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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-24

The little reviewing stand was brought
into requisition at this point, when the
crowd had become so dense that the
porch could no longer he used, and Mai.
Mckinley faced some 800 miners from
the anthracite district of Pennsylvania,
who were introduced by Prof w. Z.
Gregory. Mai. Mckinley responded as
follows:
"You have all found in your own
lives that if you get anything that is val
liable you have to work for it. You
have found in your own experience that
there is no way to earn living or ac-
cumulate property except by labor and
toll, energy and industry, and by frugal
savings, and knowing that all that you
are interested in at this moment is how
you can best use what you haye-your
labor, your farms, your products; in
word, all you want is an opportunity
to work, and when that opportunity is
furnished you you will perform the la
Dor, and there are not enough minis
in the United States or in the world to
give employment to the miners of Penn
sylvania. Therefore, my fellow citizens,
you must not be looking to the minis
for the money which you need. You
must look to the mines, to the mills and
the factories. Great appause.) You do
not mine coal unless somebody wants to
use that coal, and the more users of
coal there are, the more miners there
will be and the better will be their en-
ployment and their wages. (Cres of
Right, right.D
'Now, that is the whole philosophy of
this business. (Applause.) When you
have an opportunity to work you want
to be paid in dollars that are as good
as any in the world; when you have
given your good, hard blows in the
mines or in the factories, given the mine
owner or the factory-owner a good hon
est days work. you want to be paid in
good, honest dollars that will not de-
preciate over night tremendous cheer
ing) So what the country wants is
work and the continuance of the good
money we have, and the prevalence of
law and order. We want peace and
tranquility in this country; we want TO
preserve the honor of the government
of the United States, and we will re-
nounce reputation in every form. / am
glad to meet my fellow citizens from
the state of Pennsylvania. We have
in this country miners by the hundreds.
| know something about them. | know
that the only aim they have is an honest
one, TO stand by honest things, and |
know how the farmers of Stark county
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association to Maj Mckinley. who adj
dressed bis callers briefly, saying:
III gives me extreme pleasure to meet
the representatives Of the board Of mis-
sionS and Of publication Of The Evangeli-
cal Association Of the United States 1t
is indeed to me a very high compliment
to have body like yours turn aside from
its business sessions that call il together
10 make a visit to my home 20 give me
assurances Of your support and Of the
devotion which you have for the prin-
ciples for which | stand. ! appreciate
this call. ] would expect from body Of
religious men that they would stand by
public honor and public honesty as your
bishop has described | would expect
from Won that Won would stand by public
law, public tranquility and public secur-
ify. and the honor Of the country to
which You belong. Tt is the proud boast
of our American institutions that every
citizen beneath our flag can worship God
according 10 the dictates of his own con-
science in every corner Of this great
country. and | am always glad to meet
a body of men who have dedicated their
lives to the Improvement and bctterment
Of humanity, for as you better its eondi-
ton you elevate citizenship, and when
you elevate citizenship you have exalted
country | thank you for this call and
bid you all good afternoon" Great APP
plnuse)
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Canton. O.. Oct. I0.-"Thc greatest
political demonstration ever known was
the verdict Of the veteran observers oil
the events which occurred here today.
For weeks there has not been day,
except the Sabbath, in which MAJ. NC
Kinlcy has not been greeted by nuiDef-
Gus delegations. but today was the great
est Of them all
Before daylight the special trains bear
ing delegations of voters from poth me
old political parties began rolling. mo
the depot and as early as ociock
the inpatient visitors began forming IN
line to march to the modest home which
is now the Mecca for citizens OF M
states and sections, and for men OF all
past party affiliations. All day long
delegations of cheering, shouting men
from al The walks of life-workinglnen,
merchants, ministers, workers III iron
and clay and brass and steel, CONNER
cial statesmen, miners farmers, planters,
railroad men and grain Dealers
marched to Maj McI<inlcy's home, and
with huzzas, speech making and hand
shaking testified their regard Tor nlm
and the fealty of their states and sections
TO the cause which he represents.
Forty specal trains were required 10
bring the forty separate organizations
from twelve different states who sought
in this single day TO do honor to the
candidate of the Republican party, the
representative of sound money, sound
financial principles and sound govern
mcnt.
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VETERANS FROM MARYLAND.
Major Mckinley Delivers 10 Them an
Unusually Earnest Address.

Unusually Earnest Address
The Maryland G. A. Il. club. ono Of
The delegations of the day was honored
with one Of the most earnest addresses
Maj. Mckinley has yet delivered. In
response 10 Gen Theodore H. Lang. who
spoke for The Maryland visitors, Mai
Mckinley said:
The spectacle which we witness IN
Canton today is most encouraging and
inspiring There are delegations here
from New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio
Indiana. Michigan. Illinois and Mary
land Great applause and cries of
fowa.1 Yes, Iowa and Kentucky, and
on Yesterday we had delegations from
the Old Dominion state of Virginia and
from the state of Tennessee. All are
welcome to my home and city, for all of
them are moved by common purnose
aud that purpose is to save the country
from reputation and disbonor.
This visit on the part of my fellow
citizens from Maryland indicates their
concern al the present condition Of the
country. and manifests belief on their
part that the sooner il comes to an end
the more gratifying it will be. 1t is an
unmistakable expression of your belief
that the change most to be desired can.
only be secured through Republican,
triumph, and that you are Jealous end
alert to do yonr full part in bringing
about the result This campaign las
many peculiar phases. 1t involves the
most vital interests to country. II is
unique in American politics. One Of the
old and most hOnored political parties of
this country is very much divided this
year. A part of it has united with the
other parties, and in some of the states
the alliance has been rejected, and the
fusion repudiated, so that the condition
is not altogether and everywhere har-
monions. The old leaders of the Demo
cratic party, those who carried its bur-
dcns and fought its battles in the past.
framed in the city of indianapolis few
weeks ago an indictment against their
old party associates who met at Chicago,
which in severity has been uncqualed.
They pronounced the declarations Of the
Chicago convention, which was Demo
cratic in name, as an attack upon in
dividual freedom, right of private con-
tract, the independence of the judiciary
and authority of the President TO en-
force the laws of the United States.
Chicago Convention Arraigned.
"They charged the Chicago convention
with a reckless attempt to increase the
price of silver by legislation to the de-
basement of our monetary system, and
threatened unlimited issues of paper
money by the government. They pro-
claim in view of these and other grave
departures from Democratic principles
that they cannot support the candidate
of that convention, nor be bound by its
acts. They declare that the Democratic
party has survived many defeats, but
could never survive n victory won in he
half of the policy proclaimed in its rame
at Chicago On the money question they
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1000 COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.
Three Great States Send Their Travelling
Statesmen.

The second body of visitors was made
up of commercial travellers from New
York, Ohio and Indiana, and to their
tumultuous greeting Maj. Mckinley re-
sponded by saying.
Nobody knows sooner than the COM
mercial traveller whether times are good
or bad. No class of men so registers the
waves of business as the men who stand
before me here today. You are interest
ed in your occupations and in having
prosperity extend from one end of the
country to the other. You are interested
in having all of our workshops running;
all our mines in operation, and all our
workingmen constantly and profitably
employed. You are. therefore, this year
possibly more than ever before interested
in the triumph of the political principles
which enyelop the well-beng and high
est prosperity of the American people.
You know better than anybody else
that you cannot sell your goods to your
customers unless your customers can sell
goods to the people. You know that the
people cannot buy unless they have some
thing to do at which they can earn mon
ey, that they may buy them. That's
what is the matter with the country to-
day. That's the diagnosis of our eondi-
ton mt this hour Business has been
stopped; the wheels of industry are not
running idle men are on the streets.
Many of the manufacturing establish
ments are closed and you are not doing
as well you were in 1892.
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STEEL COMPANY EMPLOYEES.
A Delegation Of Three Hundred Work
ingInen.

\ DtiPEAifnb OF Anfee i1NGUFea " Ofk-
ingInen.
Concluding his preceding address 10
the miners. Maj. Mckinley had 10 but
face about 20 find patiently awaiting an
audience % some 800 steel workers, en-
ployed by the Otis Steel company of
Cleveland. This party was introduced
by Otto Grabicn, and Mai. Mckinley
responded briefly. saying:
II am honored by this visit and en-
couraged by it because / know that you
bring TO me assurances of loyalty to the
great principles of the Republican party
and of your untiring zeal to make these
principles victorious on the Sd day Of
November. This audience fairly repre-
sents the conditions with which the bust
ness of this country is done. The men
on the other side of me mine coal. The
men on this side use coal in their mills.
and because you so use il the others
mine ii. If you created no demand for
it there would be no demand for the
miner.
II use this illustration TO show you how
dependent we are upon each other; how
every thread of business is interviewer
with every other thread of business, and
when you snap one thread you injure NIL.
When the employer does not find it prof
liable 10 manufacture he ceases to do so.
and when he does not manufacture you
do not have employment. When he finds
it profita BILE to manufacture You have
steady employment Mt fair wages. Now,
what we want to do in this country is
to favor whatever policy will encourage
American industry and promote Amerl-.
can manufactures. That which viii
build more factories and give more en-
ployment to workingmen should be the
true, genuine and universally accepted
American policy.
II am one of those who believe that
we should look after our own people be-
lands, who owe no allegiance to the gov
eminent of the United States. | believe
the right policy is the one which pro-
tects the American workshop by putting
a tariff upon the products of the foreign
workshop. My fellow citizens, ! do not
believe that we ought to have a taHff
policy that VIII let the products of cheap
err lands and of unpaid labor come into
this country and destroy our manufac-
tories and impoverish and degrade our
labor. The protective policy is my pol
icy. 1t is the doctrine | have always
believed in, and ! make no apology to
anybody anywhere for holding that view,
and if on the Sd day of November the
American people in their sovereign ca
pacity shall decree that protective pol
lev Shall be restored and sound money
continue hope and fervently pray that
we will enter upon an era of prosperity
that will give happiness and comfort to
every American home. Tremendous
cheering aud cries of 'Hurrah for Me-
Kinley.') ] thank you for this call and
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SOUND MONEY RAILROAD MEN.
Employees Of Cleveland, Akron and CO.
Iumbus Company.


The employees Of the Cleveland Akron
and Columbus Railway company and
sound money clubs of Akron. o., were
introduced by Mr.. Sampson, and were
addressed by the Republican nominee as
follows:
II am glad to have The assurance
through your spokesman that you be.
licve that the triumph of the principles
for which the Republican party now
stands will be best for you, and so be-
lieving that you intend to vote the Re
publican ticket | think you all for this
greeting | feel that you are not strang
ers to me. | have been riding over your
lines for more than twenty years, and
know many of your employers; and | do
not know of any business in the country
where its employees can so definitely
know the condition of the business of the
country as the men who are employed
by the railroads. You know it in the
shop, you know it in the ticket Office. you
know it travelling on the trains; every
switchman, every brakeman, every con-
ductor, and every engineer knows the
condition of the business of the country
and of the railroad by the amount of
business that railroad does. He knows
when the country is prosperous and when
it is in a state of depression, and he does
not have to wait for the report of the d.
rectors of the railroad to know whether
there have been any dividends declared
or not He knows it from the amount
of work and the amount of wages he
, receives.
Now, my fellow citizens, you are
prosperous when the country is prosper
Gus, and the country is prosperous when
it takes care of its own people, its own
manufacturers. its own mines, aud prod
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Congressman Boutelie Speaks for
State of Blaine and Reed.

Congressman BouteIie Speaks for the
State of Blaine and Reed.
Ono of the distinguished visitors of the
day was Congressman Bontelle of Maine
who was introduced TO one of the visit
ing delegations by Mr. Mckinley, with
such happy words that he could not es-
cape participating in the speech maLing
which Gov. Mckinley was expected to
alone perform. At the close of one OF
the addresses Mr.. Mckinley, turning to
Mr.. Boutelle, who stood near him, said:
1--WE have present with MS Gen Bou-
telle of Maine, and while the delegation
is marching up the hill (another delega-
ton was then approaching) | am sure
you viii be glad to hear voice from
MS nearly 10000 majority" (Applause
and cheers.)
Mr.. Boutelle said
'"The governor has taken a slight adj
vantage over me in bringing me before
you, but | desire to say to you that there
is no Republican in the state of Maine
who would not deem it an honor and
privilege to stand here, at the residence
of William Mckinley of Ohio and thank
you for the splendid manifestations Of
loyalty which you have exhibited here.
We have got through with our little
piece of work in Maine; we have set the
mark, $4,000 high, for the other states
Of the American Union TO go by. We
want to see Ohio more than double it.
We want to see Indiana come up with
60000. and we are going TO see, my
friends, on the Sd day of November a de-.
feat of free trade, free silver, and repu-
diation more disastrous than has ever
before overtaken demagogism in this
country, and now, gentlemen. ! propose
three hearty cheers for the next Presi-
dent of the United States" (They were
given with VIM
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beneficial use OF both can be insured only
by the adoption of the former as the
standard OF monetary measure and The
maintenance of silver at parity with
gold by its limited coinage under suitable
safeguards of law. Thus the largest pos
Slble employment of both metals is
gained with value universally accepted
throughout the world, which constitutes
the only practical bimetalic currency,
assuring the most stable standard end
especially the best and safest money for
all who earn their livelihood by labor or
the produce of husbandry. They cannot
suffer when paid in the best money
known 10 man, but are the peculiar and
most defenseless victims of a debased
and Huctuating currency, which offers
continual profits to the money changer
at their cost.
"What have read, my fellow citizens.
is not the statement of the Republican
convention, but of a Democratic con
vention, the most representative which
probably ever assembled in the country
Senator'S and representatives in public
life today. leaders of the Democratic
party IN their respective states, thus de-
nounce the Democratic convention held
in the city of Chicago. They speak
words Of truth and soberness. You can
not debase the currency of the United
States without degrading the public hon
They repudiate their own party conven-
ton and characterize its resolutions as
unsound, injudicious, unpatriotic, and
revolutionary. They are to be COM
mended by every lover of his country
everywhere for their courageous stand
and for their bold denunciation Of doc
trines which, although adopted by con-
vention representing large body of
Democrats, are a menace to the peace
and tranquility, the credit and the cur
rency of the country.
The Crisis is BraveIy Met.
at falls to the Republican party this
year, as in many other years of the past,
to carry the standard of national honor.
and it shall never be lowered in it's
hands. 1t meets the crisis with the old
time courage, and if it is given power
the whole world win know that it will
never permit the currency of the country
to be debased or its financial honor
stained. Our adyersaries talk fluently
about the money of the fathers"
want to say for the fathers that their
money was always good and honest.
They insist that gold and silver alike
constitute the money of the constitution
and the currency established by the early
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right. and Grover Ceveland's administra-
ton has kept it good. We propose TO
continue that good, sound. unquestioned.
undepreciating money with which to do
the business of this great country. (Great
chccring)
a Glance Into History.
what nation we arel Why, in
1860. when Abraham Lincoln of blessed
memory, the immortal hero of emancpa,
ton and the war, when he took control
of this government our entire wealth was
SIG, 900. 000, 900. When Benjamin Iarri-
son went out it was S63 100000, 900, and
more than two-thirds of the great war
debt had been wiped out. Since that time
we have been doing little else but make
debts for the government and debts for
the people. | am greatly honored by this
call. Too many delegations are visiting
me today TO permit my longer OBTAINING
you. appreciate this visit. 1t is inspir-
ing to the cause which | represent, and
will encourage the Republican spirit ev-
erywhere. | know the value of the
commercial traveller When he is against
you, look out" Great laughter and APP
plause.)
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place and goes out of the channels Of
business and legitimate Investment and
away from farming, manufacturing and
mining enterprises. ] do not know of a
better illustration Of the value Of con-
fidence TO the country than is found in
our own experience during The last
twenty years.
Some Financial History.
"You will remember that this country
resumed specie payments January /,
1879 We had outstanding then, as we
have now, $34G,000,000 of what is com
monty known ms greenback currency.
Every dollar of that from that date was
redeemable in gold upon presentation Mt
the treasury of the United States. SO
great WIS the confidence of the people
in the ability of the country that from
1879 to 1898 but 4G,000,000 of dollars
were presented for redemption. and the
gold was taken out; S46,000,000 in four
teen years. and yet in the last three and
half years. since confidence has been
disturbed, more than S2OOOO0.O0O of
greenbaeks have been presented TO the
treasury Of the United States aud the
gold taken out.
Now, il confidence had existed, if the
holders of these greenbac 5 had not
been fearful and they were only made
so because tho treasury of the United
States was not collecting enough money
to pay its bills, that the revenues of the
treasury were inadequate for public OK
penditures, and alarmed, as they were,
they would not have sent their green
backs in for redemption. The gold re-
serve was encroached upon, and from
time to time we have been compelled to
sustain il. to borrow gold to put into the
treasury of the United States. Now, the
Republican party believes it is the duty
of the government first to raise enough
money TO run the government. We don't
want any deficiencies in the public treas
ury, and If we have no deficiency we
viii have no debts, and if we have no
debts we will have no bonds, and when
we have no deficiencies everybody will
have confidence in the solvency of the
treasury of the United States.
Necessity for n High Tariff.
"Thcn, my fellow citizens we not only
believe in raising enough money to run
the government, but we believe in having
n tariff upon foreign competing products
high enough to protect American labor
and American manufactures. We be-
lieve il is the first duty of the govern
ment of the United States to protect and
defend lis citizens. 1t is the poorest
policy on the part of the government to
give work to the laborer of other ma
tions 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
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ere benefited when the miues &c STARK
coBHfy arr running
u illHHk y1H ovtf and over again for
this call must neW fnfn "a he other
side 81 this stand and address another
delegation. the members Of which have
the same purpose IN their hearts that
You victory FOR ihp principles Of
projections. honest money and good gov
ernment Wircaf applause. ! thank
you and bid y0H good afternoon.
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TWENTY CAR LOADS.
PENNSYLVANIA and Michigan Join in Early
HnnOrS.

HOIlOfN.
Twenty car loads of people from Penn
sylvania and Michigan were the first TO
get Mai McKinley's attention. Ihey
were AT his door AT O'Clock and 70 inc
brief addresses of their spokesman Mr.
McK nley responded by saying:
'.Yonr early call is an example OF
promptpess which | trust will be fol-
lowed ON the Sd of November in every
part of our country The best thing in
this world next TO liberty 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 administration of the gov
ernment of the United States to enjoy to
a larger degree than we have done in
the mast fhrae and one. half years. Whit
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PRONOUNCED THE GREATESTEvE INPOLITICAL HISTORY"
Eleven States and Three National Organizations Send
Greetings to the Republican Candidate.
Countless Thousands Throng the Streets of Canton and Listen
to His Words of Patriotism.

dollars any more than we want light
weights. We are in favor of good, round
100cent dollars with which TO pay the
labor of this country and measure the
exchanges of the American people and
we will have no other kind.
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ONE DAY AT CANTON.

umph. Goud cries of ave well WE
will" followed hy threc rousing cheers
for the next President"J
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THREE STATES ABREAST.

Delegations from Illinois, Iowa and
Pennsylvania Grouped.
Scarcely had the preceding crowd va
Gated the lawn when the shouts and
cheers of another coming up the street
were heard This was composed of the
Hardware Mems Sound Money club of
Reading, Pa, and railroad men and