Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1896 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, . SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 189b

citizens of Indianapolis to have a gentleman of such prominence who will oIscuks to-night th all-absorbing topic of the day. As praflJent of the Nonpartisan GermanAmertcari: Sor.iid-money league I have the pleasure, and-not only the pleasure, hut also thw honor, to introduce to you the lion." BoUrke Cdckran.5

MR. COCKRAVS SPEECH. The Masterly Effort of This Great IS'ew York. Democrat. The following 13 a stenographic report of Mr. Cockran's speech: . "Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen. Fellow-citizens of Indiana and the United States. (Applause.) "The sneech of vour chairman, remarka ble alike for its brevity and its force, re vealed in a very few words the distinguishing characteristics 01 mis campaign. nc declares that this meeting is called under tiie auspices of a nonpartisan sound-money association (applause), and everywhere that I 2ave traveled throughout the United Ftates i have found associations banded together for the advancement of sound money and sound morals, irrspecetlve of former nurtv distinctions. (Applause.) the people of the United States clpnne may be useful to them essential to constitutional govern tho party tie must be of less force than the patriotic tie of this country. (Applause.) 'I will follow my party wherever it will lead me in the service of my country. (Applause.) I will not fallow it one foot when it raises its hand against the integrity of our institutions or the splendor of our prospects. (Applause.) "Now, my friends, it is an extraordinary crisis in the history of the American Republic. When men who have never before scratched a party nominee iind themselves compelled by their conscience to oppose the f lection of the candidate that bears their party's name, some weighty reasons must govern their" action. I observed in a newspa per published in this city a brief announcement of the fact that I was to address, the people of Indianapolis, and with nome reference to the method by which this meeting was to be brought together. The newspaper referred to me as a man who was trying to force his way into the 'United States Senate. My friends, if personal ambition governed any man who raised his hand against his party that man would be infamous. (Applause.) No man can go outside of party lines to light in defense of his country by peaceable and constitutional methods and then allow his motives to become the object of suspicion by necfpting office or accepting reward of any kind or character for his services. (Great iipplause.) Those of us who have been Democrats in the past, those of us who are better Democrats now than the men wno ure supporting Mr. Bryan, must share the exclusion from parties which do not protect the American people we cannot afford to profit by the overthrow to which we will contribute. But we may cherish the hope that that party, justified and purified by the deteat which awaits it, win return once more to the defense of those constitutional principles, in battling for which it won all Its glory, achieved all its success, and acquired all the titie that it has possessed to 1he respect of the American people. (Applause.) - "Why have we separated from our party? Why are men like myself to-day appealing to Democrats everywhere to vote gainst the Democratic nominee? Because we believe the question involved in this canvass goes far beyond the domain of party politics. We believe it affects the Integrity of our'government, the future of the Republic, the prospects of our citizens; and, holding that belief, we would be faithless to our consciences and faithless to our country if we hesitated for a moment to proclaim our opposition to the p-rtv nominee whose candidacy threatens the security of this Republic. (Applause.) MR. COCKRAN'S RETORT. (Entrance of drum corps and club. Voice: "What kind of speech did Cockran make In 189:1?") "The same kind of a speech he is making to-night a Democratic speech," replied the speaker. "My frienOs, this interruption is an indication of the character of this canvass. "Marching behind American flags the men have come here ?o participate in the meeting called for the defense of their interests. (Applause.) I observe the banner bears the motto, 'Employes of the wholesale Distr cts. And in this contest the interest of every employe is attacked bv the reckless notions which the Populist3 profess. (Applause.) This is a battle of Populism against prosperity. (Applause.) This is a battle of Populism against Industry. (Cries of 'That's right!); a battle of Populism against common sense. (Great iipplause.) I want to pay this tribute to the Popullstlc opponent: I do not question his honesty, but I do question his sense, daughter and applause.) I have no doubt ho means in some way or other to benfit the whole human race; but if you give him a chance he will plunge everybody into confusion and bring disaster to the country. I have known many a man in a railroad train who thought ho could run an engine better than the engineer. I have known many a man who thought if he could govern the world he would improve largely unon the plan devised by the Almighty. But none of us believe in intrusting the passenger or the disinterested spectator of the universe with larger control than he enJoys at present. (Apylause.) "This, I have said, is essentially the contest of the employe, because the Populist does not disguise his purpose to increase the cost of living to everybody in this country. This is the purpose which he avows. That is the end and ob'ect of his agitation. Before we examine closely jut what the Populist proposes to do, let me us a preliminary, say to you, my friends,' that I have no doubt that you and I are largely in the same condition of mystification as to the Populists' nurpose. I never yet could find out what a Populist meant. 1 don't know to-day. after reading 211 i?peeches or, I should say. 246 tepel'.tions of the same speech from Mr. Brvan (applause), just what he means to do for the average laborer and producer in this country, and I believe, after read 24 more I will be in the same condition of darkness and mystification. Jf you read Populist rhetoric or listen to Populist speeches you arc very apt to find your own intelligence discredited. In your own judgment. I ocause you cannot always grasp their meaning. BRYAN'S SAME OLD SPEECH. "I do not know where Mr. Bryan Is talking now, but I know perfectly well what he is saying. (Laughter arid applause.) What is more than that, without laying claim to any powers of prophecy, I will tell you what he will say here next Tuesday night I will have to say It more briefly than he. but won't use any more words than neces wary to convey all the meaning which he conveys. You will hear about the crime of 1S73, about a battle of the standards, about an appreciating and depreciating dollar about a dollar too good for people to get . iioia oi, hdoui a aonar mat ought to b cheapened in order to promote orosiwritv Now the crime of 1&73 Is the leading theory of the Populists' stock In trade; and if a crime was committed in 1S73, although It . mi?nt iairiy ne considered barred by the statute of limitation, still I am ready to engage now in pursuit of the criminal, and If we get hold of him I want to punish him according to law; and if there be no law I am ready to lynch him. (Laughter ami nppiaune.j "But you will observe before we engage In any such violent proceedines as th:it it would be well for us to find out if a crime jmM m en committed, iz i sav- a man deprived of a silver watch and given a gold watch 1 would not sympathize 'a bit with him. But if I saw a man who was deprived of his watch, whether gold or silver I ...would see a person who was injured and wuose wrong should be corrected, either bv the return of the watch or the punishment of the criminal or both if it were feasible to accomplish the two results. "Here in the city of Indianapolis you must remember, some of you, the condition of your city twenty-three years ago. What does the Populist want to do with this city? Does he want to put it back in me conumon u was in before 1873? In liT.2 It had a. population of 70,000 souls; In 1S06 it had 1,000. It had an assessed valuation In 1S7I of $27,500,000, and in its assessed valuation was $105,627,800. (Applause.) T find in 1871 the tax rate was $1.73: in 18r6 it. was $1.67. In 1871 you had a street-car service that if it were restored to you today you would rise up and lynch the officers of the corporation that would offer it (laughter and applause.) You had street cars drawn by a few sicklv mules whose rate of progress was very closely allied to the average idea of repose. (Laughter) The workingman goin to the scene of his dally labor was compelled to add to' the period of his employment a large period of each day between his home and the place where he labored. COMPLIMENTS THE CITY. "Here iv this city, with its tax rate of $1.67, as against a tax rate of $1.75, you have the finest streets that can be found In the world. (Applause.) I rode over them to-night, and neither Paris, London, New Tork or Washington can show better pavements than the city of Indianapolis. In 1871, with a tax rate of $1.75, if you traveled in any average vehicle over four blocks of this city, It would be sufficient to make you regrret that In that periol accident inurance companies had not 5een developed.

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almost trebled, a lower tax rate and vastly greater conveniences in every -way and walk of life, better street, better streetcar service, better lights, better schoolhouses, better churches, better dwellings; ana wnat more do you want? (Applause.) "Is ft any exaggeration to say that-ibis whole question is a contest between Pop ulism and common sense? Can anybody pretend there ha been a justification for the pretense that the American people nave oeen rotted and plundered for the last iwenty-nve years and the monetary system has been so changed this country has been onnressd bcvnnd nnvfhinsr re corded in the history of civilized commu- . nines; ii ine nnanciai system of this i country ror twenty-five years has been controlled by foreign syndicates, if it has been - j f foreign tisnrri Le whom tosoiuteiy withm the domination of a set ign usurers mere rapacious than whom the Savior of mankind scourged from the temple at Jerusalem, then this government, instead of being the fruit of human opportunity, is a monument vi nurnan aepravity and human foliv; instead of being a government which should be preserved because it Is the best and surest bulwark of public rie-hts. it is a government which ought to be destroyed because It has proved itself to be an enine Democrat. fAnnlansl Tho Pf,nniit tells us that this government of ours, a government of universal suffrage, a government controlled by the votes of the American people, has been perverted from if. PurPse of protection and justice for which it was founded and used as a means of robbing the Amerieanpeopie to enrich the money changers of Lombard street and the syndicates of European capitalists. We snould still cherish Democratic principles. We who believe that faith in the virtue and capacity of the elector is the cardinal principle of Democracy reject and repel this charge of the Populist as a libel upon the whole history of this country and upon the splendor of our Institutions, upon the virtue of our citizens, upon the majesty of our Republic and the glory of our flag. (Applause. ) a "We are told that the remonetization of silver is to bring about great results to the American people some way or other- I hnve not yet been able to discover how. But Mr I.ryan declares he believes it, and on this Nebraskan belief he asks you to build your suffrages as if you had found a rock. (Applause.) Just think of it. This which was saved by Lincoln (applause) is to perish of it3 own corruption unless a loquacious young man from Nebraska is allowed to run it. (Applause.) For you must bear in mind, my friends, that there im lPuiHHci ior ine condition which he ls. the condition of the American pecple to-day. Other countries hpve been conquered; pernicious systems of legislation have been fastened upon them: but no country, however trampled under the heel of an invader, was ever yet without the hope that in the providence of God sooner or later her deliverance would come, and with that emancipation look for the restoration of prosperity and happiness. . must J'Jm't the fact that the Popu lists have captured the Democratic organizations and forced a Populist candidate and a Populist platform upon a Demo-v.-i..v. ivuriuiuii;,Hna in oraer to emanclpate the country from the peril involved in its success, we are .forced to labor for nrniuu oi a candidate whom, under other circumstances, we would have opposed strenuously and vigorously. (AnJil ? M7 c must examine me conditions that have brought abowt this result. It Won t do to laueh at thm Tt ii'rv't to dismiss them by a mere" statement of their absurdity. So we may endeavor to w jusi wnai me grievances of the Populists are; then what remedies they propose for their injuries. FARMERS NOT POPULISTS. "In the first place I would like to know what a Populist is. (Laughter.) He is supposed to be originally a farmer, but so far as I have been able to discover yet there Is not a farmer who works and toils and manages a plow who Is a Populist. (Applause.) All the Populists I have ever known were lawyers who cultivated their neighbors' quarrels (laughter); journalists who recorded them; politicians who sought to profit by fomenting thorn. A genuine Populist must necessarily be a. great deal of leisure, something that an honest farmer never has. (Applause.) These leisurely agriculturists, these gentlemen with abundant time to cultivate the quarrels of their neighbors, are traveling around the United States announcing they are going to benefit the condition of a grea.t portion of the people. I have always asked them: 'Who do you intend to benefit? Originally they started out with the promise that they were going to benefit everybody; they were all tn iw mnrio i-ih and I don't believe there was a man in the united btates who would have hesitated to be, enriched If he thought the Ponntii meant it. But when any person comes to you with a proposition to enrich you. to offer, for instance, a nice glittering gold brick, it is just as well you should ask him how he came by it. (Laughter.) No man win pretend he can make gold bricks of any substantial value. If. therefore anybody proposes to offer you something, the question which prudence suggests you should ask him. is how he came bv it and where does It come from. What then can Mr. Bryan offer to the American people? What can the Populists offer to the people of the United States that they have not got at present? I do not believe anybody will pretend Mr. Brvan enloys any power by which he can increase the wages in this country: not by any act of legislation or administration bv the combined efforts of a Populist President and Populist Congress, if two such should be elected at the ballot box, could they make two tables out of one, or with the pieces which would constitute one chair make another j one. No power on earth can create any thing except by human labor. (Applause.) If. therefore, any man promises to give another something, he must take that someiiting from somebody else. "If Mr. Bryan intends to enrich any section of this community he must rob somebody else to do it. Now. who does he mean to despoil in order to enrich somebody else? We will assume that he proposes to enrich somebody; that he is honest enough to mean what he gives he will honestly give If a man can honestly give that which he dishonestly takes. Let us see who Mr. Bryan is going to despoil in order to enrich his favorite, that is if the American farmer is his favorite and he is to be benefited. I have told you. and I repeat here. If he could show me how he would increase the wages of the laborer, I would be the most active, though I can't say I would be the most loquacious. Populist in the United States. (Laughter.) I heve l"ft the question for him to answer! anH T state my friends, that if the question could be answered, I would not be Bryan for an hour, but I would be enthusiastically laboring for his election. I have asked him to show me where he can increase the wages of working men by this scheme which he advocates. Show me that and all the rest is simple. I don't say that from any special love for the man who works with his hands, for I am ju!t as fond of the man who works with his headbut when the man who works with his hands is prosperous, everybody else of necessity must be prosperous also. (Applause.) v 1 THE WAGE QUESTION. "When wages are high production must be abundant; when production is abundant every man enjoys prosperity, and I, together with all my fellow-citizens, participate in those good times which the laborer produces when he is actively erapioyea ana his compensation is ample. (Applause.) I don't profess anv nhiianthropy here, because the question, of philapthropy does not enter into the question of wages; there Is no room for plulanthropy in the question of wages. Nobody except a Populist believes you can settle the wage 'question upon abstract notions of generosity and philanthropy. No man pays his laborers $2 a day because he likes them. If another man offered to perform the same labor for J1.75, he would be glad to employ him. The question of wages turns upon the capacity of te laborer to produce commodities. When his product is large his compensation is correspondingly large: when Ws product Is small his compensation is eorrespondiniv low. When you put to - Mr. Bryan The question, "How are you going to raise the rate of wages? he has left the question unanswered, and he will leave it unanswered here. (Applause.) "At Madison Square, when he delivered his speech of acceptance, he said what he repeated the other night substantially in Hest Virginia, that when a dollar purchases too much the laborer finds it difflcult to get hold of it, and that if a cheaper dollar be put in circulation the laborer will have a chance to get nold of a dollar and a better chance for re-employment after he was discharged. My friends, there is nothing original in that. Translated from Bryanese into Kwgllsh It means this,: That If the laborer will accept less wages he will get more work. Well that is a nretty old statement. I never yet knew an'emp'oyer who sought to reduce the wages of his employes who did not say precisely that same thing. How little that is original do you find In Mr. Bryan's panacea for the wellbeing of the community. "After tho panic of 1S73 In New York ritxr men were employed upon the wharves at P0 cents a day, and there were more men for each job than when the was a day; and when wages are $2 a day for unskilled labor every man can find a job to hla hand. They would not be 12 a dav if it

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was hard to find work- (Applause.) Wages are regulated by labor. No legislation can make men active. Legislation may confiscate the product of main's toil, and by confiscating it discourage men from industry, but legislation can create nothing. A government can produce nothing of its own: it therefore has nothing to bestow. When Mr. Bryan advances the programme of benefiting some section of the community he must begin to plunder some other section. Briefly, he proposes to remonetize silver, to make 53 cents' worth of silver a dollar, and as you make money plenty, to use his own words, then you will increase the price of commodities. But you can't increase the price of wheat, or corn, or hogs by any change in that system without those who had clothes and shoes to sell taking advantage of it also. "The laborer cannot change every day the rate at which he sells his capital, or that which he has to sell. He cannot wait every morning to adjust the price of his laborer the time he would take in the discussion with his employer would be deducted from his day's work. (Applause.) He is seeking to reduce the rate of wages; he is seeking to oppose the men upon whom depends the prosperity of the country. (Applause.) INTERESTS ARE UNITED. "I noticed in the speech which he delivered yesterday, 'I know so many people who have no dollars at all who would be glad to get some worth 53 cents." This the contribution of a presidential candidate. (Laughter and applause.) Every man with a dollar in his pocket is interested in the purchasing power of that dollar. (Applause.) Every man who has saved some part of each dollar which he has earned is deeply interested in maintaining the value of his economy. You -can't have agricultural prosperity without having general prosperity. If I were to go back to New York to-night and were anxious to obtain the warmest welcome ever extended to a person who had gone on a Western trip I would tell them that the finest crop ever grown on the American continent was about to be harvested. That news would quicken confidence everywhere; it would start the wheels of business almost in a moment. There is no interest which New York can have that Indiana does not share. (Applause.) "The expression has been used somewhere that the farmer is to sow in silver and reap in gold. (Laughter.) He is to have a

aonar ot Jil'.i grains in circulation for the payment of his domestic debts, but he will S2ll his crop at the European price for gold, which Is worth 700-4 grains of silver. Now translate that from Bryanese into English. What does It mean? It simply means an invitation to the farmer to grow rich by using false measures. There is nothing original about that. Give your laborer one kind of dollar and a dollar nearly twice as good for your own product. "The farmer who has been as patriotic in peace as he has been brave in war, whose heart has always been loyal to the call of country and of God is he to be cheated, is he to be caioled and seduced hv an appeal to cupidity and greed that would find ready lodgement in the mind of a thief, but would be stanmod under foot by honest men? (Great applause.) The man who makes that suggestion to the American farmer misunderstands the his tory of this country. When Mr. Brvan tells you as he did the citizens of West Virginia, and as he will tell vou next Tues day night he will if he makes his whole speech that the silver dollar in 1S73 was worth $1.03, why he refutes all that he says about the contraction of the currency from the demonetization of silver. "No gold-using 'country can absolutely discard silver, because in the smaller transactions of life in which money is most likely to figure, gold cannot be subdivided so as to meet them all, and therefore silver is an absolute necessity. All gold-using countries are more or less bimetallic countries; but no silver-using country in the history of civilization has ever yet used any gold and never will. (Applause.) "This defeat of Populism and Popocratic socialism must be final, crushing and decisive. (Applause.) To-night I stand before you declaring that in the presence of the peril which now overhangs the country, I cannot reconcile my conscience to even half hearted measures of opposition; I cannot justify myself in the sight of God unless I vote for William McKinley." (Cheers and applause.) TRIED TO. START A RIOT. Several PopocnUs Attempt to Disturb tlie Meeting;. After the Bourke Cockran meeting at Tomlinson Hall last night for a few moments it looked as though a riot might be started. Several indiscreet Popocrats began shouting for Bryan before half of the crowd had left the hall. Instantlv thev were surrounded by an excited throng of men who were determined to drown the Bryan cheers. The Bryanites grew angry and frantically waved their arms, defying nifii who were snouting. fut tnem out! The tumult continued down into the street and a half dozen police officers found it impossible to disperse the shouting crowd which still surrounded the silverites. But several motor cars dashed into the crowd and accomplished what the police could not. and in the wild scramble the excited men made to escape being run down, the silverites slunk away. Goes to Clifcuso To-Day. Bourke Cockran's address here last night was one of a series that he is giving in different parts of the country under the direction of the Democratic Sound-monev I-easrue of New York. From here Mr. Cockran will go to Chicago to-day. XOONDAY MEETING. First One Held in SoniHl-MoneT Leagac Headquarters. The first of the series of. noon soundmoney meetings, to be neld in the rooms of the Citizens' Sound-money League at IS and 20 North Meridian street every week day this month, was held yesterday. R. O. Hawkins, Jesse Overstreet and E. B. Martindale were the speakers. The room was well filled and proved that the business people of the city are working hard for the cause of honest money. Most of those present were men .from stores and offices nearby. A quartet furnished music. I. S. Gordon presided and made a few remarks before introducing the first speaker R. O. Hawkins. Mr. Hawkins held the floor for about twenty-live minutes. He said he would agree with Bryan and his followers that this country is now in the grasp of plutocrats, but he said those plutocrats are the owners of the silver mines, who have blocked legislation for several years past. He recalled how, in the United States Senate for years, there has not been an important bill passed by the House that did not have a silver rider tacked on in the Senate by the tools and representatives of the silver interests. He showed that no other class of people have ever taken this means of forcing legislation for their own benefit. He laid particular stress upon the , action of the silver Senators last winter in refusing to allow a bill to be passed -for the relief of the treasury unless it also provided for free coinage of silver. The Tieput-Iican House had passed a revenue bill and the silver Senators looked upon it and said it was all right, but that the treasury could not have the revenue it would raise unless the treasury would also receive their silver and give them coined money for it at the ratio of 16 to 1. Mr. Overstreet discussed the money aues tion. He said the thing the people really want is a dollar that is above suspicion ana win ue worm a aonar any place m the world. BRIDGEPORT'S BIG RALLY. Three Thousand People Hear Repre sentative Overstreet Speak. The little town of Bridgeport, nine miles west of here, on the Vandalia road, had mere visitors yesterday than it will have again for many days. Although there are not more than 500 or 600 residents of the town. It accommodated over three thousand strangers yesterday to attend a big Republican rally. In the afternoon there was a pole raising and addresses by Martin Hugg and D. B. Shideler. In the evening Representative Jesse Overstreet addressed a crowd of about three thousand at an open air meeting. . Mr. Overstreet talked entirely on the money question, and his address was received 'with a great deal of applause. The people who were in the little town came from the farms for miles around and from the neighboring towns. Haughviile sent K0, and there were delegations from Plainfield. West -Newton, Southport, West Indianapolis, Avon and Brownsburg. The Marion Glee Club went out in a brake and furnished some good music. . There was also .a glee club from Bridgeport which received a good deal of applause. The meeting was the most enthusiastic ever held in Bridgeport, and those who were present say tjiat if all farming communities turn xut such crowds and if the farmers take as much Interest in the questions of the hour as was manifested there, there need be no fear for the result of the election In this State. . . William Reagan was chairman of the meeting. The committeeman who had it in charge is Albert Hoffman. He very high praise from Republicans who attended the meeting for hla rood vnrir in managing it and bringing; out such a crowd.

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You know that better now than you did four years ago, and, knowing that, you will know how to vote on the 3d day of November. You will vote, I imagine, for the return of that policy that will start up the fires in every furnace of the country, put every man to work and make products for you to haul, and when there are products for you to haul you are on the pay roll at good wages. I thank you, my fellow-citizens, and bid you good afternoon." TO WOOSTER STUDENTS. An Appeal to Intelligence and Patriotism, Not to Prejudice. To the Franklin and Venango county, Pennsylvania, and the McKinley Soundmoney and Protection Club, composed of the students of Wooster . (O.) University, the Republican nominee said: "My Fellow-citizens I have already spoken a great many times to-day, and to many thousands of people. The principles of the Republican party are so national in their character, so universal In their application, that they can be presented to any audience anywhere and to any consolidation of audiences that may come to the city of Canton. I can with propriety present to my fellow-citizens of Venango county, the oil producers and the drillers. the farmers and the manufacturers and the employers, the same doctrines and arguments that I can with equal propriety present to the students of the University . . - . oi w uusit-r. we are an standing upon tne same platform, the platform of public faith, o law and order, of honest compliance with every punae or private contract: an hones dollar and the Nation's honor. We are all carrying the same flag this year, and it is good enough for any of us, the glorious old nag tnat we loiiowed in time of war and that was never triumphed -ever by any enemy in tne wonn. it represents our Deliefs, our acts and "our purposes, for we have no purpose now, as your spokesman trom Venango so weir said, but the public good, the common good of all. Whatever will secure that, whatever will promote the prosperity of the people, whatever will dig nity anu elevate American manhood and American womanhood is embraced in the principles of the Republican party. This year we are fighting Just as distinctly for our country's honor as we have ever fought for it in the past, and we are fisht ing to restore a protective policy under which we had become the mightiest manufacturing, agricultural and minine: nation of the world. We are fighting for a policy mat elevates American cmzensnip and gives to the laborer the school and the genius of the American worklngmen. hisrh er rewards than he can get in any other government of the world. We are righting to restore mat poncy, ana we are ngnting, unitedly fighting, to keep the currency of tnis government as souna as the govern ment itself and as untarnished as the starry banner of the free. (Tremendous cheering.) we propose that this Nation shall not begin now, after 120 years of glorious history, to. repudiate Its debts, either public or private. "I am glad to meet you all. One glorious thing about Republican principles Is that they address themselves to the educated men of the country as well as to the uneducated, and we submit them with confidence to the learned of every profession. We appeal not to passion, not to prejudice, not to ignorance, but to intelligence and patriotism. Now. my fellow-citizens, havine saia ims imicii, tor l near anotner delegation coming, I must thank you all and say gooa-Dye. i remenaous cheering.) TO TIX-PLATE WORKERS. Their Industry Has Come to Stay, MnJ McKinley Says. When tha employes of the Star Tin-plate Company and of the Mcintosh-Hemphill Manufacturing Company had assembled on the lawn Mr. McKinley said: "My Fellow-citizens It is an Inspiration to look into your earnest faces to-day and to feel that the great Republican cause has the sympathy of your hearts and will have your active and unremitting support until the polls close on the 3d day of November, 1 am glad to welcome to my home the employes of the Mcintosh-Hemphill Manufac turing Company and of the Star Tin-plate Company, of the city of Pittsburg. I have met many, many thousands of people arouna tnis porcn in toe last three months, but I assure you that none have been more welcome or greeted with warmer cordiality mail x greet you. "I have been pleased to note that the men employed In the tin-plate Industries of the United States understand, and under stand it from a sad experience, that their industry ana Its success and continued prosperity depend upon a wise, judicious, American protective policy. Whatever reduction you may have had in your wages, whatever reduction in the days of empioyrmnt you may have had, you can distinctly trace the cause. You know when it occurred. You know how it occurred, and you know what produced it. Down to the close of 1S92 enough men could not be found to work in the tin-plate factories then In operation and that were being built for operation. How is it now? I ask you, workingmen of the Star Tinplate Company, is thai the condition of your trade to-day? (Cries 'no, we want those good times back again.') We have started that industry, and I say to you and to everybody else that it has come to stay. We mean to manufacture tin plate for the whole of the American consumption, and Pennsylvania alone has capacity at this very moment if -all its factories were at work on full time, to produce one third of all the tin plate that is corsumed in the United States. Now. my i'cllow-cltizens, what we want to do is to put all that machinery to work not only in the State of Pennsylvania, but in every other State of the American union, for we know that when you put machinery to workvyou put men to work, and when you put men to work you give them wages which bring comfort, hope and cheer to their families. "And we know too that when we put the men of this country to work at American wages -we are furnishing to the farmers of the United States the best and most profitable market they ever had. Now, we not only have this tin plate industry in the United States to stay, but we have sood money In th& United States, and we

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We do not propose to permit any party to force us to adopt the Mexican and Chinese system of finance. We have always had the best money in the world, and we propose to keep it the best. It will be your privilege, my fellow-citizens, on the 3d day of November, each one of you equal to the other, to deposit your ballots which shall express your judgment upon the question of a protective policy and sound monev. How will you cast those ballots? (Cries "of 'Cast them for McKinley and protection!') More than that, your ballots will express your respect for law and order, for peace and domestic tranquility, for the honor of the government of the United States, and for public and private honesty. I thank you all and bid you good afternoon." TO FARMERS AND OTHERS. , Another Good Speech to a. Delegation of Pennsylvanians. Major McKinley made one of his best speeches to the delegation from Washing ton, Jefferson and Greene counties, Penn sylvania, saying: "My Fellow-citizens The presence of this large body of people from a neighboring State is a manifestation of their confidence in the Republican principles, for which I make due and grateful acknowledgement. No one can recall your county without remembering that in it is located the college of Washington and Jefferson, famous in the annals of our educational institutions, which has sent from its walls some of our most distinguished and illustri ous citizens. No one can speak the name of your county without remembering that it was the birthplace of that matchless statesman and illustrius citizen James G. Blaine. Although he never reached the presidency or tne united states ne occupied tor twenty years, and will ever continue to occupy, a high place in the hearts and affection of the American people. "I am glad to meet at my home representatives of every part of your population, farmers, wool growers at least you once were manufacturers and employes of the Washington Steel and Tin-plate Company employes of the Anderson and Eclipse mines all your population, are thrice welcome at my door step. Washington county, like every other county witliin the jurisdiction of the United States, knows from sad experience that we have been under a Democratic administration for the last three years and a half, and Washington county, like every other county of the country, is anxious to return to that policy which for more than thirty years prevailed in the United States, and under which all our people enjoyed unprecedented prosperity, and under which our Nation made its greatest strides in progress and development. (A voice, 'What's the matter with Greene county?') And Greene county is also thrice welcome. All of Pennsylvania is welcome. Pennsylvania seems to be of one mind. (Cries of 'We'll give you 300,000, Major!' "You know that the country which has the fewest workshops has the least internal commerce, the poorest farms and the least prosperous farmers. We are favored In the United States with a great diversity or soil and climate. The statistics of the Department of Agriculture show that the value of our farm products alone make us the greatest farming and agricultural nation of the world. 'An extensive domestic market for the surplus products of the soil.' said Hamilton in 1790, 'is of the first consequence, and never was of greater moment than now.' James G. Blaine declared one hundred years later: 'The farmer knows that the larger the home market the better his prices, and that when the home markets are poor his prices fall.' "Washington county farmers know quite well, as the farmers in any other part of our country, how much of their prosperity depends upon the workshops and the mines being steadily and constantly employed. Every new factory that is started in Washington county gives the farmer a new consumer and helps to give him better prices for the products of his soil, and whenever the mines, the Anderson and -the Eclipse and all other mines, are running full time at good wi'ges the market of the farmer of Washington county is increased. "The wisdom of the statesmanship of Ha m ilton and Blaine was unheeded in 1SS2. They have not only deprived our agriculturists or tne protection they had against the importation of foreign wool, live stock and farm products, not only taken from the farmers the benefits of reciprocity and new outlets for their surplus products, but they now seriously propose to pay tnem for the :essenei quantity they can sell at iessenprf prices in the home market in dollars of de preciated value and cheat you in quality under their financial policy, as free tmrip has cheated you in quantity. "General Grant, in his annual message to Congress in 1870. said: 'If it means a fail ure to provide necessary means to defray all the expenses of the government, and therefore repudiation of the public debt and pensions, then I am still more opposed to such kind of revenue reform.' As freo sli ver will undoubtedly add to the agricult ural, manuiacturing and commercial distress now so severe in all parts of the country, wo are more than ever ortosed to it and to -accepting the other delusion of iaise nnance. 'lhe farmers of the Unitvi States are not to be misled. The workingmen of the United States are not to be misled. When the farmer sells his wnr.1 and gives full pounds he is entitled to have in return iun collars. When the workingman gives his muscle and his skill to hl3 employer, giving to that employer an honest day's work, he is entitled to hA nmM in honest dollars that are unquestioned ev erywnere. vvnen tne miner puts his coal on the dump (if that is what VOU nail itt his ton of coal, a good honest ton. he is en titled to be paid m good, honest dollars. xne rarmers. tney say, are always wron" They said they were wrone in l.s?2 nn question of protection, but it was the cities that were wrong. It was not the country at alL Our farmers are intelligent and not dishonest. They have been honorable in all their transactions. They are not mipatriotic, but devoted, self-sacrificing and upright citizens, and they will vote for their own products. Thev are not tn ceived by false teachings or false teachers but this year, as ir every crisis of our country's history, they will , be found on the side of American honor and put behind them every temptation and manfully sustain th right as God gives them to- see the right. They are true sons of the noble men who founded the Honnhiic ti,... will resist every attempt to rouse class or sectional prejudice or spirit. "Patrick Henrv aim n m this campaign more than a century ago when lie said: 'The distinctions between

AVIN Ail-Wool Scarlet, $5 kind: $3.98 Cotton Blankets, full size, per pair 4-4 Brown Sheeting Sciluslin, 4-4 wide 7c 2-Iuslin, very fine 35c 5c 5c Best Prints.... Shoe Sale Ladies' 40c Rubbers 22c $1.25 Ladies' strap Slippers, at. 89c $1.50 Ladies' dongola, patent leather tip Shoes at 98c Ladies' dongola, button or lace, Shoes, needle and new opeia toe $1.48 Ladies' $2.50 to $3.25 Shoes in this sale $1.98 Have you seen our line of $2.98 hand-made welt, McKay-sewed, or hand-turns, and of the new styles and all widths ? Agents for the famous "Little Giant" School Shoes. Virginians, Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers are no more. I am not a Virginian, but am an American.' And so now all the citizens of the States, black and white, rich and poor, proud as they may be of their own Commonwealth, are still prouder of this grand American Union of Indestructible States. I thank you for this call and bid you good afternoon." SPEECH TO A MULTITUDE. Brief Addresa to Delegation Representing; Four States. To consolidated delegations representing pilgrims from Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio Mr. McKinley said: "My Fellow-citizens I must despair of being able to make myself heard to this great assemblage of my countrymen. In this vast audience there are representatives from the States of Indiana, Pennsylvania and Illinois and from our own State of Ohio. You come from different States, but with a single purpose, and that is to testify your devotion to the principles of the nut as partisans, ior tnis j-ear partisanship counts for little. Patriotism ls uppermost in every man s neart and every home beneath the flag. You come from different States, but you carry the same flag in. your hands (voices 'That's the stuff : wa c.nrrv the glorious old stars and stripes!') and you carry the same sacred principles in your hearts. I am glad to meet and greet every one of you here at my home to-day. I wish I might give every one of you a warm handclasp. You have my high regard and gratitude for the interest you are showing in the triumph of national honor, patriotism and protection. "Parties do not make issues Issues make parties. Men who think alike act together this vast crowd think alike and propose to act together on the 3d day of November. Kvery heart here is Inspired by the same thought; every soul here ls moved by the same consideration, and that Is the wellbeing and prosperity of the glorious American Union. We love our institutions because they are the freest and best in the world. There Is no other country beneath the sun like ours. And it never will be anybody else's so long as the American people have patriotism in their hearts. We have not only the best country in the world, but we are the best, and we did have three or four years ago the best manufacturing establishments in the world, and we did have the best tin-plate mills and the best railroads in the world. We have also more miles of railroad than any government in the world. And we furnish the nations of the world, many of them, with the oil which comes principally from the fields of Pennsylvania. We furnish the world with tools that come from these several States. We -have not only the best manufactories and the best railroads, and the most of them. b;it we have the best money in the world. We have more gold in the United States than any other government, except France and Germany. We have more silver than any government, except India and China. Every dollar we have gold, silver paper Is worth 100 cents wherever trade goes and in every marr. and market place of the world. "Now, what we want to do is to get back TV V) M t xvo lrt in 1fiQ A a r., 1 1 ji 'to that? (Cries of 'We are!) And nobody ""lira iu ue pausnca wun wnat was done in 1892. Those who helped to do it and those who were against it are alike dissatisfied. hat. we want is tn rptum u normal prosperity of the United States We want to restore confidence, and we want to set the wheels of industry in motion We want our .trains to be doubled and to be v.v.nycii in me iiuiuoer oi tneir emnlove n.t, cjmciiuiu iianio oi our in!triialummerce- Now- when w have done that, then we want to see to it that the money of this country shall be preserved untarnished and the honor of this governUJlsufiiK' ,Then' more than that, we w-ant the whole world to know that 1,113 ls a- government of law and a government by law, and that-beneath that gove. anient and around that government stand seventy millions of free people who love the laws thev helnorl mnk. ,uve . "I thank you for this magnificent demonstration. I am elad to know that ,r,. enlisted in. the cause, and I can only say to you, in conclusion. writ on vnnr Koti next November what you think is best for you, for your families, for your Presides for your wife and for your boys ana girls '' (Long and enthusiastic cheering.) SPEECH TO WHEELMEN. Address That Will Interest All Riders of Bicyeles. Mr. McKinley addressed the combined delegations of wheelmen as follows: "Mr. Chairman and my Fellow-citizens ou are very welcome to my home. You are the last of the delegations of this week but by no means the least. I am glad.' thrice glad, to have the wheelmen, representing more than a dozen States of the American Union, call to give me not only the assurance of their individual support but of the support of the many thousands" whom they represent. I am pleased with the assuring message given to me by vour eloquent spokesman. You not only Vide well, but you speak well. I can only "ay in return for these generous and eloquent mS mIT3 W i thank yu most sincerely Poetical clubs on wheels are novel in Political contests, and are truly Americaiu This presence marks a new era In caS fhiS?Jr0rk' a.nd 1 C0nsratulate you upn the inauguration of this mightv force in American politics. The bicycle is entire y a development of the nineteenth century and in no age in the history of the wo3d would its benefits and utUity have been J quickly and generally acknowledged l the country of inventions. I doubt If anv vehicle or means of locomotion was ever so favorably received. Indeed its croJfh In public favor and general use if ?.Wnh less than marvelous. We In remember "is boys, how we . wondered if it wo ?iT' possible that such raaid locomHi!..1?? ever be invpntoH . .:;"r"r' "uu'i i r. , uu:a tri,nsnort a hi . smgie night from one And yet Yankee Ingenuity and Ameriotn invention has made it possible &?eica." VL., H I h I H m . . . cross almost a half dozen state, in Ua ,to gle nicht. Rsnirt trn-r i- .LaAe? ,n a sinIU a sinI form ition And quent said. gle night. Rapid transit in thu ni Bln" depends largely upoSa. sinjlo conation good roads-and I believe in l?., helD but recall. asttoSon," iventucKian, your spokesman hX .1 that Henry Clay is thestlt?sm n h.a3 laldth rnimtrv ."J?8"11 tO Whom tne country is most largely inrtehtS the great National . road-tL hltM f.,r probability, that was T ever built r!l roads are progressing wfth .Ji.,tr...?0o.dvaneement in every part of our wonderful

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country. It is a matter of congratulation that most of the States, influenced alrno.-t - entirely by your efforts, have pressed thu subject home upon the people with grati- ; fying results. "An Italian once called the bicycle 'a poem in metal,' but Its use is long since out of the realm of romance and song, and belongs to one of the greatest and most wonderful inventions of the time; to tlm rank of steamboat, railroad, telegraph and telephone. The Americans are eminently 4' a practical people, and were quick to seo i both the convenience and utility of thi f beautiful machine, so simple and perfect in every part and so well designed as a whole, i that prejudice could not avail against it, J nor pride or prudishnsa or fear prevent its widest use by men, women and children everywhere Such a scene as I "x witnessed before me to-day would not bo I possible in any other country of the world, f It is a spectacle long to be remembered, and it Is at once an inspiration and educa- J tion. Bicycle riding is useful not only for health and recreation, but in business and s in almost every department of human ex- ' ertion. The bicycle delivers our mails; it carries messages with swiftness and reliability; it is in use for courier service in the army, police and health departments I of our cities, and It ls employed in manv other forms of delivery work, and with th) - application of power Its usefulness will practicai.y have no limit. - "No one should attempt the statistics of I the bicycle industry. In 1870 there was not I a bicycle manufactory In the world. In i 1880 there were but three In America, and -l those only experimenting in the most vasrtm C and indifferent manner. In 1X93, fifteen ; years later, there were three hundred hi- - cycle factories, with a product of fiOO.OoO ma-

chines ata cost of J37.o00,0-ni. while the owput predicted for this year, 1MW5, is SQO.ooo. ;i 'To describe the modern bicycle," says a recent writer, 'in to try to follow a bullet in" -Its flight.' This nobody would undertake to do. The cyclist, I believe, has beaten : the best time ever made by a horpe, and has almost surpassed in ppced the fastest engines In the-world. j "The 'speed of the wheelmen would b extremely useful for a political party if i mere distance wero the test of its running 5 qualities. Tho size of a political partv, however, Is in the strength of its cause. Its 4 running qualities rest upon its principles, ; and how far thoso principles shall com- ; mand the conscience, the confidence and the intelligence of the American people. Those principles were never stronger, and never so directly appealed to the interest of the American voter as now; and never i within your knowledge or mine, except In tho days of the war. t has the Republican cause so ah- 4 sorbed public thought and commanded ' earnest effort on the part of the people than this year. 8fl6. Never were there so many hands willing to help that can.'w. Never were there so many willing hearts loving that cause as now never in al our S history. Never was so much Individual effort apart from the work of the campaign ! committees, performed by Democrats and '; Republicans and men of other parties as i! IliOW:,.i.never were men of all natlonalities, employments and professions so earnest for the success of the, ff. Republican cause as to-day. The women ialik1..,.nterestfd: thy wnt good laws, ! f?J? Politics and good government, and I hold them quite as necessary for the wel- s ltrZr happiness as for their husbands or brothers or fathers. i v.'mly te wrnff. but I do not recall I that the wheelmen of this country, repretVZe,&s th-y the homes, firesides and 1 professions of the country, were ever In- 5

terestea m a political campaign before; tWhLt but a mighty cause . would bring five thousand wheelman from different sections of the country to Canton ;JPa.K,a Tlslt to a presidential candidate' of i a. political party. Your visit monstrates I i?t ?ar?e,l.t ftelin of the People, the deep I tfll011 ln outcome of a political contest. The wheelmen know as well as anv ? Part of our population what good roads ' mean, and how much easier It is to mak ? progress and time over, them than over f ff?LTO- They know. too. that for X,0-, Y '"X,L.. years this couni1,, bSon traveling over 'a rocky tn li0-rut8 an? covered with obstruchn,nf k1 ?i.s a result tne American pcop - Tht Jli a Vry hard roa,i to travel.' rhey want an improvement. They do not only want better roads for their wheels, rarity TwinVvry obstruction removed tlo ,rre;ltI national highway, so that the wheels of industry will start in every w?Jy aVd mil in the United States. They would rather have American wheels runm,nin.our fatortes. giving employment to American labor and supplying us with American goods, than to 1 have loreicn wheels supplying us with good;?. Good road cue iiiuiiiensaoie to the progress and integrity of the United States. i..am glad to know that the wheelmen no uch,vast numbers are enlisted ln tho f aii honet- dollar, an honest ol?.w?l0in Sf Law' nonest Payment of the SHi?-det; h0,nesty the execution- of wrV iSJ PV?018!"1. Protective tariff that ThJ dhlend ,nnest American citizens from wAPlabor of other countries, and h Et the s.ame tlme- w111 Preserve a If the Tnit,01, to 9 honest farmers or the United States. Your visit will In!?.,Li1her and. greater activity for th L';XL"l"1 tne-cause ln November, and will cheer the hearts' of thfrtenda of ,h cs.use everywhere. I thank vou. ard hid yoo good-bye." ALL TURNED ON NEWTON. A Saloon Row In AVl.lch.He Was Radly Worsted. Edward Newton, a vouner man living at 211 West Merrill street.. was badly worsted 11 5" n row ft the corner of Missouri Th S streets last night. Newton. Thomas Coleman. Th.,. t-ii i . , . ,r - "in.-) rial tii a in ofZ Th,man,quarrele1 ver a game aeainst vlhwt?-0f.,tr,S othera was Erected Wm nil !to.nu all of whom turned upon mm. one of them hit v .' 3 orl'the chlifrduCKUe' wnlie another cut him on the chin with a knife. H vl-:i iiu- . to tnS iffiLthf ?.end- An alarm was sent CanltnVJ? "M1?" ancl reserve officer tlmi h oUrri,ed,.to th0 saloon. By the time he arrived nit nt v. - house hfl J,n W- At station I nouse he was slated for assault and bat- ; The nolle! mUo,i v. , , i ... ; Tamc V-k tt , , sawn Kept ujr ; In arE- l1 amli7lat No- 212 Blake street at ? TrimfiT?3! a?t tnls morning and arrested r! inoViJia colored men. Hamlin was ; charged with kconim .. v,u k 5iJh er.a Jlth visiting the place. . Crap was the form of entertainment

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