The herald., 1896-10-22
Observed by Many Sucker State
Pilgrims
MANY MEN AND MUCH MUSIC
Hired to Present the Appearance of
Enthusiasm
The Expense Of 1t All, When the Battle
Is Over. Will Make Hanna's
Pocketbook Sick.

Associated Press Special Wire
CANTON, ILL.,, This was Illinois day
at the home Of the Republican presi-
Dental candidate, but number of 9TH
er visits of note were made. All day long
the streets have been filled with march
ing clubs and the air with the music of
bands. The Illinois people began ar
irving early, and were still coming at
noon. In the afternoon a parade was
made in which local bands and local
escorts Joined, the day being bright and
pleasant. Major Mckinley reviewed the
parade from the stand in front of his
lawn, and when it had passed the march
ers counter-m marched to mass around
the stand for the speechmaking.
Four addresses were made on behalf
of the visitors General John McNulta
spoke in behalf of Chicago Hon. J. w.
Calhoun for the state of Illinois, r. c..
Givens for the Republicans, and j. p
r. Minter for the representatives Of the
labor organizations of Chicago and vi
cinity.
The Black Hussars brought with
them their splendid black mounts, in
Guiding Midnight, the fine steed Major
Mckinley rode on the occasion of the
opening of the worlds fair.
The Illinois people gave Major Nc
Kinley an ovation when he appeared to
address them, and they applauded every
sentiment of his speech.
Before the Illinois people reached the
house there had been visit of the peo-
pie of Poland township, Trumbull coun-
ty, Ohio, where Major Mckinley spent
many of his boyhood days, with Judge
Arrel of Youngstown, his old room
mate, as spokesman. There has also
been the Garfield club of the Nineteenth
Ohio congressional district, which Gar
field had represented in congress. With
this party came Captain William Wal
lace of Warren president Of the club;
A. w. Jones, lieutenant governor of
Ohio; State Senator James R. Garfield.
son Of the late president, and Congress
man Stephen A. Northway, who deliv-
cred the Introductory address.
Senator Garfield was introduced by
Major Mckinley when he had conclud-
ed his address, and the senator spoke
briefly AS the major was leaving the
platform after speaking to the Illinois
people another delegation coming from
Green Spring. Ohio, and vicinity ap-
peared and an address was made to
them. An address was made in the house
to a delegation Of workingmen from Chi
cago, and soon afterward a splendidly
uniformed club organized as the East
End Mckinley regiment Of Cleveland
with officers mounted, appeared upon the
lawn with F. 0. Nogan as spokesman
This delegation was composed of seven
companies of sixty men each and pre-
sented particularly handsome ap-
pearance. Major Mckinley scarcely had
time to get dinner ere there was another
delegation in his yard. This last one
was the Mckinley marching club of Mas
silon with torches and natty uniforms
They were addressed by the major and
they Joined in the street parade.
Four heavy trains brought the Gar
field club of the Western Reserve with
the greetings of the old Nineteenth dis
trict, which General Garfield represent
ed in congress for number of years. To
belong to this club it is necessary to
have voted for General Garfield for con-
gress. The delegation, which included
residents of five counties was introduced
by congressman Stephen Northway
They were received and addressed by
Major Mckinley while the Illinois pa
rade was forming.
In the course of his address to the
! Garfield club, from the Nineteenth con-
gressional district of Ohio, Major Nc
Kinley said:
| I have studied more or less the public
career of General Garfield. He was all
inspiration 1 me- as, al boy; he was my
counsellor and friend in manhood and
| in studying his career, If was to single
! out any one great act of his more dis
tinguished than any other, I would
name his splendid defense of the public
honor and national currency. To my
mind the greatest speech he ever made
| for heard it, was in the Forty-fifth con-
gress, when he was seeking to prevent
the abandonment of the idea of the re-
sumption of specie payments. He was
then occupying perilous ground. There
was great clamor in the country over ar
imitation of the currency. General Gar
field, fearing no consequences from his
act, and knowing that he was right
declared there was but one thing to dc
in honor, and that was to make every
| obligation of the national government
| equal to the best dollars known to the
! commercial world. He took the chances
of an adverse verdict. He came back
to his constituency, and it returned hin
by an increased majority He then ap.
pealed to that wider field-this grea
state-and it commended him by elect
! ing him to the United States senate
Then finally he received the approva
Of fifty millions of people In his election
to be the chief executive of the United
States. So, too, on that other grea
question of the tariff he was sound
You will remember his famous speech
against the Wood BILL seeking to tea
down and destroy American industries
He said in substance: Let German!
look after the interects Of the Germai
empire; let England look after her wei
fare, but let the American people legis
late for themselves"
If he could speak to us today he woul
tell us to stand by the public honor an
never consent to corrupt or degrade tn
currency of the United States. H
would tell US to protect American law
and development against the compe
tition Of the old world, and that is wha
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