The Portland daily press., 1896-09-21
Major Mckinley con-

was to vote for 1t. Major Mckinley con-
tinued: Then, my countrymen, we
have presented to US very dangerous
peril TO the country-a proposition to en-
Ter upon the free and Independent and
unlimited coinage of silver and the issu-
ance OF lrredeemaDle paper money. That
proposition simply means that as our
labor has been degraded by free trade,
SO the wages of our oountrymen shall be
degraded by free silver and an inflated
currency and as we are against free trade
we Will be against free silver. Now just
one word more. What we want in this
country is that evory man who wants to
work shall have an opportunity to work.
And then, when he has performed an
honest days work for his employer,
we mean be shall be paid in honest dol
lars. ] assure you. gentlemen, l appre-
clate more than can tell you your warm
assurance of support to the Republican
cause, which for the moment and in this
contest, l represent.
AT one o'clock, the delegation of more
than 8, 900 railway employees from Chicago
marched up to the Mckinley residence.
l is the largest delegation that has
visited Canton. The railway employees
were accompanied by delegation of
about $50 Commercial telegraphers of
Chicago. M. j. Burke acted as spokes-
man for the telegraphers. Mr.. Mckinley
thanked the delegations for the splendid
demonstration and said: "These delega-
tions cominga long distance present a
remarkable phase in our political life and
evidences the deep solicitude they have
Tor the welfare OF our country. Such a
demonstration as this would not be Dos
sible II the people of the country were
not profoundly sensible of the dangerous
menace presented in the national contest
OF this year. You are here today, men
OF all parties and oreeds because you
want to defeat the effort which is now
being asslduously made to destroy the
credit and currency of the country aud
also because loving law and order you
want 10 stamp out the
SPIRIT OF LAWLESsNESS
and repudiation which now threaten 1t.
Your spokesman has justly observed
that NO BODY OF Americans have greater
interests al. stake in the pending political
campaign than the railroad men, VINO
are everywhere taking the Iveliest inter-
est In The proper settlemenG of the great
principles involved in it. The triumph
OF free silver would mean to you, as Its
adoption by Mexico has meant to the
railroad employees of that country, a de-
orease In the purchasing power of the
money In which they are paid of fully
one half, with comparatively no increase
in wages. Not only that, but it would
mean inevitable decreased employment
and general distress. A fifty cent dol
lar, employees of the railroad companies,
will no more add to your earnings than
the RAILROADS would add to theil track by
diminishing the size of their cars. The
RAILROAD men are deeply interested in the
prosperity of the country because they
know from experience that when the
country is prosperous railroads are pros
porous and when railroads are prosperous
they have steady work and renunerative
employment.
Candidate Hobart Talks to Commercial
Travellers.
New York, September IA delegation
of commercial travellers visited Vice
Presidential Candidate Hobart at Re
publican headquarters today. Mr.. Ho-
bart made short address in which he
said he always thought of commercial
travellers as men who had never been
buncoed and he knew they could not
bunooe1 by any platform like the Chioa-
go platform. There was great cheering
as Mr.. Hobart concluded. Then the
members Of the delegation were person
ally introduced to Candidate Hobart,
Senator Quay and Chairman Manley.