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ONE DAY AT CANTON,
Forty Delegations with Fony Special Trains Meet at
the Home of Major McKinley.
PRONOUNCED "THE GREATEST EVENT IN POLITICAL HISTORY"
Eleven States and Three National Organizations Scud
Greetings to the Republican Candidate.
Uountless Thousands Throng the Streets of Canton and Listen
to His Words of Patriotism.
Canton. O.. Oct. 10. "The proa test
political demonstration ever known" was
the verdict of the veteran observers of
the events which occurred here today.
For weeks there has not been a day,
except the Sabbath, in which Maj. Mo
Kinlev has not been greeted by numer
ous delegations, but today was the great
est of them all. .
Before daylight the special trains bear
ing delegations of voters from both the
old political parties began rolling into
the denot. and ns 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 workiugmeu,
merchants, ministers, workers in irou
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.
tnd 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 Fenn
ivlvania and Michigan were the first to
pet Maj. McKinley's attention. They
were at his door nt !) o'clock and to the
brief addresses of their spokesmen Mr.
McKinley responded by saying:
"Your early call is an example of
promptness which I trust will be fol
lowed on the ad of November in every
part 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 ind
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 else iu
srder to give this opportunity to labor is
a restoration of confidence. With con
fidence shaken, money seeks its biding
place and goes out of the channels of
business and legitimate investment i.nd
iway from farming, manufacturing and
mining enterprises. 1 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.
8orae Financial History.
"Ton will remember that this .oitntry
resumed specie payments January 1,
1879. We had outstanding then, is we
have now. $34(i.0OO.0OO of what is com
monly known as greenback currency,
livery dollar of that from that date was
redeemable in gold upon presentation nt
the treasury of the United states. So
great was the confidence of the people
in the ability of the country that from
1S79 to 18U3 but 4(UMH).(HH) of doll.irs
were preseuted for redemption, and the
Sold 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 out.
Now. if confidence had existed, if the
holders of these greenbacks had not
been fearful, and they were only made
so because the treasury of the United
States was not collecting enough money
to pay ta 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 iu the public treas
ury, and if we have no deficiency we
win 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 df the United States to protect and
defend its citizens. It is the poorest
policy on the part of ithe government to
give work to the laborer of other na
tions while we havei idle men in the
United States. 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
1 States Represented at
New York,
Pennsylvania,
Maine. .
Ohio.
Maryland.
West Virginia,
Kentucky.
Missouri, -
dollars any more tnan wo 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 State Spurt Their Traveling
Salesmen.
The second body of visitors was made
np of commercial travelers from New
York. Ohio and Indiana, and to their
tumultuous greeting Maj. McKinley re
sponded by saying:
"Xobody knows sooner than the com
mercial traveler whether timen are good
or bad. Xo class of men so registers the
waves of business as the men who stand
before me here today. You are interest-
ed in your occupations and in having
prosterity extend from one end of the
country to the other. You are interested
in having nil of our workshops running:
all our niiiK'S in operation, and all our
workingmen constantly and profitably
employed. Yon 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.
"You know (letter than anybody else
that you cannot sell your goods to your
customers unless your. customers can sell
goods to the people. You 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 and yon are not doing
as well as you were in 1802.
No Need for
3
"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 made it all
right, and Grover Cleveland's administra
tion has kept it good. We proiwse to
continue that good, sound, unquestioned,
uudepreciating money with which to do
the business of this great country. (Great
cheering.)
A Glance Into History.
"What a nation we are! Why. in
I860, when Abraham Lincoln of blessed
memory, the immortal hero of emancipa
tion and the war. when be took control
of this government, our entire wealth was
Jflti.000.000.000. When Benjamin Harri
son went out it was .fUS.OOO.OOU.t '((), and
more than two-thirds of the great war
debt had been wiped out. Since that time
we have been ilo.ng little else but make
debts for the government and debts for
the people. I am greatly honored by this
call. '1 00 many delegations are visiting
me today to permit my longer 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 Featty to Protection
and Prosperity.
No delegation of the day was more
cordially welcomed than the baud of
iron workers from Cleveland, whose
sturdy figures and frank faces were seen
as soon as the commercial travelers hail
given place, and to them Mr. McKinley
said :
"I welcome you to Canton and my
home. I am glad to learn 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, hut gives equal protection
to all. I ain 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. 1 thank you heart-
ily for this call. 1 am always glad to
meet the workingmen. and there is noth
ing in this campaign that gives me more ;
encouragement until in nave neiiinu me
the men who toil." (Great cheering and
cries of "Hurrah for McKinley.')
EVANGELICAL MISSION BOARD.
Bishop Thomas Bowman Introduces His
Associates to the Nominee.
Bishop Thomas Bowman introduced
the missionary board of the Evangelical
Canton, Oct. 10th. I
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 Kvangeli
cal Association of the United States. It
is indeed to me a very high compliment
to have a body like yours turn aside from
its business sessions that call it together
to make a visit to my home to give me
assurances of your support anil of the
devotion which you have for the prin
ciples for which 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 expert
froih you that yon would stand by public
law. public tranquillity and public secur
ity, and the honor of the country to
which yon belong. If is the proud boast
of our American institutions that every
citizen beneath our flag can worship God
according to the dictates of his own con
science in every corner of this great
country, and I am always glad to meet
a 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 yon all good afternoon." (Great applause.)
SOUND MONEY RAILROAD MEN.
Kinployes of Cleveland, Akron and
Co-
lmnbus 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 yon. 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
I )j11PS for morP 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, you
kuow it traveling on the trains: every
switchman, every brakemau, 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 and the amount of wages he
receives.
"Xow. my fellow citizens. , yon are
prosperous when the country Is prosper
ous, anil 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
..-
nets, and its own labor. Tb couutry is
prosperous when we have plenty of labor,
if we are paid iu 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 a 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: "Ami Demo
crats.' ) And many Democrats are with
us. (Applause.) 1 am honored by this
call of tnis large assemblage from the
state of West Virginia. 1 urn glad to
meet the t!-footers. (Cheering from the
Six-Footers' Protective and Sound
Money club of Wheeling.) They ought
to be. and I am sure wili be. giants in
this contest for national honor. I am
glad to meet the potters of West Vir
ginia. I am 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 uere upon is to
make Republican principles triumphant
on the 3d day of November.
"There is inborn in every human lireast
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 aud 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 iu 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 jiolicy of pro
tection to home industries and to the en
ergies of American people. 1 do not
believe anything is cheap to the Amer
icon people that imposes idleness upon
a single American citizen. Y hat you
want is work and wages. Do you believe
free trade will aid you ? Do yon 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; protection never put Amer
ican labor out on the streets. I wish I
could say as much for partial free trade,
such as we have experienced iu the last
three and a half years.
"More than fliat. my fellow citizens,
we not only want an opportunity to
work, bnt when we get that opportunity
we want to be paid iu 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
couutry. and more than that, you gentle
men, 1 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 1890 repeat
the verdict of 1894 by giving the Repub
lican party a grand and glorious tri-
nmph. (Loud cries of "Wo well: we
will." followed by three rousing cheers
for the "next President.")"
STEEL COMPANY EMPLOYES.
A Delegation of Three Hundred AVork
inginen. Concluding his preceding address to
the miners, Maj. McKinley had to but
( face about to find patiently awaiting an
I audience of some :t(M) steed workers, em-
ployed by the Otis Steel company of
Cleveland. This party was introduced
l by Otto Grahicn, and Maj. McKinley
i responded briefly, saying:
j "I am honored by this visit and en
; couraged by it because I know that you
j bring to me assurances of loyalty to the
1 great principles of the Republican party
and of your untiring zeal to make these
principles, victorious on the ."d day of
j Xovember. This audience fairly repre
! sents the conditions with which the bitsi-
ness of this country is done. The men
! on the other side of me mine coal. The
men on this side use coal iu their mills.
and liecause you so use it the others
mine it. If you created no demand for
it there would be no demand for the
miner.
"I use this illustration to show you how
dependent we are upon each other: how
every thread of business is interwoven
with every other thread of business, and
when yon snap one thread you injure ail.
When the employer does not liud 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. Xow.
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 nllegiance 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 lands 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 neology to
anybody anywhere for holding that view,
and" if on the ;!d day of Xovember the
American people in their sovereign ca
pacity shall decree that a protective pol
icy shall he restored and sound money
continue, I hope and fervently pray that
we will enter upon 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, and 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 yon get anything that is val
uable yon have to work for it. Yotf
have found in your own experience that
there is no way to earn a living or at
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 iu the world to
give employment to the miners of Penn
sylvania. Theref ore, my fellow citizens,
yon 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. ACries of
'Right, right.')
"Xow. 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 mini
owner or the factory-owner a good, hon
est day's work, you want to be paid iu
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, ami the prevalence of
law and order. We want peace ami
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 thein. I kuow
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,
JVIine Workers,
Factory Workers,
Railroad Workers,
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 ami good gov- i
eminent. (Great applause.! I thank !
you and bid you good afternoon." I
VETERANS FROM MARYLAND.
Major McKinley Delivers to Them an
I'nnsually Earnest Address.
The Maryland !. A. R. dub. one of
the delegations of the day. was lioiimcd
with one of the most earnest addresses
Maj. McKinley lias yet delivered. In
res louse to (Jen. Theodore F. Lang, who
snoke 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 Xew York. I'etiiisylvaniii. Ohio.
Indiana. Michigan. Illinois and Mary
land. (Great applause and cries ,,
"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 rontitry
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 ml
the inure gratifying it will be. It is an
unmistakable expression of your belief
that the change most to be desired :in
only lc secured through n Republican
triumph; and that you are zealous i ml
alert to do your full part in bringing
about the result. This campaign V.ns
many peculiar phases. It involves the
most vital interests to country. It is
unique in American wilities. One of 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 the
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 mid fought its battles iu the p.'st.
framed iu the city of Indianapolis a few
weeks ago an indictment against their
old party associates who met at Chicago,
which iu severity lias been uiiequaicd.
They pronounced the declarations if the
Chicago convention, which was Demo
cratic in name, as nil attack upon in
dividual freedom, right of private con
tract, the independence of the judleciry
and authority of the President 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 f Iieseand other grave
departures from Democratic principles
that they cannot support the candidate
of that convention, nor be bound by its
acts. They declare that the Democra'ie
party has survived many defeats, but
could never survive a victory won in be
half of the policy proclaimed in its came
at Chicago. On the money question tbry
Circle"
T
affirm that the experience of mankind
has shown that by reason of their pi" fili
al qualities gold is the necessary money
of the large affairs of commerce and busi
ness, while silver is conveniently iidapf
ed to minor transactions: and the most
beneficial use of both can be insured .n!y
by the adoption of the former as the
standard of monetary measure and ihe
maintenance of silver at a purify ith
gold by its limited coinage under suitable
safeguards of law. Thus the largest pos
sible employment of both metals is
gained with a value universally accepvd
throughout the world, which constitutes
the only practical bimetallic curreucv.
assuring the most stable standard i lid
especially the best and safest money for
all who earn their livelihood by labor or
the produce of husbandry. They cannot
suffer when paid in the best tuoiiev
known to man. but are the peculiar anil
most defenseless victims of a debased
and fluctuating currency, which otters
continual profits to the money ..-h'liigcr
at their cost.
"What 1 have read, my fellow citizens,
is not the statement of the Republican
convention, but of a Democratic con
vention, the most representative
which
primarily ever assembled in the country,
Senators and representatives in public
life today, leaders of the Democratic
party in their respective states, thus de
nounce the Democratic convention held
in the city of Chicago. They speak
words of truth and soberness. You can
not debase the currency of the United
States without degrading the public hon
or. They speak the voice of patriotism.
.They repudiate their own party conven
tion and characterize its resolutions as
unsound, injudicious, unpatriotic. anJ
revolutionary. They are to be coin-'
mended by every lover of his countrv
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 pence
and tranquillity, the credit and the cur
rency of the couutry.
The Crisis is liravely Met.
"It falls to the Republican party this
year, as in many other years of the past,
to carry the standard of national honor,
and it shall never lie lowered in its
hands. It meets the crisis with the old
time courage, ami if it is given power
the whole world will know that it will
never jiermit 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 alike
constitute the money of the constitution
and the currency established by the early
ONE DAY'S VISITORS AT
Jtferehants,
Commercial Travelers,
Bank Employes,
Commission JVTen,
Manufacturers,
statesmen of the country. They woul?
have us believe what history does not
support that gold and silver eujoyed
equal privileges in the mints of the
United States during all our history
down to IKT.'i. They assert that the
slopping of the free coinage of silver in
ISTIi was "the crime of the century." and
is the cause eif the present deplorable
business condition of the country. They
must kuow that prior to 17:5 we had
less than O.OOtl.lMKI of silver dollars in
circulation. We have coined since that
time nearly ."WMI.IMMI.lHMI of silver dollars,
mid they constitute a part of the cur
rency of the country. They do not tell
us that when the coinage f both gold
and silver was free in the United States
the per capita circulation in this country
was less than it has been since the so
called "crime of 187.'!." Why. under
the free coinage of both gold and silver
in the days of the fathers we had in
1800 a per capita of .S-l.'.t'.l; in 183:1 it
was .$.s.(io: in 18.12 it was SH.ti.!: iu 1872
before the resumption of specie pay
ments, am) when we were doing business
with unlimited paper currency, it was
!1S.1!): in lS'.H. twenty-one years after
the suspension of free coinage of silver,
we had a per capita of !fc4.NS. and every
dollar was as good as gold in every part
of the world. We have a greater per
capita in the United States than has
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and a greater per capita than has Ger
many. The per capita of the whole
world is about S5.15. The per capita of
the gold standard countries is $18. while
the per capita of the silver standard
countries of which they want to make
us one is about $4.:iO. Kven iu the
gold standard countries we have more
silver per capita than they have in the
silver countries of the world. The gold
standard countries, having a popula
tion of less than one-third of the world'e
population, have nearly two-thirds of the
circulation of the world's currency. The
United States has about .V-i per cent, of
the total population of the principal
countries of the world, yet it has
.'52 21-100 per cent, of the banking re
souri and nearly 10 per cent, of the
total money supply of the world. France
has a higher per capita than the United
States, but the banking deposits in the
United Slates are !77.7I! per inhabitant,
or S4" greater for each inhabitant than
the banking deposits of France.
Per Capita Kate Would Decrease,
"It must never be forgotten that the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of 1(! 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 us
where the silver countries of the world
are today upon a silver basis alone.
There is nothing in our present currency
status, therefore, to disturb us, except
to defeat the party which proposes to de
base it. It is the proposition to debase
our currency standard that has created
consternation in every business center of
the country: has made times hard, has
driven money from active industry, aud
put 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 e
debasement of that medium of exchange.
If by your votes this menace lo the mon
ey and credit of the country be dispelled,
and 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 coiifiilence will come back again.
Open the mills and the mines of our
country 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 lie the
voice of .Maryland on the :!d day of No
vember? tCries of 'McKinley. McKin
ley." I What will lie the voice of the
great city of Baltimore? (Cries of 'Mo
Kinley.'l How will that old conservative
city speak for national honor? (Cries of
By voting for McKinley and nortec
tion.') "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. protective tariff, sound
money, reciprocity, which will bring t
us, I trust and firmly believe, good times.
""in nuicu . we wildly rail
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awuy jo
MAINE HEARD FROM.
longressmnn Roulrlle Speiiks Tut
the
. Stale or Hlaiue and Jteed.
j One of the distinguished visitors of tbe
day was Congressman Bontelle of Maine,
who was iut:oilnced to one of the visit-
; ing delegations by Mr. McKinley. with
such inripy words that he could not es-
i it ic participating iu the speech-making
: which Gov. McKinley was cxiicctcd to
alone iierfoiin. At the close of one of
I the addresses Mr. M .Kinley, turning to
air. nouieiie, who stood near him. said:
"We have present with ns (Jen. Bon
telle of Maine, and while the delegation
is marching up the hill (another delega
tion was then approaching) I am sure
you will be glad to hear a voice from
J the state of Blaine that has just, given
us nearly .st.OOO
majority." (Applause
and cheers.),
Mr. Bontelle said:
"The governor has taken a slight ad
vantage over me iu bringing me before
yon. but I desire to say to you that there
is no Republican iu the state of Maine
who would not deem it an honor and a
privilege to stand here, at the residence
of William McKinley of Ohio mid thank
you for the splendid manifestations of
loyalty which you have exhibited here.
We Have got through with our little
piece of work in Maine; we have set the
mark. ."iO.OHO high, for the other state!
of the American Union to go by. We
want to see Ohio more than double it.
We want to see Indiana come up with
tiO.000. and we are going to see, my
friends, on the .Id day of November a de
feat of free trade, free silver, and repu
diation more disastrous than has ever'
before overtaken demagogism in this
country, and now, gentlemen, I propose
three hearty cheers for the next Presi
dent of the United States." (They were
given with vim.)
THREE STATES ABREAST.
Delegations from Illinois, Iowa and
Pennsylvania Crooped.
Scarcely had the .preceding crowd va
cated the lawn when the shouts and
cheers of another coming up the street
were heard. This was composid of the
Hardware Men's Sound Money club of
Reading. Pa., and railroad men and
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CANTON.
Clergymen,
Teachers,
liauiyers,
Editors,
Statesmen.