The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-31

| most enGhuSlaStlc delegation that has
yet come to Canton arrived here from
Knoxville, a suburb of Pittsburg, at
o'clock this afternoon. They had trav-
eled one hundred miles in heat and
storm, but were enthusiastic with
bands and banners. John P. Everhard,
president of the Mckinley and Hobart
club, and who is also president of the
Glass Workers Union, acted as the
! spokesman. He put the tariff issue
above all others.
In part he said:
we come from that wonderful hive
OF industry, that mighty workshop com
posed of Pittsburg and it's neighbor-
ing boroughs. We are Republicans and
we believe in our party and it's prin-
i ciples We are
PROUD OF ITS RECORD,
and the result of it's policy in the past;
I and have faith in that party as being
! the only medium through which we
may hope for a return Of prosperity to
the people, both in the agricultural and
manufacturing industries of the coun-
try.
We believe in bimeGallism and we
recognize in the Republican party and
its platform the only real true and safe
/ advocate of that policy, namely, the
use of both gold and silver as money;
each interchangeable with the other;
each dollar as good as every other dol
lar. We do not, and we feel assured
THAI you do not, believe in monometal-
liSm, or the
USE OF EITHER GOLD OR SILVER
as the only money and knowing this,
we know that you will oppose the Wis
ionary idea of those who seek to create
value by the legislative fiat of this ma
ton alone, and the attempt of those
who seek to place US upon the single
silver basis, thereby driving our gold
out of circulation and out of the coun-
try. We believe you will use all the
powers you may possess as the chief
executive of the United States to bring
about an international agreement which
is the only manner in which can be
accomplished the restoration of silver as
q, money metal on fixed ratio with
cold.
I'VE believe, sir. that wise legislation
on the tariff question, on the principle
of protection and to the end that it
viii yield an abundant revenue for the
expenses of the government and for
the payment of its debts, for the i'm
provement of our rivers and harborS,
for the upbuilding of OUT navy and for
internal improvements of various kinds,
will restore our country to great pros
perity and will
=. SOLVE THE MONEY PROBLEM,
about which so many of our people
seem to be concerned.
I'VE recognize in your public career,
and in your private life, those noble
qualities of mind and heart that give
US the assurance that the great inter
ests of this country over which you will
shortly be called to preside viii be in
safe hands, and that you, trusting in
the strength and guided by the coun-
ellis of the Supreme Ruler of Nations,
will be able to discharge the grave re-
sponsibilities and execute the duties of
your high office so as to lead us as a
people into the path of duty and up to
more glorious achievements than have
marked our wonderful past"
After the storm of applause which
followed Major McKinley's appearance,
he said:
Mr.. Everhard and my fellow citizens.
I am glad indeed TO meet and greet the
Knoxville Mckinley and Hobart Re
publican club in this city and at my
home, and 1 thank you most cordially
for travelling so long distance to ex-
press your
PERSONAL GOOD WILL
to me and your devotion to the princi-
pies of the Republican party
You are right, Mr.. Spokesman, in
saying that the Republican party
stands now as it has always stood, for
a sound and stable currency, and for
the maintenance of all its money of
every kind at parity and always equal
to the best money of the most civil
lied nations of the earth. (Applause)
A deprecated currency, as you have
SO we'll said, would work disaster to the
interests of the people and to none
more than those of the workingmen
and producers Long years ago Dan
iel Webster said that they were the
first to feel it, and the last to recover
from it. a disordered currency, said
he, is fatal to industry, frugality and
economy. 1t fastens the spirit of spec
ulation and extravaganza. It is the
most effectual of inventions to fertiliZe
the rich mans field with the sweat of
the poor mans brow
THAT which we call money, my fell
low citizens, and with which values
are measured and settlements made
MUST BE AS TRUE AS THE
BUSHEL
which measures the grain of the far
ner and as honest as the hours of
labor which the man who tolls is re-
quired to give. (Applause.) The one
must be full and complete and as hon
est as the other. (Applause.)
Our currency today is good-all of
it is as good as gold-and it is the
unfaMeTing determination of the Re
publican party to SO keep and maintain
If forever (Chee7-S \ IF iS
THE DUTY OF THE PEOPLE
of this country to stand unitedly
against every effort to degrade the cur
rency or debase our credit. (Cries of
they will.O They must unite as they
have united in the past in every great
crisis of our countrys history. When
the country seemed wildly bent on
Wild imitation preceding the -resump-
ton of specie payments, the sober
sense of the American people, without
regard to party, united and stemmed
that threatened tide of irredeeqnable
paper money and repudiated and placed
and kept the nation on the rock of pub
lie honor, sound finance, and honest
currency.
you have rightly stated. sir. that
the Republican party not only believes
in sound money and the highest public
faith and honor on the part of the gov
eminent of the United States to all its
creditors. but also that it believes in a
tariff which, while raising enough
money TO conduct the government eco I
nomically administered, will serve the
highest and best interests of American