The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-08-27
THE PROTECTIVE. RECIPROCITY
AND FREE SILVER RECEIVE
HIS ATTENTION.
BRYAN SPEAKS IN MADELIN. n. !.
Senator Stewards Effort to Define ''thc
Crime of 10" Interrupted by Rain.
President Clcvclands Probable
PositiOn-Gcneral Politics

Canton, o.. Aug. 22-Two thousand
farmers mechanics and other citizens Of
New Castle and other parts of Lawrence
county, Pa, had reached Canton before
noon. All along their journey they had
many recruits. When they paraded to
the Mckinley home, 5000 people crowd
pd over the bare lawn and surged into
fac streets. The presentation TO Maj
Mckinley was made by cX-COngrcss-
man Oscar l.. Jackson.
Maj. Mckinley spoke as follows:
Mr.. Jackson and Fellow Citizens of
Lawrence County, Pat gives me very
great pleasure to welcome the citizens OF
n neighboring state to my city and to
my home. / note with great satisfaction
the message which your eloquent spokes-
man brings me- that the people Of Penn
syvania have lost none Of their dcyo-
ZION to the great principles of the rcpubli-
can party and this "car will give to the
ticket an unrivalcd republican majority,
nor am | surprised that this is so. We
have had three years bitter experience
under policy to which the re-
publican party was always opposed. |
was glad to meet my distinguished
friend, Col. Jackson. with whom served
in the congress of the United States and
TO hear again his eloquent voice, as |
have often heard it in the halls of the
national house, speaking for the great
doctrines of the republican party; doe
trines, the success of which involve the
highest prosperity and welfare of the
American people (Checrs)
THE earnest thought of the people
this year is directed to the present con-
dition of the country and how best to
improve it, This is the thought of
every mind and the prayer of every soul
Nobody is satisfied with our unfortunate
business condition, and the great body
want and mean 10 have a change. What
shall the change be? Shall it be the
continuance of the present democratic
party under another leadership (crics
of MOI; Il leadership advocating all the
policies of the democratic party, which
have been injurious to the American peo-
pie and patriotism, and which have not
yet received the approval of the people
of the country? Great cheering and
cries of MOI The wing of the demo-
cratic party which controlled the Chicago
convention is Just as much in favor of
free trade as the wing of the democratic
party III control of the national admins
tration. Most of those prominent in
that convention were conspicuous in the
assault upon our labor and industries
made by the Fifty-third congress. They
were devoted to this un-American and
destructive policy, and were chiefly in
strumcntal in putting upon the statute
books tariff legislation which has de
stroyed American manufacturing,
checked our foreign trade and reduced
the demand for the labor of the Amcri-
can workingmcn. 1t stands opposed to
reciprocity, too, the splendid results of
which were so signally manifested dur
ing the administration of President Har-
rison. tApplausc.) The people of this
country have condemned the policies of
this party in these planks in every clec-
ton since 1892. They are only waiting
now for chance to register again. and
all along the line and unitedly opposed to
TINS free trade they will east their bal
lots This wing of the democratic
party believes not only in free trade but
it believes in free silver at a ratio of
lG TO !. Having diminished our bust
ness, they now seek to diminish the
value of our money. Having cut wages
Ill they want to cut money in which
id i'll two; and we will not
the one or the other. Tire
'.us cheering and cries of 'Hurrah
for Mckinley The other wing of the
democratic party is patriotically striving
for the public honor, and is opposed to
Tree SILVER lttuNSt IL btlltNtS lldl SuNu
policy would disturb existing values,
contract the currency of the country by
depriving MS of the use of gold and put
ting us upon n silver basis, thus aiding
widespread panic and bringing to every
American interest serious injury.
"My fellow citizens, will the people
turn to that party for relief whose policy
has created the conditions under which
we are suffering and from which they
are crying out to be relieved? (Crics of
no, MOI
What we want now is business ac-
tivity and confidence. with business con-
tidence restored Without confidence
money will he boarded and the wheels
of industry stopped, and what that
means many of the men before me
know"
A vocc-"We have lived on sunshine
too long"
Mr.. Mckinley. rcsuming-''T the
farmer, the merchant, the manufacturer,
the laborer and those of other useful
occupations will suffer.
Gentlemen, confidence lies at the foun-
dation of active and successful business
operations. We can not restore conf
dcnce by a proposition to dehase the cur
rency of the government and scale down
public and private obligations. Such
Il proposition strikes ut the very life of
credit and business. 1t makes it harder
to get money for legitimate and worthy
enterprises by Deliberately proposing to
pay back what has been already bor-
rowcd in deprecated currency.
THE people irrespective of party, will
unite in defeating financial schemes
which will confscate the partial earn
ings of labor in the savings bank and
building and loan associations and the
investments of the people in insurance
companies, and l do not believe that the
American people will ever consent to
have the pensions of our soldiers re-
pudiated by single farthing Great
cheering and applause)
1.-The people want neither free trade
nor free silver. Renewed cheering).
The one will degrade our leaders, the
other our money. (Applause). We are
opposed, unalteraby, to both of them.
We have tried the one, in a modified
form, with disastrous results to every
American home, and we are strongly OPP
posed to making an experiment with the
other. (Applause).
"My fellow citizens, the people have a
chance this year to take the Wilson law
off the statute books and put good
American protective tariff law in its
place tremendous applause and cheer
ing). which will provide adequate reve-
nues of the government and gladden. the
home of every American workingman.