The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-31
Tell the Major He Is Going to
Be Elected.
MIR. M'KINLEY SPEAKS.
Says Republicans Are for the
Present Gold Standard,
And They Intend to Keep 1t the
Same.

come to Canton arrived here from
Knoxville, a suburb of Pittsburg, at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. They had
Travelled one hundred miles in heat and
storm, but were enthusiastic with band
and banners. Their spokesman, JOhn
P. Everhard, president of the Mckin-
ley and Hobart club and who is also
president of the Glass Workers union,
acted as the spokesman He put the
tariff issue above all others.
In part he said: We come from
that wonderful hive of industry, that
mighty workshop composed of Pitts
burg and its neighbOring bOroughs. We
are Republicans and we believe in our
party and it's principles. We are proud
of its record and the result of its policy
in the past. We have faith in that
party as being the only medium through
which we may hope for a return of
prosperity to the people, both IN the
agricultural and manufacturing indus
tries of the country.
I'VE believe in bimetallism and We
recognize in the Republican party and
its platform the only real true and safe
advocate of that policy, namely, the
use of both gold and silver as money;
each interchangeable with the other;
each dollar as good as every other dol
lar We do not and we feel assured
that YOU do not believe in mOnOmetal-
Iism, or the use of either gold or silver
as the only money, and knowing this we
know you will and must oppose the
visionary ideas of those who would
seek to create value by the legislative
fat of this nation alone and the attempt
of those who seek to place US upon the
single silver basis, thereby driving our
gold out of circulation, and out Of the
country.
I'VE believe you will use all the powers
YOU may possess as the chief executive
of the United States to bring about by
international agreement which IS the
only manner in which 1t can be accom-
| pished, the restoration OF silver as
money metal on a fixed ratO with gold
Z e-9-- Te.sa a
on the tariff question for the protection
| of the people and to the end that 1t Will
yield an abundant revenue for the eX-
/ penses of the government for the pay
| ment OF it's debts, for the improvements
| of our rivers and harbors for the up
! building of our navy and for interna-
tional improvements of various kinds
[ will restore our country to great pros
| perity and will solve the money pro-
/ blem about which SO many Of our peo-
| pie seem to be concerned.
| We recognize in your public career
| and in your private life, those noble
| qualities of mind and heart that give
| US the assurance that the great inter
! ests of this country over which you
/ will shortly be called to preside, will be
/ in safe hands and that you trusting in
| the strength and guided by the coun-
/ ellis of the supreme ruler of nations will
/ be able to discharge the grave respOn-
| sibilities and execute the duties of your
| high office so as to lead US a people into
| the path of duty and up to more glOr-
| ious achievements than have marked
| our wonderful past"
/ After a storm of applause which fol-
! lowed Maj McKinley's appearance, he
| said:
Mr. Everhard and My Fellow Citi-
! zens-I am glad indeed to meet and
| greet the Knoxville Mckinley and Ho-
| bart Republican club in this city and
! at my home, and I thank you most cor
| daily for travelling 50 long a distance
/ to express your personal good will to
/ me and your devotion to the princi-
| pies of the Republican party.
You are right, Mr.. Spokesman, in
| saving that the Republican party
| stands now as it has always stood, for
| a sound and stable currency, and for
! the maintenance of all its money of ev-
| cry kind at parity, and always equal to
! the best money of the most civilized
nations of the world. (Applause.) A
| deprecated currency, as you have so
! well said, would work disaster to the
! interests of the people and to none more
| than those of the working men and pro-
| ducers.
Long years ago Daniel Webster said
! that they are the first to feel it and the
| last to recover from it. A disOrdered
| currency, said he, is fatal to indus
( try, frugality and economy It fosters
| the spirit of speculation and eXtrava-
| gance. 1t is the most effectual of inven-
| tiOns to fertiliZe the rich mans field
| with the sweat of the poor mans brow.
| THAT we call money, My Fellow Cit
] liens, and with which values are meas
| ured and settlements made, must be as
| true as the bushel which measures the
| grain of the farmer, and as honest as
| the hours of labor which the man who
| tolls is required to give LOng APP
| plause) The one must be as full and
| complete and as honest as the other.
| (ApplauSe-) Our currency today is
| gOod-au Of ii is as good as gOld-2nd
/ it is the unfaltering determination OF
| the Republican party to so keep and
! maintain it forever. (Cheers.) 1t is the
| duty of the people of this country tic
stand unitedly against every effort to
| degrade the currency or debase our
| credit (Cries of They WILD They
| must unite now as they have united in
| the past, in every great crisis of our
cOuntry'S history. When the country
| seemed wildly bent on imitation pre-
| ceding the resumption OF specie pay
| ments, the sober sense of the American
| people without regard to party, united
| and stemmed that threatened tide OF
irredeemable paper money and repudi-
] alton and placed and kept the nation or
the rock of public honor, sound finance
| and honest currency.
| You have rightly stated, sir, that
| the Republican party not only believes
| in sound money and the highest public
/ faith and honor on the part of the gov
| eminent of the United States to all les
! creditors but also that it believes in s
| tariff which, while raising enough
| money to conduct the government econ
/ Omically administered, Will serve this
| highest and best interests of American
/ labor, American commerce. and Amer
| lean citizenship (Cheers-) Some Of
| our political opponents are given &c
! saying that the tariff question is set
| tied. If we are not wrong in interpret
! ing their meaning, I think they are
! right Laughter) and thank them fol
| the confession (ApplauSe.) We be
lieve that the tariff question is settled
! settled in the minds and hearts of the
| American people, and settled on the
side of protection tremendous cheer
| ing)
sBut however firmly it may be settled
| in the public mind, it is not vet settled
| in public law What is in the hearts
and consciences OF the people touching