The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-13
FOR qHE GOLD STANDARD
Tenor of the Speeches at the Nc
Kinley Notification.
Tho Issue Pushed to the Front by
All the Orators, Including the
PresIdcnt-l Grcnt Crowd at 'a"
ION 10 Attend the Ccrcmon3-open-
i'm. Address by senator Lodge

CANTON. Ohio. July i2.-Allegianoe to
tbe gold standard was the issue pushed 10
the front by the speakers today at the
ratification of President Mckinley. The
speeches were a reiteration of the senti-
ments that the party leaders enihused over
at Philadelphia. but they were presented
in a different setting and TO diferent au-
dience On this occasion the rank anu ME
of the voters. and not the leaders and pro-
fessional politicians, were strongly IN the
majority.
Senator Lodge and the members OF his
Notification Committee National Chairman
Hanna. and other members of the Repub'
licsn National Committee, the prospective
members Of the Executive Committee anu
the invited guests. all told, numbered only
about two hundred of the thousands that
thronged the Mckinley lawn. the lawns oil
the neighbors. and the contiguous streets
for several blocks on either side. In this
crowd were the business and professional
people of Canton with many from Cleve-
land. Akron, and the smaller towns OF this
vicinity.
The Cleveland contingent included
hundred or more members of The Tippeca-
noe Club. members of the Business Men 5
Club. and committeeman and members cf
various political clubs and ORGANIZATIONS.
Attached to the train was the private car
of Myron T. Herrick. occupied by forty
survivors of the Presidents regiment, the
Twenty-third Ohio.
a nlrltp
ing the carriage which contained the mem
kers Of the Notification Committee and
the invited guests. This contingent
marched up the street followed by
crowd that had fingered along the
streets to review it, and near the Mckin-
ley gate became lost in the larger crowd
that had gone direct to the house.
First in the party to appear on the
porch were Senator Hanna, Senator Lodge,
Henry C. Payne. of Wisconsin; Senator
Fairbanks. Cornelius n. Bliss. National
Committeeman Kerens. of Missouri: Comp
troller Dawes. Colonel Stewart. of Chicago.
and other invited guests. accompanied by
Judge Day John C. Dueber. and members
OF the Citizens Reception Committee.
They were greeted in the house by the
President. who then led Mrs. Mckinley TO
the porch. There was much cheering when
the President appeared, but quiet was
quickly restored when Senator Lodge
stepped upon the rug covered board from
which stand had been improvised-
Remarks of senator Lodge
Senator Lodge. in formally notifying Mr.
Mckinley, said:
Mr. President: This Committee, repre-
senting every State in the Union, and the
organized Territories of the United States
was duly appointed to announce to vol
formally your nomination by the Repub
lican National Convention, which met il
Philadelphia on June 10 last. as the candi
date Of the Republican party for Presiden
of the United States for the term begin
ming March 4. 1901.
ITO be selected by the Republican part.
as their candidate for this great Office il
always one of the highest honors whicl
can be given to any man. This nomina
ton, however, comes to you. sir, unde
circumstances which give it higher sig
nificance and make it an even deeper ex
preston OF honor and trust than usual
You were nominated unanimously at Phila
6elphia. You received the unforced vot,
Of every delegate from every State ant
Overy Territory. The harmony of senti.
ment which appears on the face of the rec.
ord was but the reflection of the deeper
harmony which existed in the hearts ant
minds of the delegates. Without faction
without dissent, with profound satisfaction
and eager enthusiasm. you were nominated
for the Presidency by the united voice OF
the representatives OF our great party in
which there is neither sign of division nor
shadow Of turning. Such unanimity, al
ways remarkable. is here the more impress
stve because it accompanies second nom
ination to the great Office which you have
held for four years.
1T is not the fecile triumph OF hope over
experience. but the sober approval of con-
duct and character tested in many trials
and tried by heavy and extraordinary re-
6ponsibilities. With the exception of The
period In which Washington organized the
nation and built the state and of those
other awful years when Lincoln led his
people through the agony OF civil war. and
saved from destruction the work OF Wash
ington. there has never been a Presiden-
tial term in our history SO crowded with
great events, SO filed with new and mo-
mentous questions as that which is now
drawing to its end. True to the declara-
tons which were made at St Louis in
1896, you, sir. united with the Republi-
cans In Congress in the revision of the
tariff and the re-establishment of the pro-
tectiye policy. You maintsined our credit
6uu upHclO tHc SOiu leduiub lue
party by your advice to the passage OF
the grea. measure which is today the bull
wark OF both. You led again in the policy
which has made Hawaii a possession OF the
United States. On all the questions you
fulfilled the hopes and justified the conf
dence Of the people who. four years ago.
put trust in your promises.
The War with Spain.
But on all these questions also you had
ss guides not only your own principles, the
welI-considered results of years of training
and reflection. but also the plain deciara
tions Of the National Convention which
nominated you in 1896. Far different was
1t when the Cuban question, which We had
also promised to settle. brought first, wal
and then peace, with Spain. Congress de-
clared war. but you as Commander-in
Chief had to carry II on. You did so, and
history records unbroken victory from the
first shot OF the Nashville TO the day when
the protocol was signed. The peace yo:
had to make alone Cuba. Porto Rico, the
Philippines, you had to assume alone the