The Portland daily press., 1896-09-21
POURING INTO CANTON.
Rain Didn't Keep ssThrongs Away
1 Saturday.
MAJOR MCKINLEY ADDhESSES
THOUSANDS OF WORKINGMEE.

THOUSANDS Vr "oAAANU MGNs
awa Want Neither Short Work or Short
Dollars" Says He, Neither Free Trade
or..Free Silver.
Canton, o., September 19.-In spite OF
rain and bad weather people began pour
ing into Canton this morning ut lively
rate, and with the single exception OF
yesterday, today furnished the largest
crowd of the campaign.
The first arrivals were railroad men
from the railroads entering Chicago
They came In sections, each of the roads
having a train or more, as necessary for
The first one arrived at 9.15 and Others
came at intervals of 10 minutes, it being
noon when the last reached the oity. In
the meantime trains from other direo
tions had come with loads.of people to be
provided with shelter. They were sent
to various halls about the city.
Aside from the railroad men the dele
gates scheduled for the day were Repub-
licans of Hutton. Penn. two train loads
from the Carnegie Steel works at Home
stead; people from stations between
jamestown, N. Y, and New Castle,
Penn; from points on the Westarn New
York and Pennsylvania railroad, all ar
riving shortly after noon. In the after
noon, commercial travellers from Clnc1n-
natl, commercial travellers from Pitts
burg and a number OF trains from NORTH
ern Ohio are scheduled.
The first of the Pennsylvania delega-
tions, thai from Hutton, brought about
1000 and two bands. Rain was pouring
down when they arrived, and the party
was taken to the Grand Opera house for
the reception, instead of on the lawn,
as usual The good wishes of the visitors
We're extendsd by Gen. A. O.. Litchfield
and DR.. G. NJ. C. Campbell. both of
Oakmont. Major Mckinley responded
from the Opera house stage. Mr.. Mokin.
ley was
TUMULTUoUSLY CHEERED
when he rose to respond. He said:
s.My comrades and fellow citizens. 1t
gives me great qualification to meet at
my home my fellow citizens and old
comrades in the war from Allegheny
county and the State of Pennsylvania. l
appI eciate the kind and generous mes
sages presented me in your behalf and
am glad to be assured that in Allegheny
county in the year 1896 you are faithful
to Republican principles and deeply in
terested in the success of the Repu blioan
cause. No State in the Union knows
more about the great doctrine of the pro-
tective tariff than Pennsylvania. No
State in the Union has felt its benefits
mi than and nn Sfato in the
Union has suffered more from its with
drawal than yours; and no class of our
population has suffered SO mich under u
revenue tariff policy as the 1aboring peo-
ple OF the country. think you want the
return of that splendid protective policy
under which for more than thirty years
we enjoyed prosperity and under whica
We made this the greatest mining, great
est manufacturing and greatest agriciul-
turRl nation of the world and under
which the manufacturers of this country
would be enabled to pay better wages
than are paid in any other country of the
world, and better wages than were ever
paid under revenue tariff policy in the
history of our country.
Il am one of those Americans Who be-
lieve that American workshops should be
protected against foreign workshops.
(Tremendous APPLAUSE I believe Amer
loan working men should be defended by
a ise and judioious protective policy
against the working men OF the old
world. In word. believe
THIS COUNTRY IS OURS
and we, first of all. are entitled to enjoy
its privileges and blessings. The. first
thing We want in this country is plenty
to do and when we have that. then we
want to be paid in good money for whal
dn Wa raifn1r short ypnrE
short dollars in the United States. We
neither want free trade nor free silver
in the United States. We want opportu.
nifty to work and we want to be paid
when we have improved that opportuni-
ty. We want to be paid in dollars worth
as the day of their receipt. Free trade
has cheated you in your wages and we
do not propose to permit free silver to
cheat US in our pay. l am glad to meet
my comrades OF the war whose cause has
been SO el0quently presented here this
morning. We fght.-our battles now with
the ballot. The only force needed now
triotism. And with this we are bound
to achieve victory next November.
While Mr.. Mckinley was speaking a
big
DELEGATION OF STEEL WORKERS
from the Carnegie mills, Pittsburg ar.
rived and he was interrupted a few min.
utes. When the Major finished he intro
duced Senator Cullom, who made ring.
ing speech. E. j. Noble of Chicago spoke
while the Carnegie delegation was being
seated. The spokesman for the steel
workers was L. 4. Brown. He told
Major Mckinley that the working men
were enthusiastically for him. Major
MoK inlav thor, odn than, Ho cojd
that they had tried the protective policy
of the Republican party and the free
trade, revenue policy of the Democratic
party and asked his hearers which they
liked best, telling them that if they pre-.
ferred protection the only way to get il