The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-19
of states for nominations for the presi-

dency.
 The first state to respond was Iowa, when MT. R. II. Baldwin of Council Bluffs came to the platform and nOm- mated Senator Allison of Iowa.
 The speech elicited very little en- thusiasm, although it was applauded at some points.
 The next state to respond was Mas sachusetts and Senator Lodge of that state came to the platform and nom mated Thomas B. Reed for the presi- dency in the following speech:
 Four years ago we met as we meet now, representatives of the great re- publican party. Prosperity was in the land. Capital was confident and labor employed. There was the good days wage for the good days work, and the spirit of American enterprise was stir ring and bold, The treasury was full, the public revenues ample for the pub lie need. We were at peace with all the world and had placed prudent hand on the key of the Pacific. Four short years have come and gone. Look about you now. The treasury is emp ty. Our credit is impaired. Our reve- nues are deficient. We meet the public needs not with income but by borrow ing at high rates and pledging the fu- ture for the wants of the present, Bus mess is paralyZed. Confidence has gone. Enterprise has folded it's eagle wings and mopes and blinks in the market place. Our mills are idle and our railroads crippled. Capital hides itself and labor idly walks the street. There is neither a good days wage nor q good days work We have met with sights abroad and have curious differ ences with other nations. The key to the Pacific has slipped from nerveless hands Foreign troops have been iand- ed in this hemisphere. Our own boun- daries have been threatened in Alaska.
 The Monroe doctrine has been de- tended but is not yet vindicated. The people of a neighbor island fighting for freedom look toward us with imploring eyes and look in vain. The American policy which would protect our indus tries at home and our flag abroad has faded and withered away
 Look then upon that picture and on this"
 Could you on that fair mountain leave to feed and fatten on this moor?"
 But four short years have come and gone and they have brought this change. What has happened? I will tell you in a word. The democratic party has been in power. That is the answer. Upon us falls the heavy bur den of binding up these wounds and bringing relief to all this suffering The democrats deceived the people by promising them the millennium and the miserable results of those lying promises are all about us to-day, We have no promises to make. We pledge ourselves only to that which we believe we can perform We will do our best. That is all, And as in 1860 we saved the Union and abolished slavery, so in 1896 we will deal with this democratic legacy of blunders, bankruptcy and misfortune.
 We are gathered here to choose the next President of the United States. That we will win in the election no man doubts, but let us not deceive our selves with the pleasant fancy that the campaign is to be an easy one. It will
 
 wise when so much depends upon the result. Against the republican party representing fixed American policies, strength, progress and order will be arrayed not only that organized fea- ture, the democratic party but all the wandering forces of political chaos and social disorder. It is not merely the presidency which is set before us as the prize. The prosperity of the coun- try, the protection of our industries, the soundness of our currency. and the national credit are all staked on the great issue to be decided at the polls next November. Upon us rests the duty of rescuing the country from the misery into which it has been plunged by three years of democratic misrule. To drive the democrats from power is the first step and the highest duty, but we shall triumph in vain, and in our turn shall meet heavy punishment at the hands of the people if we do not put our victory to right uses. Such a crisis as this cannot be met and dealt with by shouts and enthusiasm. We must face it as our fathers faced slavery and disunion-With a grim determination to win the battle; and that done, to take up our responsibilities in the same spirit with which we won the fight Now, as then, we can hope to succeed only by the most strenuous endeavor; and now. as then, everything depends upon the administration we place in office. We want president who will meet this situation as Lincoln met that of 1861: with the chiefs of the republi- cans about him. and with party and people at his back. We want a presi- dent who on the fifth day of next March will summon congress in extra session and, refusing to make appoint ments or to deal with patronage, will say that all else must wait until con- gress sends to him a tariff which shall put money in the treasury and wages in the pockets of the American work ingmen. We want a president who will protect at all hazards the gold re- serves of the treasury; who will see to is presented which is not paid in what ever coin the creditor chooses to de mand, and who will never forget that the nation which pays with honor bor- rows with ease. We want a man who will guard the safety and dignity of the nation at home and abroad and who will always and constantly be firm in dealing with foreign nations, instead of suddenly varying a long course of weakness and indifference with con vulsive spasm of vigOr and patriotism.