The record-union., 1896-09-18
Were Employees of Steel Works
Company at Bradford.
There Were Fully Thirty-Five Hum
dred People in the Party, and
Enthusiastically Cheered the Re-
publican Nominees Remarks Re-
lating to Their Interests - Fifty
Special Trains Filled With Ex-
CursiOnists to Arrive at Canton
To-Day.

lO-DdNs
CANTON (O), Sept. ia large and
enthusiastic delegation composed of
the employees of the Edgar Thompson
Steel Works at Braddock, Pa, arrived
on three special trains over the Penn
sylvania Railroad shortly after noon to-
day. The visitors We're accompanied
by the Sheridan, Sabre and st. Thomas
bands. There We're fully $500 persons
In the party. At the depot the visitors
were met by the Canton mounted troops
and large crowd of citizens When
the last Of the three trains had pulled
into the station the line was formed and
the delegation marched to the residence
of Major Mckinley.
The spokesman of the party was John
l.. Jones. He made a brief speech to the
candidate, in which he praised the pro-
lection principles of the Republican
party, and declared that his people We're
solidly for sound money.
Major Mckinley had been received
with a storm of cheering when he ap-
peared on the porch. This applause was
renewed when the spokesman had fin
ished his Introductory remarks and the
nominee had mounted chair to re-
spond. Major Mckinley said:
Mr.. Jones and my FellowC Citizens:
Many delegations have waited upon me
In the last two months. All have been
welcome and their visits have been in
spring; but somehow when an assem-
blage of workmen come to pay me
visit it attracts my interest and touches
my heart (CheerS.) l bid you well
come to my city and to my home. / can
we'll appreciate why the workingmen of
this country should have a deep and
profound interest in the outcome of the
present national contest. (Cries of I'VE
haveO We cannot fail to remember
that the one thing which stands be-
tween your labor and the labor of
Europe-the only one thing which
stands between your workshops and the
workshops Of the Old Worlds a wise.
patriotic, American protective policy.
Great cheering and cries of Right you
are.'D
I am very glad to have this large del
egation of the employees of the great
Edgar Thompson Steel Works at my
home. ((Applause and cries of We are
glad to be here.'O You have come, as
your spokesman has stated, TO bring
your good will and that of your fellow
citizens whom you represent l am glad
To have you come in the manner your
spokesman has acknowledgements
all creeds all colors and all classes; men
Who belong to the Republican party,
and those who have heretofore belonged
to other parties. now acting together for
what they believe to be the common
good applause and cries of What's
the matter with Mckinley? He's all
right')
This is distinctively the peoples
wear. when old lines are effaced and men
heretofore opposed meet upon COM
mon platform to sustain the honor of
our country. (Applause) Parties are
only agents of the people. They are
only what the people make them ana
entitled to their confidence only so long
as they serve their highest and best in
terests. CApplause.) We are all con-
cerned no matter what may be our oc
cupations, in our country's welfare.
(Cries Of That's SOD Whatever polit-
ical views we may have, however we
may differ on questions Of public policy.
we are all Of one mind in the conviction
that something or other is the matter
with the country. We may differ in our
diagnosis: we may differ about the true
detail. but we do not disagree about
what is essential in the first instance to
+be restoration of the better conditions
of the past.
lone thing above all else that is
wanted at this juncture is the return of
public and private confidence. Gap
,,lause) Its absence is our fundamental
trouble. Upon that there cannot be two
opinions and that, my fellow citizens.
no class of people know better than you.
We know the very day and the very
hour when this confidence was first
shaken. and from that hour distrust and
doubt have hung over the business of
the country 1t has been aggravated
from a variety Of causes, but none
greater than the assault which has been
made by the allied political organiza-
tions upon the credit and the currency
of the country. applause and cries of
That's rightnD
This new menace must be averted
before we can hope to have any perma-
nent prosperity. We know that the
present money standard has not stood
in the way Of our prosperity in the past
CCries of NO, no; free trade has.D You
know that we We're prosperous IN lS9-,
and had been for the preceding ten
wears. You know that we have not
seen any real measure OF prosperity
since. (Applause and cries OF Ihat $
richt,'0 business is so sensitive, SO
quick to scent danger. that any iegisla-
tion or proposed legislation or change or
policy which would derange or alter or
unsettle values is felt long before the
apprehended blow is given. SO that
from the very hour it was determined
by the American people that the Re-
publican party, which. with but single
interruption. had been in control OF
the Government for more than thirty
years, was to go out of power ana an
other party with a different policy was
to come in, that moment every business
man assumed an attitude OF waiting
and of anxiety (Applause)
while business men were waiting 10
know exactly what legislation was 10
he. business languished from one end to
the other, and labor was without work
Then we commenced living from hand