The herald., 1896-10-30
THE MAJOR BECAME HUNGRY
While Waiting for Ills Visitors
to Leave
LUNCHEON WAS AWFUL LATE
And Then lie Kept Soma People
Waiting
When Thursday Comes Again Major
Mckinley Will Have Plenty of
Leisure on His Hands.
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
CANTON, O., Oct 29.-Historians
of the campaign of 1896 will record
Thursday. October 29th as one Of the
red-letter days. Major Mckinley has
been kept busy since early morning and
visitors came so fast about the middle
of the day that he could not find time to
lunch until after 8 o'clock. One party
was in town before o'clock, but con-
siderably delayed their call till the ma
jor had finished his breakfast. Others
came at short intervals during the day
and the crowd became so large that the
speaking had to be transferred from the
porch to the reviewing stand. Each call
er was intent on shaking hands with
the nominee and SO far as possible the
opportunity was granted. although it
was a herculean task. At one time the
crowd became so large that it was inn
possible to organize a line for hand
shaking receptions. But hundreds in
that party fingered about the house
waiting for the major to reappear and
toward evening he came out upon the
porch to meet them. Major Mckinley
seven carloads of people coming from
Fulton ard Wilkins counties, Ohio, and
Dekalb and other northwestern coun
ties of Indiana. There were two intro
ductory addresses The five audiences
addressed We're composed of fourteen
delegations, in which were railroad men,
business men and manufacturers, farm
ers, mechanics, miners, oil men, glass
| workers, iron workers, bankers, pro-
fessional men, printers, men and women
office employees, coming from four states
West Virginia, Pennsylvania. Indiana
and Ohio. Besides the five speeches,
Major Mckinley received large num-
Der of individual callers from all over
the country. shook hands with large
party of women stenographers from
Akron, who had tallyho parade and
! who were afterward received by Major
McKinley's mother. He spoke inform
| ally in his library to the directors and
i officers of the German Deposit bank of
Pittsburg and made brief address in
the same place. responding to the greet
ings of a small party of business men
and manufacturers of Pittsburg.
Major McKinley's response to ]. B.
Templer of Swanton and j. c. Venir of
Butler Ind. who spoke on behalf of
Fulton and Williams counties, Ohio, and
northeastern Indiana, was as follows
My Fellow Citizens: Your call upon
me this afternoon from two great states
of the American union is most gracious
and gratifying. We are fortunate this
xl,o %1,, s-o zl,,
acter that its discussion is suitable to
any state of the country. What is good
for one part of the United States is
good for another; what is good for Ohio
is good for Indiana and what is good
for the north is good for the south. l.
am glad to note the deep interest the
people of the country are taking in the
election, now but few days off. 1 was
struck by an expression of your spokes-
| man that you were ready for the contest.
I believe the people everywhere beneath
| our flag are ready for the contest.
believe there has been no time in our
history since the war so decided in thier
conviction as to the character Of their
votes as they are this year-1S96 l be-
lieve that on the third day of November
the verdict of the American people will
be for good, sound money, for public
faith, public morals and protection.
1t seems almost fncomprehensible
that the proposition which comes from
of value in this country and degrade
our currency with which we are doing
| our business-it seems almost incom-
| prehensible. I say that it should not
| have any lodgment in the heart of any
| American. If there is any one thing in
| government that should be fixed, stable
and unvarying in value, as fixed, stable
| and unvarying as the will of man can
make it, it is the currency that meas
ures the exchanges of the people and
| is given in exchange for their products
and labor We don't want any poor
| money in the United States. The ex-
! perience of mankind has been that when
ever poor money has been used, the loss
| has fallen on the poor people of the
| country. If the bearded men Of
| this audience will allow their memories
| to sweep back they will recall that in the
| days before the war when we had state
bank currency, that whenever the farm
! er sold his wheat at the markets and
| took the bank notes that were good at
| that hour. the next day he discovered
the bank was broken and the value of
his wheat therefore taken from him.
We don't want any such money as that
or anything approaching it. We want
what we have now, the best money in
the world, every dollar Of it as good as
gold, every dollar as good as the best
money in the civilized nations. A dollar
that is not only good in one state, but
good in every state not only good in
all the states. but good in all the great
nations of the world; passing current
always for it's face value. There Is moth
ing that cheats labor, the farmer, the
producer or laboring man like an un-
! stable and fluctuating money. We
want our money to be as sound as our
| government and there is no government
in the world any sounder than ours.
Then we want return to that Ameri-
! can policy inaugurated at the very be-