The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-30
GOV. M'KINLEY AT CHICAGO.


Inc Shange OF Public Optuton.
CHICAGO. Oct. oa-oov. Mckinley. of
Ohio, arrived in the city at 9 o'clock to-
night. and Was greeted At the depot by
large crowd of enthusiastic Republicans.
Immediately after dinner the governor
was driven to the srmory of the First in
fan.rv, where a crowd of about {. 600 peo-
pie had gathered to hear him. ]. NJ.
Smythe, chairman of the Republican
county central committee, introduced
Gov. Mckinley TO his audience. The
great applause that greeted him lasted for
four minutes. When at length he got an
opportunity TO speak, he said:
Two years ago Republican national
administration. which had been in power
for nearly four years, which had con-
Quoted the government with singular
ability and honesty and efficiency, at the
head of which was one of the greatest of
American presidents. President Har-
rison. was voted out OF power. For
nineteen months the Democratic party
has been in supreme control of everv
branch OF the general government, and
during that nineteen months, which have
been the longest since the war, congress
has been engaged in revising the tariff:
and while congress. has been revising the
tariff the people have been busy revising
their votes, and from one end of this
country TO the other the people are burn
ing with impatience for an opportunity to
pass upon the work of the Democratic
party and a Democratic congress.
"The people have been rejecting, for
they have had little else to occupy them.
There probably has been no such revulsion
of public sentiment in a quarter of
century as has taken place Within the last
twenty months. Every Northern state
.sb{rA has snnkan has xnnxan m rom
demnation of the Democratic policy and
Democratic measures. Aud not only Is
this reyuision of public sentiment going
on in the North, but il is certainly going
on in the South In Louisiana. only
few months ago. the representative men
of that state, men who had hitherto been
Democrats, we're al last compelled to
abandon the position, and by proclama-
ton declared their adherence hereafter TO
the principles of the Republican party.
What has been the occasion of this re-
markable revolution In public sentimentY
can answer il In single sentence. A
Democratic president and - Democratic
congress have been running the govern
ment for nineteen months, and during that
time little else has been running. Every
industry has been seriously interrupted,
and all the enterprises of the people have
been very seriously checked, labor has
been less EN- mpioyed than for thirty years,
and when employed is has been at greatly
reduced wages. There has been no cessa-
ton in these nineteen months ia the waste
of wealth and wages and property and in
vestment, and it has been estimated that
the cost to the people has been greater
than the expense OF the great civil war.
Appeals to charity have never been -
great or so incessant, and their reasonable
ness reyer 50 well recognized.
Congress has irified with the sacred
trusts of the people. imperiled their for
tunes, their property. their Investments.
their wages. The members of congress
have ouarreled among themselves and.
upon their own confessions, have been
com promised. The senate does not agree
with the house nor the house with the
senate nor the president With either one
Of them. And the people seem TO us in
disasreement with all three OF them. They
have given as tarih law which nobody
approves OF who lives beneath the stars
and stripes a ia~ vi hich the president Of
the United States characterizsd IS aa act
of party perfdy and party dshonor.' and
of when be said. II IL became lsx,
tho Democi attic party never could look
the reople Of the country ia the face, aud
which, after its passage. he declared in
letter To Congressman Gatchings, was the
very communism OF pesf. whatever that
means: q Law which the president OF the
United States refused TO sign. and the
oniy reason that he refused 10 sign i, was
because il was not bad enough.
The Democrats said that IL We had
free trade we would have things q Little
cheaper. Well. are not things cheap
enough now9 Does the farmer think be
!. getting too much for bis wheaiT You
kuos they told Us IN i-32 that II the
farmers would vote the Democratic ticket
and vote the Democrats into poser the
farmers would have dollar for their
whes1 They nov say they meant tro
bushels for doll ar il the grower getting
too much for his woolY
ssThe Democrats say they have reduced
the expenditures in sb@ last two years.
see Nlca President Stevenson says they
have saved = Do. GO IN appropriations.
anf So 90 gsy9 OF these So fs0. 90 are for
rensaonx. The Democratic party is the
most remarkabss party in history. Ii ls
for anything 70 get power. aud then II ts
naver for snYfhing which gives ls rover.
They posed IN Is}1 as the enemies Of the
trnsts. and shen they came into power.
ur.ssa their own confession, thew became
the willing toois sf The most gigantic trust
in The countgy. They posed sn is1 as the
true and only friends Of labor. ana shsy
ssre engaged In that rear IN aTraysag the
ssnployer against the employe, IA siden-
ing shr chasm between labor aud capital.
ana i'm urefudIciug labor against capital,
hnr hes ahey got into poser they laan-
rarassd al industrial policy thai has g.ysn
Es0or she el@a5saesi blow IL ever had.
The unly thing Ghs peeps have got
go~er over shts year 10 she Rational house
OF rsprxssn sastves. Ii il - made kspub-