The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-29
Five Delegations Come to See
Major Mckinley.
Bringing Thousands of People
to the Ohio Town.
THE FIRST TO COME
Is the Commercial Mems Club
of Chicago.
Address of g. J. Corey to Mr..
Mckinley.

MchInIey.
Canton, o., Aug. 29.-Of the five dele
cations scheduled to visit Major Nc
Kinley today, the first arrived at 7:45.
It was Commercial Mems club No. 1,
of Chicago, 300 strong
The Pennsylvania company cars in
which they came were sally decorated
and proclaimed the identity of the oc-
cupants, their starting point and their
destination on a. banner on either side
of the train reading: Commercial
Mckinley club, No. 1, from Canton to
Chicago Numerous banners We're
carried by the commercial men, con-
spicuous among them being one on
which were the pictures of Mckinley
and Hobart, "An honest dollar"
clasped hands of workingmen and the
words, protection to labor and capi-
tai; honest money in 1886 to revive
trade. start industries, increase wages
and restore national credit"
The visitors were under the COM
mand of ChiefNIarshal Geo Green. who
had Assistant RIarshals Charles Neeley.
w. Haskell Jos POmeroy and Frank
F. Lewis. Tho party contained all the
members of the national executivec com
mittee of commercial men of the Uni
ted States.
The following is the address of C. J.
Corey, chairman of the executive com
mittee of National Commercial Trav-
elers association.
Major Mckinley, allow me in behalf
of the commercial travellers of the Uni
ted States to extend you greetings.
feel safe in saying that there is no
class of citizens in our country VINO
more thoroughly understand and com
prehend the true issues Of this cam
paign than the commercial travelling
men.
"They are selected in all the varied
lines of business they represent for
their intelligence, keen judgment of
men and conditions that exist ard af-
feet the business and prosperity OF the
section Of the country allotted to them.
Tlaeyare satisfied with the money of
our country. knowing that it is as good
as any in the world. In this great
army of commercial ambassadors.
everyone is thinking for himself They
know without private or public instruc-
ton that the free coinage of silver is
not the true issue Of this campaign
but that 1t is protection Of home indus
tries, reciprocity and q. sound treasury.
These three conditions win bring back
to US prosperous times, while the coin
age Of so cent dollars viii bring only
distrust panic and further suffering.
They know that this Populistic. an
archistic free coinage combination.
masquerading under the name of
Democracy, did not dare come before
the country on the true issue Of this
campaign, because recent elections
have convinced them that they would
be buried by the intelligent voters
deeper than were the mythical cyclopes
and Mount Etna hurled over them.
And so they improvised this false
issue, free coinage of silver, as a pana-
cea for the evils they have brought
upon US. Knowing that the average
citizen had given the subject but little
if any thought and they could there
fore fool him again with their sophis-
tries and get his vote in this campaign
as they did in '92 on the plausible theO-
ries of the benefits Of free trade TO the
workingnen, creating an enlarged for
eign market for our manufactured pro-
ducts in competition with the low paid
labor Of Europe, India, China and
Japan.
1.-THE commercial travelling men Of
these United States have enlisted near
ly to q man to save this country from
the fearful Perils OF g bankrupt treas
ury. fat and deprecated money, re-
pudiation and the other long chain Of
evils that follow.
The battle-ground has been trans
ferred in this campaign to our western
states, ana assure you that no more
thorough, honest work could be done in
this section than the commercial traV-
cling men are now doing. They are at
work with an enthusiasm that hardly
knows bounds. Travelling early and
late with Republican literature in every
pocket, never forgetting that their next
duty to the selling of their wares and
merchandise is to prOselyte for the
| cause, am almost persuaded to say,
| the perpetuation of our free institu-
| tons
They. recognize that on your election
| hangs the welfare and prosperity of our
whole country for years to come.
| "Graver issues have not been present
/ ed since 1851 but we come from the
center of the battlefield to bring you
/ words of announcement and good
| cheer, and meet you in a spirit Of cheer
/ fuIness, firmly believing in the glorious
! triumph of our cause on the 3rd day OF
! November next-a victory so over
| whelming that their scattered forces
| will not for q generation to come be re-
| organized on the present wild, imprac-
! ticable and dangerous theories of gov
/ eminent"
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