Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-19

flung the Philippines away, and with
drawn from the orient. Rest assured,
sir, that the vigorous measure which
you have thus been enabled to take,
and that all further measures in the
same direction which you may take, for
the protection of American lives and
property, will receive the hearty sup
port of the people Of the United States,
who are now, as always, determined
that the American citizen shall be pro-
| tected at any cost in all his rights,
everywhere, and at all times. 1t is to
Manila again, to our feet in the Uly
and our army on land, that we shall
owe the power, when these scenes of
blood in China are closed to exact
reparatiOn, to enforce stern justice, and
to insist, in the final settlement, upon
al open door to all that vast market
for our fast growing commerce. Events
moving with terrible rapidity have
been swift witnesses to the wisdom Of
your action in the east. The Phila-
delphia convention has adopted your
policy both in the Antilles and the
Philippines and has made it that Of
the republican party.
Your election, Sir, next Novem-
Der assures to US the continuance of
that policy abroad and in our new pos
sessions. To entrust these difficult and
vital questions to other hands, at
once incompetent and hostile, would be
a disastrous and a still more unre-
lieved disaster to our pOsterity. Your
election means not only protection to
our industries, but the maintenance
Of a sound currency and of the gold
standard, the very cornerstones of our
economic and financial welfare.
Should these be shaken as they would
be by the success of our opponents, the
whole fabric of our business confidence
and prosperity would fall into ruin.
Your defeat would be the signal for
the advance of free trade, for the
anarchy of a debased and unstable
currency. for business panic, depres-
sion and lard times, and for the
wreck of our foreign policy"
McKinley's Reply.
IN r ply the president said in part:
"IThe message which you bring to me
is one Of signal honor. It is also a
summons to duty A single nomina-
ton for the Office of president by a
great party which in thirty-two years
out Of forty has been triumphant at
national elections, is a distinction
which I gratefully cherish. To receive
denomination by the same
party is an expression Of regard and a
pledge Of continued confidence for
which it is difficult to make adequate
II anything eX-
ceeds the honor Of the Office Of presi- !
dent Of the United States, it is the
responsibility which attaches to it. /.
Having been invested with both, I do
not under-appraise either. Anyone
who has borne the anXfeties and bur- |
dens Of the presidential office, especial |
Y in time Of national trial, cannot /
contemplate assuming it as second |
time without profoundly realizing the !
severe exactions and the solemn obi
cations which it imposes, and this
feeling is accentuated by the moment
0us problems which now press Tor
If my countrymen shall
confirm the action Of the convention
At cur national election in November,
shall, craving Divine guidance, IN
iertake the exalted trust, to administer
/ for the interest and honor OF the
country, and the well-being OF the