The Portland daily press., 1896-10-28
NEW ENGLANDERS ARRIVE.
Boston Excursionists Pay Respects
70 Mckinley.
REACHED CANTON
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

Vice President Stevenson Introduces Pop
ocrat Candidate at Bloomington-Big
Crowd Out at Joiliet-Speech Making
Begun Early. .= ..:.
Canton, Ohio, October 27.-Ths dele
cations were late in reaching Canton, to-
lay. The first TO arrive was large one
Jrom the mountain counties of West
Virginia, and Maryland on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad.
There were six hundred farmers in the
delegation and number of business and
professional mep.
| A delegation came from Cleveland,
composed of about 1000 employees of the
| Upson Nut Company, LampUn Sessions
Co., and the Peck Stow & Wilcox Co.
| W. +. McKinzie was spokesman. He
made a ringing address. MoKinley's
appearance was greeted with applause
and cheers that continued several min
utes. The spokesman said q large num-
ber of men in the delegation voted for
free trade four years ago, and had been
| sorry for it ever since, and proposed to
reverse the verdict. Mckinley discussed
the tariff for several minutes. Pressing
| closely behind the Cleveland delegation
| were 90 wOrkingmen from tie Jun ction
Iron and Steel works OF Mingo juno
tion. Mckinley addressed them briefly.
| A special train of handsome Wagner
sleeping and dining cars brought a fine
| delegation from Boston and other New
England cities at 2 p. IN. The excursion
was under the auspices of the Boston
Herald. The members Of the New Eng
| land Sound Money league, who oom-
posed the delegation were received at the
station by the mounted Canton troops
and the widely known Grand Army band
and company of prominent citizens,
who escorted them to MoKinley's resi-
| deuoe.
| The spokeman for the New England
visitors was Hon. Frank W. Rollins,
who addressed Major Mckinley with
great earnestness and eloquence He
was frequently applauded. Cheer after
cheer greeted Mckinley when he stepped
forward to address the visitor.
Major Mckinley said: "This public
manifestation Of the zeal of New Eng
land for a Republican cause and the
triumph of Republican principles is
feel that New England people are alto
gether strangers to me. l have met them
at their meetings in public discussion
for nearly 20 years. II has been my OBJ
servation that whatever considerations
| move New England to any action move
every part of our country. What is good
for New England is good for Ohio; what
is good Tor New England is good for the
great West; what is good for one part
Of our country is good for every part.
| (Applauss.)
"This is a year, my fellow citizens,
when partisanship counts for but little
and patriotism for everything. (Cries
of good.) This assemblage furnishes an
impressive tribute to the cause of nation
al honor, and the upholding Of the
American nation. We have presented
in this campaign question that should
in no sense be political, partisan or
sectional; strange but very serious
question, astounding indeed at this
juncture of our nation al affairs, a ques-
tion fraught with the greatest peril to
every interest of the United States. The
problem is not ole of the present, but
of tomorrow and hereafter-the bold,
paid question of national inte gritty and
national honor. (Great oheering.)
FIT is not a,questiop simply as to whether
one party or another shall win, az in
times past. That sinks into conlpa
tive inaigniicance in a crisis like this.
But it is question whether now in|
our greatest strength and majesty, wei
| shall proclaim to the world whether wei
are nation of people that CON be trust
ed, or whether we shall allow II to bel
| said that we, the people of the United
States, believe in paying our honest
debts in bits of metal stamped
in the name and by the
| authority of the great republic as worth
hundred cents, for all dues public and
private, when in fact they are worth
| only so cents.
My fellow oountrymen, the mere
statement of the proposition brings the
indignant answer of instant condemna-
t1on. (Cries of good and amen.) ! DOL
not know what you may think of such
proposition, excupt as I judge your
past history, resplendent as IL is and
has been in the annals Of history. feel
as believe that all Americans must
feel, when I contemplate suoh q project
like invoking the prayer of Patrick
Henry when. he cried aloud with fsrvent
voice, Forbid it, Almighty God.
We cannot afford to be Indifferent,
listless or unoOnoerned on such Ques-
tion and We are not. Men in every part
of the country are quickened into acttvil |
ty to avert the threatened danger, as |
they have seldom if ever been quick
ened before. There ls moro in life than |
food and raiment, land and wealth.
more in life than power and riches. What |
ever our condition relatively speaking, |
there comes a still small voice more
penetrating than the tempest that asks
and insist that we shall answer: is
this just, true and righteousf' and that
question addressed to every mans con.
science must follow us into every cleo
tion booth in the country. (Great cheers
and cries of 'it will'.
Ii we could profit by public dishonor.
we would spurn it. No nation, state
or individual ever did or can profit by
dishonor. The men in New England
will spurn as they have always spurned
reputation or dishonor in any form oe
gu1se in which it may be presented.
December Goth next. 1 believe you
celebrate the 376th anniversary of the
landing of the Pilgrims. The shades OF
three centuries are looking down upon
You and us. With the Pilgrims came
the glorious institutions of freedom OF
speech, freedom of faith and worship,
individual responsibility and inviolable
personal andbpublio honor. With shen
came the priceless gem of American