The record-union., 1896-06-21


official acts. He has established the
fact that he is the friend of the great
American people, and is in favor on the
great principle Of protecting American
labor. If the Republican party should
repudiate those principles, then I-should
say, Throw open the doors and let the
Chinese and the Japs come in and eat
their handful of rice and compete with
American labor
'I commend Mckinley; ratify him,
not only because Of his adherence to the
general principles which uphold the
Republican party, but because he IS
the champion of the great American
principle of protection.
'.The leaders of the Republican party
nave always been loyal men, and there
is hardly one Of them who will not oc-
cupy bright page in the history OF the
country. They have never said that a
protective tariff was unconstitutional
They have made a line of patriotic ac-
ton which challenges the admiration
of the world
Then, finally, came a season of DEM
ocratic misrule. We had prosperity
Cleveland was elected-we have adver-
sity. When the time came for the sup
preston of slavery the Republican par
ty was there, and now that the time
has come for protecting American labor,
it is there again.
Mckinley must receive the support
of all honest Americans. He will, he
must be elected, because he believes
in the great American principle OF pro-
lection.
Il will not talk longer, but / venture
when election day comes the people
will rally round the old Republican
party and carry it, with William Nc
Kinley at the head, to victory"
ELWOOD BRUNER
Said it was indeed a pleasure after an
absence of some years to address sucn
an audience in his old home.
A great party has met in great
convention. Delegates have met from
North and South, East and West, each
man has asked what he wished TOR,
but all could not win, and no one could
control the actions of the convention.
No principle is so great but some other
is greater and better, and SO OF the
platform adopted by the American
people; he stood upon it in its entirety.
IF cannot get all l want" said he,
I yield to the will of the majority and
take what | can get To the men who
got up and left the convention l want
to say that no single principle is strong
enough to disrupt the Republican
party. Whom God loveth, He chasten-
eth and He has done so with the Re-
publican party, but now, in His wis
dom, He has made them adopt the
platform. Who would have thought
80 WV
advocating free silver, when they had
a chance to get it, but now, when there
is a chance to get few Republican
votes, they do as they have always
done-get in at the last.
when they came into power TOUR
years ago there was a surplus in the
treasury, but after three years rule
the treasury is not only empty, but
$50 100000 of interest bearing bonded
debt has been piled up.
Twelve years ago, l remember, the
Republican cry was Protection to
American Industries Eight years ago
Il was the same, as it was also four
years ago, and this year, when l hap
pened at the depot as the delegates
were starting for st. Louis, l saw
stretched along the side of the car in
which they rode a banner upon which
were the words, Mckinley and Pro-
tection.' and not one word of free
silver"
How about the Japs and Chinese?"
yelled someone in the crowd.
1--WE are going,' said Mr.. Bruner, ito
protect American industry from for
eign labor of all kinds, and we will pro-
tect everything we produce, our silver
included We will protect our silver in
terests together with our agricultural
interests. But it is not to be expected
that a campaign speech will be made
at this time.
And to you all 1 say, no matter how
grounded you may be upon the ques-
ton of free silver, remember that every
State east of the Mississippi demanded
gold. We suppose that they knew what
they wanted. and because we do not be-
lieve with them, shall we rise up and
desert?
The Republican party is too great
and glorious to be thrown down by any
man or set of men. and if all the States
in the East vote for gold, they must
know what they are voting for.
Now as to the men: They say Nc
Kinley is not a man of intelligence or
intellect, and yet he was a MajorGen-
eral in 1865. What is intelligence if it
does not teach one to be a leader of
men? Mckinley has always been a
leader He is the logical candidate of
the whole people. l believe, as he has
been in the past, so will he be in the
future, and when the Republican party
rides with him at the helm into power
once more l believe the mortgage will
be paid off and an era of good times fol-
low, and once more we will have a
happy, contented and glorious people. ="
Great applause)
r. T. DEVLIN
Said that this vast audience knew the
interest taken all over the country in
the election of William Mckinley as
President. The gathering at the con-
vention at St. Louis, immense at it was,
was only a mass meeting of the Repub-
Hcan party. All the States had their
favorite sons to present before the con-
vention for the nomination, but McKin-
ley was the favorite son of all and they
united to do him honor. The party had
no apology to make for nominating him,
for he stood for. the time-honored prin-
ciples which had always guided it.
We have had under its rule twenty
years of unexampled prosperity and we
had become too much accustomed to it
and were branching out too largely and
the time had come to go slow, and we
did so. The time has now come to start
again, and to set in motion the forge
and the factory, the loom and the spin
die and to advocate once more the doc
trine of protection, under whose benefi-
cent hammer the country had 50 rrns-