The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1896-10-31
THE CLOSING DAYS
continue to Witness Calling Dele
cations at Canton.
FROM The VALLEY or THE KAHlWLH
Journeyed Party Of Souni Money
Pilgrims, Who Were Briefly Ad.
dressed BY Maj. Mckinley
Piushurgh Business Men.

CANTON, o., Oct. 30. The FIRST OF the
nine delegations scheduled to visit
canton for the purpose Of enliveniue
.ne closing days of the campaign for
Maj. Mckinley, arrived at a. m. and
came from Charleston, w. Va. and the
valley Of the Kanawah. The exeur.
sion was organized by the sound
money club of the Kanawah & Mich.
lgan employees. W NJ. Brown ure-
sented the delegation to Mai. MeKin-
ley who addressed il beisily. he said:
II Is the proud heast y ssf Sme-tsan siti-
Aenshlp hat everyone ot Us is equal before
.ne law that our constitution and our Ihws
recognize neither creed, color nor condition,
ou. III allAe are ameuable to the constitution
anu laNs' all alike enjoy their blessings and
oenenss; and all alike are equal In the
exercise oI that great sovereign power, the
ballot which next Tuesday you will, I trust.
exercise for your own best Interests and the
interests OF your state and country. Some
people seem to think that the way to get rich
h hs country is to depreciate
tse quality OF the money We
have tlaaghterl, and some people have
gone so Tar as to say that II does not make any
difference about the quality OF the money, so
VIC only nave the quantity. | think some of
the men standing arounl me to-day, who were
across the river during tho late civil war, will
remember that quality had very much
TO do with the value OF the money.
and that while there was quantity
IN plenty OF certain kind Of money,
the quality Of II was 80 poor 1t would scarcely
buy breakfast. Gen. Longstreet recently
sald IN speech at Augusta. Ga: III was said
OF the confederate money during the war that
a big hamper basketml OF il was sent to
market for basketful of supplies for
daily family use. The last breakfast I
had IN Rlchuond before Gen Lee pulled
US away from there, was u small steak, plain
biscuit and warm water that had a faint
suspicion Of coIce about IL; AMI this sumptu-
Gus repast cost me exactly SO in con ederate
money and felt then | was swinding mine
host, as Grants guns called me to work on the
field have heard poor private had to pay
600 for still scauter meal"
What we wunt In this country my fellow.
citizens, no matter where we live, no matter
what our occupations may be, is good. honest
dollar that has value in IL. When we give our
labor to our employer, when we give our eight
or ten hours q "A days work to the railroad
Volpauyt we naNc given tnem tue Dest we
have, and we want In return dollars that repre-
sent the value OF the work we give to those
railroad companies. Cries OF That's right"
and "Hurrah for Mckinley
We want no deprecated dollars In the United
States We have had shsrt hours Tor the last
three years aud half We don't like aud don't
want short dollars. Then there are some peo-
pie who seem to believe that the way to get
on best is to have one body OF our citizens ar
rayed against another. | do not believe that
/ believe we are all brothers, all equal
all of us have right to aspire
to the highest and best things in free govern
ment like ours. Continuous eheering) The
most glorious thing our hi tory has dem IN
strated is that the poorest and humbest boy,
with the poorest surroundings, but with clean
hands and pure heart, may reach the highest
places In the gift OF the republic.
An interesting party of representa-
tive Pittsburgh business men arrived
at 1880. They were met by the recep-
tion committee and taken in carriages
to Mai. McKinley's residence, where
they were received in the library. In
the party were: Col. j. NJ. Schoon-
maker, John r. Mctiinley, w. 5. ABB
bott, w. w. Lawrence, o. II. Childs,
I. A. Gillespie, A. w. Wood, Ii. c.
Fowncs, w. c. Magee, James Lough-
lin, Jr., W. W. Wilcox and E. NJ. Fer
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