The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-28
TO SOUTHERNERS.
Speech to Delegations from West Vfr-
ginia and Maryland.

ginia and Mary land.
To the delegations from Mineral. Grant
and Preston counties, West Virginia, and
Garrett and Allegheny counties, Maryland,
Mr. Mckinley said:
My Fellow-citizens-It gives me much
pleasure to greet at my home representa-
tives from the States of West Virginia and
Maryland-one of them among the oldest
States of the Union and the other among
the youngest and newest, but both equal
i'll the great sisterhood of States and both
having the same interest IN the progress t;si,
love more even than our own State. 1
am glad to be assured by your spokesman
that both States can be counted on this
year in the Republican column, and if, on
the evening of the Sd day of November,
the result should be different. then | shall
Prophet. The State of West Virgin
la was Republican two years ago.
year ago, and I know of reason-do
you?-why you should alter your respective
verdicts then rendered in favor Of 'Repub-
lican representatives. Cries of No; there
are reasons why we should not.)
I'VE divide ourselves into great govern
mental system, the projectors of each be-
lieving that their system will best subserve
the country's interest and best secure the
highest destiny for their own people. We
think We have the best system under
the sun. It is certainly the freest, for
up to this hour. this has been ma
believe the people of this country-North
South. East and West-will maintain the
VI sullied honor of our government and the
unquestioned integrity of our currency for
ever 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 into your hills.
show the largest deveiopment YOU had ever
enjoyed. Your coal and your iron, your
splendid industries scattered all over the
prosperity that had ever been enjoyed
before. Suddenly confidence was shaken,
in the future. Men did not know what
was to await them in their business.
Capitalists sat with their money boarded
in strong boxes, and while capital is
bearded in the strong box labor is idle on
the streets-all because there is no conf
dence, all because the people, in their mag
c power, did what they have a right to
do always. They changed from a policy
under which we had been operating for
more than half of the life of the govern
ment and entered upon a new policy, I'M
der which, whenever it prevailed in this
country, we had realized business depres-
sion, and from that hour to this the coun-
try has suffered. Every interest has suf-
fered, every industry, every workingman in
his income and his wages, and the govern
ment itself has suffered in its revenues and
| has been forced TO go into debt and bor-
row money. | take it that no man around
me believes in such a policy. You don't
want TO pursue any debt-creating policy
impoverishes people and depietes the niih'
| lie treasury. We want to get that conf
| dence back: The only way to get it back
| fidence ard put into power in this countr,
! the party that for more than a third of d
| century conducted this government to the
| highest development and the greatest pros.
| perity it ever possessed.
| I'VE might just well 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
| the world. The Republican party proposes
| to preserve this splendid home market for
/ American farmers and agriculturists and
n ha loon rNrIx-I.
/ American workingmen. This is the policy
| of the Republican party. 1t is the true
Of pS0 ams Of # Is the Policy poll Of
| that represents every great interest and
valued interests in the United States.
| Then, my fellow citizens, there is an
| other thing we propose to do this year We
| propose to prevent the inauguration in this
country of system of finance such as they
| have our dollars worth a hundred cents
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
the 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 12t
| years of existence we don't propose to dc
that we do not believe that we can enricf
ourselves by depreciating our dollar anC
| changing our standard of value.
| that, and above that far overshadowins
| every question is the question of govern
| ment itself, and we must esta blish once fol
all that this is a government of law anC
|. that the courts of justice shall be main
tanned in their integrity and incorruptibl
| ity. The only way we can work out ou
highest destiny is by always being homes
and observing those great fundamenta
principles of justice and righteousness tina
| have characterized this citizenship from tn
| beginning of the government down to tn,
pres emit hour.
Next Tuesday you will have an oppor
tunity to express your views upon publ
questions by the ballot. Every mans ballo
is his own: it belongs to nobody else: it /
to be controlled by nobody else, and tn
only guide you want for the use of tina
ballot is that which you believe viii be bes
for your fresides and families. for you
country and your country's welfare
II thank you for this call. Another dele
CATION is coming, for this year delegation
are coming from every quarter of the coun
try for this is year of genuine patriotism
| and not partyism. 1t will give me pIeasur
| to meet and greet each one of my fellow
citizens from Maryland and West Virgini
here on the porch"
.