The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-15
STREET CAR MEN
Seven Carloads Called OnMr. Nc
Kinley Yesterday.
Mckinley Is Again Glad to
"Meet and Greet. .
BACK TO PROTECTION.
Says There Has Been Enough
of Tariff Reform.
Tt Has Caused Only Business
Depression and Disorder.

Canton, O., Oct 15.-Seven car loads
Of employees of the Cleveland City Street
Railway company were here yesterday
afternoon to pay their respects to Ma
jor Mckinley. They We're all uniform
ed and were particularly well drilled.
Major Mckinley said.
My Fellow Ciuzens.-I cannot con-
ceal my pleasure in meeting at my
home che 81 'plOyes of the Cleveland
Street RailW ny company that have
done me the nor to pay me this visit
You are here 1day because you are in
terested in the country in which you
i've and the country which YOU love
You are here because the contest that
IS now less than three weeks away
from its conclusion viii settle. 1 trust
for all time a number of important and
fundamental questions. I take it that
you are interested in these questions
being settled on the side of right and
justice and to the honor and glory of
the republic.
"One of the things we viii settle is
that this is a government under law and
by law, and that this is a government
Of honor and inaegrity; that it would
spurn to repudiate any of its Obliga-
tons public or private; that it would
spuFn to establish a currency that was
not good and sound in all commercial
transactions in every part OF the world.
Then we will settle another thing this
year-and that is whether we are to
continue the policy Of tariff reform or
free trade in the United States. or
whether we viii discontinue it, We
have had nearly four years Of expert
ence under it and we know something
Of its results. We have had nearly four
years Of unprecedented business de-
preston, of business disorder the hard
est times within the recollection Of the
men who stand about me today.
Now, believe that policy ought to
be reversed. think we ought to go
back to the protective policy, under
which, for a third of century our ma
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third of a century for commencing
with the beginning of the government
we were living under that policy, and
when we have lived under it. the DeO-
pie have always been prosperous and
the home of the citizens happy and the
treasury of the United States, instead
Of being deficient, had a surplus and
money to meet its daily expenses. You
are interested in the prosperity of the
country. You cannot be protected by
tariff personally and directly but you
get your protection in the general pros
perity of the country. The more busi-
ness that is done in the city Of Cleve-
land, in the mills, and the shops, the
factories and the stores and on the
lake, the more business you people have
to do and the more business the rail-
roads have to do, the more employees
they must have and the more business
they do, the better the wages Will be.
You have in pour power this year.
by your ballots to help restore that pol
icy. I am glad to meet and greet you
here today. I am glad to know this
large body OF street railroad men is
enrolled in the ranks of the Republican
party for a sound government a sound
dollar and the protective tariff. I thank
you and bid you good afternoon"
Three rousing cheers were given for
the next president Of the United
States
Two hundred miners. merchants and
mechanics Of Cumberland. Nd, and vi
entity reached here shortly before six
o'clock last evening. They went direct
to the Mckinley home and when the
major appeared on the porch. greeted
him with shout and a hurrah. They
were introduced by Thomas Snyder,
chairman of the Allegheny county ex-
ecutive committee.
Major Mckinley then addressed them.