Evening star., 1896-10-19
MCKINLEY TO MARYLANDERS.

He Urges the Republicans to Carry
the State, as They Did Last Year.
The delegations that arrived at Canton,
Ohio. Saturday from long distances during
the day exceeded all former ones in ex-
tent. Maryland sent, 1000 people. West
Virginia $500, and Kentucky 1000 Nearly
800 trainloads came in parties large or
small from nearly half the states In the
Union, and score of them were formally
addressed by Maj. Mckinley, the republi-
can presidential candidate.
Maj. McKinley's address to the Mary
landers was as follows:
My Fellow Citizens: 1t is an urrrfshal
honor to any candidate or cause to. have
1000 wage-earners travel a thousand miles
to testify their devotion and loyalty, and
appreciate more than can find words to
express the presence here in Canton of the
potters and wage-earners of the Mount
Vernon mills, the wage-earners of trans
portat1on companies, the sound money clubs
and the employees OF the son works and
ship yards who have gathered about my
home this evening.
Maryland is one of the most promising
states in the American Union. She needs
but the reviving touch of confidence; she
needs but that magic touch that will start
every industry and every enterprise into
active operation to give employment to the
wage-earners of Baltimore and the state
pa1gn so much pleasure and satisfaction as
to feel that the wage-earners of this coun-
try are for the most part enlisted in the
cause for which We stand. I know some
thing of the workingmen of the United
States; know something of the potters: I
know something of the wage earners in the
q eat cotton and woolen mills. and that all
they want Is an opportunity to work. end
to this end all they ask is protection from
the products of other lands made by Under
paid labor ..s 49,,
This. my fellow citizens. you can regu-
late by your own ballots Petitions as one
of your spokesman has already said. count
for naught. Protests to the American Con-
gress count for nothing. The time when
the citizen's voice counts most is On that su-
preme day-the election day: II ;.!r
What you want to. do is to elect. a Con-
gress that represents your views; then YOU
VIII not need to resort to petitions TO reeu-
late that body or to keep it from injuring
your industries. Let the voice of MARYLAND
this year resound as the voice of Maryland
DID last year-for honest money and pro-
lection. p-o
The tariff question Is a question wholly
OF labor. We will manufacture with the
world If the rest of the world will nav AZ
good wages as are paid in the limited
states, but as long as they do not, patriot-
ism. genuine Americanism and every in
dustrial interest demands that we should
make our tariff high enough to measure the
difference between the low cost of labor in
foreign countries and the cost of labor in
this. 80
Thea you are interested in honest
money. You don't want any short dollars
You have tried short hours in the last four
years and haven't liked them. When YOU
give full days work to your employer
you want to be paid in full. unquestioned
and unalterable dollars. This is the kind
we have now and the kind we propose to
continue If the American people sustain us
this year. thank you for the Kindness of
this visit. 1 thank your spokesmen, every
one OF them, for the generous an1 ass,rino
words they bring to me. I wish for ali Of
you safe return to your homes, and in all
the years Of the future, happiness. con
tentment and prosperity