The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-23
TO INDIANIANS.
Mckinley Reserves His Best Speech
for the Last of the Day.

Mckinley Reserves His Best speech
for the Last of the Day.
Hon. James s. Dodge. of Elkhart, made
the Introductory address for the Indiana
delegation, which arrived at the Mckinley
residence about 4:30 p. m. The nominee, in
response, spoke as follows:
Mr.. Dodge and my -citizens-It
gives me sincere pleasure to welcome to
my home citizens of Indiana. 1 have had
a good many delegations visit me in the
last three months but j assure you none
Of them have given me more pleasure or
has received a hearter welcome than /
give to you here this afternoon.
You have a great State. You have
much to be proud Of You nave much to
ufacturing enterprises, but you have more
to glory in the splendid men which your
stand here in the presence of an Indiana
audience that it was your State that pro-
and illustrious President, Benjamin Harri-
son, whose administration OF four years
of the governemnt of the United States
has few parallels in the history of our
. country Honest, strong. wise, patriotic
American, an administration that stood by
the great doctrines of the Republican party
and that never turned its back upon the
glorious stars and stripes and the men who
them @ anng IN {ne In sd Ioaf 70 years e n OF Gf
in those four years under the administra-
tion of President Harrison, years of the
highest and greatest prosperity to the
American people; years that registered the
highest reign trade this Nation ever
They We're the four years when
we had the largest and the most splendid
prosperity in all our history; when every
man in this country who wanted to work
could get work; when every shop was
when every busy, thriving city of this land
was active in it's enterprises and industries.
1T has not been so in the last four years.
We have had some experience during these
years; we know more now tnan we knew
then, and we know better how to vote
we knew
that in that year the campaign was filled
with glittering promises; everything good
only turn the Republican party out of
power and put the Democratic. party in.
Free trade TO relieve US of every ill
or evil that had settled upon this country;
protection a robber was unconstitu-
tional, a fraud and ought to be re-
pealed; and that if that party was only
given power in this country they would re-
peal that law and then we would enter
upon an era of prosperity the like of which
we had never known before And the peo-
pie put that party in power and the splen-
did prosperity We have had since you know
all about.
WHAT REPUBLICANS ASK
I'VE are not asking too much, my fellow
citizens, when we ask for an American
policy that shall protect the American peo-
pie in their occupations and their employ
ment, are we? We are not asking very
much when ask the Congress of the
United States to protect the American
workshop against the foreign workshop
and to give the American shop preference
to the foreign workshop This is all we
have ever asked under protective tariff
more we have never contended for and less
we will not have and the American peo-
pie have made UP their minds to tnat
Some people say that the tariff question is
settled. 1t is settled, L grant you, in the
minds of the American people, and it is
settled the side of Il genuine American
protective policy. But settling a question
in the minds of the American people does
not settle it in public law until the people
have voted that way and given pro-
tective Congress.
THE people of this country never wanted
a chance to vote SO badly in their lives as
now. and under our form of government il
will be only six weeks to-day until from
one end of the country to the other we will
have that chance, and how will you i'm
prove it. my fellow-ctizens? | say it is not
very much TO ask that restore the
American system. for this is our country
1t is not somebody else's but ours and
if do not make IL what we want Ii IL
is our fault and think the true policy of
the people Of this country is to protect the
men Wfo owe allegiance to that flag first
(pointing to the stars and stripes) and who
viii fight, aye. die for it IL need be TO pre-
serve Ii. And i think the protective
principle Is settled in the way I have
pointed out: and in the way of putting ii
into public law you will have d chance TO