The herald., 1896-10-29
r.e-,v..,n navment.for our work dollar

receive In ravmentfor our work dollar
that won't depreciare over night. am
glad to know that TIE -reat state of New
York is aroused tt ear as she never
4 has been aroused ire to the perils of
unsound. and disho /. currency. Cap
plause.) am. glad TO be advised that
your state is marching almost to man
under the banner of public honor ana
national integrity am glad to know
that party lines are almost totally ef-
faced. for 1t ID no longer question of
party triumph, but question of the tri-
umph Of right. {Renewed cheers) l
bid YOU take back with you the message
that Ohio and the great west will, with
you. unite In making victory that shall
be significant sor the honor of our coun-
try, upholding public law. peace and
tranquility, and against every propo-
sition that woulefl debase or degrade the
American name OF American honor"
(Great cheering. waving of hats and
flags3 X 1sptseca f.s,-
The Canton troop, whose members
old soldiers, business men, workingmen
and professional men-mounted on
horses, have escorted visitors to the NC
Kinley home for months past. made
social call on Major Mckinley today.
After introducing the members of the
troop individually to the governor, Cap
tain Harry Freaze made the following
remarks:
Major Mckinley: We have been ac-
cused of doing what we have done in the
way of escorting delegations to your
home for mercenary purposes, and some
U1 n
money we have received in our pockets
= (Laughter.) But I want to assure you
1t has been our desire to serve you anu
the cause you represent and to see all
/. the callers ysu have received from diff
ferent parts of the country should have
proper escorts from the depot to your
home. Another thing we can assure
you. We have no trouble to coax the
people to come here. daughter and ap-
plause.) We will take this occasion to
say that it will be our pleasure to serve
YOU in the same capacity as long as
these delegations continue to come. We
also wish to thank you most heartily
for the courtesy shown from the re-
viewing stand on every occasion, and
we want you to feel that you have at
least the friendship and the desire on
the part of this troop that you may be
as successful now as you have been in
the past.
Three cheers were then given for Nc
Kinley.
Major Mckinley replied: I certainly
appreciate your kind sentiments and re-
ciprocate them fully. 1 know you will
be glad to be assured that you have
made good impression on the people
who have come to Canton from all over
the country. I am sure that in no cam
paign in the past where there have
been delegations have the receptions
been so cordial as In the city of Canton,
through your efforts; and I doubt if
any delegation has come in that does
not go away with a better opinion of
our little city than when it comes. 1t
goes without saying that 1 appreciate
more than I can find words to express
your splendid loyalty and devotion to
the city and to me, and 1 hope that
next Tuesday you will find some reward
for your unselfishness. (Applause.)
Major Mckinley, in his address 10
the Canton business men and citizens
said, in part:
1t would be hard heart indeed that
would be unmoved by this magnificent
demonstration of my neighbors and fell
low townsmen, who have assembled
here tonight without regard to party. ma
tionality or creed, to give expression TO
their good will for the great cause for
which I have been designated to stand.
Not since the first shot went crashing
against the walls of Sumter, rudely
awakening the startled nation to the re-
alization that civil war had commenced
have the masses of our fellow country
men been aroused as they are now
With what shall always seem to me an
unaccountable rashness, it is proposed
at the end of 120 years of a glorious ma
: tional life, proposed in earnestness, for
the first time in our history, to cast re d.
proach upon the honor of the American
name; to give effect 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 booths next Tuesday solemnly 70
ratify a proposition that means national
dishonor and reputation. 1 do not be-
lieve they will ever do it. The issue may
be obscured as it will by brilliant ora
tors 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 government 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 willin,,
to give the best they had, the best that
any man possessed, their own life's
blood-shall have their pensions cut in
two.
The proposition is unworthy of Amer
lean citizens and is an insult to their
integrity, good faith and inspiring his
tory of our great republic. 1t should re-
ceive, and believe it will receive, fit
z ting rebuke from the ballots of fifteen
millions of free men. 1t should be so
Z. overwhelmingly defeated that no na-
tional convention of any great party will
ever dare make so debasing a PROPOSE
tion in any important political cam
paign again. Why, if it prevailed, how
can the American name escape dishon-
or? The American people will never take
so rash and wicked step as to inyali-
date or impair the value of their own
government obligations. They will new