Omaha daily bee., 1892-08-07
Thousands of Omaha People Welcome Gov
ernor Mckinley to the City.
ALL SORTS Of FOLKS WERE THERE
Every station of Life Represented In the
Throng That Gathered at the High
School Grounds to Open the
State Campaign.

anu most enthusiastic mass meetings ever
held in Nebraska.
A beautiful moonlit night, inspiring
music, speaker OF more than national
prestige and an audience such Us was never
before seen at political meeting In Omaha
combined to do honor to the city and TO its
distinguished guest
The audience itself was an inspiration and
an ovation. No orator could look over such
concourse as gathered to hear Major Nc
kinley Friday night without thought OF
pride. A large platform b ad! been constructed
at the southeast corner of the High school
building and around 1T fully $4,000 people
listened to the great advocate of protection.
Came in Great Throngs.
The exercises had been advertised to begin
at Z 80 o'clock, and long before that hour the
500 chairs In front of tue stand were occu-
pied. The people lined the sidewalks and
from each side of the grounds continual
stream of pushing, iostling humanity was
elbowing its way toward the building.
Long before dark the vacant space seemed
nearly full and still thousands were wedging
their wav into the human mass. At s o'clock
he entire south slope was an eddying,
kaleidoscope sea Of faces, ana they were
faces into which any orator might be proud
to look.
All Glasses Were There.
The electric lights that had been hung
over the speakers platform cast their SHIN
mering radiance not alone upon the rugged
countenances of the mechanic, the artisan
and the laborer but revealed the flower of
the social and business circles Of the Cato
City. There were represented the profes-
sional man, the banker, the successful mer-
chant and the leader Of society. 1t was such
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produce, where employer and the employed,
the wealthy man OF leisure and the laborer
who toled through the hot summer days to
earn bread for his wife and little ones met
to hear that which was of equal Importance
to them all.
And they brought their wives with them,
for mingled with the masculine array were
hundreds of dainty summer costumes
crowned by fair FACES that watched as in
tently for the arrival of the speaker as though
their interest carried q ballot with 1t.
1t was remarkably orderly crowd, too,
and the proceedings were unin nterrupted save
by the rumble of the cable trains and the up
plause that rose and fell under the spell of
the speakers magnetic utterances.
At the right of the platform a hundred
carriages were grouped. They were nearly
all occupied bv laaiesl and special interest
centered around the one in which sat Mrs.
Mckinley in company with Mrs. General
Cowin -4r.
Along with Governor MCKINLEY.
At o'clock the Second Infantry band
took seats on the platform and its inspiring
music entertained the crowd. which was be-
coming somewhat Impatient for the arrival
of Major Mckinley, A few minutes
afterwards the governor appeared aud
was greeted with q salyo of cheers
ns 5S 10 MRer Rs Gare p
Bemis, Edward Rosewater Hon. W. j. Con-
nell, Judge Z. r. Scott Andrew Rosewater,
Thomas Swobe,P l.. Perrlne, Ralph Breckin-
bridge, Charles j. Green, and others,
lican candidate for lieutenant governor, was
also recognized in the crowd and escorted 10
seat on the platform.
1t was some time before the applause oc-
casioned by the presence of the orator of the
evening had subsidized, and then Charles j.
Green stepped % tEs front of the platform.
He said
"t'ellow citizens, have the honor OF in
Producing to you Ohio's distinguished states
man and governor, William McKipley."
Greeted with Cheers.
Then the cheers broke out again ana Gov
ernor Mckinley was enthusiastically well
coined as he stepped forward. The moment
he began to speak the most Intense silence
was preserved and excepting when the
logical points of his address elected the
audible appreciation of the audience the
speaker was heard with the most earnest at
tention.
Governor McKlnley's address was such as
was expected from the man who more than
any other had reason to be familiar with tho
principles Of the great republican doctrine
of protection. 1t was concise and effective
presentation OF the differences between the
Two great political parties on this important
question. The speaker disdained to use the
tactics of buncombe and sophistry SO often
Affected by stump speakers. He reiied on a
plain statement OF lndisputable facts and
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He dealt with the subject not as politician
but with tho genius of statesman. HIS
reasoning was that Of a master OF the gues-
tion who saw in 1t first Of all the benefits to
accrue to the masses of the people He did
not generaize to any extent upon superficial
applications, but considered the tariff ques-
tion in Its broadest sense, and his arguments
most effectualiy demolished the puny ef-
forts OF the opponents OF tho protective
system.
Explaining the Differences.
In his introduction Major Mckinley said
that he did not come to appeal to the preju-
dices of his audience nor TO excite their pas
sions, but to present simply aud frankly the
differeace between the two great political
parties of the country on the tariff question.
He defined this existing difference in man
ner that in a few sentences made clear the
theories OF each party. the democratic party
stood for a tariff for revenue. while the re-
publican party main tanned one for protection
to American Industries and American labor
as well. The democratic doctrine imposed q
tariff on articles which could not be produced
In this country. while the republican prilcl-
pie was exactly opposite. The protective
tariff, while raising revenue, Disseminated
in favor of the domestic producer and
against the foreign producer
Practical Protection illustrated.
Lifting the earthen pitcher that stood on
the table beside him, MAJOR Mckinley said
1--WE put tariff of 55 per cent on that
pitcher. That tariff has a tendency to DIS
foreign imporJations and to encour-
age domestic manufacture. 1t was put there
for that purpose. 4 know it, for l put 1t
there myself" ist-t
Az this point the speaker was forced to
stop before the hurricane OF applause that
followed As soon as quiet was restored he
continued: 9hi
~ put it there In 1888 and 1t has fulfilled
its purpose. Wen6w have the finest pottery
works anywhere in the world and this
pitcher is cheGpertha II ever was before"
Major Mckinley dwelt at some length upon
the benefits that the protective tariff brought
TO farmers, and iu'the midst OF sentence
someone in the rear of the audience inIer-
ruptsd by question in which only the word
'Englandh was audible.
~ can't quito hear you, my friend" re-
piled the governor. ''but you arc evidently
democrat because you are talking of Eng
land" and the interlocutor subsided, while
the audience volunteered another yolley OF
applause.