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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31

"There Is one thing that can be said
about the Republican party-it can cele-
brate the anniversaries of all the great
American statesmen, no matter to what
party they may have belonged, who
stood for the country and its honor.
We have no difficulty in celebrating, too,
with our Democratic friends, the ami
versary of Jefferson, Jackson and Ben
ton. We celebrate those anniversaries
with the same satisfaction that we cele-
brate the anniversaries of the early
statesmen who were more nearly of our
political belief.
when we reflect the development Of
all this wealth is in a state of less than
10000 square miles, and among people
not yet 100000 in number, we can be-
gin to realize how great is our country.
Can it be possible that such a magnif-
cent commonwealth will ever lend her
influence to free silver, free trade, dis
honor and partial or entire reputation?
Ono, no, never.o No, l say, forever no.
What the people of this country want,
whether they dwell in Michigan or Ten
nessee or Ohio, is a policy that will pro-
tect and defend every American inter-
est against the outside world, from any
quarter. What we want is tariff put
upon foreign goods high enough to not
only give us revenue enough to run the
government, but to afford adequate pro-
lection to every American industry and
occupation. This is the policy of the
Republican party.
what we want is to restore n policy
that will enable us to pay as we go,
both government and people. We have
not been doing that for four years past.
| am sure your great and grand state
can be relied upon to enroll itself in the
column of national honor as against re-
pudiation, of protective tariff, reci-
procity and the maintenance everywhere
of public order, tranquility and the su-
premacy of law"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31

business. and above all, the absence of
confidence. Shall these commercial men
now embark in the vastly more disas-
trous and destructive policy of free sill
yer. which is the party shibboleth, not
of honor but of dishonor?
"A great many people find peculiar
pleasure in the word free 1t is a
grand, glorious word when properly APP
piled. l do not know what you may
think about it. but do not believe in de-
stroying either the business, the prop
the cry of free silver. tremendous
cheers and cries of Never. never.D We
have just pride in our glorious record in
favor Of free speech, free soil, free press,
free men and free conscience, but | be-
lieve that the great majority of our coun-
trymen are neither in favor of free trade,
free silver, or free lawlessness great ap-
plause), nor of cheating people in the
sacred name of freedom.
The question OF honest money against
free and irredeemable paper money, both
unlimited and both unsound. has been
so thoroughly argued that do not wish
to occupy your time in discussing il.
Suffice it to say that no valid or sufii-
cent reason has vet been given, or can
be given. for the United States adopting
either. Some things are so plain, some
things are SO clear and distinct, some
things are so palpable and self-evident
that, like day and night. every man must
sooner or later recognize them. If hu-
man experience has proved anything. il
is that no nation was ever benefited by
poor money or injured by good money,
and that no man ever suffered from be-
ing honest. and no man ever profited by
being dishonest. Great cheers.) Good.
honest dollars hurt nobody. If we have
not as much good money as we ought to
have, let us get more, and we will get
moro whenever the country requires it,
But we will not get it as long as we are
proposing to adopt the financial policy of
China or Mexico. Give business conf
dence n chance to be restored. Start our
mills, factories, mines, quarries; restore
good prices, good home markets for our
farmers, good wages for our working
men. and then, if the law of supply and
demand requires it, coin in honest del
lars All the good, 100-cent honest dol
lars will speedily come for the uses Of
the people"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31
SHOUTING THOUSANDS THRONG THE STREETS OF CANTON

''This is the year when people all want
to vote. They are ready now to vote.
(Cries of we are, anyhow followed by
side they mean to vote. (Cries of The
Republican ticket.D Why do they want
to vote that ticket this year? Because
they believe that involved in a Repub-
lican triumph is public confidence and
the restoration of better times. They
have had some experience in the last
three years and half and that expert
ence has been most costly. Not single
interest in the country but has suffered.
The government has suffered in its rev.
enues and the people in their wages and
the prices of their products. In fact,
everything has suffered but the glorious
principles of the Republican party.
Great cheering)
Protection, honest money, public NOR
ais, reciprocity. the national honor, the
public credit-all emblazoned on the ban
ner OF Republication this year. and raj
lying around that standard are men of all
parties, all races, all sections, all creeds.
The white man, the black man, the
wage-earner and the employer, the pro-
fessional man and the business man, all
have united and stand upon common
platform, which platform is for our coun-
try and its honor. Great applause and
cries of 'Good.o l have heard from your
spokesman today that West Virginia 3
electoral vote this year will be for the
Republican ticket. (Cries of Right you
are. This assurance gratifies my heart.
"a Eoice--Mine, too. followed by ire
mend"us cheering) 1t gratifies the heart
Oh every lover OF his country"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31

careful consideration of every citizen in
the land who. If he would be spared
further distress, should allow this coun-
eel to guide him at the approaching ma
tional election.
Another issue, my fellow citizens, in
this campaign is the tariff. (Applause.)
That is to say, whether we shall laise
sufficient revenue to pay the current ex-
penses of the government instead of bOr-
rowing money for that purpose, and
whether we shall do our work ut home
or have it done abroad. Great applause
and cries of Good, good.) Shall we
place duties high enough on foreign
goods to protect our labor against the
cheaper labor of the Old World, and
build up the magnificent industries Of
the United States?
IT do not know, my fellow citizens,
when it will be possible to bring back
the prices of 1892; that is only conf ,ctur-
al The only way l see toward accom-
plishng that is to restore the great ma
tional policy, which your own citizen,
Henry Clay. so well maintained: a policy
that would encourage and promote
American development, build up Ameri-
can industries and employ American
labor. (Applause.)
1T pleased me to hear the generous
words of your venerable lieutenant gov
ernor. was glad to hear those splendid
SeuteHCeS Hlltd Win WHICH
must have thrilled every heart from your
German editor. and my comrade who
puts the flag of his country and the in
terest of his country above that of any
political organization. TREMENDOUS
cheering.)
''This is the hour and the era for rhe
exhibition of the highest patriotism. We
have put the past behind us. We know
no North no South, no East. no West.
but A perpetual Union of indestructible
states. Enthusiastic applause and cries
of .Hurrah for McKinley.) welcome
the men of the South as allies in this
great conflict for national honor. Let us
give notice to all the world that there are
no longer any sectional lines to divide
us great applause) and that we have but
one fiag-the glorious stars and stripes
great cheering), the same our grandsires
bore upon many field. When we stand
for that flag we stand by all that 1t
represents, by national integrity, fnan-
cial honor, the supremacy of government
by law, and the sacredness of the federal
judiciary, which is our anchor of safety
in every hour of trouble. Great APP
plause and cries of Mckinley is all
rightly"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31
HTTHE WECCHOF PATRIOTISM

Canton, O., Oct. II, 1S06.-Canton, the
home of William Mckinley, has seen
many marvellous events in this campaign,
but none which equaled that of today.
More men and women, more special
trains, more delegations, more assur-
ances of loyalty to national honor, more
addresses and more responses by Maj.
Mckinley than on any previous day,
were the record of this seventeenth day
of October, 1896. From morning until
night the number of special trains, the
shouts and cheers of delegations. the
music of bands, the glitter of uniforms
and the addresses of spokesman and re-
sponses of Maj. Mckinley were heard.
Nearly 800 cars brought perhaps 10000
people from nearly half the states Of
the union.
Mr.. Mckinley. who left his home carly
for short walk in the crisp October
air, found an anxious throng ut his resi-
dence on his return, and from that
moment until long after darkness he was
the center of attraction. the recipient of
honors innumerable and the dispenser of
patriotic sentiments which were received
with marks of the highest approval by
tie thousands who heard them
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31

"There is one thing that can be said
about the Republican party-it does not
teach the doctrines of hate and prejudice,
but teaches the gospel of peace, good
will, and fraternity between the en-
ployer and employee.
The man who would array the poor
against the rich, labor against capital.
class against class, or section against
section, is not friend of the country,
but an enemy of the very best interests
of every citizen in the country. ! would
rather teach that doctrine which is SO
prevalent this year, North and South.
where none are for party, but all for gov:
eminent. This is the true policy Of
sturdy American citizenship and ciyiliza.
ton. i look into your earnest faces and
believe / know what is in your hearts.
(Cries of Mckinley, Mckinley There
is but one aim and purpose, and this IS
that YOU may have an opportunity to
This opportunity is best enjoyed when we
de our own work in the United States
and not in some other country of the
world. This opportunity cannot be
reached, however, until we have re-
turn of confidence. which can come only
when the American people have settled
for all time that they will have no de-
preciated currency and declare that the
principles of the Republican party shall
be upheld. :,
When confidence comes, money will
come. If you had all the silver in the
world in the United States il would not
make more business. Business makes
money, money does not make business.
Every one of you had plenty of work at
good wages until the free trade policy
was inaugurated in 1892. We want to
restore our protective policy. We have
good money now, but we have little busl.
ness confidence. No business man viii
manufacture il he does not believe that
at the end of the year he will make
profit. The business man cannot plan
for the trade IL he does not know what
kind of competition he IS to have from
abroad. The les he has Of foreign COM
petition the more work you have at home
ut better wages and prices.
Nothing gives me greater satisfaction
or calls from me deeper gratitude than
to have the workingmen of this country
enroll themselves on the side OF good
government, sound currency, and the SUI
premacy of law"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31
A SINGLE DAY AT The HOME OF The NATIONS CANDIDATE

ers, professional men, commercial trav-
elers, old folks and young folks, college
bred men and men of every profession
and walk in life. This great day dem.
onstrates that this is a nation not Of
class but of equal and honorable citizen
ship under one constitution and govern
ment. prolonged cheering.)
II am glad to know that the students
of the universities are enrolled In our
ranks. Every newspaper of the coun-
try, East and West, tells us that in the
great colleges of the East. as well as in
the great colleges of the West, teachers
and pupils have enlisted under the ban
ner of the Republican party in, greater
numbers than they have ever done be-
fore. Great applause) They stand
this year for country and conscience.
They stand for public honor and morals
and supremacy of law. We will settle
for all time this year that this is a
government by law and a government
that rests upon laws made by its own
free and equal citizens" Great APP
plause and cries of "Good, good.')
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

We do not believe in wanton cruelty
under any circumstances; Mr.. Bryan
should see to it at once that the ropes OF
his parachute are in good working order.
The best way 10 deal with panic is TO
vote it to death in advance.
The Boy Orator has become irritable.
He scolds the people and calls names.
He started out on his campaign in good
temper and in good voice. He still has
the voice.
If Bryan will look at his hand again
he will find that there are four cards
instead of five in his flush.
The crime of '13 must be lost, strayed
or stolen. 1t has been conspicuous by its
absence in Popocratic speeches for sew
eral weeks.
William Mckinley never advocated the
passage of law which was designed to
take money out of the pockets of Ameri.
can workingmen.
Bryan is misled into thinking 'thc
country is going to the dogs" by tho
snarling of Altgeld and Tillman. Tho
country will go after these dogs on No.
yember for brief period, but when
the country returns there won't be any
more dogs worth mentioning.
Here's straw" for Bryan: Out Of
twenty-nine voters 'in trouble ut tn,
Center street police court in New York
city Sunday morning, twenty-sevcn de.
clared they would-if at liberty-vote for
Mr.. Bryan. The other two were unde.
cided.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.
Large Delegations from Ohio and Other
States Greet Maj. Mckinley.

Large Delegations from Ohio and Other
States Greet Maj. Mckinley.
Another large and interesting delega-
ton was made up of commercial travel
ers, mostly from Ohio and adjoining
states. They were addressed by Mr..
Mckinley as follows:
"You have discovered in the last four
years that it is n good deal safer to con-
suit markets than maxims. You have
discovered that prices current and actual
experience in trade and commerce are a
better guide to business prosperity than
anything you can find in the text books.
Your coming together, Democrats and
Republicans "a voice: No Democrats in
this crowdO-well, once Democrats, but
now preferring country to party. Com
ing together as you have is an act of
sterling patriotism hitherto almost un-
known in American politics, and pro-
NOTED only by considerations of the pub
lie good. But these are characteristic
traits of the business and commercial
men of the country.
II do not attribute your call to any per-
sonal concern for my success. You look
beyond the candidate to the great princi-
Piles he represents, and upon that ground
and in that spirit YOU are here today;
and in the same spirit l address you
now. No people in the country can be
more Interested in the result of the cleo
ton two weeks from next Tuesday than
the commercial men of the United
States. (Applausc.) What you want is
business, and you have discovered that
you cannot sell If there is nobody to buy.
You have suffered greatly the last three
years under the whitening touch of par
tlal free trade. and the instability OF
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31
WORDS TO RAILROAD MEN.
Employment and Good Money Are De-
+ sired by All.

Employment and Good Money Are De-
4 sired by All.
There were railroad men on all sides
of Maj. Mckinley when he began his
fourteenth address. One party repre-
scented the Michigan Central. Another
came from Columbus, o., and represent
ed the Pennsylvania lines entering that
city. Still another party represented the
Erie employees of Cleveland. To all
these Maj. Mckinley said:
There is not q workingman in this
audience who would not rather work for
n good road than poor road: and there
is not an employe in this great audience
that would not rather be paid in good
money than poor money. (ApplauseD :,
what you want first and above all
else is employment. What yap want Is
to get on the pay roll of a good railroad
company, for you have TO get on the pay
rCll before you can get anything out of
the pay car, to which my friend has al
luded. Great cheering) But in order
to get on the pay roll the railroads must
have business. You know when BUSH
ness is poor with the railroads some of
you are stricken from the pay roll.
Cries of That's right.o You have ex-
pcrenced that in the last three years and
half What you are interested in,
therefore, is the general prosperity of the
country. We want every factory in the
luuu 10 ne Ut WOTh. we WANT every
mine in the country to be busy. "a
voice: Not the silver mines.o My
friend says no silver mines. We are
willing that our silver mines shall be
busy: l hope every one of them, too,
will be busy; but If they were all put TO
work and every mint was at work they
would not furnish employment for one
third of the idle men in this country who
earn their living by toll.
you have to get your employment in
the great, active, busy industries of the
country. This Is where you get your
work and wages, and when these great,
busy industries are at work your rail-
roads have plenty of traffic. Great APP
plause.) When your railroads have plen-
ty of traffic you have constant and
steady employment at good wages. Is
not that so? (Cries of Yes, yeso
"Now. how are you to get back that
prosperity you once enjoyed? Cries of
BY voting the Republican ticket.o Some
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31
THE FARMERS ATTEST LOYALTY
Assurances that They Are for Sound
Money and Sound Principles.

Assurances that They Are for Sound
Money and Sound Principles.
One of the earliest parties was made
up of farmers from Monroe county,
Mich, to whom Maj. Mckinley said:
IL have never believed, as some peo-
pie have been saying, that there was
ever any danger about the state of Mich
tgan. There has never been moment
when l had the slightest doubt about
where the electoral vote of your glori-
Gus state would go in the presidential
contest of 1896. No state in the Union
IS more deeply interested in the genuine
American policy that will protect your
property, your interests, your labor, your
mines, the products of your forests, from
undue competition than the state of
Michigan. (Apnlause.) And there is
no state that is more deeply interested
in having a protective policy than the
state of Michigan. (Applause.)
There is one thing that the Repub-
iican party is dedicated to, and that is to
labor first; then to law and order These
are indispensable to the welfare of man
kind and Indispensable to the prosperity
and the permaneney of the republic
] am glad to know from your spokesman
that you believe not only in protective
tariff, but that you believe in honest
money. Great cheering) When you
do your work, whether it be on your
farm or In the factory, or in the mine.
you want to receive in payment dollars
that are good every month and every
where in every part of the civilized
world. That's the kind of money we
have now, and we have more of it than
we ever had In our history before. To
enter upon the free and unlimited coin
age of silver would be TO commit this
country to silver alone and deprive us of
the gold we have. Instead of increasing
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS
Citizens of Kentucky Join in support of
Mckinley and Honest Money.

Citizcns OF kentucky Join In support OF
Mckinley and Honest Money.
A large delegation from Kentucky,
composed of both Republicans and sound
money Democrats, was one of the most
demonstrative in honoring the Repub-
lican candidate. To them Mr.. Mckinley
said:
Democrats, but as countrymen and
friends. Your glorious old state has al
ready registered verdict in favor of
one of the principal issues involved in
this campaign. | do not believe rhat in
the past twelve months the Kentucky
people have changed their opinions on
the questions of honest money and public
honor. Great applause and cries of No,
no. Kentucky has usually been Dem
ocratc state, and in 1876 gave. that
sturdy Democratic statesman, Samuel
j. Tilden of New York, an unprecedent-
ed popular majority for President. His
memory is doubtless revered by many of
your Democrats today, and | venture to
Tilden's own words.
I'm his celebrated joint debate with
Horace Greeley, in 1910, Mr.. Tilden said:
An unstable currency produces instabil-
ity of prices and is peculiarly injurious
to the farmer. He ought not to be SUBJ
ject to the tremendous agency of an un-
seen cause, which may disappoint his
wisest calculations and overwhelm him
in constant ruin, but he ought to be Sc
cured in the tranquility of his Preside
from the curse OF an unstable and con-
ficting currency Great applause)
"These were wise and honest words
then; they are true and honest words
now, and commend themselves 70 the
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31
OHIO WORKINGMEN.
Laboring Men from All Parts of the state
Are Greeted.

Are Greeted.
No delegation was more cordially well
coined than that made up of railroad
men, dock men, farmers and miners from
Ohio; to whom Maj Mckinley said:
There is studied effort made in
some quarters of this country to teach
that the employer of labor is attempting
to enslave the nottingham. l submit
10 you men of toll all around and about
me- who is the better friend of labor, he
VINO gives you work that brings content
ment, or he who breathes only words
that create discomfort? There cannot
pc: there ought never to be, any enmity
of the one is the interest Of the other.
You know. that the greatest friend Of
slavery is ideness They talk about
making the workingmen slaves. There
is no danger of n workingman ever be-
coming slave if he receives American
wages, the wages that he had for thirty
years. from 1850 to 1890. under the glori-
Gus policy. of n protective. tariff The
best friend to labor, the best policy in
the interest of labor, is that policy which
gives workingmen an opportunity to work
at. good wages. Which policy do you
think subserves that interest best? Our
policy of protection or their policy of free
trade? (Tremendous shouts. Ours!
Ours: and 'McKinley's policy!O
This great audience fairly represents
the diversified industries of the United
States. On the one side of me are men
who manufactures; on the other side are
men who handle iron ore. and in front
are men who dig our coal One is de-
pendent on the other. and here in this
audience. too. are representatives of the
railroads of the country, which transport
not only raw material. but the finished
product. from one end of this country
to the other. The one is never prosper
Gus unless the other is prosperous. You
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31
STUDENTS AND TEACHERS.
Representative of Colleges Pay Their
Respects.

A large delegation of students and
professors of the Ohio Wesleyan univer-
sity, the Ohio Medical university and
others were the next callers. Maj. Nc
Kinley said ia response to their greet
ing:
"If there was anything needed to dis
pei that false and dangerous doctrine
which some people are now teaching. it
is dispclled here today-a doctrine that
would array class against class and one
section of our country against the other.
We have had on these grounds today
men from moro than dozen states
wage-earners, miners. millworkers, farm
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-31

people say that the way TO get II back
is TO debase the money of the country.
Does anybody believe that? (Crics of
No, no. Some people seem to think
that the way to get back prosperity is
TO strike n deadly blow at the capital
of the country. Is that the way to do It?
Cries of NO. MOI Some people seem
to think that the way to put men Mt
who employ labor. Is that the way to
get work? loud cries of NO, no.J
Capital and labor are interdependent.
They are Got enemies. They are friends,
or should be friends. CApplause.)"