The record-union., 1896-10-02

hats in the air and shouted for several
minutes
Major r. B. Herver, commanding the
Mckinley and Hobart Brigade, called
the meeting to order, and the members
OF the brigade arose and saluted the
candidate
j. c. Barnett introduced the spokes-
man, Judge John G. Miller who made
brief speech bristling with good points.
In response, Major Mckinley said:
1T gives me extreme pleasure TO meet
at my home to-day the representative
citizens of Springfield and Clark
County. / have long since known that
there was nothing small about the peo-
pie of Springfield and Clark County
(great cheering), and I never stand be-
fore Springfield audience without see
ing come unbidder to my lips some of
the precious names associated with that
enterprising city - Shallabarger Gap
plause) was not only a distinguished
lawyer, but an eminent statesman. ana
that dear old citizen, Judge White (ap-
plause), whose learning enriched the
judiciary Of the State; names like those
come to me whenever I see a Springfield
audience. (Applause) 1t is not given
to many cities to have furnished, as
yours has. as distinguished and valu-
able statesman as the eX-Speaker of
the National House of Representatives
J. Warren Keifer.. (Applause) Nor is
1t given to many cities to have fur
nished, as yours has, that splendid ideal
business man and distinguished Exec
utive, the present Governor Of Ohio,
Asa I. Bushnell. Great cheering)
Cyrus H. Mccormack of Chicago, who
was at the head of one of the great
harvesting machine companies, the
strength and integrity of which the
country is familiar with, recently wrott
as follows: We have never before beer
so at a loss to lay out our plans and
work for the next season as We are at
this time. If we thought that the coun-
try would go for the unlimited coinage
of silver we would not wish to run our
shops for more than one half their ca
pacity.'
I'VE have in that statement, my fell
low-citizens, a description of our busi-
ness troubles, and it teaches striking
lesson which must impress every think
ing man. The manufacturer does not
know how to plan for next years buSi
ness because of the financial uncertain-
" created by the attitude of one of the
great political parties. (Applause and
cries of That's right.') If free silver
is to be inaugurated in this country it
Will change all values, disarrange the
relations of labor, production of raw
material to the finished product and un-
settle all conditions of existing business
and property. (Cries of That's what
1T VIII dO.D This certainly makes ev-
cry business man pause; capital hest
tates to invest. because it sees danger
ahead and is unable to count with GER
tainty upon either the safety of its
principal or the return Of profits.
Take your own city. which has here
tofore been one of the busiest centers
in the manufacture of agricultural i'm
plements, employing 5000 laborers, or
once did. Great laughter and ap-
plause) To cut that employment in
two would be not only a calamity tc
labor, but would be a calamity to every
interest In your city and to every farm
er IN your county Your business fairly
illustrates the close relations between
the manufacturer and the agricultural
producer. When you are prosperous
the farmer is prosperous. When the
FARMER Is prosperous you have your
most profitable trade Business of
every character is SO interviewer. so in
terdependent upon every other busi-
ness that to hurt one is to hurt the
other. In 1892 people used TO think
that you could hurt the manufactured
and help the rest of mankind. They
labor under no such delusion now De-
nland IS What makes business activity
The sickle and the fail might still be
IN use but for the pressing demand for
the great grain fields of America. You
make agricultural implements because
the FARMER wants them: but when he
does not want them you will not make
them, or wants fewer Of them Won win
not make SO many, and when that time
comes and you diminish your output
you do not require so much labor. and
that is what makes poverty and idle
ness.
we must have stability in values and
confidence in national and individual
integrity before We will have real and
permanent prosperity We must have
confidence that our revenue legislation
viii supply adequate money for the pub
lie treasury and protect American labor
and American interests in every part
Of the country. Great cheering and
cries Of "Hurrah for McKinley.")
Alexander Hamilton once said:
There is scarcely any point in the econ
omy of national affairs Of greater mo-
ment that the uniform preservation of
the intrinsic value of the money unit.
ON this the security and steady value Of
property essentially depends (Ap-
plause)
I'VE must get over the idea, my fell
low-citizens. if we ever had it, that Con-
eress by its mere breath can make some
thing out of nothing; that it can decree
that - cents worth of silver shall be
worth 100 cents. Congress can do much;
it can protect the life and property of
citizens. as it should do: it can provide
revenue laws which will make the
treasury easy and protect American
producers from the unrestricted compe-
tition of the old world. 1t can do that.
and it must do that tremendous cheer
ing). but it cannot by it's mere decree
make dollar of 100 cents out of piece
Of coin which sells in every market of
the world for 81 cents. (Applause) The
great Senator from New York, Roscoe
Conkling, once said: I do not believe
that you can legislate up the value of
anything any more than / believe you
can make Generals heroes by legisla
ton (Applause)
The Continental Congress tried to
legislate values up by resorting to pen
alties. but the exorable laws of trade,
as independent as the law of gravity,
kept them down. (Applause) Good
credit and good currency are as indis
pensable to labor as to capital. and he
who teaches any other doctrine is an
enemy of your country's prosperity"
tremendous cheering)
After the speech-making there were
songs by the glee club, and T. J. Thomas