The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-30
And the Man from Maine Talks to an
Audience OF About Eight Thou
sand People at ST. Louis.
BIG CROWD AT NATION
WHERE MKINLEY SPOKE AT NOON
ON HIS WAY TO CHICAGO.
Another Monster Audience Greets the
Governor in the Big City and List
ems to Telling Speech.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
CHICAGO. Oct. 29-The trip of Governor
Mckinley from Olney to Chicago to-day
was a continuous ovation, thousands
gathering at every point where he was
billed TO stop for even short time as
five minutes. When the special train con-
veying the Mckinley party reached Mat
toon, about noon, 1t plowed its way slowly
through a sea of people whose cheer.ng
drowned the noise Of railroad traffic, and
when the speaker was introduced by Hon
Horace S. Clark the usual salvos of cheers
followed. When quiet was restored Major
Mckinley faced fully 25,000 people and spoke
upon the vital political issues Of the day.
in his most impressive manner. for twenty
eight minutes, when he bid his hearers
adieu and sped on northward, where there
were other thousands anxious TO hear and
honor him. Senator Cullom was aboard the
train during it's stop in Mattoon, and in the
afternoon addressed all who could crowd
into the largest hall in Mattoon. Other
speakers addressed overflow meetings.
At every point on the way to Chicago
great enthusiasm was manifested. The
Governor arrived here at o'clock this
evening and was greeted at the depot by
a large crowd Of enthusiastic Republicans.
who escorted him to the Chicago Beach
Hotel, where he dined. Immediately after
dinner the Governor was driven 10 the
armory Of the First Infantry, where a
crowd Of about six thousand people had
gathered to hear him. After the rendering
of several songs by the glee club. John NJ.
Smyth, chairman of the Republican county
central committee, introduced Governor
Mckinley TO his audience. Great applause
greeted Mr.. Mckinley and the deafenng
toots Of horns and the cheers lasted for
four minutes. When at length he got an
opportunity to speak, he said:
Two years ago a Republican national
administration which had been In power
for nearly four years, which had conducted
the government with singular ability and
honesty and efficiency, at the head of which
was one of our greatest American Presi-
dents, President Harrison, was by the
voice of the people voted out OF power and
the Democratic party was voted in. For
nineteen months, therefore, the Democratic
party has been In supreme control of every
branch OF the general government, and dur
ing that nineteen months. which have been
the longest since the war, Congress has
been engaged in revising the tariff, and
while Congress has been engaged in reyis-
ing the tariff the people have been busy re-
vsing their votes, and from one end of this
country TO the other the people at this
hour are burning in imDatience for an op-
portuIity To pass upon the work OF the
Democratic President and Democratic
Congress. The people never wanted TO vote
so badly in all their lives as they do now.
This period has given the people an oppor-
tunity for sober reflection. steadied by the
discipline of adversely. The people have
been be rehecthg for tney have had bste h h else
no such revulsion Of public sentiment In 4
quarter of a century as has taken place
within the last twenty-four months. Every
Northern State which has spoken nes
spoken in condemnation OF Democratic pol
icies and Democratic measures. And not
only is this revolution OF public sentiment
growing liz the North. but il is certainly
growing In the South In Louisiana only a
few months ago the representative men OF
that State men who had hitherto been
Democrats. were at last compelled 10 aban-
Don that position @ and by prociafmfati9n nha th
declared their adherence hereafter 10 the
principles OF the Republican party.
CAUSE OF THE CHANGE.
What has been the occasion for this re-
markable revolution in public sentiment?
can answer it in a single sentence. DEM
ocratic President and Democratic Congress
have been running the government for nine
teen months and during that time little else
has been running Every industry has been
seriously interrupted; all the enterprises OF
the people have been very seriously checked;
labor has been less employed than for
thirty years. and when employed, at great
ly reduced wages. There has been no ces-
sation in those nineteen months In the
waste OF wealth, and wages, and property,
and investment, and il has been estimated
llldt the cost 10 the peOpfe mas Deen greater
than the expense of the great civil war.
The appea.s TO charity have never been
SO great or so incessant and their reason
ab.eness SO well recognized. Congress has
triied with the sacred trusts OF the peo-
pie, imperiled their fortunes. their prop
erty their investments. their wages. have
quarreied among themselves and upon their
own confessions have been compromised
The Senate does not agree with the House
President with either one Of them. And the
people seem to be in disa greement with all
three OF them. They have given US tariff
beneath the stars and stripes; law which
the President OF the United States char
acterized as an act OF party perfdy and
party dishonor, and which. he said II IL
became a law the Democratic party never
gould look the people OF the country In the
csrsa caee ana M which s,, afier its passage ne de-
was the very communism or pelf-whatever
that may mean; law which the President
OF the United States refused to sign and
the only reason he refused TO sign II was
because 1t was not bad enough.
:, The Democrats say they nave reduced
They say they have reduced the duties to
remove the burdens from the people But
we have not had any such burden in fifty
this country. And yet I see Democra tic
orators going about the country saying:
wool been free than the price of wool went
up. Well. now. II that be true then the
tariff is not a tax. but they say they put
Il H.
They say they have reduced the tariff so
as to increase the revenue. Well, we never
needed revenue worse in our lives than we
do now But they say that II we have free
trade we would have things a little cheaper
Well. aren't things cheap enough nowf
Does the farmer think he Is getting too
much for wheat? You know they told US in
| 1892 that II the farmers would vote the
Democratic ticket and vote the Democrats s.
into power that the farmers would have
| dollar wheat. They now say they meant
two bushels for a dollar. Is the wool grow
er getting too much for his wool? I met
| wool grower I'm Nebraska the other day.
Re told me that In 1892 he had voted for
free wool. and he said he had come within
cents OF IL. He said he had sold his wool
the day before for cents a pound. The
last 1 saw OF him he heading Re-
publican procession. He told me that in
1892 he had voted for his party, but that
In 1894 he meant TO vote for his property.
They say they have reduced expenditures
In the last two years. | see Vice President
Stevenson says that they have saved s2s.-
0cO.0oo In appropriations and twenty-seven
OF those twenty-eight millions are for pen
sions. he ioes not say that, but / do.
The Democratic party Is the most re-
markable party In history IL Is for any,
thing 10 get power. and then IL Is never
for anything which gives IL 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 coun-
try They posed in 1892 as the true and the
only friends OF labor and they were en-
against the employer, in widening the
c1aSm between labor and capifal and in