George Boutwell: “The thought that one has a future is a great stimulus to careful and energetic action in the performance of public…”

President McKinley and his supporters demand subserviency of all who are not within the lines of the American seas.

Of all the eminent men that you have sent forth into the service of the State and the country, he must be accounted the chief, when we consider the value of his contribution, historically, and on the side of freedom and civilization.

Here are the assertion of power and the promise of goodness that have attended the origin and movement of every despotism that has risen to curse mankind.

You are called to a choice between the doctrines of Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln on one side and the doctrines and policy of President McKinley and his supporters on the other side.