The San Francisco call., 1896-10-04
MAJOR MCKINLEY
HAS MANY CALLERS
Fifteen Thousand Visitors
Go to Canton in One
Short Day.
From Mills, Furnaces, Farms,
Colleges, Workshops, Mines
and CountingRooms.
ALL EAGER FOR PROTECTION.
From Dawn Until Dark the Repub-
Iican Standar d.Bearer Receives
Visitors.
ALL EAGER FOR PROTECTION.

CANTON, OHIO, Oct. S.-Fifteen thou
sand men came from the mills, furnaces,
farms, colleges, workshops, mines and
counting-rooms of New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana, marched
up the Market-street hill in Canton to-day
TO see and hear Major Mckinley. and they
marched down again with the flush of en-
thusiasm in their faces and the promise OF
victory in their ringing cheers.
Major Mckinley surpassed himself to-
day. He was engaged in the work of
meeting delegations from breakfast time
till after the sun set and the lamps had
been lighted before the last delegation
marched away. He spoke to a greater
number OF large bodies of voters, repre-
senting vast variety OF interests and in
dustries, than ne had before addressed in
a single day. He made fourteen formal
speeches and several informal ones and
talked to thirty delegations. The day was
superb, the air bracing and the sunshine
genial.
Two delegations arrived before O'Clock.
One came from Harrisburg, Pa, and num-
bered more 800; the other from Sunday
Greek Valley, in Athens County, Ohio,
part of the great Hooking Valley mining
region. The delegation of miners num-
bered 600. In addressing the two delega-
tions Major Mckinley said in part:
Coming as you do from city of great
roIing-mills and other manufactures having
q product in value of more than S12,0o0,0 900
annually when your establishments are all
running full time, and from one of the great
est manufacturing States in the country,
need hardly be told OF the deep and profound
interest which you have in the rightful settle
ment of the issues presented in this campaign.
Both of the leading issues are OF sufficient i'm
portance 10 your industrial life and prosperity
TO command your unremitting labor and
effort.
Government expenditures must not exceed
Government receipts. The creation of pu b.
lie debt in time of peace is only justified in
lzustaining the credit of the Government and
the public honor. but 1t should not be con-
tinued a moment longer than the Congress
whose duty it is to raise the revenue shall
make provision o supply II. EApplause.I No
one has suffered more nnder these conditions
than the farmers of the United States. Zap
plause.J They have lost much by dimin ished
home market, and have suffered in the foreign
market by the repeai of the reciprocity pro-
visions of the tariff law OF 1890.
The foreign market opened by reciprocity
during the admins tration of President Harri-
son must be reopened and the home market
must be reopehed, improved and preserved for
the American farmer, while the American
workshop shall be opened to the American
workmen. [Great applause.l No patriotic cit
izen should object to regaining and then hold
ing our proud rank OF the greatest manufac-
turing, mining and farming Nation of the
world. [Applause.l
With me the necessity of the restoration of a
judicious and wise American tariff policy is a
firm conviction second to nothing in i'm port
ance except the preservation OF law and order,
which we must have. [Great cheeringl. OF
justice and domestic tranquility and the pres
erVation OF our credit our currency and our
National honor. IGreat applausel
Major Mckinley made his second speech
to the Wheelmen's Mckinley and Hobart
Republican Club of Buffalo, which arrived
on a special train at 10:l5. There were $50
members in the party. Major Mckinley
excused himself from making a formal
speech, for the reason that he was
scheduled to address all of the wheelmen
in BODY later in the day.
Following the Buffalo wheeImen came a
delegation OF $50 employees OF the Standard
Manufacturing Company of Pittsburg. F.
]. Torrance, spokesman for this delega-
ton, said most of the men in it were
Democrats who proposed to cast their first
Republican vote this year. Six men bore
on gilded platform beautiful porcelain
| bathtub decorated with and mounted in
gold, which was presented by the Stand
ard Company to Major Mckinley. Major
McKlnley's speech was impromptu and
uncommonly spirited.
While the ma ior was speaking delega-
tion from Barborton, Ohio. 300 strong
marched up to the house and marched
into the yard. As soon as Major McKin-
ley finished his remarks o. C. Barbor, the
great matchmaker, introduced the delega-
ton OF his employees and Major Mckinley
addressed them very briefly.
Five hundred workingmen f. the
Allegheny shops of the Pennsylvania lines
pressed closelv behind the Barborton dele
cation, and Major Mckinley scarcely had
time to sit down before the railroad men
massed themselves in front of the porch.
w. r. Kirker was the spokesman. The
major made brief to this delegation and
seven minutes after concluding his re-
marks was bowling to new audience.
There were upward of 500 men in it. and
they came from tha works of Mcintosh.
Hemphill g. Co. and the Star Tin Plate
Company of PIttsburg. The men
brought with them the largest sheet of tin
plate in the world. Major Mckinley ex-
planned to them the benefits of the pro-
tectiye tariff, and his remarks were punct-
uated throughout by enthusiastic applause
and cheering. The seventh speech of the
day was short one to delega tion OF 100
employees of the Pittsburg and Western
Railroad.
AT 12:3o o'clock delegation 1000 strong
Fom Washington County, Pa, arrived.
J was composed of farmers, ironworkers
ana tin-plate makers. Major Mckinley
said in part:
1he wisdom of the craftsmanship of Hamil-
ton and Blaine was unheeded in 1892 They
nave not only deprived our agricuituralists OF
the protection thav had against fha i'm 1aorfa.