Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-03
MANY PILGRIMS TO CANTON
The Day Taken Up by Visiting;
Delegations.
Glass Blowers i'm the Morning, Farm
ers I'm the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Made by the Cam
didate.

Canton. Sept. 26.-Yesterday McKin-
ley was kept busy addressing large del.
egations. First came the glasswo-kers
from Indiana. Their a large delegation
from Seneca county: these were fol-
lowed by a large delegation of Wyan-
dotte county farmers. To them Major
Mckinley said In part:
1T gives me very great pleasure TO
welcome TO my home my fellow citizens
d Wyandotte county. ! am glad to be
advised thai in this audience there are
many men who have heretofore been
associated with another and different
party from hat from which we are de-
voted. J am especially glad to welcome
party lines have almost disappeared,
and when men. interested i'm the welfare
of a common country, in the mainte-
nance of It's honor and its credit and
currency, unite together to sustain the
party that stands for them. / wish the
condition of the country was not as we
find 1t today. l wish we were back to
the better times between 1880 and 1892;
but the only way to get bach to those
good times is to return over the route
that lays away from them and fight
1t from he line AZ my friend has sug-
gested. (ApplauseJ
W. must have in the United States
an American pollcy-a policy that will
take care Of our own hat VIII defend
our own If we do not do that, nobody
Will do IT for us, and fortunately in this
country we have the power among our
salves--the mighty ballot-to make
just such an Administered tive
and executive and leg.s-
lative policy as we believe will subsarva
the highest and best interests of all the
people. Great applausc) Now yours
Is a farming population. What you
want in Wyandotte county IL to have
somebody want and want badly what
you produce on you farms, and ! have
discovered thai the farmers always gets
better prices when "A lot of buyers are
hunting him up rather than when the
farmers are hunting up buyers, and !
have discovered, too, that the working
man always gets better wages when his
employer Is hunting him than when he
IL hunting his employer. Now, what
does that signify? 1t signifies that
what the farmer wants is an army OF
consumers who do not produce wheat
and who do not produce II Of the food
products, and the larger that army Is
the better the farmer IN off. That army
of consumer has been reduced, but not
In numbers in the last few years. We
have just as many people as we have
ever had, but 1t has been reduced I'm It's
capacity to buy what 1t needs. That IL
what the trouble is In this country to-
day. CApplause.) 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 arm as much.
What we want to do Is put all the ma
chinery in this country at work.
(Cheers) 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 looms silent
in the mills. (Applause.) When the
pick Is silent I'm the mines and the loon
is silent in the mills the w"orkingmen Of
the United States are idle, and when
the workingmen of the United States
are idle the farmer Is deprived Of his
best customers. Tremendous cheering
and cries OF "Hurrah for McKinley.'D