River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-10-08

a BIG DAYS WORK.
Mr.. Mckinley Delivered sixteen Spescisss
Last SATURDAY..

Canton, o., Oct. Saturday again
broke the record of presidential cam
paigns. 1t was the most notable dGy
for delegations yet experienced. In
the enormous crowds persent 10 states
were represented by delegations rang
irg from small clubs of wheelmen TO
many trainloads of citizens represent
lTlg all interests.
Two delegations arrived before six
o'clock; one came from Harrisburg.
Pa. and numbered more than 800; the
other from the Sunday Creek valley. In
Athens county, o. The Sunday Creek
valley is part of the great Hooking val
ley mining region. The delegation of
miners numbered GOO. In his remarks
Mr.. Mckinley said in part:
What men want is business activity
What iaboring men want is work. We
we cannot increase the output of the mines
or the wages of the miner by dccrea sing
manufacturing in the United States. Ne
have discovered that less American coal
is required II We do any part of cur work
IN Europe rather than in the United Stsres.
/ favor that policy which will give the
largest development to every American
interest, that gives the widest opportunity
10 every American citizen, that gives the
most work and best wages to every Ameri-
can laborer and secures to our people the
highest possible prosperity in al their oc-
equations
with me the necessity of the restoration
of a iudicious and wise American tariff
policy is a firm conviction. secon TO moth
ing in importance except the preservation
Of law and order. which we must have, OF
justice and domestic tranquility and the
preservation of our credit, our currency
and our national honor. We must defeat
by decisive majorities every scheme for
the debasement of our currency. whether
Il be free silver or irredeematle paper
money, but while we do this we must also
defeat the destructive and dangerous
menace OF free trace"
The most elaborate demonstration of
the day was made by the wheelmen un-
der the auspices of the National Wheel
mems Mckinley and Hobart club.
The Union Veteran Patriotic league
and the Allegheny County War Veter-
ans club, with many battle-tattered
flags and banners and many an armless
or legless veteran, held undisputed pos
session of the lawn for a brief time
while resolutions of Endorsement of
Mckinley and the republican platform
were read and addresses delivered.
An enthusiastic body of young men
followed the banner of the Stamina club
of Cincinnati. A stirring speech and
promise of from 10000 to 10000 repub-
lican plurality in Hamilton county
were delivered by C. c. Benedict, pres
ident of the club.
A committee representing the me-
chanics and silversmiths employed by
the Mauser Manufacturing company of
New York and Chicago presented Maj.
Mckinley n magnificent gold loving
cup in an elaborate royal purple plush
case. The cup was inscribed; I'm Sill
yer We Believe When Redeemable In
Gold"
The general demonstration Of the
wheelmen occupied so much of the space
on the street IN front of the house that
the Cleveland contingent In the rear
could neither see nor hear. When tho
others passed away they moved up.
When Maj. Mckinley delivered his
10th and last address of the day dark
ness had so far advanced that ii was nec-
essary to light the incandescents over
the reviewing stand in order to proceed
with the demonstration. The delegation
was a large one, representing the Be-
hemians and Slayonians of Cleveland.
Many of the addresses made by Mai
Mckinley were practically repetitions,
but each speech was cheered to the
echo. Nearly every talk he made was
based on the extract given above.
In addressing the wbeelmen, the can
didate said:
81 may be wrong. but do not recall that
the wheelmen of this country, representing
as they do the homes, firesides and pro-
LESSONS of the country. were ever inter-
ested In political campaign before What
but q mighty cause would bring 5000 " heel
men from different sections of the country
to Canton to pay a visit to presidential
candidate of a political party Your visit
demonstrates the earnest feeling of the
people. the deep solicitude in the outcome
of a political contest.
1.-THE wheelmen know well rs any part
of our population what good roads mean,
and how much easier 1t is to make prog
ress and time over them than poor roads.
They know, too, that for three and half
years this country has been travelling over
rocky road full of ruts and covered
with Instructions, and as q result the
American people have had a very hard
road to travel They want an improve
ment They not only want better roads
for their wheels, but they want every OBJ
struction removed from the great national
highway so that the wheels of industry
will start in every factory and mill in the
United States. They would rather have
American wheels running in our factories,
giving employment to American labor and
supplying us with American goods than to
have foreign wheels supplying us with
goods.
Good roads are indispensable to the
progress and integrity of the United States.
/ am glad to know that the wheelmen in
such vast numbers are enlisted in the
cause of an honest dollar. an honest OBJ
servation of law, honest payment of the
public debt, honesty in the execution of
private contracts-a protective tariff that
will defend honest American citizens from
the cheap labor of other countries and
which at the same time will preserve
good home market to the honest farmers
Of the limited States"