The record-union., 1896-08-30
One Thousand Representative Voters Of
Cleveland Visit the Major.
Who Are for Prosperity, Honesty and
National Honor.
The Commercial Travellers Mckinley
Club of Chicago, Five Hundred
Strong, Also Call Upon the Repub-
lican Nominee for President, and
Meet With a Most Cordial Re-
CeptiOn.
CeptiOn.

Meet With Most Cordial Re-
CeptiOn.
CANTON (O), Aug. 29.-Two State
delegations which We're expected to-day
postponed their visits at the last mo-
ment, and instead of four, Major Nc
kinley made two speeches to-day. The
second one was to 1000 representative
German American voters from Cleve-
land, who arrived on a special train
at 1 o'clock and marched to the Mckin-
ley residence with their own bands and
glee clubs. Each man in the delega-
ton carried a small American flag, and
several large ones were borne in the
procession at different points.
There were fully 1000 people clus-
tered in densely packed groups about
Major McKinleys home awaiting the
arrival of the German American dele
cation. Most of the Chicago CONNER
cial Club was there. When Major Nc
Kinley appeared the thousand Cleve-
land men waved their flags.
The first speaker, Captain E. H.
Bohm, was introduced by Colonel Louis
Smithnight.
The next spokesman for the German
Americans was ex-Representative Sny-
der He made a stirring address, de-
claring that the commandments
would stand by Mckinley as a stone
wall for sound money and protection.
On election day, the speaker declared,
they would speak for prosperity, for
honesty and national honor.
When Major Nc Kinley mounted the
chair to speak the cheering was tumult-
uous. He said:
My fellow-citizens: 1t is with pc
Culiar pleasure and satisfaction that
welcome this representative body of
German American citizens to Canton
and my own home. l appreciate most
heartily your call, which as d compH-
ment to myself L prize very highly,
but more than all and above all value
it as a significant expression of your
interest and zeal in the great political
campaign upon which we have entered.
e(Applause) The citizens of the United
States have learned not only to respect
but TO depend upon the Germans as a
greater potent influence in our civiliza-
tiCn-safe and steady in every emer-
NGreat applause)
Loving your mother country as you
do SO affectionately does not mean that
you love your adopted country less,
but that you have hearts big enough
for the love of both. (Applause and
cries of Good, good.D Transplanted in
the free soil of America, German char
acteristics have strengthened our insti-
tutionS and exercised both a salutary
and wise influence in our progress as
a nation. Love of fatherland, that deep
and noble sentiment which has ever
distinguished you, means to our Ger
man citizens always love of America
and her free institutions, and absolute
and unqualified devotion to every true
American interest. Great applause)
Respect for law and order and faith
full obedience to constituted authority
have been distinguishing traits of the
Germans on both sides of the Atlantic,
while hatred of wrong and oppression
has called him to arms as quickly from
his farm on our Western prairies as
from his ancestral vineyard on the
Rhine. Historians have recorded in all
its greatness the strength and service
of that gallant German army which
rallied to the standard of liberty and
union at the call of Lincoln. and en-
rolled in its splendid history the i'm
perishable name of thousands who SO
nobly suffered and died for their i'm
periled country. Great cheering
But no such remuneration, honorable
as il is, can do justice to the services
of those brave men. nor can it estimate
at its true value their firm support of
the Union in its moral effect upon all
our people. (Applause.)
"Proudy can the German-American
soldiers point to their deeds of valor
and suffering in that great war Con-
fdently can they claim that they
brought no shame upon the German
name and bore themselN es upon hun
dred fields in America. as well as did
the soldiers of Frederick and Blucher
in the old wars and Won Moltke in the
greatest European wars of recent years
Great cheering)
THE Government appreciated their
splendid services. When the news of the
fall of Richmond reached Washington
the people assembled in large numbers
at the residence of Mr.. Seward, the then
Secretary of State. Responding to their
call for a speech, the Premier said,
among other things: L am now writing
my foreign dispatches. What shall /
tell the King of Prussia?' He an
swered his own question with this glow
ing tribute to our German fellow citi-
gems: i Will tell him that the Germans
have been as faithful to the standard
Of the Union as has the excellent Min
ister Baron Gerolt been stanch in his
friendship to the United States Tire
mendous applause.)
My fellow-o tizens, better or more
faithful soldiers never mustered under
any flag. fighting for any cause. than
those willing and sturdy German vol
unteers. Cheers and cries of "Hurrah
Cor McKinleyr) The troops who fought
under Willich and Seigel. Kautz and
Austerhulz, Schurz and Eeintzelman.
Hartranft and Weitzel, We're the equals
of their trained kinsmen of the imperial
armies of Germany. (Renewed cheer
jng. You will remember that old Cen
Give me two brigades of my corn fed
Western Germans. and l will land them
on the north coast and take the empire
Tremendous applause and laughter)
General Sheridan. too, declared after
visiting Europe. where he studied the
movements of the Franco Prussian