The herald., 1894-09-26
NJ 'K|NLEY ON THE STUMP
He Opens the Campaign in
Indiana.
A Big Republican Rally at
indianapolis.
Ex-President Harrison Presides over
the Meeting.
He Praises the Apostle Of High Tarin'
and the Governor in Turn Lauds
the Inherltor of Grand
fathers Hat.
By the Associated Press.


Mckinley OF Ohio opened the Republic
,sn campaign in this ntate today. he
was introduced to the audience that
packed Tomlinson hall, by ex-Prssident
Harrison. The two famous leaders were
received with great enthusiasm. Ex-
President Harrison said:
my fellow citizens, the delightful
duty has been assigned me by the state
central committee oil the Republican
party to preside over this great meeting.
l am to be its chairman, not its speaker,
and congratulate you on that fact.
[Laughter.]
1.-TWO years ago this country was not
only the most prosperous in the world
for that it had been before-but it stood
upon the highest pinnacle of prosperity
that it had ever before attained.
lCheers. This is not the verdict OF
politicians; it is the verdict OF the COM
mercial reports; it is the expressed
opinion OF those men who make pro-
fession OF studying business conditions
The last two years have been years OF
distress and disaster; the Losses OF
them defy the skill OF the calculator. 1t
has been said, and think not without
reason, that they exceed the cost OF the
civil war. These losses have not been
class losses; they have been distributed.
The holder of stocks and bonds has
found his wealth shrinking, and so has
the farmer, and the workingman found
his wages shrinking. There has been
general participation in the calamlties
OF the last two years, as there WAS q
general participation in the prosperity
OF the preceding years. Great national
losses, like those OF civil war, have
sometimes their adequate compensa-
tions. Great as was the civil war tor
tha- nm ninn-wa faal that it--waa .adsgilatees
was given TO the fisg and in the added
security that was given to our civil in
stitutions and the unity OF the nation.
[Cheers. But the losses of the last two
years have no such com pensating
thought. There is no good to be gotten
out OF them [lsughtsrl except for
guidance. They seem to have been Of
retributive nature, lihe the swamp into
which the traveller WAS unconsciously
driven, that has no ameliorating suSQes-
tion. except that it teaches him to keep
on the foothills and on the roads that
are on the hilltops.
"We were told the rich were getting
richer and the poor poorer, and to cure
that imaginary i'll our political oppon-
ents have brought in time in which
everybody is getting poorer. [Great ap-
plause.] think remember to have
heard once OF an inscription ON a tomb
stone that read something like this: L
was we'll, thought to be better; took
m edicine and here lie
"Our Democratic friends have passed
a tariff bill that is approved, so fkr as I
can learn, by six Democratic senators,
and by nobody else. Mr.. Cleveland has
repudiated it, and has declsred it in
wolves per6dy and dishonor: that it
was 30 shameful in it's character and in
fuences that he would not even put his
name to it. All the leading Democratic
papers in the country have condemned
it-bot OF the old etalwart variety and
of the mugwump variety. The Demo-
cratic chairman OF the ways and means
committee has condemned it, and the
entire Democratic majority in the house
of representatives condemn it. Now,
that is great misfortune. II ia misfor-
tune that the Democratic party Was not
able to evolve tariff bill that the party
would accept as a settlement OF the
tariff question. But it is not accepted
as settlement. Already we have a
proclamation from Mr.. Cleveland and
Mr.. Wilson that this is only the be-
ginning of the crusade against our in
dustries. Now that is a misfortune. Ii
we could have been told by our Demo-
cratic friends that we were at the bot
tom of the we'll, dark, deep and dismal,
we would have begun to look up to see
whether we could not see come star OF
hope. We would have begun to snoint
our bruises Snd try to build some
scsffold by which we might climb out.
But we are told there are lower depths
in store for us. So this country is to be
hold in a state of suspsnse It can be
ended in just one way, and that is by an
overw helming Republican victory in
November. When New York gives
Levi P. Morton 10000 majority, and In.
diana her state ticket $4,000 and Illinois
and those states that have wavered fall
again into the line, and the next con.
gress is Republican. there will be an
assurance that we have found the end
OF this disastrous condition. TCheers. |
81 think the Ohio Democrats the
other day declared all these disasters, OF
under the Mckinley bill. Well, to be
sure. the Mckinley bill was law until
the 29th day OF August, when the Cor
man bill was passed. 1t had been ar
rested. We were listening from day to
day to prophecies that from two weeks
to three or four that it would be re-
peale0. 1t was not law in any ecnse
that any merchant or manufactured
could act upon it. 1t was dead in
business sense, though alive on the
statute books. Why. sir, it would Do
just about as reasonable to complain OF
q man who had been arrested, hand
cuffed and locked up in q cell, for not
supporting his family. as to complain
the Mckinley bill did not give pros
perity during this period of suspense
And then, we are told that under the
Mckinley law the price OF wool went
down, and that since it has been made
it has gone up: that eugar ON tha fraa