The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-14
SPEECHES BY M'KINLEY
UTTERANCES OF THE REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE ON SATURDAY.
His Replies to Greetings from Chi
cagO Democrats, ssHomesteaders-'
and Railway Employees.

Owing to the crowded condition of the
wires Saturday night, the Journal did not
receive all the speeches delivered by Major
Mckinley in time for it's railroad edition.
They are therefore given in full below.
In reply to greetings from the Democratic
Mckinley Club of Chicago, one thousand
strong, he said:
Mr.. Hofstadt and Gentlemen of the
Democratic Commercial Mckinley Club, of
Chicago-Your call is most gratifying to
me and most encouraging to the cause in
which we are jointly engaged. To have
senting every branch of mercantile inter-
est in the great city of Chicago belong
with which am associated, pay me visit
is peculiarly significant, and demonstrates
in a most striking manner that the great
conservative force of all parties can be re-
lied to unite in every crisis of the coun-
try. Tremendous cheering) That you
should have travelled nearly four hundred
miles to bring me assurance of support
shows your deep solicitude for the honor
of your country and signaifzes the inter
est which is everywhere felt that the good
faith of the Nation shall not be broken and
that its credit and currency shall not be
Good, good!) 1t shows too that party
lines, strong as they are, are not strong
highest and best interests. (Tremendous
applause and cries of That's rightly
What Governor Morris said long years ago
is peculiarly applicable now: Let US forget
party and think of our country (Cries of
We wfll!O That country embraces both
parties. We must endeavor, therefore, to
serve and benefit both. This cannot be eff
fected while political decisions array good
men against each other. applause.
Il sometimes think my fellow-citizens
silver and an irredeemabie unlimited paper
currency which now confronts as was
needed to convince the whole world that
the old section lines are oblterated and
cious enough to control against the
countrys welfare. tremendous. cheering
onstrated it will be worth to national
spirit to patriotism and The national honor
anxious fear and apprehension. CAP
plause)
You have said, Mr.. President. that Won
are still Dem ocrats. 0aughter) 1 cannot
expect of you to be otherwise, but now as
ni td an nde, OF the war n9 men Oh an parties
immortal Lincoln great cheering}, who
stood for the national Union and the flag
same sentiment of patriotism, you unite
with the Republican party because 1t car
scribed American honor and American
prosperity. Tremendous cheering and
cries of Hurrah for Mckinley!D
Gentlemen, am profoundly impressed
by this call, and while differing from me-
as you have stated in minor policies of
government, yet L welcome you, every one
of you, as patriotic citizens associated in
this great contest for the triumph of law
and order (applause), for national honor
and public and private honesty. CRenewed
applause and cries of Good!O Our free in
stitutions will never perish SO long the
ism, which you have exhibited in tenn
porarily turning away from your party, be-
public and private credit and is menace
to public and private morals. (Enthusias-
tic cheering and cries of That's right!)
A NOBLE CAUSE.
'It is a noble cause which engages and
inspires this large body of commercial men.
Vrio Of
stitutional authority and law is the highest
obligation of American citizenship. Gre
newed cries of That's rightD Standing by
the public faith is a call of supreme duty.
Great applause.) Preserving the public
credit untainted the currency uncorrupted
and both above challenge anywhere in the
world is the command of simple honesty
and good morals. Cheers and cries of
Good, good!O I appreciate the grave
sponsibility which, by the action of my
party and the force of circumstances has
been placed upon me-a responsibility
which would be almost impossible to bear
but for the consciousness that l have the
sympathy and support of patriotic men of
all parties from one end of this country to
the other. Great cheering and cries of
We will stand by you, Major.D
"One of the phases of the political strug
gle this year, my fellow-citizens, is wheth-
err we shall have good money or whether
we shall have poor money. (Cries OF We
want good money!O The mere statement
answer, as it has from you without ar
gument or elaboration. Everybody ought
to want good money. (Cries Of We do!)
people great cheering, and the United
States government will have no other.
(Renewed cheering and cries of 'Hurrah for
McKinley!) There are good people doubt
less who Delie that free coinage of silver
at T. to viii keep rs every de Hrg as goq6 @s
money But Will it? (Cries of No, no.
'Never!o All authority in our country and
throughout the world is against it. Is it
reasonable that the stamp of the govern
ment can make 80 cents worth Of silver
a proposition is opposed by reason and
experience. If it can make 50 cents worth
of silver equal to 100 cents then the same
power can make anything which it may see
lit to call dollar equal TO 100 cents
Great applause and cries of That's so!)
money n9n ATTY at an9 "a (cries of Good good If
the governments stamp can impart it,
then paper with such stamp would an,
swer the same purpose and. besides, would
be the cheapest and most convenient.
Great cheering and cries of You are
What just or honest reason can be
found that money should not be as
good and equal to the best in the World dt
have anything but the best in the United
States. Tremendous applause and cries of
dent!) We have the best money now, and
that is what it has been since 1873. Inat
is what II Will continue 10 De II lLe ne
publican party is given control of every
branch of the government. Great APP
plause and cries of 1t will be given; that
all right!) That is what it will not be If
our enemies shall triumph CRenewed ap-
plause. and cries of They won't triumph!o
GOLD THE ONLY STANDARD.
IF we were starting out now, gentlemen,
to originate a new financial system would
we make a different one from that we now
have? {Cries of No. No!O We might in
some minor particulars, but would we not
select the metal for our standard which
was the most stable and unfuctuating in
value and the most generally recog-
nized by the leading commercial nations
of the world? (Cries of Yes! yes!o We
would make our standard of that metal
| which was the steadiest in price. (Cries of
| That's rightly We would not overlook
| the fact for a single moment that gold Will
| sell for as much before it is coined
| as it will sell for afterward. Is it not best
| money of a metal which sells Ter as much
| in bullion as il sells for when mlnted, and
/ is just as valuable out of the mint as In It;
| that loses nothing even if 1t is melted, and
which is of the same value II every mark
| of the government stamp is efaced? cloud
/ cries OF Yes. yeS.) A metal whose market