Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-10-14
DR.. DEPEW CONFIDENT.
Has lust Returned from an Extended
Trip in the West
whore Ne Saw Every indication Of Growing
Strength Of Mckinley.


upon by Mail and Express reporter
and looked remarkably well after his
speaking tour.
Mr.. Depew travelled 5000 miles. saw
100, 900 men in parade, made speeches 70
100,0 600 more and conversed with peopie
in every kind of business or employ
ment. He talked with farmers ral-
road men, mechanics. laborers anu men
in every department OF actlVlty' anu
from it all he says he believes tha1 the
people will be astonished When the re-
turns come in at the tremendous ma
iority which will be rolled up FOR NC
Kinley.
To the Mail and Express reporter MT
Depew said: II spent last Tuesday IN
Chicago on railroad business,and IN the
course of the day l met many OF the
leading business men in the clty. ana
also saw Messrs. Hanna and Payne, OF
the national committee. SO far as the
business men are concerned. they are
practically unanimous for Mckinley
and sound money. l talked with rail-
road presidents and managers. and es-
pecially with employes-conductor
brakemen, station agents. engineers
and firemen-and so far as | could
learn. they are practically unanimous
for sound money, or, as they put 1t, a
good dollar for good work.
"One switchman said: AS | look at
it, and as our boys here in the yard do.
we men who get wages take all the
risks. If Mr.. Bryan's dollar is as good
as we get now. then we would be no
better off. If his dollar is only one
half the value of the dollar we get now
in purchasing power, then our wages
are reduced one-half. If the adoption
of free silver should cause a panic,
then many of us would lose our jobs
AT Galesburg, ILL.,. 10000 people from
several hundred miles around assem-
bled. l spoke to them in the open air
from a platform erected on the same
spot at that of the famous Lincoln
Douglass debate in 1858. | think the
crowd heard me. which made me very
proud of my voice. In the evening |
talked for a couple of hours to about
5000 in q tent The meeting was in
tensely enthusiastic. l have seen moth
ing like it in the character of the as
semblages and in the deep feeling ex-
hibited by audiences in any canvass
since the civil war.
II stood for four hours watching the
sound money parade in Chicago. The
head reached the reviewing stand at
10 A. NJ; the last file passed by at 5
p. NJ There We're not less than $4,000
men in line A liberal estimate places
the total at 100000. New York will
have to make a tremendous effort if
she equals this marvellous turnout of
tradesmen, of businessmen, of employ
ers and employees. Every trade in iron,
fabrics, cotton. wool. wood and the
stock yards, dry good and grocery
houses were represented by their en-
tire forces.
1.-The floats at the head of each trade
showed Chicago to be one of the great
est manufacturing centers in the world.
But politically, it was one of the most
effective demonstration ever seen in
this country. The Bryan leaders is
sued manifesto, and Bryan indorsed
it personally. that the workingmen
were coerced to march in the procession
They certainly We're not coerced to sing
Mckinley songs. nor to cheer for Nc
kinley, nor to shout party cries at the
different stands as they passed, which
all did with great unanimty.
Il rode through the Bryan procession
that night on my way to the Coliseum
to speak There were from $1,000 tC
10000 men in line-20,000 being an out
side figure. There was no organization
of trades. In the day procession the
hoodlum element was conspicuously
absent, while in the night procession
it was noisily and conspicuously pres
ent. The men marching by day were
all clearly workers in some of our grea
industries. The majority of those il
the night procession We're also th'
same; but a large minority of then
were not.
'As certain sections of the nigh
parade passed l could not help recall
the story of the mechanic with the din
ner pail walking by noisy crowd il
one of the public squares in Cleveland
They shouted to him: We are all fo
Bryan and free silver; come and joil
u.s.
He replied: No. I'm for McKinle
and sound money
They yelled back: Where are tn
Mckinley men?'
He shouted in answer: They're a
at work. and went to the factory
II was escorted from the Auditorium
to the Coliseum, a distance of eigt
miles, by 1000 wheelmen with torche
in their bikes. 1t was a beautiful sigh
There were over $4,000 people in tn
Coliseum of whom $1,000 were seatet
The room is twice as large as the Mao
ison Square Garden. My broken voit
is testimony to it's size
Il left that night at u. and spoke II
next day. Saturday. at a meetir
specially arranged the day before /
the business men of Detroit, sour
money men of both parties. The fa
tories had been closed. and 10000 pc
pie turned out to hear the discussio
1t was the most enthusiastic and in
pressive audience 1 have seen.
THE night lectured to the studen
of the University of Michigan at Al
Arbor on Our Country at Home a,
Abroad which necessitated a discu
sion of the foreign view of our silly
controversy, and domestic view ais
Nothing was said about parties or ca
didates, but prejudiced person, al
from some expressions in the audien
l judged there We're prejudiced perso
there. might have suspected that I
review of the history of money h
some bearing on the present contest
The attorney for the State in Was
ington county has made use at the d
sent term OF court of the law that NAL
the nolulng of United States liu,
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