The herald., 1896-09-27
BLACK SILK HATS
AND linen BUSTERS
Worn as Uniform by Nc.
Kinley Visitors
funds AVAILABLE FOR CLOTHING
Which Were Not Expended fof
Fare III
NUMEROUS MANUFAcTUR ERS
Send Delegations Of Employees to Chesf
for Protection
NUMEROUS MANUFACTURERS
Send Delegations Of Employees to Cheer
for Protection
Coal Miners and Glass Workers Ride ~
Palace Cars
A Band Of Buffalo Real Estate 1eA
Receive a Lecture on the Bless
ings of Confidence-All Are al
Greeted Personally. az

Associated Press Special Wire
CANTON, Ohio, Sept. 26.-Today hooN
been the most notable day Of the caxn-
paign in Canton, except the formal
opening of the county campaign on FRI
day. last week, the crowd exceeding thae
of any other demonstration. -Four Or
five states were represented In the days
doings. and delegations came from be-
| tween twenty and thirty towns, extend-
| ing as far west as Peoria, ILL.,, ana a. TAR
-->-A--s- xsuAolo--=The delegations were.
| SO massed that Mr.. Mckinley managed
| to address them in eleven speeches. The
! closing demonstration Of the day was
| that of the Peoples Patriotic club Of
Cleveland, under the auspices Of MrA
J. w. Sheperd, the Ladies' Marching
club and band and other organizations
Of Cleveland. The delegations repre-
senting the Western Reserve Of Ohio
required six special trains for trans
portation. 1t included organized bodies
of naturalized American, who were for
merly subjects of Bohemia, Hungary,
Italy, Germany, Poland, Afro-Amer1-
cans, and first voters. Mayor McKis-
sen Of Cleveland was master of cere-
monies. A small delegation brought
the congratulations Of Piqua and Miami
county, Pa. Hon. T. B. Kyle presented
the party.
A special train, bearing several hun-
dred commercial travellers from the
vicinity of Peoria, ILL.,, arrived here
this morning. The men were uniformed
in linen busters and black silk hats, and
each carried a large bunch of red, white
and blue plumes. They went direct to
the Mckinley residence, where they
were presented by Congressman ]. "
Graft Of Illinois. After Mr.. Gran's
speech, Mckinley said to the travellers:
Il congratulate you on the splendid
victory you achieved two years ago In A
electing your present congressman and
turning strong Democratic minority
into an overwhelming Republican ma
jortiy. (Great applause and cries Of
"We'll do 1t again.') And am glad
to hear it is your purpose to do 1t again.
1 congratulate you upon the thriving
city and glorious state in which you
live. Illinois Is now, by the census, the
third state In population in the United
States. 1t is taking the place Of Ohio,
but will always believe you took your
census while Ohio was visiting your
great metropolis, getting ready for the
rahs for McKinley) congratulate you
also upon the rank Illinois has taken in
craftsmanship. Few states have fur
nished the union with such men as you
have furnished--Yates, Oglesby and that
splendid soldier and patriotic statesman
Grant, and that noble Democrat, Doug
las. who loved his country far more than
he loved his party and who gave the
whole weight Of his mighty influence to \
Lincoln in the crucial period in the his
tory of the republic. (Great applause
And no man can think of your great
state without recalling that you fur
nished mankind and the ages with Lin
coin. the greatest statesman OF thin
country or any other in history And &
when he issued his immortal proclamas
ton of liberty, the whole world knew
that what Lincoln had decreed, Grant
would execute with the thunder Of hio
artillery. (Great applause.) M
Il am glad to know that your PROS
poets are so good for a splendid victory =
in Illinois this year. tremendous cheer
ing and cries of I'VE will give McKinlen
100000 What a spectacle to the world 4
is this government-70, 900 900 free peo-
pie, governed by themselves. governing
themselves, changing their chief exec Y
utive every four years and their law-
making power every two years, II It 49,
their will SO to do, and the government
going on without halt or Interruptions
working out what 70,ooo.000 Of people 81
from time to time, decide will subseyvG
their highest destiny.
More than 120 years have passed ainooz'
this government was founded. ana ing@
every trial our history has fully doanSi
onstrated our capacity for self govern
msnt, and shown Al mankind The -