The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-11
| BEATS ALL 0VATI0NS
MKINLEY GREETED YESTERDAY BY
PEOPLE of MANY STATES.
Probably the Most Remarkable and
Greatest Political Demonstra-
ton on Record
CANTON STREETS THRONGED
ALL DAY AND NIGHT BY WILDLY
ENTHUSIASTIC PEOPLE.
Forty Special Trains Hauling Over
Four Hundred Crowded Cars Ham
died by the Railways.
OVER A SCORE OF ADDRESSES
AND NUMEROUS SHORT SPEECHES
MADE BY MAJOR M'I&INLEY.
Busy from Morning Until Late Talk
ing and Shaking Hands, but
Showed No Ill Effects.
Forty Special Trains Hauling Over
Four Hundred Crowded Cars Ham
died by the Railways.
OVER A SCORE OF ADDRESSES
AND NUMEROUS SHORT SPEECHES.
MADE BY MAJOR M'kINLEY.
Busy from Morning Until Lnte Talk
ing and Shaking Hands, but
Showed No Ill Effects.

CANTON, O.. Oct. 10-Each day is out
doing all records of enthusiasm and num-
bers in Canton. Forty special trainloads of
people came here to-day. At o clock this
ening more delegations were coming.
They began coming at 4:30 this morning.
They came in greater numbers than ever
before. The paraphernalia of parade was
outdone. Merchants, workingmen, hard
ware men, commercial travelling men. bish-
cps, preachers, miners, evangelists, pot
ters, bankers railroad men, Southern plant
ers, iron operatives, molders and many
other trades and professions each had spe-
cial parties and professions. They came
from Iowa, New York Kentucky, Pennsyl-
vania, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Mis-
souri, West Virginia, Maryland and Ohio
in large delegations. They came in small
parties from a dozen other States. They
crowded Canton's wide streets for miles as
they were never crowded before. They
marched and countermarched with sound
and music galore. They outyelled the Won
drous yell of yesterday, the famous rebel
YELL from the Shenandoah valley of Vir-
ginia, that kept the echoes booming all
yesterday afternoon and evening. They
surged about the Mckinley home and
crowded over porches and reviewing stands
until women tainted aid men paled. fearful
of panic and the crush that kills. And
calm and cool among all this wonder of
political demonstrations. Major Mckinley
in the midst of it all day.
To have given every caller handshake
would have been physical impessbility
He made more than a score of addresses
and numerous short replles besides Ills
friends who We're with him on his mem
orable campaign of 1894 from the lake to
n
he made nearly five hundred speeches in
four months, say the campaign then did
not compare with that he is now going
through He was accessible to every one.
He only stopped handshaking with the
thousands to-day to make addresses, and
then personally greet other delegations
His voice rang out clear and strong. Wher-
ever his eyes turned to-day from early
morning until late tonight he looked into
the eyes of a sea of faces. His friends
have wondered at his endurance. His Wis
itors to-day marveled at it. Congressman
Boutelle, of Maine, said nothing like to-
days doings had even been known in po-
litical history. Murat Halstead said the
world had never known of mortal man
ever being given such greetings.
Tonight at 10 o'clock the Maryland dele
cation is holding a mass meeting at the
Taoernacie. The handsome new courthouse
and other public buildings are brilliantly
illuminated with novel electric effects. The
streets are filled with marchers. Pyro-
technical displays are added to the strik-
ing features of the parades throughout the
evening Thousands are keeping up the
ceaseless march under the beautiful Nc
Kinley arch, and up Market street past the
famous home about which the earth is
trodden nearly hard as the paved
streets. Railroad men say over four hun
dred crowded carloads of people have been
handled Several delegations will not at
tempt TO leave town until Sunday.