The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-10-22
IT BROKE ALL RECORDS
M'KINLEY GREETED by GREATER
DELEGATIONS.
Tveuty-Eight PIIgrimnges SEIZED
uIcd, but Half Many More
Called Gold Nominee.

Carton. o oct. II --Tonigh' eolo-ed
electric lights from public buildings and
beautiful additions to the handsome Me
Kinley arch make the city's main thor
oughfares resplendent with illumination.
Added to this. the immense Maryland
delegation Is parading the streets and
Baltimore seems to have let herself loose
to show Ohio the greatest pyrotechnicaI
display ever brought west. Every rec
crd was broken today. The NUMBER Of
delegations for any one day was sur
passed.
The number Of speeches was increased
The long distance delegations exceeded
all former pilgrimages In extent. Mary
hnd sent 5000 people, West Virginia
2soc and Kentucy 1000. Nearly 500 train
loads of people have come in parties.
large and small. from nearly half the
states of the Union. and a score of them
have been formally addressed AT times
during the afternoon a solid line of in
coming and uniformed delegations were
packed in on Market and Tuscorawa and
cherry III solid lines for over mile
AS the drum majors fought their way
toward the Mckinley house. steady
stream OF organized callers were retir-
ing down the wide thoroughfares.
Twenty-elght organized parties had
sent word of their coming and were reg
ularly scheduled, but half as many more
called.
The crush of the crowd that carried
away fences and pieces of porch made
some women faint
Major Mckinley made mis- speeches
from reviewing platform near the side
walk. 1t required several trains of 10
coaches each to transport the crowd con-
shutting the delegation representing en-
ployes of the Oliver Iron and Steel Com
pany the Haines Steel Company. the
Baker Chain and Wagon Iron Manufac-
turing Company, the Monongahela Tin
fiate Company of Pittsburg and the oil
yer Coke and Furnace Company of
Uniontown, Pa
A delegation composed of two carloads
OF people, the youngest of which was 20
years of age. and among whom were q,
number who had passed the four score
mark, came as the old peoples club of
WaterViile. Ohio. and were introduced
by Rev. C. w. Downey.
In the same crowd. and listening 10 tb,
10th speech of the day, were the students
of the Ohio Wesleyan university of Della
ware, and citizens In general of Delaware
county, Ohio. for whom Il s Culver
spoke students OF the Ohio medical uni
versity at Columbus, introduced by DR..
Z. M Taylor and students from other
colleges at Columbus. for whom A. L..
Cole spoke, and farmers and citizens of
Becksville and vicinity, in northern
Ohio.
The delegations from the Blue Grass
state came in five or six trains. aggregat-
ing 5s coaches. They were addressed in
two sections. the first speech being in
response to Lieutenant Governor Worth
ington, who spoke for the famous Car
Held club of Louisville. and for the dele
gallon in general. and to Colonel Kuhn
or the Louisville Anzieger, who spoke for
the German Americans of Kentucky
The central eastern and western coun-
ties of West Virginia filed tn the plat
form, 40 railroad coaches coming i'm a
train of five sections State Senator
Stewart Reed spoke for the party in gen
eral, and w. p. Craft for the colored
people OF West Virginia. Sheep men.
railroad men, street railway men, rail-
way men and the Maryland delegation
occupied five trains of 10 coaches each.
the first of which covered the distance
of 800 miles and reached Canton early in
the day, but when the last came and
the demonstration was held IL was nee
cssary to turn on the electric lights
Addresses were delivered by j. r. AL
bert for the party in general. by William
Oliver Smith for the Anti-Wilson society
of Baltimore. by Albert j. Cullison for
the printers, and by William o. Peach
for the employees OF transportation com
panies Numerous other delegations
made good showings.