The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-20
UNION GENERALS
SPEAK AT CANTON
An Enthusiastic Meeting at Eight o. O'clock
in the Morning.
THE REMARKS BY MAJOR MKINLEY
Speaker for the Sewicklcy Mckinley
and Hobart Club Reviews the Eff.
fects Ofthc Wi!sOn.GOrman Bill and
Points to Confidence Restored by
Prospects of the Election OF Pro.
tection's Champion.


Canton. O., Oct. 19.--The booming of
cannon AT 8 O'Clock this morning an
nounced the opening of the meeting al
the Tabernacle Of the Union generals.
under the leadership of General K. A.
Alger In spite of the early hour for
which the meeting was called. the hall
was filled with an enthusiastic audi
encc. Short speeches We're made by
Generals Howard. Alger, Martin, Stew
art and Sickles and Corporal Tanner.
As each speaker concluded his remarks
he was presented with "A basket Of
choice flowers by members of the Wo-
mans Relief Corps of Canton. After
the meeting the visitors We're escorted
to the depot by a large number of citi-
Zens. Major Mckinley drove down to
the depot from his residence to see the
generals off. The train left at o'clock
for JuStus.
a delegation Of business men from
Sewickley. Pa, arrived here at li.30
o'clock and called on Major Mckinley
at his residence.
The speaker for the Mckinley and
Hobart Sound Money club of Sewickley,
Pa, was George r. Wallace. He re-
viewed with granhic felicity the ef-
fccts of the Wilson-Gorman tariff law
upon the industrial and commercial
world and said that the growing belief
in the election of Major Mckinley was
beginning to restore confidence.
Major Mckinley made q short speech
in reply which was received with ap-
plause and much cheering. There was
a large number of ladies with the dele
cation.
Major Mckinley said: &.
am glad IN baya ba nsSura pnas nf
your spokesman that in this crisis Of
our history you are standing for ma
tional honor and for the preservation
of our free institutions. The Republi-
can party has always occupied post Of
great honor From the time of it's or
ganization down to the present mo-
ment, it has been the leader Of all that
is best in government. 1t was born in
the interest of liberty and the rights
of humanity. 1t has never struck
blow that has not been for freedom and
Dur glorious flag. And in every great
emergency that party. not so old as
some other parties in this country. has
led for the right, for justice. for good
morals and for public honesty. 1t nev-
or had higher post of honor than it
has today. Glorious. as the past has
been. ii has never carried q flag which
involved more to the institutions of our
country and it's good name, as the flag
which 1t carries today. (Applause).
And am glad to know that from one
end of this country to the other the
intelligence and judgment and con-
science of the American people are not
appealed to in vain. Some people seem
to have the notion that the Republican
party has made new departures: that
it occupies different position today
from which ii ever occupied in the past
That's n mistake. We stand where we
have always stood. not only upOn the
money question but on the tariff ques-
ton; and | want to call your attention
to what may have escaped you. When
the president closed the great problem
of the great American people, after the
construction of the Union. was what
should be done with the great debt that
had been occasioned by the war and
what should be done by way of main
tanning sound currency in the United
States. In 1865 the great soldier of the
war. who had led the mightieSt armies
that We're ever engaged in sustaining a
cause--General Ulysses S. Grant, was
nominated for president. Let me read
you two planks of the platform upon
which he stood and you can see wheth-
er the Republican party has changed
its position: We denounce all forms of
the national honor requires the pay
ment of the public debt in the utmost
faith to all creditors at home and
abroad, not only according to the letter.
but the spirit of the law, under which
it was contracted That was when
we had that enormous war debt of over
two billions of dollars and the country
seemed to be staggering under it. but
the Republican party stood up as il al
ways has and insisted that every dollar
of that debt must ba Daid in the best
currency of the world and under that
policy we have paid off more than
two-thirds of that great national debt
and paid every dollar of it with honor
and the best currency. Then let me
read you another plank in that platform
which so well applies To our situation
today:
THE BEST POLICY.
That the best policy to diminish
our burdens of debt is to so improve
our credit that the capitalist will seek
to loan us money at lower rates of in
terest than we now pay and must con-
tinue to pay 50 long as Reputation.
partial or total, open or otherwise is
threatened or suspected" This IS the
Republican way to restore confidence
and to get capital to invest at lower
rates of interest and to give confidence
to the business of the country, not by
repudating the debt of the country and
by discrediting its currency, but by
lifting up both credit and currency and
thus commanding the confidence If the
business world. In that same year the
Democratic national conv, ntion that
nominated Horatio Seymour for uresi.
dent. had this utterance on the money
tT... ,t..1r
today, and / commend ii to all of you:
"One currency of the government and
the people, the laborer, the office hold
or. the pensioner. and the soldier, the
producer and the bondholder.'
That's the kind of money we have
today. my fellow citizens-just as good
in the hands of the poor as In the hands
of the rich. and we propose to pay the
obligations of the government in the
future just as we have paid the Obli-
cations of the government in the past
in the best money of the world. am
glad to meet you here at my home,
glad to see the ladies here this morn
ing. 1t Is a good omen when the wo-
men take an interest in public affairs
(applause). and l am sure they are
just as much interested in good gov
ernment and good laws and good NOR
ais as the men can be and their in
fluence in this campaign on the side
of right am sure will be beneficial"
Col John Hyatt, of Washington, D.
c., one of Lincoln's private secretaries,
arrived at half-past one and was cor
daily received by Major Mckinley.
Another party of political pilgrims.
also accompanied by large numbers
Of ladies. journeyed up the hill to Major
McKinley's Market street home this
afternoon. They came from Mogadore.
ermr'it county, Ohio, and brought the
'rndidata assurance of loyalty and
ealrcstness in support Of the ticket