Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-08-28
CUT THE WAGES IN TWO
k'NINLEY'S IDEA OF THE RESULT
OF DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS.
Many PennsyIvanians Visit the Re-
publican Candidate at His
Home in Ohio.

Canton, Ohio, Aug. 22.-Two thous-
and farmers, mechanics and other arti-
sans from Newcastle, Elwood and 9TH
er parts of Lawrence county, Pennsyl-
Vania, started for Canton this morn
ing in special trains over the Balti-
more & Ohio to call on Major Mckiu-
ley. They reached Canton shortly be-
fore noon. When they paraded to the
Mckinley home, 5000 people crowded
over the lawn and surged into the
streets. Bands played, thousand en-
thusiastic voices. cheered cannons
doomed and steam calliopes added
noise to the medley. People stood in
the rain for an hour waving banners,
and beating tin helmets. Among the
notices on the banners were: I'VE want
back good old Mckinley times I'VE
want furnaces and factories started,
not rich mems silver mines" Honest
money and a chance to earn it,
jackson introduces Mckinley.
TIL presentation was made by eX-
Congressman Oscar j. Jackson, who
said: Your nomination was not OBJ
tanned by self seeking, neither was it
the result of accident or the impulse
of the moment So carefully had pub
lie sentiment designated you as a lit
man for the place, that the convention
seemed for the purpose of ratifying the
nomination. We are to honor you as
the most distinguished friend of the
American system of protection. We
know this system benefits all classes
equally, and we have enjoyed a fair
share of prosperity that attended it.
1t will not admit of doubt that a large
majority are now in favor of protec
ton. That is the real question to be
settled this year, and we want to do
our part to keep this before the peo-
pie.
I'VE consider the much talked of
money question false ISSUE raised by
designing men for selfish purposes. Re-
publicanS are not asking for any
change in this respect. For many years
We had good money, and we only want
it kept good. We are not people
that should go back on cheap, poor
| money, and when that question does
come up we want it all to be equal to
| the best"
When Mckinley mounted the chair
to respond to the sentiments of Col
onel Jackson, calliopes, cannon, bands
| and myriads of human voices repeat
ed their first ovation.
Mckinley Speaks.
Major Mckinley said:
"Mr. Jackson and my Fellow Citizens
of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania: 1t
gives me very great pleasure to wei
come the citizens of a neighboring state
to my city and my home. l note with
SotiSfa ri inn the which
your eloquent spokesman brings me,
that the people of Pennsylvania have
lost none of the devotion to the great
principles of the republican party, and
which will give to the republican ma
tional ticket an unrivaled republican
majority. (CrieS of I'VE will do that
all right.'D Nor am 1 surprised fellow
citizens, that this is so. We have had
three years of bitter experience under
the policy which the republican party
always opposed, and there has been
nothing in my experience to win US to
that policy, but everything to increase
our devotion to the old policy of pro-
lection, which stands opposed to it.
(Applause)
My fellow-citiZenS, the earnest
thought of the people this year is di
rected to the present condition of the
country and how best to improve it
This is the thought of every mind and
the prayer of every soul Nobody is
satisfied with our unfortunate business
conditions, and the great body of pee
pie want and mean to have a change
What shall the change be? Shall It be
a continuance of the present democrat
ic party under another leadership (crias
| of "NoO-a leadership advocating all
the policies of the democratic party
which have been injurious to the Amer
| lean people, and rejecting all which are
good, wholesome and patriotic, and
which have received the approval of the
people of the country? Great cheers
| and cries of "NO.D
THE wing of the democratic party
which controlled the Chicago conVen-
| ton is just as much in favor of free
trade as the wing of the democratic
party in control of the national admin
| istration. applause, and cries of
| That's SOD Most of those promin ant
| in that convention were conspicuous
| leaders of an assault upon our indus
| tries and labor made by the Fifty-third
| congress. They are devoted to this TN
| American and destructive policy, and
| were chiefly instrumental in putting
| upon the statute DOCKS IdTlH legislation
which destroyed American manufacture
| ing, checked our foreign trade and To-
duced the demand for labor for Ameri-
| can Workmen. cloud cries of You are
right.')
''It stands opposed to reciprocity, too,
| the splendid results of which We're 50
| generally manifested during the adj
! ministra ton of President Harrison. The
people of this country have condemned
the policies of this party in this partic-
ular at every election since 1892. They
are only waiting now for a chance to
register again, all along the line, unit.
| eddy, their opposition to this free trade
policy in the general election next No.
vember Applause)
"A triumph this year for the Chica.
go platform would be signal victory
for free trade, and for a continuance
of free trade legislation, which has
already resulted so disastrously to the
American people and entailed upon the
| government deficient revenues, dimin
ished our trade abroad and brough
| starvation wages at home. This wins
of the democratic party believes no
only in free trade, but it believes il
free silver at the ratio of 16 to !
(Cries Down with free silver.D Hav
| ;nr 5ir7ipicbad Ol1r hISiDaSS tbav Dou