Tirey L. Ford

“ All all were made to stand aside for the chosen leader of a determined people.
Never did a nomination for the high office of President come more directly from the hearts of the people and never was a nomination more fittingly bestowed. A youth of toil and frugal industry had opened the heart and mind of William McKinley to the necessities of American labor in its ruinous competition with the ill paid labor of other lands while as a soldier he mastered the art of war and gave the noblest proof of a patriot's loyal love. ”

“ The great Empire State with all its wealth and power and with the prestige of a popular chief executive was compelled to bow before the determined will of an earnest people. From the Keystone State came that master of American politics whose genius for organization has carried his name throughout the length and breadth of the land and he too like all the rest who broke a lance against McKinley's shield surrendered to the all pervading sentiment that swept our country with such resistless force. ”

“ We present to you to night no gilded flowers of polished rhetoric no spectacular creation of the wizard's brain no crown of thorns no cross of gold but we present to you a man who knows and feels the needs of this great country and of all her people who scorns the false and shallow efforts of the demagogue to array one class of citizens against another or the more despicable attempt to divide our people along geographical lines who recognizes in every citizen an American freeman man and whose great heart beats warmly for the humblest citizen in the land. ”