Fellow citizens, this is a campaign embracing both political and moral
questions. It is a political conflict, which the people will sooner or
later acknowledge, to be one of patriotism. A moral conflict, which they
will acknowledge to be indeed sublime.
WE MUST NOT FORGET THAT PATRIOTISM IN TIME OF PEACE IS A SCARCER ARTICLE
THAN IN TIMES OF WAR.
In the guise of citizens men like "Coin" Harvey are attempting
ignorantly or otherwise to undermine and overthrow our nation's honor
and credit, and it is these alone that can perpetuate our liberties and
insure us prosperity.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY COMES BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ADVOCATING THE
MAINTENANCE OF THE GOLD STANDARD AND THE USE OF SILVER AS MONEY, IN
THE LARGEST VOLUME POSSIBLE, CONSISTENT WITH SAFETY; ADVOCATING THE
MAINTENANCE OF OUR NATION'S HONOR AND CREDIT; ADVOCATING A TARIFF, NOT
FOR REVENUE ONLY, BUT A PROTECTIVE TARIFF THAT WILL ENCOURAGE
DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES AND GIVE EMPLOYMENT TO ALL OUR PEOPLE; ADVOCATING
RECIPROCITY.
A DOCTRINE WHICH WILL OPEN AN UNLIMITED MARKET FOR THE AMERICAN FARM AND
THE AMERICAN FACTORY A DOCTRINE BEQUEATHED TO THIS GENERATION BY THE NOW
SAINTED JAMES G. BLAINE.
Upon these issues the Republican party comes confidentially to the
people, asking for their suffrage, appealing not to their prejudice but
to their reason, not to their passions, but to their judgment. In
this holy crusade we are lead by that valiant champion of the people's
rights, "that advance agent of prosperity," Maj. William McKinley. On
the other hand we find the Bryanized democrats, populists, and believers
in Coin's Financial School arrayed in a solid phalanx against these
cherished principles which we so ardently believe in.