Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-24
HAS NOT CHANGED.
Mckinley Declares the Republican Party
Has Been Consistent.

Canton, o., Oct. 20.-Lrhc booming Of
cannon at seven o'clock Monday morn
ing announced the opening of the meet
ing at the tabernacle of the union gen
erals. under the leadership of Gen. X.
A. Alger. In spite of the early hour for
which the meeting was called the hall
was filed with an enthusiastic audi
ence. The members of the party were
presented by II. A. Cassidy, of this city.
Short speeches were made by Gems.
Howard, Alger, Marden. Stewart and
Sickles and Corporal Tanner. AS each
speaker concluded his remarks he was
presented with basket of choice flow
ers by members OF the Woman's Re-
lief Corps of Canton. After the meet
ing the visitors were escorted to the
depot by large number of citizens.
Maj. Mckinley drove down to the depot
from his residence to see the generals
off. The train left at nine o'clock for
Justus.
A delegation of business men from
Sewickly, Pa, accompanied by num-
Der of ladies, called on Mr.. Mckinley at
his residence. The candidate addressed
his visitors in part as follows:
THE republican party has always occu-
pied post of great honor From the tine
OF Its organization down to the present mo-
ment 1t has been the leader of all that Ia
pest In government. 1t was born in the
interest of liberty and the rights of human
ity. 1t has never struck blow that has
not heen for freedom and our glorious flag.
And in every great emergency, that party,
not so old as some other parties in this
country. has led for the right for Justice,
Tor good morals and for public honesty.
nd hfsNkA - -
1t has to day. Glorious as the past has
been. II never car led a flag which in
volrcG mere Il tho institutions of our
country ana is good name as the flag
which 1t carries day. and i am glad to
KNOW that from one END o! this country
to the other the intelhf cnce and Judgment
and "OaSCisrcc OF tNa American people are
not appealed to in vain
Some people seem To have the notion
that the republican pnriv has made a
new deps rtule: that 1t occupies different
position to-day from that which II ever
occupied in the past. hats mistake,
We stand where we have always stood,
not only upon the money question but on
The tariff question; and 1 want to call
your attention to what may have escaped
you. When the war closed, the great prob
lem before the American people after tho
reconstruction of the union, was what
ehould be done with the great debt that
:@d been occaSioned by the war and what
should be done by way of maintaining a
sOU..d currency in the United States. In
5VS. the great soldier of the war, who had
led the mightiest armies that were ever
engaged in sustaining a cause, Gen. Ulysses
). Grant, was nominated for president
Let me read you two planks of the plat
form upon which he stood, and you can
see then whether the republican party has
changed its position:
I'VE denounce all forms of reputation
as a national crime and the national honor
requires the payment of the public debt
in the utmost good faith TO all creditors at
home and abroad, not only according % the
letter, but the spirit of the law, under
which 1t was contracted
THAT was when we had that enormous
war debt of over 1900, ,00o, 100, and the coun-
try seemed to be staggering under it. but
the republican party stood up, as il always
has. and insisted that every dollar of that
debt must be paid in the best currency of
the world. and under that policy we have
paid off more than two-thirds of that great
national debt, and paid every dollar of it
with honor and in the best currency. Then
let me read you another plank in that
platform which so well applies to the situa-
tion to-day:
THAT the best policy to diminish our
| burdens of debt is to SO improve our credit
that the capitalist will seek to loan us
money at lower rates of interest than we
now pay and must continue to pay so long
rtp"diaiion, partial or total. open or
covert. Is threatened or suspected
This is the republican way to restore
confidence and get capital to invest at
lower rates of interest-to give confidence
to the business of the country not by re-
pudiating the debts of the country and by
discrediting its currency, but by lifting up
both credit and currency. and thus com
manding the confidence of the business
world In that same year the democratic
national convention, that nominated
Horatio Seymour for president, had this
utterance on the money question, which
was sound then and is to-day, and COM
mend il to all of you:
1.-The currency of the government and
the people. the lahorer, the officeholder,
the pensioner and the soldier. the pro-
ducer and the bondholder'
That's the kind of money we have to-
day, my fellow citizens-just as good In
the hands of the poor as in the hands of the
rich: and we propose to pay the obligations
of this government in the future Just as
we have paid the obligations of the gov
ernment in the past-in the best money of
the world .
Another party of political pilgrims,
also accompanied by a large number of
ladies, journeyed up the hill to Maj.
McKinley's Market stree: home about
two o'clock in the afternoon. They
came from Mogadore, Summit county,
o., and brought the candidate assur-
ances of loyalty and earnestness in sup
port of the ticket from the republicans
of that section. The visitors were in
troduced to Maj. Mckinley by State
Representative F. w. Myers. In re-
spending, Maj. Mckinley spoke in a
neighborly way to his former constitu-
ents and bade them remember that the
nations superb record of progress in
the last 30 years was made under
policy, first, of protective tariff, and,
second, under a sound monetary sys-
tenn. He urged his visitors to vote for
good money and protection to home in
dustries.
His Life Crushed Out.
West Superior, Wis, Oct. 20.-Capt.
Christopher Mccarthy, of harbor
| lighter, was killed. at the Eastern Min
nesota -four sheds dock Monday after
noon by being crushed between the
dock and his vessel, The wind was
blowing strong and loosened the vessel
l.. l.,, =. e.