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'Tlie Two Candidates.cConsidered independently of their platforms and their parties there is no comparison as regards qualifications for the presidency between Gov. McKinley and his opponent. Mr. McKinley is mature in years and judgment, and has had an experience wide andvaried. His service in the army furnished proof of patriotism and capacity. In congress he reached the front rank and his name is identified with one of the most important pieces of legislation of the period. As governor of the third largest state in the Union he has shown executive ability of a high order and his speeches in numerous campaigns indicate broad views and an intelligent comprehension of all subjects relating to government.His opponent has to show for his public career two terms in congress and the rupture of his own party in his own state. In congress he was a ready debater on just two subjects and had little to say on anything else. He was a rank free trader and a free silverite, but if he ever had views on questions of foreign policy or on any questions of home government save the two mentioned he failed to make them known. In home politics he has been a disor-ganizer and has shown% decided sympathy with the set of notions that make up what the Populists call their beliefs. He has never had opportunity to show whether he has any executive ability or not, but some of his utterances indicate that he has in him the:making of an Altgeld, a Lewellyn, or aWaite.Hot one-tenth of the delegates to the convention would in their calmer moments have picked out this youngster as a suitable candidate for the presidency of a great nation with vast and varied home interests, and with many foreign complications. But he made a rattling speech at a critical time in the convention. The speech does not impress the reader as one of great power, certainly does not reach anywhere near to the level of statesmanship. But it tickled the prejudices of the silver men and was of that declamatory character that sets a convention wild. It was while under the influence of the intoxication of this speech that the convention gave Mr. Bryan the nomination. How that they have had time to go home and take a sober second thought, many of them are wondering why in the mischief they nominated that Populist boy for the chief magistracy.The State Convention.luicmgan will be one of the first of She reliable Republican states to hold its convention and open the fall campaign. Since the last gathering of its Republicans, at about the same time as those of many other states, the national conventions of the two great parties have been held and the.lines have been clearly drawn. The .St. Louis convention has spoken authoritatively for the Republican party in the whole country. It- declares for the traditional policy of protection and reciprocity, and in favor of honest money. It is the privilege of the- staunch Republicans of Michigan to be among the first to take up their party standard, and rally under it for their fall campaign. A platform in full accord with that of the national convention will furnish the best fighting ground that the party can occupy, in fact the only safe ground, and if the best men of the party turn out at the caucuses * and county conventions, the campaign w: 11 be successfully inaugurated upon that basis]The honest money campaign of 1878 furnishes a useful lesson. The spring election of that year was a Greenback landslide, and many timid Republicans were in favor of making some concessions to Greenback sentiment in the platform for the fall campaign, in the hope of winning back some of the Greenbaekers, and of retaining Republicans of Greenback tendencies. But the more courageous counsels of Governor Croswell, Senator Chandler and men of that stamp prevailed, and the platform was as pronounced as the most ardent honest money man could wish. The campaign was conducted on the same line, the party closed up its ranks, and won by a plurality of47,000♦There was, that year, no national convention, and Michigan had to form its own line of battle. This year the national convention has prepared the plan of campaign, and Michigan in falling into line, will find plenty of support. The caucuses of the next two weeks and the convention of August 5, ought to show that Michigan Republicans are loyal to the national organization, and ready again to enter the fight with a spirit that is born of confidence of complete success.McKinley on the Value of Labor.Ho worthy American wants tor educeM ______the price of labor in the United States. It ought not to be reduced; for the sake of the laborer and his family and the good of society it ought to be maintained. To increase it would be in better harmony with the public sense. Our labor must not be debased, nor our laborers degraded to the level of slaves, nor any pauper or servile system in any form, nor under any guise whatsoever, at home or abroad. Our civilization will not permit it. Our humanity forbids it. Our traditions are opposed to it. The stability of our institutions rests upon the contentment and intelligence of all of our people and these can only be possessed by maintaining the dignity of labor and securing to it its just rewards. That protection opens avenues for employment, broadens and diversifies the field of labor, and presents variety of vocation is manifest from our own experience.—Wm. McEinley.Most of the planks of the Chicago platform are full of knot-holes and so badly warped that lots of Democrats would rather stand somewhere else.— Detroit Journal.nc Job Printing the Sentinel office
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Clare Sentinel and the Democrat
Clare, Michigan, US
Fri, Jul 24, 1896
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