The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-19
Two Important Points for Consider
alton of Silveritcs Briefly Presented
by the Republican Candidate.
SPEECH BY ]. C. BURROWS
HE FORMALLY OPENS THE CAM
PAIGN IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS,
And Points Out to His Audience the
side at HarrisOn's Big Meeting.


| CANTON, o.. Aug. 1S.-Hon. Stewart L.
Woodfcrd. ex-Lieutenant Governor and now
Of the Greater New York commission, ac-
companied by his wife. lunched with Major
Mckinley to-day and left for the East at
c:O5 D. IN. To reporter he said that New
York would surely give Mckinley 100000
plurality and probably the largest ever
known for any candidate. Mr.. Abner Nc
Kinley, the Majors brother, from New
York city. arrived to-day and, left for the
West tonight.
Major Mckinley addressed a delegation
of two hundred Afro-Americans from
Cleveland this afternoon. headed by one of
| their race, State Representative Smith.
| They came with a band and the Cleveland
| L'Overture Rifles. Mr.. Mckinley said:
Mr.. Smith and my Fellow-citizens-It
gives me extreme pleasure to meet and
greet this company of rifles and my col
ored fellow citizens of the city of Cleve-
land and of northern Ohio; and / rejoice
TO learn from your eloquent spokesman
that your race this year in all the
years of the past, stands faithfully TO the
Republican cause, which l believe is the
cause of the country. (Applause) / do
not forget-no man can forget-that,
whether i'm war or in peace. the race which
you represent never turned its back on the
glorious old stars and stripes Great APP
plause and cries of 'Hurrah for McKin-
ley.) When that great civIi war COM
menced no man could tell what its out
come would be in regard to its effect on
your race. There were those who believed
that it must result in the abolition of
human slavery. There were those who be-
lieved otherwise. The result was the i'm
mortal proclamation of the emancipation
by the best friend you ever had. Abraham
Lincoln. whose name you will cherish and
revere forever and forevermore. Crremen-
dous cheering)
James G.. Blaine once sad that the first
instinct of an American was equality
equality of privilege. equality in political
power That sentiment long ago found eX-
preston in the Constitution OF the United
| States and the people of this country
places in that great instrument, where it
| had never been before, and where, under
| God it shall remain. civil and pot-
! ical equality TO every citizen everywhere
| beneath the flag. t4.pplause)
Il congratulate you, gentlemen, on the
| splendid progress that your race has made
| since emancipation. You have done better,
! YOU have advanced more rapidly than 1t
| was believed possible at that time: you
! have improved greatly the educational adj
| yantages which YOU nave had. Your peo-
pie everywhere, North and South. are ae,
| cumulating property, and to-day you stand
| as among the most conservative or the
| citizens of this great Republic. tApplause.l
| / congratulate you from the bottom of
my heart on the advancement you have
| already made and / sincerely wish for you
and your race felowcitizens OF common
| country the highest realization of your
hopes and your prayers. (Great cheering)
I'VE are now engaged in political con-
test and your presence in such vast num-
| hers here TO-DAY evidences the interest
| which you have in the public questions
that are now engaging the attention OF the
| American people. We have great coun-
try and we must keep il great. The post
/ which the United States must occupy. both
| in wages and industries and in the integrity
of its finances and currency, must be a,
! applause.) To that place of honor the peo-
! pie of the country must restore it this
Ssar Ssxe wished for since iSeS VIII they meet
! ii in this year of 1896? tCries of They
will.)
cheap money nor cheap labor. Great
| chcering.) We will. have neither the one
nor the other. tApplause) We must not
forget that nothing is cheap TO the people
which comes from abroad when II entails
idleness upon our owe laborers CIre-
policy which Increases the number of un-
employed in the United States even If 1t
| does give cheaper foreign goods: and
we are opposed to any policy which de-
grades American manhood that we may
have cheaper products made either at home
OF abroad. Great applause.) Having re-
duced the pay of labor, 1T Is now proposed
! 10 reduce the value of the money in which
labor is paid. daughter and applause.j
rms money questson presents itself to
of silver means a 53-cent dollar. then il is
not honest dollar. CApplause) If free
| coinage means a 100-cent dollar equal to a
! gold dollar. as some of its advocates as
| sert. we will not then have cheap dollars
but, dollars Just like those We now have.
and which will be as hard 10 get. (Ap-
I plause.) In which case free coinage will
| not help the debtor make It easier for
him 10 pay his debts. tCries of That's
My countrymen. the most un-American
| of all appeals observable in this campaign
is the one which seeks TO array labor
against capital. employer against employed.
! (Applause) 1t is most unoatriotic and is
fraught with the greatest peril to all con-
cerned. We are all political equals here
equal in privilege and opportunity de-
pendent upon each other. and the pros
perity of the one is the prosperity of the
coin said 10 the committee from the Work
| ingmen's Association of New York in the
! OF labor; prosperity is desirable, il is a
positive, good in the world, That some
. come rich. and hence is just encourag ging
] to industry and enterprise. Let no man
! who is homeless pull down The house of
another. but let him work diligently and
build one for himself. thus by example as
! suring that his own shall be safe from yio-
| lence when built
/ call of greetings and congratulations.
thank you for the honor syou have con-
| ferred upon me In -electing me the first
honorary member of your organization
! assure you In viii give me pleasure to meet
each one of you personally" Great cheer
ing)
Major Mckinley continues TO receive no.
tice daily of scores OF Mckinley and Ho-
bart clubs being organized Here are two
notable kilograms received to-day.
From Loga nsport. Ind-The railroad men
OF the city of Iogansport, Ind. have lust
organized n sound-money club. three hun
dred strong. Many of them We're formerly
Democrats--E. r. kearney, president; w.
Il. Clifford. vice president.
From Lacon. IlL.-The Mckinley and