The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
THOUSANDS Call ON H'KIHLEY
PEOPLE CHEERED, CANNoNS
DOOMED AND RAIN FELL.
The Major Talks Protection to His
Audience, and Says the Reversal of
the Republican Party's Policy is the
Cause of the Present Financial De-
preston, and That the Great Body of
People Want Change
People Want a Change

| OdHIOu, OnlO, August SS.-lWO CnOu-
sand farmers, mechanics and other citi
zens of Newcastle, Elwood and other
parts of Lawrence county, Pa, Sstarted
for Canton this morning in special trains
over the Baltimore and Ohio, to call on
f.! Major Mckinley. They reached Canton
| shortly before noon. Along their long
journey they had many recruits When
they had paraded to the Mckinley home
| 5000 crowded over the bare lawn and
surged into the steets around about, and
then. it raincd, while the band played and
thousands of enthusiasts cheered and
cannons doomed. The people stood
through it all, and for an hour they
waved their banners and beat their tin
helmets, which they carried with the in
/ scriptions, eve want back the good old
| Mckinley times, ~ ''We want the fur
naces and factories started, not the rich
mems silver mines,' Honest Money and
chance to earn it," Free trade makes
cheap men," Free silver makes cheap
money" eve want work, and work paid
in good money!
| The presentation was made by ex- Con
gresham Oscar L. jackson. When
Major Mckinley mounted the chair on
the stoop to respond to the sentiments of
Colonel jackson, calliopes, cannon,
| bands and myriads of human voices re-
peated their first applause. He said in
part:
ut gives me very great pleasure to
welcome the citizens of neighboring
State to my city and to my home. L note
with great satisfaction the message which
your eloquent spokesman brings me that
the people of Pennsylvania have lost none
OF their devotion to the great principles
OF the Republican national ticket. Nor
am surprised, my fellow citizens, that
this is So We have had three years of
bitter experience under policy which
| the Republican patry has always op-
posed, and there has been nothing in
that experience to win us to that policy,
but everything to increase our devotion
to the old policy of protection, which
earnest thought of the people this wear is
directed to the present condition of the
country and how best to improve it. This
| is the thought of every mind and the
| prayer of every soul. Nobody is satisfied
with our unfortunate business condition.
and the great body of the people want a
change.
Most of those prominent in that con-
vention were conspicuous leaders in the
assault upon our industries and labor
made by Fifty third Congress; they are
devoted to this un-American and dis
ruptive policy.sand were chiefly instru-
mental in putting upon the statute books
tariff legislation which has destroyed
American manufacturing, checked our
foreign trade and reduced the demand
for labor of American workingmen
This wing of the Democratic party
| believes not in the free trade but in free
silver at ratio of 16 to /. Having di-
minished our business they now seek to
diminish the value of our money; having
cut wages in two, they want to cut the
mr. hi 1,
and will not have either the one or the
| other.
1.-The other wing of the Democratic
party is periodically striving for the pub
/ lie honor and is opposed to free silver.
because it believes that such policy
/ would disturb value, contract the cur
rency of the country by depriving us of
| the use of gold and putting. us upon a
| silver basis, thus creating widespread
panic and bringing to every American
interest serious injury.
MY fellow citizens, will the people
turn to that party for relief whose policy
has created the conditions under which
we are suffering and from which they are
| crying out to be- relieved. What we
want Is business activity and confidence.
Gentlemen, confidence lies at the
foundations of active and successful bust
ness operations. We cannot restore con.
| hdence by inflated currency and scale
down public and private obligations.
Such proposition strikes at the very life
OF credit and business. 1t makes it hard
er to get money for legitimate and worthy
enterprises by deliberately proposing to
| pay back what has been already borrow
| ed IN deprecated currency. The people
irrespective of party will unite in defeat.
ing financial scheme which will confis-
cate the partial earning of labor in the
savings banks and buildings and loan as
| sociations, and do not believe that the
American people will ever consent to
| have the pensions of our soldiers repudi-
| ated by single farthing. The people
want neither free trade nor free silver.
My fellow citizens, the people have a
chance this year to take the Wilson law
of the statute books and put a good
American protective tariff law in it's
place, which will provide adequate reve-
nues for the Government and gladden. the
home of every American workingman
They have chance this year to prevent
free silver law from going on the
statute books and thus keep our money
of every kind now in circulation, as good
as gold, and preserve our national name.
| above reproach.
IF they do not improve the chance
now, they will not have another oppor-
tunity for four years Does the working
man, the farmer, the manufacturer want
the Wilson law to remain on the statute
books for four years longer? Do they
want reciprocity which will give us a
foreign market for our surplus aericul-
tural and manufactured products to re-
main oil the statute books four wears