The San Francisco call., 1896-10-03
CLOUDS CLEARED
AWAY At CAN TON
And They Will Disappear
From the Nation Next
Month.
M'KINLEY CAN'T LOSE.
That Is the Opinion of Leaders
Who Call Upon the
Major.
GREETINGS OF DELEGATIONS.
Confidence, Says the Republican Can.
didate, Will Restore the Pros.
perity of the Nation.

CANTON, ONO Oct. z.-After nearly
week of continuous rain and wind, which
have greatly intcrfered with the reception
of delegations by Major Mckinley, the
sun broke out this morning and the
clouds were cleared away. Among Major
McKinley's early callers were Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts;
Theodore Roosevelt, president of the New
York Police Board; Congressman Dalzell
of Pennsylvania and Congressman Nelson
ingley, chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee. They have been making
speeches in this part of the country and
called to pay their respects to the candi-
date and tell him of the prospects in the
different sections in which they have
travelled. This is how they sum up the
situation:
Mr.. Dingley said: "The outlook for q
Republican victory is more than promis-
ing. 1t seems now only question of how
large a plurality will be given Major Nc
Kinley."
Mr.. Dalzell said: 81 have been all
through West Virginia, and 1 am con-
vinced that the State will be carried by the
Republicans"
Mr.. Lodge said: Speaking for Massa-
chusetts, can say that the majority for
Mckinley this year will far exceed the
Republican majority of two years ago,
which was "a, 000."
Mr.. Roosevelt said: THE indications
are that New York will give Mckinley the
greatest majority ever accorded any can
didate. In fact the sentiment in the East
is all in favor of the Repu blican ticket"
Rutherford Hayes, son of the late Presi-
dent Rutherford B. Hayes, called on
Major Mckinley to-day, as did also Harry
Garfield. son of the late President James
A. Garfield. Bishop Van Week called this
afternoon.
About noon a delegation of $50 farmers
from the West Virginia panhandle arrived.
They were met the depot by the Canton
mounted troop and escorted to the taber-
nacle. The members of this delegation
claim that many of the farmers who had
contemplated joining the party at Wheel
ing were detained because of washouts on
the railroads caused by the recent floods.
A delegation of railroad men from Chi
cago junction and Huron County, Ohio,
about 900 strong, arrived al about the same
time.
In response to the addresses delivered
by the spokesmen for their delegations
Major Mckinley said:
1t gives me special pleasure to meet at nv
home in joint meeting the citizens of the
State of West Virginia and of my own native
State. A Republican has no embarrassment in
speaking to an American audience. He does
not have to make different speech for a diff
ferent locality. daughter and applause The
great thought of the people of this country,
wherever they may reside or whatever NAV be
their occupation, is how we are to get back as
Nation to the old conditions of business
activity and prosperity. In single word. the
trouble with the country Is lack of conf
dence. AS to what has brought about that
lack of confidence we may differ; that there is
lack of confidence everywhere every one
must concede, for every citizen has felt it in
his own trade and experience. Now, what is
this thing called "business confdencen9 It is
belief in the stability of values; faith in our
markets and our money; faith that the con-
sumption of next year will be as great or
greater than the present one; faith that men
will have work and that the currency of the
country will be fixed aad stable and undepre-
ciating in value. (Great applauseJ
This thing called .'business Confidence,
never shuts up an American mill never re-
duces wages or curtailed employment; never
refuses loans; never got up a run on bank
never stopped mine; never created idleness
among laboring men. [Applause.l When con-
fdence is present with us the Sheriff has less
to do [great laughter and applause] and adyer-
tises fewer forced sales. [Renewed applause I
The court docket registers fewer judgments.