The herald., 1894-10-30
M'KINnEY IN CHICAGO.

M'KINLEY IN OdICAGO.
He Revamps His ThrsRdbars Arguments
in FEv0r of Protection.
CHICAGO, Oct. 29.-Governor McKin-
ley OF Ohio arrived in the city at 6
o'clock, and was greeted at the depot By
large crowd OF enthusiastic Repu bic-
ane. After dinner the governor WAS
where crowd of about 6000 people had
gathered to hear him. J. M. Smv the.
chairman Of the Republican county cen.
trail committee, introduced Governor
Mckinley to his audience. Ths appliance
that greeted Governor Mckinley lasted
for lour minutee. When at length lie
got an opportunity to speak he said:
Two years ago q Republican national
administration which had been in po wer
for nearly four years, which had con-
Quoted the government with singular
ability and honesty and efficiency, at the
head Of which was one of cur greatest of
American presidents, President Harri-
son, who by the voice OF the people Was
voted out OF power and the Democratic
party was voted in. Fer 10 months,
therefore. the Democratic party has been
in supreme control OF every branch of
the general government, and during that
10 months, which have been the longest
since the war, congress has been engaged
in revising the tariff the people have
been busy revising their votes, and from
one end OF this country to the other the
people are burning with impatience for
an opportunity to pass upon the work OF
the Democratic party and Democratic
congress-.
''rhe people have reflected, for they
have had little else to occupy them.
There probably has been no such revolu
ton of public sentiment in a quarter of
Is century as has taken place within the
last 20 months. Every northern state
which has spoken has spoken in con-
demnRtion 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
few months ago the representative men
OF that state, men who had hitherto been
Democrats, wsre ut last compelled to
abandon that position, and by proclama-
ton declared their adherence hereafter
to the principles of the Republican
party.
what has been the occasion of this
remarkable revolution in public senti-
meut? l can answer it in ejngle sem
tsnce, Democratic president and a
Democratic congress have been running
the government for 10 months. and dur
ing that time littls else has been run
ming. Every industry has been seyi-
ousiy interrupted and all the enterprises
of the people have been very seriously
81 t.,- I1a haav la.n
than for 20 years, and when employed
at greatly reduced wages. There has
been no cessation in those 10 months in
ths waste of wealth and wages and
property aad in investment, and it hsa
been estimated that the cost to the peo-
pie has bsen greater than the expenses
of the great civil war. Appeals to char
ity have never been go great or 30 inces-
cant, and the reasonableness so we'll
recognized.
Congress has trified with the sacred
truste OF the people, imperiled their
property, their investments, their
wages. The Democrats have querreled
among themselves and upon their own
confession have been compromised.
The senate does not agree with the house
nor the house with the sena to, nor the
president with either one OF them.
Aud the people seem to be in dieagree-
ment with all three of them. They
have given us a tariff law which nobody
approves who lives beneath the Stars
and Stripes- law which the president
OF the United States charac terized as
an act OF party perfidy and party dis
honor, and for which, ne said, If it be-
came law, the Democratic party never
could look tho people OF the country in
the lace, and which, after its passage,
he declared in letter to Congressman
Catchings was the very communion OF
pelt, whatever that means; law which
the president of the United States re-
tueed TO sign, and the only rsason he
refused to sign it was because it was not
bad enough.
The Democrats say il 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 ua in 1892 the farmers
would vote the Democratic ticket and
vote the Democrats into power; that the
farmers would have dollar for their
wheat. They now say they meant two
bushels for dollar. IL the grower get
ting too much for his wool?
"Ihe Democrats cay they have reduced
the expenditures in the last two years |
sea Nice-President Stevenson says they
have saved s2S, ,00U, 600 in appropriations,
and $27, 900, 900 OF these $2B, ,00O, 600 are
for pensione.
THE Democratic party is the most re-
markable party in history. 1t is for
anything to get power, aud then it is
mover for anything which gives it power
They posed in 1892 as the enemies of the
truste, and when they came into power,
upon their confession. they became the