The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-10
EXCURSIONS
COME FAST.
Two Hundred and Ninety Car
loads Of People
Emptied Upon Maj. Mckinley s
Lawn Today.
THE TOILING MASSES
Addressed In Short Speeches
BY Mr.. Mckinley.
The Greatest Crowds In All
CantOn's History.

Canton, O.. Oct. 1O.-At noon the
streets Of Canton are crowded with
delegations for miles The sidewalks
are filled with men and women cheer
ing, paraders who are enthusiastically
returning the salute while theiy wait
their turn to reach Mckinley's home.
At this hour the railroad men say that
while trains are arriving every few
minutes as many delegations have two
and three sections, it viii be impossible
to get all the crowds waiting at con-
Meeting railroad points into Canton be-
fore evening and possibly not before 10
O'Clock tonight. With all the great
demonstrations which have been seen
almost daily in Canton. nothing has
yet approached the scenes and delega-
ti0ns are here today
Railroad men at this hour report 29o
carloads in special trains here or on
their way There are bands of music
everywhere. The bright sunshine OF
the Indian summer novel, the parades
effects and such cheering as was never
heard here before. all combine to make
the scene one of a great festival ana
demonstration never yet seen here.
Major Mckinley is in magnificent voice.
The following is Major McKinley's
speech to the Republican club of Le-
banon county, Pennsylvania. and Lan-
sing, Michigan. Republicans
Ny fellow citizens, your early call is
an example of the promptness which 7
trust viii be followed on the third of
November in every part Of the coun-
try. 7 bid my fellow citizens of Mich
igan and Pennsylvania warm welcome
to my city and home.
The best thing in this world next to
Hbrty. is labor, and the best thing for
labor is an opportunity to work. This
is the opportunity for which we are all
striving this year and which we hope
through a change Of policy in the ad-
ministratfon of the government laws to
enjoy to a larger degree than we have
done in the last three and q half years
past. What we want more than any
thing is a restoration Of confidence.
With confidence shaken, money seeks
its hiding place and goes out of the
channels Of business and legitimate i'm
vestment and away from farming man-
ufaeturing and mining enterprises.
Il do not know of a single better il
lustration of the value of confidence to
the country than is found in our own
experience during the last twenty
years. You viii remember that this
country resumed specie payment Jan
uary u 1879 We had outstanding then
as We have now S346, 600 GOO Of what is
commonly known as greenback cur
ramcy. every dollar of that from that
date was redeemabie in gold upon pre-
sentation at the treasury Of the United
States So great was the confidence OF
the people in the ability OF the country.
that from 1879 to 1893 but 10000 600 of
dollars We're presented for redemption
and the gold taken out, SAC. 600 600 in
fourteen years. and yet in the last three
and a half years since confidence has
been disturbed, more than 200 millions
of greenbacks has been presented to
the treasury Of the United states for
redemption and the gold taken out.
Now if confidence had existed if
the holders of these greenbacks had not
been fearful and they We're only made
so because the treasury of the United
States was not collecting enough money
to pay its bills. that the revenues of
the treasury were Inadequate for pub
lie expenditures, and alarmed as they
We're. they sent their greenbacks in for
redemption and took the gold out. The
gold reserve therefore was encroac he'd
upon and from time to time we have
been compelled to sustain it, to borrow
money to put gold into the treasury Of
the United States. Now the Republi-
can party believes that it is the duty OF
the government. first to raise enough to
run the government We don't want
any deficiencies in the public treasury
and if we have no deficiencies. we will
have no debts, and if we have no debts
we viii have no bonds, and when we
have no deficiencies, everybody win
have confidence in the solvency Of the
treasury of the United States.
ssThen, my fellow citizens, we not
only believe in raising enough money
to run the government, but we believe
in having tariff upon foreign compe-
ting products high enough to protect
American labor andAmerican manufac-
lures We believe it is the first duty
of the govrnment of the United States
to protect and defend its own citizens"
Scarcely had the first crowd vacated
Of another coming up the streets We're
heard This one was composed of the
Hardware Mems Sound Money club OF
Reading, Pa for whom Major J. r.
Kenny of Reading, served as spokes-
man and met railroad men and others
FROM Rock Island county. Illinois, for
whom e. D. Sweeney spoke
Major McKinley's third address was
to a delegation from Louisville, KY,
which came in a special train of nine
coaches The party was largely made
up Of a gold standard club Mayor
George ID. Todd acted as spokesman
Fifty bishops, general conference Of
fcials, and prominent members of the
greeting of the centennial jubilee con
ference. now in session in New York
city. were given most cordial vel
come By Mai. Mckinley. They repre-