The record-union., 1896-09-20
SATURDAY A BUSY DAY
FOR MAJOR M'KINLEY,
Continued from First Page.)

them.
My fellow citizens: 1 appreciate
the message which comes from the
farmers, from the workingmen OF those
two counties. and from my fellow citi-
zens generally, and l thank them all
from the bottom of rny heart for their
warm tender of support and assurance
OF hdelity to the Republican cause and
TO the Republican party. (Cries of
'Hurrah for McKinley') What we
want in this country first and foremost
is work for the American workingmen
(applause), and l am one of those who
believe in the doctrine Of protecting
American factories against foreign fac
tories. (Cries of "Good') What we
want is chance to work, and when
we have wages the home market is
improved for the farmer. We want
honest American dollars. (Cries of
Ihats right.D And you want to vote
for that party that you believe is most
likely to give you the best work and
the best coin In payment, and you must
judge for yourself which party that is.
"a voice I'VE already know.'O l thank
you for this call, and wish could talk
longer, but must bid You all good-by.
Continued applause.)
A delegation of Pittsburg and West
ern Railway men were the next call
ers. and Major Mckinley addressed
them briefly
AT o'clock the commercial travellers
OF Cincinnati called. Mayor John A.
Caldwell accompanied them. They
brought the First Regiment Band of
the Ohio National Guard. Levi c.
Goodall was spokesman. Major Nc
kinley was most heartily cheered when
he mounted the stand. He said:
Mr.. Chairman and gentlemen of the
Commercial Travellers Association of
Cincinnati: 1t gives me great pleasure
to welcome you to Canton and to nv
nome, pleasure enhanced by my ac-
quaintance with many of you person
ally II to the six great States includ-
ing Minnesota, which We're originally
comprised in the old Northwest terri
tory, Of which Cincinnati was the cap
ital, you add the rapidly growing
States beyond the Mississippi and east
Of the Rocky Mountains, and those to
the south of the Ohio and between it
and the Gulf, and contrast their pres
ent population and Importance with
what it was in 1860 OF 1870. even. the
most cursory examination will be full
or interest and suggest possibilities for
the future of the most amazing char
acter.
In these nineteen States and two
Ierrltorles Is great population to-
uay, ana more than half as much
wealth. as in the whole country in 1860.
population approximating IS. OOO. 900
III Io9U, a gain of practically 100 per
cent, and property assessed at nearly
ten billions. This is the achievement
or twenty years under the wise laws
enacted and enforced or under the pol
icy marked out by the great Republi
can party. In these twenty years the
protective policy was steadily pursued.
and our present gold standard of val
ues was the basis of all the money
issued, whether gold, silver or paper.
fet there are those who insist upon
declaring this monetary system and the
oollars We now have in circulate
every one of which is worth 100 cents
In gold every minute of every hour OF
every day since January /, 1879. is i'm
poverishlng the West and bankrupting
all OF its people. (Applause) The Mis-
sissippi Valley is surely part of the
West, and the marvellous growth told
by the census figures, the Official au
thority, proves the falsity and absurditv
or their statements. The new and
promising States of North and South
Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska and Mime
sofa are certainly young giants of the
west, and their growth in population
from 100000 in 1870 to 300. 600 in 1890
and wealth of $1,S25,OOO demon
strates to any fair minded man that
however much they have suffered bv
droughts and poor crops, they are still
reasonably vigorous Qaughter). and in
no very great danger of being aban-
doned or bankrupted. Applause)
All have made remarkable progress
all have gained immensely in both peo-
pie and wealth. the older States not so
rapidly as the newer, but all going ahead
at a steady and healthy pace. and all
the time they have been making this
progress we have been under a protec-
tive tariff and upon a sound money
gold basis. The greater trouble in this
country is that We have not work
enough to do for our people We had
every man employed in this country in
1892 at the best wages that had ever
been paid to any workingmen in the
world. What is the matter nowp IF is
lack of confidence
What we want in this country. in
the first instance, is a restoration of
confidence; and the only way To have
confidence in the Government and
among the people is for the Covern-
ment to have revenue policy that will
supply enough money to paw its ex-
penses. (Applause) You cannot crea te
confidence among the people. If Won
have no confidence in the public treas
ury. Our dollars now are all full and
sound, and all we want is an opportunitv
to earn them. How can this be secured
Well do not know what you NAV think
about it, but think the best way TO re-
store prosperity to the people is to do
all our work at home at the American
scale of wages, and on the scale of
American ideas, fully recognizing the
necessity of free, enlightened and
dignified citizenship" (Applause.)
Following closely upon the CONNER
cial travellers came a delegation of | 800
from Pittsburg and vicinity also com
mercial travellers. Major Mckinley adj
dressed them briefly on lines similar to
his recent speeches to delegations of
that character. and at 4:3O a sprightly
delegation Of Hungarian-Am
from Cleveland called. Their spokes-
man, J. c. Bloch, made long address
to Major Mckinley, who had been
standing in the chill air on an exposed
platform occupied with the various dele
cations. Major Mckinley made a short
response.
Then came a delegation of Cleveland