Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-25
Has MORE CALLERS.
Three Big Delegations Visit the
Home of Mckinley.
THE CANDIDATE ADDRESSES ALL,
He Urges the Necessity of Rousing Ma
1orlties In tho Fall to Insure National
ACCOMPLISHMENTS from His
Speeches.

Canton, O., Sept. 2a.-The advance
guard Of this weeks visiting delega-
tions reached Canton shortly after noon
Tuesday. The delegation numbered
about 800 and was composed of farmers
from Holmes county, o. Headed by
their own band they marched to the
Mckinley residence, where DR.. j. G.
Bigham, of Millerrburg, the spokesman
Of the party, made short address 10
Maj. Mckinley.
Maj. Mckinley was loudly applauded
when he stepped forward to respond.
After few remarks with reference to
free silver, he said:
An Appeal for Big Majority.
''The contest should be settled this year,
that no party hereafter can alarm the
business world and shake public conf
dence 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 repudiate its debts. This is year.
my fellow citizens OF Holmes county, to
close that question forever. 1t can be 80
determined this year that 1t will never
present itself again in your lifetime or
mine, sweeping and impressive ma ority
against the combined opposition will do
1t. and nothing else will.
MOT bare majority. but mighty one.
placing the party of national honor in con-
troll of every branch Of the government
will do 1t, anything short Of that will leave
the question to further dispute. Let us
settle 1t once for all that this government
the seeds Of reputation or lawlessness
can find root in our soil or live beneath our
flag. In this contest all the banner we
want is the American flag. That repre-
Bents all our aims, our policies and pur-
poses 1t Is the banner of every patriot.
1t is. thank God. to-day the flag OF every
section Of our common country. No flag
ever triumphed over It, 1t never was de-
graded or defeated. and will not now be
when more patriotic men are guarding it
than ever before in our history"
AT two o'clock delegation of 1000
persons from jamestown and Chautau-
qua county, N. Y, arrived. They called
Immediately upon Maj. Mckinley. Ar
thur G. Wade acted as spokesman.
Among the towns represented in the
delegation are Salamanca, Randolph,
Frewsburg, Lakewood, Watts Flats and
Panama.
True Democratic Doctrine.
To this delegation Mr.. Mckinley spoke
at some length. He quoted from the
country's history to show that Alex
ander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson,
President Cleveland and other demo-
cratic statesmen recognized the doc
trine of the parity of the metals, and
continuing said:
President Cleveland was so convinced
that the coinage Of silver was becoming
peril to the country that he called con-
gress together in extraordinary session,
August 7. 1893. and congress at his earnest
solicitation proceeded to repeal the pur-
chasing clause Of the so-called Sherman
law. and in doing SO, wrote into our pub
lie statutes this express contract: And 1t
is hereby declared to be the policy Of the
United States to continue the use of both
gold and silver as the standard money,
and to coin both gold and silver into money
of equal intrinsic and Interchangeable value,
this equality to be secured through inter-
national agreement. or by such safeguards
of legislation MS will insure the main
tenance Of the parity In value of the coins
of the two metals and the equal power of
either dollar at all times in the market
and in the payment of debts This was an
act by democratic congress and a DEM
ocratic president. approved by demo-
cratic administration and Endorsed every
where by the democratic press, and, as I
believe. by the masses OF the democratic
party. 1t Ia true we as republicans can
take satisfaction In the fact that 1t would
not have passed the senate except at the
earnest support of the republicans, and
none moro prominently than Senator Sher-
man himself. But the democratic party
was solely responsible for legislation then.
and Its action bound the members of that
party as strongly to the support of hon
est money as the Fifty-first congress had
taI no al I,o, -
to the support Of the same doctrine.
with what bad faith, therefore, with
what disregard for the right, for Justice
and honor, can any citizen now demand
that the government shall enter upon any
settlement Of our debts on scheme of
coinage. the confessed result of which
would be to destroy the parity between
dollars, drive gold from circulation and
reduce the value of silver and paper dol
lars still circulating nearly one-half? Ham
1lton and Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln.
Grant and Cleveland never taught q doc
trine 80 perilous as that The people of the
United States will never adopt 50 discred-
table and dangerous a course; nor will
they fail to brand 1t with their condemna-
ton whenever an opportunity is given
them through the ballot. The idle talk
about the Dollars of the fathers and the
principles and men of 1776,' will do no
harm. but 1t will never convince the honest
citizen that Hamilton or Jefferson or any
other of our revered fathers or patriots
ever viewed with liberation any scheme of
dishonest finance or contemplated for an
instant the idea that the United States
would cheat its people in its money or re-
pudiate any Of Its obligations it made either
NY expressed terms or implication.
1ndianIans Call.
AT four o'clock the last delegation of
the day arrived. 1t filled ten coaches
and was composed of GOO members of
the Mckinley clubs of Elkhart county,
Ind. South Bend, La Porte, Elkhart
and Goshen were about equally repre-
Bented. james Dodge, an Ellthart at
torney, made brief address to Mai,
Mckinley in which he pledged ma
jority of $4,000 for the republican ticket
in Indiana in November next. The
announcement was received with great
applause. Mr.. Dodge then presented
Maj. Mckinley with bust statue of the
candidate, the gift of a Goshen Statuary
company. There was renewed cheering
when Maj. Mckinley came to the front
of the porch to deliver his address. He
said, among other things:
I'VE would be glad to be ba elk In the four
years under the administration of Presi-
dent Harrison, years of the highest and
greatest prosperity to the American peo-
pie. Years that registered the highest for
eign trade that this nation ever had, and
registered, too. the largest domestic trade
we ever enjoyed-these were the four years
when we had the largest and the most
splendid prosperity in all our history:
when every man In this country who want
ed to work, could get work: when every
shop was open. when every factory was
running. when every busy. thriving city
OF this land was active in its enterprises.
and In its industries
1t has not been SO in the last four years,