Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: McKinley's letter of acceptance; Indianapolis platform; Taussig's Tariff History (Tariff Commission of 1883); Tariff Reform...
...under the leadership of men who will combine the experience of previous conferences in their efforts to make these departments more effective than ever. Although the complete programme cannot be announced at this early date, the most representative group of speakers that has ever met on the Northfield platform is already assured. It includes President Patton of Princeton, Rev. Henry Van Dyke, New York City, Rev. Alex. McKenzie of Cambridge, Rev. A. T. Schauffler of New York, and D. L. Moody...
...which would follow the adoption of a monometallic policy by this country. The Republican party elected their president and maintained the principles of sound money last fall with the votes of those who disbelieve in gold monometallism and favor a bimetallic league. If then the Republicans should repudiate their platform they would at once arouse the flames of sectional and class jealousy. As a result the country at the next election would fall into the hands of the free silverites,- exactly what it was most desired to prevent-and we should have then free silver at a ratio...
...speaking against them on the other side of the question. It seems only just that alternates should receive more general recognition than they have in former years, and it would be a step in the right direction to have the alternates for both universities occupy seats on the platform on the evening of the debate...
Yesterday the hammer and shot squad practiced on the platform which has been laid on Holmes Field. F. G. Shaw threw the hammer 120 feet 6 inches...