The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-03

Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. Ex-Governor
Mckinley reached this city at about 8
o'clock this morning on the special
train from st. Louis; Mayor Barnes, of
Kansas City, Kas., came from st. Louis
with him, and reception committee,
composed of Mr.. Charles Schattner, of
the Republican committee, Mr.. Jarvis
Harkless, president of the Missouri
League of Republican clubs; Mr.. e. c.
Edwards, managing editor Of the Kan
sas City Journal, and ex-Congressman
Warner met him a few miles out of
the city. The morning was spent in
receiving callers at the hotel and driv-
ing about the city.
When Governor Mckinley went to
the stage entrance of the Auditorium
theatre, at 2:3O o'clock, he found it
necessary to make full use of his physi-
cal strength to get in, for the crowd in
front of the door was so tightly packed
together that such a thing as making
room was out of the question.
The stage, too, was damned, and he
had to fairly force his way through,
assisted by several strong-armed men,
and when he finally reached the foot
lights he looked out upon a throng
that filled all the seats and aisles and
even utilized the ventilating openings
around the dome as places of obser-
walton, while far out into the street
stood struggling mass of people who
strove in vain to secure admission into
the building.
A great roar of welcome went up
from thousands of threats. Women
waved their handkerchiefs and men
howled, and those outside took up the
cry and echoed it through the streets.
Mckinley was given sample or genu-
inc western cordiality.
Mayor Davis introduced the governor
in a rather fiorid speech in which he
eulogized Ohio and it's famous citizens
and said that unless the signs of the
times were wrong. it's present governor
would, two years hence, be the leader
of the Republican hosts. This sentiment
was vigorously applauded. In his first
sentence Governor Mckinley struck a
responsive chord.
proud as 1 am" he began, ito be
an Ohioan, am prouder yet 70 "e dh
American"
Then he proceeded with his speech.
81 have come among you this after
noon to talk withayou little while
concerning the great political questions
that are upon us this year and TO dis
cuss with you and before you the rela-
ton of those questions to the business
interests of the country. Politics TINS
year is business and business is poll
ties
References made to ex-President Har-
rison, Hon. Thomas B. Reed and the
late James G.. Blaine, as the history of
Republican tariff legislation was re-
cited, were warmly applauded, as was
the observation that I'VE have not a
single commercial competitor in the
civilized world that does not rejoice
over the passage of the Wilson bill"
The governor found a subject for re-
Election in the fact that Mr.. Wilson had
to go to a foreign country to get con-
gratulations for the passage of the
tariff law which bears his name, and
when some one in the audience sang
out that the only industry which had
been called into existence by the Will
son law was that of free soup houses,
Mckinley responded, "There is not an
American citizen but would rather
earn his own soup than to beg it OF
others; and under the policy of the Re-
publicans we never had to have free
soup house, for everyone who was will
ing to work had work, and he had his
own soup at his own table. Senator
Vest told you last night a story about
dog which came by express and no
body could tell where it came from or
who it was for because it had eaten it's
tag. He applied the story to the Popu-
list party, but he might better have APP
piled it to this Wilson law. Every
body disowns it, and yet you are asked
to approve of it. Why, the Democracy
of New York disowned it, formally and
officially, when it nominated for gov
ernor of that state Mr.. David B. Hill,
the only Democratic member of the
Senate who voted against it.
Mexican ores are just arriving; Aus
tralian wool is coming in by the cargo;
every foreign product upon which the
duty was reduced under the Wilson
law is coming into this country in I'M
usual quantities, and every foreign
product that comes into this country
in competition with our own, displaces
just so much of American products.
And, when those are displaced, the
American labor required to make them
is displaced; and yet they ask the
workingmen of the United States to
approve, by their votes, the Wilson
law. Who is employed now that was
not employed in 1922
"Only the congressman" promptly
responded somebody in the audience.
Eyes" retorted Governor Mckinley
'sand it is because the congressman
have been employed at tearing down
the defenses of protection that there is
no work for anyone else. When
spoke in this city two years ago, a gem
tleman in the gallery wanted to know
what I thought of the eight-hour law
A question then among workingmen
was how to reduce the hours of labor
daughter and applause) There is no
trouble of that kind now. The work
ingmen are not looking for shorter
hours now, they are looking for longer
hours"
Some inuuisitive individual asked:
whats the matter with the A. P. A. ?"
The interruption was not well re-
ceiyed and there were cries from all
parts of the theatre: "Put him outr'
Governor Mckinley paused for mo-
ment before replying, then said:
"T,ke question we have to settle now
is, what is the matter with the coun-
try?''
A burst of applause followed that
At the close Of his address in the
theatre, Governor Mckinley spoke for
few minutes to a large crowd out
side. then crossed the river to Kansas
City, Kas, where another large crowd
was gathered He leaves tomorrow
morning on a special train for Topeka
and Hutchinson. He will speak briefly