The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-11-05
/ WAS A RED Letter Day.
YESTERDAY WAS ONE OF THE
BIGGEST DAYS OF THE CAM
PAIGN AT CANTON.
DELEGATIONS arrived NIL DRY
The First One Reaching Canton Before
Z a. m.-Business Men, Farmers.
Mechanics and Bankers Repre-
scnted-Five Speeches Made.

Canton, o.. Oct. 29-Histories of the
campaign of 1896 will record Thursday,
October 20. as one of the red letter days.
Maj. Mckinley has been kept busy since
early morning and visitors came so fast
about the middle of the day that he
could not find time to lunch until after 3
O'Clock. One party was in town before
Z O'Clock. but considerably delayed their
call until the major had finished his
breakfast. Others came at short inter-
walls during the day, and the crowd be-
came so large that the speaking had to
be transferred from the porch to the re-
viewing stand. Every caller was intent
upon shaking hands with the nominee,
and, so far rs possible, the opportunity
was granted.
AT one time the crowd became so large
it was impossible to organize u line for
II hand-shaking reception, but hundreds
in the party fingered about the house
waiting for the major to reappear, and
towards evening he came out upon the
porch to meet them.
Maj. Mckinley made five formal adj
dresses, the last to seven carloads of peo-
pie coming from Fulton and Williams
counties, Ohio, and delegates and others
from eastern counties in Indiana. There
were two Introductory addresses, and
five audiences addressed were composed
of fourteen delegations, in which there
were railroad men, business men, man
ufacturers. mechanics, miners, oil men,
glass workers, iron workers, bankers,
professional men, printers, men and wO-
men, Office employees, coming from four
states-West Virginia. Pennsylvania. In
diana and Ohio. Besides the five speeches
Maj. Mckinley received a large number
of individual callers from all over the
country, shook hands with n large party
of women stenOgraphers from Akron,
who had n tally-h0 parade and who were
afterwards received by Maj. Mckinley 5
mother, met and spoke informally ut his
library to the directors and officers OF
the German Deposit bank of Pittsburg
and made a brief address in the same
place, responding to the greetings of a
small party of business men aud manu-
facturers of Pittsburg,
To delegation from West Virginia
Maj Mckinley spoke in part as follows
IL am glad to receive assurances
through your spokesman that, acting as
free and independent citizens, you bring
tidings of good will to me as the candi
ances Of your purpose to give to that
party your unfaltering support on the
Bird of November. applause and cries
''Wp will"
1T is the proud boast of our American
citizenship that every one of us is equal
before the law, that our constitution and
laws recognize neither creed, color MOI
conditions, but all alike are amenable to
the constitution and laws; all alike enjoy
their blessings and benefits and all alike
are equal in the exercise of that great
sovereign power, the ballot, which next
Tuesday you will, | trust, exercise for
your own best interests and the inter.
ests of your state and country. Some
people seem to think that the way to net
rich in this country is to depreciate the
quality of the money we have, and some
people have gone so far as TO say that
it does not make any difference. about
the quality of the money so we have the
quantity. | think some of the men who
are standing around me today who were
across the river during the late civil war
will remember that quality had very
much to do with the value of the money
and that while there was quantity in
plenty of certains kinds of money the
quality of it was so poor it would scarce
ly buy II breakfast Cries of "That's
right.') Mr.. Longstreet recently said in
a speech at Augusta: 1T was said of the
Il big hamper full of it was sent. to mar
ket for a basketfui of supplies for daily
family use. The last breakfast ! had in
Richmond. before Gen. Lee pulled us
away from there, was a small steak,
plain biscuit and warm water that had n
faint suspicion of coffee about it, and
this sumptuous repast cost me exactly
500 in Confederate money, and | felt
then | was swindling my host" | have
heard n poor private say he had to pay
5000 for a still scantier meal
"What we want in this country, my
fellow citizens, no matter where we live,
no matter what our occupations may be,
| favor good, honest dollars that have
value in them.
II thank you. my friends. for this call.
We are so near the time when this great
question is to render its verdict that ar
guments seem wholly unnecessary |
think you are all ready to VOTE loud
shouts of we are, we are.")
In speaking to delegations from Full
ton and Williams counties, Ohio, and
northwestern Indiana, Maj. Mckinley
said in part. as follows:
II am glad to note the depth of in
terest that the people of the country are
taking in the pending election, now but
few days off. / was struck by an ex-
preston by one of your spokesman that
you were ready for the contest. / be-
lieve there has been no time in our his
tory since the war that the people were
so anxious and impatient to vote and so
decided in their convictions as to the
character of their votes as they are this
year. | believe, too, that on the Bird of
November the verdict of the American
people will be for sound money, for pub
lie faith. public morals and protection
and reciprocity. 1t seems almost incom-
prehensible that the proposition which
comes from a certain quarter to debase
the standard of value in this country and
degrade our currency with which we are
doing our business--it seems almost in
omprehensible-tha it should have any
lodgment in the heart Of the American
citizen. If there is any one thing in
goyarnpnont thar ohouId no fxpd afa hIp