vanians Believe In. They believe in the old-fashioned custom of living within their income, and when the income is unequal to the necessary outgo they What Pennsyl- insist upon increasing their revenue rather than increasing their debt. They believe that the primary object of government is to defend and promote the interests of the people who have ordained that government for the advancement of their common welfare. They hold that the revenue policy and the protective policy go hand in hand, and they stand as the sturdy and unwavering champions of that American system of fair and even-handed protection which, injuring none and helping all, has made this nation great and prosperous. Pennsylva Pennsylvania comes to this Convention and with great unanimity asks you to name a standard-bearer who will represent not only the principles and conditions, but the brightest hopes and aspirations of the Republican party; a man who has been a loyal supporter of its every great movement; a potent factor in its councils from the day of its birth and baptism on Pennsylvania soil to the present time; a man whose every vote and utterance has been upon the side of sound money, fair protection and a strong and patriotic Americanism. Those whom I represent and who ask his nomination at your hands point to a statesman who has been in the forefront of every battle for his nia's Favorite. party; who has been its champion, its wise counsellor, its organizer and the successful leader of its forlorn hopes. He was with those patriots who rocked the cradle of Republicanism; he was among the first to comprehend the magnitude of the armed debate of '61 and to give himself to the Union cause. In 1878 he stemmed the tide of currency inflation and won a victory which, while less ostentatious, was equal in importance to his successful rescue of the country from free trade and Grover Cleveland in 1888. A Great Repub The American citizen who believes that all laws and all policies should be for America's best interest; the American soldier who admires valor as much as he loves the flag of his reunited country; the American wage-earner who loves his home and family, and who will never consent to sink himself to the wage level of the foreign pauper; the American manufacturer, emerging from the tortures of a free trade panic, and anxious to relight the fires of industry where darkness and silence still hold sway; they who loudly proclaim their recent, but perfect, conversion to the true gospel of Republicanism; they who demand dollars as good as gold as the wage for good work; who believe in commercial reciprocity with other nations, but who say "Halt" to any further foreign encroachment upon any part of America-these, all these, have found in him a steadfast friend and able supporter. He was the soldiers' friend in war, and he has been their constant lican Leader. champion in peace. The survivors of those who fought for freedom and won immortal fame recognize in him a comrade whose valor has been proved on hard-fought field and attested in the proudest trophy ever won by soldier-the decoration awarded him by the American Congress. Called to lead a forlorn hope in the great campaign of 1888, he wrought a task equal to the six labors of Hercules. He organized the patriotism and Republicanism of the country for victory. He throttled the Tammany tiger in his den, and, forcing an honest vote and an honest count in the stronghold of the most powerful and corrupt political organization in the land, rescued the country from the heresies of Democracy. Having thus made himself too powerful and too dangerous to the enemy, the order went forth to assassinate him, but the poisoned arrows of slander and vituperation, thrown in bitter and relentless hatred, fell broken at his feet. He turned to the people among whom he lived and whose servant he was, and his vindication at their hands was a unanimous re-election to the Senate of the United States. There, representing imperial Pennsylvania and her interests, he stood like a rock, resisting the combined power of a free trade President and party, until the deformity known as the Wilson bill was altered and amended so as to save at least some of the business interests of his State and country from entire and utter ruin. We welcome the issue-American protection, American credit and an American policy. Let the people in the campaign which this Convention inaugurates determine whether they are willing to live through another free trade panic. Let the wage-earner and the wage-payer contemplate the bitter experiences which brought hunger to the home of one and financial ruin to the other. Let the American farmer compare farm product prices with free trade promises. Let him who has saved a surplus and him who works for a livelihood determine each for himself if he craves to be paid in American dollars disgraced and depreciated to half their alleged value. Let him who fought for his country's flag; let the widow, the orphan, and the loving parent who gave up that which was as precious as life, behold that flag and all that it stands for pawned to a foreign and domestic joint syndicate to raise temporary loans for the purpose of postponing the final financial disaster, and answer whether they want the shame and humiliation repeated. Let the sovereign voice be heard in the coming election declaring that the only government founded on the rock of freedom, blessed with every gift of nature and · crowned with unmeasured possibilities, shall not be dethroned, degraded, pauperized, by a party policy at war with the very genius of our national existence. Nominate him whom I now name and this country will have a President whose mental endowments, broad-minded statesmanship, ripe experience, marvelous sagacity, unassuming modesty, knightly courage. and true Americanism are unexcelled. Nominate him and he will elect himself. I name to you the soldier and the statesman, Pennsylvania's choiceMatthew Stanley Quay. A Champion of Protection. Matthew Stanley Quay. |