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reached eleven. Protection and sound
money, unalloyed with currency reform.
To delegation of old soldiers, on Sept.
%: the country and the country's honor.
To delegation from Maryland, the same
day: protection and sound money.
To delegation from Centre county, Pa,
on Sept. so: protection and the other
question involved in this campaign, the
reactionary policy Of free silver"
To Ohio delegations, on Oct. 1: sound
money and protection.
To the Heavy Weights Mckinley Club,
the Mckinley Footers, the Everyday Nc
Kinley Club, the nd-Money Club, the
First Voters Club. and dozen or moro
clubs on the same day: protection and
sound money.
To two delegations, on Oct. q: sound
money and protection.
Fourteen speeches were made on Oct. 8,
with no addition to protection and honest
money.
Three speeches on Oct. revealed moth
ing new.
On Oct. 8, the day he registered he made
three speeches.
Two parties of Confederate soldiers who
were addressed on Oct. Q inspired Major
MCKINLEY solely with thoughts Of the
reconciliation between the North and tho
South. He argued for protection and honest
money later In the day to tho delegations
from Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
On Oct. 10 Major MCKINLEY addressed
twenty-one speeches to forty delegations,
and three speeches on Oct. IL.
One Of tho four delegations on Oct. ID
was made up Of Barnum & Bailey en-
ployees. There were four on Oct. 10.
Five hundred carloads Of visitors arrived
at Canton on Oct. II, to whom MCKINLEY
spoke eighteen times.
Oct. 81 was Illinois day. MCKINLEY
spoke almost continuously, the arrivals
being particularly early and the departures
particularly late.
Oct. %, Ohio day, saw six delegations.
On Oct. % MCKINLEY made twelve
speeches to delegations from all over tie
country.
On Oct. 26 he spoke five times, to seven
delegations.
Oct. % brought six delegations.
Oct. 20 brought fourteen delegations,
which were greeted with five speeches.
On Oct. 20 also ROBERT G. IN9ERsoLL
addressed the last great meeting in New
York city, and currency reform was not
heard of or thought OF.
On Oct. 81 Major MCKINLEY spoke nine
times, for protection and sound money.
He spoke for the last time before the elec.
tion on Nov. Q. American interests and
American honor were his closing senti-
ments.
The case is clear. Protection was the
idea first relied upon by Major McKIN.
LEY to elect him, and although as the
campaign developed the issue of honest
money acquired greater and finally supreme
Importance, he kept protection at the
front as a cardinal Republican principle and
powerful agency for success. Five times
only did MCKINLEY omit the protection
argument from the more than two hun
dred political speeches delivered by him at
Canton. Not once did he directly or in
directly refer to the currency reform talked
Of now by the restless, irresponsible, ma
licious. or scheming critics engaged in this
new crusade. No support for it was found
in any portion of the late Republican cam
paign; no warrant can be found for it in
the politics Of the present. 1t appeared
in the platform of the National Democrats
only, whose candidates, excellent citizens,
and possibly Of practical usefulness to-
ward accomplishing repudiation's defeat,
received 132. 5O7 votes.