The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-18
CAME IN REGIMENTS.
arKINLEY HAS TWENTY FOUR
THOUSAND CALLERS.
Fifty Special Trains Needed TO Carry
the sF'riends and Admirers of the
Sage of Canton.

CANTON. O., Oct. 17-Major Nc
Kinley closed the week with another
day of remarkable campaigning in his
own home.
Twenty-four thousand visitors came
to see and hear him.
There were more large delegations
single day.
The voters came in regiments, in
brigades and in army corps.
1t took more than fifty special trains
to transport them and seventy-one
bands to furnish the marching music
The coming of delegations to Canton
doubtless reached it's climax Greater
numbers and more inspirating enthu-
siasm cannot be exceeded. For ten
hours a swaying and undiminishing
crowd of people surged about Major
McKiniey's house. Delegations stood
in line for distance of a mile, and 1t
took some of them three and one-half
hours to reach the stand from which
Major Mckinley spoke.
Opposite the Mckinley residence on
/ each street the terraces were banked
with the colorS open and the hundreds
of women stood for hours waving their
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS anu clstpplHS their hdluS
as the delegations came marching up
and Mckinley, with his ringing voice
and earnest air, addressed them. At
no time during the campaign has Ma
jor Mckinley spoken with more viSor
and spirit than today, and at no time
has ne seemed stronger and better
equal to the task of greeting multi
i tudes. He made twenty speeches in
I all during the day.
A HURRIED BREAKFAST.
Delegations began to arrive at $50
this morning, the first corners uelng
from Pennsylvania and Michigan. AT
! 8 o'clock 300 voters from MDnr)e coun-
ty, Mich, marched up Market street ID
Major McKinley's house ana caused
him to despatch his breakfast With
haste. Their spokesman, D. Curtis OF
Monroe, Mich, made 4 lively sdcresS
to Major Mckinley and assured Linn
that his plurality in Michigan wolld
exceed 10000.
Major Mckinley thanked his Mich
igan visitors for their call and urged
them to stand firmly for the party of
protection and sound money"
Major McKinley's next callers came
with drums beating and flags flying at
10 o'clock. There were great throngs
assembled that filed the Mckinley
yard One was from Altoona. Pa.
numbering 1,400 men; delegation of
$50 miners from South Fork and an
other of $50 miners from Portage, Cam
bria county, Pa. W. II. Schwartz of
Altoona introduced the Blair county
delegation: J. II. Derrick spoke for the
South Fork visitors and e. z. hughes,
himself a miner, was spokesman for his
fellow workers from Portage. Major
Mckinley has seldom faced more
enthusiastic audience than this one
RAILWAY MEN APPEAR.
The fourth speech was made at 1920
to a fine delegation rom Grand Rapids
and western Michigan 1t was largely
COMPOSED of railway men and men en-
gaeed in the manufacture of furniture.
Major Mckinley, after a few remarks
suggested by the address of the spokes-
man, read a short speech from manu-
script.
The first great delegation of the day
came from Ashtabuia county, ONO.
1t was a small army, numbering $500
men. There were farmers. mechanics,
railroad men and dock men in the
crowd. The dock men wore their blue
working jackets and overalls. More
than fifty banners with appropriate in
scriptions were borne in the Ashtabula
county delegation They greeted Major
Mckinley with mighty cheers. Con-
gresham S. A. Northway was the
spokesman.
A large delegation of miners and
5 farmers from Perry county. Ohio. came
within hearing distance just behind the
Ashtabula people. S. NJ. Pascoe called
; them to Major Mckinley, who ad-
dressed the two delegations.
Three thousand stalwart working
men from the shops, mills and mines
of Oliver Bros. in Pittsburg and Union
town, Pa, were the next callers
/ George T. Oliver introduced them to
Major Mckinley.
Three hundred and fifty employees
of the Adams Bagnal Electric Light
company, of Cleveland, who had been
patiently waiting behind the stand,
were introduced by Mr.. Rogers. One OF
the banners borne in this delegation
said: Mckinley may look like Ma
poleon, but Bryan does not look like
wellington"
Major Mckinley addressed the dele
CATION briefly.
Short speeches became necessary al
this point when delegation after dele
cation was pressing for attention. The
Republican club of Hobart, Indiana
was brought to Major Mckinley by its
spokesman, J. S. Swenson, and the can
didate thanked its members for thei1
iacall.
the largest delegations of the day. 1
was composed OF travelling men from
: Columbus and Toledo, Ohio.
COLLEGE BOYS YELL.
College yells from 5000 students rem
the air as the boys from the Ohi'
state university and the Ohio Wesleyan
university at Delaware marched IRON
: the station.
Following them was body of elderf
people from Westerville. Ohio, eac
: one more than 80 years of age, and
delegation of students from Ohio Med
ical university at Columbus.
Major Mckinley did not have tim
to make o. long speech to this grea
consolidated delegation, but his re
marks were received with great enthu
; siasm.
The scene about Major Mckinley
house at $3.50 in the afternoon canno
, be adequately described. The broa
street on which the house faces wa
, packed with men four and often eish
, abreast, for the distance of three-qual
tiers of q mile, and in several street
n delegations were standing waiting Cne
turn to be received.
The next invading army was fror
Kentucky. Major Mckinley has Sc
4. dom had more enthusiastic visitors.
With the Kentuckv delegation wei
1000 employees of the Louisville
Nashville road. Major Mckinley &C
dressed some remar,,s to them.
I'VE have 1900 voters in our dele
! CATION was the proud statement mad
, by State Senator Stuart Reed
. Clarksburg. W. Va, when the me
Z from his state came swinging UP II
l street.
s A RAILWAY DELEGATION.
The railway delegation, which can
next, was large one. There wei