Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-09-18
EMMHE
MKINLEY PRAISES THE VERMONT
DELEGATION.
Gold Candidate Once More Gives
an Address on Patriotism
and Honest Money.

SdhtOA, NhiO, oCPt. Az NesJ . SS~~-
onstration on the Mckinley lawn opened
early with suspicious weather. The Yer
mont delegation was the first to arrive
1t was greeted with great enthusiasm.
The party of 10S includes Governor Wood
bury, Lieutenant Governor Mansen, Con-
gresham Henry H. Powers, Senator
Proctor, Governor-elect Grout, Lieutenant
Governor-elect H. Fish, General j. M
Mccullough and ex-Lieutenant Governor
F. S. Strenyan.
The Grand Army band, a large troop
of horsemen and the citizens reception
committee gave them a warm reception.
A parade was organized to march to 'he
majors home, and just as the clock was
striking the large crowd was on the
lawn, cheering for the republican nomi-
nee.
Major Mckinley appeared at the north
end of the porch About him were group
ed the Vermont committee and the most
conspicuous officials. In the window back
OF him was Mrs. Mckinley. The enthu-
siasm showed no signs of abatement on
account of the long trip. A glee club
from st. Adams sang 1--WE Want You,
Mckinley, Yes, We Do" Chairman Mer-
rll said:
1--WE come from a great and surprising
victory. The battle was fought solely
on national issues The battle In our
state was won because the free men or
Vermont, in consideration OF both sides,
rejected with unalterable determination
the principles and heresies of its oppon-
ents."
Colonel George T. Childs, national COM
mitteeman for Vermont, followed in the
same strain. Childs said 5000 patriotic
democrats Joined with nearly $1,000 repub-
licans in Vermont in declaring for tim
ancial honor, the rule of law, the safety
of republican institutions and for Will
liam Mckinley for president
Mckinley replied as follows:
McNinley's Response.
Mr.. Chairman and My Fellow Citi-
zens: i give you a generous welcome
from an overlooking heart to my state,
| to my city and my home. would be I'M
| just to my feelings and irresponsible to
| tho kind sentiments uttered by your
| spokesman if 1 permitted to pass unob-
| served the fact that in the preliminary
contest for the nomination of a presi-
| dent Vermont gave me her united vote.
| (Applause) The Green Mountain state
| is endeared to all of us by tradition and
history, In song and story, but above all
| in the good work manifest in the glor-
| ious results. Some newspapers have
asked me to interpret the results of the
| election in Vermont September l, but 1t
seems to me they are their own best in
| terpreters. (Applause.) They have sim
| ply declared what every student in your
| history must already have discovered,
that your thoughtful and patriotic citi-
zens are as true as ever-aye, truer than
ever-to the tenets of good morals, good
| politics and good government. (Applause)
They have shown by their ballots, by
greater proportion than ever, that they
| are more devoted to the honor of the gov
eminent to the maintenance of law and
| order, and the restoration of that wise
! and economic system which has always
been our chief pride and source of
| strength, than any previous period in
our eventful history (Applause.)
1.-THE value of your example Is evil
| IDENTIFY greater than ever in the past,
as the issues upon which your victory
was won are the same as those which now
| engage the attention of the entire coun-
| try. The free silver orators and organs
Of Vermont, lily concealed (they did not
positively ASSERT what is being proclaim
ed everywhere, that their solicitude is
| relief to those who might temporarily
| profit by degraded currency, no mat
| ter with what sacrifice to- the plain
est precepts of good morals.
The Risk Proposed.
| In no case and at no point do they
| propose our national and private obliga-
| tons on plain old fashioned principles,
good faith and honesty which have al
ways distinguished the American people.
| Applause) Practically admitting that
the effect of the free, unlimited and indie
| pendent coinage of silver would be an
| immense loss to the savings and resources
of our people, and that its adoption would
reduce their plane of the social and in
dustrial condition, they yet seriously pro-
| pose we shall risk this hazardous expert
| ment.
Vermont has said in tones that can
not be misunderstood that she will have
nothing to do with that fatal experiment.
| Great applause and cries of "Good.")
| Indeed they are urging US to attempt by
| legislation to make so cents worth of sill
yer pass current as legal tender for
| 100-cent dollar, good for all public and
private obligations. The mere statement
| of the proposition ought to lead to it's
| instant rejection. We can not by law
make every man honest, but we certainly
| will never make a law encouraging them
| to be dishonest. (Applause)
ITO me the question of free trade is a
question of humanity, the voice of labor
pleading for it's own, and the question of
| free silver is a question of public moral
| ity, honor and good faith, and it's success
would be blot on your hitherto spotless
national credit. (Applanse.) But will it
prevail? No; l answer forever no.
| (Cheers.) The American people as a
nation, like those of Vermont, are en-
| tirely above so unworthy an imputation."
| (Applause.)
People VIII Not FaIter.
"A people that could, as a weak and
struggling confederacy of less than 5000
0Or inhabitants, emerge from an eight
year war without blight and destruction
and proceed Immediately to gather I'D
and pay off its enormous revolutionary
expenses, including the Independent debt
OF all the states, aggregating S135, 800, $40,
or $21 per capita at the time of its as
sumption, will not falter at the presnt
| condition. A people who could tax them
selves most heavily to equip and main
tain the armies and navies of the Union.
and continue the most extensive and ex-
pensive war in history, will not turn
their backs upon the soldiers of that war.
nor seek to pay their pensions in dollars
worth only half their face value
"A people who emerged from that war
with an Understanding debt of 81.
WN,VOO, or $40 per capita for the entire
population In 1865, will not now, after
having honestly paid three-fourths of
that great debt. ever seek directly or in
directly to repudiate one dollar of il or
cheaper the balance of the payment A
people, | say, who proceeded In rood
ialth to pay off that debt with such nm
paralIeled rapidity that it was estimated
IN 1893 that up to that time thew had
l'ald VIZ Tor every minute of every dav
OF every year from 1866 to 1855 will not |
now bargain or scheme to defraud .,uv
creditor of the government whoever or
wherever he may be-
A people who had the satisfaction of |
seeing that debt reduced to S5S5. OO0 (t00 ON |
March J. 1898, at the close of the snlsn,Ii5