The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-10-03
ONE OF VESTS STORIES
Cleverly Turned Against Him by
Mckinley.
LABOR AND SHORTER HOURS.
What the Laboring Man Wants
Now Is Chance to Work
:: at All.

tnlS morning on the special train from st.
Louis. Mayor Barnes of Kansas City,
Kans., came from st. Louis with him, and
reception committee, composed of
Charles Schattner of the Republican State
Committee; Jarvis Harkless, president of
the Missouri League of Republican Clubs;
+. c. Edwards, managing editor of the
Kansas 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 driving about the
city.
When Governor Mckinley went to the
stage entrance of the Auditorium at 80
O'clock he found it necessary to make full
eof his ply yslcal strength to get in, for
the crowd in front of the door was 50
tightly packed together that such a thing
as making room was entirely out of the
question. The stage. too, was iammed.
and he had to fairly force his way
through, assisted by several strong-armed
men. and when he finally reached the
footlights he looked out upon a thropg
that filed all the seats and aisles and
even utilized the ventiating openings
around the dome as places of Observa-
tion, while far out into the street stood
struggling mass of people who strove in
vain to secure admission into the build
ing.
A great roar of welcome went UP from
thousands of thrOats. Women waved
their handkerchleis and men howled, and
those outside took up the cry and echoed
il through the streets. Mckinley was
given sample of genuine Western cerdi-
| ality.
Mayor Davis introduced the Governor
in rather ford speech, in which he eulo-
gized Ohio and its famous citizens, and
said that unless the signs of the times
were wrong its present Governor would,
two years hence, be the leader of the Re-
publican hosts. This sentiment was Wig
| orously applauded. In his first sentence
Governor Mckinley struck responsive
chord.
Proud as j am," he began, ''to be an
/ -Ohioan, am prouder yet to be an Ameri-
| cam
Then he proceeded with his speech 81
have. come among you this afternoon to
talk with you little while concerning the
great political questions that are upon US
this year, and to discuss with you and be-
fore you the relation of those questions TO
| the business interests of the country.
Pelitics this year is business and business
| is politics"
References made to ex-President Harri-
son., Hon. Thomas B. Reed and the late
James G. Blaine, as the history of Repub-
lican tariff legislation was cited, were
warmly applauded. as was the observa-
ton that, ''We have not a single CONNER
cial competitor 10 the civilized world that
does not rejoice over the passage of the
/ Wilson law"
The Governor found subject for reflec-
tion in the fact that Mr.. Wilson had to 60
to foreign country to get congratulations
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 Wilson 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 1t of others
and under the policy of the Repu blicaDs
we never had TO have n free souphouse,
for every one who was willing to work
had work, and he had his own soup at his
| own table. Senator Vest told you last
night story about dog which came by
express and nobody could tell where it
came from or who it was for, because it
had eaten its tag. He applied the story to
the PoDulist party. but he might better
have applied it to this Wilson law. Every
body disowDs IL, and yet you are asked to
approve it. Why, the Democrat of New
York dsowned it formally and officially
when it nominated for Governor OF that
State David 3. Hill, the only Democratic
member of the Senate who voted against it.
Mexican ores are just arriving; Austria
! ian 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 unusual quantities,
and every foreign product that comes into
this country in competition with our own
d'splaces just so much OF American prod
ucts. And when those are displaced the
American labor required to make them are
displaced, and yet they ask the working
men Of the United States to approve by
their votes the Wilson law. Who is en-
ployed now that was not employed in
1892 %'
''Only the Congressman" promptly re-
| sponded some body in the audience.
Eyes," retorted Governor Mckinley,
''and it is because the Congressman have
been employed in tearing down the de-
fenses of projection that there is no work
for any one else. When / spoke in this
city two years ago gentleman in the gal
| lery wanted to know what 1 thought of
the eight-hour law. The question then.
among the workmen was how to reduce
the hours OF labor. Laughter and ap-
plause.J There is no trouble of that kind
now. The workingmen are not looking for
shorter hours now, they are looking for
longer hours"
| Some inquisiive individual asked,
"Whars the matter with the A. P. A. ?'
| The interruption was not well received,
and there came cries from all parts of the
theater, ''Put him outv' Governor Nc
Kinley paused for moment before reply
ing; then said: ''The question we have
| to settle now is. what is the matter with
the country ?" A burst of applause fol-
| lowed that. At the close of bis address in
the theater Governor Mckinley spoke for
| few minutes to a large crowd outside.