Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-24
ONE DAY AT CANTON
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others from Rock Island and Moline, Ill,
and Davenport Ia. Maj. Mckinley said:
You come from three states OF the
mightiest government of earth You
come representing diverse occupations
and varied employments, but you come
with a single mission; you come with a
common purpose and that purpose is to
manifest your devotion to the great prin-
ciples of the Republican party and your
determination to see that those prlncl-
pies shall triumph on the Sd day of No
vember.
"You come because, as your spokes-
men have well said, you are interested
country you love, which you believe will
be best subserved by a Republican vic
tory at the ensuing election, now only
little more than three weeks away. You
have come because you believe in pro-
tective tariff. You believe in that great
American policy established at the be-
States, which had the approval of nearly
all the early statesmen of the country
and of the first President of the United
States, George Washington; policy that
lifetime of the republic, and during all
the period that it prevailed we enjoyed
thg a5a of
pie. You have come here because you
are in favor of the supremacy of the
law and because you mean to maintain
You st are If here Because you believe in pub
lie and private honesty, and because you
do not propose that any part of the pub
lie debt of this country shall be repudl-
ated in whole or in part.
%Yon are here to declare that every
cree as it's flag, and that obligation shall
be kept and performed. You are here
because you WANT no depreclating or nue.
tuating currency with which to do your
business You are Sere because you be-
heve in an honest dollar for an honest
government and for an honest man. You
than 100 cents, for you were taught in
your childhood in these gr1at states that
an honest dollar had 100 cectS In it:
MY fellow citizens, the Republican
l wish every man in this country might
read the first platform that the Repnb-
lican party ever made as national party
in 1886 in the city of Philadelphia. 1
wish that every young man might read
it, and l wish that every old Repub-
lican might look up the old record and
inspired prophecy than the declaration
of political organization. 1t declared
for the unity of the states and the indis-
solubility of the American Union. 1t
declared for free homes, for free lands
for free speech, and it declared for a
protective tariff 1t decreed that the two
oceans should be united by rail, the At
lantic and the Pacific, and every prom
Use that this great platform made has
been kept How glorious is Republican
triumph There is not page of Repub-
mean eAdi las Deeh III tuc
last thirty-three years that any lover of
humanity, any lover of liberty, any
patriot would strike from the pages of
American history today; not one You
can trust the Republican party, for be-
hind if is the great conservative force
of the country; behind it this year, as in
the days of the war, is the great patri-
otto heart of the country.
Democrats and Republicans alike, I
thank you, my fellow citizens, for this
call This is not party campaign; it
is a patriotic campaign. 1t is not
campaign for men; it is n campaign for
our country thank you a thousand
times for the long journey you have
ton to Republican principles. 1 bid you
go back home and say to all the people
that Ohio. this splendid old state of my
of the Republican party an unprecedent-
ed majority this year.