Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-21
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industry, energy and capacity Of the in.
dividual must always remain the chief
Factors in his success. BY unwise or dis
honest legislation or administration on
the part OF the national authorities all
these qualities in the individual can be
nullifed, but wise legislation and up-
right administration will give them free
scope. And it was this free SCOPE that
we promised should be given. Wen. we
Kept our word. The oportunity has been
given and 1T has been seized by Amer
lean energy, thrift and business enter
prise. AS a result we have prospered as
never before and we are now prosperinp
degree that would have seemed incred-
lple TOUR years ago, when the clouds of
menace to our industrial well-beinp
hung black above the land. So if has
peen IN foreign affairs. Four years ago.
tne nation was uneasy because right at
its doors an American island lay writh-
ing IN agony with the curse of worse
tnan the medieval tyranny and misruIe.
we had our Armenia at our very doors.
TOT the situation in Cuba had grown in
toleraple and such that this nation could
no longer refrain from interference and
retain its own self-respect President
Mchlnley turned to this duty as he had
turned to others. He sought by every
effort possible to provide for Spain's
withdrawal from the island. which she
was impotent to longer to do aught than
oppress. Then, when pacific means had
1ahed, and there Remained the only all
tentative, we waged the most righteous
ana prlillantly successful foreign war
that any country has waged during the
life time of the present generation, 1t
was not a great war simply because it
was won too quickly, but it was moment
Gus indeed, in it's effects. 1t left us-as
i ofC 1ao
form them, an inheritance both of honor
and of responsibility, and under the lead
OF President Mckinley, the nation
has taken UP the reign of JUS
ing orderly liberty and the reign of JUS
tice and law in the island from which we
drove the tyranny Of Spain, with the
same serious realization of duty and sin
marked the nations attitude in dealing
with the economic and financial difficult
ties that face us at home.
This is what the nation has done dur
ing the three years that have elapsed
since we made Mckinley president, and
all this is what he typifies and stands
for. We here nominate him again, and
in November next we shall elect him,
again; because it has been given to him
to personify the cause of honor abroad
and prosperity at home, of wise legisla-
tion and straight forward administra-
ton.
We have done well, our opponents
use this very fact as an excuse for turn,
ing us out. We have put the tariff on a
foundation SO secure; we have passed
such wise laws of finance that they actu-
ally appeal to the patriotic, honest men
who deserted them at the last election to.
help them now, because, forsooth we have
done so we'll that nobody need fear their
capacity to undo our work. I am not ex-
ay~fHfs st1or Nj :,
ment that is now addressed to the gold
democrats as a reason why they need no
longer stand by the republican party. To
all such who may be inclined to listen to
these specious arguments, I would ad-
dress an emphatic word of warning.
Remember that, admirable though our
legislation has been during the past
three years. it has been rendered possi-
BILE and effective only because there was
a good administration to back it. Wise
laws are invaluable, but after all they
tsSe not as necessary as wise and honest
administration of the laws. The best
law ever made, if administered by those
who are hostile to it and who mean to
break it down, cannot be wholly effec-
tive, and may be wholly ineffective. We
have at last put our financial legislation
on a sound basis, but no possible finan-
cial legislation can save us from fearful
and disastrous panic if we trust our
finances to the management of any man
who would be acceptable to the leaders
and guides of the democracy in it's pres-
ent spirit. No secretary of the treasury
who would acceptable to. or who could,
without loss of self respect serve under
the ulistic-democracy, could avoid
plunging this country back into financial
chaos.
Until our opponents have explicitly
and absolutely repudiated the principles
which in 1896 they professed. and the
leaders who ernbody the principles, their
success means the undoing of the coun-
try. Nor have they any longer even the
excuse of being honest in their folly.
They have raved, they have foamed at
the mouth in denunciation of trusts, and,
now, in my own state, their foremost
party leaders, including the man before
whom the others bow with barred heads
and trembling knee, have been discover
ed in trust which really is of infamous
and, perhaps of criminal character. A
trust in which these apostles of democ-
racy, these prophets of the new dispen-
sation have sought to wiring fortunes
from the dire needs of their poorer
brethren.
l rise to second the nomination of
William Mckinley, because with him as
leader, the country has reached the path
of national prosperity and greatness
With strides of giant and because un-
der him we can and will once more and
finally overthrow those whose success
would mean for the nation material dis
aster and moral disgrace. Exactly as we
remedied the evils, which in the past we
undertook to remedy, SO now, when we
say that wrong shall be righted, it
most assuredly will be righted.
We certainly succeeded in bringing
peace and order to the Philippines We
nave sent thither as to other islands, to-
ward whose inhabitants we now stand
as trustees in the cause of government,
nen like Wood, Taft and Allen, whose.
very names are synonymous of integrity