The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09

Governor of Ohio, 1 have always found that
an honest and open, frank and just appeal to
the people never failed to receive warm and
true response. [Gfeat applause.l tits mis-
take to imagine that the great body of our
people are not the conservative force Of the
country.
More than 1000 first-voters of Cleveland,
in uniform and accompanied by excellent
bands, marched up while Major McKin-
ley was addressing. his Pennsylvania visit
ors. When he had finished the Cleveland
men passed in review before him and
were loudly cheered by the other visitors
to Canton, who remained TO see them.
The Cleveland delegation filed into Major
McKinley's yard and packed it densely.
TIE majors appearance on the porch
drew forth tornado of applause which in
volume, intensity and duration has not
been equaled here. The president of t e
First-voters' Mckinley Club of Cleveland,
Ohio Snyder, introduced the callers to
Major Mckinley. who spoke to them as
follows:
congratulate you upon having reached your
majority. l congratulate you on having en-
tered into the full possession OF sovereignty in
the best Government in the world.
Having been born in the seventies, you have
enjoyed the most marvellous advantages of the
nineteenth century. You have escaped the ex-
treme bitterness of old party divisions and the
passions of fratricidal war. You carry none
of the scars of past party conflicts. You wit
ness only, as you come to your sovereignty, 8
reunited country under the old flag, blessed in
all its natural resources beyond any other
country, and suffering only because of the un-
wise policies already Inaugurated and the dam
gerous policies vet threatened. Youapproach
the exercise of your sovereignty, therefore, un-
der the most advantageous circumstances, free
from any past predictions and prepared to
consider without bias the issues upon which
parties are divided.
The ballot of the young man as well as that
of the old man, the ballot of the first voter, as
well as that of all voters, should always ex-
press the voice of truth and conscience. 1t
should represent the calm and unbiased judg-
ment of the voter. 1t should embody tbs
highest welfare of himself, his ONE, his COM
munity and his country. It should never be
false to his convictions opposed to justice and
honor either in political or private concerns.
1t should express on its face his best hopes and
highest aspirations an individual citizen,
and always represent the greatest good to his
fellow-countrymen. May your votes be always
given to preserve our unity, our honor, our
flag, our currency and our country and to save
your blessed inheritance always from lawless-
ness, dishonesty and violence May your votes
always be given for a policy that shall give to
US the widest development in our unmatched
resources, the widest incentive TO the inven-
ton, skill and genius of our citizens. the
largest rewards to American labor and the
highest welfare of the people, and promote the
best ideals in American citizenship.
Addressing the Logansport delegation
Major Mckinley said:
Your presence is most gratifying to me. 1t
means that you have deep concern for the
welfare OF your country and that you believe
that the welfare will be best subserved by
a Republican triumph on the third day of No
vember. II the tnancIal plan advocated by
our allied opponents be practical and sound
then the trainers OF our constitution wasted
very much effort in providing plan for rais-
ing money to conduct the Government If
this new departure be in any sense practicable
then we do not need any tariff laws in this
country, any Custom-houses or any tax coll
lectors anywhere, because if you can make
money out of nothing by the mere breath of
Congress then 1t is idle to pose taxes upon
the people to bear the burden and expense of
conducting the Government
If by mere hat-whether it be fiat to the
extent OF SO cents or to the extent OF 100
cents-if the Government by mere fat of Con-
gress can make money. then all the work of
Washington and Jefferson, Hamilton and
Clay AMI all of the financiers and statesmen
of this country was mere idleness and folly.
But their work was not idle or foolish. The
Government cannot create something out of
nothing [Great applausel, andthe man or the
party that teaches that doctrine teaches q
false doctrine.
After reviewing the tariff, he concluded
There never was Republican purpose that
did not seek the honor and integrity of the
United States. There is one thing our old