Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-05-28
LET US BE
GOOD TO TRUSTS
Some of Them Are Bad, But Not
All of EN-.
Let Us Not Bother Too Much With the Tariff.
Grosvenor Sounds the "Keynote."

be no competitor for the first prize
in a competitive race but for single
fact to which reference will be made
later.
The campaign proceeded. No Repub.
lican faltered in his devotion to the
two great tenents of his platform and
all else was forgotten and thrown
aside as ornaments and declarations
We won in the Presidential contest
and elected Mckinley, and with the
promptness with which day follows
night, prosperity began to come. 1t
was halted in a Democratic Senate,
which from March 31st 1897, until
July, impeded the progress of the
great harbinger of good, but 1t came
at length, in the form Of the Dingley
Tariff Bill and the reannouncement of
our platform in favor of sound
money; and the overflow of the dogma
of the free ana unlimited coinage of
silver seemed to be irrevocable, and
peace and prosperity seemed assured.
The second more monumental, If pos.
sible. exhibition of Democratic error
was the reiteration in 1900 of the same
old repudiated and overthrown dog
mas. Nothing in the history Of Demo
cratic blunders parallels the stupidity
of the Kansas City platform; it was
done under the demand of Mr.. Bryan
and the result was inevitable. From
the beginning, the campaign was a
campaign Of vindication of the splen-
did results of Republican administra-
tion, and the rebuke by the people Of
the insolence of the Democratic party
in reappearing in the arena with such
suggestions as that platform contain
ed-an attempt to force the reversal
OF deliberate verdict of an intelligent
people. And we stand today, gentle
men Of the convention, rejoicing in the
midst of our sorrow. Thankful that
while the tears Of regret have scarce
ly ceased to flow that Mckinley is
dead, yet the shout of joy is scarcely
repressed when we look abroad upon
the magniticence of our country.
Why, all the glowing prophetic declar-
ations of those who have championed
our line Of politics from the founda-
tion Of our party to the present day,
the enthusiastic predictions of Sher-
man and Garfield, and Blaine and
Harrison and Mckinley never equal
led in even a moderate degree the frui-
tion of hope and prosperity we enjoy.
Assemble all their glowing pre-
dictions in one volume and cast your
eye over this grand country today
with its magnificent position among
the nations of the world, and all they
ever hope for, all they ever predicted,
was small, unimportant feeble, as
compared with the realization that
has followed the victories of the Re-
publican party in 1896 and 1900. Time
would fail to give you details and fig
ures would weary you. We are the
greatest producing nation in the
world. We export more manufactur-
ed products than any other nation
in the world and are acquiring foot.
hold in more markets than Is any
other nation. Our agricultural prod
ucts are first supplying our own
country and then invading all the
markets of the world. Our agricultur.
al exports last year exceeded those of
any other year and far exceeded any
competitor. Labor Is employed to a
degree unknown to other countries
and unknown to us heretofore. The
advance in the price Of commodities
that enter in the daily life of man
kind has been made in the interests
of the buyer by the advance in the
price of labor. The wealthy man, the
man who lives upon his invested cap
ital, alone in this country finds that
the interest on his money and the
reward of his investments do not keer
pace with the prices of the commodi
ties he buys, but he stands alone in
this respect. We are invading the
markets of the world, and are sub
jecting them to our dominion, anC
these aggressions of ours are being rec
ognized and understood by the peopl
of all countries.
Our soldiers in the Spanish war and
in the Philippines have won imperish
able laurels. They are your sons and
brothers; they have representatives In
every town and hamlet in Ohio an6
they have been compelled to bear silent
ly and without defense the abuse tina
is being heaped upon them. The Re
publicans of Ohio will vindicate the
honor and integrity of the army and
navy that under Shafter and Dewey
and Sampson and Schley, in Manila
bay and at Santiago, challenged and
received the admiration of the world
for the grandeur of their achieve
ments. And the people of Ohio will
Arm nEla1ann