The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-17
WORDS OF PATRIOTS.
Prominent Stump Speakers on
Sound Money, Protection and
National Honor.
RECENT CAMPAIGN 0RAT0RY.
Makers of History Record Utterances
Which Are Bound to Live
for Ages.
RECENT CAMPAIGN ORATORY.
What the Republican Party Stands
For.
MAI. MCKINLEY.

"The political situation of the country
to our present political condition. We
have but one political party which is
united. and that is ours. (ApplaIse.)
Discord reigns in all others. Our time
honored opponent, the Democratic party,
is torn and divided. Two national con-
ventions have been held by it and two
national tickets presented, and their plat
forms are totally different on every sub
ject and In almost every section. The
Populist party has merged its organiza-
ton 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
president. Great laughter and APP
plause.)
Happily the Republican party was
never more closely united than now. both
in fact and in spirit. and there were
never better reasons for such union, and
never greater necessity for it than new.
Cheers and cries of That's right.) 1t
is welded, devotedly welded, to .,arty
principles. Ii stands as il 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 hurrnhs for Mckinley 4 tariff
that will stop debts and deficiencies and
make the treasury of the United States
once more safe and sound in every par
ticular. ,Applause.) 1, stands for a re-
ciprocity that seeks out the markets of
the world for our surplus agricultural
and manufacturing products without sur
rendering single days wages that be-
longs TO the American workman. CAP
pause.) Ii believes in preserving a
home market for the American farmer
lapparsel. in the opening of the Amcri-
can factories for the American working
man iapplause). and the opening mp of n
foreign market wherever il can he done
with profit To all the great interests Of
the United States.
1T is. too, for sound money great
checring). every dollar worth 100 cents
renewed chcering). every dollar as good
as gold continued chcering). and il is OPP
posed alike to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. and the issuance of ir-
redccmablc paper money to which the
allied party seemed firmly committed.
Great applause) 1t has always kept
silver nj parity with gold. Ii proposes
to 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 be inferior to the best
money known TO the commercial nations
of the world. loud checring.) 1t
will continue to favor policy that will
give work to American citizens zap
plausc). markets to American farmers
sound money TO both. tremendous
cheerings aud cries of 'Hurrah for Me
Kinley"b 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
ago. You will recall that he said:
That is the truest American policy
which shall most usefully employ Ameri-
can capital and American labor and best
sustain the whole American population.
Great applausc.)N
"Agriculturc. commerce and manufac-
lures will prosper together or fail to-
gether. Equally true also were the
words Of John Quincy Adams. That the
great interests of this agricultural, mill
ing and manufacturing nation are so
linked in unison that no permanent cause
without extending its influence to the
other (Applausc.) We cannot have
commercial growth and expansion with
out national and individual honor.
I'VE cannot have commercial prosperity
without the strictest integrity both of
government and citizen. tRcnewed APP
plause and cries of That's right.o The
financial honor of this government is of
TOO vast Importance, is entirely too sa-
cred to be the football of party politics.
Great applause and cries of Good,
good.o The Republican party has main
tanned IL aud is pledged to maintain il.
Ii has more than once stood between
good faith and dishonor and when Il
gave UP the control of the government
our national honor had never before been
80 high and unqucstioned. ,Applause.)
The Republican party is pledged Ia main
tain the credit of the government which
IL intimately associated with its spotless
name and honor. and this IL will do nm
der any circumstances and at any cost.
Great chcering)
at taxed the credit of the government
In the days of the war to it's utmost ten
sion to preserve the government itself.
which, under God. II was happily en-
nbled to do. Following that mighty
struggle II lifted our credit higher than
1t had ever been before and made 1t
equal to the oldest and wealthiest ma
cries of That's right.D II is pledged
to maintain interrupted the currency
Of the country of whatever form or
kind that has been used by national au-
thority. 1t made the old grccnback as
good as gold and has kept il as good as
gold ever since. 1t has maintained every
form of American money, whether sill
yer or paper. equal to gold. and II will
not take any backward step. Great ap-
plause and cries of Good. good.o No
party ever went out of power which left
lican party. (Cries of That's right.)
Our great war debt was more than two
thirds paid off. our currency unqucstioned.
our credit untarnished, the honor of the
union unsullicd, the country In its ma
terial conditions stronger than II had
ever been before: the workingmen better
employed and better paid than ever be-