Show 1C Ca TALK OF SGALING DEBTS Republican Presidential Candidate Can-didate Treading on Dangerous Dan-gerous Ground TAFFY FOR THE FARMERS Loves Even the Soil Upon Their Boots Says Bryan Has Attempted to Influence Influ-ence the People of the Vet anti of the South Against the Men of the East and i Was Real Mean on the Part of the Democratic Candidate to Do Any Such Thing Billy is D aiischievous Lad CANTON Ohio Sept 22 Three delegations dele-gations called on Major McKinley today to-day and he addressed them all Despite a drizzling rain that continued drizzlng continue throughout through-out the morning and a strong northwest north-west wind that blew cold during the afternoon the enthusiasm that has characterized the pilgrimages was unabated un-abated The Holmes county farmers were the first to arrive Major McKinley McKin-ley spoke to them in part as follows Six years ago free trade was to be the cure for all our ills free trade was to be the panacea for all our troubles Well we have now for four years en joyed partial free trade in the United States especially in wool and what ef fect has it had upon the wool growers of Holmes county and other wool grow ing counties You know better than I can tell you NOW IT IS FREE SILVER Free silver is going to cure all our ills Laughter Why my fellowciti zens it dont make any difference how free silver is to be coined in the United Unit-ed States you will not get one dollar dollr of i unless you give something for it A voice Thats right and applause I I we had mints in every state of the Union and in every county and in every ev-ery city and the silver of the world was brought to these mints as is proposed pro-posed by our political opponents silver would not be any easier for you to get than it is now A voice Thats right And besides in this country I country we dont propose to have a dishonest j dollar Great applause We propose to have the beat of everything proPse going Weve got the best country and thebest men and we propose to con tinue to have the best money Great aDDlause There is another thing my fellow citizens this year the people mean to put at rest the question of their honesty hon-esty which was never doubted either at home or abroad until put in controversy contro-versy by the allied parties in this political po-litical contest I say allied pares the one a Democratic party assuming an old name the other a little older and falsely claiming to be the Peoples party I is to I THE CREDIT OF THE COUNTRY that many of the timehonored leaders lof one of the parties have indignantly I repudiated those who have assumed to question the public honor in the name 1 of Democracy Applause The people j I in November will repudiate the other i part of the combination for assuming the role of dishonor in their sacred I name Applause The people have no patience with those who would violate 4 I I the plighted faith of the nation and 1 stamp its obligations with dishonor They will not tolerate repudiation of i public order or private dealing They I i I will not countenance the clipping of the coins of the country and they will never I consent to clipping the currency In any I form it may be proposed Applause I The contest should be settled this year that no party hereafter can alarm the business world and hale public cent dence by the proposition to SCALE OUR DEBTS either public or private Applause About 2 oclock 2 delegation to the number of 1000 from Cataragus and Chautauqua counties New York arrived ar-rived by a special train of fifteen coaches coach-es They were met by the Canton mounted troops and a reception comm t tee of citizens and escorted to the McKinley I Mc-Kinley residence Among the towns represented was Jamestown Carroll I Randolph Frewsburg Lakewood Watts i Flatts and Panama I The candidate bowing his acknowledgements acknowl-edgements then addressed the crowd I as follows My fellow citizens I is especially r gratifying to me to welcome to my city and my home citizens of the great empire I em-pire state of New York I is a proud i thing to b a citizen of the first and I greatest state in the Union but it is j prouder still to be a citizen of the I mighty American nation Great cheering i cheer-ing Your call at any time would have I been most welcome but your coming so far on such an inclement day to testify 1 tes-tify your devotion to Republican principles 1 prin-ciples is indeed a most impressive and significant at We have heard a great deal am v this campaign about the doctrines of the fathers Hamilton favored both goId and silver a money tough he preferred pre-ferred gold atone himself and the government of the United Steles entered upon > the use of both Hamilton Hamil-ton announced the great fundamental principle when he said There can hardly be a better rule for any country coun-try ratio for a legal tender ta the market i In other words eve colD should contain enough metal s that when melted ilt will be worth just a much i a when it is stamped a money the bullion or market value always t be j the same as fas legal or money value Great applause and cries of He was right This was the doctrine of 3 Hamilton and Jefferson This has been the undeviating policy of the government under every administration administra-tion and has been the settled policy oC all great panties of the runt fro the beginning o the government By begnwg the act of July 1890 commonly known a the Sherman law we insisted upon l putting into law the doctrine of Hamilton Hamil-ton the pry of the two met must > always be sacredly maintained Applause Ap-plause The Republicans wrote Into that law for both branches of congress con-gress and the president were in the hands of the Republican party n sole pledge which is a binding soi agreement between the governinen and the people a was ever made Here is the language I is the established 1 1 estab-lished policy cU the United States tI |