The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-20
MKINLEY STILL BUSY.
Visiting Delegations Keep the Re-
publican Leader at Work.
MORE PENNSYLVANIA VISITORS.

A Company from sewicEley, Including n
Number Of Ladies', Are Photographed.
with Major Mckinley in the Center Of
the Group.
CANTON, O., Oct 20.-The weeks visits
to Major Mckinley began with the ar
rival yesterday noon of several car loads of
people from Scwickley, Pa. In the party
We're number Of ladies, After the speak
ing Mrs. Mckinley received the ladies,
and the whole party was photographed,
with Major Mckinley in tho center of tho
group In his speech to this delegation tho
candidate said
Il am glad to have the assurances Of
your spokesman that in this crisis of our
history you are standing for national
honor and for our free institutions. Tho
Republican party has always occupied II
post Of great honor. 1t was born in the
interest Of liberty and the rights of hui
manity. IL has never struck blow that
has not been for freedom and our glorious
flag, And in every great emergency that
party, not so old rs some other parties in
this country, has led for the right, for
justice, for good morals and for public
honor II never had a higher post of honor
thnn it has today Glorious as the past
has been, it never carried flag which in
volved more to the institutions Of our
country and to its good name than do
flag which it carries today. And l am
glad to know that from one end Of this
country to the other the intelligence and
Judgment and conscience of tho American
people are not appealed to in vain
''Somo people seem to have the notion
that the Republican party has made a new
departure, that 1t occupies different po-
sition today from that which it ever occu-
pied in the past. That is u mistake We
stand whore we have always stood, not
only upon the money question, but on the
tariff question"
Major Mckinley then read two plunks
from the platform on which General Grant
wa5 elected president, one of which reads:
THAT tho 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 wo
now pay and must continue to pay 50
long us repadlutiOn, partial or social, open
Or covert, is threatened or suspected.
Major Mckinley thon proceeded:
"This is the Republican way to restore
confidence, and the way to get capital to
invest at lower rates of interest is to give
confidence to ihe business of the country,
not by repudiating the debts of the
country and by discrediting its currency,
but by lifting up both credit and currency
and thus commanding the confidence Of
the business world. In that same year tho
Democratic national convention that
nominated Horatio seymour for president
had this for its utteTance on the money
question, which was sound then, and to-
day and l commend it to nil of you: One
currency for the government and for the
people, tho lnborer, tho oiliccholdcr, the
pensloner and tho soldier, the producer
and the b0ndholder'
"Thnt's tho kind of money we have to-
day, my fellow citizens just ms good in
the hands of the poor us in the hands of
the rich, and we propose to pay the obli-
cations Of this government in the future
just as we have paid tho obligations of tho
government in the past-in tho best money
of the world"
To delegation from Magadore O.,
Major Mckinley said
1--WE have made wonderful progress in
the last thirty years, and we have made it
under IL policy, first of a protective tariff,
and second upon good, solid monetary
system. Four years ago the policy of pro-
lection was, by the Judgment of the Amer
ican people, dccreed as not desirable for
this country. They have had three years
and a half experience under the change,
and lelieve they arc ready to return to
the old American doctrine of protective
tariff. And two weeks from tomorrow
you will have an opportunity to express
your individual opinions upon that ques-
tlOn.
THE other question is one of finance
whether this country shall continue the
use Of tho good dollars that they now have,
and which they have hud since 1879, and
which they secured under Republican leg
islation, or whether they shall turn away
from them and adopt as the medium of
exchange of our people II dollar that is
worth less than lO1 cents. do not believe
the people of this country want Il leprcci-
ated dollar. ] believe they want every
dollar, whether they bo farmers or manu-
facturcrs or lnborors Il dollar that meas
urrs 100 cents and is worth 100 cents, not
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