Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-07-11
WANTED TO SHAKE THEIR HAxD.
Mckinley Greeted by n DeIegation
of Tin Workers.

Canton, Ohio, July 3.-This afternoon .
thousand people of Tuscarawas count
came IN a special train over the C1avo
land and Canton railroad. They had tbo
largest sheets of tin plate ever made in
the world and the largest strips of gal
vanized steel. Colonel w. A. Bovey was
the spokesman. In response to a verr
handsome presentation speech Major No.
Kinley replied:
Colonel Bovey and My Fellow Citizens.
l am very grateful for this visit on the
part of my friends in TuscaraWas county
and l thank my old friend, your spokes.
man, for the cordial and gracious words
of greeting which he has brought to me
in your behalf. This assemblage is fairly
typical of our American communities
and 1t fully represents the varied occupa.
lions of the American people
"As your spokesman has already said
in this presence are farmers, laborers
mechanics, miners, railroad employees
merchants, professional men and repre-
sentatives of every rank of the people.
and you are here distant from your home
not for curiosity nor for any considera.
tons at all personally, but you are here
because your hearts believe in the great
fundamental doctrines of the republican
party. You believe that those principles
are best for you when put into practical
legislation and administration. You be-
lieVe these principles will secure to all
the peole at large a measure of good to
the largest number, and you believe that
because you recall that for more than
third of a century these great republican
principles have dominated legislation and
administration in this country, and that
during all that period you have enjoyed
exceptional prosperity, which you have
not enjoyed in the past three years and
a half.
You know, therefore, something of
these great principles from experience
and you are only waiting for an Oppor-
tunty to express that experience in your
votes next November. And all these de-
monstrations which have been witnessed
here for the past two weeks are only
significant because they show what is in
the hearts and minds of the American
people-that they want an opportunity,
and they want 1t early, to return to pow
er that grand old party, your spokesman
so feelingly alluded to. in every branch OF
the government.
Here in this country we are all de-
pendent upon each other, no matter what
our occupation, all of us want good times,
good wages, good prices, good markets,
and their value in good money. When
we give a good days wages to our en-
ployeS we want to give good SOUND
dollar, and nothing less. Now, whatever
policy will bring us back to those good
times is the one that the great majority
of the American people are in favor OF,
and will so register their votes at the
coming election. And you seem TO have
in your minds what that policy is. l am
going to detain you only long enough 10
say that | am grateful for this manlfes-
tation of your confidence upon the part
of the representatives. of TuscaraWas
county What ! want to see in this coun-
try is a return to that prosperity winch
we enjoyed so long. What | want is 10
see idle men at work, and at American
prices, and the more men you nave at
work at good American wages the better
the markets will be, and the better prices
will they get for their produce. Every
one Of you farmers know that from exper-
fence. After expressing my gratitude
for the assurance that you have given
me of your support and welcoming you
from an overlooking heart to my city
and to my home, it will give me very
great pleasure to meet and to greet each
one of you individually" CTremenduouS
applauseD