The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-02
They Come on an Excursion to
Canton.
PRESS OFTHECOU
Never More Aroused Than 1t Is
Now
To the Issues, Says William
Mckinley.

Gd44G0 On N4aJOE AlCEAAAlGy al . ~ CAOGh
yesterday afternoon several hundred
people gathered in the crowd. Every
body was enthusiastic and the delega-
ton applauded nearly every sentence
Major Mckinley said. The presenta-
ton of the Republican Press associa-
ton by Mr.. W. P Morris was unusual
" witty and entertaining. He said:
THE bill that is allied with your
name was such a one as to make you
dear to West Virginia people and
causes West Virginia Republicans, with
other reasons, to believe you are the
most suitable man in all this land for
president. A tariff bill that at once
brings in sufficient revenue to supply
every need of the government and
properly protects American industries
is what West Virginia desires and such
a bill was the one before your name.
The reason for all this is not hard to
find. It is because West Virginia has
beneath her rugged surface enough
coal for the world; iron ore in vast
quantities; has forests and sheep and
cattle upon a thousand hills; has fer
tile valleys and rich hillsides. Without
protection our vast natural wealth is
chained and helpless
Major Mckinley was greeted with the
greatest enthusiasm. He said in part:
The cause in which you are engag-
ed this year is one commanding both
conscience and interest. The Republi-
can cause was never more just and
righteous than this year and the tri-
essential to the general welfare of the
American people than now.
Nothing is more Indispensable to
business and prosperity than that the
currency of the country shall be honest
that it can cheat nobody. Nothing is
OF greater moment to the welfare OF
the country than the adoption of
policy which will give to labor and
capital constant employment with fair
returns. Applause and cries of
'-'good.")
But gentlemen, lying beneath all
these and more important than all
these, is the preservation of Law and
order-the reign of domestic quiet
(Cheers). All these are embraced in
the contention which is upon US this
year. In connection with these ques-
lions as editors and publishers you have
the gravest response bilities. You help
to make public sentiment, and a right
public sentiment is what is needed at
this juncture of our national affairs.
Never was the press of the country
more aroused to the issues than now
Never did the Republican cause have
such mighty support from the newspa-
pers of the United States as it has to-
day. g This help is not confined to the
Republican press alone but includes
many of the greatest neWSpa perS which
have hitherto advocated the domestic
cause. Great applause) All this is
an evidence that the people appreciate
that a great crisis is upon them and
the way to avoid that crisis is for pat
riotic men of every section of the coun-
try to unite and act together in the
common cause of country. (Great ap-
plause.)
1T is not selfish concern, therefore.
that prompts me to express the hope
that West Virginia may become per
manently a Republican state (Cheers
and cries of cit will go Republican this
fall all right) and that what she gain
ed so gloriOusly in 1894 will not be lost
in '96. Great app1auSe.)
The republican party aims higher
than that It is not merely the success
of individuals or party, but the good
of the country it seeks, and it is in that
spirit animated only by patriotic SEN
timent that wish always to constant
ly speak and act. There is in my judg-
ment no state whose prosperity is link
ed more closely to Republican politics
than West Virginia. You have extern
sive river commerce both on the Ohio
and on the KanaWha side and this is
not so prosperous and active as when
your great steel and iron interest, your
mines, your mills, your factories are
busily employed (Cries of That's
right.O Your railroads, reaching now
more than 1000 miles with their en-
plOyeS, are all better off when every
field of industry is employed. Every
railroad employee from trackman to
manager appreciates this as he never
appreciated it before. Then have you
considered that perhaps no other equal
territory, no other Is 600 square miles
of the soil of the United States, mighty
as her resources, could contain any in
progress are so dependent upon the
maintenance of the great Republican
doctrine of prOtection?" Great ap-
plauSe.)
Major Mckinley then described in de-
tail the resources of the state, the vast
coal deposits, the unsurpassed produc-
ton of coke, the forests of great ex-
tent and furnishing material for innum-
cradle sawmiIls,the inexhaustible petro-
leum deposits, all Of which give employ
ment to thousands Of men, and then in
addition to all this, fully one-half of
the land of the state being used for
farming and grazing, wool growing and
stock raising having assumed large
proportions, and III conclusion he add
ed:
How much these several Industries
have suffered in the last three years
you know better than can tell you.
How much the wool growers have lost,
know accurately They know what
the experience of the last three years
has cost to a very cent. All interests
are seriously affected all are injured or
benefited by our Industrial legislation
You know, and the people know, that
every one of them were advanced by
Republican policies (Applause), and
that all of them have been more or
less injured by Democratic legislation
Great applause and cries of You are
right With such an almost inexhauSt-
ible wealth in our midst with such pos
sibilities of development and growth,
creased business and greater prosper
ity I bid you newspaper men to lose
no opportunity to arouse your people
to the realization Of their true interest
and the immense Importance to them
of the issues of the present campaign,
as they affect their material welfare in
every business, calling or occupation
that can be named.
Your interests as a people no longer
rim on sectional lines. Thank God, the
last lingering estrangements between
the north and the south are being for