The sun., 1900-06-21
Hawaii and Cuba,

| are in imminent and deadly peril. Sound cur.
| rency and a steady standard of value are today
safe only in Republican hands. ***
Hawaii and Cuba.
| We had already thwarted the efforts Of the
| Cleveland administration to throw the Hawaiian
Islands back to til 90 dethroned queen and to give
| England foothold for her cables in the group.
We then said that we would settle finally the Ia
| waiian question. We have done The tradi.
| ;isial American policy has been carried out. The
lag Of the Union floats today the crossroads
| II the Pacific.
| We promised to deal with the Cuban question.
| Again comes the reply, we have done so. The
| ons agony of the island is over. Cuba is free.
| But this great work brought with it events and
| ssues which man had foreseen, for which no
| party creed had provided a policy. The crisis
| ,ame, bringing war in its train. The Republican
| president and the Republican congress met the
| new trial in the old spirit We fought the war
With Spain. The result is history known of all
| non. We have the perspective now Of only
short two years, and yet how clear and bright the
great facts stand out, like mountain peaks against
| .he sky, while the gathering darkness of just
| oblivion is creeping fast over the low grounds
where lie forgotten the trivial and unimportant
:hings, the criticisms and the fault findings which
| eemed so huge when we still fingered among
| hem!
| Here they are, these great facts-a war Of
| hundred days, with many victories and no de-
/ eats, with no prisoners taken from us and no
ADVANCE staid, with triumphant outcome star
| ling in its completeness and in its worldwide
| meaning. Was war more Justly entered
| lpon, more quickly fought, more fully won, more
| borough in its results? Cuba is free. Spain has
lcen driven from the western hemisphere. Fresh
| glory has come to our arms and crowned our
| lag. 1t was the work OF the American people,
9ut the Republican party was their instrument.
Have We not the right to say that here, too,
| Is in The days Of Abraham Incon have
4ugnt good fight, have Kept the faith we
have finished The work?
| So much for the past. We are proud Of it, hut
We do MT expect to live upon it, for the Repuh.
| can party is prepminenty the party of action,
md its march is ever forward We are not 50
rlaae that be content to retreat til
mark lime. The traditions Of the carly days o
| aur party are sacred 10 us and are hostages given
70 The American people that we will not be un-
worthy Of the great leaders who have gone. :
Tic living present is ours, the present of pros
pprity and activity in business, of good wages
and quick payments, Of labor employed and cap
ia invested, Of sunshine in the market place and
the stir Of abounding life in the workshop and on
the farm
/ 1t is with this that we have replaced the de,
preston, the doubts, the low wages, the idle la
Dor, the frightened capital. the dark clouds which
oycrhung industry and agriculture in 1896. This
| is what we would preserve, so far as sound gov
ernmcnt and wise legislation do it, This is
what we brought to the country four years ago.
This is what we offer now. Again promise
| that the protective system shall he maintained
and that our great industrial interests shall go on
their way unshaken by the dire fear Of tariff agi.
tation and Of changing duties. Again declare
| that will guard the national credit, uphold a
| sound currency based gold and keep the wages
1 of the workingman and the enterprise of the man
Of business free from that most deadly of all
evils iuctuating standard of value. The deficit
which made this great country in time of pro.
found peace borrower of money TO meet its cur.
| rent expenditures has been replaced by abundant
| revenue, bringing surplus due alike to pros
perity and TO wise legislation, ample that we
| can now safely promise large reduction of taxa
| tian without impeliling credit risking a
resort to loans
The Merchant Marine.
/ We are prepared to take steps to revive and
| build up our merchant marine and thus put into
4 American pockets the money paid for carrying
/ American rcights. Out OF the abundant re-
sources which pur financial legislation has brought
| us we will build the sthmian canal and lay the
cables which will help to turn the current ol
| eastern trade To the Golden Gate. We are on
good terms with all nations and mean to remain
| 81, willie we promise 10 insure peace a,d
safety by maintaining the Monroe doctrine hy
| ample coast defanses and by building up a navy
| which no one can challenge with impunity.
The new problems brought by the war we face,
with confidence in ourselves and still deeper
confidence in the American people, who will deal
| Justly and rightly With the islands which have
| new possessions is as empty as the cant about
| ''militalism'' aud mperillism" is devoid OF
sense and meaning,
For the islands of Hawaii and Porto Rico the
| political problem has been solved, and by Repub-
lican legislation they have been given self gov
lawn inf aud i'll DrDsn
tile rule Of the United States.
In the Philippines we were met by rebellion.
fomented by self seeking adyenturer and uslrp.
er. The duty OF the president was to repress that
Tchellpn to sec to il that the authority OF the
United States, as rightful and as righteous ii,
Manila as in Philadelphia, was acknowledged and
ulcyed. That harsh and painful duty President
| Mckinley has performed firmly and justly, eager
to resort to gentle measures wherever possible,
unyielding when treachery and violence made
force necessary. Unlike the opponents of expan,
sion, we do not regard the soldiers of Otis and
| Iawton and acArthur as ian enemy's camp"
The restoration of peace and order now so near
ly reached in the Philippines shall be completed.
Civil government shall be established and the
people advanced as rapidly as possible along the
road to entire freedom and to self government un'
der our flag, We will not abandon our task We
will neither surrender nor retreat. We will not
write failure across this page Of our history.
lii concluding Mr.. Long said:
We have profound faith in the people. We do
not distrust their capacity OF meeting the new re-
sponsihilites even as they met tile old, and wt
shall await with confidence, under tile lcalershi.
of William Mckinley, the verdict OF November
bingham Takes the Floor.
General Bingham of Pennsylvania was
now recognized to present the unanimous
report of the committee ON rules. He
said that in the main the rules of four
and eight years ago had been adopted,
leaving it for the convention to make any
marked departure from the former pro-
cedure.
Senator Quay, in light suit, with vest
unbuttoncd, was recognized as the read
ing of the report was concluded and was
greeted enthusiastically as he stepped
into the middle aisle to offer an amend
ment to the rules. This embodied the
proposition to reduce the representation
from the several states, giving one dele
gate for each 10000 votes cast, with four
delegates at large for each state. There
were calls fC.. Mr.. Quay to take the plat
form, hut he shook his head and sent to
the clerks desk lengthy statement
showing the effect of the proposed new
rule.
The Quay amendment was opposed hy
Mccall nf Tennessee and Lynch Of Mis-