The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-08-13
M 'KINLEY TALKS
Feelingly and Eloquently to Old
Army Comrades.
IT WAS A MEMORABLE SCENE.

Harland Call Forth Fitting Response.
what the Republican Candidate Said
sA the Currency Observation-Disclosures to
Ds Paid In the Best Currency In the
world-Lovs Of Country and Our In
situations.
On the occasion Of visit by ex.sol.
diers and other citizens Of Guernsey
county, under the auspices Of the Grand
Army and craftsmanship of Colonel
Taylor TO Major Mckinley at his home
In Canton, . very touching address was
delivered by Chaplain Mcfarland Of the
party. Tears came to many eyes, and it
was with visible feeling that Major
Mckinley responded. He said:
Colonel Taylor. DR.. Mcfarland, My Comrades
and Fellow-C Citizens:
''It gives me great qualification to re-
Ceive this call from my old friends and
Fnsighbors and fellow. citizens of Guern-
sey county. have made many visits
70 your county in years gone by and
know most Of you personally I know
something of the quality of your popu-
lation. know something of the spirit
Of your people. I know something Of
your loyalty and devotion to the Union
in war, and know much of your loyalty
and devotion to patriotism and good
government in peace; [cheersl and
knowing you as we'll as I do know you,
am certain that neither floods nor fire
would stop you from doing what you
had proposed to do. Laughter and ap.
piause.
II am glad to meet the representa-.
ttves OF labor who are assembled here
this morning. congratulate them upon
the advance that has been made in the
tin plate industry, to which Colonel
Taylor has referred. am glad to know
that Republican legislation gives to this
country an industry that gives work
and wages to American workingmen
and brings happiness to American
homes. [Great cheering]
II am glad. my fellow citizens, to
meet my old comrades of the Grand
Army of the Republic [applausel, my
comrades OF S5 years ago, for the war
commenced 30 years ago, and it is near.
ly 80 years since its close. 1t seems not
80 long, nor SO far away, but as l look
into the faces of the old soldiers before
me today ! see that age is stamping its
lines of care upon them. Their step is
no longer as steady and as firm as it was.
Us years ago. but their hearts are just as
loyal to the old flag of the Union. Tire.
aendous cheering.]
And they are just as loyal to ma
tional honor today as they were loyal to
national unity then [Applause.l When
the war closed there were two great
debts resting upon the government
One was the debt due to the men who
had loaned the government money with
N rs
tions. The other debt was due the men
who had willingly offered their lives
for the preservation of the American
Union CHEERS The old soldiers
waited on thei pensions until this
great debt Of the government was well
out of the way. They waited patiently
until the government of the United
States had reduced nearly two-thirds of
that great money debt. Applause.
They wanted every dollar of the debt
paid in the best coin known to the COM
mercial world. [Great applause. And
every dollar of that debt up to this hour
has been paid in gold or its equivalent,
the best recognized money of the world,
and every dollar of that debt, my COM
rades, yet to be paid will be paid in the
same unqu STONED coin. Tremendous
cheering.
m most OF that debt Is out OF the way.
Ine great debt OF this government now
is to the surviving soldiers of the re-
public. [Applausel. There are 100000
pensioners on the honored pension roll
OF TINS government today and the gov
ernment pays out OF its puoiic treasury
IN penslons over $l4o,OoO'oOO every year
10 Gne soiolers ana sailors, the widows
ana tneir orpnans. Every dollar OF that
DEBT must De PAID IN the best currency
ana com OF tne world. Threat cheering
ana cr1es OF 'Ihe Republican party will
zee 20 tnat !. Ihere Is nobody more IN,
terested IN maintaining sound and
I'm. ronrhIic fCr;aS of .Vo,, ara ,;T,h.
major']. their widows and their or.
phans.
"Your old commander. General
Grant, applause whose memory is
cnerlsned oy all OF you, performed two
great and conspicuous acts while presi-
dent OF the United States, one vetoing