The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-20

CANTON, o., June Ex-Governor Nc
Kinley made two more addresses at
his home tonight The day has been
an eventful one. The wild enthusiasm
of yesterday has increased; each in
coming delegation is greeted by steam
calliopes and shrieldng whistles of
every kind, while the trumpets. tin
horns. hand and drum corps give music
to the merry marchers.
Delegates called tonight in rapid Sue
cession, but the governor shows no
sign of wear or relapse after the strain
Of convention week.
After shaking hands with several
hundred visitors from neighboring
towns he took his customary drive a
short time before luncheon.
During the day the news spread
rapidly that the New York Mckinley
league would stop at Canton on its
way home from ST Louis, and that the
special convention party from Canton
would come home this evening. It
was shortly after o'clock, just before
the governors dinner hour, when
shrieking whistles of locomotives her
aided the approach Of the New York
ers and returning Cantoniens, as well
as a special trainlOad Of five hundred
people from the Mahoning valley,
where Governor Mckinley spent his
boyhood days.
WENT WILD.
An escort committee with bands and
drum corps. including fifty horsemen,
met the delegation at the station. The
streets were densely crowded for blocks
in every direction leading to the gov
ernors home. The crowds rushed
through the fences and crowded into
the doorways Of the house in their
excitement. 1t was necessary for the
governor to go to the side door to
meet his returning fellow citizens, as
it was impossible for him to reach the
front, where he had been speaking
Congressman r. W. Taylor Of the
Eighteenth, the old Mckinley district,
mounted a box when Governor McKin-
ley appeared, and said:
Governor Mckinley: While we have
not the good fortune to be the first to
congratulate you in person upon the
honor which the Republican party has
bestowed upon you We rejoice 10 know
we are from the van car of
THE RETURNING HOSTS
that witnessed that splendid reception
whereby you were nominated for the
presidency. There we saw the Repub-
lican party place you in nomination,
and while if honored you, it honored
itself and gave permanent expression
TO the wish and desire that have been
in the hearts of the American people
for many months. Prolongd cheers).
Twenty years ago Stark county
gave you to the congressional district
which you have made famous. Five
years ago this splendid district gave
YOU to the state of Ohio, and now our
glorious state has given you to the
nation, whose true SON you are and
whose interests have been your con-
slant care" loud applause).
Congressman Taylor was followed by
Judge George Z. Baldwin, on behalf
of Stark county, and Judge William r
Day.
Governor Mckinley responded to his
Canton friends as follows
my fellow citizens: How can I
make fitting response to this splendid
tribute which has been. paid by three
of my old and earliest friends. I think
1 might be excused by merely saying
that I am inadequate to the task and
can only express my gratitude from a
full and OVERLOOKING heart. L have had
a good many touching Incidents in my
life. Yesterday, Immediately after the
nomination was surrounded by
neighbors and fellow, citizens who did
not go to St Louis and by friends from
Alliance and Masislon, and then came
1000 more of them from the city Of
Akron last night. With all these tokens
L was deeply and profoundly impressed,
but somehow, the words spoken by
these three gentlemen. surrounded as
l am by their associates, who jour
neyed together to st. Louis, somehow,
they have touched me more deeply
and sounded
THE DEPTHS OF MY HEART
more profoundly than anything that
has gone before. In this audience to-
day are representatives of all the
counties which for years constituted
my congressional district, and with
which I have been associated all nv
life. A large body OF my fellow citizens
are here from TrurnbulI county. the
place Of my birth. A large number
are here from Mahoning county. tina
place where L spent all my boyhood
days; the county where I received nv
education and from which 1 enlisted in
the war for the preservation of the
union, way back in 1861. loud cheer
ing) l viii only thank you and every
one of you from the bottom of nv
heart for these manifestations OF vy,sl-
friendship, your devotion, and as vou1
seem to have brought back what Won,
went for, those whom you left behind
want me TO say that they are glad to
see you home again"
(The crowd then united in three
rousing cheers for the next presi-
.dent-'D
By this lime the New York party
had succeeded in forcing its way to the
front piazza, led by Hon. .iobv =
Mflholland. 1t took some time for Cow
ernor Mckinley to get through the
! house and through the crowd in the
hall to greet his eastern visitors.
Mr. M1holland mounted a. chair and
| presented Senator Warner. WIN, made