The San Francisco call., 1896-10-23
SIX DELEGATIONS
MARCH TO CANTON
Virtually Ohio Day at the
Home of the Next
President.
Thousands of Voters Journey
Many Miles to Show Loyalty
TO Major Mckinley.
AMERICANS DEMAND HONESTY
They Will Show by Their Ballots
That Law and Order Must
Prevail.

CANTON. OHIO, Oct 22-Maior McKin-
lev made six speeches to-day. Five OF the
delegations were from Ohio and one from
the adjoining State of Indiana. The Ohio
people were so numerous and SO enthu-
siast;c that Major Mckinley told them
this might properly have been called Ohio
day The weather was delightful. Major
Mckinley, recognizing the fact that the
arguments are all in, made his speeches
shorter, crisp and inspiring. They in
= spired generous and at times multuous
applause.
The first delegation was from Creston,
Wayne County, Ohio 1t came at 1880,
and numbered al bout 300. Major McKin-
ley's response 10 the spokesman's address
was brief and happy. He spoke on the
twin issues of protection and sound money.
A delegation from Medina County, Ohio,
mum berlng more than 1000, called at L: 80.
There were bands and a good glee club
with it. which sang popular and campaign
airs while the throng was marching into
Major McKinley's yard. The delegation
was an enthusiastic one and gave Major
Mckinley rousing reception when he
rose to speak. He said that he liked the
spokesman of the delegation, who IS pres-
dent of the Baldwin University and who
had stated that he WAS a lifelong Demo
crat who felt it his duty to vote the Re-
publican ticket this year.
This is not partisan campaign" he
said. "It rises altogether above that. 1t
is campaign, as l view it, for the United
States, its honor, its credit, its currency,
its welfare. and l welcome the assistance
which comes to our cause from every quar-
ter of the country, from men who hereto
fore have not been identified with us iE
party associations. Professor Warner is a
good enough Republican for me this year
[laughterl, and he does not stand alone
[cries of mo, no'']. for in every State OF
the Union there. are good old-fashioned
Democrats who love their country's honor
and esteem it more highly than they do
any political association, no matter how
long they have been members OF it, and
they are with US in this contest for the
public honor. 1 am glad to meet the
young men from the college of Berea. |
am glad in this contest we can submit our
principles to the educated men of the
United States and I rejoice that in every
college of the country, East and West,
where a poll has been taken large ma
jority is always found in favor of finan-
cial integrity and the National honor.
''Some people seem to think that the
way to enrich this country is to coin the
silver of the world at the ratio of 16 to 1.
Well, if 16 to ! is good thing 81 to l is
better, for 80 to 1 better expresses the
commercial relation between gold and
silver than Is to /. If we are TO coin silver
in dollars you want to put enough in
every dollar to make it 100 cents every
where, SO that the dollar will not cheat
anybody, either a public or a private
creditor. But, my friends, there ls more
involved in this campaign than the ques-
ton of currency. There is the question of
whether this is to be government by law
whether the law is to be supreme over
all, whether the courts OF this country,
which are a sheet-anchor for US in every
time of trouble, are to be sustained or TO
become the mere creatures of party eau
Gus. Away with it! [Applause.l This Is
Government by law and the people will
render a verdict on the Sd day of Novem
Der sustaining both law and courts"
From Barnesville, Belmont County, and
some smaller towns in the neighboring
counties of Noble and Guertney, the next
delegation came. It was made UP of
workingmen, farmers and miners, and it
mum bered nearly thousand. Major Nc
Kinley said:
II take it the people about me, at least
those who can hear my voice, are opposed
to debasing the money of the country.
Every man. whether he has much money
or little, wants it good. He wants a
money stable in value, uncorrupted and
uncorruptible; a money that will be
worth 100 cents on every dollar, wheth Ell
he keeps it or paris with it, whether he
receives it in payment for labor or fos
farm products, or pays it to the merchant
or the banker. l think that no man in
Ohio wants the obligations of the United
States dishonored 10 the extent of single
farthing. We have fought this battle
over and over again. The Democratic
party, or one wing of it, at least, once de-
clared that we must repudiate the bonds
of the United States, but the Republican,
party said No, these bonds were issued to
save the flag of the country, and every
dollar must be paid in as good currency as
the world knows And we paid off under
that policy more than two-thirds of thar
great National debtY
The GAINESVILLE delegation was closely
followed by great one from Marietta,
Ohio, which included some visitors from
Morgan County. The Marietta delegation
coming from the first settlement in the
whole Northwest Territory aad country
rich in historical associations and sugges-
1 tions caused Major Mckinley to recall
4 some scenes, incidents and events OF the
past. Then he said:
Y Our honor is impugned, our currency
Is threatened, our courts are assaulted, the
very fabric of our Government is involved
in the controversy which we must settle
one week from next Tuesday. This is not
a partisan contest; it is contest ull
upon genuine nafriotism and looking to