The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-27
Said Some People We're Always
Stirring Up Strife.
PRAISES CLEVELAND.
Has Good Words For Present
Administration.
Says 1t Has Maintaine What
Republicans Started.

Jay however was surprise, even TO
the much surprised Cantonians. Or
gained delegations came from Massa-
chusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio. Indiana and Illinois. The New
Jersey Frehnghuysen Iancers set the
style and the day throughout was dis
tinguished by the most handsome para
phernalia of parade yet witnessed.
The Erie railway emplOye delegates
were numbered by thousands. When
Major Mckinley returned from attend
ing the funeral of the late Charles Mil
Ter the paraders began their marches
They gathered and packed and swayed
about the house The temporary re
viewing stand is not allowed to stand
after the day is over There was
therefore, no place to speak from but
the porch. The tables had to be car
ried from the house to imprOvise rOs-
trum so that the people jammed soldly
across the street and crowded upon the
lawns of neighbOrS' homes could hear.
Torpedo cannOns were exploded, rock
cts fired and tin horns were blown
Nearly all of the Introductory speeches
referred to the coercion charge of Mr.
Bryan and several spokesman cha1-
lenged the proof for single case OF CO
erciOn. Major Mckinley again referred
to the charge of forcing employees, say
ing: There are some people who seem
to think that the best way to get on in
this world is to be against one another
and that there is natural antagOnlsn
between those who employ labor and
turbed whenever they discover that the
employer of labor and labor itself are
on good terms, and whenever that &C
ours they commence crying coercion
1t is not coercion it is cooperation,
the one working with the other for the
public good and for their advantage
seYerally.'
This and similar sentences were re-
ceived with tumultuous applause,
cheering and waving of flags
Major Mckinley in the course of his
response to Engineer George Menish OF
North JudsOn, Ind, who spoke on be
half of the employees of the railroad,
said: L am glad to note among your
number your wives and families The
women of this country are quite as
much interested in the rightful settle
ment of political questions as the men
/ They are quite as much interested in
good times, good laws good morals and
! patriotism as the men of the country
are; and it has been a pleasure to me
to note that in all this exciting cam
J paign the women of the United states
l have manifested q deep and profound
! interest You are here today number
! ing thousands from half dozen states.
I There is one glory of Which we can
boast and no other nation can ana thal
! is that ours is government OF the
( people and of all the people, and not a
/ part of the people.
The vote of one man, no matter
what may be his occupation, no mat
| ter what may be his surroundings,
whether they be humble or whether
they be exalted. counts just as much on
that supreme day as the vote OF any
! other man It IS our proud boast, too.
| that every man owns his own vote 1t
is his priceless privilege which no man
/ or com binatiOn has a right to assam or
/ question I want each one or the PEG
/ ME OF this country, as in the years of
/ the past, to cast his ballot so as to sub
serve his own highest ana pest lnuei
ests Why, here is almost a panic
among some people of this country be-
/ cause employees and employers are
marching under the same hags, as
though there was something un-Amer1-
/ can about the fraternity between the
men who employ labor ana the LABOR
they employ.
"Why, there is no union anywhere
\ that should be stronger than the union
between labor and capital Ine one
| cannot get on without the other Capt.
I tai won't run a railroad without pfOnl
/ any more than a conductor Will run ms
I train without pay
Capital will no more work without pro
/ fit than the engineer will run his engine
1 without pay What we want IN TINS
country is a restoration of that conn
! dence that will give 10 capltdl p4Olit
| and have it make liberal investments
/ and employ labor at liberal wages
/ Whatever pOlfcy will do that should be
/ the policy Of the American people lot
alI time to come. VIII a policy DO Inal
/ which has American goods manu1ac luf-
/ ed in England rather than in the Dnlted
/ States. (Lout shouts; No no. never }
/ No answer. forever. no
! slThere is Just one thing it viii do,and
/ that is to protect every industry in this
/ country from ruin. Stop competition
from abroad and give our producers
! his splendid home market and our
] ware earners this magnificent wage
! center then we want to open up, py re
/ ciprocity provisions, a foreign market
for our surplus products of agriculture
! and manufacture, and when We nave
/ done that we have put every man TO
/ work in this country and when every
man is at work every home and 1afnlly
/ in the land is happy w men every rae
/ +O,-v and man is at work in this cOun-
| try then railroads have plenty TO 90,
( but when they are dull and silent the
/ railroads have little to do. me men
standing here today know better tfau
/ T can tell them how much they have
suffered from a policy that mas stricken
/ down enterprise and industry ana
transmitted our work peyoha q lne seas
| to be done beneath another nag
eve want to vote, if we belleVe IN
/ this policy to restore industry W { want
further TO pay our debts In honest DOL
Isrs-not only our public debts, but our
private ones too; not only paying one
| bOdv of our people in good money, Dut
! all classes of the people IN the same
money and all Of it unquesuoned ana
MISUNDERSTANDING forever This is the
I<ird of money we have tOday-gold,sil-
yer and paper. all alike, equal and all
worth one hundred cents to the dollar
| everywhere; and that's what we pro
! r7osa to continue. There is no man who
/ thinks for a moment that we will not
reject the suggestion that you can en-
rich anybody by debaslng the dollar
or that YOU can make anybody under
the sun better off by coming a piece of
/ rectal that is worth only 50 cents every
where in the world. and then try to fool
one another by calling 1t q dollar
IF there is anything in this world
! that ought to be unQuestiOned and
! above suspicion il is the money of the
country. We want no false weights;