The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-26
GOOD OLD TIMES.
Mckinley Wishes We Were All
Back in Them.
Would Have Back the Days
From 80 to '92.
THE BEST ROAD THERE
It is Through Protection to
American Factories.
This Gives the Farmer Some
One to Sell To.

canton, u, sept. Z6.-W men Z. CuneO,
Formerly OF Genoa, Italy, mad nnlsheo
his presentation for WyandOtte county
delegation which came TO Canton yes
terday MI Mckinley said:
My Fellow Citizens and Ladies and
Gentlemen-It gives me very great
pleasure to welcome to my home my
fellow citizens Of Wyandotte county I
am glad to be advised that in this audi
ence there are many men who have
heretofore been associated with another
and different party from that to which
we are devoted. / am especially glad
to welcome them here today. This is
year when party lines have almost dis
appeared and when men interested in
the welfare of the country. in the main
tenance of its honor and its credit and
currency, unite together to sustain the
party which stands for them I wish the
condition Of the country was not as we
find it today. I wish it was not so de-
plOrable as was described by Gen. Kir-
by L wish we were back to the better
times between 1880 and 1892 but the on
" way to get back to those good times
is to return over the route that led US
away from them and fight it out on
that line as my friend has suggested.
We must have in the United States an
American policy, a policy that will take
care of our own, that will defend our
own. (Applause.)
IF we do not do that nobody will do
it for US. And fortunately in this
country we have the power among our
selves-the mighty ballOt-tO make just
and legislative policy as we believe will
subserve the highest and best inter
ests of all the people. (Great applause.)
Now, yours is "a farming population.
know all about your county What
you want in WyandOtte county is to
have somebody want and want badly
what you produce on your farms. (Cries
of: That's right') and have discovered
that the farmer always gets better pri-
ces when a lot of buyers are hunting
him up, rather than when the farmers
are hunting up buyers; Applause and
cries of: That's right.O
And I have discovered, too that
the wOrkingman always gets better
wages when his employer is hunting
him than when he is hunting his en-
plOyer- Now, what does that signify?
It signifies that what the farmer wants
is an army of consumers who do not
produce wheat and who do not produce
any of the food products, and the
larger that army is, the better the far
mer is off. (Cries Of That's right too.)
That army of consumers has been re-
duced, not in numbers, in the last few
years. We have just as many here as
we ever had, but it has been reduced in
its capacity to purchase what it needs.
That is what the trouble is with the
country today. We are not earning as
much money as we used to earn We
have not as much to spend because we
have been unable to earn as much.
What we want to do is to put all the
machinery of this country at work. |
CHEERS and cries of You are right.)
We want every mine in the country
opened up. We are tired of having the
pick silent in the mine and we are tired |
of having the loom silent in the mills |
When the pick is silent in the mine
and the loom silent in the mills, the
workingmen of the United States are |
idle and when the WOrkingnen of the |
United States are idle, the farmer is de- |
priVed of his best customers. CTremen-
dous cheering and cries Of Hurrah for !
AIcKinley.D
Now, I take it, my fellow citizens, |
you know what ticket represents in |
creased manufacturing in the United |
States. (Cries of The Republican tick |
et.O You know the ballot which on the |
third of November will decide for the |
applause and cries of Yes, we do. ')NOw |
what the farmer is interested in, is |
when he has a. customer to whom he |
sells his good bushel Of wheat in a full !
round measure, he wants to be paid in |
a full round dollar. (Applause-cries |
Of Good. gOOd.') An interrupted and !
and never to be depress-
ed dollar. (Cries of 'Hurrah for Nc !
That is what the Republican |
party stands for this year. Among |
many other things it stands for law and |
order. It stands for the honor of the |
government; it stands for the honest |
payment of public debts. It stands for .
public honor and public honesty. I |
thank you for this call, and / know you |
nave not had your dinner and RepubH- /
cans never interfere with the dinners |
IF people; indeed it has been their aim |
20 help them get dinners, and good din
ners. Great applause and cries of
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