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ONE DAY AT -CANTON.
Forty Delegations with Forty Special Trains Meet at
the Home of Major McKinley.
PRONOUNCED "THE GREATEST
Eleven States and Three National Organizations Send
Greetings to the Republican Candidate.
Countless Thousands Throng the Streets of Canton anj Listen
to His Words of Patriotism.
Panton. ' O.. Oct. 10. "The greatest
political demonstration ever kuowu" was
the verdict ot tne veteran uuservem i
t!i wnnts wlii. h wnirred here today
For weeks there has not been a day,
except the Sabbath, in which Maj. Mc
Kinley has not been greeted by uuiuer-
ons delegations, but today was tne great
est of them all.
Before daylight the special trains bear
ins delegations of voters from both the
old political parties began rolling into
the depot, and as early as 8 o clock
the impatient visitors began forming in
line to march to the modest home which
is now the Mecca for citizens of all
states and sections, and for men of all
past party affiliations. All day long
delegations of cheering, shouting men
from all the walks of life workingmen.
merchants, ministers, workers in iron
and clay and brass and steel, commer
cial salesmen, miners, farmers, planters,
railroad men and grain dealers,
marched to Maj. McKinley's home, and
with huzzas, speech-making and hand
shaking testified their regard for him.
and the fealty of their states and sections
to the cause which he represents.
Forty special trains were required to
bring "the forty separate organizations
from twelve different states who sought
in this single day to do honor to the
candidate of the Republican party, the
representative of sound money, sound
financial principles and sound govern
ment. TWENTY CAR LOADS.
Pennsylvania and Michigan Join in Early
Honors.
Twenty car loads of people from Penn
sylvania and Michigan were the first to
get Maj. McKinley's attention. They
were at his door at 9 o'clock and To the
brief addresses of their spokesmen Mr.
McKinley rescinded by saying:
"Your early call is an example of
promptness which I trust will be fol
lowed on the 3d of November in every
lart of our country. The best thing in
this world next to liberty is labor, and
the best thing for labor is an opportunity
to work. This is the opportunity for
which we are all striving this year .nd
which we hope through a change of
policy in the administration of the gov
ernment of the United States to enjoy to
a larger degree than we have done in
the past three and one-half years. What
we want more than anything ,ilse in
order to give this opportunity to labor is
a restoration of confidence. With con
fidence shaken, money seeks its 'riding
place and goes out of the channels of
business and legitimate investment and
away from farming, manufacturing and
mining enterprises. I do not know of a
better illustration of the value of con
fidence to the country than is found in
our own experience during the last
twenty years.
Some Financial History.
Tou will remember that this country
resumed specie payments January 1,
1879. We had outstanding then, is we
have now. $::40.0O0.(XX) of what is com
mouly known us greenback currency.
Every dollar of that from that date was
redeemable in gold upon presentation at
the treasury of the raited States. So
great was the confidence of the people
in the ability of the country that from
1870 to ISO.! but 4MMM.IMMi of doll.irs
Were presented for redemption, and the
Bold was taken out; $40,000,000 in four
teen years, and yet in the last three and
a half years, since confidence has been
disturbed, more than $200,000,000 of
greenbacks have been presented to the
treasury' .of the United States and the
gold taken nut.
Now. if confidence hnd existed, if the
holders of these greenbacks had not
been fearful, and they were only made
no because the treasury of the United
States was not collecting enough money
to pay its bills, that the revenues of the
treasury were inadequate for public ex
penditures, and alarmed, as they were,
they would not have sent their green
backs in for redemption. The gold re
serve was encroached upon, and from
time, to time we have been compelled to
sustain it. to borrow gold to put into the
treasury of the United States. Now, the
Republican party believes it is the duty
of the government first to raise enough
money to run the government. We don't
want any deficiencies in the public treas
ury, and if we have no deficiency we
will have no debts, and if we have no
debts we will have no bonds, and when
we have no deficiencies everybody will
have confidence in the solvency of the
treasury of the United .States.
Necessity for a High Tariff.
"Then, my fellow citizens, we not only
believe in raising enough money to run
the government, but we believe in having
a tariff upon foreign competing products
high enough to protect American labor
and American manufactures. We be
lieve it is the first duty of the govern
ment of the United States to protect and
defend its citizens. It is the poorest
policy on the part of the government to
give work to the laborer of other na
tions while we have idle men in the
United Slates. Now, when we have
once accomplished that, we propose to,
continue the good money we have in this
country. We do not want any short
9 States Represented at
New York,
Pennsylvania,
Maine.
Ohio.
Maryland.
West Virginia,
Kentucky,' . -Missouri.
EVENT IN POLITICAL HISTORY"
dollars any more than we want light
weights. We are in favor of good, round
100-cent dollars with which to pay the
labor of this country and measure the
exchanges of the American people and
we will have no other kind.
lOOO COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.
Three Great States Send Their Traveling:
Salesmen.
The second body of visitors was made
up of commercial travelers from New
York. Ohio and Indiana, and to their
tumultuous greeting Maj. McKinley re
sjionded by saying:
"Nobody knows sooner than the com
mercial traveler whether times are good
or bad. No class of men so registers the
waves of business as the men who stand
before me here today, ion are interest
ed in your occupations and in having
prosperity extend from one end of the
country to the other. You are interested
in having all of our workshops running;
all our mines in operation, and all our
workingmen constantly and profitably
employed. You are. therefore, this year
possibly more than ever before interested
in the triumph of the political principles
which envelop the well-being and high
est prosperity of the American people.
"ou know better than anybody else
that you cannot sell your goods to your
customers unless your customers can" sell
goods to the people. Y'on know, that the
people cannot buy unless they have some
thing to do at which they can earn mon
ey, that they may buy them. That's
what is the matter with the country to
day. That's the diagnosis of our condi
tion at this hour. Business has been
stopped: the wheels of industry are not
running: idle men are on the streets.
Many of the manufacturing establish
ments are closed aud you are not doing
as well as you were in 180-!.
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"The best thing I can wish for each
and everyone of you is a return to the
splendid prosperity of four-years ago.
The money of the country, happily, is all
right; the Republican party made1 it all
right, and f J rover Cleveland's administra
tion has kept it good. We propose to
continue that good, sound, unquestioned,
undepreciating money with which to do
the business of this great country. (Great
cheering.)
A Glance Into History.
"What a nation we are! Why. in
1800, when Abraham Lincoln of blessed
memory, the immortal hero of emancipa
tion and the war. when he took control
of this government our entire wealth was
$10,000,000,000. When Benjamin Harri
son went out it was $03,000,000,000, and
more than two-thirds of the great war
debt had been wiped out. Since that time
we have been doing little (else but make
debts for the government aud debts for
the people. I am greatly honored by this
call. Too many delegations are visiting
ine today to permit my longei detaining
you. 1 appreciate this visit. It is inspir
ing to the cause which I represent, and
will encourage the Republican spirit ev
erywhere. I know the value of the
commercial traveler. When he is against
you, look out." (Great laughter and ap
plause.) IRON WORKERS AT THE FRONT.
They Testify Their Fealty to Protection
and Prosperity.
No delegation of the day was more
cordially welcomed than the band of
iron workers from Cleveland, whose
sturdy figures and frank faces were seen
as soon as the commercial travelers had
given place, and to them Mr. McKinley
said:
"I welcome you to Canton ahd my
home. I am glad to learu from your
banners and your spokesman that you
stand for the great purpose of the Repub
lican party and the American union, that
gives to every citizen of every race and
nationality equal chance and opportunity
in the race of life a Union that knows
neither caste nor classes, nor creeds nor
nationality, but gives equal protection
to all. I am glad to see from your ban
ners that you are in favor of protection
to American industries. So am I. I
believe it is the duty of the American
people to vote for that policy which will
protect American industry, defend Ameri
can labor, and preserve the old scale
of American wages. I thank you heart
ily for this call. I am always glad to
meet the workingmen. and there is noth
ing in this campaign that gives me more
encouragement than to have behind me
the men who toil." (Great cheering and
cries of "Hurrah for McKinley.")
EVANGELICAL MISSION BOARD.
Bishop Thomas Bowman Introduces Bis
Associates to the Nominee.
Bishon iThomns Bowman introduced
the missionary board of the Evangelical J
Canton, Oct. 10th.
Michigan.
Indiana.
Illinois.
Iowa.
association to Maj. McKinley, who ad
dressed his callers briefly, saying:
"It gives me extreme pleasure to meet
the representatives of the board of mis
sions and of publication of the Kvnngeli
cal Association of the United States. It
is indeed to me n very high compliment
to have a body like 'yours turn aside from
its business sessions that call it together
to make a visit ta my home to give me
assurances of your support and of the
devotion which you have for the prin
ciples for w4iich I stand. I appreciate
this call. I would expect from a body. of
religious men that they would stand by
public honor and public honesty as your
bishop has described.- I would exnect
Toin you that you would stand by public
law, public tranquillity and public secur
ity, and the honor of the- country to
which you belong. It is the proud boast
of our American institutions that" every
citizen beneath otir flag can worship God
according to the dictate's of his own con
science in every corner of this great
country, and I am always glad to meet
n body of men who have dedicated their
lives to the improvement and betterment
of humanity, for as you better its condi
tion you elevate- citizenship, and when
you elevate citizenship you have exalted
country. I thank you for this call and
bid you all good afternoon." (Great applause.)
SOUND MONEY RAILROAD MEN,
Kmployes of Cleveland, Akron and Co
lumbus Company.
The employes of the Cleveland. Akron
and Columbus Railway company and
sound money clubs of Akron, O.. were
introduced by Mr. Sampson, and were
addressed by the Republican nominee as
follows:
"I am glad to have the assurance
through your spokesman that yon be
lieve that the triumph of the principles
for which the Republican party now
stands will be best for you. and so be
lieving that you intend to vote the Re
publican ticket. I think you all for this
greeting.. I feel that you are not strang
ers to me. I have been riding over your
lines for more than twenty years, and I
know many of your employers: and I do
not know of any business in the country
where its employes can so definitely
know the condition of the business of the
country as the men who are employed
by the railroads. You know it in the
shop, you know it in the ticket office, yon
know it traveling on the trains: every
switchman, every brakenian, every con
ductor, and every engineer knows the
condition of the business of the country
and of the railroad by the amount of
business that railroad does. He knows
when the country is prosperous and when
it is in a state of depression, and he does
not have to wait for the report of the di
rectors of the railroad to know whether
there have been any dividends declared
or not. He knows it from the amount
of work aud the amount of wages he
receives.
"Now, my fellow citizens, yon are
prosperous when the country is prosper
ous, and the country is prosperous when
it takes care of its own people, its own
manufacturers, its own mines, and prod-
McKinley "to Swing 'Round the Circle"
The Circle Swings Around to Him.
ucts, and its own labor. The country is
prosperous wheu we have plenty of labor,
if we are paiil in good money. We be
lieve in sound money, and we are going
always to have it." (Continuous cheer
ing.) POTTERY AND IRON WORKERS.
They Greet the Champion of Protection
to American Industry.
The next visitors were from West Vir
ginia and included pottery workers, iron
workers and u club known as the Tariff
Champions of Wheeling. To these Con
solidated delegations Maj. McKinley
said:
"Gentlemen: Republicans seem to be
on all sides this year. (Great laughter
and applause; a voice: "And Demo
crats.") And many Democrats are with
us. (Applause.) I am honored by this
call of this large assemblage from the
state of West Virginia. I am glad to
meet the 0-footers. (Cheering from the
Six-Footers' Protective and Sound
Money club of Wheeling.) They ought
to be, and I am sure will be, giants in
this contest for national honor. I am
glad to meet the potters of West Vir
ginia. I nm glad to meet the iron and
steel workers of the Riverside mills. I
am glad to meet you all and glad to feel
that the mission you are Bere upon is to
make Republican principles triumphant
on the 3d day of November.
"There is inborn in every human breast
a sentiment that moves him to strive to
better his condition. The humblest,
those born with least fortune, those with
most unfavorable surroundings, all of
them aspire to better things and all have
a right so to aspire. The genius of our
free institutions exalts ambition and
most men want to lift themselves up, to
elevate and improve the condition of
their families. The thought in every
man's mind here today is: 'How can I
better my condition? How can I improve
the condition of my family?' The an
swer comes almost with one voice: 'The
way to do it is to protect American in
dustry and defend-American labor.' (Tre
mendous cheering.) Let us do our own
manufacturing here in the United States.
Let us make our own iron and steel, our
own pottery, our own glass and when
we do that, then we will employ every
idle man in the United States and bring
hope and happiness to every American
home. I believe in that policy of pro
tection to home industries and to the en
ergies of Ameritau people. 1 do not
believe anything is cheap to the Amer
ican people that imposes idleness upon
a single American citizen. What you
want is work and wages. Do you believe
free trade will aid you? Do you believe
protective tariffs will do it? ("Yes, yes,
every time.") Then vote that way.
(Loud yells and cries of "You bet we
will.")
"Protection never closed an American
factory: protection never shut an Amer
ican mine; protcction never put Amer
ican labor out on the streets. I wish I
could say as much for partial free trade,
such ns we have exnerieneed in the last
I three and a half years.
"More than that, my fellow citizens,
we not only want an opportunity to
work, but when we get that opiortunity
we want to be paid in honest dollars
worth 100 cents each. (Continuous cheer
ing.) We believe neither in free trade
nor in free silver. The one debases the
labor, and the other the currency of the
country, and more than that, you gentle
men, I know, are in favor of the main
tenance of law and order. Now, I thank
you for this call and I trust that the
little Mountain state will in 189(5 repeat
the verdict of 1804 by giving the Repub
lican party a grand and glorious tri-
umph. (Loud cries of "We well; we
will," followed by three rousing cheers
for the "next President.")"
STEEL COMPANY EMPLOYES.
A Delegation of Three Hundred Work
iugiuen.
Concluding his preceding address to
the miners, Maj. McKinley had to but
face about to find patiently awaiting an
audience of some 300 steel workers, em
ployed by the Otis Steel company of
Cleveland. This party was introduced
by Otto Grabien, and Maj. McKinley
responded briefly, saying:
"I am honored by this visit and en
couraged by it because I know that you
bring to me assurances of loyalty to the
great principles of the Republican party
and of your untiring zeal to make these
principles victorious on the 3d day of
November. This audience fairly repre
sents tne conditions with which the bust
ness of this country is done. The men
on the other side of me mine coal. The
men on this side use coal in their mills.
and because you so use it the others
mine it. If you created no demand for
it there would be uo demand for the
miner.
"I use this illustration to show you how
denendent we are upon each other: how
every thread of business is interwoven
with every other thread of business, and
when you snap one thread you injure all.
When the employer does not find it prof
itable to manufacture he ceases to do so,
and when he does not manufacture you
do not have employment. When he finds
it profitable to manufacture you have
steady employment at fair wages. Now,
what we want to do in this country is
to favor whatever policy will encourage
American industry and promote Ameri
can manufactures. That which will
build more factories and give more em
ployment to workingmen should be the
true, genuine and universally accepted
American policy.
"I am one of those who believe that
we should look after our own people be
fore we look after the people of other
lands, who owe no allegiance to the gov
ernment of the United States. I believe
the right policy is the one which pro
tects the American workshop by putting
a tariff upon the products of the foreign
workshop. My fellow citizens, I do not
believe that we ought to have a tariff
policy that will let the products of cheap
er lauds and of unpaid labor come into
this country and destroy our manufac
tories and impoverish and degrade our
labor. The protective policy is my pol
icy. It is the doctrine I have always
believed in. and I make no apology to
anybody anywhere for holding that view,
and if on the 3d day of November the
American people in their sovereign ca
pacity shall decree that a protective pol
icy shall be restored and sound money
continue, I hope and fervently pray that
we will enter npon an era of prosperity
that will give happiness and comfort to
every American home. (Tremendous
cheering and cries of "Hurrah for Mc
Kinley.") I thank you for this call and
bid you good afternoon."
ing.)
(Great cheer-
MINERS OF ANTHRACITE COAL.
Three Hundred Workingmen from the
Pennsylvania Coal District.
The little reviewing stand was brought
into requisition at this point, when the
crowd had become so dense that the
porch could no longer be used, aud Maj.
McKinley faced some 300 miners from
the anthracite district of Pennsylvania,
who were introduced by Prof. W. P.
Gregory. Maj. McKinley responded as
follows:
"You have all found in your own
lives that if you get anything that is val
uable you have to work for it. You
have found in your own experience that
there is no way to earn a living or ac
cumulate property except by labor and
toil, energy and industry, and by frugal
savings, and knowing that all that you
are interested in at this moment is how
you can best use what you have your
labor, your farms, your products; in a
word, all you want is an opportunity
to work, and when that opportunity is
furnished you you will perform the la
bor, and . there are not enough mints
in the United States or in the world to
give employment to the miners of Penn
sylvania. Therefore, my fellow citizens,
you must not be looking to the mints
for the money which you need. You
must look to the mines, to the mills and
the factories. (Great applause.) You do
not mine coal unless somebody wants to
use that coal, and the more users of
coal there are, the more - miners there
will be and the better will be their em
ployment and their wages. (Cries of
Right, right.') .
"Now, that is the whole philosophy of
this business. (Applause.) When you
have an opportunity to work you want
to be paid in dollars that are as good
as any -in the world; when you have
given your good, hard blows in the
mines or in the factories, given the mine
owner or the factory-owner a good, hon
est day's work, you want to be paid in
good, honest dollars that will not de
preciate over night. (Tremendous cheer
ing.) So what the country wants is
work and the continuance of the good
money we have, and the prevalence of
law and order. We want peace and
tranquillity in this country; we want to
preserve the honor of the government
of the United States, and we will re
nounce repudiation in every form. I am
glad to meet my fellow citizens from
the state of Pennsylvania. We have
in this country miners by the hundreds.
I know something about them. 1 know
that the only aim they have is an honest
one, to stand by honest things, and I
know how the farmers of Stark county
Iron Workers,
Pottery Workers,
Jttine Workers,
Faetory Workers,
Railroad Workers,
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are benefited when the mines of Stark
county are running.
"I thank you over and over again for
this call. I must now turn to the other
side of this stand and address another
delegation, the members of which have
the same purpose in their hearts that
you have victory for the principles of
protection, honest money and good gov-,
eminent. (Great applause.) I thank
you aud bid you good afternoon."
VETERANS FROM MARYLAND.
Major McKinley Delivers, to Them an
Unusually Earnest Address.
The Maryland G. A. R. club, one of
the delegations of the day. was honored
with one of the most earnest addresses
Maj. McKinley has yet delivered. In
response to (Jen. Theodore F. Lang, who
spoke for the Maryland visitors, Maj.
McKinley said:
"The spectacle which we witness in
Canton today is most encouraging and
inspiring. There are delegations here
from New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana. Michigan. Illinois and Mary
land. (Great applause and cries of
"Iowa.") Yes. Iowa and Kentucky, and
on yesterday we had delegations from
the Old Dominion state of Virginia and
from the state of Tennessee. All are
welcome to my home and city, for all of
them are moved by a common purpose,
and that purpose is to save the country
from repudiation and dishonor.
"This visit on the part of my fellow
citizens from Maryland indicates their
concern -at the present condition .if the
country, and manifests a belief on their
part that the sooner it comes to an tnd
the more gratifying it will be. It is an
unmistakable expression of your lelief
that the change most to be desired tan
only be secured through a Republican
triumph, and that yon are zealous rnd
alert to do yonr full part in briuging
about the result. This campaign has
many peculiar phases. It involves the
most vital interests to country. It is
unique in American politics. One f the
old and most honored political parties of
this country is very much divided this
year. A part of it has united with the
other parties, and in some of the states
the alliance has been rejected, and he
fusion repudiated, so that the condition
is not altogether and everywhere har
monious. The old leaders of the Demo
cratic party, those who carried its bur
dens and fought its battles in the t;'st.
framed in the city of Indianapolis a few
weeks ago an indictment against their
old party associates who met at Chicago.
wnicn in severity has been nneanaled.
They pronounced the declarations .f the
(Jhicago convention, which was Demo
cratic in name, as an attack npon in
dividual freedom, right of private con
tract, the. independence of the judiciary
ana antnority ot tne fresment to en
force the laws of the United States.
Chicago Convention Arraigned.
"They charged the Chicago convention
with a reckless attempt to- increase the
price of silver by legislation to the de
basement of our monetary system, and
threatened unlimited issues of paper
money by the government. They- pro
claim in view of these and other crave
departures from Democratic principles
that they cannot support the candidate
of that convention, nor be bound by its
acts. They declare that the Democratic
party has survived many defeats, but
could never survive a victory won in be
half of the policy proclaimed! in its i:nme
at Chicago. On the money question tbey
affirm that the experience of mankind
has shown that by reason of their ratut
al qualities gold is the necessary money
of the large affairs of commerce and busi
ness, while silver is conveniently adapt
ed to minor transactions; and the most
beneficial use of both can be insured i.nlv
by the adoption of the former as the
standard of monetary measure and lhe
maintenance ot silver at a parity with
gold by its limited coinage under suitable
safeguards of law. Thus the largest pos
sible employment of both metal is
gained with a value universally accepted
throughout the world, which constitutes
the only practical bimetallic currency,
assuring the most stable standard rnd
especially the best and safest money for
an wuo earn rneir uvennoou ny labor or
the produce of husbandry. They cannot
suffer when paid in the best money
known to man. but are the peculiar anil
most defenseless victims, of a debased
and fluctuating currency, which offers
continual profits to the money ch'inger
at their cost.
"What I have read, my fellow citizens,
is not the statement of the Republican
convention, but of a Democratic con
vention, the most representative which
probably ever assembled in the country.
Senators and representatives in public
life today, leaders of the Democratic
party an their respective states, thus de
nounce the Democratic convention held
in the city of Chicago. They speak
words of truth and soberness. Yon can
not debase the currency of the United
States without degrading the public honor.-.
They speak the voice of patriotism.
They repudiate their own party conven
tion and characterize its resolutions as
unsound, injudicious, unpatriotic, and
revolutionary. They are to be com
mended by every lover of his country
everywhere for their courageous stand
and for their bold denunciation of doc
trines which, although adopted by a con
vention representing a large body of
Democrats, are a menace to the peace
and tranquillity, the credit and the cur
reucy of the country.
The Crisis is Bravely Met.
"It falls to the Republican party this
year, as in many other years ot the past,
to carry the standard of national honor,
and it shall never be lowered in its
hands. It meets the crisis with the old
time courage, and if it is given power
the whole world will know that it will
never permit the currency of the country
to be debased or its financial honor
stained. Our adversaries talk fluently
about the "money of the fathers." I
want to say for the fathers that their
money was always good and honest.
They insist that gold and silver nlike
constitute the money of the constitution
and the currency established by the early
ONE DAY'S VISITORS AT
I JHerehants,
Commercial Travelers, j
Bank Employes, j
Commission JVIen,
JVIanufaetarers, J
statesmen of the country. They woulu
have us believe what history dots aot
support that gold and silver enjoyed
equal privileges in the mints of the
United States during all our history
down to 1873. They assert that the
stopping of the free coinage of silver in
loi.i was "the crime of the century," and
is the cause of the present deplorable
business condition of the country. They
must know that prior to 1873 we had
less than 9,000.000 of silver dollars in
circulation. Ve have coined since that
time nearly 500.000.(KK) of silver dollars,
and they constitute a part of the cur
rency of ,tue country. They do not- tell
us that when the coinaire of both' eolrf
and silver was free in the United States
the per capita circulation in this country
was less than it has been since the so
enlled "crime of 1873." Why, under
the free coinage of both gold and silver
in the days of the fathers we had in
1800 a per capita of $4.00: in 1833 it
was $8.00; in 1852 it was $14.03; in 1872
before the resumption of siecie pay
ments, and when we were doing business)
with unlimited paper currency, it was
$18.19; in 1S!)4. twenty-one years after
the suspension of free coinage of silver,
we hnd a per capita of $24.88, and every
dollar was as good as gold in every part
of the world. We have a greater pet
capita in the United States than hat
the United Kingdom of Great Kritaia
and a greater per capita than has Ger
many. The per capita of the whole
world is about $5.15. The per capita of
the gold standard countries is $18. whilt
the per capita of the silver standard
countries of which they want to makt
ns one is about $4.30. Even in the
gold standard eonntries we have mors
silver per capita than they have in tbt
silver countries of the world. The gold i
tion of less than one-third of the world't
population, have nearly two-thirds of tbt
circulation of the world's currency. Tha
United States has about 5'a per cent, of
the total population of the principal
coifhtrics of the world, yet ft hit
32 21-100 per cent, of the banking re
sources and nearly 1 per cent, of tha
total money supply of the world. France
has a higher per capita than the United
States, hut the banking deposits in the
United States are $i.70 per inhabitant,
or $43 greater for each inhabitant than
the banking deposits of France.
Per Capita Rate Would Decrease.
"It mnst never be forgotten that the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to
1 would not increase, but would decrease
our per capita circulation. It would add
nothing to it, but would rob us of the
good money we now have and put as
where the silver countries of the world
are today npon a :ver basis alone.
There is nothing in Hi present currency
status, therefore, to disturb us, except
to defeat the party which proposes to de
base it. It is the proposition to debase
onr currency standard that has created
consternation in every business center of
the country; has made times hard, has
driven money from active industry, and
pat it behind barred doors, where it will
be kept until confidence is restored.
"The people will not consent to a de
crease of their circulating medium, nor b
debasement of that medium of exchange.
If by your votes this menace to the mon
ey and credit of the country be dispelled,
aud by the same votes you restore the
American protective policy, that will stop
deficiencies in the treasury, and will pro
tect American industry, and courage
and confidence will eotue back again.
Oiwn the mills and the mines of oar
eountry by a judicious protective tariff
and you will stop idleness and distress
in the ranks of labor, and you can't stop
it in any other way. What will be the
voice of Maryland on the 3d day of No
vember? (Cries of "McKinley. McKiir
ley. Whnt will be the voice of the
great city of Baltimore' (Cries of 'Me
Kmley. flow will that old ronservstiv I
t eity speak for national honor? (Cries of f
McKinley and portec '
tio"n.'
"I thank my old comrades of the war
for their presence here at my home to
day. I thank my fellow citizens of every
vocation for having paid me this visit,
and I beg to thank them in the name of
the Republican party for their assur
ances of loyal support to the principles of
public honor, a protective tariff, sound
money, reciprocity, which will bring to
ns. I trust and firmly believe, good times,'
from which - we wildly ran away in
MAINE HEARD FROM.
Congressman Boutelle Speaks tor the
State or lilalun and Heed.
One of the distinguished visitors of tbt
day was Congressman Boutelle of Maine,
who was introduced t one of the visit
ing delegations by Mr. McKinley. with
such hanpy words that he could not es
cape participating in the speech-making
which Gov. McKinley was cxiceted to
alone perform. At the close of one of
the addresses Mr. McKinley. turning to
Mr. Boutelle, who stood near him, said:
"We have present with ns Gen. Bou
telle of Maine, and while the delegation
is marching tip the hill (another delega
tion was then approaching) I am sure
you will be glad to hear a voire from
the state of Blaine that has just given
ns nearly 50,000 majority." (Applause
and cheers.)
Mr.-Boutelle said:
"The governor has taken n slight ad
vantage over me in bringing ine before
you. but I desire to say to you that there
is no Republican in the state of Main
who would not dccui it an honor and a
privilege to stand her', at the residence
of William McKinley of Ohio and thank
yon for the splendid manifestations of
loyalty which you have exhibited here.
We have got through with onr littla
piece of work in Maine; we have set the
mark, 50.000 high, for the other states
of the American Union to go by. We
want to see Ohio more than double it.
We want to see Indiana come up with
00.000. and we are going to see. my
friends, on the 3d day of Novcniler a de
feat or free trade, free silver, and repu
diation more disastrous than has ever
before overtaken denuigogism in this
country, and now. gentlemen. I propose
three hearty cheers for the next Presi
dent of the United States." (They wera
given with vim.)
THREE STATES ABREAST.
Delegations from Illinois, Iowa an4
Pennsylvania Grouped.
Scarcely had the preceding crowd va
cated the lawn when the shouts and
cheers of another coming up the street
were heard. This was composed of tho
Hardware Men's Sound Money club of
Reading, Pa., and railroad men and
Continual on Second Page.
CANTOR
Clergymen,
Teaehers,
Liauiyers,
Editors,
Statesmen.