The herald., 1894-10-05
nOUR NEXT PRESIDENT. E"
Mckinley in the Wild and
WOolly West.
He Receives the Plaudits of
Multitudes.
Large Crowds Greet Him at Lincoln
and Omaha.
They Deluds Him with tho Vain Hope
That He VIII Occupy the White
House After Grover
Moves Out.

By the Associated Press.
OMAHA. Oct. 4.-Clude, Kan, honored
Ohio's governor by literally turning out
en- masse to give him greeting, and the
local population was augmented by
prairie schooners. propelled by mule
power, and formed a picturesque back
ground to the animated picture. Fully
1000 were at the Belleville. Kan, sta.
tion TO listen to the few words that Nc
Kinley spoke, aud at Fairbury, Neb.,
there were even more. At Beatrice
there was an audience of not less than
5000. which was addressed from the
station. the governor leaving the car.
Short stops were also made at Wilbur
and Crete. The meeting at Lincoln, it
is said, was the biggest of the kind ever
held in the city, and estimates of the
enormous audience to which Governor
Mckinley spoke from platform erected
in front of the Lincoln hotel. ranged as
high as $4,000. The whole country
seemed to have turned out. A company
of state troops formed a guard Of honor
to the governor, who was met several
stations below Lincoln by Colonel Adams
of Governor Crounse'a staff, as the rep
reeentstive OF Nebraska's chief execu-
tive. There was q long parade, into
which Governor Mckinley was incor-
porated, composed of clubs. college
students. industrial exhibits, etc., and
it was more than an hour after the ar
rival OF the train when the governor be-
gan hia address. Governor Crounse
occupied q stage beside ex-governors
Thayer, Dawes and Nance, and there
were other prominent office holders and
candidates.
Governor Crounse presented Nc
Kinley to the audience. An outburst
of cheers greeted him "a he stepped to
the railing and there were repeated
cheers for ''our next president"
He began by SAYING: "I have been
in Missouri and Kansas for SO hours.
l have spent part OF the morning in
this great ptate. l have met thousands;
yes, tens OF thousands of people, and
they act precisely as the people did in
Ohio last year when they gave the Re-
publican ticket a majority of $4,000.
The people are eager to vote this year;
they are eager to vote for their homes
and their factories, their farms and their
wages. They are anxious to vote their
opinions of the new tariff lava law
which President Cleveland did not ap-
prove; law which he declared was an
act of party perfidy and party dishonor,
saying that. if il passed. the Democratic
party could not look the people OF the
country in the face, and which, after its
passage, he declared to be the very
communism of pelf. Nobody was bet
ter able to spsak OF that bill and the
influences which made it, than he, and
yet he did not have the moral courage
to veto it,"
Much laughter was caused as Gov
ernor Mckinley, referring to the reduc-
tions made in the tariff in the Wilson
law, and quoted the reductions made on
opium for smoking, Havana cigars, i'm
ported brandies. kid gloves, ostrich
feathers, painting and etatuary, and said
ironically: "What comfort these reduc.
tions will give to the mechanics and the
farmers! What comforts they will con-
tribute to the homes of humble Ameri-
can citizens! My fellow citizens, these
reductions benefit but one class of our
people-the opulent and luxurious.
They have nothing to commend them to
the great industrial masses of the United
States"
The pension policy OF the present adj
ministration was fiercely arranged while
the audience punctuated the spoken
sentences with hearty applause.
mo man." eaid the governor, went
into the war to get pension. His only
care was to secure the safety of this gov
eminent. No more unselfsh devotion
was ever given to country than WAS
given by our boys in blue. and l resent
the effort of the Democratic administra-
ton to stamp them rs frauds"
The governor was taken to club OF
the business men after The speech and
met the members, taking a train for
Omaha ct about 5 80 o'clock. He was
escorted here by reception committee
and. on his arrival, was hurried TO the
Coliseum, where a crowd Of IL 900 per-
sons waited him. The place was 30
crowded when Governor Mckinley al
rived that it was with difficulty that way
WAS made for him, and late corners were
unable TO get inside. Fourteen carloads
OF men came in from Lincoln for the
purpose of hearing tonight's address,
but were turned away bscause they
could not get in. The audience was
highly dsmonistrative and was declared
to bs the largest political gathering ever
held in Omaha.
Hen. John M. Thurston was psrticu-
larly felictous in introducing Mckinley.
He said that when Gen. Phil Sheridan
in his famous ride reached Winchester
battle ground the first thing be cav was
o young lieutenant reforming the ranks
of his company. That officer was
William Mckinley of Ohio, and he ia
now again reforming the ranks OF the
loyal men who intend to resist the as
aaults of the commerce destroying, in
dustry destroying and tramp making
party that is enjoying q temporary vic
tory. This reference was wildly cheered
and when Mr. Thurston named McKin-
ley the presidential candidate to be
chosen in 1896, the applause was deaf
ening.
The governors speech consisted OF
presentation OF the principles OF Repub-
licanism and was listened to with close
attention and yas repeatedly inter-