The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-09-30
SPEECHES in ONE DAY.
sixteen Delegations from Various Parts I
the Country Call on Maj. MCklD!y.


sixteen Delegations from Various Parts q
the Country Call on MSj. McKlD:y.
CANTON, Sept. 2s.-Mai Mckinney
made II speeches Saturday and spoke
to 16 delegations numbering in the
aggregate about $1,000 persons. The
delegations were in the main composed
OF laboring men, and the spokesmen in
most cases took occasion to assure Maj.
Mckinley that the men came of their
own free will, paid their own fares and
in some cases lost half days wages.
Maj, McKinley's most active day OF
the campaign commenced with the call
of the Peoria Travelling Mems club
This delegation travelled further than
any that has visited Maj Mckinley,
save the one which came from Yer
mont The Peoria men wore high
black silk hats and long linen busters
aad carried pampas grass plumes OF
red, white and blue. The spokesman
was j. " Graft who represents the
Fourteenth Illinois district in con-
gress, and Maj Mckinley responded at
length.
The second delegation to reach the
Mckinley residence was one Of 1850
employees of the Jones & Laughlin Co.,
of Pittsburg. They marched up with
four bands of music and made an i'm
pressive showing on the streets. The
whole delegation pressed into the yard
and made the most compact crowd
Mai. Mckinley has addressed.
The third speech was listened to by
four Pennsylvania delegations I. ?.
DeArmit was spokesman for large
delegation OF Turtle Creek miners; E.
J. Salt for the Crescent iron and steel
workers; ]. w. Williams for the Etna
and Sharpsburg visitors, and Capt. ].
T. Chalfant for the employees of the
Pittsburg locomotive and engine works.
Maj Mckinley S fourth speech of the
day was addressed to delegations from
McKee's Rock and Esplen boroughs, to
large club of B. & o. men from New
ark, O., to republican club from Cora
opolis, Pa, and to the Carnegie Du-
quesne steel workers. These delega-
tons filed the yard to overfowing.
The crowd In the front part of the
yard was so dense at this time that the
John Dalzell club, of Wilmerding, Pa,
composed of employer of the Westing-
house Air Brake Co., could not find
standing room. They were marched
on the lawn in the rear of the house
and when Maj Mckinley finished his
speech to the delegation in the front
yard he passed through the house and
spoke from side porch.
Maj Mckinley had hardly seated
himself in the house before delega-
tion from Piqua and other towns in
Miami county, o., arrived. The spokes-
man for the delegation was T. NJ. Kyle,
of Troy. Maj. Mckinley responded
briefly. Following the Piqua delega-
tion came fine body of men from
Buffalo-the Real Estate Mckinley
and Hobart association. The president
of the association, Henry S. Hill, was
spokesman. Maj. McKinley's response
was spirited.
The eighth speech was to delega-
tion of the employees Of Joseph Horne
& Co., Pittsburg,
A thousand members of the Sound
Money Railroad club of Massillon.
made up of employees of the Wheeling
& Lake Erie company, came unan-
nounced to pay their respects to Maj
Mckinley. ]. F. Townsend was the
spokesman. Mounting a chair to ad-
dress the railroad men, Maj Mckinley
was greeted with prolonged cheers
A thousand men employed in the
manufacture of tin plate came from
New Kensington, Pa.
1t was after O'Clock when Mai. Nc.
Kinley made his last speech of the day.
The delegation which he addressed |
came from Cleveland and numbered |
about 1000. Mayor McKisson was the
first speaker Ohio Snider spoke for
the first voters; W. II. Schwartz for the |
Hungarians; Joseph Carabelli for tho |
Italians; Charles Richter for the Bo-
hemian voters; j. P. Green for the col
ored voters; E. H. Bohm for the Ger
man-Americans, and Harry Mason for
the voters Of American descent.
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