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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-31

There is one thing that can be said
about the Republican party-it does not
teach the doctrines of hate and prejudice,
but teaches the gospel of peace, coed
will, and fraternity between the en-
plOyer and employee
The man who would array the poor
against the rich, labor against capital,
class against class, or section against
section, is not friend of the country
but an enemy of the very best interests
of every citizen in the country | would
rather teach that doctrine which is so
prevalent this year, North and South,
where none are for party, but all for gov
. eminent. This is the true policy of
sturdy American citizenship and ciriliza-
ton look into your earnest faces and
(Cries of Mckinley, McKinley.'l, There
is but one aim and purpose, and this is'
that you may have an opportunity to
work for yourselves and your families.
This opportunity is best enjoyed when we
de our own work in the United States
and not in some other country of the
world This opportunity cannot be
reached, however, until we have a
turn of confidence, which can come only
when the American people have settled,
for all time that they will have no, de-
preciated currency and declare that the
be upheld.
when confidence comes money will
come. If you had all the silver I'M the
world In the United States it would not
make more business Business makes
money money does not make business.
Every one of you had plenty of work at
good wages until the free trade policy
was inaugurated in 1892. We want to,
good money now, but we have little BUSH
ness confidence. No business man will
manufacture if he does not believe that
at the end of the year he will make, a
profit The business man cannot plan
for the trade if he does not know what
kind OF competition he is to have from
abroad. The less he has of foreign conn
petition the more work you have at home
at better wages and prices.
Nothing gives me greater satisfaction
or calls from me deeper gratitude than
to- have the workingmen of this country
enroll themselves the side of good
government, sound currency, and the. SUI
premacy of law
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CAMPAIGN NOTES..

We do not believe in wanton, orunIry
under any circumstances; Mr.. Bryan
should see to it at once that the ropes of
his parachute are in good working. order.
The best way to deal with a panic is to
vote it to death in advance.
The Boy Orator has become irritabIe.
He scolds the people and calls names.
He started out on his campaign in good
temper and in good voice. He still has
the voice.
If Bryan will look at his hand again
he will find that there are faur cards
instead of five in his flush.
The crime of '73 must be lost. strayed
or stolen. 1t has been conspicuous by it's
absence in Popocratic speeches for sew
eraI weeks.
William Mckinley never advocated the
passage of law which was designed to
take money out of the pockets of Ameri-
can workingmen.
Bryan is misled into thinking ssthe
country is going to the dogs by the
snarling of Alleged and Tfnman The
country will go after these dogs on No
vember for a brief period, but when
the country returns there wont be any
more dogs worth mentioning.
Here's STRAW" for Bryan: Out of
Twenty-Five voters Tin trouble at the
Center street police court in New York
city Sunday morning, twenty-seven de-
clared they would-if at hberty-vote for
Mr. Bryan. The other two were unde-
cided.
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DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.
Citizens of Kentucky Join in Support of
Mckinley and Honest Money.


A large delegation from Kentucky,
composed of both Republicans and sound
money Democrats, was one of the most
demonstrative in honoring the Repub
lican candidate. To them Mr.. Mckinley
said:
Il address you not as Republicans nor
Democrats. but countrymen and
friends. Your glorious old state has al
ready registered a verdict in favor of
of the principal issues involved in
this campaign. l do not believe that in
the past twelve months the Kentucky
people have changed their opinions on
the questions of honest money and public
honor. Great applause and cries of No,
no. Kentucky has usually been Dem
ocratic state, and in 1876 gave that
sturdy Democratic statesman, Samuel
]. Tilden of New York, an unprecedent-
ed popular majority for President His
memory is doubtless reyered by many of
your Democrats today, and l venture to
send by you this message to them in Mr..
Tilden's own words.
In his celebrated joint debate with
Horace Greeley in 1910, Mr. Tilden said:
An unstable currency produces insta bill
ity of prices and is peculiarly injurious
to the farmer. He ought not to be sub
ject to the tremendous agency of an I'M
seen cause. which may disappoint his
wisest calculations and overwhelm him
in constant ruin. but he ought to be Sc
cured in the tranquility of his ireside
from the curse of an unstable and con-
hicting currency tGreat applause)
These were wise and honest words
then; they are true and honest words
now, and commend themselves 20 the
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THE FARMERS ATTEST LOYALTY
Assurances that They Are for Sound
Money and Sound Principles.

Assurances that They Are for sound
Money and Sound Principles.
One of the earliest parties was made
up of farmers from Monroe county
Mich. to whom Maj. Mckinley said:
Il have never believed, as some peo-
pie have been saying, that there was
ever any danger about the state of Mich
when l had the slightest doubt about
where the electoral vote of your glori-
Gus state would go in the presidential
contest of 1896. No state in the Union
is more deeply interested in the genuine
American policy that will protect your
property, your interests, your labor, your
mines, the products of your forests, from
undue composition than the state of
Michigan. (Applause.) And there is
mo state that is more deeply interested
in having protective policy than the
state of Michigan. (Applause0
There is one thing that the Repub-
1ican party is dedicated to, and that is to
labor first: then to law and order These
are indispensable to the welfare of man.
kind and indispensable to the prosperity
and the permanency of the republic
] am glad to know from your spokesman
that you believe not only in protective
tariff, but that you believe in honest
money. Great cheering.) When you
do your work, whether it be on your
farm in the factory, or in the mine,
you want to receive in payment dollars
that are good every month and every
where in every part of the civilized
world. That's the kind of money we
have now, and we have more of it than
we ever had in our history before. TIC
enter upon the free and unlimited coin.
age of silver would be to commit this
country to silver alone and deprive us OF
the gold we have. Instead of increasin
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THE WECCHO OF PATRIOTISM

Canton, o.. Oct. II, 1S96-Canton, the
home of William Mckinley, has seen
many marvellous events in this campaign,
but none which equaled that of today.
More men and women, more special
trains, more delegations, more assur-
ances of loyalty to national honor more
addresses and more responses by Mai
Mckinley than on any previous day,
We're the record of this seventeenth day
of October 1896. From morning until
night the number of special trains, the
shouts and cheers of delegations. the
music of bands. the glitter of uniforms
and the addresses of spokesman and re
sponses of Maj. Mckinley were heard.
Nearly 800 cars brought perhaps 10000
people from nearly half the states of
the union.
Mr.. Mckinley. who left his home carly
for a short walk in the crisp October
air. found an anxious throng at his resi-
dence on his return, and from that
moment until long after darkness he was
the center of attraction, the recipient of
honors innumerable and the dispenser of
patriotic sentiments which were received
with marks of the highest approval by
tie thousands who heard them.
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COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.
Large Delegations from Ohio and Other
States Greet Maj. Mckinley.

Large Delegations from Ohio and Other
States Greet Maj. Mckinley.
Another large and interesting delega-
ton made up of commercial travel
ers, mostly from Ohio and adjoining
states. They were addressed by Mr..
Mckinley as follows:
You have discovered in the last four
years that it is a good deal safer to con-
suit markets than maxims. You have
discovered that prices current and actual
experience in trade and commerce are a
better guide to business prosperity than
anything you can find in the text books.
Your coming together, Democrats and
Republicans Ga voice: No Democrats in
now preferring country to party. Com
ing together as you have is act of
sterling patriotism hitherto almost I'M
known in American politics, and pro-
NOTED only by considerations of the pub
lie good. But these are characteristic
traits of the business and commercial
men of the country.
4 do not attribute your call to any per-
sonal concern for my success. You look
beyond the candidate to the great princi-
pies he represents, and upon that ground
and in that spirit you are here today;
and in the same spirit l address you
now. No people in the country can be
more interested in the result of the cleo
ton two weeks from next Tuesday than
the commercial men of the United
States. (Applause.) What you want is
business. and you have discovered that
you cannot sell if there is nobody to buy.
You have suffered greatly the last three
tial free trade, and the instability OF
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A SINGLE DAY AT THE HOME OF THE NATIONS CANDIDATE

ers. professional men, commercial trav-
elers, old folks and young folks, college
bred men and men of every profession
and walk in life. This great day dem
onstrates that this is a nation not of
class but of equal and honorable citizen
ship under one constitution and govern
ment- prolonged cheering)
Il am glad to know that the students
of the universities are enrolled in our
ranks. Every newspaper of the coun-
try, East and West. tells us that in the
great colleges of the East. as well as in
the great colleges of the West, teachers
and pupils have enlisted under the BAN
ner of the Republican party in greater
numbers than they have ever done be-
fore. Great applause) They stand
this year for country and conscience.
They stand for public honor and morals
and supremacy of law. We will settle
for all time this year that this is a
government by law and a government
free and equal citizens Great APP
plause and cries of Good, good.'O
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OHIO WORKINGMEN,
LaborinS Men from All Parts of the State
Are

Are Greeted.
No delegation was more cordially well
coined than that made UP of railroad
men, dock men, farmers and miners from
Ohio; to whom Maj. Mckinley said:
There is studied effort made in
some quarters of this country to teach
that the employer of labor is attempting
to enSlave the workinSman I submit
to you men of toll all around and about
me. who is the better friend of labor Ie
who gives you work that brings content
ment, or he who breathes only words
that create discomfort? There cannot
be, there ought never to be, any enmity
between labor and capital. The interest
of the one is the interest of the other.
You know that the greatest friend of
making the workingmen slaves There
is no danger of a workingman ever be-
coming slave if he receives American
wages, the wages that he had for thirty
years. from 1860 to 1890. under the giori-
Gus policy of protective tariff. The
the interest of labor, is that policy which
gives workingmen an opportunity to work
at good wages. Which policy do YOU
think subserves that interest best? Our
policy of protection or their policy of free
trade? Tremendous shouts. Ours.
Ours! and 'McKinley's policyrO
This great audience fairly represents
the diversified industries of the United
States. On the one side of me are men
who manufacture; on the other side are
men who handle iron ore, and in front
are men who dig our coal. One is de-
audience, too: are representatives of the
railroads of the country, which transport
not only raw material. but the finished
product. from one end of this country
to the other. The one is never prosper
Gus unless the other is prosperous. You
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know that from experience. There Is
not handler of ore at the Ashtabula
harbor who does not know that when
the great ore and steel industries of this
country are stopped he has nothing to do.
There is not coal miner from Perry
county who does not know that when the
fires are exfinguished in our furnaces
there is no demand for him. Now the
Republican party is universal. 1t ap-
plies to every industry from the man who
digs the coal. which they call the raw
material-if they just tried digging it for
a time, however, they would find It was
not very rawE-from the nam who
mines the ore in Michigan and Mime
sofa to the man who handles 1t at our
great ports, and to the final finished
product. the Republican policy protects
and defends them all.
And what do we defend them against :?
We defend them against the products of
a cheaper labor In the old world. We
defend our labor because in the United
States every 1aboring man is an equal
citizen with every other man in the coun-
try. am glad to see you: glad to meet
you; glad to have your assurances of an
unprecedented victory in Ohio this year.
Ohio has never been behind. She led in
the great Civil war, and she has led in
the march of progress and her states
manship has been impressed upon the
! most glorious pages of American his
tory.
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WORDS TO RAILROAD MEN,
and Good Money Are De
sired by All.

sired by All.
There were railroad men all SIDES
of Maj. Mckinley when he began his
fourteenth address. One party repre-
sented the Michigan Central. Another
came from Columbus, o., and represent
ed the Pennsylvania lines entering that
city still another party TepresenMte ted the he
these Maj. Mckinley said:
There is not workingman in this
audience who would not rather work tor
Il good road than poor road; and there
is not an employe in this great audience
that would not rather be paid IN good
money than poor money; (Applause) -,
what you want first and above all
else is employment. What you want is
to get on the pay roll of a good railroad
company, for you have to get on the pay
the pay car, to which my friend has al
luded. Great cheering) But in order
to get ON the pay roll the railroads must
have business, lou th knGw Ihe some DUST of
you are stricken from the pay roll.
(Cries of That's rightly You have ex,
perfenced that in the last three years and
half. What you are interested in,
therefore, is the general prosperity OF the
country. We want every factory in the
land to be at work We want every
voice: Not the silver mines.O My
friend says silver mines. We are
willing that our silver mines shall be
busy; hope every one of them, too,
viii be busy; but if they were all put to
work and every mint was at work they
would not furnish employment for one
third of the idle men in this country who
earn their living by toll.
/ You have to get your employment in
K the great, active, busy industries of the
| country This is where you. get your
work and wages, and when these great,
| busy industries are at work your FAIL
roads have plenty of traffic. tGneat APP
plause.) When your railroads have plen-
| ty of traffic you have constant and
| steady employment at good wages LIS
| not that so? (Cries of Yes, yes-o
| ''Now, how are you to get back THAT
| prosperity you once enjoyed? 0ries cd
| by voting the Republican ticket'C Some
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"The man who aco,ld array the poor
! against the rich, labor against capital,
class against class, section, against section,
Is not friend of the country, but an
enemy of the rery best interests of every
citizen. ,cortld rather teach that doc
trine so prevalent this gear, North and
South, aUhere none are for party 6sss all
are for government This Is the true
policy of sturdy american citizenship
Mar. MCKINLEY TO FACTORY EN-
PLoYEs, OCT. 18th, 1896
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STUDENTS AND TEACHERS.
Representatives of Colleges Pay Theh
Respects.

A large delegation of students and
professors of the Ohio Wesleyan univer,
sity. the Ohio Medical university and
others were the next callers. Maj Nc
Kinley said in response to their greet
ing:
sIf there was anything needed TO dis
mel that false and dangerous doctrine
which some people are now teaching, it
is dispelled here today-a doctrine. that
would array class against class and one
section of our country against the other.
We have had on these grounds today
men from more than a dozen states
wage-earners, miners, millworkers, farm
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MARYLAND's FIVE BATTALIoNs.

They Pledge that State to the Party of
Honest Money and Protection.
The Maryland delegation, consisting
of five battalions, a total of 1000 men,
Were the first to get attention. To them
Maj. Mckinley said:
Nothing has given me, in all this
campaign, SO much pleasure and salts
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MICHIGAN PAYS HER HoNoRs.

A Large Delegation of Business Men,
Farmers and Railway Employees.
Ten coachloads of people from Grand
Rapids. Kalamazoo and Western Michi-
gan constituted the next audience ad-
dressed by Maj Mckinley. The party
was largely composed of members of the
Railroad Mems Sound Money clubs. but
business men, professional men and citi-
zens generally were represented. Mr.
Mckinley, after discussing the Won
derful resources of Michigan said.
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people say that the way to get it back
IS to debase the money of the country.
Does anybody believe that? tCries of
that the way to get back prosperity is
to strike a deadly blow at the capital
of the country. Is that the way to do it?
(Cries of No. no-O Some people seem
to think that the way to put men at
work is TO despoil the profits of the men
who employ labor. Is that the way to
get work? loud cries of No, no.
CapitaI and labor are interdependent.
They are not enemies. They are friends,
or should be friends. (Applause)"
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CROWDS FROM WEST VIRGINIA

CoIored Voters Are Represented in the
Enormous Deputation.
The Central. Eastern and Western
counties of West Virginia were all rep
resented in the next audience addressed.
These people filled to the platforms forty
railway coaches, coming in a train of
Ave sections. Maj. Mckinley spoke as
follows:
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Democrats Vie with Republicans in Honors to
William Mckinley.

the circulation it would decrease the
giving good, round 100-cent dollars,
which we have now, they would ask us
to do our business with a 53-cent dol
lar and bring ourselves to the financial
plane of Mexico and China. We decline
to do it" Great cheering)
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morals, reciprocity, the national honor,
the. public credif-aU are enabIazoned on
the banner of Repatblicanism this gear,
! and rduying around that standard are
men of all parties, all races, all sections,
! all creeds; the ac7aite man, the black man,
the aDage-earner, the employer, the pro-
fessiondl man and the business man,
! NAL MCKINLEY TO CoLoRED VOTERS,
Ger. 18th, 1896.
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woRKINGMEN FROM FACTORIES

nelerations from Tin Plate Factories and
Steel md Iron Works.
An enormous delegation composed of
vorkmen from the tin-plate and iron and
steel works of Ohio, Pennsylvania and
other states was addressed by Maj. Nc
Kinley as follows:
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az submit 10 you, men of toll, all
around and about me, acho IS the better
friend of labor, he wfto gives yoa ecoqk
that brings coTatentmeerat, or he aeho
6reathes only acords that create discon-
TENT There cannot be, there ought necer
to be, amy ennaity betaCeen labor and
capital. The interest of the one Is the
interest of the other. MAJ. MCKINLEY
TO ONO WoRKINGMEN OCT- 18th, 1896.
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faction as to feel that the wage-earners
of this country are for the most part
enlisted in the cause for which we stand.
prolonged cheering) | know something
of the workingmen of the United States
I know something of the potters. (Great
applause from the potters.) 1 know
something of the wage-earners in the
great cotton and wooden mills. and that
all they want is opportunity to work
and to secure this all they ask is pro-
lection against the products of other
lands. made by underpaid labor. Great
applause.)
''This, my fellow citizens, you can reg
ulate by your own ballots. Petitions,
one of your spokesman has already said
count for naught. Protests to the Amer
lean Congress count for nothing. The
time when the citizens voice counts
most is on that supreme day-the cleo
ton day. What you want to do is to
elect Congress that represents your
views; then you won't need to resort to
petitions to regulate them, or to keep
them from injuring your industries. Let
the voice of Maryland this year re-
sound as the voice of Maryland did last
year enthusiastic cheering and cries of
we VIII for honest money and protec-
ton. The tariff question is a question
wholly of labor.
we will manufacture with the world
at the rest OF the world will pay as good
wages as We paid in the United
States; but as long it does not. patri-
sotlsm. genuine Americansm, and every
41iiuuSerlii interest uenanuS that we
SHOULD make our tariff high enough to
measure the difference between the low
cost of labor in foreign countries and
the cost of labor in this. (Cheers)
Then, you are interested in honest
money. You don't want any short dol
lars. You have tried short hours in the
last four years, and haven't liked them.
daughter and applause and cries of
You bet we don't-D When you give a
full days work to your employer you
want to be paid in full, unquestioned
and unalterable dollars. Great an
plause.) This is the kind of money we
have now. And the kind we propose to
continue if the American people sustain
as this year.
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Patriotism, gsnssine Americanism
and euery industrial interest demand
that zee should make our tariff high
enough to measure the difference betareen
the ioac cost Of labor IN foreign countries
and the cost Of labor IN this country. .
MAJ. McKINIEY TO THE MARyI.AND-
ERs, Ocr. 18th. 1896.
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'fThere Is one thing ttGt the Republican
party is dedicated to, and that Is to labor
first, then to lar and order. These are
indispensable to the qreLfare of mankind
and indispensable to the prosperity and
the permanency of the Republic. MAJ.
MCKINLEY TO MICHIGAN FARMERS,
Ocr 18th, 1896.
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We hare Just pride an our glorious
record IN fdUor Of free speech, free soil,
free press, free men and free conscience,
but be1ieue that The great majority Of our
courtrymen are neither in faror of free
trade, free silcer or free laarlessness, nor
Of cheating people IN the sacred name OF !
freedom. MAJ. MCKINLEY TO COM
MERCIAL TRAVELLERS, Ocr. 18th, 1896