New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-23
PATRIOTISM ABOVE PARTY.

a reception TO MAJOR Mckinney WneH ns EOoO
speak. He said:
This is not a partisan campaign: it rises Alto
gether above tnat 1t is campaign as view
IT, for the United States. its honor It's credit
its currency, its welfare; and welcome the as
sistance which comes to our cause from every
quarter of the country, from men who hereto
fore have not been identified with us In party
associations. | am glad to meet the young men
from the College of Berea am glad that IN
this political contest can submit our princi-
pies with confidence to the educated men or
The United states. ard rejoice tfat In every
college of the country. East and West. where
a poll has been taken. a large majority Is al
ways found In favor Of financial integrity ana
National honor Continuous cheering) II IS
good for young men to begin rlght IT,, DIS u.s.
dividual life; and if there ever was question
of honesty involved in political contest, 1t 10
lam glad to greet my old friends from Medina
County-frends of long ago. friends OF many
years standing Grand old county; when my
district was gerrymandered in ioof all wanted
to know in that county was how many votes
| required to elect me to Congress great laugh
teri and then. when they found out how many
we had to have they secured the WOODS ana
furnished them All voted for that cause be-
cause they believed 1t embraced the greatest
prosperity for the American people.
Some people seem to think that the way 10 en-
rich this country is TO coin the silver OF the
world AT the ratio OF Ii to ]. Well. IL u to !
is a good thing, 81 to l Is better for 81 70
hetter expresses the commercial relation be-
tween gold and silver than III to !. II we are
10 coin silver into dollars We want enough
put into every dollar to make IL worth nun
dred cents everywhere applausel, so that tho
dollar will not cheat anybody, either d pupio
or private creditor.
But my fellow-citizens. there is more involved
i'm this campaign than the question or currency.
There Is the question of whether this Is to be q
Government BY law: whether the law is to be
supreme over all. whether the courts of this
country which are a sheet-anchor for us In
every time Of trouble are to be sustained or to
become the mere creatures of party caucus.
AWAY with II. applause This Is Govern.
uent by law. and the people will render a yer.
dict on November sustaining both law ana
courts.
NO DEBASED MONEY WANTED.
From GAINESVILLE. Belmont County. and some
smaller towns In the neghboring counties OF Noble
and Guernsey the next delegation came. II was
made up of workingmen farmers and miners. and
II contained nearly thousand voters. To this dee.
CATION Major Mckinley said:
1t seems like cid times to hear your shouts
again. and as l am not this year coming to see
YOU II is most gracious on your part :, come to
see me. Briefly stated. my Fellow ems. what
IL this great contention about, that Is engaging
the attention OF I000O.O0O Of people to the ex.
ciuson of everything else? What Is II all about?
First shall we have an honest dollar worth
100 cents, or shall adopt our standard
dollar worth onl, 52 cents? Secondly.
shall we pay the obligations Of the Government
as we have always paid them-in the highest
form of money inOwn to the civilized worldr
Thirdly shall We now enter upon the issuance
OF deprecated paper loney as proposed by the
Chicago Democratic platform? Fourthy. shall
this Government by lc"' ! sustained under the
law and through the courts created by law?
Filthy, shall continue the partial trade
policy which was inaugurated by the elections Of
1892 or shall we restore that grand protective
policy under which for more than thirty years
we lived and had such great prosperity?
take 1t the people about me are opposed to
debasnR the money Of the country Every man.