The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-06-20

dent dignity and nobility of American
citizenship and of the sacred Obligations
that should attend it, so that we may
grow from day to day in the beauty OF
civic virtue and our beloved land from
hundred harbored Maine to the vine clad
hills of the Golden Gate, from the ice
bound north to the warm and sunny
south, may go from strength to strength,
until it achieves its destiny to become
the fixed and shining mark for every
bark bound for the haven of law and
liberty. Let not the glory of our past be
greater than the present, nor let us come
to shame and grief by the worship of
gods of gold and silver, to the neglect of
those ideals of the mind and the soul
which alone are worthy of a free people
and alone secure in the continued enjoy
ment of civil and religious liberty Re
move from around us the din and noise
of insincerity and hollow sounding shows;
let bitter strife and wrangling cease, and
in joy and gratitude let us exercise our
precious, divine birthright and as true
and loyal Americans let us rise superior
to every prompting and prejudice of sect
and section so that, firmly linked in the
love OF our common country, we may
realize how good and lovely ii is FER
brethren to dwell together in harmony
Prosper thou the work of this council
convened in the cause of the people and
when its message goes forth over the
land may its golden fringe bring to them
the glad assurance that prosperity will
brighten our homes, and the immediate
jewel of our soul, the good name of our
people and the credit of our government.
shall remain untarnished forever. May
Thy grace, o, God, come upon us, and
do Thou establish the work of our hands.
Amen.
AS the invocation ceased faint APP
plause rippled over the vast audience
which was promptly checked by Chair
man Carter. who, after considerable eff
fort with his gavel, managed to secure
a semblance of order. Secretary Manley
of Maine, moved forward to the platform.
where he read the call. Manley's STOPPING
figure was easily recognizable and the
spectators Joined good humoredly in the
demonstration made by the Maine dele
gates.
The first real demonstration came when
Chairman Carter introduced c. w. Fair
banks of Indiana as temporary chair
man. William Fl. Sutherland of
the New York delegation sec
onded Fairbanks nomination and his Sc
lection was Endorsed by unanimous vote
of the convention. AS he stepped forward
to deliver his speech a wave of applause
ran around the galleries, interspersed
with staccato cheers.
Fairbanks Remarks.
Mr.. Fairbanks addressed the convention
as follows:
Gentle of the Convention-T am pro-
foundly grateful for this expression of
your generous confidence. AS citizens we
were never called upon to discharge a
more important duty than that which
rests upon us-the nomination of a pres
ident and vice president of the United
States This duty is peculiarly impress
sive one at the moment. for it is already
written in the book of fate that the
choice of this convention will be the next
president and vice president of this great
republic. Three years of democratic adj
ministration have been three years of
panic of wasted energy, of anxiety and
loss to the American people without a
parallel in history.
To-day the people turn to the repub-
lican party. hopefully, confidently, and
it is for us to meet their expectations;
1t is for us to give them those candidates
upon whom their hearts have centered.
and to give them a clear straightfor-
ward. emphatic expression of our pOlti-
cal faith. The republican party is a par
ty of convictions; and it has written It's
convictions in the history of the repub-
lie with the pen and with the sword.
With it the supreme question always has
been not what is merely polite, but what
Is right. The great men we have given
to the nation and to history. the mighty
dead and the illustrious living, are our
inspiration and our tower of strength. If
we are but true to their exalted exam
pie we can not be false to our county
men.
For a third of a century prior to the
advent of the present democratic ad
ministrs ton we operated under laws en-
acted by the republican party All great
measures concerning the tariff and the
currency originated with il. Tariff laws
were formed upon lines which protected
our laborers and producers from I'M
equal and unjust foreign competition,
and upon the theory that the best mar
ket in the world is the home market.
and that it should be enjoyed by our
own countrymen.
Currency Question.
Under the currency laws our currency
was made national. The wildcat state
bank money of the democratic party was
wiped out of existence. The unprece-
dented demands growing out of the war
were met by paper currency which Ill
timately became as good gold. Since
the resumption of specie payments, in
1879, every dollar of our money-paper,
silver and gold-has been of equal pur-
chasing power the world over The pol
icy of the party has been to make and
keep our currency equal to the best IN
the world
Under the operation of these honest
tariff and honest money republican laws
the country grew in wealth and power
beyond precedent. We easily out
stripped all other powers In the CONNER
cial race. On November 8, 1892. there
was work for every hand and bread for
every mouth. We had reached the high
water mark. Labor received higher
wages than ever, and capital was prof
itably and securely employed. The ma
tional revenues were sufficient to meet
our obligations and leave a surplus in
the treasury. Foreign and domestic