The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-10-12
CROWDED CANTON
More Trains of EXcursiOniStS Ar.
irving Than Can Be Taken
Care Of.
Railroad Men Estimate Nearly
Three Hundred Coaches
on the Road.
AS Fast as One Delegation Leaves
the Mckinley Home An
ether Marches Up.

CANTON, O., Oct. 12.-The streets OF
Canton are crowded with delegations
! for miles. the sidewalks are filled with
men and women cheering the paraders,
who are enthusiastically returning the
| salute, while they wait their turn tc
reach the Mckinley home. At this hour
railroad men say that while trains are
arriving every few minutes, as many
| delegations have two and three sections
it will be impossible to get all the
| crowds waiting at connecting railroad
| points into Canton before even.
ing, and possibly before 10 O'Clock
at night. With all the great demon.
strations which have been seen almost
daily in Canton, nothing has yet ap.
| preached the scenes and delegations
| here now. Railroad men at this hour
report 290 carloads in special trains
here or ON their way. There are bands
OF music everywhere. The bright sun.
shine of Indian summer, novel parade
effects and such cheering as was never
before heard here, all combine to make
this scene of great festivity. Major
! Mckinney Is i'll magnificent voice. He
spoke briefly to all the delegations, the
following being the address to delega-
tions from Pennsylvania and Michigan: !:
My Fellow Citizens: Your early call
is all example of promptness which
trust will be followed on the third of
November in every part of our country
l bid my fellow citizens of Michigan
and Pennsylvania warm welcome
to my city and home. The best
thing in this world, next to lib
erty, is labor, and the best thing for
labor is an opportunity to work This
is the opportunity for which we are all
striving this year, and which we hope
through change of policy in the ad-
ministration of the government of the
United States to enjoy to larger de.
gree than we have done in the past
three and a half years.
What we want more than anything
else, in order to grant this opportunity
to labor is restoration of confidence.
With confidence shaken, money seeks
its hiding place and goes out of chan.
nels Of business and legitimate invest.
ment, and away from farming, manu-
featuring and mining enterprises. do
not know of better illustration of the
value of confidence to the country than
Is found In Cur own experience during
the last 20 years. You will remember
that this country resumed specie pay.
ments Jan. l. 1879. We had outstanding
then as we have now, 1854, 900, 900 of
what is commonly known as grcenback
currency; every dollar of that
was redeemable in gold upon presenta-
tion at the treasury of the United
States. So great was the confidence of
the people in the ability of the country
that from 1879 to 1892 that but $46, ,OOO,-
600 were presented for redemption and
the gold taken out forty six millions of
dollars i'll IA years, and yet in the
last three and half years,
since confidence has been disturbed,
More Than Two Hundred Millions
of greenbacks have been presented to
the treasury of the United States for
redemption and the gold taken out.
Now If confidence had existed, if the
holders of these greenbacks had not
been fearful, land they were only made
so because the treasury of the United
States was not collecting enough money
to pay its bills) that the revenues of the
treasury were inadequate for public
expenditures, and alarmed as they were,
sent their greenbacks in for redemption
and took the gold out. The gold reserve
therefore, was ell crOached upon, and
from time to time we have been COM
PEELED, to sustain it, to borrow money to
put gold into the treasury of the United
States. Now the Republican party be.
lieves it is the duty of the government
FIRST to raise enough money to run the
government We don't want any de-.
ticiencies in the public treasury, and if
we have no deficiency we will have no
debts. and if we have no debts we will
have no bonds, ana when we have no
deficiencies everybody will have conf
dence in the solvency of the treasury of
the United States
| Believe in u Tariff, Too.
Then, my fellow citizens, we not
only believe in raising enough money to
run the government, but we believe in
having tariff upon foreign competing
products high enough to protect Amer.
ican labor and American manufactur.
ers. We believe il is the first duty of
the government of the United States to
protect and defend its own citizens. II
Is the poorest policy on the part of the
government to give work tc the labor
of other nations while we have idle
men in the United States Now
when we have once accomplished
that, we propose to continue the
good money we have in this
country. We do not want any short
dollars, am more than we want light