Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-09-20


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Meet Him and Cheer Him on the
POrch-Ouite a. Crowd on Hand
Yestardsv
Canton, Ohio, September l9.-Scarcely
had the echoes of Yesterdays big DEM
,..-,.~o.;o., -. .ro e,or,o or Motor Mo
''''oii So
Alhi5y d-ed away ere Ihe distant rum
blngs OF to-day's doings were heard.
Barring :he local campaign opening
restsrlov t,is hos bsen tho h,goas- dem
80 49, ''.'' -'', -. ,-. 30 ~.
o"s'- "'IOH since INC Ao'ii-ii''-oA' ! iioi'
were ten visiting delegations of from
one t. six thousand each and utilizing
,-,.s,-,.-si,- sr.oisl +rs;,,s and ss imared
a. nom 4O'oU0 10 4o'OOo. iHeIe WAS q
cold drilling rain al forenoon and
when il ased the temperature fell rap
idly and overcoats were II demand.
Alter ,he TWO receptions in the Opera
House in ne forenoon, one TO the yisi-
JOrs from Houl,on, Verona, Oakmount
and other boroughs OF Allegheny c0un-
y, ana ,he other TO he employees OF The
Carnegie City Mills, of Pittsburgh, the
speechmaking was transferred to the
Mckinley lawn, part CT il being done IN
tle ram.
Il was a big delegation of railroad
men, TOO large Tor any hall, who set The
eX- mp.o OF detyinS The elements. They,
Wih The three or four hundred tele-
grapherS who Came with them, sur
rounded the little receiving stand on the
Majors lawn and listened 10 and
cneer-d the assurances OF hearty sup
port delivered by their spokesman. J.
W. Dodge, OF Inc Illinois Central, and
NJ. j. Burke, on behalf OF the telegraph
ers.
The crowd was so large and other
delegations crowding so last that the
usual programme Of Misunderstanding mad
20 be eliminated. But those nearest
Major Mckinley made a rush for n.m
and s.de tearing down part of The
s.aud, almost tore MS Clothes from his
back.
TAO delegations were massed in one
for The next address. They were the
people from Mercer county Pa. about
900 in numb r, and the Bu.er coun-
a., Pa, delegation, about as large a one.
These delegations brought three or four
bands, a number Of clubs. and four or
FIVE hundred sally uniformed men.
Congratulations addresses were made
by John B. Harris, puddle boss of the
sharon Iron Company's rolling mills:
s. NJ. Evans. president of the Sharon
Mckinney and Hobart protective gold
standard club. and II. II. Zeig- zr. chair
man If the Mercer County Republican
Executive Committee. on behalf OF
Mercer county. and by Col. in. Thomas
on behalf OF BuIer county. Each as
slIed Major Mckinley that his majority
would be tn largest in the history of
the Keystone Stale.
Major Mckinley hurried to the house
wh-n his address TO these delegations
was finished to pay some attention to
The individual callers awaiting him in
the library. He just reached the door
when the committee Of the railroad
mems gold standard club Of the northern
division OF tne Piisburg & W-s,ern
railroad from FoXburg, Pa, overhauled
MIN ana OCuidAUtU 81 -cS IO4SG 40 luc III
PRODUCING Of their president, D. G. Nor
iaI +, of Foxbu.g.
The mex, delegation to seek an audi
euce was the commercial. travellers Of
Cincinnati. accompanied by Mayor Ca.d-
well and number of prominent Gin
cinn2i business men. There was a
large AID distinguished looking deiega-
ton which had literally packed a ;rain
OF twenty coaches. The members OF
oao organization wore white hats, large
b5oSes ana cduss' @u1 were wei? s'' y, 10 i'l II
in appearance. Music was furnished by
the First regiment band Lew y.
G0cdS-e, eX-Pres.den; OF the Clnc!nnal
| Chamber OF Commerce, was the spoKes-
man.
The C!ncinlatians had surrounded
Major Mckinley on the porch ana were
shaking hands with him at the rate OF
more than one second when the horse
men escorted ,Ong line Of carriages
ana a longer l!le of marchers to the
gate. This body was the commercial
and lady friends in the carriages. They