Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-10-08
TALK TO INDIANIANS.
A LARGE DELEGATION VISITS MAJOR
M'kINLEY'S Hl)ME.

The Republican Candidate for the Pre'i'
dency Delivers an Able Address Upon
the Political Issues of the DAY to an En-
| thuslastic Audience.
To the large delegation from Indiana
which visited him in Canton on Sept
q, Major Mckinley spoke as follows;
1T gives me sincere pleasure to well
come to my home the citizens OF IN
diana. | have had good many dele
cations visit me In the last three
months, but assure you none OF them
has given me more pleasure, or has
received heartler welcome, than ! give
TO YOU this afternoon. You have a
great state. You have much to be
proud Of; you have much to glory IN
your material resources and manu-
featuring enterprises, but you have
more glory In the splendid men when
your state has produced. [Applause.I
Il cannot forget, as ! stand In the
presence Of an Indiana audience, that
| 1t was your state that produced that
splendid soldier and statesman, and IL
| lustrious president, Benjamin Har-
Neutrality-suspicious. applausel-whose
| administration for four years OF the
government Of the United States has
few parallels In the history OF our
country Honest, strong, wise, patri-
otto, Amerlcan-an administration
that never turned its back upon the
glorious stars and stripes and the men
who sustained them during the 1our
years OF civil war Continuous ap-
plause.
Prosperity Under Harrisons Helm.
1--WE would all be glad to be back
TCries Of I'VE will be. lin those four
years under the administration OF
President Harrison--years OF the high
est and greatest prosperity to the
American people; years that registered
| the highest foreign trade this nation
ever had, and registered, too, the larg-
est domestic trade we ever enjoyed.
They were the four years when we
had the largest and the most splendid
prosperity In all our history; when ev-
cry man In this country who wanted
to work could get work. when every
shop was OPEN when every factory
was running; when every busy, thriv-
Ing city Of this land was active In It's
enterprises and industries. 1t has not
been so in the last four years. lCrles
Of mo, you bet 1t has not."1 We have
had some experience during these
years; we know more now than we
knew then, and we know better how to
vote now than we knew In 1892 lap
plause and cries Of I'VE do that
?You remember that in that year the
campaign was filled with glittering
promises. Everything good was to
come to this country II we would only
turn the Republican party out Of pow
er and put the Democratic party In
Free trade was to relive us OF every III
or evil that had ever settled upon this
country; protection was a robbery, was
unconstitutional, was a fraud ana
ought to be repealed and II that party
was only given power In this country
1t would repeal that law and then we
would enter upon an era OF prosperity
the like of which we had never known
before, And the people put that party
In power, and the splendid prosperity
we have had since you know all about
loud laughter and applause.]
1--WE are not asking too much, my
fellow citizens, when we ask for an
American policy that shall protect the
American people in their occupation
and employment, are We? loud cries
of mol We are not asking very
much when we ask the congress of the
United States to protect the American
workshop against the foreign work.
shop-[cries of That's right. land to
give the American shop preference to
the foreign shop. Applause and cries
of"That's right This is all we ever
asked under protective tariff; more
we have never contended for and less
we will not have tremendous APP
plausel-and the American people
have made up their minds to that.
Some people say that the tariff ques-
ton is settled. ["Not much, and laugh
ter and APPLAUSE 1t is settled, l
grant you, In the minds Of the Ameri-
can people. and it is settled on the side
of a genuine American protective pol
Icy. IA voice: you bet, every time. ]
But settling a question in the minds Of
| the American people does not settle 1t
In public law until the people have
voted that way and given us protec-
tive congress. A voice. "Give us q
chance and laughter and applause
The people of this country never
wanted a chance to vote so badly In
their lives as now. [Applause.l I'm
der our form of government 1t will be
only six weeks today until from one
end of the country to the other we will
have that chance, and how will you
improve It, my fellow-ctlzens? [Cries
Of ELECT McKinley."l
II say II Is not very much to ask that
we restore the American system, for
this Is our country. 1t Is nobody else's
but ours, and II we do not make 1t
what we want II II is our fault. |
think the true policy of the people of
. al two iu m bn INC ks,