The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-22
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
MKINLEY AND BRYAN PUT IN
MONDAY CAMPAIGNING, AS
USUAL.
DELEGATIONS ARRIVE At CANTON
And Are Addressed by McKinlcy-Alr.
Bryan Spent the Day Touring Ohio,
and Drew Large Crowds of
People.

canton, o.. oct. 19.-The weeks visits
10 Mai. Mckinley began with the arrival
about noon of several carloads OF people
from Swickley, Pa In the party were
"a number of ladies and the Mckinney ana
Hobart Sound Money club OF that ci'y'
They were escorted TO the Mckinney
Y,1mr. headed by II drum corps COMING
with Them and gave Governor McNlh'cs
three rousing cheers when he appeared ""
the porch. The visitors were happhy III
troduced by Attorney George Il. Wallace
After the address Mrs. Mckinley receV-
od th. Indies and the whole party was
,,hotoyronbcd with Maj. Mckinley in the
center Of the group.
TO the Scwicklcy. Pa, delegation Maj
Mckinley said, in part:
Some people seem to nave 'he HUN"
that the republican party mas llaue
now dcparture, that it occupies diller-
rnt position today from that when 1t
eyer occupied in the past. lhat Is
mistake. We stand where we nave III
Nnys stood. not only upon the mone!
uurstion. but on the tariff question: ana
| want to call your attention 10 Wha'
may have escaped you. When the war
closed. the great problem before 'he
American people, before the r'cohstruc-
tion of the Union, was, what Shouiu W
done with the great debt that mad pech
occasioned by the war and what shoula
M. dome in the way of maintaining II
-sounJ currency in the United States.
In 1868 the great soldier of the war, VINO
had led the mightcst armies that were
over engaged in sustaining cause, zen.
H. s. Grant, was nominated for prcsi-
dent Let me repeat few OF the
blanks of the platform upon which he
stood and YOU can see then whether the
republican party has changed its position:
".Wr denouncc all forms of repudia-
ton as Il national crime and the national
. honor requires the payment of the pupic
debt in the utmost good faith to all
GOOD creditors ut home and abroad, not
only according to the letter, but the spirit
a, of the law under which it was con-
tractcd.
THAT was when we had that enor-
nous war debt of over two billions OF
. dollars and the country seemed to be
staggering under it, but the republican
Z party stood up, MS it always has. and in
sisted that every dollar of the debt must
'be paid in the best currency of the world
sand UpderHhnt policy we have paid more
NtyIN 'twolthhds OF that great national
debt and paid every dollar with honor
and in the best currency.
Then let me read another plank III
that platform which SO well applies to
our situation today:
%" The best policy to diminish our bur
% lcnS of debt is TO so improve our credit
that capitalists will seek to loan us
money ut lower rates of interest than we
now pay. and must continue to pay, Ms
long ms reputation, part or total is
threatened or suspected
This is the republican policy. and the
way To get capital to invest ut lower
interest is to give confidence in the credit
of the country by lifting its credit ANA
etnrrrncy and thus commanding the con
TdCnCc of the business world. In that
same year the democratic national con-
,vention that nominated lloratio seymour
for president had this uttcrancc on the
money question. which was sound then.
and is today, and | commend 1t to all
of you:
Zone currency for the government
ana the people. the lahorcr, the oihce-
holder. the pcnsioncr and the soldier. the
producer and The hondholdcr.'
THAT is the kind of money we have
today, follow citizens, just rs, good IN
{ the haudS of the poor as in the hands
W the rich, and WE propose to pay the
obligations of this government IN the
failure as we have paid the obligations
If the government in the past. in the
hest money of the world.
10 the delegation from Summit county.
introduced by +. W. Myers. Maj. Me
Kinlcy said, in part:
I'VE have made wonderful progress III
the last thirty years and we have made
X under Il policy, first, of protective
tariff, and, second. upon Il good. solid
monetary system. -Four years ago pro-
lection was, hy the vote of the Ameri-
can people. dccrccd as not desirable.
They have had three years experience
under the change and believe they are
ready to return To the old American doe
trmc of protective tariff. And two
weeks from tomorrow You will have an
opportunity To express your individual
opinions upon the question. The other
question is one of finance, whether this
country shall continue the use of the
good dollars that they now have. and
which they secured under republican
legislation or whether they shall turn
away from them and adopt rs the
medium of exchange of our people dol
lar that is worth less than 100 cents. |
do not believe the people of this country
want deprecated dollar. | believe
they want every dollar, whether they he
farmers or manufacturers or lahorcrs, Il
dollar that measures 100 cents and is
worth loo cents, not only ut home, hut
wherever trade goes. in every CONNER
'cial center of the world This ycaI
there is involved also in the controversy
question of whether we shall have pub.
lie tranquility and whether law and
order shall be supreme in the United
sStWCs.'
Ar HAMILTON AND DAYTON.
Big Crowds Greeted Bryan at Both o
These Places.
DAYTON. Oct. IA crowd of sevcra
thousand people cheercd the train nj Day
ton. where stop of ten minutes wa
tnoIn IN nttnrh an extra coach COntaiuiul