The record-union., 1894-10-03
MATTERS POLITICAL.
Mckinley Addresses a Large Audi
ence at Kansas City.
THE HALL NOT LARGE ENOUGH TO
HOLD THE CROWD.
Senator Hill Has Not Yet Accepted the
Democratic Nomination for Gov
ernor of New 9ork-Senator ALL
son Speaks on the Sugar Question
at Upton. Iowa-Row in the Demo-
cratic Camp at San Francisco.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
KANSAS CITY. Oct. 2.-C;overnor Nc
Kin!ey reached this city at about O'Clock
this morning on the special train from
| st. Louis. Mayor Barnes Of Kansas City.
kas., came from st. Louis with him, and
a Reception COMMITTEE, composed OF
Charles Schattnor OF the Republican State
Committee; Jarvis Harkless, President OF
the Missouri League of Republican
Clubs; L. c. Edwards, Managing Editor
of the Kansas City JOUTadt, and eX-Con-
gressman Warner, met him few miles
out of the city. The morning was spent
in receiving callers at the hotels and driv-
ing about the city.
When Governor Mckinley went to the
stage entrance OF the Auditorium at 2:30
o'clock he found it necessary to make
full use of his physical strength to get in,
for the crowd III front OF the door was so
tightly packed together that such a thing
as making room was out Of the question.
| The stage, too, was JaInmed, and he had
to fairly force his way through, assisted
by several StrOng-armed men, and when
he finally reached the tootlights he look ed
| out upon throng that filled all the seats
and aiSles and even utilized the ventilat-
ors around the dome as places of obSerVa-
ton, While far out into the street stood a
struggling mass of people, who strove in
| vain to secure admission into the build
| ing. a great roar of welcome went up
! from thousands OF thrOatS, women waved
| their handkerchiefs ana men howled, and
! those outside took up the cry and echoed
| it through the streets. Mckinley was
| given sample of genuine Western cor
| diality.
| Mayor Davis introduced the Governor
in rather tiorid speech, in which he
| eulogiZed Ohio and its famous citizens,
and said that unless the signs of the
times were wrong its present Governor
would. two years hence, be the leader OF
| the Republican party. The sentiment
was vigorously applauded.
In his first sentence Governor McKin-
| ley struck a responsive chord. Proud
as / am,'' be began, Ito be an Ohioan, l
am prouder yet to be an American" ."
| Then he proceeded with his speech. 81
| have come among you this afternoon to
| talk with you little while concerning
the great political questions that sre upon
! us this year, and to discuss with YOU and
| before you the relation of those questions
! to the best interests of the country. Poll
| tics this year is business, and business is
| politics"
| References to ex-President Harrison,
| Thomas b. Reed and the lale James q.
| Blaine as the history of the Republican
tariff legislation were cited and warmly
| applauded, as was the observation that
1--WE have not single commercial COM
petitor in the civilized world that does
not rejoice over the passage of the Wilson
law"
The Governor said subject for reflec-
| ton was in the fact that Mr.. Wilson had
| to go To a foreign country to get congrat-
| thoT Of flNo
which bears his name. and when some
one IN the audience sang out that the
| only industry which had been called into
| existence by the Wilson law was that OF
Tree soup-houses, Mckinley responded,
! There is not an American citizen but
would rather earn his own soup than 10
| beg it of others, and under the policy OF
| the Republicans we never had TO have a
| Tree soup building, for every one who was
| willing to work bad work and had his
! soup at his own table. Senator Vest told
| last night story about a dog which came
| by express, and nobody could tell where
| it came from or who it was for, because it
had eaten its tag. He applied the story
| to the PopuliSt party, but he might better
| have applied it to the Wilson law. Every
| body disowns 1t, and yet you are asked to
approve of it. Why, the Democracy OF
| New York disowned it formally and
! otficially when it nominated for Governor
of that State David b. Hill, the only
| Democratic member of the Senate who
| voted against 1t.
Mexican ores arejust arriving, Austral-
ian wool is coming III by the cargo, every
! foreign product upon which the duty as
| reduced under the Wilson law is coming
| into the country in unusual quantities,
and every foreign product that comes
into this country in competition with
| our own diSplaces just so much of Ameri-
| 1hrnHnpta and thOSn dis
placed the American labor required to
| make them is displaced; and yet they ask
| the workingmen of the United States to
approve by their votes the Wilson law.
Who is employed now that was not en-
| pIoyed in lS92Y
'.OnIy the Congressman" promptly
| responded somebody in the audience.
YES" retorted Governor Mckinley,
''and it is because the Congressman have
| been employed at tearing down the de-
lenses OF protection that there is no work
for anyone else. When l spoke in this
city two years ago a gentleman in the
gallery wanted to know what [ thought
| then among workmen was how to reduce
| the hours of labor. Laughter and APP
| plausel There is no trouble of that kind
now. The worl>ingmen are not looking
for shorter hours now; they are looking
! for longer hours"
| ESOIllc lHOlNlu dShHO, +,
'Whats the matter with the y. P. App
The interruption was not well received,
and there came cries from all parts of the
theater, "Put him out ~
Governor Mckinley paused for mo-
ment before replying, then said: The
! question we have to settle now is what is
! the matter with this country" 4 burst
OF applause followed that.
At the close of his address in the thea
| ter Governor Mckinley spoke few
minutes to a large crowd outside, then
| crossed the river to Kansas CITY, Kas.,
where another large crowd was gathered
| He leaves tomorrow morning on spe-
| cial for Topeka and HutchiuS. He will
| speak briefly at several points en- route.
SENATOR ALLISON SPEAKS AT TIPToN, IA.
TIPToN (Ia.), Oct. AT the county
convention to-day magnificent audience
| assem- bled to listen TO United States SEN
ator Allison. ID. ii. Brotherlin, the
President, who introduced the speaker,
said Iowa would be proud to follow him
as the Presidential candidate two years
hence.
The Senator responded happily. His
speech was devoted almost entirely to the
sugar question and the action of Congress
thereupon for the past four years. Mod
ern invention" be said, has in the last
| twenty years greatly lessened the cost OF
| refining sugar, and as the cost has gradu-
| ally diminished, the protection on re-
fined sugar has been reduced, until by
the Act of 1880 all sugars not above Ii
Dutch standard In color were admitted
free of duty, and all refined sugars and
sugars above III Dutch standard in color,
being sugars not required 10 be refined
because of their purity, paid duty OF
one-half cent per pound, with an addi-