The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
The Nominee's Speech.

MdJOI IlChIii0y iIiddS oil dppi Opi idLS AC-
sponse, speaking at some length of the is
sues of the campaign. He said:
My Fellow-cittzens - 1t gives me very
great pleasure to receive this call from the
workingmen and citizens of Beaver county
of the State OF Pennsylvania | greet you
at my home friends and as allies in the
great cause in which the honor of the coun-
Try and prosperity OF the people are IN
volved You are our nearest neighbofs on
the east, and closely connected So
cially and in business relations with the
eastern part of the OLD congressional dis
trict which for SO many years l had the
honor to represent.
THE people of this country were never
so eager to vote as now. Great cheering.)
The last four years have been long years
the longest four years since our great
civil war. Cries of That's 500 Every
ty. Qaughter.) Everything has been
blighted but Republican principles zap
more cherished and more glorious than they
have ever been before. (Cries of That's
righto The people OF the !. country u try ar, are
those great principles in pubic law and
public administration. (Appiause)
county a and your commonwealth. (Cries of
'Hurrah for Mckinley and Beaver county }
Both have stood for the Nation and its hon
or in every crisis of our history. No State
in the Union has been more closely welded
| to Republican doctrines and Republican
ra raCries of .Hurrah for Pennsylvania.) No
State has achieved higher rank in manufac-
turing and mining than yours, and no State
has been more devoted to the great foe-
trine of a protective tariff tahn the State
from whence you come, TREMENDOUS
cheering and my fellow-citizens. no State
exempIified the splendid advantages OF that
great system more than yours. | do not
imagine that you are ready TO give It - up
YOU will still cling to 1t as one of the great
American patriotic policies that are best
for YOUR advancement and prosperity.
Cheers and cries of We will do that All
righti)
the country when the question of protec-
ton was at issue that your state did not
declare by emphatic majorities in its favor
Two years ago you gave to your dlstln-
guished Governor General Hastings zap
plause), the largest majority ever given TO
anyone by your state, and probaely the
candidate in any State of the Union. ZAP
pIause and cries of we will make your s
o'e TRIBUTE TO QUAY.
NV fellow -eitizens, / do not forget that
this delegation comes from the home of that
distinguished leader and unrivaled Repub-
lfcan organizer. great cheering and cries
of Quay! QuayD whose unfaItering (cries
of Mckinley! McKinley.o devotion to Re
publicansm has never wavered, and whose
splendid services to the cause have more
than once assisted to achieve the most sig
nal triumphs, in both your State and the
Nation. Great applause) remember
the House to the Senate and was under dis
cussion Senator Quay stood resolutely for
every interest in his State and prevented
the destruction of the great industries by
his great speech, which was the longest
ever delivered upon the tariff question in
the history of the Republic, and which mas
not been concluded. Great laughter and
applause) When he was fighting for the
Industries of your State Oh the floor of the
senate If he could not save them in any
other way he resumed the speech Qaugh-
terl which went on day after day, peneWed
laughter) with no apparent dlninut1on OF
his manuscript whlcn iald peloTe sa. MN, am,
/ wish he might have been part of this
great delegation to-day, but his absence is
fully compensated by the fact that on an
other part of this great field of contest he
l. serving the same cause in which you are
engaged and for the success of which so
many of the people are striving. Gap
plause) 4
cause for which we contend-commanding
tha support of every patriot-for it repre-
sents the national honor and stands for ma
That's rightt0 1t involves every cherished
interest OF the country, and embraces the
welfare of every citizen of the Republic
"a voice, You told the truth then.) 1t in
wolves the labor and wages of the people
and the earnings accumulated and to be ac-
cumulated. the honor of the country its
financial integrity, its good name-all are
at stake in this great contest, and every
lover of the country must be aroused to
duty and quickened 10 the responsibility In
this crisis. applause and cries of You
need not worry about thatt)
.'Our glorious country has suffered no dis
honor in the past 1t must suffer no dis
honor in the future Great applause.) The
and future are our fields of duty and op.
nortunity. Those who have preceded lis
have done well their part. Shall we be less