The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-09-25
PENNSYLVANIA VOTERS
Pay a Visit Of Respect to Candi-
date William Mckinley,
HE DELIVERS TWO ADDRESSES.

inee for President.
CANTON, Sept 25-Pcnnsylvania yes
terday sent two large delegations to cx-
tend greetings to Major Mckinley One .
came as the Westmoreland county delcga- .
ti0n utilizing four special trains of eleven .
coaches each. This was distinctivelv rep .
resentative of the coke making interests. .
Addresses were made by w. :. Van Dyke |
and Congressman George f. Huff.
The Oil City delegation was thor
oughly representative body from branches /
of the oil producing industry. 1t was /
claimed by those in charge of the delega- |
ton that it included many mon who have !
heretofore voted the Democratic ticket, !
but who have this year declared their in !
tention to vote for Mckinley. The speakers |
were Hon. Amos Steffee and Hon. w. j. |
Hulings. The marching of forty-five |
young women, representing the forty-fve
states of the Union, each carrying a largo
basket Of roses, was one of the most
unique features introduced in the cam
paign.
In the course Of his speech to the West
moreland delegation Major Mckinley
said:
1--WE are confronted this year with
question of not mere partisan difference,
but with u great moral principle. Such "A
question, admit, ought never to enter into
political discussion, but which having
arisen must be courageously met by the
American people and settled once for all
upon the eternal principles of right, jus
tice and honor, and so settled, trust, that
the like of it will never be raised again.
What is the proposition gravcly pre-
sented to us? Both Of the great political
parties of this country, the Republican
and Democratic, have at different times
in the most deliberate and binding man
ner placed upon the statute books of the
United States the expressed declaration
that all our money. whether gold silver
or paper, shall be kept equal in value by
| every resource at the command of the gov
ernment.' In opposition to this formal,
legal and binding declaration there are
those who propose to deliberately annul
that solemn contract-by lawful means,
! it is true but without pretense or intcn-
ton to make good the loss it would en-
tail upon any citizen, or any provision
whatever for the great depreciation it
would occasion every holder Of our gov
| ernment securities, of the Just claims of
our pensioners and other honest creditors
1--WE cannot afford to tri1e about a mat
| ter so serious and vital to our standing
and welfare rs "a people, and l appeal to
you, my fellow citizens of Wcstmureland,
that we must re-establish the system by
which we increase the output of coal from
the mines of the United States from H.
100000 tons in 1850 to III 100000 tons in
1890; that increased the value of our an
| nual product from 95OOO,OOO in 1850 to l6D o.
| 100000 in 1890; that increased the number
| of persons employed on our coal mines
from 10000 in 1880 to 299,0OO in 1890; that
paid in wages to these miners in 1890
S1O9 100000 as against 5000, 900 in 1850.
and that made profitable an investment
in coal mining of probably, s3ls,O01,ODO in
1880 as against S26l ,0OO, 900 in 1850.
"Most Of the development of that period
was in the mines of the south, and not in
those of Pennsylvania and Ohio but we
can stand "A matter of competition. 1t is
our own people, blood of our blood, Ow-
ing allegiance to the same flag, that
have made this wonderful development in
the southern section of the country. We
congratulate them and rejoice with them.
1t is the foreign competition from which
we must protect ourselves"
To the Oil City delegation Major Nc
Kinley said:
Il congratulate you upon the wonderful
development and advancement of your To-
cal material resources, unknown and un-
developed until touched by the magic
hand of American skill and invention,
both of which have been so greatly quick
ened by a long established and wise indus
trial system. We have had many marvel
Gus changes in the economy of our homes
since the close of the rebellion, but l recall
none that have been more complete and
surprising than those of our fuel and light
nor the growth of any industry that has
been so rapid in many respects and so ben.
eficial as that in which your city is sc
prominent and conspicuous.
Il am glad to know that your oil refln-
cries and oil well supply companies are
by no means your only industries, but
that you have gone on developing Ameri-
can enterprises until your boiler, tube
wagon, barrel, organ, machine and other
shops have a capital of s., ,6SS, 900, employ
about $500 hands and pay an average OF
So, 600 per day for labor in all your various
industries
"The great Americans who founded
Pennsylvania and have guarded her in,
terests since very properly turned their at
tention to the establishment and encour
agement of manufactures with such
marked success that the great keystone
state has become not only the life of in
dusuy, but the commonwealth of pros
perOus traders and farmers and eontenteC
homes, The system l would favor for tn,
country is the system of the fathers
) system which came in with the govern
ment; a system under which we have haC
the highest degree of prosperity; whicl
seeks the same growth ip population, th
same increase in wealth, the Same diffusion