The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-30

and tc which you viii be elected. that
your administration will enhance the dig
nifty. aud power. and glory of this Repub-
lie and secure the safety, welfare and hap
piness of its liberty loving people,
There was an outburst of applause as
Senator Thurston concluded.
Gov. MckinIey's Speech.
AT 1920 Governor Mckinley arose to re-
spond. and the cheering was renewed.
When quiet was restored he spoke as fol-
lows:
Senator Thurston and gentlemen of the
notification committee of the Republican
national convention--To be selected as
their presidential candidate by great
party convention, representing SO vast a
number of the people of the United States.
is a most distinguished honor, for which
would not conceal my high appreciation,
although deeply sensible of the great re-
sponsibiitieS of the trust and my inability
to bear them without the generous and
constant support Of my fellow countrymen.
Great as is the honor conferred. equally
arduous and important is the duty imposed,
and in accepting the one / assume the
other relying on the patriotic devotion OF
the people to the best interests of our be-
loved country and the sustaining care and
aid of Him without whose support all We
do is empty and vain. Should the people
ratify the choice of the great convention
for which you speak, my only aim will
be to. promote the public good, which in
America is always the good of the great
est number, the honor of our country and
the welfare of the people.
1.-The questions to be settled in the ma
tional contest this year are serious and
important as any of the great government
al problems that have confronted us in the
past quarter of the century. They COM
;nand our sober judgment and n settle
ment free from partisan prejudice and pas
sion beneficial TO ourselves and BETTING
the honor and grandeur of the Republic.
They touch every interest of our common
country. Our industrial supremacy. our
productive capacity, our business and COM
mercial prosperity, our labor and its re-
wards. our national credit and currency
our proud financial honor and our splendid
free citizenship-the birthright of every
American-are all involved in the pending
campaign and thus every home in the land
is directly and intimately connected with
their proper settlement.
Great are the issues involved in the
coming election and eager and earnest the
people for their right determination. Our
domestic trade must be won back and our
idle working people empioyed in gainful
occupations at American wages. Our
home market must be restored to it's proud
rank of first in the world and our foreign
trade. so precipitately cut off by adverse
national legislation. reopened on fair and
equitable terms for our surplus agriculture
al and manufacturing products. Protection
and reciprocity twin measures of true
American policy. should again command
the earnest announcement Of the govern
ment at Washington. Public confidence
must be restored. and the skill, the energy.
employment at home, sustained, encour-
aged and defended against the unequal
competition and serious disadvantage with
which they are now contending. The gov
ernment of the United States must raise
enough money to meet both It's current
expenses and Increasing needs. It's reve-
nues should be SO raised as to protect the
material interests of our people with the
lightest possible drain on their resources
and maintain that high standard of civili-
try for more than a century of its exist
ence.
MORE INCOME NEEDED.
'The income of the government, repeat,
should equal its necessary and proper ex-
penditures. failure to pursue this policy
has compelled the government TO borrow
money in time of peace, to sustain it's
credit apd to pay its daily expenses. This
policy should be reversed and that, too
as speedily as possible. Il must be appar-
rent to all. regardless of past party ties
or. affiliations, that it is our permanent
duty to provide adequate revenue for the
expenditures of the government econom-
ically and prudently administered. The Re-
publican party has heretofore done this
and confidently believe it will do it in
the future when the party is again in
trusted with power In the executive and
legislative branches of our government
The national credit. which has thus far
fortunately resisted every assault upon II
must and will be upheld and strengthened.
support of the governments there will be
no necessity for borrowing money and in
crea.sng the public debts.
The complaint of the people is not
against the administration for borrowing
money and issuing bonds to preserve the
credit OF the country. but against the
ruirous policy which has made this neces-
sary. 1t is but an incident, and a neces-
sary one, to the policy which has been in
uagurated. The inevitable effect of such
a policy is seen in the deficiency. of the
United States treasury, except as it is re-
plenished by loans and In the distress of
the people. who are suffering because of
the products OF their labor Here is the
fundamental trouble, the remedy for which
is Republican opportunity and duty. Dur
ing all the years of Republican control fol-
lowing resumption there was a steady re-
duction of the public debt. while the gold
reserve was sacrediy maintained and our
currency and credit preserved without de-
probation. taint or suspicion. If we would
restore this policy that brought us unex-
ampled prosperity for more than thirty
years: under the most trying conditions
ever known in this country the policy by
which we made and bought more goods
at home and sold more abroad. the trade
balance would be quickly turned in our
favor and gold would come to US and NOT
go from us in the settlement of ali such
balances in the future. The party that
supplied by legislation the vast revenues
for the conduct of our greatest war and
promptly restored the credit of the coun-
try at its close, and that. from its abnnd-
ant revenues. paid off large share of the
debt incurred in this war, and that re-
sumed specie payments and placed our pa
per currency on sound and enduring
basis, can be safely trusted to preserve
both our credit and currency with honor
stability and inviolabiity.
FINANCIAL. HONOR SACRED.
'The American people hold the financial
honor of our government as sacred as our
flag and can be relied on TO guard it with
the same sleepIess vigilance. They hold its
preservation above party fealty and have
often demonstrated that party ties avail
nothing when the spotless credit of our
country is threatened. The money of the
United States and every kind or form of it,
whether of paper. silver or gold must be
as good as the best in the world. Ii must
not only be current at its full face value
at home, but it must .be counted at par in
any and every commercial center of the
globe The sagacious and far-seeing policy
of the great men who founded our govern
ment, the teachings and acts OF the wsest
financlers at every stage In our history
the steadfast faith and splendid achieve
ments of the great party to which we be-
people have always demanded this and will
ever maintain IL. The dollar paid to the
farmer the wage-earner and the pcnsioner
must continue forever equal in purchasing
and debt-paying power TO the dollar paid
to any government creditcr.
THE contest this year will not be waged
upon lines of theory and speculation. but
in the light of severe practical experience
and new and dearly-acQuired knowledge
The great body of our citizens know what
they want. and that they intend TO have
They know for what the Republican r,art "
OF NIL N r.afr