The herald., 1896-09-12
GREEN MOUNTAINEERS
Swell the crewd Which yel's for More Pro.
lection

Swell the Crowd Which Yel!s for More Pro-
lection
This has been a day of crowds and
crushing in Canton. Three people faint
ed and were carried away from the Nc
Kinley porch, where they had Joined in
the crush of thousands to grasp the Re-
publican nominee by the hand. After
the travelling of nearly 700 miles, the
Vermont delegation reached Canton
early in the morning and marched at a
quickstep to the Mckinley residence and
paid their respects before 9 o'clock. After
the formal presentations and responses,
Governor-elect Grout, Senator Proctor
and others made brief addresses of con-
graduation.
The Lorain county delegation Joined
the representatives of the Pennsylvania
Republican League and the Erie (Pa.)
Lincoln club in the public square and
marched with them nearly $500 strong,
with half a dozen bands and scores of
banners, to the home about which daily
are gathered thousands. The banners
on the trains and street read: "Tom l..
Johnson's steel workers." "Our money
is all right; give us work." open our
mills, not our mints;" "Lorain county
sound money Pilgrims" "Protection to
American farmers and mechanics"
George ]. Steele of Oberlin spoke for
the Lorain county people.
For the Republican Leagues of Penn
| sylvania and the Erie Lincoln club
Judge ]. F. Downing immortalized Lin
coin at length, and, then turning to
Major Mckinley, said:
| I'VE are convinced that no mistake
will be made in placing William McKin-
ley-the boy soldier of 1861 and the wise
andexpelienced statesman of 1S96-in the
presidential chair, and let me say we are
going to do it,
| The united Pennsylvanians and Ohio
ans cheered and cheered again as Major
Mckinley mounted a chair to reply.
| Vermont" said Major Mckinley,
"has said in tones that cannot be mis-
to do with the fatal experiment of at
tempting by legislation to make so cents
worth of silver pass current as a legal
tender for a 10O-cent dollar, good for all
public and private obligations. The
mere statement of the proposition ought
to lead to it's instant rejection. We can
not by law make every man honest, but
we certainly will never make law en-
couraging them to be dishonest. CAD
plause.)
ITO me the question of free trade is
| question of humanity, the voice Of labor
pleading for it's own, and the question of
free silver is question of public moral
ity, honor and good faith, and it's success
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national credit (Applause.) But will it
prevail? No; I answer, forever no.
| (Cheers) The American people as ma
| tion, like those of Vermont, are entirely
above SO unworthy an imputation.
| (Applause)
| A people that could as a weak and
struggling confederacy of less than five
| million inhabitants emerge from an
eight years war of blight and destruc-
tion and proceed Immediately to gather
up and pay off its enormous revolution
ary expenses. including the independent
debt of all the states, aggregating $685.
100000, or $27 per capita, at the time OF
its assump bDn. will not falter at the
present temptation. Cheers and cries
of That's right.') A people who could
tax themselves most heavily to equip
| and maintain the armies and naves of
the union and continue the most extern
sive and expensive war in history, will
| not turn their backs upon the soldiers
of that war nor seek to pay their pen
ions in dollars worth only half their face
value. (Cheers.) A people who emerged
from that war with an interest bearing
! debt of $2,3S3, 600, 900 or $40 per capita for
our entire population in 1865, will not
now, after having honestly paid three
| fourths of that great debt, ever seek di-
rectly or indirectly to repudiate one dol
| lar of it or cheaper the coin of payment.
(Applause)
IA people, I say, who proceeded in
good faith to pay off that debt with such
unparalleled rapidity that it was esti-
mated in 1888 that up to that time thew
| had paid $123 for every minute of every
day of every year from 1866 to 1885, will
not now palter, bargain or scheme to
defrand any creditor of the government
whoever or wherever he may be. (Tre-
mendous applause and cries for "Hurrah h
for McKinley.") A people who had the
satisfaction Of seeing that debt reduced
to $685., 900 on March 8, 1893, at the
close of the splendid administration of
PresidentHarrison (applause) will read
lily and quickly meet both the remain
der Of the old debts and all that has been
since made (laughter) and pay it off,
principal and interest, in the best money
of the world and recognized by the CIV
dlized nations to be the best at the time
of payment. cloud applause) Just as
President Jackson paid Off the last of
~ evolutionary debt sixty years or