The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-10-28
ELOQUENT WORDS AND TRUE
MAJOR M'KINLEY'S GRAFTON TO
NEW ENGLAND PILGRIMS,

The Virtues of the Forefathers Beautifully
Extolled-They Brought Free Speech,
Freedom of Faith and InvioIable Per-
sonal and Public Honor-They Laid Our
National Cornerstone.
Canton, Oct. 27.--New England's dele
cation, several hundred strong, arrived
acre to-day in special trains, and Great
ed unbounded enthusiasm. In appro-
pirate words their spokesman alluded
to the non-partisan character of the
delegation, and referred to Major Nc
Kinley as representing in person the
great ideas for which men are to-day
standing under the republican banner,
irrespective of their former party afil-
iations.
In reply, Major Mckinley said: 'This
manifestation of the zeal of New
England in the republican cause and
the triumph of republican principles
is most encouraging and inspiring. /
do not feel that New England people
are altogether strangers to me. have
met them at their meetings on public
occasions, for now nearly twenty years,
and it has been my observation that
whatever considerations move New
England to any action, move every
other part of our common country.
(Great applause) What is good for
New England is good for Ohio. What
is good for New England is good for the
great west, and what is good for one
part Of our country is good for every
part. Applause.)
This Is a year, my fellow citizens,
when partisanship counts for but lit
tie, and patriotism for everything.
(Cries of good) This assmblage furn-
ishes an impressive tribute to the cause
of national honor and the upholding of
the American nation. We have pre-
sented in this campaign a question that
should In no sense be POLITICAL partisan
or sectional; strange, but very seri-
GUS question, astounding, indeed, at
this juncture of our national affairs;
a question fraught with the greatest
peril to every interest of the United
States. The problem is not one of the
present, but of tomorrow and of the
hereafter, the bold, bald question of
national integrity and national honor.
(Great cheering.) Both these are in
volyed in the die of our ballots one
week from to-day,
ut is not question simply as to
whether one party or another shall
win, as in time past, that sinks into
comparative insignificance in crisis
like this-but it is the question wheth-
er now, in our greatest strength and
majesty, we shall proclaim to the
world whether or not we are nation
of people that can be trusted, or wheth-
er or not we shall allow it said that
we, the people of the United States,
believe in paying our honest debts in
bits of metal stamped in the name and
by the authority of the great republic,
as worth a hundred cents for all dues,
public and private, when in fact they
are worth only fifty cents. My fellow
countrymen, the mere statement OF the
proposition brings the indignant an
swer of instant and instructive con-
demnation. (Cries of "Good.")
.sMy friends, 1 do not know what
YOU may think of such a proposition,
except as / judge Of your past his
tory. resplendent as it is and has been
in the annals of human affairs and
government; but I feel, as l believe
all Americans must feel, when / con-
template such a project like invoking
the prayer of Patrick Henry, when he
cried aloud with fervent voice, FORBID
it. Almighty God We cannot afford to
be Indifferent, listless or unconcerned
on such a question, and we are not.
Men in every part of the country are
uuickened into activity to avert the
threatened danger as they have seldom,
if ever, been quickened before. There
is more in life than food and raiment,
lands and wealthy-more in life than
power and riches.
ssWhatever our condition, relatively
speaking, there comes still small voice
more penetrating than the tempest,
that asks and insists that we shall
answer is this just, true and right
eous' and that question addressed to
every mans conscience must follow us
into every election booth in the coun-
try. (Great cheering and cries of 1T
will.'o If we could profit by public dis
honor, we would still spurn it, but no
nation, state or individual ever did, or
can profit by dishonor. The men of
New England will spurn, as they have
always spurned, reputation or dis
honor, in any form or guise in which
it may be presented.
"On December 20 next believe, you
celebrate the 376th anniversary of the
landing of the Pilgrim fathers. The
shades of three centuries are looking
down upon you and us. With the Pill
grim came the glorious institutions of
freedom of speech, freedom of faith and
worship, individual responsibility and
inviolable personal and public honor.
With them came the priceless gem of
American liberty with them came the
love of the family, church and school
and the blessed institutions of public
law and order, of a reverence for courts
and respect for constituted authority,
and these are to this day the leading
characteristics of our people, the very
corner stone of the national fabric.
(Three cheers.)
Shall we abandon our love for any
of these? (Cries of mo, no, never!'0
Shall we turn our old-time respect into
diSTeSpect for than 2 (Crips of asNPV-