The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-08
A FEW UNUSUALLY DISTIN-
GulSHED PEOPLE AMONG
M'KINLEY'S CALLERS.
.MAJ. M'K|NLEY MADE ONE SPEECH.
The Different Delegations Uniting Into
One Audience-Pointed Out the Sey-
eral Causes of the Unusually De
pressed Times Existing.

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lar delegations Maj. Mckinley today had
many distinguished callers. Among them
were Harry Garfield of Ohio, Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts,
Theodore Roosevelt of New York, Con-
gresham Nelson Dingley, chairman of
the house ways and means committee,
of Maine; Rutherford Hayes of Ohio,
Hon. Dalzell of Pennsylvania, and Rob
inson Lock of Toledo.
Mr.. Dinglcy said he expects McKn-
ley's election to be emphatic and over
whelming. He also expects the house
to be republican and against free silver
by "A large majority. He is hopeful that
the senate will be carried in the general
victory
Mr.. Roosevelt said the republican SEN
timent in the east amounts to a tidal
wave, and he believes it will sweep over
and engulf the west
Senator Lodge predicted an unprcce-
dented republican majority in Massachu-
sets. and complete victory for the re-
publican party.
Tomorrow eleven delegations are
scheduled from Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Illinois points.
Maj. Mckinley spoke but once today.
the delegations being united into one
meeting. In the course of his address he
said
"The great thought of the people of this
country wherever they may reside or
whatever may be their occupations. il
now we are to get back as nation to the
old conditions of business activity and
prosperity. Something has gone wrong.
| we nave the same country; we have the
| same men, the same mines, the same
manufactures, the same money, the same
masterful genius among our people that
we had between 1880 and 1892, but we
have not the same degree of prosperity
now that, we had them. (Appausej And
what is the trouble?
CA voice-"Free trade" Great an
plause)
I'm single word, the trouble with the
country is lack of confidence. AS to
what has brought about that lack of CON
idence we may differ, but that there is
lack of confidence every citizen every
| where must concede for every citizen has
felt it i'll his own experience Now what
is this thing called business confidence?
1t is belief in the stability of values,
faith in our markets and our money. faith
that the consumption of next year will be
as great or greater than the present one
faith that men will have work and that
the currency of the country will be fixed
and stable and undepreciating in value
Great applause.) The merchant has con-
fidencc when he stocks his shelves with
more goods in expectation of larger sales
The manufacturer has confidence when
he increases his manufactures, hires more
men. adds new factory, lays in his ma
ternl in advance, certain that il will not
decline before his finished product is sold
confident he can pay wages to labor and
prices for his raw material and not find
in the end that his goods will be driven
out of the American market by foreign
goods under free trade policy. Zap
| plauSe)
'"rhe laborcr feels this confidence when
he is assured of steady employment. The
farmer feels this confidence when he
plants generously, confident that what he
renps will he in demand and bring him
fair returns for his toll The railway
company feels il when il extends its lines
and its switches, gets new equipment and
improves its old equipment and gives en-
| ployment to wOrkingmen. The banker
| feels il when he loans freely of his capital
and deposits and knows that when his
loans are returned they will be in good.
sound money. Great applause.) And
| the depOsitor feels this confidence when
he takes his money from its hiding place,
| where il is today, and puts it in bank,
| sure that he can draw il out according 10
| his necessity or inclination in as good
money as he put in. Great cheering)
| This thing called business confidence
| never shut up an American mill, never re-
duced wages or curtailed employment;
never refused loans; never got up Il run
on bank: never stopped a mine; never
| created idleDess among laboring men.
| (Appause) When confidence is present
with us the sheriff has less to do laugh
| teri. and advertises fewer enforced sales.
The court docket registers fewer judg-
mcnts; public charity is less invoked and
| the free soup houses are unknown and
unnecessary. (Cheering) When conf
dence is shaken, msfortunes come not
| singly. but in battalions and bring suffer
ing on every community. No part of our
population is exempt. 1t may come from
| one thing or it may come from another.
| Doubt in the business world is death to
prosperity. This doubt began in 1892 and
| continued until the people in 1894 elected
a republican national house of congress.
| When the doubt of further changes in
| Legislation had been thus removed then
came the realization of the destruction
which their tariff law had done to some
| of our great industries, entailing an in
jury felt in every state and community of
our country Then following that was
loss to the treasury from insufficient
revenues under that legislation. Then
the run on the gold reserve and then
bonds to make that gold reserve good.
Then the obstruction in the senate to any
emergency legislation that would supply
the loss of revenue entailed by that law
and the very character of that resistance
in the senate to any measure which would
increase the revenues only to Increase un-
certainty. (Applause.) Then with all
these burdens on the people comes the
Chicago platform against every true in
terest of the people. The people this year
are engaged in great contest TO restore
the confidence SO sadly shaken by the-su
cession OF events which i have briefly
named. In less than five weeks they will
speak and make known their decree.
What will it be, men of Ohio and West