The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-10
PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATION.
A Delegation of Twenty-Five Hundred
Drop in on Mckinley.

Canton, o., Sept. 5.-The Beaver
county Pa delegation reached the Nc
Kinley home $500 strong at 1915 this
afternoon. They came on special trains
over the Pennsylvania road. After an
enthusiastic march through the streets
to the Mckinley home the number was
doubled by acquisitions along the route
and in the city. The reception given
Maj. Mckinley when he appeared upon
the porch to greet his visitors was one
of the most enthusiastic scenes yet wit
| messed ut the house.
Edward \. Frethy presented con-
SratulatiOnS and assurances of hearty
and continuous support for Mr.. Mckin-
ley.
Maj. Mckinley made an appropriate
response. He said it gave him great
pleasure to receive the call from the
workingmen and citizens of Beaver
county, Pennsylvania.
Il greet you at my home as friends
and allies in the great cause in which
the honor of the country and prosperity
of the people are involved. The last
four years have been long years, the
longest four years since our great civil
war. Everything has been blighted but
republican principles and they are bright
er and more cherished than ever before.
II have great affection for your old
(cries of hurrah for Mckinley Both
have stood for the nation and its honor
in every crisis of our history. No state
in the Union has been so closely welded
to republican doctrines and republican
policies as the state of Pennsylvania.
Cries of hurrah for Pennsylvania |
do not recall time in the history of the
country when the question of protection
was at issue that your state did not de-
clare by emphatic majorities in its favor.
Il remember well that when The Wilson
tariff law went from the house to the
senate and was under discussion, Sena-
tor Quay stood resolutely for every inter-
est in his state and prevented the de-
struction of the great industries by his
great speech, which was the longest ever
delivered upon the tariff question in the
history of the republic and which has
not been concluded. Great laughter
and applause) When he was fighting
for the industries of your state on the
floor of the senate he said he could not
save them in any other way. so he re-
sumed his speech Qaughter), which went
on day after day without apparent dimi-
mutton of his manuscript, which lay be-
fore him. daughter and cries of
hurrah for Quay.) | wish he might
have been part of this great delegation
today, but his absence is partly compen-
stated by the fact that i'll another part
of this, great field of contest he is serving
the same cause in which you are en-
gagged.
Our glorious country has suffered no
| dshOnor in the past; it must suffer no
dishonor in the future. Great ap-
plause) The past is secure and glo-
rious. The present and future are our
fields of duty and opportunity. Those
who have preceded us have done well
their part. Shall we be less honest and
patriotic and brave in the performance
of our part? Cries of no, MOI
I'm America we spurn all class dis
tinctions. We are all equal citizens,
equal in privilege and opportunity. In
America, thank God, no man is born to
power. Nor are any assured OF stand
ing except by his influence and worth.
The history of our country has proved
that the humblest in youth are frequent
| ly the most powerful in the strength and
maturity of age Cries of that's right
| 1t has long been demonstrated that the
philosophy of Jefferson is true and that
| this. the land of the free sef-governed,
is the strongest as well as the hest gov
eminent in the world. Let us keep it so
(cries of we will do our part). men of
Pennsylvania. friends and neighbors; let
me bid you be faithful to the facts, ira
make their standard of patriotism and
duty your own. Be true to their glori-
ous examples, and, whatever difficulties
of the present or problems of the future
may be, meet them in the same spirit of
unhinching loyalty to country and to pub
lie morals, the same devotion and love
for home and family, the same acknowl-
cdgmcnt of dependence upon God that
always characterized those grand men
who buldcd the republic and have, sus-
tanned it ever since. (Applause) There,
| in rests your greatest prosperity ana
happiness and the surest attainment OF
your best and dearest interests and hopes.
Have confidence in the strength of our
free institutions. They must he pre-
served and there is no hope IN the world
like them. applause and cries of
hurrah for McKinleyQ
MY fellow citizens, it has gwen me
extreme pleasure, | assure YOU, to meet
and greet you here at my home, today
and It will give me still greater pleasure
to meet and greet each one of you per-