Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-10-11
BIGGEST DAY YET AT CANTON
Mckinley Greets Four Hundred Carloads of
Enthusiastic Visitors
CANDIDATES MARVELLOUS ENDURANCE
Sound Money Doctrine ENpounded in
score Of Addresses ana Numerous
short Speeches. to Delegates
from All Parts.


CANTON. o., oct. 1O.-Each day is out
doing all records Of enthusiasm and num-
bors In Canton Forty special traiEloads Of
people came here today AZ O'Clock this
evening more delegations were coming, They
began coming at 4;3O this morning. They
came in greater numbers than ever before.
The paraphernalia Of parade was outdone.
Merchants. worklngmen, hardware men,
commercial travelling men, bishops, preach
ers, miners, evangelists, peters, bankers,
railroad men, southern planters, iron opcr-
atlves, molders and many other trades and
professions each had special parties and
professions. They came from Iowa, New
York, kentucky, Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri West Virginia,
Maryland and Ohio in large delegations.
They came in small parties from dozen
other states. They crowded Canton's wide
streets for miles as they were never crowded
before. They marched and countermarchcd
with sound and music galore. They out
yelled the wondrOus yell OF yesterday, the
famous rebel yell" from the Shenandoah
valley of Virginia, that kept the echoes
rolling all yesterday afternoon and evening.
They surgcd about the Mckinley home and
crowded over pOTChes and reviewing stands
until women tainted and men paled, fear
full Of panic and the crush that kills. And
calm and cool amid all this wonder of po-
litcal demonstrations Major Mckinley was
in the midst of 1t all day To have given
every caller handshake would have been
a physical impossihility. He made more
than a score of addresses and numerous
short replies besides. His friends who
were with him in his memorable campaign
of fvpFp tha nj tn ia Gull and
from Maine to Kansas. when he made nearly
800 speeches in four months say the cam
paign did not compare with that he is now
going through He was accessible to every
one. He only stopped shaking hands with
the thousands today to make addresses, and
then personally greet other delegations
His voice rang out clear and strong. Where
ever his eyes turned today from early morn
ing until late tonight he looked into the
eyes Of sea of faces. His friends have
wondered at his endurance. His visitors
today marveled at It, Congressman Boutelle
of Maine said nothing like today's doing had
ever been given in political history. Murat
Hastead said he had never known of any
man who had been given such greeting.
TURN NIGHT TO DAY.
At 10 o'clock tonight the Maryland dele
cation was holding a mass meeting at the
Tabernacle. The handsome new court house
and other public buildings were brilliantly
Illuminated WIN HONtl tltClllt tUttbS 1 ne
streets were filled with people Pyrotechnic
displays were added to the features through
out the evening. The bands kept up the
Sousa march under the beautiful Mckinley
arch. and up Market street and past the
famous home about which the earth is
trodden almost as the paved streets Rail-
road men say over 400 carloads of people
have been handled. Several delegations will
not attempt to leave town until Sunday.
repetition Of and an enlargement
along the same line OF the program
which has characterized every Satur-
day In Canton since the campaign was
properly opened began before day dawned
a special train arriving at that early hour
At short intervals afterwards other parties
came and the burden OF some thirty special
trains was scheduled for the day. by noon
the streets of Canton were crowded with
delegations for miles. The sidewalks were
filled with men and women cheering parad-
ers, who enthusiastically returned the sa-
lutes while they waited their turn to reach
McKinley's home.
The first event at the Mckinley home was
a meeting at o'clock. for which Lebanon
and Reading. Pa, furnished twelve carloads
OF people and Lansing and central Michigan
eight carloads. The PennsylvaH'ans were
introduced by Attorney Gabriel, mayor of
Lebanon, and the Michigan people by d. b.
Anger. Major Mckinley replied as follows:
My Fellow Citizens: Your early call is
an example OF the promptness which | trust
win be followed on the "a day of November
IN every part of our country. | bid my fell
low citizens or Michigan and Pennsylvania
warm welcome to my home ana my city
LIBERTY AND LABOR.
The best thing In this world next to lib
erty - labor and the best thing for labor
Is an opportunity to work. This L. the OPP
portnluty for which we are all striving this
year and which we hope through a change
of policy in the administration of the gov
eminent laws to enjoy to "A larger degree
than we have done in the last three and
half years. What we want more than
anything else in order to ind this oppor
dence. With confidence shaken money
seeks It's hiding place and goes out of the
channels Of business and legitimate invest
ment and away from farming manufactur-
ing and mining enterprises. l do not know
of single better illustration of the value
In our own experience during the last
twenty years. You viii remember that this
country resumed specie payment January
], 1879. We had outstanding then, we
have now, 3i6,0O0U0O of what Is commonly
known as greonback currency; every dollar
OF mat from that date was redecmabe in
gold upon presentation Mt the treasury OF
the United states. So great was the con-
hdence of the people in the ability of the
country that from 1879 to 1893 but $iG 900 600
was presented for redemption and the gold
taken out; SIG Geo coo I'm fourteen years and
yet in the last three and a half years since
confidence has been disturbed, more than
$500 900 OO0 of grecnbacks have been pre-
scented to the treasury of the United States
for redemption and the gold taken out
The holders of these greenbacks had been
.A4ssh' iNtAi iAl' anu tilfS were billN Illilt so
because the treasury of the United States
was not collecting enough money to pay it's
bills that the revenues of the treasury
Were inadequate for public expenditures.
and alarmed as they were they sent their
Grccubacks back for redemption and took
the gold out. The gold reserve, therefore,
was ,encroached upon and from time to time
we have been compelled to sustain 1t, to
borrow money TO put gold in the treasury
of the United States.
Now, the republican party believes that
Il IL the duty of the government, first to
raise enough to run the government We
don't want any deficiencies in the public
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