New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-01
EX-SENATOR rHURsTox's SPEECH.

State, but was good Republican and q fellow
club member, ex-senator Thurston stepped for
ward. 10 receive much applause. lie spoke as
follows
R 5aS or H f1aT Ro pe6Pe 81
81 sis Teu 10 are 80 satse6 and SO conjented and
pagn viii begin and finish in the thought and :he
where the great problems Of citizenship and states
H sn mp are ajwsys most safely worked out We
ana its future indefinite purposes. to STIR up the
party OF Abrb9In ft tncoIn say t9 at b ne Tpnpc9L
OF Americanisn. Of liberty and Of patriotism that
Abraham Lincoln led 10 victory. Tonight / come
10 advocate the ratification of a nomination which
lam McKinley-Theodorc Roosevelt.
years, the fruitful history Of Republican admins
say mat m Rep g S 8 1ae bs on people
ably well We find that farmers and our plant
fore. They have fed our own people-they have fed
ton and the ability to buy and foreign demand
nave given them the best prices they received
W.. Ne look abroad throughout the land and find
that in these seven years ouf manufactures have
people are busythat thew are at er f thai tat tb our
Is no ideness and general prosperity abides in the
has the S FsPnR is IN party has done tQera1 well 1t
.1essly the highways of the land in the roaring
ringing nv, Mefe me wheeis are turning the anyls
THE RECORD IN FINANCE.
placed 6a bs taken our 6eggaTs from the streets and
ntIesldes where they sit and look into the faces of
the song OF their contented children The Republi-
nished place of labor for every willing American
man 1t has, put the factory next to the American
best purchaser from the farmer The Republican
FTest I1S oee IIle[aoLy well II has turned the
/ army OF Mckinley kings
has done toierably well It has crncifed the PERM
money on a great white Silver cross Of common
sense and has pressed on the uplfted brow of
and honor. It has satisfied the whole world that
GeTf Will Ill be KEPT and that the
We will adjust our differences with creditors
dollar is no good as a purchasing price for the
products Of the land; that it is no good the pay
made our dollar the standard of the civilized world
produce We have robaS the IC.oSdees 90 ihent,,
as she sits the side of the American dollar
with the panoply Of virtue. and have raised every
side until they stand rampant for honest and
We have been doing foierabIy well in continuing
ana carrying out the great protective principles of
labor OF the Orient and the pauper labor Of Fnrope
shall not come into competition with American men
on equal terms. either on this side of the
that We should shut out from entry into our land
he cheap Chinaman and the contract laborer from
them-that every days job taken by the cheaper
that days work. And yet that same party which
Product of the labor Of that anne cbsap ' man 9e
his own country shall in here free take the
place of the manufacture of the American and
rob him of the same days work every time days
We stin stand for the protective riff. which has
made this land resound with the Iappy music Of
great valleys Of The Ohio and the mississippi and
and on these hiiisides only eight years ago. as
tbat ' n0 s me same Go4ntTy 1t seems to me
turns. In the music Of every spindle II sings.
protective theory. as it cries out to the wide wide
world. William McKnley-for ne was the man.
finances of the United States. We have dsv5Ioped
idly that we have Changed the great trade de T ba
ances that seemed about TO paupertze US under the
Increasing wealth of all the world rushed into the
! Year by year Europe ,pours her tribute, the
: Republican party. We accommodating wealth
so fast. that give US but more decade of the
naton Of he %ord but S viii 2y have t so neh OF
the money OF al the earth that no nation viii dare
America's consent We are doing toieraby well
the Treasury Of the United states and no longer
sell our bonds to the money changers at discount
We have increased our interest rates, reduced the
natona debt. placed our securities far above par
American citizen letting him know that he is
day year by year 70 pay the Increasing expenses
Of tbs great, growing, expanding and mighty ma
We have been doing tolerably well in our relations
erably well in our policy before the world and
- mnistration has faced every great question and
met every great crisis. Seeking to do no other ma
GR Of x xme 4fyG s baRed by the force
full judgment of the thoughtful American people,
on ias't Judgment upon the affairs OF the world
We have been doing toerably well in peace. We
ga tolerably well in When William McKin-
ley called the volunteer army Of the United States
- into the field TO wage great war for humanitys
sake rose above any theory that any govern
ment had before adopted. and placed ourselves
upon the highest plane that civilization has ever
Vet attained We have always been ready to hght
- for liberty and right and yet, until the spanish
war never contemplated that ma tons Ions duty fo
would compel IT TO take up a battle for merry LOT
any other than its own people. George Washing
ton JED the army IN the n"Ga ce If his
= Tbe President of The United States has been
doing toleraby we'll Called TO power in the hour
OF nations sacrifice and suffering he registered
The vow 10 carry out WITH heaT9 ana soi eecessn-
! How well he has kept the VOW let history attest
Mindfn OF me % M g % reat powers TO- be
! exercised. and yet retaining the strength OF niS
Z Of fibre he has given US administration which
has disarmed criticism and placed the whole w9rhd
and united the American people under the hepuoh-
! He has seen to fl that American citizens are
safe IN their lives their liberties and their prop
. critics she wide world round He has seen TO II that
every honest American interest IL recognlzeG Dy
! ican citizen who. when he finds that diplomacy
1gf not avail and American citizen is held cap
. ,lnder his administration will have this alive
/ and safe it viii have the head q the man who
There ' are those but they are mostly Democrats
: who seem to think that the great issue in TINS
. campaign is that OF Roosevelt the man They IN
sist that he IS impetuous. And so he is. But the
impetuoslty Is American courage ana DUCK ar G
! patriotism They say that he IS qufck 10 Act an9
50 he is when American right is assailed and
en American citizen is wronged5 Ihey say uey
they do not But there IS one thing know he is
going do. and yen know ne Is gong to 60 f; ana
states or the 9Th Of March next
Charles II. Treat, Of the Republican Club,
the last speaker. He said: