The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-28
PHE MAJOR ADDRESSES VISITING
PENNSYLVANIhNS.
HE LAUDS PROTECTION.
The Chicago Convention Policies At
tacked-Declares That the People
Will Not Have Free Trade and
Free Silver at 16 to 1, and
That Both Will BE Buried
at November Election.

| CANTON, Ohio, lAug. 24.-Two thou
sand farmers, mechanics and other cit
izens of Newcastle, Elwood and other
parts of Lawrence county, Pennsylva-
MIA, came here in special trains to- day
to call on Major Mckinley. When
they had paraded to the Mckinley
home. 5000 people crowded over the
bare lawn and surged into the streets
around about. Then it rained, but
bands played, thousands cheered, can
mons doomed and steam calliopes
added their noises. The people stood
through the rain for an hour, waved
their banners and beat their tin he'll
NETS. They carried inscriptions: 1--WE
want back the good old Mckinley
times;" 1--WE want the furnaces and
factories started, not the rich mems
silver mines;" Honest money and
chance to earn it" The presentation
was made by eX-Congressman Oscar
| L. Jackson.
When Major Mckinley mounted a
| chair on his stoop to respond to the
sentiments of Colonel Jackson, cali
opeS, cannon, bands and mvraids of
human voices repeated their first ova-
ton. He said: 81 note with great
satisfaction the message which your
eloquent spokesman brings to me, that
the people of Pennsylvania have lost
none of their devotion to the great
principles of the Republican party and
that this year they will give to
the Republican national ticket
an unrlvaled Republican majority.
(Cries of ''We will do that all rightly
Nor am | surprised, my fellow citi.
zens, that this is so. We have had
three years of bitter experience under
a policy which the Republican party
has always opposed and there has been
nothing in that experience to win US
to that policy, but everything to in
crease our devotion to the old policy
of protection which stands opposed
10 {.
My fellow citizens, the earnest
thought of the people this year is di-
rected to the present condition of the
country and how best to improve it.
This is the thought of every mind and
is the prayer of every soul. Nobody
is sa atisied with our unfortunate bus
mess condition and the great body of
the people want and mean to have a
change. What shall be the change?
Shall it be the continuance of the pres
ent Democratic party under another
leadership-a leadership advocating
all the policies of the Democratic
party which have been injurious to
the American people and rejecting all
which are good, wholesome and pa
triotic, and which have received the
approval of the people of the country?
The wing of the Democratic party
which controlled the Chicago conven-
tion is just as much IN favor of free
trade as the wing of the Democratic
party in control of the national ad-
ministration. Most of those prominent
in that convention were conspicuous
leaders in the assault upon our indus
tries and labor made by the Fifty-third
Congress. They are devoted to this
un-American and destructive policy
and were chiefly instrumental in put
ting on the statute books tariff legis-
lation which has destroyed American
manufacturing, checked our foreign
trade and reduced the demand for the
labor of American workingmen. 1t
stands opposed to reciprocity, too, the
splendid results of which were so sig
nally manifest during the admins
tration of President Harrison.
1.-THE people of this country have
condemned the policies of this party
in these particulars in every election
since 1895. They are only waiting
now for a chance to register again,
and all along the line, unitedly their
opposition to this free trade heresv in
the general election next November.
If there was, therefore, but one
question-that of protection against
free trade - we have it just
as sharply drawn and as distinct
lively presented through the Chicago
convention wing of the Democratic
party as we had it through the united
party in 1892, and triumph this year
for the Chicago platform would be
signal victory for free trade and for
the continuance of free trade legisla-
tion, which has already resulted so
to the American people
and entailed upon the government de-
fcient revenues, upon the people
trade abroad and starva-
tion wages at home.
This wing of the Democratic party
believes not only in free trade, but it
believes in free silver at a ratio of 16 |
to l. (Cries of Down with free sill
ness they now seek to diminish the
value VI Jul uIohcS' hoSihS Cu1 |
wages in two, they want to cut the |
money in which wages are paid in
two. and we will not have either the !
one Or the other. The other wing of |
the Democrat tic party is patriotically |
for the public honor and is
opposed to free silver because it be-
lieves that such policy would disturb
existing values, contract the currency
Of the country by depriving us of the
use of the gold and putting US on
silver basis, thus creating widespread
panic and bringing to every American
interest serious injury"
Missouri Railways Consolidated.
WEBB CITY, Mo-, Aug. 24.-All prop
erty of the Joplin and Galena Electric