The record-union., 1896-10-08
Call Upon the Republican Nominee for
the Presidency.
They Came Not Only From Distant
Points in His Own State, But Also
From West Virginia and Indiana,
the Chilling Atmosphere Having
No Effect Upon the Size or Enthu-
siasm of the Delegations.

CANTON, Oct 7-Major Mckinley
had 5000 visitors to-day, and made
four speeches. The weather was disa-
greeable A sharp wind from the north
chilled the air and made people shiver
The inclemency of the weather had no
effect upon the size of the dimensions or
the delegations, however. The visitors
from Geauga County, Ohio, numbered
$500; from Ashland County, 400; from
ParkerSburg and other points in west
Virginia and from Indiana, 100.
The big delegation from Geauga COun-
ty and the one from Ashland were COM
posed of farmers. They brought their
wives and children with them, and there
We're more than 200 women in line when
the delegations paraded the streets.
The first speech was made to the First
Mckinley Club of Indiana as follows:
MY fellow-citizens: 1t gives me great
pleasure to meet you here at my nome
this morning. 1t is always distinction
to have a political organization adopt
ones name. 1t is especially gratifying
to me to be assured that if you were not
the first club in the United States to
give me the honor of adopting my name
YOU were certainly the first in the State
Of Indiana, and l thank you for this
honor and compliment.
I'VE are engaged this year in a great
national contest, the result of which Will
determine for years to come the pubic
policies which shall govern this coun-
try. Government is always an interest
ine study. There is a good deal of mis-
understanding as to how a Government
gets its money. There are some people
who seem to believe that the way the
It's q m m
it. The Government gets its money by
taxation, and can get 1t in no other way
There are three or four sources from
which the Government of the United
States gets the money with which to
pay it's running expenses. The chief
sources Of revenue are through tariffs
and internal revenue. Then the Govern
ment gets some money through the sale
of it's public lands and gets some money
from its postal service, and from these
sources there comes the money that is
annually required to meet and discharge
public expenses.
Now, If the Government had power
to make money, as some people believe,
or had the power to adopt the value of
thing, it would not need to resort to
taxes. 1t would simply set its mints to
work and make the necessary money to
pay it's running expenses.
There is another thing l would have
you all know; that is, the Government
cannot get gold or silver except through
the Custom house or the internal rev.
enue office or from the sale of public
lands without giving something for it,
just as you and 1 have to give some
thing for it if we want gold or silver or
paper money.
.fNouv how does the Government dis
tribute its money? Somebody asked me
that question the other day. How does
the Government distribute the money?
The Government distributes it's receipts,
its annual receipts. by an appropriation
of Congress to its creditors. That is the
way the money of the Government is
distributed. 1t is distributed in payment
of the army, the navy, public improve
ments, rivers and harbors, the great
postal service Of the country, the Con-
gress, the judiciary, the interest on the
Government bonds and the pensions Of
soldiers, and there is no other way for
the Government to distribute any
money it has except to the people 1t
owes.
There is no such thing as a general
distribution Of money by the Govern
ment Of the United States. The point
1 want to make in the little talk / give
you this morning is that the Govern
ment does not create money, cannot
create money, and whatever money it
needs it has got to collect from taxes on
it's people, either by a system Of direct
taxation or by a system of indirect tax
alton, known as the tariff. And if the
Government wants to have gold or sill
yer minted for it's own use it has to pay
for that gold and silver just as you and
/ have to pay for it If We want 1t for our
purposes" applause
He concluded: Il thank you, my fell
low-citizens, for this call, and it will
give me very great pleasure to meet and
greet each one of you" Applause)
Major Mckinley spoke briefly. His
utterances were full Of patriotism and
strong pleas for the cultivation OF
broad national spirit. His first speech
was to the Ashland County delegation
Responding to the remarks OF Dr. =.
Hess. the spokesman, he said:
II had expected to concentrate the
visiting delegations from Ohio into one
audience to-day, but the delegations
that are coming are so large that there
is no hall in the town that would hold
them" daughter and applause.
Taking up the money question, ne
said: TT is proposed now that we shaii
enter upon the sea of not only a de-
preciated silver dollar. but OF depreci-
ated paper money, and to that the Re-
publican party answers No. forever
no. tremendous applause) Some
people seem sometimes to despair OF the
future of the United States NOBODY
need have any apprehensions on that
score. The United States is too great
and too resourceful to have its progress
fmpeded for any considerable length OF
time by any political party. (Appiause.)
And this year we stand, as In 1873, for
the restoration of a protective poiicy.
In 1892, a year the most prosperous III
our history, we were under protective
policy. Every man in this country VINO
wanted to work could find work, and
every man who worked in this country
In 1892 got better wages than he ever
got in any other period of our history
or in any other period of the worlds
history. Great cheering)
..The farmers of this country had the