesi-
tated to count the cost Conscious of the rec
titude and patriotism of his purpose. calm,
serene self-reliant, undismayed, indomitable,
massive, heroic, the great Speaker lowered
above it all, an impregnable bulwark against
which 'the gates of hell could not prevail"
He lived to emerge unscatheo from the ava
1anehe of partisan detraction and villifcation,
and see his position sustained by the greatest
legal tribunal of the civilized world, and he
had the proud satisfaction Of witnessing the
humiliation of his detraetors and calumnia-
tors when they were compelled to adopt his
rules
As true as the needle to the pole has been
his devotion to the principles of honest and
sound finance. His record for sound money
IS W1LnOuL q Dreak he DeueVeS IN BOunQ
finance and in sound finance with definition.
He believes in a definition that defines.
He is willing that his definition should be
known of all men, and his definition is that
until we can have bimetallism by interna-
tional agreement the present gold standard
should be maintained. He believes that any
other principle means disaster and loss of the
confidence of the great business interests of
the country. He knows that the Government
mint is not an alambic that can transmute so
cents worth of silver metal into q coin of the
realm of the value of 81. The Republican
party was held up in the United States Senate
and commanded to stand or deliver 81 in coin
for so cents of value. They could bring the
party to a standard, but under mis- leadership
they could not make it deliver.
Intrusted by his party with an Office second
only in power to that of the Presidency, having
at his disposal the highest objects of Congress
sional ambition, the control of great interests,
he has scorned to use his power for his own ag-
grandizement Dignifed, unselish, dispas-