After the lunch recess, Harrison’s movement swept the convention. A series of speeches pushed various delegations toward his nomination, until finally William O. Bradley brought the nomination to unanimity.
We go into this canvass with Harrison and the broad word of protection upon our banner–protection to American industries, protection to the persecuted people of the South, protection to the poor children who today in the South are laboring in ignorance, and protection to the grand soldiers who shed their blood upon the fields of battle that this Nation might live. In the name of Abraham Lincoln, in the name of Henry Clay whom Kentucky and this Nation are proud to honor, I second the motion to make this nomination unanimous.
From Proceedings of the Ninth Republican Convention, pg. 208-213.
This model of “protection” embraced the entire Harrison program: high tariffs, hawkish foreign policy, benefits for veterans, and civil rights for the South.
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