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strength of all on the strength of each. In its reasonable application it is just, fair and impartial, equally opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly, to sectional discrimination and individual favoritism.

payments in 1879; since then every dollar has been as good as gold.

We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained the existing gold standAll our silver and pa

We denounce the Democratic tariff as sectional, injurious to the public credit and destructive to business enterprise. We demand such an equitable tariff on foreign imports which come into competition with American products as will not only furnish adequate ard must be prserved. revenue for the necessary expenses of the government, but will protect American labor from degradation to the wage level of other lands. We are not pledged to any particular schedules. The question of rates is a practical question, to be governed by the conditions of the time and of production; the ruling and uncompromising principle is the protection and development of American labor and industry. The country demands a right settlement and then it wants rest.

IN FAVOR OF RECIPROCITY. We believe the repeal of the reciprocity arrangements negotiated by the last Republican administartion was a national calamity and we demand their renewal and extension on such terms as will equalize our trade with other nations, remove the restrictions which now obstruct the sale of American products in the ports of other countries, and secure enlarged markets for the products of our farms, forests and factories.

Protection and reciprocity are twin measures of Republican policy and go hand in hand. Democratic rule has ruthlessly struck down both and both must be re-established. Protection for what we produce; free admission for the necessaries of life which we do not produce; reciprocal agreements of mutual interests which gain open markets for us in return for our open market to others. Protection builds up domestic industries and trade and secures our own mar

ket for ourselves; reciprocity builds up foreign trade and finds an outlet for our surplus.

PROTECTION OF SUGAR.

We condemn the present administration for not keeping faith with the sugar producers of this country. The Republican party favors such protection as will lead to the production on American soil of all the sugar which the American people use, and for which they pay other countries more than $100,000,000 annually.

FOR WOOL AND WOOLENS.

To all our products-to those of the mine and the field as well as to those of the shop and the factory-to hemp, to wool, the product of the great industry of sheep husbandry, as well as to the finished woolens of the mill, we promise the most ample protection.

FOR HOME SHIPPING.

We favor restoring the early American policy of discriminating duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American ships-the product of American labor, employed in American ship yards, sailing under the Stars and Stripes and, manned, officered and owned by Americans may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce.

THE FINANCIAL PLANK. The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie

per currency must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States, and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth.

IN BEHALF OF THE VETERANS.

The veterans of the Union army deserve and should receive fair treatment and generous recognition. Whenever practicable they should be given the preference in the matter of employment, and they are entitled to the enactment of such laws as are best calculated to secure the fulfillment of the pledges made to them in the dark days of the country's peril. We denounce the practice in the pension bureau, so recklessly and unjustly carried on by the present administration, of reducing pensions and arbitrarily dropping names from the rolls and deserving the severest condemnation of the American people.

OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.

Our foreign policy should be at all times firm, vigorous and dignified, and all our interests in the western hemisphere carefully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian islands should be controlled by the United States, and no foreign power should be permitted to interfere with them; the Nicaraguan canal should be built, owned and operated by the United States; and by the purchase of the Danish islands we should secure а proper and much needed naval station in the West Indies.

ARMENIAN MASSACRES.

The massacre of Armenians has aroused

the deep sympathy and just indignation of the American people and we believe that the United States should exercise all the influence it can properly exert to bring these atrocities to an end. In Turkey American residents have been exposed to the gravest dangers, and American property destroyed. There and everywhere American citizens and American property must be absolutely protected at all hazards and at any cost.

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FAVORS THE MONROE DOCTRINE. full extent and we reaffirm the right of the We reassert the Monroe doctrine in United States to give the doctrine effect by "esponding to the appeals of any American tate for friendly intervention in case of Euopean encroachment. We have not interfered and shall not interfere with the existing possessions of any European power in this hemisphere, but those possessions must not, on any pretext, be extended. We hopefully look forward to the eventual withdrawal of the European powers from this hemisphere and o the ultimate union of all English speaking parts of the continent by the free consent of its inhabitants.

FOR CUBAN PEACE AND INDEPENDENCE. From the hour of achieving their own independence the people of the United States have

regarded with sympathy the struggles of other American peoples to free themselves from European domination. We watch with deep and abiding interest the heroic battle of the Cuban patriots against cruelty and oppression, and our best hopes go out for the full success of their determined contest for liberty.

The government of Spain, having lost control of Cuba, and being unable to protect the property or lives of resident American citizens, or to comply with its treaty obligations, we believe that the government of the United States should actively use its influence and good offices to restore peace and give independ

ence to the island.

INCREASE OF NAVAL POWER.

The peace and security of the republic and the maintenance of its rightful influence among the nations of the earth demand a naval power commensurate with its position and responsibility. We, therefore, favor the continued enlargement of the navy and a complete system of harbor and sea coast defenses. FOREIGN IMMIGRATION.

For the protection of the quality of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen against the fatal competition of low priced labor, we demand that the immi. gration laws be thoroughly enforced and so extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write.

CIVIL SERVICE ENFORCEMENT. The civil service law was placed on the statute book by the Republican party, which has always sustained it, and we renew our repeated declarations that it shall be thoroughly and honestly enforced and extended wherever practicable.

FOR FREE BALLOTS.

We demand that every citizen of the United States shall be allowed to cast one free and unrestrained ballot and that such ballot shall be counted and returned as cast.

CONDEMNATION OF LYNCHINGS.

We proclaim our unqualified condemnation of the uncivilized and barbarous practice, wel: known as lynching or killing of human beings. suspected or charged with crime, without process of law.

NATIONAL ARBITRATION.

We favor the creation of a national board of arbitration to settle and adjust differences which may arise between employers and employes engaged in interstate commerce.

FOR FREE HOMESTEADS.

We believe in an immediate return to the free homestead policy of the Republican party and urge the passage by congress of the satisfactory free homestead measure which has already passed the house and is now pending in the senate.

ADMISSION OF TERRITORIES. We favor the admission of the remaining territories at the earliest practicable date, having due regard to the interests of the people of the territories and of the United States. All the federal officers appointed for the territories should be elected from bona fide residents thereof and the right of self government should be accorded as far as practicable.

REPRESENTATION FOR ALASKA. We believe the citizens of Alaska should have representation in the congress of the United States, to the end that needful legislation may be intelligently enacted.

TEMPERANCE AND MORALITY. We sympathize with all wise and legitimate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of intemperance and promote morality.

RIGHTS OF WOMEN.

The Republican party is mindful of the rights and interests of women. Protection of American industries includes equal opportunities, equal pay and equal work, and protection to the home. We favor the admission of women to wider spheres of usefulness and welcome their co-operation in rescuing the country from Democratic and Populist mismanagement and misrule.

Such are the principles and policies of the Republican party. By these principles we will abide and these policies we will put into execution. We ask for them the considerate judgment of the American people. Confident alike in the history of our great party and in the justice of our cause, we present our platform and our candidates in the full assurance that the election will bring victory to the Republican party and prosperit! to the people of the United States.

Foraker's Speech Nominating William McKinley.

William McKinley of Ohio, unanimously selected as candidate for President, was placed in nomination by ex-Governor Foraker of the same state. The nominating speech was as follows:

"Mr. Chairman and gentleman of the convention, it would be exceedingly difficult if not entirely impossible to exaggerate the disagreeable experiences of the last four years. The grand aggregate of the multitudinous bad results of a Democratic national administration may be summed up as one stupendous disaster; it has been a disaster however not without at least one redeeming feature, it has been fair-nobody has escaped it. (Laughter) It has fallen equally alike upon all sections of our country, and all classes of our people, the Republican and the Democratis, the rich and the poor, the big and the low have suffered in common. Idleness and its consequent poverty and distress have been the rewards of labor; distress and bankruptcy have overtaken business, shrunken values, have dissipated fortunes, deficient revenues have impoverished the government, brought about bond issues, and bond syndicates have discouraged and scandalized the nation. Over against this fearful penalty, is however, to be set down one great compensatory result, it has destroyed the Democratic party. (applause) The proud columns which swept the country in triumph in 1892 are broken and noiseless in 1896. Their boasted principles when they came to the test of a practical application have proven nothing but fallacies, and their great leaders have degenerated into warring chieftains of petty and irreconcilable factions. Their boasted principles when put to a test of proper application have proven delusive fallacies.

"Their approaching national convention is but an approaching national nightmare. No man pretends to be able to predict any good result to come from it, and no man is seeking

nomination of that convention,o r accept any kind of public trust by proclaiming their willingness to stand upon any platform that may be adopted. The truth s, the party that could stand up under the odium of human slavery, opposition to the war for enfranchisement, reconstruction and specie resumption, at last finds itself overmatched and undone by itself. It is writhing in the throes of dissolution superinduced by a dose of its own medicine. No human agency can prevent its absolute overthrow at the next election, except only this convention. If we make no mistake the Democratic party will go out of power on the fourth of March, to remain out until God in His wisdom and mercy and goodness shall see fit once more to chastise His people.

"So far we have not made any mistake. We have adopted a platform, which notwithstanding the scenes witnessed in this hall this morning meets the demands and expectations of the American people. It remains for us now as the last crowning of our work here to complete our work by nominating a good candidate. The people want a good Republican, they want something more than a wise patriotic statesman, they want a man who embodies in himself not only all of those essential qualifications, but who in addition, in the highest possible degree typifies in a monetary character, in record, in ambition and in purpose, the exact opposite to all that is signified and represented by the free trade, deflict making, bond issuing, labor saving democratic administration (cheers). I stand here to present to this convention such a man. His name is William McKinley."

tariff. They do not fear the warlike prep-
arations of Europe, but they do fear its cheap
manufacture. Their real danger is not from
foreign navies carrying guns, but from for-
eign fleets bringing goods. This is the year
of the people. They have risen in their
might. From ocean to ocean, from lake to
gulf, they are united as never before. We
know their wishes and are here to register
their will. They must not be cheated of
their choice. They know the man best quali-
fied and equipped to fight their battles and
to win their victories. His name is in every
heart, on every tongue. His nomination is
certain, his election sure. His candidacy will
sweep the country as a prairie is swept by
fire. This is the year of the people. In
their name, by their authority, I second the
nomination of their great champion, William
Not as
son
a favorite
McKinley.
of any
but as
state,
the favorite son of the
States. Not as
United
concession
to Ohio, as an added honor to the
nation. When his country called to arms, he
took into his boyish hands a musket and fol-
lowed the flag, bravely baring his breast to
the hell of battle that it might float serenely
in the Union sky. For a quarter of a century
he has stood in the fierce light of public place,
and his robes of office were spotless as the
bition than the honor of his country and the
driven snow. He has cherished no higher am-
welfare of the plain people. Steadfastly, cour-
ageously, victoriously and with tongue of fire,
His labor, ability
he has pleaded their cause.
of the United States with legislation in their
and perseverance have enriched the statutes
behalf. All his contributions to the master-
pieces of American oratory are the outpour-

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Mr. McKinley's nomination was seconded ings of a pure heart and a patriotic purpose. by Senator Thurston:

Speech of Senator Thurston Seconding
the Nomination of William McKinley.
"Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the con-
vention-This is the year of the people. They
are conscious of their power; they are tena-
cious of their rights; they are supreme in
this convention; they are certain of victory
now and in November. They have framed
the issue of this campaign. What is it?
Money? Yes, money, not that which is coined
for the mine owner at the mint or clipped
by the coupon cutter from the bond, but that
which is created by American muscle on the
farms and in the factories. The Western
mountains clamor for silver and the Eastern
seashore cries for gold, but the millions ask
for work-an opportunity to labor and to
live. The prosperity of a nation is in the
employment of its people and, thank God,
the electors of the United States know this
great economic truth at last. The Republican
party does not stand for Nevada or New York
alone, but for both; not for a state, but for
all. Its platform is as broad as the land,
as national as the flag. Republicans are
definitely committed to sound currency, but
they believe that in a government of the
people the welfare of men is paramount to
the interests of money. Their shibboleth
of this campaign is "Protection." From the
vantage ground of their own selection they
cannot be stampeded by Wall street panics
or free coinage cyclones. Reports of inter-
national complications and rumors of war
pass them lightly by; they know that the real
enemy of American prosperity is free trade,
and the best coast defense is a protective

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His God given powers are consecrated to the advancement and renown of his own country and to the uplifting and ennobling of his own countrymen. He has the courage of his convictions and cannot be tempted to woo success or avert defeat by any sacrifice of principle or concession of popular clamor. In the hour of Republican disaster, when other leaders were excusing and apologizing, he stood steadfastly by that grand legislative act which bore his name, confidently submitting his case to the judgment of events, and calmly waiting for that triumphant vindication whose laurel this convention is impatient to place upon his brow. Strengthened and seasoned by long congressional services, broadened by the exercise of important executive powers, master of the great economic questions of the age, eloquent, single hearted and sincere, he stands to-day the most conspicuous and commanding character of this generation, divinely dained, as I believe, for a great mission to lead this people out from the shadow of adversity into the sunshine of a new and enduring prosperity. Omnipotence never sleeps.

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"Every great crisis brings a leader. For every supreme hour Providence finds a man. necessities of 1896 are almost as great as those of 1861. True, the enemies of the nation have ceased to threaten with the sword, and the constitution of the United States no longer tolerates that the shackles shall fret the limbs of men, but free trade and free coinage hold no less menace to the American progress than did the armed hosts of treason and rebellion. If the voice of the people is, indeed, the voice of God, then William McKinley is the complement of Abraham Lincoln. Yea, and he will issue a new emancipation proclamation to the enslaved sons of toil, and they shall be lifted up into the full enjoyment

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of those privileges, advantages and opportuni- tleman, soldier, statesman, patriot, William ties that belong of right to the American McKinley." people. Under his administration we shall command the respect of the nations of the earth, the American flag will never be hauled down, the right of American citizenship will be enforced, abundant revenues provided, foreign merchandise will remain abroad, our gold be kept at home, American institutions will be cherished and upheld, all governmental obligations scrupulously kept, and on the escutcheon of the Republican party will be indelibly engraved the American policy-protection, reciprocity and sound money. My countrymen, let not your hearts be troubled; the darkest hour is just before the day, the morning of the twentieth century will dawn bright and clear. Lift up your hopeful faces and receive the light; the Republican party is coming back to power and William McKinley will be President of the United States. In an inland manufacturing city, on election night, in November '94, after the wires had confirmed the news of a sweeping Republican victory, two workingmen started to climb to the top of a great smokeless chimney. That chimney had been built by the invitation and upon the promise of Republican protective legislation. In the factory over which it towered was employment for twice a thousand men. It had stood a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night for a busy, industrious, happy people. Now bleak, blackened, voiceless and dismantled, like a grim scepter of evil, it frowned down upon the hapless city, where poverty, idleness, stagnation and want attested the complete disaster of the free trade experiment. Up and up, they climbed, watched by the breathless multitude below. Up and up and up, until at last they stood upon its summit, and there in the glare of the electric light, cheered by the gathered thousands they unurled and nailed an American flag. Down in the streets strong men wept the happy tears of hope, and mothers, lifting up their babies, invoked the blessing of the flag; and then impassioned lips burst forth in song the hallelujah of exultant hearts; the mighty pean of a people's joy. That song, the enthusiastic millions sing it yet.

"Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the jubilee; Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes us free. So we sing the chorus from the mountains to the sea,

Hurrah for McKinley and protection.

Idaho Cast no vote.
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Massachusetts.
Michigan

Minnesota
Mississippi.
Maine
Maryland
Missouri

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New York.
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Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
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South Dakota...
Tennessee

Texas
Utah

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Virginia
Washington
West Virginia

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Wyoming

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"Over the city that free flag waved, caress- Oklahoma ed by the passing breezes, kissed by the Indian Territory. 6 silent stars. Dist. Columbia... And there the first glad sunNew Mexico...... 5 shine of the morning fell upon it, luminous Alaska 4 and lustrous with the tidings of Republican Total vote cast, 922. success. On behalf of those stalwart workmen and all the vast army of American toilers; that their employment may be certain, their wages just, their dollars the best of the civilized world; on behalf of that dismantled chimney and the deserted factory at its base; that the furnaces may

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more flame, the mighty wheels revolve, the whistles scream, the anvils ring, the spindles hum; on behalf of the thousand cottages round about and all the humble homes of this broad land; that comfort and contentment may again abide; the firesides glow, the women sing, the children laugh; yes, and on behalf of the American flag and all it stands for and represents; for the honor of every stripe, for the glory of every star; that its power may fill the earth and its splendor span the sky, I ask the nomination of that loyal American, that Christian gen

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Speech of Franklin Fort Nominating

Garret A. Hobart for Vice President. Garret A. Hobart of New Jersey was placed in nomination for the vice presidency by Franklin Fort.

"Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the convention-I rise to present this convention the claims of New Jersey to the vice presidency. We come because we feel that we can for the first time in our history bring to you. a promise that our electoral vote will be cast for you nominees. If you comply with our request this promise will surely be redeemed. For forty years through the blackness of darkness of a universally triumphant Democracy the Republicans of New Jersey have main

tained their organization and fought as val-
iantly as if the outcome were to be assured
victory. Only twice through all this long
period has the sun shone in upon us. Yet,
through all these years we have, like Gold-
smith's captive, felt that

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light
Adorns and cheers our way;

And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.

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to work again their nefarious practices upon an honest people. But to-day, under ballot reform laws, with an honest count, we know we can win. It has been a long, terrible strife to the goal, but we have reached it unaided and unassisted from without, and we come to-day, promising to the ticket here selected the vote of New Jersey, whether you give us the vice presidential candidate or not. We make it no test of our Republicanism that we have a candidate. We have been too long "The fulfillment of this hope came in 1894. used to fighting for principle for that; but we In that year for the first time since the Re- do say that you can, by granting our request, publican party came into existence, we sent to lighten our burden and make us a confident congress a solid delegation of eight Republi- party with victory in sight, even before Me cans, and elected a Republican to the United contest begins. Will we carry Colorado, MonStates senate. We followed this in 1895 by tana and Nevada this year if the Democracy electing a Republican governor by a majority declare for silver at 16 to 1? Let us hope we of 28,000. And in this year of grace we ex- may. New Jersey has as many electoral votes pect to give the Republican electors a majority as those three states together. Will you not of not less than twenty thousand. I come to make New Jersey sure to take their place in you, then, to-day in behalf of a new New case of need? We have in all these long years Jersey, a politically redeemed and regenerated of Republicanism been the lone star Democratstate. Old things have passed away, and be-ic state in the North. Our forty years of hold all things have become new. It is many wandering in the wilderness of Democracy are long years since New Jersey has received ended. Our Egyptian darkness disappears. recognition by a national convention. When We are on the hill top looking into the promHenry Clay stood for protection in 1844 New Jersey furnished Theodore Frelinghuysen as his associate. The issue then was restoration of the tariff and was more nearly like that of to-day than at any other period which I can recall in the nation's political history. In 1856 when the freedom of man brought the Republican party in existence and the great 'Pathfinder' was calle dto lead New Jersey furnished for that unequal contest William L. Davis as the vice presidential candidate. Since then, counting for nothing, we have asked for nothing. During this period Maine has had a candidate for President and a vice president; Massachusetts a vice president; New York four vice presidents, one of whom became president for almost a full term; Indiana a President, a candidate for President and a vice president; Illinois a President twice and a vice presidential candidate; Ohio two Presidents and now a candidate for the third time; Tennessee a vice president, who became President for almost a full term. We believe that the vice presidency of 1896 should be given to New Jersey; we have reasons for our opinion. We have ten electoral votes. We have carried the state in the elections of 1893, 1894 and 1895. We hope and believe we can keep the state in the Republican column for all time. By your action to-day you can greatly aid us. Do you believe you could place the vice presidency in a state more justly entitled to recognition, or one which it would be of more public advantage to hold in the Republican ranks? If the party in any state is deserving of approval for the sacrificing of its members to maintain its organization, then the Republicans of New Jersey, in this, the hour of their ascendency, after long years of bitter defeat, feel that they cannot come to this convention in vain. We of honor in the nation. Not for himself, but appeal to our brethren in the South, who know, with us, what it is to be overriden by fraud on the ballot box; to be counted out by corrupt election officers; to be dominated by an arrogant, unrelenting Democracy.

"We should have carried our state at every election for the past ten years if the count had been an honest one. We succeeded in throttling the ballot box stuffers and imprisoning the corrupt election officers, only to have the whole raft of them pardoned in a day,

ised land. Encourage us as we march over
into the political Canaan of Republicanism,
there to remain, by giving us a leader on the
Republican national ticket to go with us. We
are proud of our public men. Their Republic-
anism and love of country has been welded
in the furnace of political adversity. That
a Republican who adheres to
the party in a state where there
is no hope for the gratification of
personal ambitions. There are no camp fol-
lowers in the minority party of any state.
They are all true soldiers in the militant
army, doing valiant service without reward,
gain or the hope thereof, from principle
only. A true representative of this class of
Republicans New Jersey will offer you to-day.
He is in the prime of life, a never faltering
friend, with qualities of leadership unsurpass-
ed, of startling honor, of broad mind, of lib-
eral views, of wide public information, of
great business capacity, and with all a parlia-
mentarian who would grace the presidency of
the senate of the United States. A native of
our state, the son of an humble farmer. He
was reared to love of country in sight of
the historic field on Monmouth, on which
the blood of our ancesters was shed, that the
republic might exist. From a poor boy un-
aided and alone he has risen to his renown
among us. In our state we have done for
him all that the political condition would per-
mit. He has been speaker of our assembly
and president of our senate. He has been the
choice for United States senator of the Re-
publican minority in the legislature, and had
it been in our power to have placed him
the senate of the United States, he would
long ere this have been there. His capabili-
ties are such as would grace any position

for our state, not for his ambition, but to give
to the nation the highest type of public offic-
ial do we come to this convention, by the com-
mand of our state, and in the name of the
Republican party of New Jersey-unconquered
and unconquerable, undivided and indivis-
able, with our united voice speaking for all
that counts for good citizenship in our state
and nominate to you for the office of vice
president of the republic, Garret A. Hobart
of New Jersey.

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