River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-10-22
cANToN's BIGGEST DAY.
More Than Two Score of Delegations Call
ON Mckinley on SATURDAY..

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More Than Two Score of Delegations Call
ON Mckinley on Saturday.
Canton, o., Oct. 10. Canton was
ablaze Saturday night. She was in
state of enthusiasm all day. At night
colored electric effects from public
buildings and beautiful additions TO the
handsome Mckinley arch made the
city's main thoroughfares Respondent
with the glories of illumination. Added
to this. the immense Maryland delega-
ton paraded the streets, and Baltimore
seemed to have let herself loose to show
Ohio the greatest pyrotechnical display
ever brought west.
Every record was broken Saturday.
The number of delegations for any one
day VS. surpassed. The number OF
speeches was increased. The long-dis-
tance delegations exceeded all former
pilgrimages in extent. Maryland sent
1000 people; West Virginia, $500; Ken
lucky, 1000, according to the reports of
railroad people. who counted noses for
tickets.
The days doings outmarveled the
wonders of last Saturday. Nearly 500
train loads of people came in parties,
large or small. from nearly half the
states in the union, and a score of them
were formally addressed. Twenty
eight organized parties had sent word
of their coming and were regularly
scheduled, but half as many more called
before the last trumpeters had blown
their farewell blast.
Maj. Mckinley began speaking be-
fore breakfast. About eight o'clock q
delegation of several hundred from
Monroe county. Mich, entered the front
yard, shouting and cheering for Me-
Kinley. They were introduced as rep
resentative business men, farm, rs and
other citizens of that territory by ID. A.
Curtis.
Next came a crowd of pennsyl-
vanians. There were four or five trains,
which brought three distinct delega-
lions, large one of business men. farm
ers and mechanics from Altoona and
Blair county, Pa, and smaller delega-
tons from South Fork and Portage, in
Cambria county.
The third address of the day was to
several hundred residents of Hunting
ton, Pa, the home of Mrs. McKinley's
ancestors. They brought with them
for Mrs. Mckinley a framed picture of
the home of her grandparents and also
some nails made by her great-grandfa-
Their in 1918. The party was introduced
by Judge Williamson. of Huntington.
Ten coach loads of people from Grand
Rapids, Kalamazoo and western Mich
igan constituted the fourth audience
addressed by Maj. Mckinley. The party
was largely composed of members of
the railroad mems "sound money"
clubs, but business men. professional
men and citizens generally were repre-
sented. The introductory address was
made by Attorney w. b. Perkins. In
reply Maj. Mckinley said in part:
"Can II be possible that such a magnif-
cent commonwealth as your will ever lend
her influence to free silver. free trade,
dishonor and partial or entire repudiation7
No. i say. forever, no. What the people
of this country want, whether they dwell
IN Michigan or Tennessee or Ohio, is a
policy that will protect and defend every
American interest against the outside
world from any quarter. What we want
is a tariff put upon foreign goods high
enough to not only give us revenue enough
to run the government, but to afford ade-
quate protection to every American indus
try and occupation. This is the policy of
the republican party. What we want IS
to restore policy that will enable us to
pay as we go. both government and people
We have not been doing that for four years
past. i am sure your great and grand
state can be relied upon to enroll itself in
the column OF national honor as against re-
pudiation. of q protective tariff, reciprocity
and the maintenance everywhere of public
order. tranquility and the supremacy OF
law
The fifth address was to an enormous
crowd coming from Ashtabula and
Perry counties, o., and occupied four
special trains. In the audiences were
many Mckinley and Hobart clubs from
the various towns of the two counties,
railroad men and dock men from the
lake front, farmers, miners, business
men and citizens of ali avocations. Con-
g.essman Stephen A. Northway spoke
for Ashtabula county and S. w. Pasco
for Perry county. Mr.. Mckinley said:
There is studied effort made in some
quarters of this country to teach that the
employer of labor Is attempting to en-
slave the wofkingman. i submit to you.
men of toll all around and about me- who
is the better friend of labor-he who gives
you work that brings contentment, or he
who breathes only words that create dis
content? There cannot be, there ought
never to be, any enmity between capital
and labor. The interest of the one is the
interest OF the other. You know that the
greatest friend to slavery is idleness. They
talk ab out making the workingmen slaves.
There Ia no danger of a workingman ever
becoming a slave II he receives American
wages, the wages that he had for 30 years,
from 1850 to 1890, under the glorious policy
of a protective tariff.
1.-THE best friend to labor, the best poll
Icy in the interest of labor, is that poll
icy which gives workingmen an oppor-
tunity TO work at good wages. Which poll
icy do you think subserves that interest
best? Our policy of protection or their
policy of free trade? This great audience
fairly represents the diversified indus
tries In the United States. On the one
side of me are men who manufacture,
on the other side are men who handle iron
ORE and in front are men who C.g our coal
one is dependent on the other; and here
in this audience, too, are repre- sentatlves
Of the railroads of the country, which
transport not only raw material. but the
finished product from one end OF this coun-
try to the other. The one is never pros
porous unless the other is prosperous. You
know that from experience"
Bryan thinks it is the duty of
every wage-earner to accept so cents for
every 100 cents worth of work, in order
that his silver god may not be dishon-
cred. To show that he means what he
says, Bryan is willing, nay anxious, to
receive his pay of $4,000 a year, for
services as "hired man." in silver dol
lars.-Louisville Post.