The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-28
HALF A THOUSAND
Sound Money ltniiroadsrs Went From,
Wheeling TO Canton Saturday-A Mass
Meeting In MaNillun,

Sound Money itniiroad,rs Went From
Wheeling TO Canton Sniur,lay-A Mas
Meeting In Ma"iiiun.
Five hundred and fifty railroad men
Aft Wheeling Saturday morning at
1880 o'clock with The Railroad En-
playes' Gold Club OF Wheeling Dis
trict' excursion 10 Canton, over the
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad. by
special train. They hud very pleas
ant trip, arriving nj Mass!llon at .
o'clock. where electric cars were wait
Ing and five hundred men OF the Rail-
road Sound Money Club. OF Massil-
Ion, accompanied the Wheeling rail-
readers TO Canton. After hearing Ma
tor Mckinley, the clubs returned to
Massillon Tor supper. and all Joined In
big parade, Saturday night. which
was composed OF two thousand march
Ing railroad men. two large special
trains having arrived from Toledo In
the evening. with over thousand
Wheeling n Lake Erie railroad men.
The MassiilJa and Wheeling clubs met
the Toledo men at the station and
marched through Massillon TO the OPP
era house and armory.
Tlr4 great number OF brass bands.
colorcd !anters. red fire and torches
made the parade brilliant scene
The entire Main street OF MassIllon
was beautifully Illuminated with red
fire torches placed on poles on each
side of the street. The Massillon people
furnished cannon. which was fired In
front OF the Armory during the pa
rade.
Mr.. +. J. Stout opened the meeting
at the armory and introduced Nj
William \. Lynch.a sound money Dem
| ocrat, who spoke Tor two hours and a
half and handled the money question
In such 4 mastery way that the great
crowd that filed the armory, kept
their seats TO the last word.
Mr.. Fred. II. Theirs. OF Wheeling.
opened the meeting ut the opera house
and introduced Mr.. II. NJ Harter, who
so Interested the railroad men that
when he was through speaking the
crowd kept their places and called for
more.
The excursion trains left MasSillOn
Saturday night, after the meetings
were over. and arrived IN Wheeling
| carly Sunday morning.
Mr. J. F. Townsend. Of the Wheeling
& Lake Erie road. introduced the rail-
| roadcrs to Major Mckinley in the az
ternoon. He said:
I'VE are railroad men from Ohio and
West Virginia and come to honor and
see and hear William Mckinley. Ny
| fellow men In the railroad service have
given me chance 10 make speech.
| but / do not think there is anything
, can say that Will satisfy them before
| they hear the voice of the great Amer
lean. Our presence here tcStitics
stronger than anything else. the sup
port. the hearty support that we will
give you and your cause. We are not
on an excursion to return homo and
| dlsband, but are formed into pcrna-
nent organizations that will go back
| and tell our companions and co-work-
crs that we have heard and seen you
| Permit me 10 introduce the Railroad
Sound Money Club. of Massillon. Ohio.
and the Railroad Employees Gold Club.
Of Wheeling district. and many rail-
road from other towns south Of the
Mason and Dix0n's line"
Mr. Mckinley. Response.
Major McKiniHy's response was as
follows:
"Mr. Townsend and my fellow clti-
zcns:-On account OF the number Of
speeches I have made to-day and the
great number Of people I have ad-
dressed. FOR | have spoken many times
and to thousands Of people. most OF
different occupations. but all OF them
alike Interested In the honor. weIl-bclng
and prosperity Of the country, L ask
your consslera ton II do not speak Mt
great length now. (Applause.) am
glad 10 meet the railroad men of the
Wheeling 4 Lake Erie railway. fellow
citizens OF Ohio ard West Virginia.
You want your money 10 be sound.
| (AprlauSe.) You want every dollar
You have to b. as good as every other
dollar. You want when you have work.
ed FOR your railroad to be paid in mo-
ney that Is worth one hundred cents TO
the dollar. You do not want to be paid
In n dcbased Jr deprecated currency.
| (CrieS. Of You are right; we dou't.')
You want another thing for your 1d-
vancemcnt, you want the country to be
prosperous Railroads are prosperous
when the country Is prosperous;
TillTOHuS are always III embarrassment
when the business OF the country Is de-
pressed. You Will have nothing to haul
unless somebody wants the products
| that somebody else mnkcsc along your
| line, and the more products You carry
| the steadler Will he your employment
| and the better your wages Continued
npplausc.)
Yours IL Il most delicate and dam
| ger0us employment. ] never step oft a
| railroad train after either long or a
short Journey that | do not feel like
| making personal Acknowledgement to
| every railroad emplOye for his care FOR
| the safety OF the passengers. Ap-
| pnusc) | never step or Il railroad
train that ! do not feel like going to
the engineer and taking of my hat 10
| him. tAppnusa and cries OF "GOOd.')
| am glad to meet and greet you to I.
| day. You have not come to do me honor
personally, you have come Ia do honor
| TO the cause for which by tho partial
| ity OF great political party. | for thc
| moment stand. You are Interested In
the succession OF tire principles Of this
purity because you believe that those
| principles carried Into practical. dem
onstratIon will be better Tor your en-
nloyment, better FOR your families, bet
| ter for your railroads, better for your
communities and better for the entire
country. prolonged chccring)
| 81 mike no appeal 10 you that IL not
bnsed upon what lahclicvc to he Tor the
| n,IhliC nOnd | believe II ig the mission