The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-19
At ZENITH POINT.
Biggest Political Demonstration
in the Nations History
Occurs at Canton.
EIGHTY THOUSAND ATTEND
The Whole Day Long and Far Into the
Night Great Masses Of Men Pay
Tribute to William Mckinley.
Speeches by the Candidate, Cover
nor Hastings, Senator'S Cullom and
ThurStOn and Others Every Ex.
peCtation Far Exceeded.

sembled here today Conservative eS-
Inmates place the number Of people ON
the streets of Canton this afternoon
and evening at more than eighty thous-
and Pretty much the whole of
eastern Ohio, eastern West Virginia
and West Pennsylvania sent large dele
cations to Canton. The railways were
taxed to their utmost capacity and
every vehicle in the country seemed 30
have been brought into service. The
crowd was almost twice as large az the
organizers of the meeting had expect
ed, but it was orderly and the people
were well cared for.
Notwithstandingt the other attractions
in the city the home of Major Mcki in
ley was the centre of interest and
people clung about it TIL II o'clock at
night. They filed the yard. took pos
session of the porches and peercd in ut
the windows.
The streets and houses Of the city
were handsomely and very generally
decorated. No party lines were drawn
and the Democrats We're as active rs
the Republicans in their efforts to dis
pense hospitality and give cordial
greetings to the host of strangers
MCKINLEY RECEIVES.
Major Mckinley began shaking
hands directly after breakfast and ho
kept ii up till late this evening and
also made half a dozen speeches.
There was an impressive parade this
afternoon. The procession was an
hour and ten minutes in passing the
reviewing stand, and ii moved at a
very lively pace with no halts. In the
clubs. The post of honor was held by
the Americas club Of Pittsburg. Then
came the Mckinley club, of Akron,
Ohio 5000 strong. The E,lkins cadets
of Wheeling attracted much attention
by reason of their fine appearance.
There were also in the parade IL large
number of clubs composed of young
men who will cast their first votes for
Mckinley and Hobart
Major Mckinley rode at the head of
the parade. In the carriage with him
were Governor Bushnell, of Ohio. and
Senator Thurston, of Nebraska. When
the head Of the parade reached the
Mckinley house Major Mckinley left
his carriage and reviewed the thous-
ands of his supporters who marched
in the procession. On the stand with
Major Mckinley were Mrs. Mckinley.
Mrs. II. b. Hiestand, Hon. &. l.. KurtZ,
committee, Governor Hastings. OF
Pennsylvania, and Sylvester Everett.
of Cleveland. There was another big
parade in the evening and in addition
to the organizations which marched in
the afternoon was the Tippecanoe club
of Cleveland. Major Mckinley also
reviewed the evening parade.
THE SPEAKING BEGINS.
AT half past three o'clock the speak
ings began in the big tent There We're
10000 people packed into the tent and
half as many more standing about on
the outside waiting to get in. Cover
nor Bushnell, of Ohio, presided. He
was heartily applauded and when he
introduced Senator Cullom, of Illinois,
there was a storm of cheers. Senator
Cullom denounced free trade and free
silver, both of which he declared, Rry-
an favors. He eXtclled protection, and
stated that reciprocity and protec-
tive system must be re-establshed in
the land, that it may once more en-
joy to the full its increase of pros
perity, happiness, peace and good will"
The senator went into statistics to
show that gold is not growing scarcer,
fol a1.,i, s,,1
the amount of gold in the world per
capita is now four times as much as it
was 100 years ago. The speaker con-
tinued:
Let us see what would happen in tbs
event of the success of the nominees of the
Chicago convention. Our gold would leave
traction of $609.OO,0OO. The remainder of
our money would shrink in PURCHASING,
power equal to the difference between the
par value of the dollar and the bullion
price Of silver. That difference is now
about Al cents. So that our circulation
! would be contracted to that extent, and
we would have less than SO per capita in
| circulation Of actual money where Ne
now have $22
CULLOMS KEEN POINTS.
Mr.. Bryan says we would no doubt have
| panis at first after the adoption of
| Tree colnaSe) lie auInltS that lnucn. HE
| does not say whether 1t will be just a
| little wave which will wet the toes and
scare the timorous, or whether it will
| be the tidal wave which will engulf the
nation. Fellow citizens. there is no Use
| in deceiving ourselves in dealing with thi.
| question. We have more gold and more
| silver than we ever had before and alto.
| gether more circulating medium than We
| ever had before and we have no money
| that Is not ut par with gold, which IL the
recognized money in the commercial
| world. Let us not run off after moon.
shine theories pressed upon us by Bryan
| Tillman, Altgeld and men who may be
honest, but who are urging the people oi
this country to adopt policy or try. an
experiment In defiance of the facts of his.