ility of loss,
a coinage of silver and gold received at par in every commercial
mart of the world, and a public credit equal, if not superior, to
that of the oldest, richest and most powerful nations. It has, by
a policy of fostering and protecting our home industries, so
diversified our productions that every article of necessity, luxury,
art or refinement can be made by American labor, and the food and
fruits of a temperate climate, and cotton, wool and all the textile
fibres, can be raised on the American farm.

"Under Republican policy, sometimes embarrassed but never changed,
our country has become _free_, without a slave; strong, without
standing armies or great navies; rich, with wealth better distributed,
labor better paid, and equality of rights better secured, than in
any country in the world. All the opportunities of life, without
distinction of birth or rank or wealth, are open to all alike.
Education is free, without money or price. Railroads, telegraphs
and all the wonderful devices of modern civilization are at our
command. Many of these blessings are the natural results of our
free institutions, the work of our fathers, but they have been in
every case promoted and fostered by the policy of the Republican
party. We, therefore, can honestly claim that our party has been
a faithful servant of the people and is fairly entitled to their
confidence and support.

"But we do not rest our claims upon this fact alone. We do not
need to muster the great names that have marched at the head of
our columns to their final rest to invoke your approval. We invite
the strictest scrutiny into the conduct of the present Republican
administration of Benjamin Harrison. He was not as well known to
the people at large, at the time of his election, as many former
Presidents, for the politics of Indiana do not give a Republican
of that state a fair chance to demonstrate his capacity and ability,
but my intimate acquaintance and companionship with him, sitting
side by side for six years in the Senate Chamber, impressed me with
the high intellectual and moral traits which he has exhibited in
his great office.

"The issues now involved are not so great and pressing as in the
days of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant, but they do directly
affect the life, comfort and happiness of every citizen of the
United States. The recent Republican Congress, in connection with
President Harrison, has dealt with all leading domesti