The record-union., 1896-11-01
With Ringing Cheers and Stirring Airs
the Campaign Closes.
Thousands Of People Visit the Repub-
lican Nominee.
Senator Foraker Contributes Hand.
sOmely to the Brilliant Close,
Taking nOst Patriotic Address
to the Throngs Gathered About
the House.

ringing cheer and many stirring air
.from two score bands the last great day
Eof the campaign at the home of the
Republican candidate came to an end.
Senator-elect Foraker contributed to
the brilliant close of what has been
perhaps the most interesting day of the
| campaign. Major Mckinley met Sen
ator Foraker at the station at ) o'clock
and when some one proposed three
cheers for the distinguished guest Ma
jor Mckinley took off his hat and led
| the cheering.
| 1t was dark when Senator Foraker
| reached the Mckinley house, but
great crowd awaited him. He made his
ninety seventh speech of the campaign
from the platform in McKinley's yard.
and he told the people some news from
| The West that made them shout with
| joy. Senator Foraker said in part:
] Il did not come here with the inten-
| ton of making a speech, but simply
with view of congratulating your dis
| tlnguished fellow townsman upon the
great honor that will be his next Tues
; day evening (cheers), and congratula-
ting him, too, upon the magnificent
| manner in which he has deported him
self during the progress of this cam
tho st. Louis Convention I used some
| pretty strong language as to what kind
of candidate he would make daughter
| and applause); but / did it without any
| hesitation, for 1 knew the man, and
1 knew he would redeem any promise
l might make. And now at the end of
| the contest, the most memorable at
least since the war, and probably with
| cut precedent in all the history of
| the country, at the end of over five
| months of interest and excitement for
| the whole people; at the end of a time
when he has been called upon daily by
great delegations of every character
| and class from every section of the
| country, to all of whom he has spoken,
we can say without any hesitation or
| any qualification that throughout he
| has borne himself in such a manner as
| to inspire the people of the whole coun
| try with a sense of the fitness for the
CHEF Magistracy Of the United States.
| & heers) He has made numberleSs
| Speeches, and every one of them has
| been a gem-concise, argumentative,
| strong and convincing. AS a conse
Guence, we can say next Tuesday night
and he can take that to himself now
| that when he has been elected he him
self will have done more by far than
airy other one man to bring about that
result
| When Senator Foraker left Major
McKinley's house to take the train for
| Cleveland, where he speaks tonight a
storm of cheers followed him. He was
in Canton just forty minutes.
Major Mckinley began speaking at
an early hour this morning. and was
| kept busy talking and receiving callers
until sunset. One of the first utteranceS
| this morning was appropriate to the
Gay. Addressing his old friends from
Waynesburg, in this county, he said:
Il thank you that you have come on
| this glorious day. when the glorious
| banner of the free waves from every
| home and hilltop of the land, and from
every farm and fireside of our common
country. Glorious old banner il is. So
| long as we carry it in our har Is and
| have what it typifies in our hearts, the
republic and our splendid free institu-
items will be forever secure
| The largest delegation that has Wis
| tied Canton came this afternoon. 1t
was from Youngstown and other places
in the Mahoning Valley. and numbered
5000 people, 1000 of whom were wo-
| men. 1T took this splendid Mahoning
| Valley delegation more than an hour to
! pass in review before Major Mckinley.
| When the parade came TO halt and
! the people massed themselves in the
| streets and yard about Major McKin-
| ley's house, the Republican candidate
looked down upon the greatest and
| most inspiring audience that has
greeted him. In addition to the visit
| ing delegation there were thousands of
| other people pressing toward the stand.
Every man, woman and child carried "A
flag, and when Major Mckinley rose to
speak every flag waved, and a great
chorus of cheers rolled like a surge Of
| the sea up and down the densely packed
streets.
| Major Mckinley had prepared
speech in his hand which he had ex-
rected to deliver, but he could not do
| it. He was caught UP in the wave of
enthusiasm which swirled and eddied
| about him. He tossed the manuscript
aside and spoke, as he afterward said,
lust what was in my heart" What
lie said was echoed in ten thousand
| hearts. When he declared there is
Just one class under our flag, ard we
all belong to it, such a cheer went up
as Canton never heard before.
The call of several thousand Canton
women upon Major Mckinley was an
other beautiful incident of a day that
has been pregnant with unique and
stirring events. The weather was de-
| lightful, and the campaign could not
have closed more brilliantly and beau
t.fully.
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