Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-02
MKINLEY FOR GOLD
He Stands by the St Louis Plat
form. on Every Point.
NEEDo OF The TINES SET FORTH

An Open Declaration in His Speech Reply
ing to the Address Ohiclally Moth
flying Him of His NomI-
nation,
Canton, O., June 3O.-The republican
notification committee. having finished
its business here and departed, the ex-
citement attending its presence has
somewhat subsidized, although its visit
to this city will long be a theme of con-
versation for the inhabitants Major
Mckinley received the committee
standing on the veranda. The streets
about the house were filled with men,
women and children, who surged
through the gates and pressed close up
to chairs where the committee and
guests sat. Senator Thurston, as
chairman of the committee, made the
speech of notification. In it he likened
the people of the country to the
''scourged and repentant lsraelites OF
old, who adjured their idols and re-
sumed unquestioning alliance to Moses
and the God of Moses. Even so the
people who scorned your counsels
speedily witnessed the fulfillment of
your prophecies and turn to you and
to those glorious principles for which
you stand, in the full belief that in
your candidacy and the republican
platform the end of the wilderness has
come and the promised land of Ameri-
can prosperity is again to them an in
sured Inheritance.
Major McKinIcy's Reply.
In reply Major Mckinley spoke, in
part. as follows: "To be selected as the
presidential candidate by a great party
convention, representing 30 vast
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 responsibilities 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
l assume the other, relying upon the
patriotic devotion of the people to the
best interests of our beloved 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 conven-
tion for which you speak, my only aim
will be to promote the public good,
which in America is always the good
of the greatest number, the honor of
our country and the welfare OF the
people.
Great Issues Involved.
Great are the issues involved in the
coming election, and eager and earnest
the people for their right determina-
tiun. Our domestic trade must be won
back, and our idle working people en-
ployed in gainful occupations at
American wages. Our home market
must be restored to its proud rank of
first in the world, and our foreign
trade, SO precipitately cut off by ad-
verse national legislation, reopened on
fair and equitable terms to our surplus
agricultural and manufacturing pro
ducts. Protection and reciprocity,
twin measures of true American.
policy, should again command the
earnest cncourag cement of the govern
mcnt at Washington. Public conf
dence must be resumed, and the skill,
the energy and capital of the country
find ample employment at home, sus-
tained. encouraged and defended
against the unequal competition and
serious disadvantages with which they
are now contending. The government
of the United States must raise enough
money to meet both its current ex-
penses and increasing needs. Its rcve-
nues should be so raised as to protect
the material interests of our people,
with :he liphtest possible drain upon
their resources, and maintain that
high standard Of civilization which
has distinguished our country for more
than a century of its existence, The
income of the government, | repeat,
should equal its necessary and proper
expenditures. A failure to pursue this
policy has compelled the government
to borrow money. in time of peace,
to sustain its credit and to pay its daily
expenses. This policy should be re-
vcrsed and that, too, as speedily as
possible
The National Credit.
"The national credit which has
thus far fortunately resisted every
assault upon it, must be upheld and
strengthened If sufficient revenues
are provided for the support of the
government, there will be no necessity
for borrowing money and increasing
the public debt. The complaint Of the
people is not agairst the administra-
tion for borrowing money and issuing
bonds to preserve the credit Of the