The morning call., 1894-10-30
DESIRE TO VOTE.
One Crying Need of the
Times.
SENTIMENT HAS CHANGED
And the People Want to Get at
the Democracy.
1T BETRAYED THEIR TRUST.
When the Ballots Shall Be Recorded
the Country VIII Have Been
Avenged.
IT BETRAYED THEIR TRUST.

CHICAGO, Oct. 29.-Governor Mckinley
of Ohio arrived in the city at 6 o'clock to-
night aud was greeted at the depot by
large crowd of enthusiastic Republicans,
who escorted him to the Chicago Beach
Hotel, where he dined. Immediately after
dinner the Governor was driven to the
armory of the First Infantry, where
Gro wd of about 6000 people had ga hered TO
heai him. After the rendering of several
songs by the Glee Club. John NJ. Smythe,
chairman of the Repub can County Cen
trail Committee, introduced Governor Nc
Kinley to his audience. Great applause
greeted the Governor. and the deafeniDg
toots Of horns and cheers lasted for four
minutes. When at length he got an op-
portunity to speak he said:
Two years ago Republican national admin
iStratiOn, which had been in power for nearly
four years, which had conducted the Govern
ment with singular ability and honesty and
efficiency. al the head OF which was one of your
greatest American Presidents, Benjamin Har-
rson. was by the voice OF the people voted out
of power and the Democratic party was voted
in. For nineteen months therefore, the Demo-
cratic party has been in supreme control OF
every branch of the General Government, and
during that nineteen months, which have been
the longest since the war. Congress has Deen
engaged In revising the tariff and while Con-
gress has been revising the tariff the people
have been busy revising their votes, and from
one end OF the country TO the other are burning
with impatience for an opportunity TO pass
upon the work of The Democratic party and
Democratic Congress. The people never
wanted 10 vote so badly in all their lives as
they do now. This period has given the people
an opportunity for sober reflection, sreadied by
the discipline of diversity.
The people have been rejecting, for they
have had little else 10 occu them. There
probably has been no such revolution of public
sentiment in a quarter OF a century as has
taken place within the last twenty months.
Every Northern State which has spoken has
spoken in condemnation OF the Democratic
policy and Democratic measures And not only
Is this revolution OF public sentiment going on
in the North, but it is certainly going on in the
South. In Louisiana only a few months ago
the representative men Of that Stale. men who
had hitherto been Democrats, at last
compelled 10 abandon that position and by
proclamation declared their adherence here
after 10 the principles OF The Republican party.
What has been the occasion OF this remark
able revolution in public sentiment? L can
answer il in single sentence. A Democratic
President and Democratic Congress have
been running the Government for nineteen
months and during that time little else
| has been running. Every industry
has been seriously interrupted, all the enter
prises of the people have been very seriously
checked. labor has been less employed than for
thirty years. and when mployed IL was al greatly
reduced wages. There has been no cess tion
! In those nineteen months In the waste of
wealth. and wages, and property. and in invest
ment and 1t 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 so great or so tncessaDt and their
| reasOnableness so well recognized. Congress
has trifled with the sacred trusts Of the people;
! imperiled their fortunes. their property, their
! investments, their wages. The men in power
have quarreled among themselves and upon
| their own confessions nave been compromised.
! 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 be in disagreement with all three of them.
| They hive given US a tariff law which nobody
| approves of who lives beneath The stars and
stripes; a law which the President of The United
| States characterized as an act of party perfidy
| and party dlsnonor, and which he said. If it
| became law, the Democratic party never
| could look the people of the country in the
face, and which, after its passage. he declared,
IN a letter TO Congressman CatchingS. was the
very communism OF pef. whatever that me ans;
| law which the President OF the United States
| refused 10 sign, and the only reason he refused
| to sign 1t was because IL was not bad enough.
The Democrats say If we have free trade we
| would have things little cheaper. Well, are
not things cheap enough now? Does the
| farmer think he is getting too much for his
! wheat You know they told us 10 1892 that il
the farmers would vote the Democratic ticket
and vote the Democrats into power the farmers
would have a dollar for thoir wheat They
now say they meant two bushels for 81. Is the
firarx 1r1ofaf forl nol
The Democrats say they have reduced the
expenditures in the last TWO years. l see Vice
President Stevenson says that they have saved
SIS, 900 In superintendent S27,-
100000 OF these S2S. 100000 is for pensions.
He does not say that, but do. The Demo-
cratic party is the most remarkable party In his
tory. 1t is for anything to get power. and then
it is never for anything which gives it power.
They posed in 1892 as the enemies OF the
trusts, and when they came into power, upon
their own confession they became the willing
tools OF the most gigantic trust IN the country.
They posed In 1892 as the true aud only friends
of labor, and they were engaged In that year in
arraying the employer against the employe, in
widening the chasm between labor and capital
and In prejudciDg labor against capital; and
when they got into power they inaugurated an
industrial policy that has given to labor the
deadllest blow it ever had.
The only thing the people have got power
| over this year is the National House OF Repre-
sentatiyes. Ii 1t be made Republican then
after the 4th day OF March next the Demo
cratic party will be powerless TO infiict any
further injuries upon the interests and Indus
tries of the country. Do your duty and the
next national House of Repre- sentatiyes will be
Republican, and, while 1t cannot take you back
to 1892, 1t can prevent any further tinkering
with the tariff, any fur ther Interference with
the industries OF our people.
Governor Mckinley closed his address
amid tremendous applause.
DEEn IN MIccnTIDr