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all. In this great contest the Republican
party has been designated to carry the
banner that represents those great princi-
pies, and men Of all political parties this
year are rallying around that banner be-
cause it embraces what they believe to be
! the highest good of the people and the
glory of the great republic.
No Dishonesty Wanted.
TO the Cambridge, Ohio. delegation, Maj.
Mckinley spoke as follows:
l am glad to have your presence testify
that you have a deep interest n the pending
to count on the right side-the side that
will do most for country, for home and for
family. I am one Of those who believe
that the majority of the citizens of this
country-no matter what may have been
their political relations in the past, are
interested in achieving for the country it's
highest prosperity and the well-being of
the people. 1t Is a question among the
people as to what will bring about such a
result. Honest men may differ, but when
ever the citizen Is convinced that certain
policy will not subserve the highest in
terests Of the people, am sure he is willing
to abandon such a principle and unite in
putting upon the public statutes another
policy. I assume that all the people are
honest. What they want are honest things
In government. I assume that good many
people who four years ago honestly be-
!ieved free trade was the best thing for this
country. honestly believe now it is not
the best thing for this country; and being
honest when they voted in 1892 their be-
| liefs, they propose to be equally honest this
year and vote the other way. l believe
there have been great many people who
honestly believed that the free coinage Of
the silver of the world might be good
thing, but after full investigation Of the
subject are satisfied it would be altogether
the wrong thing. The American people
want no dishonesty in their government,
false measures, false values or false econ
omy. Now, 1 think the people Of this
| country believe we ought to have protec-
tive tariff high enough to raise money to
| run the government and keep it out of debt
high enough to keep American shops rum
| ming and American workingmen employed.
and high enough to preserve the home
| market, the best market IN the world. to
the American farmer and aSriculturist. The
people do not want short dollars any more
than they want short weights or meas
ures ...-
Friends From Indiana.
Maj. McKinley's response to William H.
Dowdell. who spoke on behalf Of the dele
cation from Valparaiso. Ind:
I appreciate the fact that you have trav-
eled more than three hundred miles to my
home to testify your devotion to the cause
of the Republican party, which doubtless
you believe with me is the cause Of our
common good. I am glad to welcome you
to my home and greet you as fellow citizens
Of sister state, proud Of the record and
history of your own commonwealth. and
prouder still that her people are citizens
of the bravest. freest and best country of
the earth-the republic Of the United
States. We want to see to 1t as citizens Of
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when we give full days work of muscle
and Drawn to our employer we want him to
pay us in money that will not depreciate in
night, so that we shall not have to con-
suit the market reports next morning to de-
termine its value. We have that kind of
money. Let 1t be understood from this time
on that we must always have a stable cur
rency Of sound money, so that when man
buys manufacturing plant he can tell at
the end of the year whether or not it has
been a profitable Investment.
In the Republican Column
MAJ: Mckinney said to the delegations
from Mineral, Grant and Preston counties,
w. Va, and Allegheny county, Md:
l am glad TO be assured by your spokes-
on this year in the Republican column.
West Virginia was Republican two years
ago, and Maryland was Republican a wear
ago, and l know of no reason why it
should alter your respective verdicts then
rendered in favor of Republican represen-
tatives: we divide ourselves into great
governmental systems, and projectors of
each believing that their system will best
subserve the countrys interests and best
secure the highest destiny for their own
people. We think we have the best sys-
tenn under the sun. 1t is crtainly the
1reest, Tor up to this hour this has been
, Il nation not Of dishonor, but of honor.
; and believe the people of this country.
North, South, East and West, will main
. tain the unsullied honor of our government
and the unquestioned integrity of our cur
rency forever. What we want in this
country is an opportunity to develop it.
Your two states are only waiting for the
magic touch Of confidence to unfold the
wealth OF treasures which the Almighty
has put in your hills. We might lust as
we'll commence now to have the whole world
know that this people intend to take care
, of themselves and do their""own work In
the United States and not to suit any other
country of the world. The Republican
party proposes to preserve this splendid
home market for American. farmers and
agriculturalists, and to preserve the
American workshops for the American
wcrkingmen. This is the policy of the Re-
publican party. 1t is the true American
policy, 1t Is the policy of PATRIOTISM, of
home, of country, and the policy that rep
resents every great interest and valued
Interest in the United States.
Then my fellow citizens, there is another
thing we propose to do this year. We
propose to prevent the Inauguration in this
| country Of Il system of finance such as they
have in Mexico and China. We propose to
have our dollars worth hundred cents
each everywhere. Good in Maryland, good
in West Virginia, good in every state of
the American union and good in every COM
! mercial center Of the world. This is the
kind OF money we have to-day and it is
tn. kind we propose to continue to do the
business of this country with. We want
everybody to understand that we have never
lowered the standard Of public honor in
this country, and after more than a hundred
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always for the right. The head that plans
for the family is never too much occupied
to embrace the cause of country. The hand
that made bandages for the country's SOL
diers will never cast a ballot against
country's honor or the American home 1t
Is incapable of striking blow against the
country, and will never cast a ballot except
for the country's glory. l congratu you
upon what woman has done in the past
for humanity and civilization. salute you
from the bottom Of my heart for the
opportunities that are before YOU for still
greater usefulness in all that helps man.
kind. blesses the race and elevates the
country. In closing q sanitary fair in
Washington Mr.. Lincoln, on March 1S,
1864, said:
81 AM not accustomed to the use of Ian
guage of eulogy. 1 have never studied the
handkerchiefs.)
To Patriotic New Englanders.
Maj. Mckinley spoke as follows to the
New England delegations:
l do not feel that New England people
are altogether strangers to lne. l have met
them ut their great meetings in public dis
cussion for now nearly twenty years, and
1T has been my observation that whatever
considerations move New England to any
action moves every other part of our coun-
try. What is good for New England is good
for Ohio and the great West. This is
year when partisanship counts for but lit
tie and patriotism for everything This
assemblage furnishes an impressive tribute
to the cause of national honor and the up
holding of the American name We have
presented In this campaign a question that
should In no sense be political, partisan or
sectional; strange but verv serious ques-
tion, astounding, indeed, at this juncture of
our national affairs; a question fraught
with the greatest peril to every interest Of
the United States 1t s not question
simply as to whether one party or another
shall win. as in times past, but it is a
question whether now, in our greatest
strength and majesty. we shall proclaim to
the world whether are a nation Of peo-
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every thoughtful man must recognize that
free trade would open up our markets to
foreign products as freely as to American
products, and this would mean idleness or
cheap wages to our workingmen, and that
this would bring our standard down to the
European standard
We want to advise the whole world that
we are not nation of repudiators. We
want, when we have worked a full day, to
be paid in full dollars that do not depre-
ciate over night, and If there are any of
yol of foreign birth who want to send hit
tie back to the old folks In your fatherland,
you want to be sure that 1T is just as goou
there as it in the United States. Then we
want, by policy Of sound money and pro-
tective tariff, to restore confidence to the
business world, and you cannot restore con-
fidence to the business world by threaten
ing the population Of OUR debts. Looking
into your earnest faces l cannot help feeling
that you intend to vote next Tuesday what
in your own cOnSciences you consider best.
not for my party, not for me, but for your
selves and for our comm on country.
Honor of the Nation at Stake.
Maj. Mckinley said to the Mingo Junction
Steel employees:
You are here to-day, as your spokesman
has we'll said, moved by the same inspira-
tions that have brought hundreds OF thou
sands here during the last two months from
every part of our common country. You
are here because you are citizens OF the
great republic, proud Of the title OF Amer
lean citizens, for each and every one Of you
has ballot which is the form Of expression
Of the freeman's will under our system OF
government and in accordance with our
free institutions, and you are here because
this year there are to be settled the most
vital questions affecting every interest OF
our common country; questions affecting
every interest in our products, our wages,
our manufactures, the prosperity OF our
people and the progress Of the nation itself.
These are on every mans and woman's
mind to-day, for the women are as much in
terested in the rightful solution of these
vital national questions as the men. am
glad to see the wives and daughters OF the
men of Mingo here to-day. There is no mis-
take as to what the Republican ballot
means this year. It means 4 protective
tariff; 1t means a tariff that will uphold the
integrity and intelligence of American la
Dor; it means a tariff that will raise enough
money to keep this government from the
necessity Of borrowing; it means the stop
ping of debts and deficiencies in the public
treasury and an end to the want, the misery
and the idleness of the American working
men. 1t means that the credit of the gov
ernment of the United States must ever
be sustained and that the honor of the
government of the United States. which for
more than century has been unquestioned
and unquestionable, must never be tarnished
or impaired. 1t means that the currency of
the United States, whether gold, silver or
paper, must every dollar be worth just what
it processes, and that Is, worth 100 cents
1t must be worth, too, as much in the hands
of the poor as in the hands of the rich us
much in the humble home as in the great
bank; as much abroad as at home, and that
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My fellow citizens, what is this great con-
tention about that is engaging the attention
of seventy millions of people to the eX-
cdson Of everything else? What is it all
about? First, shall we have an honest dol
lar worth 100 cents. or shall we adopt
as our national standard a dollar worth only
81 cents? Secondly. shall we pay the obliga-
tl0ns OF the government as we have always
paid them-in the highest form of money
known to the civilized world? Thirdly, shall
we now enter upon the issuance of de-
preciated paper money as proposed by the
Chicago Democratic platform? Fourthly,
shall this government by law be sustained
under the law and through the courts
created by law? Fifthly. shall we continue
the partial free trade policy which was in
augurated by the election of 1892, or shall
we restore that grand protective policy
under which for more than thirty years
we had such great posperity? I take it
the people about me (at least who can
hear my voice. are opposed to debasing the
money of the country. Every man, whether
he has much money or little, wants it good.
He wants money stable in value uncor-
rupted and incorruptible; a money that
will be worth 100 cents on every dollar.
whether he keeps it or PARTS with 1T;
whether he receives 1t in payment for labor
or for farm products or pays it to the mer-
chant or the banker. I take it that no man
in Ohio wants the obligations of the United
States dishonored to the extent of single
farthing.
We have fought this battle over and over
again. The Democratic party, or one wing
of It, at least, once declared that we must
repudiate the bonds Of the, United States,
but the Republicans said: "No; these bonds
were issued to save the flag of the country.
and every dollar must be paid in as good
currency as the world knows" And we
paid off under tat policy mere than two
thirds of that great national debt. Is there
a man in this audience who wants the
currency Of this government debased? Is
there man who wants to continue the
policy inaugurated four years ago? You
do not want policy. that depletes the
country's treasury. You do not want
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and twenty years Of existence We cont
propose to do it now. We ,"ant rac whole
word 10 KNOW that we do not belic"e that
we can enrich ourselves by uepreciating
our dollar and changing our Standard Of
value. Then my fellow citizens, more
than that and above that, far Oyershadow-
ing every question is the question of gov
ernnent itself, and we must establish once
for all that this Is government Of law
and that the courts of justice shall be main
aimed in their integrity and incorruptibi-
llty
Underwriters for Sound Money.
Speech of Maj. Mckinley in response to
the address of Capt. Manning, in behalf of
T. the Underwriters Sound Money Club Of
C1eveland: 49,.
This is a campaign of many and interest
ing phases. l doubt ii ever in our history
we have had political contest just like the
present one, one which has drawn into its
active participation so many men and
women from every part of our common
country. Men and women are vieing with
each other III demonstrating their zeal for
the principles for which the Republican
party stands this year and their desire for
the triumph of those principles. l do not
know Of any agency that has been more ef-
fective in its nature or that has furnished
more and better reasons for the mainte-
nance of sound money and the public honor
than the insurance companies of the United
States. Some of the best literature touch
ing the whole money question has emanated
from the insurance companies, and it is a
great tribute to them, this magnificent
stand they have taken for the maintenance
of an honest dollar. to insure private and
public confidence to the citizens of our
country. Your business is good only when
general business is good, and your business
Is quite poor as anybody else's when the
general business of the country is, poor.
Therefore you are interested in that policy
that insures to the whole country the
highest and widest prosperity and which
insures to the American republic the great
est development.
You are interested, because without com.
mercial honesty there can be no prosperity.
You are interested in maintaining the cur
rency OF the countryaand keeping the dollar
worth hundred cents at home and abroad.
good every day of the year and good every
where, and you know we can never get
that confidence back again, which Is so
large a part Of the credit of the country
and so essential to our prosperity, by threat
ening to pay our debts in 52-cent dollars.
Then, again, you, with your fellow country
men generally, are interested in public law
and order; you are interested in the perpet-
uation Of free institutions in every branch
OF the federal government. We must settle
for all slime that this government is a gov
eminent under law and regulated by law.
We must show that law is supreme over all.
Fair Minnesota.
Following is Maj. McKinley's address to
delegation from Morgan, Washington coun-
ties and to the Boys Brigade of Marietta,
Ohio:
These representatives Of Marietta recall
to our minds that it was the first settle
ment ~ this great commonwealth, and
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policy that makes it necessary to borrow
money In times of peace in order to run
the expenses of the government. You want
policy that will pay all the expenses of
the government and have a surplus to pay
the debt. You want policy that will
give work to the laboring man, that gives.
American wages to American workingmen;
that gives the wool merchant a fair price
for his wool; that produces an American
wool market for the American farmer, and
defends the American workship against the
workshops of the world. That is what
the Republican party stands for, and what
hundreds of ten thousands of Demacrots
stand for who are going to vote for honest
money this year.
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Canton Oct 27.-There never was q more
inspiring scene than that witnessed on the
public square Of Canton from 4 to 5 o'clock
this afternoon. Thousands of people, in
Guiding the ladies from Norwalk, many of
the visitors from Boston, West Virginia
and Maryland and Cleveland gathered in
front Of the handsome court house and sang
patriotic melodies, interspersed with music
by the bands, frequent cheers and the way
Ing OF flags, banners and campaign para
sols, with which the women's delegation was
supplied. "America," yankee Doodle"
The Star Spangled Banner,' quickly fol-
lowed one another. Nor was "Dixie' or
Maryland, My Maryland" forgotten. both
were sung as Justify and as patriotically us
was John Browns Body' and "Marching
Thro' Georgia" The affair was entirely i'm
promptu and ended a o'clock with Home,
Sweet Home' from both bands, and the
vast audience which had gathered first as
spectators, and then as participants in .hat
great patriotic concert.
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Peoria, ILL.,, Oct. 27.-The following cir
cular was issued to-day:
TO the Workingmen Of the United States:
To refute a false statement, as we sin
cerely believe it to be, and correct an i'm
preston that our friends and acQuaintances
may have formed concerning our sigma
lures to campaign document going the
rounds of the press, and circulated broad
cast on the streets, entitled ''PrOclamatiOn,"
In which it IS made to appear that we
are In favor Of free silver at any ratio,
and substantially the establishment of two
standards of money, contradictory as the
terms may be, we wish to be recorded by
all who are interested in our position as
being enthusiastically and unequivocally
against any such measures but are for
the sound money plank promulgated by the
Republican convention at st. Louis. Our
signatures were obtained nearly three years
to Il document pretending to be memo
rial to congress then in session, which in
our belief and memory was much milder pa
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COmplimented by Cleveland.

Indianapolis. Oct 27.-Hon George w.
Julian, who, in spite Of years and imperfect
health, made recent speech for the gold
standard Democracy, has received letter
from President Cleveland. The letter is
written as we'll as signed by the presidents
own hand. The president warmly COM
mends the speech and concludes as follows:
II cannot but believe that such exhibitions
Of true Democracy will have the effect of
calling vast numbers of our party back to
the support of genuine Democratic prlnc1-
ples.''
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To-day's demonstration was full of beau
ties and features. 1t was notable for q
large crowd. 1t was notable for the wide
range Of territory represented by the visit
ing delegations. 1t was notable for the
varied interests Of the people who called
The demonstration began in earnest at noon
with the arrival Of party representing
three states, and it continued :ll dark All
that time the Mckinley residence was sur
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yer condition would bring for the pres
ent stagnation and panic. but from which,
In four years, we would recover. We do
not believe that this country can stand
an additional four years of misery and
distress. and are therefore opposed 10 the
sentiments continued in the aforesaid Proc
lamaton."
p. NJ. Arthur,
Grand Chief Brotherhood of L. E.
e. p. Sargent,
Grand Master Brotherhood of l.. T..
p. NJ. Arnold,
Grand Secretary and Treasurer, B. oe L. f.
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They have been effective for good since the
world began. They exalt every cause they
touch and never can De enlisted for the
wrong. 1t will not be forgotten that "the
hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand
that rules the world" and in some of our
states. wields the ballot. The voice that
sings the lullaby, the sweetest song Of all,
entrances the world with dearest notes
and speaks with mighty eloQuence, and
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rounded by an interested crowd. shouting
and cheering Cor Tie nominee ana appE;rd-
ing the splendid delegations which nllccled
up the street All that time the air was
filled with tne music III hunui and at ho
time was the street calr, to the Mckinley
home without Inc Of mcn and women.
either marchnG y! waiting orders 70 march,
Patriotic Ladies'
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per than is the "Proclamation' referred to-
And no matter what our opinions may have
been on the money question at the time Of
our signing the memorial, nearly three
years ago, we have learned enough since
on the subject to warrant us in denouncing
the attempt at free coinage of silver at
l6 to 1. believing it to be directly against
the interests of labor, and also believing
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Rec COINAGE
BAD FOR LABOR
HEADS OF RAILROAD BROTHER
HOODS FOR SOUND MONEY.

Grand Chief Arthur, of the Eng1-
ncers, and Grand Master Sargent
and Grand Secretary and Treas
Unite in Issuing Il Circular Re-
futing II False Statement That
They Favor Free COfnage-They
Declare for the Republican Plat
FORM
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the destructive industrial system which de-
prived Americans of their own splendid
market What we want, to- do is to get
back that confidence and we cannot do 1t
unless you defeat the party that destroyed
that confidence. 1t is all in your own
hands. I know the people Of Indiana are
In favor of law and order and Of honest
money. You are in favor Of good money,
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art Of paying compliments to women, but 1
must say that if all that has been said by
orators and poets in praise Of woman was
applied to the women of America, it would
not do them justice for their conduct during
this war"
l will close by saying, as Mr.. Lincoln
closed by saying "God bless the women of
America Great applause and waving of
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good times and good markets. You know
how you lost some of them and you know
the direct route to get them back again;
and if you do not follow in that way |
shall be very much surprised.
No Reputation.
Maj. McKinley's address to the Belmont,
Gurnsey and Noble counties (Oho) dele
cations:
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SCENES OF
INSPIRATION
REMAH KABLE DEMONSTRATION
ON CANTON'S PUBLIC SQUARE.

of People, Including Wis.,
1tOrs From Various Parts of the
Country, Among Them u Number
of Ladies, Gather in Front of the
Court House and Sing Patriotic
Songs, Interspersed With Music
by the Bnnis-The Affair, Which
Is Entirely ImprOmptu.
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that under a condition Of free coinage this
country will be subjected to one of the
most frghtful pancs that any country
in this world has ever seen. Our belief
In this statement Is strengthened by an
admission made by William J. Bryan, can
didate for president. in a recent speech in
the Northwest, wherein he is reported to
have said that he thought that free sill
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Bryant would like to have you vote for
me next November, Mr.. Farmer.
Mr.. Farmer-I cant do 1t, Mr.. Bryan.
Ryyan-Why not. MIR. Farmer? My elec.
tion would mean bigger prices for you.
Mr.. Farmer--1 can't see it that way.
Your election would drive 5000, COX, 900 IN
gold out Of rculation-that would lower
prices. Your election 30 would destroy all
credit and contract all loans, that business
would be ru!ne.: and most Of the consun-