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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22
MAINE HEARD FROM.

congressman BOutelle Speaks for %h>
state of Blaine and Reed.
One or the distinguished visitors Of tbe
Jay was congressman Bontelle of Maine
VINO was introduced to one of rho v;s;t'
ing delegations by Mr.. Mckinley. With
such happy words that he could not es-
ape participating in the speech-mnkinp
wien 10y. Mckinley was expected to
alone perform. AT the close nf ono ~
the addresses Mr.. McEfiI,v t,,rnm :.
Mr.; Boutelle. who stood ,,,r I'm, s.;S.
we nave present wiz. =; Gen, Pom.
!eiie o. Maine, and Will, the deIcpation
rs marching up the hill (anot.,er de!era.
ZION was then approaching) am afro
you VIII be glad to hear a voice from
the state Of Elaine that has lust civeS
us nearly $1,000 majority" JAnnIamss
Mr.. Boutelle said.
me governor has taken a slight al.
vantage over ME in bringing mo- hofna
you. but l desire to say to Won tha4 o ~
IS no Republican in the state Of MsSe
VINO would not deem it an honor and =
privilege to stand here, at the rcs;danca
OF Wliiiam Mckinley of Ohio and thanL
you Tor the splendid manifestation ~
loyalty which you have exhibited ho,a
we nave got through with our liftia
piece or work in Maine: we have set tha
marx. oo,oOO high. for the other states
OF the American Union to 20 by. We
want TO see Ohio more than donble r.
81 Me no want to see Indiana come up with
fr;anS: ana we are going to see, my
Ieat OF free trade, free silver. ana ran,,.
aiatlon more disastrous thar ha. aror
oeIore overtaken demagogism in th;.
country, and now, gentlemen. I nrors,.s
lnree hearty cheers for the NEXT pres;.
lem OF the United States" CThey wore
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22
SOUND MONEY RAILROAD MEN.
Employees Of Cleveland, Akron and CO.
lumbus Company.

Employees Of Cleveland, Akron and CO.
lumbus Company.
The employees of the Cleveland. Akron
and Columbus Railway company and
sound mone 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-
lieve that the triumph of the principles
for which the Republican party now
lieving that you intend to vote the Re-
publican ticket. | think you all for this
greeting. / feel that you are not strang-
crs to me. l have been riding over your
lines for more than twenty years. and I
know many of your employers: and l do
not know of any business in the country
where its employees can SO definitely
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
switehman. 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 di-
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.
Snow, my fellow citizens, you are
prosperous when the country is prosper
Gus. and the country is prosperous when
it takes care Of it's own people. it's own
manufacturers, its own mines, and prod
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22
1000 COM MERCIAL TRAVELLERS.
Three Great States Send Their Travelling
Saleslnen.

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 p~rofitably
employed. You are. therefore. this year
possibly more than ever before interested
in the triumph Of the political principles
which enyelop the weil-being 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 soine
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 condi-
ton at 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 as you were in 1892.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22
VETERANS FROM MARYLAND.
Major Mckinley Delivers to Their q
Unusually Earnest Address.

Major Mckinley Delivers to Them an
Unusually Earnest Address.
The Maryland G. A. r. club, n OF
the delegations of the day. was honored
with one of the most earnest addresses
Maj. Mckinley has vet delivered. In
response to Gen. Theodore +. Lang, who
spoke for the Maryland visitors, Maj.
Mckinley said:
1.-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
'Iowa.") Yes, Iowa and Kentucky, and
on yesterday WI had delegations from
the Old Dominion state of Virginia nnd
from the state of Tennessee. All are
welcome to my home and city. for all of
them are moved by a common purpose,
and that purpose is to save the country
from reputation and dishonor.
This visit on the part of my fellow
citizens from Maryland indicates their
concern at the present condition Of the
country. and manifests a belief on their
part that the sooner it comes to IN 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 a Republican
tAAuulpus duu lu0I yOu u oAO IL
alert to do your full part in bringing
about the result. This campaign has
many peculiar phases. 1t involves the
most vital interests to country. It 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-
monious. The old leaders of the Demo-
cratic party, those who carried its bur-
dens and fought its battles in the past,
framed in the city of Indianapolis a few
weeks ago an indictment against their
old party associates who met at Chicago,
which in severity has been u%nequaled.
They pronounced the declarations If 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 n 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. hut
could never survive a victory won in be.
half of the policy proclaimed in it's name
Mt Chicago. On the money question they
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22

:iirm that the experience of mankind
has shown that by reason of their ratur-
al qualities gold is the necessary money
OF the large affairs Of commerce and bnsi-
ness, while silver is conveniently adapt
ed to minor transactions; and the most
beneficial use of both can be insured only
Dy the adoption of the former as the
standard of monetary measure and The
maintenance of silver at a parity with
gold by its limited coinage under suitable
safeguards of law. Thus the largest pos
sible employment of both metals is
gained with a value universally accepted
throughout the world, which constitutes
the only practical bimetallic currency,
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 to man, but are the peculiar and
most defenseless victims of a debased
and ~fuctuating currency, which offers
continual profits to the money changer
at their cost.
"What l 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.
Senators 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 cam
not debase the currency of the United
States without degrading the public hon
or. They speak the voice of patriotism.
They repudiate their W party conyen-
ton and characterize it's resolutions az
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 d~enunciation of doc
trines which, although adopted by a con-
vention representing a large body of
Democrats, are a menace to the peace
and tranquility, the credit and the cur
rency of the country.
The Crisis II BraveIy Met.
'It 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 will know that it will
never permit the currency of the country
to be debased or its financial honor
stained. Our adversaries talk fluently
about the money of the fathers" I
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
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22
MINERS OF ANTHRACITE COAL.

Three Hundred Workingmen from the
Pennsylvania Coal District.
The little reviewing stand was brought
into reQuisition at this point, when the
crowd had become SO dense that the
porch could no longer be used, and Maj.
Mckinley faced some 800 miners from
the anthracite district of Pennsylvania,
who were introduced BY Prof. w. r.
Gregory. Maj. 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 hat
there is no way to earn a living or ac-
cumulate property except by labor and
savings, and knowing that all that you
are interested in at this moment is how
you a best use what you have-yOur
labor, your farms, your products; in a
word, all you want is an opportunity
to work, and when that opportunity is
ios.. and there are not enough minis
in the United States or in the world to
rive employment to the miners of Penn
syivania. Therefore, my fellow citizens,
you must not be looking to the mints
for the money which you need. You
must look to the mines, to the mills and
the factories. (Great applause.) You do
MT uAAAAC COul uHlCHc hOlLlCUOuy WunlS ~
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 g (Cries Of
Right, right.)
"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
rs 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-
p~reciate 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 raj to
preserve the honor of the government
Of the United States, and we will re-
nounce population in every form. am
glad to meet my fellow citizens from
the state of Pennsylvania. We have
in this country miners by the hundreds.
I know something about them. ! know
that the only aim they have ID an honest
one, to stand by honest things, and !
know how the farmers Of Stark county
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22
STEEL COMPANY EMPLOYEES.
A Delegation Of Three Hundred Work.
ingmen.

ingmen.
Concluding his preceding address to
the miners, Maj. Mckinley had to but
face about to find patiently awaiting an
audience of some 300 steel workers. en-
ployed by the Otis Steel company of
Cleveland. This party was introduced
by Otto Grabien, and Maj. Mckinley
responded briefly. saying:
II am honored by this visit and en-
couraged by 1t because l 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 sid of me mine coal. The
men on this side use coal in their mills,
and because you 80 use it the others
mine it. 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 husiness is interviewer
when You snap one thread you injure all.
When h employer does not find it prof
itable to manufacture he ceases to do SO,
n when he does not manufacture you
do not have employment. When he finds
1t profitable to manufacture you have
steady employment at fair wages. Now,
what we want to do in this country is
to favor whatever policy will encourage
American industry and promote Ameri-
can manufactures. That which will
build more factories and give more en-
ployment to w~orkingmen should be the
true, genuine and universally accepted
American policy.
II m one of those who believe that
we should look after our own people be-
fore we look after the people of other
lands, who owe no allegiance to the gov
ernment'of the United States. l 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. l do not
believe that we ought to nave a tariff
policy that will 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 l 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 a protective pol
icy shal be restored and sound money
continue. l 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 and cries of "Hurrah for Me-
kinley.'D | thank you for this call and
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22
IRON WORKERS AT THE FRONT.
They Testify Their Teaity to Protection
and prOsuerftv.

They Testify Their Feaity TO Protection
and Prosperity.
No delegation Of the day was more
cordially welcomed than the band of
iron workers from Cleveland. whose
sturdy figures and frank faces were seen
as 0 as the commercial travellers had
given place, and to them Mr.. Mckinley
said:
g" welcome you to Canton and my
home. l am glad to learn from your
banners and your spokesman that you
stand for the great purpose Of the Repub-
lican party and the American union, that
gives to every citizen of every race and
nationality equal chance and opportunity
in the race of lifc-a Union that knows
neither caste nor classes, nor creeds nor
nationality, but gives equal protection
to all. l am glad to see from your ban
ners that you are in favor Of protection
to American industries. So am I. I
believe it is the duty Of the American
people to vote for that policy which will
protect American industry, defend Ameri-
can labor, and preserve the old scale
of American wages. thank you heart
lily for this call. / am always glad to
meet the workingmen, and there is moth
ing in this campaign that gives me more
encouragement than to have behind me
the men who toll Great cheering and
cries of "Hurrah for NcKinley.")
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22
TWENTY GAR LOADS
2snnsylvania and Michigan Join I'm Early
HOnors.

8O0D0Z8vo11e
Honors
Twenty car loads Of people from Penn
1ylyania and Michigan were the hrst to
lei Mai. McKinley's attention. They
were 81 his door at 8 o'clock and 70 the
brief addresses Of their spokesman MIR.
Mckinley responded by saying:
AYour early. cali 10 an example 9 +
promptness which / trust will be fol-
lowed On the Sd of November in every
nart 81 our country. The best thing in
{his world next to liberty 10 labor, and
the bestthing for labor 10 an opportunity
"a work. This is the opportunity for
which Ne are all striving this year and
which we hope through q change of
policy In the administration OF the gov
Srnment of the United States to enjoy to
: larger degree than we have done in
We want more than anything else in
order to give this opportunity to labor is
= restoration Of confidence. With con-
ldence shaken, money seeks its hiding
Mace and goes out Of the channels of
business and legitimate Investment and
away from farming, manufacturing and
@lnias ~sntsrprises. ! 40. 40 not xa,, know J" OF dn 2
Adence to the country than is found in
eur own experience during the last
twenty years.
some Einancial History.
lyon will remember that this country
resumed specie payments January /,
a1070. We had outstanding then, 40 we
hare now, $346,OOO,OOO Of what 10 COM
monty known ~ greenback currency.
livery dollar OF that from that date was
fedeemable in gold upon presentation at
the treasury. Of the United States. So
an the ability of the country that from
1670 to 1893 but 46,OOO,0OO of dollars
we're presented for redemption, and the
gold vas taken out: $46,0O0,OOO in four
&oen years, and yet in the last three and
halt years, since confidence has been
disturbed, more than $2OO,OOO.OO of
freenbacks have been presented to the
Now, X confidence had existed, IL the
holders Of these greenbacks had not
oeen fearful, and they were only made
- because the treasury Of the United
states was not collecting enough money
70 pay It's bills, that the revenues Of the
treasury were inadequate for public ex-
Renditures,, and alarmed, a. they were.
they would not have sent their green
hacks In for redemption. The gold re-
aoefye 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 10 the duty
IT the government first to raise enough
money to run the government. We don't
want any deficiencies in the public treas
ny, and II We have no deficiency We
win have no debts, and il we have NO
debts We will have no bonds, and when
ne have 10 deficiencies everybody will
have confidence in the solvency Of the
1easury Of the United States.
.z@L Mooasaifv Tar = Hish TariR,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22

are benefited when the mines of Stark
county are running.
II thank you over and over again for
this call. l must now turn to the other
side of this stand and address another
delegation, the members Of which have
the same purpose in their hearts that
you ~have-victory for the principles OF
protection, honest money and good gov
eminent. (Great %applause.) thank
you and bid you good afternoon"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22

prosperous when we nave plenty of labor,
if We are paid in good money. We be-
lieve in sound money, and we are going
always to have it." Continuous cheer
ing)
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22

dollars any more than we want light
weights. We are in favor of good. round
1OO-cent 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.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22
ONE DAY AT CANTON.

umph. cloud cries Of "we well; we
will,"' followed by three rousing cheers
for the next President. "y''
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THREE STATES ABREAST.

Do'sations from Illinois, lows Ana
Pennsylvania Grouped.
scarcely had the preceding crowd 20.
sh.eu tne avn when the shouts ana
cheers OF another coming up the strao{
Mare heard; This was composed Of ia
Readd;naare mems Sound Money club az
-ns. "a, and railroad men ana
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-22
s3s ss.8s 3s So ,sss sss: :ssas SO sssss sce ssss sssa,as:

bid you good afternoon" Great cheer
ing.)
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EVANGELICAL MISSION BOARD.

BishOp hOnna Bowman Introduces Ais
Associates to the Nominee.
Bishop Thomas Bowman introduced
the missionary board Of the Evangelical
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Continued on Second Pare.
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