Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-09-01

HON. B. B. CAHOON,
Who Addressed a Large Meeting of Repub-
HcanS in Turner Hall Last Night.
speech was one of the strongest presenta-
tions of the issues of the campaign which
has been made thus far in Kansas City
and was mastery effort in every re-
spect While it was replete with elo-
quent passages, it was first of all argu-
mentative and convincing, and it accomp-
lished Mr.. Cahoon's purpose. which was
to convince his hearers, rather than to
merely please and entertain.
Long before the hour for the meeting
to be opened, the audience began to as
semble, and at o'clock the hail was
crowded. Hundreds of people were unable
to secure admission at all. Smiths band
entertained the audience until the arrival
of Major Warner and Mr.. Cahoon.
Mr. Cahoon was given an ovation when
he appeared upon the stage, and it was
apparent from the first that the audience
was an enthusiastic one. On the stage
were seated large number of prominent
Republicans, among them being Major
Warner, Colonel L. H. Waters George A.
Neal. DR.. ]. w. Bowman, Joe Mccoy.
Colonel d. S. Twitchell, Judge C. w.
Clarke, Mayor Jones. w. w. Morgan,
George Kumpf and others.
The stage was appropriately decorated
with flags and great many ladies were
In the audience. W. j. Elliott presided and
without any preliminary remarks he intro
duced Mr.. Cahoon to the audience. For
nearly two hours he held the close atten-
ton of the audience, which applauded the
strong points with which the speech was
rep!ete. Mr.. Cahoon insisted upon the pro-
tective tariff issue as the one upon which
the financial issue in a large measure de-
pends and the enthusiastic applause with
which he was received showed that the
audience was thoroughly in sympathy with
this view. Mr.. Cahoon said in part:
Mr.. Cahoon's Speech.
'This election means. besides protection.
the maintenance of national and financial
honor. (Applause.) All the elements of
wrong and errors of communism
and anarchy, the Mary Ellen Lease
shriekers. the Altgeld law despisers, the
Tillman repudiators, are arrayed against u.s.
In referring to the Popocratic party Of to-
day / wish to exclude at the outset that
noble army of patriotic sound money DEM
| ocrats. who. taking their political fortunes
in their hands refuse to join this organl-
zation which seeks to destroy the honor
and credit of this country. (Applause.)
Such men as James o. Broadhead and
Francis NJ. Black never better served their
| country than to-day. (Applause.)
1--WE are asked to trust our destinies to
the same men who. since March 4, 1s9s
have destroyed our business and obliter-
ated our prosperity by breaking down pro-
lection, impoverishing our labor, and I'M
settling the public confidence. 1t is unnec-
essary to discuss the tariff question at this
| time, suffering as we are from the disas-
| trous change from protection to semi-free
| trade. The American people never before
| saw so clearly the need of protection. Gap
plause) They have seen in three years and
| a half over 600 men thrown out of em-
ployment. whose wages would have exceed
! ed the national debt: they have seen our
| foreign trade reduced by S300 100000: they
! have seen 500 more failures thanever before
in our history. not excluding the panic of
| 1873; they have seen farm products shrink
! in value one-half since March T. 1893, and
all values reduced Sc, 900, 600 600. The solu-
ton of all our financial ills. the mainten-
| ance of our material prosperity, depend
| now, as always, upon the maintenance of
| the principle of protection-of that protec-
| ton which has never failed to employ Ia
| Dor at high wages, to Keep our money at
| home to fill our treasury and extinguish
the national debt year by year. (Cheers.l
The difference in the selling price of
| all products under semi-free trade as
against the Mckinley law of four years
ago is one-half There has been. by the
displacement of 100000 people represented
a circumscription of the home market, to
say nothing of the curtailment of the for
eign market by the repeal of the recip-
rocity provision of the Mckinley law. The
| aggregate losses caused by this attempt
to change this country from protection to
| free trade has been the enormous sum OF
bined losses of the North and South during
four years of civil war. tApplause) We
Republicans. therefore. gladly accept the
tion the right of any set of men who
brought this loss npon, upon, the tn osoa, country It. te
to be sentenced, demanding that the judge
descend from the bench and allow the
malefactor to administer justice.
Let Well Enough Alone.
But the financial issue must be met. ant
we do not shrink from it. Four years age
the country to let well enough alone in the
flood tide of the prosperity brought abou
by the Mckinley law: onl But IN as an evil n houl
the other side The country did not boom
it busted. daughter and applause); As w
the finances of the United States remair
reposefully as We begged you to let thu
The ne tbs neons Mana and To-
us something new: The Republican part,
entreats you to hold fast to that which yol
binger of prosperity. AS ruin followed fou
years ago. so will it follow the adoption o
a new issue such free silver.
1.-THE old Democratic party-not the Pop
ocratic party of Tillman and Altgeld-wa
gold party"
Mr.. Cahoon reviewed at length the finan
cial history of the country, showing tina
; Jefferson himself suspended the coinage o
silver dollars.
"There has never been an hour" he said
''when the Democratic party of Missouri
as led by Senator Vest. was sound on the
subject of finance. Its leaders have alway:
been misleaders of public opinion. They
!, flagrantly flirted with the .greenback craze