Review of reviews and world's work . ^v. SENATOR PLATT, OF NEW YORK. ,.,. , ., What was the meaning of all this What Is the . ^ True appearance oi acquiescence, content-interpretation ?^^^^^^ ^ud good - will ? Whatever might be said of delegations from individualStates, it is certainly true that the convention asa whole was not brought into its mood of har-mony through any extraneous pressure. It wasnot boss-ridden; it was not cowed by the so-calledmoney power or tlie great corporate influ-ences ; nor was it in any sense under the pressureof the lash of President McKinleys administra-tion. The
Review of reviews and world's work . ^v. SENATOR PLATT, OF NEW YORK. ,.,. , ., What was the meaning of all this What Is the . ^ True appearance oi acquiescence, content-interpretation ?^^^^^^ ^ud good - will ? Whatever might be said of delegations from individualStates, it is certainly true that the convention asa whole was not brought into its mood of har-mony through any extraneous pressure. It wasnot boss-ridden; it was not cowed by the so-calledmoney power or tlie great corporate influ-ences ; nor was it in any sense under the pressureof the lash of President McKinleys administra-tion. The condition to which we refer was due,undoubtedly, in the main to a clear party con-science ; in other words, to a ginuiine convic-. SBNATOR LODGE, OF IttASSACHUSETTS. tion that the past four years had made historyfor the Republican party in a most creditablemanner. The so-called Silver Republicans hadeither entirely left the party or else had acqui-esced in the achieved policy of the gold tariff issue had lived itself down, and hadfor the time being disappeai^ed as a topic of politi-cal controversy. Our national credit had beenvindicated in those vast refunding operationswhich had placed our public debt on a far lowerinterest basis than that of any other country,either now or at any past time. Business pros-perity had come upon the country in such vol-ume and with such wide diffusion as at no pre-vious time in our history. The enormous agri-cultural prosperity of the West had done awaywith the sectional feeling toward the East thatwas so marked and disturbing a factor only afew years ago, while the war with Spain hadseemed to wipe away the last vestige of unpleas-ant feeling between the North and the
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