The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-11-02
Ten Thousand People Packed
In the Court House Yard
and the Streets Ad-
jacent.
Two Glorious and Ringing Speeches
In which the Campaign Issues
are Fairly, FOrcefully and
Honestly Discussed.

on WIN. MCKINNEY and the host OF
Highlanders in this city last Wednes.
day. The crowd was such as our city
| never knew before. On Tuesday after.
noon and evening many arrived from
adjacent counties, and almost before
sunrise Wednesday morning a continu.
GUS procession began pouring in on each
of the eleven pixies that enter the city.
The railroads brought train after train
of coaches swarming with humanity.
1t was Chicago day crowd. There was
acrush and jam OF people everywhere.
About eleven o'clock, the arrival OF
the Governor and his party was an.
nounced by the deafening cheers of the
multitude, the booming of cannon, and
music of bands.
The Governor and General Alger with
their party, had been met at East Nor.
wood by committee of reception, con-
sisting of Messrs John Fl. Keech, D. @
Morrow, j. Y. Dean and Ellis Pence,
who accompanied them to this city. On
his arrival the Governor was escorted by
the committees and bands to the Ma.
sonic hall where he met the township
committeeman and others in an in.
formal reception. Thence be was taken
to the Kramer House, where he took
| dinner.
Promptly at 1890 speakers and COM
mitteemen appeared upon the platform
in front of the Court House. So dense.
ly was the multitude packed from street
to rOstrum that it was matter of ex-
treme difficulty TO get the Governor and
his party through,
Capt. E. Carson, as chairman of the
meeting, introduced Gen. R. A. Alger,
of Michigan. This distinguished SOL
der and statesman, said that the sea of
faces before him reminded him of the
massed thousands who were greeting
Governor Mckinley wherever he went.
The people were aroused to the gravity
of the situation, and it seemed as if the
same crowd of anxious, enthusiastic ad-
mirers were following him from county
to county. His meetings were all simi-
lar in immensely and interest.
He said he had asked the Governor to
let him speak first, in order that he
might be sure OF an audience to the
end
He wanted to talk to that audience on
a matter of business. He was an EN-.
, ployer used to carrying three or four
, Thousand names upon the pay roll
, This fall their works were idle, because
, there was no demand for the products
People were living as. cheaply as posi-
t BILE. Men were making their old clothes
, last another year; women were making
over their old dresses and bonnets
This caution was among those wht
had never known the necessity for sucl
economy before. Passing along th'
| streets he had noticed that, among tn
hundreds OF vehicles parked in the cit
there were none that looked as if the
. had been bought this year. Such fact
as these told why factories could nc
run, and workmen were idle. In hi
own city of Detroit there were NOR
than ten thousend mechanics idi,
They were rapidly absorbing what littl
8 they might have laid by. 1t would a
t soon be gone, and how they would eve
get through the winter God only knew
And what was true of Detroit was tru
j. of every city in the United States.
This was all the natural and legit
mate result of the announced free trad
o policy OF the party in power. Every il
o terest was apprehensive. No bushes
could be safely conducted under sue
uncertainties.
8 The eyes of the United States wer
= upon Ohio. Upon the result of th
. conflict upon this national battle groun
depended to large extent the welfar
of the Nation. No doubt existed {
q Governor McKinley's reelection, br
h the voice of the people should be en-
q phatic. He should haye at least 5000
majority.
"a A voice in the crowd said, "75, 100! !!
y and another responded, "Yes, hui
- dred thousand"
"Would 70 God, )" said General Alge
shat You had sense enough to make
is unanimous!"
A. He said when campaigning in OH
c. two years ago, he heard from Dem
y cratic partizans q continual clang of til
N Every Democratic orator seemed to ha,
IA a whole culinary outfit OF tin danglir
ss to his coat tail. We were taxing IL
ID dish-pan, the tin. n.cup, the wash-basi
ct and most horrible OF all, the poor wor
ID ing mans dinner pail Notwithstan
lg ing all Of this outcry tae prices OF til
o ware have gone down. But, suppo
they hadn't. wouldn't it be bettsr