The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-18
BANNER DAY At CANTON.
That Is, So Far as the Number Is
Concerned.
NUMBER or SPEECHES INCREASED
But Nothing In Them Save . Plea In BE-
half OF High Protective Tariff.
No Ideas Advanced.

ored electric light effects from public
buildings and beautiful additions to the
handsome Mckinley arch make the city's
main thoroughfares Respondent with a.
Illumination. Added TO this, the immense
Maryland delegation is parading the streets
and Baltimore seems TO have set herself
loose to show Ohio the greatest pyrotech-
meal display ever brought West.
Every record was broken today. The
number OF delegations for any one day was
SUPPRESSED The number of speeches WAS
increased. The long distance delegations
exceeded all former pilgrimages In extent.
Maryland sent 5000 people. West Virginia
250o, Kentucky 1000. According TO tho re-
ports of the railroad people nearly 500
train loads of people have come IN parties
large or small from nearly half the States
in the Union aud score OF them have
been formally addressed. At times during
the afternoon a solid line OF incoming and
uniformed delegations were packed in on
Market and Tuscaras and Cherry streets
in solid lines for over mile.
AS their drum majors fought their way
toward the Mckinley house. steady
stream o. organized callers were retiring
down the wide thoroughrare.
Twenty eight organized parties had sent
word OF their coming und were regularly
scheduled, but half as many more called
Tho crush of the crowd that carried away
fences and parts of porcnes madc SONIC
women faint
Major Mckinley made his speeches from
a reviewing platform near the sidewalk
The Pittsburg delegation required several
trains OF ten coaches each TO transport IL
The delegation was introduced by George
r. oliver OF Pittsburg
A dll1vut ~
people. the Youngstown and the Old PEG
pies Mckinley club OF Wesicryille, Ohio.
were introduced by Rev. G w. Downcy.
In the same crowd and listening 10 the
tenth speech Of the day were students OF
the Ohio Wesleyan university Of Delaware
and citizens in general OF Delaware county.
Columbus. Becksviile and Northern Ohio.
The delegations irom the Blue Grass
State came in Ave or sin trains, aegicgat-
ing nfty-eight coaches They were ad
dressed in two sections the first speech
being in response to Lieutenant Governor
Worthneton who spoke for the famous
Garfield club of Louisville and for the
delegation In general ana to Colonel F. $
Kuhn OF the Louisville AnzciBer, VINO spoke
for the German Americans OF Kentucky.
The central, eastern and western coun-
ties OF West Virginia filled to the platform
forty coaches. w. r. Croft spoke for the
colored people OF West Virginia.
The Maryland delegation occupied Eve
trains of ten coaches each. the ;iist OF
which covered the distance OF btu niles,
reached Canton early IN the day, but when
the last came In the demonstration was
held and ii was necessary TO turn on
the electric lights Addresses were &C.
llyered by j. Talbot for the party IN rdn-
| cral, William oliver Smith for the anti
Wilson Bill society OF Baltimore N.tort
!. Culison for the potters, MILAN o.
Peace for the employees OF the Transports
tiun company.
Numerous other delegations made a good
! showing.
10 Commercial travellers from To-
ledo and Columbus Major Mckinley said
| My Fellow Citizens and Gentlemen of
| the Commercial Travellers Asociatison of
| Toledo, Columbus and Other Cities of This
| State and other States Assembled In Can
/ ton Today; ] bid you all warm and hearty
welcome and count 1t a great distinction TO
| have businessmen of your characters leave
| their homes aud accustomed employments
| to bring assurances of good Will and sup
port IN the pending campaign. | do not
attribute your call TO any personal con
cern for my success You look beyond the
caDdidate to the preat principles and upon
that ground and in that spirit you are
here today and in the same spirit | address
you You have suffered greatly the past
three years under the whitening touch OF
partial free trade and the instability OF
business and baove all the absence OF con-
| iidence. Shall these men now embark on
| the vastly more disastrous and destructive
| policy of free silver, which is the party
shbboleth not OF honor. but of dishonor?
| great many people find peculiar pleasure
In the word free"
| II is a grand. glorious word when prop
| erly applied do not know what you may
! think about II, but do not believe In de-
| stroyng either the business, the prosperity
| nf
| Of free silver. We have Just pride in our
| glorious record In favor of free speech.
free soil. free press. free men and free
conscience but | believe that the great
majority OF our counrymen are neither In
favor OF free trade, free silver or free
lawlessness tapplause), or cheating people
in the sacred name of freedom.
The question OF honest money against
free silver and irredeemable paper money,
both unlimited and both unsound, has been
so thoroughly discussed that | do not de-
sire TO waste our time In discussing IL.
Suffice to say that no sufficient reason has
yet been given, or can be given. for the
nited States adopting either. Some things
are so plain. some things are so clear aud
distinct. some things are SO paipable aud
self evident that. like day and night,
every man must sooner or later recognize
them If human experience has proven
anything it is that no nation was ever ben
Gifted by poor money or injured by good
money and that no man ever suffered from
being honorable and no man pfofited by
being dishonest. II we have not as much
good money as we ought to have, let us
~et more and we VIII get more when the
country requires it, but we will not get
II as long as We are proposing to adopt
the financial policy OF China and Mexico,
Applause).
NEW YORK REGISTRATION
New York. October i7.--Registration
closed in New York at 10 O'Clock tonight
with 39i $50 voters qualifying in the four
days. against sO9ss in 1892 3Os, 6s3 in
1894 and 2sl ,o07 In 1896 Today's regis
tration was 1896, MS against 47.176 the
last day In 1895 and 81, 400 the last day in
1892
The total registration In Brooklyn Is
POI. 1888. This is far IN advance OF any pre-
yious registration. In 1895 the registration
was 1888. s2i In 1894. 1872. SOC; In 1898. 1884,
1925. In 1892, l92,05f.
Tho reYistration today tho lsgt dav for