The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26
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McKinIey's Address to the De1ega ton
from Wyandotte County.


When the delegation of farmers from
Wyandotte county reached the Mckinley
lawn congratulatory addresses were made
by Mayor Robert Carey, Gen. j. M. Kirby
and editor Peter Cuneo, of the Upper
Sandusky Tribune, a former subject of
Italy. Major Mckinley responded as fol-
lows:
MY Fellow-citizens and Ladies and Cen
tlemen: 1t gives me very great pleasure to
welcome to my home my fellow-ctizens of
Wyandotte county. | am glad to be advised
that in this audience there are many men
who have heretofore been associated with
another and different party from that
glad to welcome them here to-day. This
is year when party lines have almost
disappeared and when men interested in
the welfare of a common country in the
maintenance of its honor and its credit and
currency, unite together to sustain the par
stand before this audience to-day, that for
many, many years it has been my Gus
tom to journey to your county, ana IN no
county of the State have l ever received
warmer or more generous welcome than
from the people of Wyandotte county.
Great cheering) And in no point in the
State or out of the State have I ever re-
ceived more respectful and attentive hearing
than from your own good citizens.
II wish the condition of the country
were rot as we find It to-day; I wish it
were not so deplorable as described by
General Kirby. wish it We're back to the
better times between 1880 and 1892 But the
only way to get back to those good times
away from them. and fight it out on that
line as my friend has suggested. Great
laughter and appause)
eve 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, nobody will do
it for us (cries of That's right!), and, for
| tunately, in this country we have the pow
er in oursalves-the mighty ballot-to make
Just such an administration and executive
and legislative policy as we believe will
serve the best and highest interests of all
the people. Great applause)
Now. yours is a farming population. I
know all about your county. What you
body want, and want badly. what you pro-
duce your farm. tCries of That's
right,D And L have discovered that the
farmer always gets better prices when
lot of buyers are hunting him up. rather
than when the farmers are hunting up buy
ers applause and cries of That's right,)
And I have discovered. too, that the work
ingman always gets better wages when his
employer is hunting him than when he is
of That's right,D Now. what does that
signify? 1t signifies that what the farmer
produce wheat and who do not produce any
of the food products. and the larger that
AZ my the better the farmer is off. (Cries of
THAT'S right too') That army of consum-
ers has been reduced, not in numbers, in
the last three years. We have Just as
they have been reduced in their capacity to
buy what they need. That is what the
trouble is in this country to-day. ZAP
plause) We are not earning as much mon
ey as we used TO earn. We have not
as much to spend. because have
been unable to earn as much
What we want to do is to put all the
machinery in this country TO work.
Cheers and cries of You are righti) We
want every mine in the country opened up.
We are tired of having. the pick silent in
the mine and are tired of having the
loom silent in the mill (Applause and
cries of Correct Correctly When the
pick Is silent in the mine and the loom is
silent in the mill the worhingmen of the
United States are idle. and when the work
ingmen of the United States are idle the
farmer Is deprived of his best customers.
tremendous applause and cries of 'Hurrah
for McKinleytD
Now. / take it, my fellow-citizens. you.
know what ticket represents increased
manufacturing in the United States.
(Cries of The Republican ticketiO You
know the ballot which, on the Sd day of
November. will represent the great doctrine
of protection. the American patriotic poll
cy which takes care of the American peo-
pie and every American interest. Great ap-
plause and cries of Yes, we do.) Now.
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