The San Francisco call., 1896-10-31
Colored Voters, College Students
and Schoolboys Among
the Visitors.
ALL FOR TRUE REPUBLICANIsM
Three Thousand Lit e Lads Show
Patriotism by Carrying the
Stars and Stripes.

and the gathering of several thousand
school children at Major McKinley's
house late this afternoon. Mr.. Depew
was warmly welcomed and spoke twice,
once TO a colored club and once to college
students, who came from various parts of
the country to pay their respects to Major
Mckinley. The speech which Mckinley
made to the students was one of the most
carefully prepared he has delivered this
week and it was listened 10 with the deep
est interest.
The visit of the school children was a
beautiful incident of the closing days OF
the campaign. Three thousand boys
marched in line, each one carrying a
small flag. The small girls with their
mothers were clustered in dense groups.
When the poys marched up they waved
their haudkerchiefs. and the lads shouted:
"Hurrah, hurrah, Mckinley is the man;
1 can't vote, but daddy can" The air was
filed with the music of the fresh young
voices. The boys cheered Justify for sew
eral minutes, and then three small boys
mounted the stand and told Major Nc
Kinley that all the boys were for him, and
IL was the nam regret of their lives that
they were not old enough to vote. 1t was
dark when the children, after listening to
Mckinley s pleasing, fatherly talk, marched
away behind their bands and corps.
TIE first delegation to-day was the orig1-
nal Mckinley Colored Republican Club of
Cleveland. It was the fifth original Nc
KinleyS club that has visited Canton.
There were $50 voters in the party. }. E.
Benson was the spokesman for the col
ored men, aud Walter Brooks, president
of the club introduced the members of
the club to the jor. Major Mckinley
addressed them very briefly.
At the conclusion of his remarks Major
Mckinley introduced Chauncey NJ De-
pew to the audience. Hundreds of citi-
zens who had learned of Mr. Depew's
visit at the house of the Republican can
didate had assent mbled at the Mckinley
residence expecting speech from The
widely known orator. and the crowd that.
surrouDaed the porch mum bered 1090.I
AS Mr.. Depew stepped forward some one
proposed Three cheers for New York"
and they.were given with a great deal of
vigor. Mr.. Depsw, bowling his acknowt-
edgmeH;ts. spoke as follows:
. came here to pay my respects to Governor
Mckinley and not to make a speech. My
speecA-making does not begin in Ohio until
tomorrow. I feel that fought MOTTO make
any'speeches in Ohio anyway, and the reason
- is that want the State of New York to give
larger msjority in proportion to its popula-
q. tion than any State IN the Union. And ii by
any chance my coming here should lead TO
Ohio beating US, don't know whether 1 could
live in New YORK again or not ANYWAY I
can move to 0hio. [LaughteEJ
1t affords me great pleasure, on arriving
: here this spot, which viii be one OF the his
torie places OF the country for all the future OF
our history, to find that the first delegation OF
the thousands of delegations that have visited
Canton, and ofwhich we read n New York
should be a delegation of colored men, and 1
say for this reason: 1t has pleased the Popo-
cratic party. OF rather the Popocratic leaders,
to'place this campaign upon plane on which
II has never been put before in this country
They are trying TO array one class against an
other class as if there were classes in this
country, or permanent classes. They are try
ing to array the employed against their en-
ployers and TO array the man who has not
prospered against the man who has prospered
little more than he, as if it were the spirit of
American liberty that man should not rise
from one condition to a better ono where all
are equal before the law
:. If fany one has right to complain and the
right to be an anarchist or a socialist it is tbe
colered man. 1t is only one genera tion since
he came from his slavery to be free man. but
one never saw negro socialist nor negro
anarchist. [CheersJ The scolored people of
the United States accept the emancipation
proclamation of Abraham Lincoln as it was
given to the world. They accept American citi-
zenshlp as ft came from the pen of the great
liberator and greatest American citizen-that
all men are created equal with one another
and with inallenable rights; that no man is
better than another before the law, but all are
equal This is American opportunity under
American liberty. So it is that the colored
men of this country, this generation which
has gone to our schools and received Ameri
can education and is enjoying American op-
port6nities, are all for Mckinley, prosperity
and liberty.
Three cheers were given tor Mr.. Depew.
A few moments after Mr.. Depew finished
speaking delegation OF college students
from various parts OF the country marched
into the Mckinley yard They were full
of enthusiasm and rent the air with their
college yells. w. F. Wolfe, editor of the
College Republican, spoke in behalf OF the
Harvard men in the delegation, and Ed
ward Henning Tor the college league
clubs.
Responding to these addresses Major
Mckinley made the principal speech of
The day. He said:
1 am glad to be assured By your spokesman
that in the contest OF this year, ia which the
Nations honor and integrity are involved, the
college men, not only OF the East, but OF the
West, teachers and pupils alike, are with us,
in heart and purpose. I know, young gentle
men, YOU are earnest Repu blicans and appre-
cinte most highly your support OF the Rcpub-
liean cause.
If you were not Republicans from convic-
tion, however. and were guided alone by en-
thusastic ardor, would say to you, in the
words OF Webster, tfStudy the Constitution OF
the United States thoroughly; contrast its
teachings with the doctrines of the political
parties of the day and vote with the one you
then believe will do the most for your coun-
try" The Republican party can well afford TO
submit TO that test. It never has shrunk from
the severest test of the past. and mas never
suffered thereby. But in the alignment OF
parties to-day, and the vital questions at issue
between them. 1t especially and cheerfully in
vites comparison and contrast. II has no aim |
but the public good and the honor of the |
American name, and confidently submits its |
not to a class or section, but to the
whole American peoples
Mr.. Depew was introduced again by