The record-union., 1896-10-03
Now Only a Question How Big McKinley'S
Plurality Will be on Election Day.
The Situation as Summed Up by
Leaders Of the Party.
Massachusetts and New York Counted
Upon to Give Tremendous Majori-
ties for the Republican Candidate
for Presideut-WeSt Virginia Also
Counted Sure for Mckinley.

CANTON (O.), Oct. 2.-After nearly a
week of continuous rain and wlnd'
which conditions have greatly inter-
fered with the reception of delega t1ons
by Major Mckinley, the sun broke Out
this morning and the clouds were
cleared away.
Among Major McKinley's e. T. all
ers We're Senator Henry Cabot Lodge OF
Massachusetts. Theodore Roosevelt
President of the New York Police
Board: Congressman Dalzell of Pennsyl-
vania and Congressman Nelson Ding
ley, Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee They have been making
speeches in this part of the country,
and called to pay their respects to the
candidate and to tell him of the pros
poets in the different sections in which
they have travelled. This is how they
sum up the situation:
Mr.. Dingley said: THE outlook for a
Republican victory is more than prom
Using. 1t seems only a question of how
large q plurality will be given Major
Mckinley"
Mr.. Lodge: Speaking for Massachu-
setts, l can say that the majority for
Mckinley this year will far exceed the
Republican majority of two years ago
which was Ga, ,00O.''
Mr.. Roosevelt: THE indications are
that New York will give Mckinley the
greatest majority ever accorded any
candidate. In fact, the sentiment in
the East is all in favor of the Repub
ncan ticket"
Rutherford Hayes, son of the late ex-
President, called on Major Nc Kinley to-
day, as did also Harry Garfield, son OF
the late President Garfield. Bishop Van
Week called this afternoon.
About noon a delegation of $50 farm
ers from the West Virginia Panhandle
arrived. They We're met at the depot
by the Canton mounted troops and es-
corted to the Tabernacle. The members
Of this delegation claim that many of
the farmers who had contemplated join
ing the party at Wheeling were de-
tanned because of washouts on the rail-
roads, caused by the recent storms and
floods. delegation of railroad men
from Chicago Junction and Huron
County, Ohio, about 600 strong, arrived
at about the same time.
In response to the address delivered
by the spokesman for their delegation
Major Mckinley said:
1t gives me special pleasure to meet
at my home in a joint meeting the
citizens of the State of West Virginia
and of my own native State. A Repub-
lican has no embarrassment in speaking
to an American audience. He does not
have to make a different speech for a
different locality. daughter and ap-
plause)
The great thought of the people of
this country, wherever they may reside
or whatever may be their occupations,
is how we are to get back as a nation to
the old conditions of business activity
and prosperity. In a single word, the
trouble with the country is a lack of
confidence. AS to what has brought
about that lack of confidence we may
differ but that there is a lack of con-
hdence every citizen everywhere must
concede, for every citizen has felt it in
his own trade and experience. Now
what is this thing called business con,
hdence Il is a belief in the stability
OF values: faith in our markets and oul
money; faith that the consumption of
next year will be as great or greater
than the present one; faith that men
VIII have work and that the currency
of the country will be fixed and stable
and undepreciating in value. Great ap-
plause)
This thing called business confidence
never shut up an American mill: never
reduced wages or curtailed employment:
never refused loans; never got up a run
on bank; never stopped a mine; never
created idleness among laboring men
Applause) When confidence is pres
ent with us the Sheriff has less to do
great laughter and applause. and ad-
vertises fewer forced sales (Renewed
applause)
The court docket registers fewer
judgments. public charity is less invoked
and the free soup house is unknown and
unnecessary. tremendous cheers
When confidence is shaken misfortunes
come not singly. but in battalions, and
suffering falls on every community.
(Applause) No part of our population
Is exempt. 1t may come from one thing
or it may come from another. Doubt in
the business world is death to business.
Applause and cries of That's right')
We have il now. We know the hour it
came Great cheering) We know what
brought it renewed cheering), and
hope we know how to get rid of it. CTre-
mendous cheering and cries of You bet
We do'O We have had il in the United
States to a greater or less degree from
the moment ii was settled in 1892 that
our protective tariff laws were to be
changed. (Applause) 1t continued un-
til the changes We're actually made and
still longer until the people in 1874
elected Republican National House of
Representatives and made il impossible
to cut deeper into the industries of our
country. Great applause)
When the doubt of further changes
had been thus removed, then came the
realization Of the destruction which that
tariff law had done to some Of our great
industries. entailing an injury felt in
every State and community OF our coun-
try. Then following that was loss TO
the treasury from insufficient revenues
under that legislation. Then the run on
the gold reserve; then bonds to make
that gold reserve good. Then the OBJ
struction IN the Senate to any emer-
gency legislation which would supply
the loss of revenue entailed by the law;
and the very character of that resist
ance in the Senate to legislation which
would increase the revenues only in
creased the uncertainty. Applause)
''Then, with all these burdens upon