The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30

CANTON. O., Aug. 29-Two state del
egations which were expected today,
postponed their visits at the last mo-
nent, and instead of four Major Nc
Kinley made two speeches today.
The second one was to a thousand
Gegman-American voters from Cleve-
land. who arrived on a special train at
4 O'Clock and marched TO the McKin-
ley residence with their own bands and
giee clubs.
Each man in the delegation carried
a small American flag, and several
large ones were borne in the process
sion at different points There We're
fully 1000 people clustered in densely-
packed groups about Major McKin-
ley's home, awaiting the arrival of the
GeTman-American delegation Most of
the Chicago commercial club was there.
VIII 4 Major Mckinley appeared, the
thousand Cleveland men waved their
flags. The first speaker. Captain E. II.
Bohm, was introduced by Colonel Louis
Smithnighs. The next spokesman for
the German Americans was ex-Repre-
sentative Snyder He made an address
declaring that the German Americans
would stand by Mckinley as a ''stone
wall for sound money" and protec-
ton. On election dag the speaker de-
clared. they viii speak for prosperity,
for honesty and national honor
MKINLEY TAKES THE CHAIR.
When Major Mckinley mounted the
chair to speak. the cheering was tu-
muituous. He said:
My fellow citizens:-lt is with pc
cliliar pleasure and satisfaction that
welcome this representative body of
GeTman-Anerican citizens of Cleveland
and of northern Cho to the city of
Canton-and my own homo. l appre-
clafe. most heartily, your call which,
as compliment TO myself, prize very
highly, but more than all and above
all value II as significant expression
of your interest and zeal in the great
political campaign upon which we have
entered. (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 civiization-safe and steady in
every emergency, and patriotic in every
crisis tGreat applause) Loving your
mother country as you do, so affection
ately, 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 Transpianted in the free soil
OF America. German characteristics
have strengthened our institutions and
exercised both a saluaaTy and wise in
fiuence in
OUR PROGRESS AS A NATION.
Love of fatherland-that deep and no
BILE sentiment which has ever distin-
guished you. means to our German
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
fui obedience to constituted aufhori-
ties have been distinguishing traits Of
the German on both sides of th,, At
lantic, while hatred of wrong and on
preston has called him to arms as
quickly from his farm on our western
prairIes as from his ancestral vine
yard on the Rhine. Historians have
recorded in all it's 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 enrolled in IFS
splendid history the imperishable fame
of thousands who SO nobly suffered
and died for their imperilled country
(Great cheering-) But no such enumer-
alton, honorable as it is, can do full
justice to the service of those brave
men, nor can 1t estimate at its true
value their firm support of the Union
IN IT'S moral effect upon all our peo-
pie (Applause.) Proudly can the Ger
fnan-AmeT i:an soldiers point to their
deeds of vaior and suffering in that
great war. Confidently can they claim
that they brought no shame upon the
German name and bore themselves
upon hundred fields in America as
wen as did the soldiers Of Frederick
and Blucker of the old wars and Won
Nolitke n the
GREATEST EUROPEAN WARS
Of recent years. Great cheering1 The
government appreciated their splendid
services Mhen the news of the fail of
Rlchmond reached Washington, the
people assembled in large numbers at
the residence of Mr.. Seward. the fq,en
secretary of state. Responding to their
call Tor speech, the premier said.
among other things: Il am now abont
writing my foreign dispatches. What
shall 1 tell the king of Prussia,
He answered his own question with
this glowing tribute to our German fell
low citizens:
been as faithful to the standard of the
Union as his excellent minister. Baron
Gerolt' has been constant in his friend
ship to the United States CTremendous
applausel
My fellow citizens, better or more
faithful soldiers never mustered under
any flag. fighting for any cause. than
those willing and sturdy German-Amer-
lean volunteers. Great cheering and
cries of 'Hurrah for McKinley.0 The
troops who fought under Which and
Siegel, hautz and Austerhaulz. Schurz
and Heintzelman. Hartrc Mt and Welt
eel, were the equals of their -rainad
kinsmen of the imperial armies of Ger
many. (Renewed cheering.) You will
remember that old General Which used
to boast laughingly: Give me two bril-
gades of my
CoRN-FED WESTERN GERMANS
and 1 will land them on the north coas+
and take the empire tremendous ap-
plause and laughter)
General Sheridan, too, declared. after
visiting Europe, where he studied the
movements OF the Franco-Prussian war.
that he saw no troops that excelled our
own, either of eastern or western ar
mics, and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed
over and over again that the Germans
were true, patriotic and faithful TO the
flag of our country. Great cheering
But my fellow citizens, it is of the Ger
man-American in peace that I wonld
now speak, conservative. Industrious
steady, sensible, honest, fond of home
and family, a good citizen-and who
could be fond of home and family and
not be good citizen2 Renewed cheers |
and cries OF sHurTah for Mckinley |
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