The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-10-04

riSOn called on Gov. Mckinley at ms hotel, and at 12:S0 a procession was formed, which escorted the ex-presi- dent and Gov. Mckinley to the hall, where they were uproariously cheered on entering. Gen. Harrison presided.
 Gen. Harrison's Speech.
 Mr. Harrison said in part:
 My Fellow Citizens: The delightful duty has been assigned me by the state central committee of the republican party of Indiana to preside over this great meeting. am to be its chairman not its speaker, and congratu- late you on that fact. Laughter I brought the distinguished gentleman to whom you are to listen to in this hall this afternoon without sending any courier in advance to find whether there was enough people here for him to speak to. [Cheers I notice in the audience here to-day, with great satisfaction, the presence of many of our older citizens They are fond of talking about the good old times" but the times to which they look back to with so much delight are glorifed by the fact that the pro- cesSeS of nature and providence have covered things that were hard and brought out in the memory those things that were sweet and pleasant. But the good times which have in mind were not good old times, but very young good times. [Applause.l So young that the unweaned babes have no memory of them. Two years ago this coun- try was not only the most prosperous country in the world-for that it had been before-but It stood upon the highest pinnacle of prosper fly that 1t had ever before attained. [Cheers.l This is not the verdict of politicians; it is the verdict of the commercial reporter; 1t is the expression ot those men who make profess sion of studying business conditions. The last two years have been years of distress and dis aster The losses of them defy the skill of the calculator. It has been said, and think not wifi rpa that they pNpppd the cost of the great 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 has found his wages shrink ing There has been general participation in the calamites of the past two years, as there was general participation in the prosperity Of the preceding years. Applause
 Great national losses. like those of civil war have sometimes their adequate compen- SatOns. Great as was the civil war for the union, we feel that 1t was adequately compen- Saed in the added glory that was given to our civil institutions and the unity of the nation. Cheers But the losses of the last two years have no such compensating thought. There is no good to be gotten out of them llaughterl ex- Cept for guidance. They seem to have been of a retrbutive nature. Like the swamp into which a traveller has unwittlngly driven, they have no ameliorating suggestions except that they teach him how to keep on the foothills and on the roads that are on the hilltops. Still the people seem inclined to make the most that can be made out of these years of disaster. We were told the rich were getting richer and the poor poorer, and to cure that imaginary i'll our political opponents have brought in time when everybody is getting poorer. lGreat ap- pause.l I think that I remember to have heard once of an inscription on tombstone that ran something like this: "I was well I thOtphf fn ha mn1icina. and here lie." Laughter and applause.l
 THE TARIFF BILL
 Our democratic friends have passed tarin bill that is approved--so far as can learn-by six democratic senators and by nobody else. Laughter, We hear of little coterie of sem atOrs, whose names could mention, perhaps, Tor they have been well identified but their number has generally been fixed at around half dozen-who decided what the tarin bill should be, and they are pleased with 1t, and nobody else. [Applause.1 MT. Cleveland has repudiated 1t, and has declared that it involves ,'perhdy and dishonor;" that 1t was so shame ful in it's character and influences produced that he would not even put his name to 1t. All the leading democratic papers of the country have condemned it-both the old stalwart va- riety and the mugwump variety. The demo- CFallc chairman of the ways and means com mittec has condemned it. and the entire demo- cratic majority in the house of representatives. NOW, that Is great misfortune. It IS mlS- fortune that the democratic party was not able 10 evolve a tariff bill that that party would ac- cept as a settlement of the tarin question. But 1t is not accepted as a settlement. (.
 ID the very nature of things bill thus passed ana thus characterized cannot be settlement, ana already we have proclamation from MT. CeVeland and Mr. Wilson that this Is only the beginning of the crusade against American in- uuStries; that the war is to go on. Now that Is Sgfeat misfortune If we could have been told pS our democratic friends that we were at the Dottom of the we'll Ldrk, damp and dismal as u IS, we would have begun to look up to see whether we could not find some star of hope; we would have begun to annoint our bruises ana try to build some scaffold by which we mlght climb out But VIC are told that there are lower depths yet in store for us. And so ,uS country is to be held in state Of sus- Pense upon this question. It can be ended in !lSt one way and that is by overwhelming re- puohcan victories in November. lGreat ap- plauSe1
 when New York gives Levi P. Morton 7o,OOO .u,aJorlty lapplausel, and Indiana her state uoNet 5000 lapplausel, and Illinois and those oyates that have wavered fall again into line, gnu the next congress is republican, there will ,S yV an assurance that We have found the end Of 1'.S disastrous condition. lCheers.l think sW Te Ohlo democrats the other day declared that M an IheSe disasters of which we speak came up- ,u the country under the Mckinley bill. Well, Ue sure the Mckinley bill was law until