Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-10-18

ing and Incompetency Snown Up
In a Mastery Speech.
st. Paul, Special.-Goy. Mckinley
of Ohio was welcomed to st. Paul by
the greatest political demonstration in
the history of the city. A tremend-
GUS mass meeting was held In the
auditorium In the evening.
Gov. Mckinley was introduced to
the vast audience by ex-Gov. Merri-
am, who spoke of him as a true, loyal,
patriotic American; ona devoted to
his country and the interests Of Its
people. A grand outburst.o Of cheering
followed Gov. Merriam's able intro
duction. In the midst of which Gov.
Mckinley advanced to the front OF the
stage and was greeted with a storm
OF applause. The following is q YER
batim copy of his speech:
In November, 1892, a Republican national
administration able, efficient and patriotic,
which had been In control of the govern
ment for nearly four years, and ut the
head of which was one of our greatest
American presidents, Benjamin Harrison
(spplausel was. by the voice Of the Amer
fcan people, voted out of power and a Dem
ocratic administration voted in. That adj
ministration has been In control OF the fed
eral government, in all Of its branches, for
now nearly nineteen months. And during
that period 1t has employed the greater part
OF Its time in revising the tarif. That long
period flor 1t has seemed very long to the
American people has given to Us an OPP
portunty for sober reflection, steadied by
the discipline Of adversely. The people have
been rejecting, for they have had little
else to occupy their attention. The people
have been thinking, and those who have
not been thinking have been feeling-feel-
fng the stress of the times wrought by the
great change. 1t must have been apparent
even to congress, that while they were en-
gagged in revising the tariff the people were
employed In revising their views Qaughter)
and were impatient with anxiety to pass
Judgment upon their work. 1t did not take
the people so long to revise their views rs
Ct has taken congress 20 revise the tariff.
And they are only awaiting an opportunity
90 express those revised views In a c~onstitu-
tional way at a national election. (Applause.l
The people OF this country never were so
anxious, in all their history, to vote as they
are at this hour. And I have been looking
for some one who would move the previous
question and stop all debate SO that a vote
might be taken at once. Great applause.l
Not only do / think that the people are
&nAiUuS 10 tVttt UuL Il um SURF tucN NI@
ready 10 vote and ha ~ already made up
their judgments upon the work Of the pres
eut administration and the present congress.
Even the eyes OF the bill ldest parisans
have been opened, and those who hitherto
never saw ATTY good in the Republican party
and who for years have been voting Its
policy q fraud and a robbery and Its laws
as the culininating ~atrocity of class legisla-
eion are now burning with impatience for n
reconsideration and a change. Those who
voted the present administration Into pow
er and those who We're opposed 10 its TAX
tng control of the government are equally
rsgretful and unhappy. There probably
never has been In the political history Of
sentiment than that which has taken place
the North that has had an opportunity. to
had an opportunity to vote has voted a con-
<emnation of the present administration
Republican principles. (Appiause9
The Revulsion Came Quietly.
Commencing in 1898. less than a year after
cts inausuration, every election, commence
eng with the great State of Massachusetts In
the East, which the year before had elected
year ps reversed t S1tsr decision IN a ane s gave the
Republican candidate for governor more
than $4,000 majority. .tAPplaase); Then the
10000. was replaced by a Republican gov
ernor who received $4,000 plurality. APP
plause). And Ohio. which In 1892 had given
but q little over 1,00O for the Republican
Cicket, In 1893 gave to the Republican party
q majority of more than $4,000. Great ap"
plausel Then came the election IN the
State OF New York, In two cong cessionll
districts. One of them was Carried by the
Republican candidate by a majority Of over
300, which q year before only nal given 10
President Cleveland more Than G,000 T. IL
raltty. Aud n the other ~iiqtriet. - the
,-ry stronghold of Trmmany, |. I'tin. cratic
M M ~ II ND wunA ~Atn II - 81 I.tNaA
crate plurality of less THAI 4.'N0. Thea
sweeping along we came to that great State
OF Pennsylvania, the Gibraltar of Republic
man, at which that veteran Republican.
that magnificent man. the author of the
homestead law, Galasha A. Grow, received
a majority Of more than 10000 ZAP
plause). Then came the same glad news
from Oregon on the Pacific. And then In
Vermont. And then In Maine, the state of
Blaine and OF Reed great applause) gave an
unprecedented majority for the Republican
party. What will the State Of Minnesota
A voice in the gallery: rs, 600. (Cheers).
Not only, my fellow citizens, has this re-
vulsion OF public sentiment taken place In
the North, but there are the same evidences
In the South. In the state of Louisiana.
less than two weeks ago. the great sugar
planters or that state nc. In convention a.
men who had all their lives been Democrats,
leaders In their party. Democrats by ira
dltion and Democrats by practice. who for
years had been attempting to make them
ociNts ueleNe tndt tne StemOrr0tlc party
could be trusted by the material interests Of
the country, and they were ut last conf
PEELED to abandon that position aud to pub
ucly proclaim their allegiance to the prli..
ciples OF the national Republican party.
Great applausel.
What, my friends. has been the carse Of
this mighty reyulsion of public sentiment?
II Is answered in a single sentence. The
Democratic party has been running the gov
eminent for nearly nineteen months, ani
during that time little else his hcen run
ning. daughter and applansei. Every In
dustry In this country las been disturbed.
every investment has been I'm o,.ri!ed. Men
nave found little employment In their ac-
Sustomed places, and when they have been
employed IL has been at greatly reduced
wages. There has been 10 cessation Ia the
waste OF wealth and wages and profit. Il
mas cost this people more than Ii cost this
government to put down the mighty re-
beilion, for the preservation Of the CLinn
and the honor OF the flag.
Distress Ii Universal.
The appeals TO charity were rover so
universal. and their necessity never was so
apparent as now. Congress has trifed with
the sacred trusts of the people, imperiled
their Investments. disturbed their occupa-
lions: they have quarreled and compro-
missed, and upon their own testimony have
themselves been compromised. And Mt
length we get a tarif law-such as 1t is
q tariff law which nobody approves, GER
Sainiy nobody whO lives benaofh anr fac.