The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-25
perience.

Canton, Oct. 2.-"The like of this has
never been seen on earth before'' said
Charles Emory Smith, eX-minister to Rus
sin, rs he stood by the Associated Press
representative reviewing the great line of
marchers and counter marchers parading
on broad North Market street to and from
the mecca of the prilgrimages of people
from many States. Todays visitors
again broke the record in long distance
parties and variety of delegations Bust
ness men and farmers came from New
lork; farmers, railroad men and working
men called by thousands from Missouri.
Iowa, ana Kansas. From early dawn
until late tonight the Mckinley home
was surrounded with continuous Jam.
re-enactng the existing scenes OF the con-
slant crush of other big days
Major Mckinley spoke with unusual
fervor all day. lie made particular re-
sponses to the coercion charges made nv
National Chairman Jones. when he said
IN his address this evening to the British
Isles American Club of Cleveland:
"lhey talk about coercion-the coer-
cion of employees by employer They mis-
take the spirit of this campaign. 1t is
not coercion but it is cohesion-cohesion
between employees and employers; made
stronger by acommon interest and accom-
mon experiences
vi ~ Slunlluf nature his
Missouri address called forth the greatest
demonstration of the day about the plat
form from which he spoke
The organizations visiting the nominee
to day, all of which were addressed nv the
Major briefly or grouped, were: Lebanon.
Berks and Schuylkill county, Pa, Repub-
licans: Chicago lumber and builders ey-
change representatives; Republicans from
t.lmira, Corning, Bath, and jamestown.
\. "; Mexican county, PA. Republicans,
railroad men in the -employ OF the Chi
cago' Rock Island and Pacific railroad
coming from Horton, Kas, Eldenia. Tren-
ton, Mo-, and Fort Wayne, Ind, includ-
ing representatives of al branches of rail-
read interests from officer to section man.
The special train which reached Canton
about noon left Kansas at 6 o'clock YES
terday. morning. Iron and steel workers
from Cambridge, o.. colore,' workingmep
from Plttshurg; school teachers from IN
stitute ut Cleveland; employees of Penn
sylvania Railway Company east.of Crest
me; EMPLOYEES of the Toledo and Hook
ing valley Railroad Company; Toledo and
Ann Arbor railroad employees and railroad
men employed on various roads entering
iitlen and Mansfield; women stenog-
raphers from Akron, Ohio; Republicans
from Allen and Henry counties: employees
OF Standard Sewing Machine Companv
and of Standard Tool Works Cleveland
Speaking To the Chicago lumber men
Major Mckinley said thar what was
wanted TO start the wheels of industry
was confidence
"Wc.know, my fellow citizens, The con
tinued, that Mt one time we had this; we
Know when we lost and how we lost il.
We know also how 70 get it back again.
we cannot get coniidence back again bv
threatening reputation We cannot get
II back 10y debasing the currency with
winch we do our business No man will
loan anybody money who has openly de-
clared that after he gets it he proposes to
pay 1t back in 5O-cent dollars Isn't that
true That's the proposition of the polit.
zeal party which stands opposed to us this
year. Confidence. my fellow citizens. is
the capital of the world We do business
on confidence largely; we do not transact
all our business with actual money, as
every business man knows
one OF the longest speeches of the dav
was that to the employees of the western
railroads Major Mckinley told these
rairoaders that they had Travelled so far
from from no idle curiosity, but because
they had n deep concern for their own in.
dividual welfare and for the common
prosperity of the country.
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