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next month" a man up in the gallery re-


That even doubled up Mr.. Hay and the
audience laughed with him.
HAY APPEALS TO NEW YORK.
The Secretary talked for just about an
hour. His peroration, which was not a
part OF his set speech, brought from the
audience one Of the greatest tributes given
to an orator in New York In many day.
1t was the tribute OF almost complete silence.
A whisper could have been heard In almost
any part OF the hall as Mr.. Hay uttered
this appeal to the voters OF the Presidents
own state:
be said OF you that when the rest OF the
nation stood by him you deserted him!
Will you have 1t known to the world that
man who has done 20 much for his country
and for YOU got not the support OF those
who should know him best? II you. will
then when Theodore Roosevelt ascends the
steps of the White House on the 4th OF
next Marehlyour's will be the lasting regret
The great audience had maintained its
wonderful silence for nearly two minutes.
When the speaker sat down the pent up
enthusiasm broke loose; The hall echoed
and reechoed with the cheers, the salute OF
the flags was given all over again, and the
women were so delighted that many Of them,
knowing not what else to do, wept for JOY.
Here Is Secretary Hays speech
Speech Of Secretary John Hay.
This campaign will be memorable in our
annals az one of the quietest ever known.
Rarely In our recollection has there been
SO little excitement, 80 slight disturbance
of the orderly course Of affairs: WHY'S 1t that
people are TO decide in whose hands they
are to place their interests for the next
four years should be approached with 80
little noise, with such unusual calm! why Is
it that the American people are possessing
their souls in such repose?
There is, l venture to say, no explanation
of this state of feeling, except that the
people OF this country have made up their
minds that there Is to be for the present
no change in the principles and policies
that have proved so successful in the last
eight years. They had resolved definitely
and clearly in 1895 that their temporary
alteration from the policy which as long ago
as the time of Henry Clay was called the
They intr,isted William Mckinley with
the task OF bringing the country back to
It's old bearings OF restoring the well
tried ways of the national housekeeping
fidenoe. In four years the country, made
great progress along its regular oid-fash,
Toned lines Of healthy development, and
in 1900. when he gave an account OF ms
stewardship, the people approved it and nd
crime snatched him away from his glorious
task and our loving confidence,
In the classic myth, when the golden
bough was torn away another Immediately
appeared in its place. Theodore Roosevelt t
down and with Incompatible courage and
strength has carried 1t on. With the work
of both these faithful servants the Ameri-
can people are satisfied Believing and in
hands and under the guidance which has
been found so efficient, they are not vast
ing so much time as usual from their private
affairs to show an interest which is too
universal to need much advertising,
THE COUNTRY DOES NOT WANT CHANCE.
None of us will make the mistake Of
thinking the contest OF this year unim-
portant. On the contrary, 1t goes down to
the very foundations Of our national well
fare. 1t is not campaign rhetoric, It is
merely the simple fact, to say that nothing
but disaster could follow the, reversal OF
the prosperity Of the past few years. The
standard and to drift on the shifting cur
rents of financial experiment and quack-
ciple and practice Of protection to American
Industries Any radical meddling with the
tariff would throw thousand Industries
into confusion and bring many to ruin.
Stability unity OF p%TPosed Is ana Sseets
machinery Of modern business, where the
change in the price OF single by-product
may vitality affect the prosperity Of a great
industry, and may make all the difference
between comfort and want to thousands OF
workingmen and their families. Nobody
denies that the tariff must from time to
time be revised. But it is too evident for
argument that the revision must be in
trusted to friendly hands-to those who
believe, as a matter Of business and
public morals, in the policy OF chershing
American manufactures and of caring for
the we'll being Of millions OF American
workmen. 1t Is not a matter to be handed
over to those who insist at the start that
American industries have no right to pro-
lection at all, and that such protection is
"the robbery Of the many for the benefit OF
the few" 1t was an old maxim OF English
law that said: A child should not be given
In charge to nurse that loves it not
SHALL WE ABANDON ARMY AND NAVY.
Neither can the country afford to intrust
it's vast domestic interests to those who
denounce as extravagant and unoonstitu-
tional all money spent for the general
welfare. to promote which was one OF
the special objects for which the Consti
went to give our gallant little army to the
care Of those who think it ought to be dis
banded, or our navy-which under this Ad-
ministration has carried our flag into 30
many distant seas, never on a wanton Grand
OF hostility, but always as the friend Of
American commerce and the protector Of
our citizens-de we want it handed over to
the men who say it ought to be thrown
to the scrap heap? Do we want the Philip
pines abandoned to be the victims of mis-
rule at the hands of their own agitators,
or the prey OF any covetous power that
may wish to enslave them for its own profit?
Do we want to sneak out of the Isthmus
OF Panama, acknowledge We have no right
there, and hasely surrender the hope and
the dream OF centuries? And do we want
to forsake and repudiate the foreign policy
OF Mckinley and Roosevelt, which was
also the policy of Lincoln and Monroe,
which had it's august origin in the heart
and brain of George Washin gton, Of treating
ali countries as friends, doing business
with all the peoples of good will, meeting
courtesy with courtesy and wrong with
firmness, being just to all nations and par
tial to none?
WHO CAN TELL WHAT PARKER WOULD DO?
These are not idle questions. Every one
OF them is directly involved in the result
OF this election. On every one OF them
there is not man here tonight but knows
how the Republican party stands. In our
platform, in our record, in the words Of our
candidates, our views and our intentions
are made known to the world. Our path
is marked out for us so plainly that even