Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-31
VOTERS FROM KANSAS CALL
The SunAower State Delegates
are Enthusiastic.
After Their Long Journey They Still
Give the Candidate u Hearty
Grccting--Several Dele
cations Addressed.

Canton. oct. 24-One of the liveliest
and most enthusiastic crowds seen here
was the employees of the Santa Fe rail-
roa from the Suniower state. Some
Of this party were two days on the road.
They were headed by President H.. l..
Morris Of the Emporia Railway Mems
Sound Money club. The singular crowd
Of the day was the party of the poor SUI
pervisors OF Pennsylvania, who came to
Canton from p%ittsburg, where they Were
in convention. Armstrong county.
Pennsylvania, was represented by sey-
eral thousand people.
Van Vert. O., also sent a large dele
cation. From 10 o'clock in the morning
until dark in the evening the streets
We're crowded.
Sutiower Sound Money Men.
Major Mckinley's address to the dele
cation from Topeka, Kan, was as fol-
lows.
My Fellow Citizens OF Kansas: This IS in
deed a very great pleasure 10 me. You
nave Jcurncyed farther than any other DEL
egatCn of the United States that has hon
ored me with a VISIT at my home. and | ar
pFec ate your call more than j can fnd
words 10 express. IL shows better than
any words that could be uttered by any
man what is in your minds and hearts, and
that Your purposes are touching the cleo
ton 10 be he'd on the 81 day Of Novem-
Der. You are Interested in the prosperitA.
OF our country. There was a tine wfer'
some men were IN the habit of saying that
il id not make any difference 10 the raj
road men Of the country, who YOU repre-
sent, what kind OF financial legislation W.
had, or what k.nd of a tariff policy we
pursued m the United States. have
heard II sad a thousand times from the
puEl.c lostrum that while the tariff might
help the men engaged IN the factor-oS, 10
had no influence upon the wages Of tle
men who were engaged upon the great
transportation Zines of the country. II
any of You believed that statement fplr
years ago, YOU do not believe n now, be-
cause you know that npon the general
prosperity Of the country depends the
PROSPERITY Of our great railroads, and upon
Their prosperity depend your employment
end wages. lOu WI have nothing ,o do
If there : nothing to haul, and the more
there : IL haul the more ana stead ~ M
Payment you VIII have, and the better
wages YOU VIII get for yourselves and lam
.l,cs. In the last three years and a halI no
than the railroads. Now what we want 10
do IS TO gel back our prosperity. Nnat-
ever VIII do tina; Is what all Of us ought 10
be m favor Of, a number OF reasons are
offered for his cOng9strd condition OF
business; and n number OF propositions are
offered for It's cure. The most prominent
ono = that we VIII all be made prosperous
ana happy If We open up our msnts 10 the
coinage Of all the silver n the world. Can
any w0rkingman or emp,oye of the Santa
lc system tell me how the free coinage OF
the silver Of The word viii benefit HIM?
VIII FL Increase your traffic or UanSporta-
ton? VII q increase consumers in the
east Of the products of the farms in the
west? VIII il Increase the demand for a
single days labor anywhere? WEI Il in
crease the wages Of any work.ngman TO
have THIS government declare that the
pieces of silver thdt You can buy anywhere
IN the world for % cents shall he coined
as dollars by the government withoaE cx-
pcnse , ana we fool ourselves by calling
them dcilars? VIII that hep anybody?
VIII that help any American .ntercst any
where? All Il WI do VIII be 90 Increase
the production Of the silver of the world,
yer WI come - certain depreciation, and
with the depreciation of silver VIII be the
still further depreciation OF the silver
CONS Of the United States. Surely no
man wants that.