The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-29
ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN
DISCUSSED BY THE NOMINEE IN AN
UNUSUALLY EARNEST
FASHION.
PROTECTION ENTERS THE CASE.
The Republican Standard Bearer
Believes That Tariff VIII BE
Seen in Election Returns.

him tonight when he approached the
tariff question at the conclusion of
one Of his most remarkable addresses.
Three cheers for protection" inter
rupted him before he reached his eli
max. He replied to Mr.. Bryan's recent
u~tterances in these words:
Some of our political opponents have been
denying that this question of the tariff is
an issue in the present campaign. They. will
not even tell us how they propose to raise
the money with which TO run this govern
ment. They will not discuss that at all, and
yet they have declared in their platform that
not a single dollar of money shall be Dor
rowed, even to maintain the credit and
honor Of the government in time Of peace.
But am confident that they will discover
that the tariff question is In the election re-
turns next Tuesday.
There was a tremor in Maj. McKin-
leys voice this evening as, after repeat
ed attempts, he responded to the home
greetings of thousands of his neighbors
and fellow citizens. His door yard and
those of his ~neighbors were not large
enough for the crowd. For blocks in
every direction street cars, trucks, de-
livery wagons N carriages blocked the
streets. An imprOvised platform at
the pavement edge was used. Above
this was an arch of electric lights re-
splendent with national colors. Bust
ness had been almost universally sus-
RSANNAS - u S4O&h ~ ol1OW Oil llC
camille people and employees Of their
houses to participate. A score of bands
and drum corps in the city volunteered
their services and were distributed in
the parade which marched to the Nc
kinley home. This demonstration was
the conclusion of an eventful day.
Min carloads of Buffalo people, who
reached Canton at 11:2O this morning,
comprised the important visiting dele
cation Of today. In the party was the
Republican league club in handsome
uniforms, headed by Powell's Sixty
fifth Regiment band; the Central Ital-
ian club, headed by Scinta's band, and
a numbe Of unOrganiZed citizens, rep
resenting the various interests of Buff
falo. A drizZling rain was falling when
the party arrived and the formal re-
ception was held in the Tabernacle,
where ]. Morey Close made the intro
ductory address.
Later a car load of West virginians
came from Wheeling, with them Lieut..
Gov. Richards, of S~teubenville, o.
Theirs was a social visit without for
NAL speech-making. They called at
the Mckinley home M they shook
hands with the major and conversed
with him in a social way.
This evening was given over to the
Canton demonstration. In reply to the
greeting of his neighbors, Maj. McKin-
ley said:
Great issues are involved in the pending
struggle. The people are aroused as never
before, and l believe that the election next
Tuesday will show a much larger vote than
was ever before polled in the history of our
country. We polled IL, 900, COO votes four
years ago. and will be surprised il the vote
on the Sd Of November does not far exceed
that. In every state, county, city and voting
precinct, every American voter feels this
year that he has a grave duty resting upon
him, and l don't believe that any one will
willingly absent himself from the polls. They
are not only going to vote, but they are
going. to vote right, as God gives them to
see the right, Independent Of old party or
political relations. 1t is not a question Of
candidates, it is not a contention for office;
it is a contention for country, not a conten-
ton inspired by sectional consideration, but
OF devotion to the duty which affects and in
spires the great heart Of the American peo-
pie.
against the walls of Sumter, rudely awaken
ing the startled nation to the realization that
civil war had commenced, have the masses
OF our fellow countrymen ever been aroused
as now. With what shall always seem to me
an unaccountable rashness, it is proposed,
at the end of 10 years of glorious national
IIe; proposed IN earnestness, for the first
time IN our history, to cast reproach upon
the honor of the American name; to give eff
feet and force to that, not merely by an act
OF state legislature or congress, bad as that
would be, but the American people are asked
as they enter the booths next Tuesday,
solemnly to ratify a proposition that means
0dLlO0dl QlSlOnOT ana ToDuQldtlOn. do
not believe they will ever do it..
The issue may be obscured as it will; brill
liant orators or talented writer's may weave
the most alluring sophistries, but the plain,
bald proposition cannot be hidden. The voters
OF the United States are asked to say by their
ballots that they are willing that our national
obligations shall be redeemed by the govern
ment in money worth only about one-half as
much as the government received for them.
and that the pensioners Of this government.
the men who were willing to give the best
fh0 hod tho h4c that 4--
their own life blood-shall have their pensions
cut in two.
The proposition is unworthy American citi-
zenship and is an insult to the integrity,
good faith and the inspiring history of our
great republic. 1t should receive, and 1 be-
lieve it will receive. a fitting rebuke from
the ballots OF fifteen millions of true men.
1t should be SO overwhelmingly defeated that
no national convention of any great party
will ever dare make so debasing a PROPOSE
| ton in any political campaign again. II 1t
| prevails, how can the American name es-
| cape hishonor? What use to boast of the
glories of the past, If we discredit them all
reason of them to cast reproach upon the
honored names of the past by actual dis
honesty now? No nation can, by fiction of
the law, Justly absolve itself from any hon
orable obligation. No nation can, by the
wrongful exercise of power, contravene the
eternal principles of truth and Justice and
not escape deserved and fearful retribution.
The American people will never take so rash
and wicked a step as to inyalidate or i'm
pair the value of their own government OBJ
legations. They will never consent by pop
ular vote or otherwise tc the reputation
of one farthing of their national debt.
But the arguments have been made SO,
the case is ready to go to the jury, and the
jury is waiting impatiently to announce its
verdict, and, as Republicans, we confidently
submit our contention to the great tribunal
Of the American people. They will, 1 am
sure, give a most emphatic Endorsement of
the great principles Of our government and
demand the continuance Of our glorious in
stitutions, unimpaired and unthreatened.
They will be true to their time-honored
traits of a mighty people. They will teach
the world this year that they respect law
peace and tranquility and not In disorder
and chaos. They will show their reverence
for the courts of justice, their devotion to
the constitutional doctrines Of free govern
ment and their love Of home, and family,
education and morality. To whatever ex-
tent these matters are involved in this cam
paign; however some of them may be
threatened by the leaders of an unworthy
cause, and whenever and wherever the obi
| cations OF good citizenship may lead them.
/ am confident that the American people can
always be relied upon to do their whole
duty bravely and well.
whatever poor ability : possess that great
economic policy BY which not only Canton,
but all ether thriving enterprising cities of
the country have been steadily advanced.
Protection has always seemed to me to be
the true. patriotic American policy, and I
want to see it restored IN the legislative
and administrative branches Of the gov
eminent. Some Of our political opponents
have been denying that this question of
the tariff Is an issue In the presenet cam
paign. They will not even tell us how they
propose to raise the money with which to
run this government. They will not discuss
that at all. and yet they have declared In
their platform that not a single dollar of
money shall be borrowed, even to maintain