The Portland daily press., 1896-09-24
A FIRST VOTERS CLUB,
One Of Organizations to Visit
Major Mckinley.
IMPRESSIVE TALK ON RESPONSE
BILITIES UF SUFFRAGE.
Should Express Intelligence Judgement
and Conscience of the voters-The
Question of Opening the Mills or Open
ing the Mints.

and Conscience of the voters-The
Question of Opening the Mills or Open
ing the Mints.
4 Canton, September 23.-The delegations
which called on Mckinley today were
from the natural gas belts of Ohio and
Indiana. The first visitors wero from
Wood county Ohio They arrived about
$50. The delegation was composed Of
the First Voters club of Bowling Green.
parts of the various Republican clubs Of
the county and the Women's MCKINLEY
aud Hobart club. The delegation num-
bered 800.
In resonse to the spokesman's remarks
Major Mckinley said In part: "The
presence Of young men who are to vote
for the first time next November is to me
you fully appreciate the privilege and
honor you are soon t o have. I fear some
time few of US estimate the suffrage at
it's true worth. It clothes US with
sovereignty. 1t is a guarantee to our
liberty and our institutions and is our
surest safety. Through it our whole
governmental machinery is conducted.
| 1t is priceless inheritance. II should
| express the intelligence and Judgment
and conscience of the voter. 1T should
never be employed basely. 1t should
be exercised with courage, wisdom and
patriotism. 1t should never be throw n
against the country and should never
represent public dishonor. (6reat ap-
| plause.) ventured few weeks ago that
it would be better to open tho mills than
to open the mInts. Some OF our political
opponents critioise that statement saying
/ it is putting the cart before the horse.
"They seem to think the way to open
up woolen mills for example is to start a
yard stick factory. daughter and ap-
plause.) They forget that you must
make cloth before you can measure it,.
Start the factories in full blast and
money will flow from bank and vault.
machinery in operation, and there will
not ba an idle man in the country who is
willing and able to work, and there will
not be an American home where hunger
and want will not disappear at once.'
The second and last delegation came
from Muncte, Ind.
In response to the spokesman Mckinley
said: "The chief cause of complaint OF
/ our opponents Is first that we have not
enough money. and second that our
! money is too good. To the first I answer
that the per capita of circulating
medium in this country has besn greater
since the go called crime of '73, than II
ever was before, and that 1t has been
greater in the last five years than it ever
was in all our history.
"We have not only got the best money
in the world but we have got more Of it
per capita than most of the nations OF
the world. To the second complaint il
would seem to be enough to say that the
money of any country cannot be toe
good. I cannot imagine any interest
that can be subser we'd by having poor
money.
When we were doing business with
deprecated money, interest WAS very
much higher to the borrower and the
debtor than now. That money 10 hard &c
get, is not because it Is scarce, but be-
cause those who have it keep it, fearing
to loan it because OF the unsettled busi
HESS oonditlsn of the country. The threat
of silver is driving our money into hid
ing. The way to bring it out is to restore
confidence. The way to restore confidence
is to defeat the party that destroyed COLI
fdence; the way to restore prosperity IL
to defeat those who have destroyed
prosperity"