The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-07

CANTON, o.. Oct. 6.-LThc regular
westbound train at 1906 this morning
brought two extra coaches filed with
shouting Mckinley men from East Rra-
dy, Clarion county. Pa. They wcr,
headed by band and banner carried
announcing the party MS "plutocrats OF
Clarion county. Pa" The delegation
was introduced by y. T.. Graham and ad :
dressed by Major Mckinley from his
front porch.
Major Mckinley spoke as follows:
! Ne. Graham and my fellow citizens OF
East Brady, Pal am very rrgrctIul
that the day Ia SO inclemrnt upon which
you make your call, E.m glad 10 meet
each one OF You nt my home. have re-
celYed great many delegations. as your
spokesman has said, in the past two
months. many Of them larger than
yours. but from the shouts have heard
from You to-day am sure none OF them
had better lungs than yours. laugh
! ter) And none OF them were mote ear
nest In their support OF Republican prin-
ciplcs than the little body of men gath
| cred Rbout me to-day. There Is one
thing which think We are sometimes
| TOO apt TO forBet--we are TOO lpt to for
! get what Is behind US and too apt TO be
! heedlAss OF our own experience.
| WE CAN HARDLY REALIZE THAT
! FROM 1873 To 1893 WE REDUCED
THE PUBLIC DEBT FROM S.. 49,. .3Sl :
@0S IN 1866 TO SjTO,0O0.OOO. WE PAID
OFF DURING THOSE TWENTY
YEARS $i.C235Si,673 OF THE PUBLIC
DEBT. AND WE: WE'RE UNDER 4
| PROTECTIVE AND SOUND MONEY
! SYSTEM WHEN WE WERE MAX
| ING THE LARGE PAYMENTS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GREAT
DEBT HAS DISAPPEARED. AND
WHILE WE WERE PAYING IT OFF
| WE WERE BUILDING IN THIS
COUNTRY THE MOST SPLENDID
| INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES. CIV
| ING CONSTANT AND STEADY EN-
| PLOfMENT TO AMERICAN LABOR
| AT FAIR ~AGES, AND GIVING TO
| THE FARMERS OF THE COUNTRY
| A JUST REWARD FOR THEIR TOLL
| AND LABOR.
During that period for the greater
part OF the time, We were selling more
| goods abroad thnn we were buying
abroad, and the balance OF trade was
| therefore In our favor, and tha. balance
ot trade. settled as Il was, In gold. give
us the good yellow money from the 9th.
| er side OF the ocean. Now, my fellow
citizens. four years ago, the people OF
this country determined TO change that
| policy and they did change 1t.
! What has been the result?
WE HAVE SINCE THAT TINE
| CREATED a NATIONAL DEBT,
| PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST, OF
ABOUT THREE HUNDRED MILL
| IONS. WE HAVE HAD FOR THE,
| GREATER PART OF THAT TIME 4
DEFICIENCY IN THE TREASURY,
THE GOVERNMENT NOT COLLECT
ING SUFFICIENT REVENUES TO
MEET IT'S CURRENT EXPENSES:
| AND LABOR HAS BEEN LILY EN-
PLOiED AS IT WAS IN THAT PERI
Cd.
Your spokesman tells us that IN your
| own county thirty-onc blast furnaces
have been stopped What, does that
mcan2 II means that labor has been
unemployed. II means that comforts
have been taken away from hundreds
| Of American homes which they had pre-
viously enjoyed. II means distress and
want. and what Is true OF your county
has been substantially truc-possIbly
| not to 50 large q degrce--ot other coun-
ties OF your stale and throughout tho
entire country. Now what we want TO
| do. whether We are railroad men ot.
farmers. professional men or mechanics.
| or lahorinG men. Is 10 get back to n pol
| Icy that VIII Elvo us n chance 10 In
crease our manufacturing. Improve our
| home market, extend our foreign market
and give employment every day In tho
year to every wnrkingman who wants
work. tApplnuse.)
IF WE WILL W'T FOLLOW THE
| LAMP OF EXPERIENCE. AND FOL-
Low IN THE DIRECTION WHICH
THE LIGHT OF THAT LAMP LEADS
US, on THE THIRD DAY OF NO
VEMBER WE WILL VOTE DOWN
THE POLICIES WHICH HAVE
BROUGHT Us THESE CONDITIONS
AND VOTE TO CONTINUE y MON
ETARY SYSTEM BUILT UPON a
| SOLID BASIS. WHICH WILL GIVE
WORLD. A MONEY WHICH pANTCS
CANNOT DISTURB AND BUSINESS
| FAILURES CANNOT DEPRECLlTE.
| CTrcmcndous cheering and cries OF
"Pnnnsylvanin will vote that way.")
| We want good times. plenty OF work,
| good wages and good money. How will
| you vote? (Crlcs OF For McKlnlcy,")
I thank you most heartily for this call
and bid you all good morning.
! DON'T Mind Rain,
Rain nnd mud did not kOcp the big dele
cations from Canton to-day. No more
enthusiastic crowds have been here than
thogc from Tonawandn. Buffalo nnd
| Syracuse. y. Y. and LCncwcc county,
Mich. And through the drcnchIng
showers the callers marched TO the Me.
Kinlcy home. making the city rcaound
with their enthusiasm, while mounted
troops ana lnrg. bands Of music. ana
finely drilled companies uniformed In
| mncklnt0Shrs. evoked cheers from the
| thousands who stood sheltered in the
dOOrwny8 nnd under awnings, while the
visitors marched by. Tho formal re-.
| ccptions OF the visiting drlegn tlnna did
not cn1 the demonstrations Soon nS
tho city was shrnuded IN darkness. tho
clubs were again on tho street. MiChI-
| ran ana New York and Ohio uniting tn
form the spectacle. When the parade
wna we'll organized, It marched nuA
c0untcrmarchnd past the Mckinley
home and was reviewed from the llttlc
stand on the front lawn by Major and
Mira, Mckinley and President Higgins,
Of the Indiana Republican League.
A special train Of five coaches arrived
at about 3 o'clock this afternoon, bring