The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-23
NOT THE THING, TO M'KENLEy,s
MIND, TO BRING ABOUT PROS
PERITY.
OHIO PROMINENT AT CANTON.
DELEGATIONS FROM ALI PARTS OF
THE STATE VISIT THE NOMI-
NEE.
A DAY OF UNEXPECTED EVENTS.
Only Two Delegations ON the Cards.
but lmpromptu Parties Poured
In From arfy Morning.

CANTON, O., Oct. 22.-Maj. Mckinley
had Strawberries and cream with his
speeches today. They came from the
second crop in Belmont county, Ohio,
and the visitors brought plenty Of cream
with them. Many visitors came from
points where Mr.. Bryan spoke on his
recent dash through the state 1t was
day of surprises. Only two dele
cations were expected, but by night six
OF the largest organized bodies which
have yet come/to Canton, had called at
the Mckinley home, besides thousands
or other people. The streets were
crowded as on the big Saturday jubi-
lees. The escort committees had not
provided for such an outpouring of peo-
pie, but the crowds were well ordered.
Women marched in line in great
numbers. Maj Mckinley APPLY termed
this "Ohio day as he could well do
from the outpouring of Buckeye people,
although Indiana, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania were here in organized
bodies or merged in some of the big
Ohio delegations. With one party were
hundreds of students from Baldwin
university and Wallace college. of
Berea, who made the welkin ring with
yeils. These people were from the ex-
IRENE northern part of the state.
Thousands of people came from the dis
tant river counties of the state in COM
pany with hundreds of their West Vir-
ginia friends across the river. Valpa-
raise, Fort Wayne, Plymouth and a
dozen 7,
swelled the crowd In the evening Mai.
Mckinley gave greeting to the city
council and officials of New Brighton,
Pa, in his library
A large delegation of farmers from
Creston, were the first visitors of the
day. To them Maj. Mckinley said:
Ladies and Gentlemen and My Fellow Citi-
zens; esteem this call from my old con-
sutuents and my neighbers and fellow citizens
as very great compliment and honor-not to
me personally, but to the principles and poll
cies Tor which the republican party stands
this year. | remember when the republicans
Of Creston and Wayne counties were among
the most earnest and enthusiastic of my old
congressional district and / see you have not
lost your earnestness and enthusiasm for the
great doctrines of the republican party. We
cannot by legislation in this country make
values; we cannot by any legerdeman of
finance make something out of nothing. The
OAly way W get wealth. is Dy ldDOf, ana any
body who teaches any other doctrine is a
false teacher and not a friend OF American
citizenship or of our American home. (Ap-
plause.)
There is no such thing as creating wealth
by the mere breath of congress. Congress
can do good many things, but it caSnot
make you rich or the country rich by debas-
ing the money OF the country, and it cannot
make the country rich by giving us dollars
only worth So cents each and stamping
them dollars. Great laughter and applause.)
NnyK nnncp hnIrN t11n nfrxy INrrk
must be by wise legislation caring for the
products, the labor. the farms and the manu-
facturers of our own people by protecting
them against the products OF people living
in other lands. If you are farmer what
you want first is good crops Legislation can
not help you to them. You know in order TO
get good crops you have to sow and then you
must have Gods sunshine and rain, and a
cheap dollar will never help your crops any.
tremendous applause.) You have to toll just
as hard for good as for poor crop. Now
after you have good crop, then you want
good market. You have that in the United
States if you are let alone but if somebody
product can come in here and displace yours,
then your market is not good. loud
shouts, Yes, you are rightly This is all
there is of that question. 1t is a question on
which our 100000 of American freemen
should, by their ballots decree that the legis-
lation of our country shall protect and de-
fend American interests and promote Amer
lean development against the outside world.
(Applause.)
Now, when you have a good market and
sell your wheat or corn you want to be paid
in good money, don't you? (Cries of ''Surer)
You older men around me will remember the
period when you sold your wheat and were
paid in state bank money, which was good
on the day you received it, but just as likely
as not on the next day YOU discovered that
this value had deprecated. "a voice
Wasn't worth anything.) And it was not
worth anything, my friend says, and so all
your labor was lost. Well now the best
thing for the farmers, after his good crops
and good markets is good money and when
you give full four pecks for a bushel and sell
your wheat by the full bushel, you want to be
paid in dollars that are worth fully 100 cents
each, not only today, but every day, and
everywhere.
This is what the republican party stands
for this year-those two things above all
others, but the republican party does not
stand alone for them. The greater part Of
the democratic party, the great leaders Of the
old democratic party are one with us in the
struggle for national honor and prosperity.
Continuous cheering) l am glad to meet you
and greet you all, but other delegations are
coming and | must not delay you. 1t will
give me pleasure to shake the hands Of my old
friends, men and women, once more.
One, delegation of citizens from
Washington and Morgan counties
Ohio, included the Boys Brigade Of
Marinetta, the original settlement of
the Northwest territory To this party
Mr.. Mckinley said in part:
Yesterday we celebrated what was known
as Illinois day. I think today may well be
denominated Ohio day. l have been doing
little else since o'clock this morning but
receiving and welcoming to my home my fell
low citizens and old constituents of nv ma
tive state. | bid you all hearty welcome
here today. | have just spoken to the people
of three counties-Belmont Guernsey and
Noble-and I now face thousands of my fell
low citizens from Washington and Morgan
This seems to me, therefore, a very appro-
pirate time to indulge in reflections upon the
precious memories connected with our state
hood and advanced civilization. These rep
resntatives Of Marietta recall to our minds
that 1t was the first settlement in this great
commonwealth. Perhaps we are too forget
full of the heroic part of our noble ancestors
the first settlers of the Northwestern terri
tory and the five or six states erected from
its imperial domain, for we will not sur
render fair Minnesota, the great wheat and
flour state, If part of it does lie west of the
Mississippi, your original boundary. Oaugh-
ter and applause.) For there was a time
when we were the only organized county in
that magnificent territory which stretched
from Pennsylvania to the Mississippi from
the Ohio to the great lakes-an empire 1
say today, more majestic than was ever pre-
sided over by any king or car, because ma
jestfc in the peace and plenty and prosperity
which its citizens may quickly and readily
attain.