States by acclamation. Mr. Clarkson of Iowa seconded the motion. An objection, however, being made that the roll call was in progress, McKinley withdrew his motion, but when the roll call was completed his motion was again put and the nomination was made unanimous.

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GOV. MCKINLEY PLEADS FOR PROTECTION

BECOMES A NATIONAL LEADER.-Mr. McKinley's able address as Chairman of the Convention raised him to the position of a national leader of the Republican party and paved his way to the Presidency. Following is the full text of the address:

"I thank you for the honor of presiding over the tenth National Convention of the Republican party. Republican conventions mean something. They have always meant something. Republican conventions say what they mean and mean what they say. They declare principles and policies, and purposes, and when intrusted with power execute and enforce them. The first National Convention of the Republican party met thirty-six years ago in the city of Philadelphia. The platform of that great convention reads to-day more like an inspiration than like an affirmation of a political party. Every provision of that great instrument made by the fathers of our party is on the public statutes of our country to-day. Every one of them has been embodied into public law, and that cannot be said of the platform of any other political organization in this or any other country in the world. Whenever there is anything to be done in this country, and by this country, and for this country, the Republican party is called upon to do it. There is one thing that can be said about our organization that cannot be said about any other-it can look backward without shame or humiliation and it can look forward with cheer and exultation. That cannot be said of any political organization other than ours in the United States.

"Gentlemen of the convention, we are here to-day to make a platform and a ticket that will commend themselves to the conscience and the intelligence and the judgment of the American people. And we will do it. Whatever is done by this convention, either as to platform or as to ticket, will receive the approval of the American people in November of this year.

"We are for a protective tariff and for reciprocity.

We propose to take no backward step upon either of these great Republican principles. We stand for a protective tariff because it represents the American home, the American fireside, the American family, the American girl and the American boy, and the highest possibilities of American citizenship. We propose to raise our money to pay public expense by taxing the products of other nations rather than by taxing the products of our own. The Democratic party believes in direct taxation-that is, in taxing ourselves, but we don't believe in the principle so long as we can find somebody else to tax. Our protective tariff not only does everything which a revenue tariff can do in raising all needed revenue, but a protective tariff does more than that. A protective tariff encourages and stimulates American industries and gives the widest possibilities to American genius and American effort. Does anybody know what tariff reform is? And that is to be the platform of our political opponents this year. What does it mean? You can study President Cleveland's utterances from the first one he made in New York, when he said he didn't know anything about the tariff, until his last in Rhode Island, and you come away ignorant and uninformed as to what tariff reform means. Since the war there have been three great tariff-reform bills proposed by the Democratic leaders, no two of them alike, neither of them with the same free list, neither of them with the same tariff list, neither of them with the same rates of duty, but all made by the Democratic party upon the same principle, to symbolize and represent tariff reform.

"You may go to Mr. Mills, you may go to Mr. Springer, and you will find they differ totally; but you may go to the House of Representatives at Washing

ton which was elected distinctly upon what they call a tariff-reform issue, with two-thirds majority in the House, and what do you find? They passed three bills. Let me name them. First, free tin plate, leaving sheet steel, from which it is made, tariffed; that is, the finished product free and the raw material bearing duty. Second, free wool to the manufacturer and tariffed cloth to the consumer. Third, free cotton ties to the cotton States and tariffed hoop iron to all the rest of the States. That is their idea of tariff reform.

"Gentlemen of the convention, how do you like it? This contest that we enter upon is for the maintenance of reciprocity; and I want to say here that there is not a line in that tariff bill that is not American; there is not a page that does not represent true Americanism and the highest possibilities of American citizenship.

"We are to declare ourselves upon other questions here to-day. We are to declare ourselves upon the question of a free ballot and a fair count. No platform should ever be made that does not reiterate that great constitutional guaranty; no Republican speech should ever be made that does not insist firmly and resolutely that the great constitutional guaranty shall be a living birth-right, not a cold formality of constitutional enactment, but a living thing which the poorest and humblest may confidently enjoy and which the richest and most powerful dare not deny.

"We can well leave to the Committee on Resolutions the duty of making a platform that shall represent the best thoughts and the best ideas and the best wisdom of the Republican party. When we go out of this convention upon a true Republican platform we will go out marching to victory, no matter what name may carry the banner."

CHAPTER IX

NOMINATED AND ELECTED PRESIDENT

Two or three years before the Republican National Convention of 1896 assembled, Governor McKinley's choice as the next Republican Presidential nominee began to be clearly foreshadowed. His two successful campaigns in Ohio, his wide popularity and exceptional talents as an orator and a political leader, marked him as the most available candidate with whom to make the approaching contest for the Presidency.

Mr. McKinley was placed in nomination before the convention by the Hon. John B. Foraker, of Ohio. It was some minutes before the latter could begin to speak, owing to the deafening cheers and applause with which his appearance on the the platform was received. Finally, taking advantage of a lull, he spoke as follows:

SENATOR FORAKER'S NOMINATING ADDRESS.-"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: It would be exceedingly difficult, if not entirely impossible, to exaggerate the disagreeable experience of the last four years. The grand aggregate of the multitudinous bad results of a Democratic administration may be summed up as one stupendous disaster. has been a disaster, however, not without at least one redeeming feature, it has been fair-nobody escaped it. It has fallen equally alike upon all sections of our

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