The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

HE GOOD people OF Jnls country can
not find words 10 express their graft
tude to Major Mckinley for the service
which, as a modest, self-respecting citi-
zen-splendidly gifted in all that con-
stitutes a leader of men-he is daily
rendering at his home in Canton. 1t
is a spectacle which has not been wit
messed before Each day the throngs
appear, representing all phases and
grades of American life, and for each
this man of the people has a fitting
word. Gray-haired veterans come with
their thrilling memories of heroic days
and deeds, and Mckinley remembers
that he, too, enlisted as private, devO-
ted then as now to upholding the SOW
ereignty of law and the honor of the
Nation. The boys come, who have yet
their first ballot to cast, and Mckinley
inspires them with the thought of the
grand patriot, Abraham Lincoln, for
whom his first vote was east. The
sturdy wOTkingmen come from factor
les and mills Of many kinds, bringing
their lOngings for return of the better
days when for every willing man there
was work, with good wages in honest
dollars, and Mckinley tells them there
j. no miracle about il, but that the laws
of 1892 will restore the prosperity of
ISg2. Commercial travellers and rail-
road men, fresh from contact with the
people all over the land, bring words of
cheer, and Mckinley tells them of their
great influence and high responsibility
in the struggle to save untarnished the
Nations honor. Sweet girls and gentle
women bring with them an avalanche
of fragrant flowers, and Mckinley wei
comes them to the quiet home, graced
by wife cherished through years of
suffering with knightiy devotion, and
awakens in them, too, the desire to do
something to save the country and the
homes of the people from distress.
Always manly and dignilied, always
appealing to the nOblest and most up
lifting motives, never at a loss for a
pithy statement of the truths upon
which intelligent and patriotic action
must depend, William Mckinley leads
the Nations thought and feeling to-day
more truly than any other man living.
No word of unfairness to opponents
crosses his lips. Those who struck
down the National policy which gave
the people prosperity are greeted with
cordial welcome, if they come to help
i'm avoiding National dishonor to-day.
Errors are exposed with a simplicity
and clearness of statement which few
can command, but behind every argU-
ment and every appeal il a serene and
unwavering faith in the integrity and
good sense of the people-in their will
lingness and ability to judge rightly if
the truth Is placed before them. To
such man the arts of the demagogue
are useless, and every word that tends
TO kindle hostility against the sovereign
authority or between classes or sections
seems hasely disloyal.
The Republican party could not have
anticipated that the candidate SO wisely
selected 10y the popular choice for this
emergency would prove himself -
powerful force in shaping public opin-
ion. 1t builded better than it knew,
as parties Will IT times, when they for
get the counsels Of small eXpediency,
and select the champion of a great prin-
ciple. 1t was because Major Mckinley
had become better known than any
other man a. the leader i'm framing
prosperity-bTinging tariff that the peo-
pie insisted upon him as the represent
ative Of their desire. But weeks before
they reach the ballot-boX they have
come 10 know him rs one of the wis, st
and ablest leaders, one of the strongest
statesmen, one of the purest and best
men the Republic has yet produced.
The Nation is honored before all the
world which can call from the ranks of
private citizenship such a man To meet
4 grave emergency.-N. y. Tribune.