We are for a tariff that shall protect the wages, and the labor and employment of American laborers as against the labor of all mankind everywhere else. We need not be alarmed, for we are not dealing with a tariff bill four weeks old, as we were in 1890. We are dealing with a tariff law eighteen months old. When it was only four weeks old it was too young to speak for itself; it is now eighteen months old and is doing its own talking. This protective tariff system is the American system, for it protects the American home and the American workingman. We propose to stand by it, and there are not nearly so many people now weak on that subject as there were a few months ago. They say our late Congress was a billion-dollar Congress. Why, it was more than that, it was a two-billion-dollar Congress. For under the legislation of the Fifty-first Congress we had increased the foreign and domestic trade of this country to two billion dollars, a point never reached before. In the twelve months ending March 31, 1892, under the fiscal legislation of the Republican party, we have exported to other countries $1,001,600,000 worth of American products, a sum never before reached since the beginning of the Government. But, my fellow-citizens, I am not here to make a speech. I closed one this morning at one o'clock in the city of Pittsburg to a body of Republicans that send greetings to Ohio and pledge their electoral vote to the Republicans by 60,000 majority. But let me say one further word. Whatever else happens to-day, let us have harmony, unity and fraternity, and when we have gone out of this Convention, whether I have had my way or you have had yours, let the voice of this Convention be the law of Republican action.

General Charles H. Grosvenor read the report of the Committee on Resolutions, as here appended:

The Republicans of Ohio join with their brethren in all the States and Territories of the Union in reaffirming their allegiance to the Republican party, and in expressing their confidence in the great principles of the great organization which carried the country in 1888.

We declare our unbounded confidence in President BENJAMIN HARRISON, and without qualification endorse and commend his administration of the great office which he holds. He has given the country a wise, just and patriotic Administration. He has maintained the National dignity at home and abroad. He has upheld the glory of the flag while promoting peace and securing prosperity. He has faithfully redeemed the pledges given before the election, and jealously

guarded the interests of the whole people. While carefully and intelligently observing the teachings and the platforms of his party, he has yet been a statesman wise, broad, eminently American, and patriotic.

The people of Ohio have a just pride in the administration of the affairs of the State by Governor WILLIAM MCKINLEY, JR. He brought to the discharge of his duties as Governor ripe experience, great learning in statesmanship and an honest and patriotic purpose; and he has already shown himself capable, faithful and wise. We heartily endorse his administration thus far and assure him of our great esteem and confidence. The best exemplification of the principles of protection-a cardinal one with the Republican party-that has found expression in public statutes, is the "McKinley Bill." And we cordially declare our adhesion to the doctrine of that great measure, including, as worthy of particular mention, its reciprocity features. It will not escape the profound attention of the country that the Democratic party coming into power in the House of Representatives as the implacable foe of the law, then just enacted, and of its underlying principles of protection to American labor and American interests, with the avowed purpose to wipe it from the statute books so far as its power extended, at the first opportunity, has, after witnessing its magnificent operation for a single year, deliberately determined it inexpedient party policy pending a general election to attempt its repeal or even modification, except as to half a dozen out of its thousands of items, and with respect to these it has taken the precaution repeatedly to assure the country in advance that absolutely nothing can come of its attempt in this direction.

We condemn the bill recently passed by the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives to place wool on the free list, as an unjust and hurtful attack on the agricultural interests of the country, and we insist upon such full and adequate protection for the wool industry as will enable American farmers to supply the wool required for consumption in the United States.

We are opposed to the free coinage of silver by the United States under existing circumstances, and we would not favor it except under conditions that would reasonably insure the maintenance of the substantial parity between the bullion and the mint money value of its coin. Every coined dollar should have the intrinsic as well as the monetary value of every other coined dollar.

We favor just and liberal pensions to every soldier and sailor who fought in behalf of the Union, and we heartily endorse the Disability Pension Bill as an act of justice too long delayed because of opposition

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State Central Committee: 1. Alexander C. Sands, Jr., Hamilton. 2. Robert W. Lillard, Hamilton. 3. Ira Crawford, Montgomery. 4. George R. Davis, Auglaize. 5. George B. Russell, Williams. 6. George W. Temple, Clermont. 7. E. G. Coffin, Clarke. 8. John Wolfley, Delaware. Joseph C. Bonner, Lucas. 10. J. F. Chapman, Gallia. II. F. S. Purcell, Hocking. 12. F. W. Gunsaulus, Franklin. 13. O. T. Locke, Seneca. 14. L. K. Powell, Morrow. 15. Frank M. Martin, Noble. 16. William A. Hunt, Belmont. 17. Will iam H. Stoutt, Tuscarawas. 18. James J. Grant, Stark. 19. George W. Caufield, Trumbull. 20. Levi Meacham, Cuyahoga. 21. T. H. Atkinson, Cuyahoga.

Shortly before 11 o'clock, Wednesday, April 27th, Chairman Griffin called the Convention to order and announced that prayer would be offered by Rev. Dr. Muller, of Cleveland, Presiding Elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After the prayer the following report of the Committee on Permanent Organization was read by Joseph M. Ickes, Secretary of the Committee.

Chairman: William McKinley, Jr., of Stark County.

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Secretary: John R. Malloy, of Frank

Assistant Secretaries: George Hobson, J. E. West, Charles C. Bickham, W. J. Ross, John M. Killets, George W. Carey, J. W. Morris, William L. Curry, Charles Cottrell, Davis Collings, Charles S. McDougall, William H. Roney, John E. Hopley, H. D. Critchfield, F. A. Durbin, S. J. Cameron, Edward Bohm, Elmer E. Paine and Jere A. Brown.

Sergeant-at-Arms: Alexander C. Caine,

of Franklin.

Chairman Griffin introduced Governor McKinley, who said in part:

us.

We organize to-day for the victory of 1892. This is the opening of that campaign which must result in a triumph for the Republican party. We were never in better condition for the battle which is so near upon We have had for nearly four years one of the most splendid Federal Administrations. We have a President in the person of Benjamin Harrison who excites pride and approval in the heart of every Republican, and he has had the assistance and advice of that distinguished leader of leaders from the State of Maine James G. Blaine. We are not only proud of the President of the United States, but we are proud of every one of his constitutional advisors, including our own distinguished fellow citizen, Charles Foster. We love all our leaders, every one of them past and present, from Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin Harrison, but we love our cause and country better than all else. In this campaign we have issues with which we may safely go before the country and appeal to the intelligence, judgment and consciences of the American people. With us it is no longer a question of promise; for every promise made in 1888 has been fulfilled in public legislation and has been embodied in public law. On the question of currency the Republican party stands where it has always stood, for every dollar the equal of every other dollar, gold, silver and paper, each worth one hundred cents, and equal in legal tender capacity and intrinsic value. We are just as strongly committed to the great doctrine of an honest dollar for all the people as we were when General Grant vetoed the "Inflation Bill," more than sixteen years ago. We are to-day, as we always have been, in favor of a free ballot and a fair count in every corner of the Republic. A vote in Ohio must count as much as a vote in any other State in the Union, and no more; and a vote in the South must count as much as a vote in the North, and no less. Until that is settled in practice and in administration in every State in the Union, the battle for the Constitution will go on, and the consciences of men will not sleep. No Republican Convention should ever assemble that does not declare unalterably and fixedly for that grand Constitutional guarantee. We must continue the contest until it shall not be the mere cold formality of a legal enactment, but a living, breathing fact, which every citizen, no matter how humble, may enjoy, and which the richest and most powerful dare not deny. On the subject of a protective tariff, we stand where we have ever stood in the past. We are for a tariff that shall protect the homes and friends of America against all the world.

We are for a tariff that shall protect the wages, and the labor and employment of American laborers as against the labor of all mankind everywhere else. We need not be alarmed, for we are not dealing with a tariff bill four weeks old, as we were in 1890. We are dealing with a tariff law eighteen months old. When it was only four weeks old it was too young to speak for itself; it is now eighteen months old and is doing its own talking. This protective tariff system is the American system, for it protects the American home and the American workingman. We propose to stand by it, and there are not nearly so many people now weak on that subject as there were a few months ago. They say our late Congress was a billion-dollar Congress. Why, it was more than that, it was a two-billion-dollar Congress. For under the legislation of the Fifty-first Congress we had increased the foreign and domestic trade of this country to two billion dollars, a point never reached before. In the twelve months ending March 31, 1892, under the fiscal legislation of the Republican party, we have exported to other countries $1,001,600,000 worth of American products, a sum never before reached since the beginning of the Government. But, my fellow-citizens, I am not here to make a speech. I closed one this morning at one o'clock in the city of Pittsburg to a body of Republicans that send greetings to Ohio and pledge their electoral vote to the Republicans by 60,000 majority. But let me say one further word. Whatever else happens to-day, let us have harmony, unity and fraternity, and when we have gone out of this Convention, whether I have had my way or you have had yours, let the voice of this Convention be the law of Republican action.

General Charles H. Grosvenor read the report of the Committee on Resolutions, as here appended:

The Republicans of Ohio join with their brethren in all the States and Territories of the Union in reaffirming their allegiance to the Republican party, and in expressing their confidence in the great principles of the great organization which carried the country in 1888.

We declare our unbounded confidence in President BENJAMIN HARRISON, and without qualification endorse and commend his administration of the great office which he holds. He has given the country a wise, just and patriotic Administration. He has maintained the National dignity at home and abroad. He has upheld the glory of the flag while promoting peace and securing prosperity. He has faithfully redeemed the pledges given before the election, and jealously

guarded the interests of the whole people. While carefully and intelligently observing the teachings and the platforms of his party, he has yet been a statesman wise, broad, eminently American, and patriotic.

The people of Ohio have a just pride in the administration of the affairs of the State by Governor WILLIAM MCKINLEY, JR. He brought to the discharge of his duties as Governor ripe experience, great learning in statesmanship and an honest and patriotic purpose; and he has already shown himself capable, faithful and wise. We heartily endorse his administration thus far and assure him of our great esteem and confidence. The best exemplification of the principles of protection a cardinal one with the Republican party-that has found expression in public statutes, is the "McKinley Bill." And we cordially declare our adhesion to the doctrine of that great measure, including, as worthy of particular mention, its reciprocity features. It will not escape the profound attention of the country that the Democratic party coming into power in the House of Representatives as the implacable foe of the law, then just enacted, and of its underlying principles of protection to American labor and American interests, with the avowed purpose to wipe it from the statute books so far as its power extended, at the first opportunity, has, after witnessing its magnificent operation for a single year, deliberately determined it inexpedient party policy pending a general election to attempt its repeal or even modification, except as to half a dozen out of its thousands of items, and with respect to these it has taken the precaution repeatedly to assure the country in advance that absolutely nothing can come of its attempt in this direction.

We condemn the bill recently passed by the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives to place wool on the free list, as an unjust and hurtful attack on the agricultural interests of the country, and we insist upon such full and adequate protection for the wool industry as will enable American farmers to supply the wool required for consumption in the United States.

We are opposed to the free coinage of silver by the United States under existing circumstances, and we would not favor it except under conditions that would reasonably insure the maintenance of the substantial parity between the bullion and the mint money value of its coin. Every coined dollar should have the intrinsic as well as the monetary value of every other coined dollar.

We favor just and liberal pensions to every soldier and sailor who fought in behalf of the Union, and we heartily endorse the Disability Pension Bill as an act of justice too long delayed because of opposition

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William E. Crume, of Dayton, and Robert C. McKinney, of Hamilton.

4. Levi S. Jamison, of Celina, and James I. Allread, of Greenville.

5. Guilford L. Marble, of Van Wert, and Oscar Eaton, of Bryan.

6. Erskine Carson, of Hillsboro, and George W. Stanley, of Lebanon.

7. Oliver S. Kelly, of Springfield, and David I. Worthington, of Washington C. H. 8. Carey C. Harris, of Findlay, and Isaac Newton Zearing, of Bellefontaine.

9. William H. Tucker, of Toledo, and John B. Wilson, of Bowling Green.

IO. Lucien J. Fenton, of Winchester, and Samuel Llewellyn, of Coalton.

11. John C. Entrekin, of Chillicothe, and Charles E. Spencer, of New Lexington. 12. George K. Nash and Cyrus Huling, of Columbus.

13. George C. Gormley, of Bucyrus, and Wilber C. Brown, of Fostoria.

14. William C. Cooper, of Mt. Vernon, and Harry Griffith, of Mt. Gilead.

15. John H. Riley, of Marietta, and William A. Johnson, of Zanesville.

Charles E. Pease, of Dayton, and P. S. Eikenbary, of Eaton.

4. Benjamin M. Moulton, of Lima, and William D. Davies, of Sidney.

5. William H. Begg, of Columbus Grove, and Kidder V. Haymaker, of Defiance.

6. John Little, of Xenia, and Simeon G. Smith, of Wilmington.

7. Morris H. Miesse, of Circleville, and Sherman Leach, of London.

8. Robert G. Lybrand, of Delaware, and Henry H. Williams, of Urbana.

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George B. Spencer, of Weston, and Alfred L. Sargent, of Delta.

IO. Luther M. Beman, of Thurman, and Forrest E. Daugherty, of Waverly.

II. David L. Sleeper, of Athens, and Robert S. Wilcox, of Hamden Junction.

12. John B. McNeill and Daniel Crumley, of Lancaster.

13. John C. Johnson, of Fremont, and Samuel H. Hunt, of Upper Sandusky.

14. James R. Alsdorf, of Mt. Vernon, and Daniel C. Cockley, of Shelby.

15. Henry J. Cleveland, of Caldwell, and Cyril Hawkins, of McConnellsville.