The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-24

| Hastings OIL pennsylvania ana Congress-
man McCleary of Minnesota made ad-
dresses.
GALA DAY AT CANTON.
Canton. o., Sept. 1S.-Canton was up
late last night looking over her wardrobe.
selecting the brightest and best. Cam
ton was up early this morning and ROBBED
IN raiment gorgeous and elaborate.
Bright and early there came from Little
Sandy township Il club of nearly the
whole townships population. At the
public square they met parties from other
directions. Then came 400 farmers from
Carroll county. BY this time the special
trains, of which more than fifty were
scheduled, began to arrive and the dele
cations from outside the county poured
in almost faster than they conId he
counted. The notable uniformed dele
gates present are the Young Mems Tariff
cub and the Americas club of Pittsburg
the Elkins Cadets of Wheeling. the Tip
pecanoe club of Cleveland and the Wheel
mems clubs from Toledo and Detroit.
who left their train at Il suburban station
and rode into the city in parade order.
AT noon the hustle and hurry of parade
organization began.
The parade moved in four divisions of
footmen and with a large contingent of
Wheelmen and horsemen. Pennsylvania.
West Virginia and other states formed
the first division. Ohio. outside of Stark
county, the second: Stark county. outside
of Canton. the third, and Canton the
fourth. Each of the notable delegations
was assigned the position of homer.
Maj. Mckinley, the visiting speakers.
the officers of the day and the guests of
honor rode in open carriages at the head
of the parade. A short line of march
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accommodations for 10000 people. Here
the first meeting was held, Governor
Bushnell presiding and making a short
introductory address. There was music
by the combined bands and campaign
songs by the Pittsburg Tariff League
quartette and the Aeolian quartette. Adj
dresses We're made by Senators Culom
of Illinois and Senator Thurston of Ne
braska.
Before the parade, dozens of deega-
tons. headed by their bands. marched
to Maj McKinley's residence. Among
those to whom he spoke were 1.-THE CO.
lumbar county people, the Pittsburg del
egation. headed by the Americas and
Young Mems Tariff clubs and the Column
bus Buckeye club, acting as escort to
Governor Bushnell and Supreme Judge
Hauck
Maj. Mckinley thanked the members
of the different delegations most cordially
for their visit.
Maj. Mckinley responded to Governor
Hastings and the Americas club of Pitts
burg when they presented their greetings
as follows:
governor Hastings. Gentlemen of the
Americas Club and My Fellow Citizens
of Pennsylvania appreciate more than
| can find words to express the compli-
ment and honor of this call from the cit
liens of neighboring states. | am glad
to give you welcome to the city of Canton
and my home. (Applause9 ! am glad
to give welcome to the state of Pennsyl-
vania (cheers), and if he can secure for
the republican national ticket as large
a majority as he secured for himself we
will be satisfied. Great cheering)
do not appear, my fellow citizens, to make
Il speech to you, but only to express my
personal qualification that the famous
Americas club and the men who stand
behind il should have turned aside from
their usual occupations to come to our
city on this great opening day of our re-
publican campaign. and / want you all
to feel that | regard it as Il special honor
and compliment to me to have you with
us today Great cheering) And. |
trust that our people will give you Il gen
erous and hospitable welcome, as | am
sure they WILL and | wish for all of you
a safe return to your homes after the
days doing are over Great applause
and cries of "Hurrah for McKinley.'O
FROM FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP.
Canton. O.. Sept. 1S.-The delegation
from Fairfield township. Columbiana
county. called at the Mckinley home and
was addressed by the major as follows:
Mr.. Chairmen and Fellow Citizens-lt
gives me great pleasure to meet my old
friends of Fairfield township. Columbiana
county. (Applausp) Among my earli-
est political recollections | recall the vii
lage of Columbana. Among the earliest
political speeches | ever made was made
in your town. (Cheers) | remember
that in the twenty years | was a repre-
sentative in congress | always had the
encouragement and sympathy and sup
port of the good people of your township.
| You are battling this year for the same
cause that we battied for during the last
twenty years. We have the same prin-
ciDles to contend for now as we had then.
| The republican party stands this year. as
| it has always stood, for the country and
| the country's honor. 1t is opposed to
form it may come. 1t believes in good,
sound honest dollars (cheers) dollars
| that you know Just what they are worth
every day in the week and every week in
the year: dollars that are not only good
in our country, but good wherever trade
goes. The republican party stands this
year where it has stood in the past, for
an American protective system, a system
that serves our own people rather than
| the interests of the alien and the strang-
er who lives beyond our shores. 1t
stands for a policy that gives to Ameri-
can citizenship the widest ard broadcast
opportunity to work at American wages,
and to the farmers of the United States
the best home market to be found any
where in the world (Applause.) But.
my friends, this is not my day to make
speech. There are orators here who
will speak to you, and | only come now
that | may make suitable recognition of
this friendly call on the part of my old
friends and constituents, who have for so
many years manifested their devotion to
the republican cause and to me person
ally" (Applause)
GOING TO CANTON.
Chicago, Sept. 1S.-Eleven trains, car
rying about 5000 employees of the roads
entering Chicago, left this city tonight
for Canton. A parade through the down
town streets preceded the departure of
the trains.
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