The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-08-05
MKINLEY TO THE
WORKINGMEN.
WINDOW GLASS WORKERS CON-
VENTI0N DELEGATES
VISIT THE NOM
INEE.

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Address in Response to the Words
Of Their Spokesman Supreme
Duty and Responsibility of
the Republican Party.
CANTON, o., July 25.-Five hundred
of the delegates of workmen TO the
eighth National Convention of Win
dowglass Workers of America, at Pitts
burg, came to Canton to-day, arriving
here at ii; 80 o'clock this morning by
special train. Their coming brought
out thousands, who gathered about the
Mckinley home. Henry Bostock, of
Pendleton, Ind, acted as spokesman
for the delegation, saying in part:
"The men who stand before you to-
day have come from the States rang
ins from the Berkshire Mountains in
Massachusetts, to the broad praifies of
Illinois; from the Great Lakes to be-
yond Mason and Dixon's line. From
eleven States we come, representing
the overwhelming majority sentiment
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great window-glass industry, i'm every
factory i'm the United States. We are
satisfied with the quality of our dol
lars, and have no fear as to the volume
of our money if the tariff is so regulat-
ed and levied as to best protect Ameri-
can industries, and i'm such volume as
to insure sufficient funds to meet the
ordinary expenses of the Government,
thereby insuring to US the opportunity
to work and receive the money that is
the just reward of an American work
ingman, and at the same time de-
manding of the employers in foreign
countries that if they would bring the
products of their cheap labor TO COM
pete i'm our markets with the products
of our free American labor, they must
meet us on even ground by bringing
back with those products some of the
gold that an administration has been
forced first to borrow and then to re-
turn to them as interest on the public
debt, which they are rendering more
burdensome day by day as they pro-
ceed. And all, or nearly all, this
through the operations Of their great
tariff reform, sometimes called tariff
for revenue only which name We
would amend by changing the pune
tuation and adding a few words, max
ing it read: Tariff for revenue, only il
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1--WE desired TO greet you personally,
Major Mckinley, because we look up
on you as the favorite son Of the Uni
ted States, not the choice of any politi-
cal machine or urged by the people
within the confines of any one State
but the one, which the people began to
realize that the time had come when a
standard-bearer must be chosen as
candidate of great party for President
Of the United States, whose name
spontaneously burst from the care and
sorrow burdened hearts of the Ameri-
can people as the one grand character,
round whom from every humble home
and hearthstone in our broad land
were clustering the hopes for better
and brighter days to come. We greet
you then, as our ideal of American
citizenship, the unassuming soldier,
patriot and statesman, the hope of our
people, the next President of the Uni
ted States"
MAI. McKINLEY's RESPONSE.
The greatest enthusiasm prevailed as
Maj. Mckinley stepped forward to re-
sp0nd. When order had been restored
he spoke as follows:
"Mr. BOstOck and Gentlemen of the
Window-glass Workers of the United
States-It is particularly gratifying to
me to have this large body of the rep
resentatives of your association, fresh
from your Convention, and speaking
for your great industry, scattered over
eleven States of the Union, honor me
with this call of greetings and congrat-
ulation. | appreciate the words of
confidence expressed by your spokes-
man, so eloquently, and agree with
him that there is something funda-
mentally wrong, which demands
speedy remedy, and which can only be
had by the people speaking through
the constitutional forms at the next
general election. Great applause.
"You have, sir, alluded to our diff
culties with singular force and aecu-
racy, demonstrating that you appre-
eiate fully the great problems which
are before the American people for sol
ution and settlement Nothing could
be better said than that great essen-
tial to the credit of the country is TO
provide enough revenue TO run the
country. The credit of any govern
ment is imperilled so long as it spends
more money than it collects. The
credit of the Government, like that of
the individul citizen, is best subserved
by living within its means and provid-
ing means with which to live.
Every citizen must know that the
receipts of the United States are now
insufficient for its necessary expendi-
lures, and that our present revenue
laws have resulted in causing a def
cheney in the Treasury for almost three
years. 1t has been demonstrated, too,
that no relief can be had through the
present Congress. The relief rests
. with the people themselves. They are
4, charged with the election of new
, Congress in November, which will
: give the needed relief. If they elect a
Republican Congress the world knows
= that one of its first acts will be to put
| upon the statute books OF the country a
| law under which the Government will
collect enough money to meet its ex-
, penditures, stop debts aud deficiencies,
: and adequately protect American
2 labor. Great cheering and applause. J
This would be one of the surest steps
toward the return of confidence and a
revival of business prosperity.