Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1893-12-01
Mckinley Club.

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Friday evening Nov. "a A. N
Seaber, chairman of execu,iv,
committee, reported the following
as permanent officers of the club
President. Capt. w. d. Sigler
1st Vice President, b. f. Heiny
I'D : Jacob Sands
Sd E. Q. Link
4th Z" L. A. Swsneer
Secretary, a. L. Evans; Assistan,
Secretary, Jno. G. Storm.
The committee also recommend.
ed that the club be named the
mckinley Club" The report
was adopted.
A. N. Seaber, G. w. Linder and
r. d. Hamilton were appointe d
to draft Constitution and BY
Laws for the government of the
club.
j. G. Storm chsirman of the
committee on Resolutions re port
ed the following which was adopt
ed by the club.
WHEREAS. One year ago under
a Republican administration COM
mitted to the Republican idea OF
q protective tariff, the American
nation was prosperous. the wheels
of comerce were in active opera
tioD, factories and mills were run
ming to their full capacities, CIV
ing employment to American
workingmen, and the American
farmer enjoyed extensive and re-
munerative home markets. Under
the tariff Legislation of the Repub-
lican party was nurtured and de-
veloped into magnificent proper
tions a manufacturing and mill
ing industry. giving employ ment
to millions Of American working
men. This manufacturing in
dustry Is in great part the basis
of a stupendous internal and do
mestic commerce. The American
foreign commerce, though equaled
by few nations enjoyed the indus
trial and commercial activity OF
the United States
Ten thousand furnaces belched
forth their lurid lights on as
many mountain sides In the iron
fields of PENNSYLVANIA and the
Allegheny mountains; fifty mil
lion spindles revolved in New
England Bnd throughout the land,
and the arteries aud channels of
commerce pulsed and throbbed
with life and energy.
The Democratic party has been
in power less than q year, avow-
ing the principles of free trade,
and threatening the protective
tariff. AS a result the business
of the country has been paralyzed,
manufacturers closed, and conf
dence lost, the rolling stock of our
great railway systems in part lies
idle, no longer engaged in the ex-
tensiye interchange of products
betweee the nolth and the south
and the east and the west.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED.
That we hereby affirm our hearty
allegiance to that cardinal doc
rine OF the Republican party
which guarantees protection to
American Industries and Ameri-
can workln.; .;men.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED.
That in the Presidential contest
of 1896 we consider the Hon. VIM.
Mckinley, Governor of Ohio, the
soldier and statesman, the great
protectionist, the typical Ameri-
can citizen es a fit and competent
figure to lead the Republican hosts
to national victory which shall
repudiate the party of British free
trade principles and permanently
establish the principles of Re
publicanlsm under which the
country has made unparalleled
progress.
On motion it was ordered that
resolutions be published in the
Republican papers of Kirksyille
and copy be forwarded to Gov.
Mckinley.
QAftel the adjournment of the
club a moot Congress, composed
of members of the Mckinley club,
was organised. T. A. Swanger
was elected speaker and j. G.
Storm clerk. The Congress will
meet on Friday evenings after the
adjournment OF the club to dis
cuss such matters of Importance
as shall come before the national
congress
On next Friday evening the
Hawaiian question will receive
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