The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-21

until NOW / HeIGNe eSIlIIlNTeU
that the American lines extend for 250.0o0
miles, with S000 900 miles of wire, 260o0 Of
fees and $1,000 employees. Everywhere the
service is efficient and reliable, and l con-
gratulate the telegraphers of Chicago as
the representatives Of those of the entire
country. upon the marvellous skill rapidity
and accuracy with which the millions of
messages almost daily are handled and
transmitted. (Applause)
II IS gratifying, too. to fiji q them as
sensible in politics as in business. Great
appiause) AS quick to enhance the pros
support of the right as they are uniformly
Great cheerin' }
I thank you my fellow-citizens. for your
call and appreciate most highly, indeed.
your assurances of support, which your
eloquent spokesman has presented to me. 1
W1sh | could shake hands with every man
in this audience. (Cries of We wish you
could too, Major.) l do not know that
you and am glad to know that you are en-
Ilsted IN the great cause as against public
reputation. tremendous cheering)
TO PENNSYLvANIANS
AS the sound-money railway clubs and
commercial telegraphers moved away the
Mercer and Butler delegations advanced to
the front To them Major Mckinley said:
My Fellow-citizens-I have been very
touched by the messages of greeting and
congratulatton which have been given to
me from Mercer and Butler counties, Penn
sylvania Pennsylvania is our nearest
nelghoor, and the two States have always
been in the fullest accord in political belief
and purpose. appreciate the message
which comes from the farmers and from
the workingmen of these counties, and from
my fellow-citzeGs generally. And l thank
them all from the bottom of my heart for
warm support and assurance of fidelity to
the Republican party. (Cries of 'Hurrah for
Mcklnley.D What we want in this coun-
try first and foremost is work for the Amer
lean workingmen. Every man in the coun-
try who wants to work ought to have an
opportunity to work (cries of That's the
idea!), and that opportunity is always linn
TIED by the extent to which we have our
work done in Europe and European work
shops by European labor; and l am one of
those who believe in the doctrine of protect
ing American factories against foreign fac
plause), and the American workingman
against the workingman of the old world.
(Cries of 'Hurrah for NcKinley!)
This is our country, and if we don't have
1t just as we want it it will be fault
sna NOBODY p9cas nd d the way %e naq
through the use of the ballot. CA voice,
That's the stuff old boy!D Now, you have
tried partial free trade in the United States,
and how do you like it? Not only have the
workingmen themselves suffered, but the
farmers have suffered in their home mar
ket. (Cries of That's right,) There is
not a farmer in Butler nor in Mercer coun-
ty who is present here to-day who has not
suffered from the reduced protection to the
factories of those two counties What We
want is chance to work to earn an honest
dollar and d when , we have good wages the
(Cries of That's right!o We want an hon
est American dollar and you want to vote
for that party which you believe is more
likely to give the best chance for work and
the best coin in payment applause and
cries of You bet we WILD, and you must
judge for yourselves which party that is.
"a voice We already know!) / thank you
for this call. and wish l could talk longer.
but must bid you all goodbye (Continu-
Gus applause)
TO SOUND-MONEY MEN.
To the Railway Men Gold-standard
Club, of Foxburg, Pa, Major Mckinley
said:
My Fellow-citizens-I regret very much
that / could not have had you here earlier
in the morning when I had the pleasure
of addressing 5000 railway employees from
the city of Chicago, representing all the
great roads centering in that wonderful
commercial city. 1t was sight that was
most inspiring to all of US, and most en-
couraging for the cause ia which we are
engaged and for whose triumph you with
them will contribute your share. am glad
10 meet and greet this little body of rail-
Cluo' of Foxburg, Pa. This year partyism
counts for much less than formerly. In
all the DELEGATIONS that come 4, 70 me to
agement there are large numbers OF men
who never before voted the Republican
they believe in their country and because
they believe patriotism demands that they
should turn their backs upon their party
organization and join that party for this
contest that represents sound money, ma
CAD to meet and greet you all and bid
you God-speed. 1 am glad to see. that,
you come from townaor a state, at
American tin plate, which some people
used to say we could not make in the
win great success and furnishing em-
ployment TO the workinglm r9 OF the goq IN,
try | thank you for this call, ana DID
/ YOU goodbye" tApplause)
TO CINCINNATIANS
To the Cincinnati delegation of CONNER
cial travellers and business Major Nc
Kinley said:
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Commercial Travellers Association of Gin
cinnati-It gives me peculiar pleasure and
Satisfaction to meet and greet you here at
nv home. l quite indorse all of the splen-
did things that have been said by your
snokesman and | wish that every man in
the country might be able to read them. He
speaks in the right spirit for the right
our future prosperity and the future honor
of our country. (Appiause) It gives me
great pleasure to welcome youshere to Can
ton and to my home. a pleasure enhanced
by my acquaintance with many of you per-
sonally, and the fact that you come from
the chief city of our dear old State which
we love so well, and whose good is always
one of our first thoughts and aims Gin
cinnati has been a famous city in the his
tory of the Mississippi valley, which to my
mind will become, if, indeed, 1t has not al
ready become the seat of the proudest en-
pire of any equal territory on the face of
IF you turn to the six great States. in
comprised in the old Northwest Territory
of which Cincinnati was the capital-and
the rapidly growing States beyond the MIS-
sissippi and east of the Rocky mountains,
and those to the south of the Ohio and be-
tween 1t and the gulf, and contrast their
present population and Importance with
what it was in 1860 to 1870, even the most
cursory examination will be full of interest
and suggest possibilities for the future OF
the most amazing character. In these
nineteen States and two Territories is a
greater populati ton to-day and more than
half as much wealth as in the whole coun-
600 600 in $780, a gain since 1870 of practically
100 per cent, and property of the assessed
valuation of nearly $40 000, 600 900. This was
the achievement of twenty years, this crea-
ton of new nation within the Old great
err than the parent itself, under the wise
laws enacted and enforced or under the
policy marked out by the great Republican
party.
In these twenty years the protective pol
icy was steadily pursued, and our present
gold standard of values was the basis of
or paper. Yet there are those who In
sist upon declaring that this excellent
monetary system, and with the good dol
lars we now have in circulation, every one
of which has been worth one hundred cents
in gold every minute of every hour of every
day since Jan l. 1879 is impoYerishing the
West and bankrupting all its people. CAP
plause.) The Mississippi valley is surely
part of the West, and the marvellous
growth told by the census figures, the off1-
cial authority. proves the falsity ana alb
surdity of their statements.
THE NEW STATES.