The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-23
ACAMPAIGN OF PREDICTION
THE DEMOCRATIC PROPHET IS
 1BROlD IN THE LAND.

He Was in Evidence Four Years Ago
 Then He Foretold the Blessings Which
 Free Trade Would Bring-Now He is
 Penetrating Futurity and Telling What
 Prosperous Land Will be Ours if Free
 Silver Coinage is Adopted-NTajor Me-
 Kinley's Expose of the Tricks of the
 do-Seer-PiIgrims Blocking to Can
 ton.
 Canton, O., Sept. 22.-The advance guard of this weeks visiting delega- tions reached here shortly after noon to-day The delegation numbered about three hundred and was composed of farmers from Holmes county, Ohio, headed by a band. They marched to the Mckinley residence, where Dr. J. J. Bigham of Millersburg, the spokesman of the party, made short address to Major Mckinley. Major Mckinley was loudly applauded when he stepped for ward to respond. He said:
 My Fellow Citizens-It gives me very great pleasure to welcome to my home the citizens of Holmes county. Six years ago your county became part of the congressional district in which I was candidate on the repub- lican ticket. I remember the campaign which I made in your county with es- pecial qualification. Although an over whelmingly democratic county as you h0ar yyq n1 me in studying the returns to observe that had from 15O to 200 votes more than was given to the head of the tick et
 "In 1890 the prophet was abroad in the land The campaign was one of prediction. The peddler was abroad in Holmes county, (Applause) We had only just enacted the protective tariff law of 1890, and we had determined in that law that we would establish in the United States factories that would make tin plate for the uses of our own people, and we have done so; and the people of Holmes county will recall to- day that not a single prophecy, not single prediction made in 1890 respect ing the price of tin, has been fulfilled or verified
 And this year, as in 1S90 we are en- gagged in campaign which Is fruitful of promise. Six years ago free trade, as your spokesman has said, was to be the cure for all our ills; free trade was to be the panacea for all our troubles. Well, we have now for four years en- joyed partial free trade in the United States, and especially In wool. And l, l,a 1 +lo growers of Holmes county and other wool-growing counties of Ohio you know better than I can tell you.
 Now it Is free silver. Free silver is going to cure all our ills. Uaughter) Why, my fellow citizens, it don't make any difference how much free silver Is to be coined in the United States, you will not get a dollar of it unless you give something for 1t. If we had hints in every state of the union and in every county in every state, and the silver of the world was brought to these hints, as is proposed by our political oppo- nents, silver won't be any easier for you to get than 1t Is now. And, be- sides, in this country, we don't propose to have dishonest dollar. (Great ap- plause),
 We propose to have the best of ev- erything that is going. We've got the best country and the best men, qua We propose to continue to have the best money (Great applause). There s another thing; this year the people mean to put at rest the question of their honesty, which was never doubt ed, either at home or abroad, until put in controversy by the allied parties in this political contest. say allied parties; the one new party, assuming an old name, the other little elder and falsely claiming to be the peoples party.
 Ut Is to the credit of the country that many time honored leaders of one of the parties have indignantly repu- diated those who have assumed to question the public honor in the name of democracy. (Applause) The people ill November will repudiate the other part of the combination for assuming the role of dishonor in their sacred name. The people have no patience with those who would violate the pltghted faith of the nation and stamp it's obligations WlCn UlSHCIlOI HEY VI iii iiol tof-idtV repudiation of public order or priJ dealing. They will not eountenance the clipping of the coins of the country and they will never consent to clipping the currency in any form that may be proposed.
 ''The contest should be settled this year so that no parry hereafter can alarm the business world and shake public confidence by the proposition to scale our debts, either public or private. We cannot afford, as a nation, to have the question raised every four years whether the nation will pay or repudi- ate it's debts.a The question can be so determined this year that it will never present itself again in your lifetime or mine; a sweeping and impressive ma iority against the combination of op- position will do it. (Appidusa) And nothing else will. Placing the party of national honor in control If every branch of the government will do it; anything short of that will leave the question to further dispute
 Let us settle once for all that this government is one of honor and law and that neither the seeds of repudia- ton nor lawlessness can find root in our soil or live beneath ou' flag.
 "In this contest all the banner we want is the American flag. That rep resents all our aims, our policies and