The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-10-27
CANTON OVERWHELMED
Many Visitors Open the Last
Week of the Campaign.
THEY GAME FROM SEVEN STATES.

massachusetts, Now Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
Send Delegations to Cheer the Rcpubli-
can Standard Bearer.
CANTON, o., Oct. 27.-The largest crowds
in Canton have been confined most gem
orally to Saturdays. Yesterday, however,
was n surprise, even to the much surprised
Cantonians. Organized delegations camo
from Massachusetts,, New Jersey, New
York Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois. The day was fair and the pro-
cessions of unusual brilliancy. The New
Jersey Frelinghuyson Lancers set the
STYLE and tho day throughout was dis
tinguished by tho most handsome para
phcrnalia yet seen. The Erie railway en-
ployes' delegation was numbered by thou
sands.
After Major Mckinley returned from
attending the funeral of his late friend,
w X. Miller the paraders began their
marches. They stood In waiting on North
Market street in double line from the Nc
Kinlcy home to the court house, a half
mile straight away. They gathered and
packed, and swayed about the house SO
that speaking from the porch, to be heard
by so vast u crowd, was impossible. The
temporary reviewing platform used on
Saturdays is not allowed to stand after
the day is over. There was, however, no
place to speak from but the porch. Tables
had to be carried from the house to impro-
wise rostrum, so that the people jalnmed
solid across the streets and crowded upon
the lawns of nolghbors' homes might hear.
The women us well as the men in the
railway delegations each carriedan Ameri-
can flag. These were waved vigorously.
Torpedo canes were exploded, rockets
fired, bazzoos and tin horns were blown,
whilu drums added to the enthusiasm Of
the scenes. Nearly all of the Introductory
speeches referred to the coercion charge OF
Mr. Bryan. and several spokcsmen chal-
lengcd the proof for single case OF CO.
ercion. Major Mckinley again referred to
the charge of forcing employees.
To the delegation from seymour, Wash
ington, and Mt. Vernon, Ind, composed
mainly of railroad employees, Major Nc
Einley said in part:
There are some people who seem to
think that the best way to get on in this
world is to be against one another, and
those who employ labor and those who
are employed. They are disturbed when
ever they discover that the employer of
labor and labor itself are on good terms,
and whenever that occurs they commence
crying coercion. 1t is not coercion, it is
cooperation; the one working with tho
other for the public good and for thelrhd-
vantage severally. We do not want in
this country untHgonism between capital
md labor; they ought to be close together
all tho time. The one cannot get on with
out the other and instead of their being
enemies they ought always to be friends.
"Instead Of encouraging sympathy be-
tween them, which we all ought always
to advance, there are those who would
create antipnthy between them for exam
pie, between railroad managers and those
who are employed by tho railroads. Now,
l do not believe in any such doctrine my
self. l believe in the common brother
hood Of man. l believe that labor gets on
best when capital gets on best, and that
capital gets on best when labor is paid tho
most. Instead of there being II natural
antngonism there is n natural alliance be-
tween them, and the people who are for
ever seeking to create antagonisms be-
tween those who employ labor and those
who are employed are the people who
never give any employment to labor at ALL
'What we want in this country, and |
am now addressing the Sound Money club
of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
railway alone, is first conildence-conh-
dcnce in each other, confidence in the
credit Of the country, confidence In the
Il in,
dcnco that if VIC invest our money today
we will get something out of it ut the end
of the year If we have not any confidence
of that kind no one will feel like invest
ing money, and if money is not invested
there is no employment for labor.
"1hcn, too, as your spokesmcn has well
said, we want II thrift that will raise
enough money to keep this government
out of debt We do not want any moro
debts and deficiencies either in the treasury
or among the people. We must pay rs We
90. The labor of this country was never
so independent or its prospects so good rs
during tho thirty-threo years when wo
werc under protective policy and on u
sound money basis. Labor never had SO
many comforts, and the homes of our la-
boring men so much cheer, hope and con-
tentment rs during these thirty-thrce
years Four years ago we abandoned that
policy A good many men who voted to
abandon it would have been glad to have
voted ut any timo within the last three
years to restore it and they are all await
inn now chance to vote it back.
ave want to teach reverence for pub
lie law and to stand firmly for tranquility
as against violence We want to stand by
the great incorruptible judiciary of the
country, which Is our bulwark of safety
in every hour of trouble and peril. We
do not want any dishonest dollars like
the name of your club, Sound Money
We do not want anything unsound In this
government. We want n dollar that is as
good as gold, and just as good In the
hands of the poor as in the hands of tho
rich. The first mission that poor, de-
prociated, debased dollar peforms Is to find
its way into the hands of poor men who
cannot afford to lose it, This has been
the crrand Of poor dollars ever since the
government began. The poorest dollars
always eventually land in tho pockets Of
tln Ipnrast n, pUip. ~