The record-union., 1896-10-18
10 Sec and Hear the Republican Can
didate for President.
More Large Delegations Than Has
Ever Been Seen in Single Day at
the Home of the Candidate-VOters
Go i'm Regiments and in Brigades-
1t Took More Than Fifty Special
Trains to Carry the Vast Number
of Visitors.

CANTON (O), Oct. 17.-Major Nc
kinley closed the week with another
day of remarkable campaigning in his
own home. Twenty-four thousand Wis
1tors came to see and hear him. There
were more large delegations than had
ever been sene here in single day. The
voters came in regiments, in brigades
and in army corps. 1t took more than
Ifty special trains to transport them,
and seventy-one bands 10 furnish
marching music.
The coming of delegations to Canton
doubtless reached its climax. Greater
numbers and more inSpiriting enthu-
slasm cannot be expected. For ten
hours a sWaying and undiminished
crowd of people surged about Major
McKinley'S house. Delegations stood in
line for a distance of mile, and it took
some three and a half hours to reach
the stand from where Major Mckinley
spoke.
Opposite the Mckinley residence on
either street the crowds We're banked
and there We're hundreds of women
waving their handkerchiefs and clap
ping their hands as the delegations
came marching up, and Mckinley, with
dis ringing voice and earnest air, ad-
dressed them.
At no time during the campaign has
Major Mckinley spoken with more
Nigor and spirit than to-day, and at no
time has he seemed stronger and better
equal to the task of greeting multitudes
1ie made twenty speeches in all during
The day.
Delegations began to arrive at $50
O'Clock this morning, the first comers
being from Pennsylvania and Michigan.
AT o'clock 800 voters from Monroe
rly
street to Major McKinley's house, and
caused him to dispatch his breakfast
with haste. They were not kept waiting
more than ten minutes. Their spokes-
man, d. n. Curtis of Monroe, Mich,
made a lively address to Major McIkin-
ley. and assured him that his plurality
III Michigan would exceed 10000. Ma
Jor Mckinley thanked his Michigan Wis
itors 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 .
O'clock There We're three delegations
az the assemblage that filled the yard.
y delegation of $50 miners from South
Fork, and another of $50 miners from
j ortage, Cambria County, Pa,
The third was from Blair County. VIII.
SchWarZ of Altoona and E. L. Hughes
spoke to Major Mckinley.
Major Mckinley has seldom faced a
more enthusiastic audience than this
one.
The fourth speech was made at 1870
O'Clock to a fine delegation from Grand
Rapids and Western Michigan. 1t was
Chiefly composed of railway men and
men engaged in the manufacture OF
furniture. The spokesman told how dis
N h1r
tree trade has been.
Major Mckinley, after a few remarks
suggested by the address of the spokes-
man, read a special speech from manu-
script
The first great delegation came from
AshtabuIa County, Ohio, and numbered
100 men. There We're farmers, me-
Chanics, railroad men and dock men in
the crowd. The dock men wore their
working suits More than fifty banners
with appropriate political inscriptions
We're borne in the Ashtabula County
delegation. They greeted Major Mckin-
hey with mighty cheers.
\ large delegation of miners and far
1ners from Perry County, Ohio, came
within hearing distanAe behind the Ash
1abula crowd. Major Mckinley then
addressed the two delegations. Three
thousand workingmen from the shops.
mills and mines of Oliver Brothers of
1'ittsburg came next George L. Oliver
introduced them to Major Mckinley.
Three hundred and fifty employees of
the Adams Bagnall Electric Light
Company of Cleveland were waiting be-
hand the stand, and We're introduced by
Nv L. Rodgers. Major Mckinley ad-
dressed the delegation briefly.
Short speeches became necessary at
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. Swanson, and the can
didate thanked its members for their
call.
The ninth speech was made to one of
the largest delegations of the day. 1t
was composed of travelling men from
Columbus and Toledo. Several fine
bands and the Columbus Glee Club were
with it, Major Mckinley made ring
ing response to their spokesmen' ad-
aesses
College yells rent the air as the boys
from the State University and the ONO
Wesleyan University at Delaware
marched joyously from the station. Fol
lowing them was a body of elderly peo-
CAAN
more than 30 years of age, and dele
cation OF students from the Ohio Medi-
cal University at Columbus. Rev. ID.
Nv. Downey spoke for the ''Old Folks,
I'll. S. Culver for the Delaware students
&. NJ. Taylor for the medical students
and w. c. Rogers for very consider
able number of voters from Becksvflle
Ohio, who We're included in the assem-
blage. Major Mckinley did not have
time to make long speech to this great
consolidated delegation, but his remarks
were received with great enthusiasm.
The scene about Major McKinley's
house at 3:30 in the afternoon cannot be
adequately described. The broad street
on which the house faces was packed
with men four and often eight abreas,
for the distance of three quarters of a
mile, and in several side streets delega-