The Indianapolis journal., 1896-10-11
LARGEST OF THE DAY.
Delegation Containing Many En-
plOyes of RniIwnys.

Probably the largest crowd of the day
was made up of railroad men representing
the c. & p. Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern Nickel-plate. Big Four. Cleveland Ter
minal ssud Valley and c., c. & S. The bulk
of the crowd came from Cleveland and
We!lsville. but recruits were picked up all
along the line of the roads represented
The procession they formed was rich in
bands, banners. trasparencies and uni
formed clubs. A. NJ Waite. of Cleveland.
introduced the delegation. Major Mckinley
addressed them as follows:
1T is a mighty cause that would bring to-
getheF this vast assemblage of the people
from the States of New York. PennsyI-
vania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.
a voice: Yes, and West Virginia and
West Virginia, representing those three
great railroads. the Lake Shore, the
Pennsylvania. the Nickel-plate and those
neighbors, the Valley and the Cleveland.
Canton & Southern and the Big Four,
which l have only reserved for the last.
1t is because of the deep and earnest in
terest you have in the rightful settlement
Of the pending questions in our political
campaign that has brought you together
here tonight. You know from experience
that if YOU would prosper in your employ
ments there must be prosperity i'll every
branch of American industry; you know
that When the producer suffers the roads
that carry the produce suffer; you know
that when the manufacturer suffers by di-
minlshed manufactures, you suffer In your
employment, and the more work and wages
there are in other Industries in the coun-
try the steader is your employment and
the better your wages.
THE best road in the world to work for
Is a sound road, and the best money TO
be paid in whichever road you work for
is sound money that is worth hundred
cents on the dollar in every State of the
in the world. This is the kind of money
we have now. ThSs is the kind of money
that you are paid in-wnen you have en-
Dloyment-and this is the kind of money
the Republican party means you shall have
II you give them a chance.
Il made a visit to the State of Georgia
the employees of the Southern road on
which L was travelling. 1 invited him to
sit down. He was born in Georgia. He told
me he had always been s Democrat, but
that for three years he had been going to
school in that best of all universities-ex-
perience-and he took off his railroad cap,
which will tell you how l have been pro-
NOTED downward. First he showed me on
That is what l am now: Then he lifted
that and said: That's what | was before,
Iid brakesman: nan Then he raised that up and and
three years ago-I a conductor. Then
said he: Those stages express to you what
l. | have lost by the change of administra-
L don't know whether you have had
such experience as that or not You
my Georgia friend explained, for this
change of position to him was because the
railroad did not have the traffic they had
four years ago. They did not require SO
many employees He was a faithful en-
ploye. but when they said We don't want
than leave the service of the company.
Now. what we want is to restore prosperity
ty to do. and when they have that, then
you will have your old jobs back again
at the old wages and be paid in good, sound
money. | am glad to meet and greet you
here to-day.