The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-30
Crowd SO Large HE Couldn't
Shake Hands.
He SPOKE FIVE TIMES.
Women StenOgraphers on a
Tallyho Formed One Party.
Informal Speech Made to Di-
rectOrs of a Bank.


/ porch Of the Mckinley home to the re-
| viewing stand. Every caller was intent
| on shaking hands with the nominee,
! and as far as possible the opportunity
| was granted. though it was a herculean
/ task. At one time the crowd became 50
J large that it was impossible to organ
\ ize a line for handshal1ing reception.
3 buL hundreds IN rnaL party lnSEfe4
about the house waiting for the major
\ to reappear, and towards evening he
came out upon the porch to meet them.
Maj. Mckinley made five formal ad-
\ dresses the last to seven car loads of
! people coming from Fulton and VIII
I liams counties, Ohio, and De kalb and
! other northwestern counties of Indiana.
/ There were two introductory addresses.
! The five audiences addressed We're COM
| posed of IA delegations in which We're
railroad men, business men and manu-
! facturers, farmers. mechanics. miners,
oil men. glass workers, iron workers,
/ bankers, professional men. printers,
men and women office employees com
Z ing from four states, West Virginia,
/ Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio.
Besides the five speeches Maj Nc
/ kinley received a large number of in
| dividuaI callers from all over the coun-
7 try, shook hands with a large party of
women stenOgraphers from Akron, who
| had a tally-hO parade and who were af-
! terWard received by Maj. Mckinley S
mother, met and spoke Informally in
| his library to the directors and officers
I of the German deposit bank of Pitts
( burg, and made a brief address in the
/ same place responding to the greetings
/ of a small party of business men and
manufacturers of Pittsburg.
To J.. B. TempletOn of SWantOn and
J. G. Nenir of Butler. Ind, who spoke
on behalf Of Fulton and Williams cOun-
| ties, Ohio, and northwestern Indiana
4 delegations, Maj. Mckinley said. My
Fellow Citizens.=YOur call upon me
/ this afternoon from two great states of
the American union, is most gracious
and gratifying We are fortunate this
I year that our contention is of that
/ character that its discussion is suita-
I BILE TO any state of the country What
/ is good for one part Of the United States
/ is good for another; what is good for
Ohio, is good for Indiana; and what is
good for them, is good for the whole
country.
I believe there has been no time in
/ our whole history since the war that
/ the people were so anxious and impa-
/ tient to vote and SO decided in their
I conviction as to the character Of their
1 votes as they are this year-1S96. ] be
4 lieve that on the third day of November
/ the verdict Of the American people VIII
7 be for sound money, for public faith,
I public morals and protection
TT seems almost incOmprehensible
7 that the proposition which comes from
a certain quarter to debase the stand
ard of value in this country and de
grade our currency with which we are
doing our busineSs-it seems almost in
comprehensive, 1 say, that it should
have any Judgment in the heart of any
in government that should be fixed
stable and unvarying in Value-as fix
ed stable and unvarying as the viii of
man can make tit is the currency
chat measures the exchanges of the
people and is given in exchange for
their products and labor.
we don't want any poor money in
the United States. The experience Of
mankind has been that whenever poor
money has been used the loss has fallen
on the poor people of the country. If
the white bearded men of this audience
VIII allow their memories to sweep
back, they viii recall that in the days
before the war when we had state bank
currency, whenever the farmer sold his
wheat at the market and took bank
notes that We're good at that hour, the
next day he discovered the bank was
broken and the value of his wheat
therefore taken from him.
I'VE don't want any such money ar
that, or anything approaching it. We
want what We have now. the best mon
ey ia the world, every dollar of it as
good as gold, every dollar as good as
the best money in the civilized nations
a dollar that is not only good in one
state, but good in every state; not only
good in all the states, but good in all
the great nations Of the world. passing
current always for its face value There
is nothing that cheats labor; the far
nler, the producer, or laboring man.
We want our money to be as sound as
our government, and there is no gov
eminent ia the world any sounder than
ours.
Then we want return to that
American policy inaugurated at the
very beginning of the government by
the first president of the United States
and the first congress that assembled
under the constitution; the American
policy that viii raise enough money to
run the government by placing tariff
on imports, and then when we are levy
ing tariffs We viii adjust them so far
as to protect the American Workshop
the American market and the American
people We want to get away from the
debt making bonds from which we have
basis that win enable the government
to pay as it goes. Then, we want to
put the people on the same basis for
they have not been upon il for the last
three and a half years. The policy we
have had the last four years has not
only depleted the public treasury. but
the savings earnings and incomes of
the people.
we can make this government just
what we want it. We have that power
among ourselves. The ballot that YOU
next Tuesday viii put into the box
of the United States, and that I am
sure VIII be on the side of good money,
protection. reciprocity. the supremacy
of law and opposition to riot and pub
lie disorder 4 believe the voice OF Indi-
ana and Ohio Will be in favor Of MAIN
tanning the federal judiciary of the
country which in time Of trouble is our
mainst ay-the bulwark of our liberties.
II thank you for this call and bid
you carry back for me to the friends
You have left al home my best wishes
and kindest regards I thank you and
bid you good afternoon"
nTKINLEY7S AFTERNOON.