The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-10-15

Recognition In . Speech in Favor Of rrce
Trade ana Equal Opportunity for Ruro-
pesn Industries in American Markets.
Voters rsho Your Choicei
The Democratic managers arc seeking
to represent Mr.. Bryan as the espccisl rep
Major Mckinley Is, In fact, better roprc'
sentative OF tho men who toll on the farms
and In the shops than is Mr.. Bryan. He
represents the cause Of protection to Amer
lean industries, whilo Mr.. Bryan repro
sents the cause Of free trade in labor on
American soil. But outsids OF the cco-
nomic politics represented by these rrcsi-
Dental candidates, Mckinley won his
public recognition as the defender Of the
coal miners, while Mr.. Bryan won his first
public recognition in speech in favor OF
free trade and equal opportunity for Euro
pean industries In American markets.
Major Mckinley came by his present
position not only through brilliancy of
intellectual achievement, but through
fidelity TO fixed principle. His recon-
mendation 70 public Office was defense
Of laboring men who were on trial for
burning the works Of n coal mining com
pany at Massillon, o. The miners wore
on strike, and during the strike somo one
fired the works. More than score of
miners were indicted and placed on trial,
charged with incendinrism. Major Nc.
Kinley was n young attorney at Canton.
He had never been thought OF for public
Office and had no ambition for any other
success than that OF n lawyer. He WINS
friend Of the miners on trial and he was
engaged 20 drfcnd them. Public opinion
con5rmrrl the men without trial, but
Wi,lisn Mckinley took up thoir cause
with such oarncstnoss and made such a
defense that tho majority OF the men were
acquitted and those who were found
guilty escaped with very slight punish
ment.
Old lawyers In Ohio who heard McKin-
liant future for him at the bar, and the
mine owners who had the men arrested
felt that this young man was moro dan
gerous 10 their intorosts as the champion
Of labor than was the minors organiza-
ton that had brought about the strike.
The miners Of that part Of Ohio looked
upon Mckinley rs their champion, and
that speech made him tho Republican can
didats for prosecuting attorney Of Stark
county. There was n largo Democratic
majority In the county, but Nc Kinley's
defense Of the miners broke down the OPP
position and gave him tho election by
good majority.
As the public prosecutor Mckinley was
the friend Of the lsboring men, not In pre-
tense, but In the honest and fearless judg-
ment he used in refusing to allow his
Office TO be used TO intimidate mon In the
FREQ exercise OF their rights ~ citizens.
When ho became u candidate to con
gress the laboring men looked upon him
as their true friend and hundreds who had
voted the Democratic ticket helped elect
Mckinley 10 congress and for many years
helped him there in spite Of the Demo-
cratic gerrymanders OF his district.
Mckinley became the champion of pro-
lection TO American industry, not because
he was tariff expert, but because he was
ih'tItSt'u lh VI libbT, anu nt
represented district which had many in
dustries where wages were dependent on
the protection given thom in our tariff
laws. One Of his first arguments In favor
Of protection was that "the right of labor
and Of labor's best reward Is not only In
alienable, for In ID lies the power to pur-
sue happiness, but II Is right protected
In terms by the constitution" In con-
gress he devoted himself to study of the
tariff that no might lift the scale Of wages
for the msn In the factories at his own
home and help the wool growers ON the
hillside farms Of his own district. He
framed the Mckinley law with the ono
purpose Of protecting American labor and
to build up new industries for the en-
ploymens Of moro labor as homo He is
the bast champion Of American labor, be-
cause ho has devoted his life TO tho cause
OF protecting American industries.
AS governor OF Ohio Mckinley was tho
friend Of the lasoring mon. Whom the
Trades Labor union sent to Governor
Mckinley an appeal for immediate relief
for the destitute miaers In tho Hooking
Valley district the telegram reached him
at midnight. Ho did not wait until the
next day, but dispatched messengers to
wholesale grocer, a dealer In -four, another
in meat, II transfer company and the
officers of the Hooking Valley Railroad
company. These gentlomon came to his
rooms In the hotel after midnight and
the result was special car loaded with
supplies started for the destitute miners
at o'clock the next morning. Governor
Mckinley paid for those supplies out of
his own private purse, and the next day
he presented the cause Of the miners to
the legislature and 10 tho public In
message and proclamation TO secure
more ample relief for tho suffering miners.
The miners of Ohio have never forgotten
that Mckinley Is their friend, and the
miners OF Illinois also know why they
call Mckinley the champion of labor.
What has w. j. Bryan done TO entitlo
him to stand as the protector of labor, to
lift the crown OF thorns from his headY