The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-26
ANOTHER GREAT
DAY AT CANTON
Major McKialey Makes Addresses to
twenty-five Delegations.
ENTHUSIASM KNEW NO BOUNDS
Twenty-Five states Represented in
the Throngs About the Republican
Leaders, HOmc..The Impressive
Speeches Made to Pcnnsylvantans.

with a dozen speeches. He addressed
twenty-five delegations and spoke IN
the aggregate to more than 1i,OO0 peo.
pie He shook hands with citizens or
twenty-five states, and made speeches
to delegations from New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Illinois. Mis-
souri,, Iowa and Kansas. The features
of the day were Major Mckinley's
speeches to railroad men from Kansas
and Missouri, in which he replied to
the allegations that corporations are
coercing their employees to vote she
Republican ticket.
Canton, Ohio. Oct. 25-The enthus-
iasm of Major McKinley's visitors yes
terday has been boundlcss. They have
filled the streets of the city since an
early hour yesterday morning with
cheers and the sound of bands and
marching feet. Thousands of tin horns
We're blown and hundreds of the canes
which explode blank cartridges by
striking the end upon the pavement
We're employed to increase the din. the
enthusiasts from remote parts sue
Cumbed to the relic-hunting mania,
and every picket was taken from the
wooden fences at Major Mckinley's
house. Crowds hung about the house
from o'clock in the morning until
10 o'clock at night, peering in at the
windows and patiently awaiting an
opportunity to see Major Mckinley or
to grasp his hand. The people have
been enthusiastic over Major Mckin-
ley every day during the campaign;
today they We're wild over him.
Major Mckinley was calm, cool and
smiling throughout all this turmoil and
tumult. He shook hands with thous-
auds of people, and was sorry he could
not personally greet all who came to see
him. His speeches today We're in the
main short, and all were crisp, epigram-
matte and convincing. He made an
swer to the Popocratic assertion that
WorkingmeH are being coerced in his
speech to some railroad men from Kan
sas. THE only coercion that Is going
un," he exclaimed, "is the coercion of
reason. of conscience and experience. 1t
is a mighty force that leads and never
drives" Hundreds Of stalwart railway
men who had come of their own free
will more than thousand miles to see
Major Mckinley cheered him for fully
five minutes when he said this.
Major Mckinley did not forget the
women in his remarks today. His adj
dress to the stenographers was both
earnest and eloquent. A significant fea-
ture of the day was the large number
of Sound Money Democrats who came
to Canton. Leaving out of the count
those who came from Pennsylvania,
New York and Ohio, it is estimated that
20 per cent of the other visitors We're
men who will vote the Republican tick
ct for the first time this year.
SPEECH TO PENNSYLVANIANS.
Pennsylvania sent the first delega-
tiOn. 1t was composed of representa-
tives of Berks, Chester Schuylkil and
Montgomery counties. Reading and
Lebanon We're the principal towns rep
resented. EX-Mayor J. II. kenney, of
Reading, spoke for the Reading and
Berks county visitors, while the pill
grms from the other counties We're in
troduced by j. Victor Smith, Of Leban-
on.
In responding Major Mckinley said:
THE heart of the American people is
always right You can safely submit
any great public question with confid-
ence to the American people. Mr.. Lin
coin once said that there was no safer
tribunal on earth than the American
people. and if the Almighty Ruler of
the universe was on our side, or on your
side that side would surely prevail.
The aspiration of the American people
is for advancement, for advancement in
the marchtof progress toward the reali-
zation of the highest destiny for this.
the freest government on earth. What
our people want is an opportunity for
work. an opportunity for honest labor
an opportunity to develop the great re-
sources which God has given us, an op-
portunity to work out high and glori-
Gus destiny, not only for ourselves, but
for all mankind; for the highest destiny
we achieve for ourselves the better and
the more we benefit all the races Of
mankind.
Now it occurs to me that before the
people of this country can be expected
to have confidence in that wing of the
Democratic party that is now in control
of its organization, before we can be ex-
pected to instruct it with further pow
or or with control Of the government,
and accept It's promise that with free
silver will come better times to all Of us
before we do that 1t seems to me the
Democratic party ought to make good
the loss it has entailed upon us in the
last three years and half. (Applause).
They can hardly expect us to have con-
fidence in their present prescription.
0aughter), when the prescription which
they gave us in 1892, and which they in
sisted was the cure for all our troubles,
was so complete a failure. They now
say the present prescription. far differ
ent from the old one, will cure all our
difficulties. and it does seem to me that
they are asking a great deal of confid-
Ga,,rhtar ord ann,ansa, rp~'
We 90 mot very we'll forgat tho for.
mar decention FOR the neorIe were do
naiyod Thair noi;ov not nnIv in iured
the people of this country in their oc-
cupations. not only injured the great
inc ;nd,,str;a. of tho cn,,ntrv h,,+ ~ a.
e most wrecled the nnhlic trea surv
fcheers, Now do not yeed to y,,aEe
.nw are,,ment to the men of Pennsvi-
,,an,a they know all about this n,,es-
tion and 7 think thew are ali ready to
vote fCries NJ .vo,,'ra rigbti we are,"
and And Veil vote the right wav,,,
Are YOU ready to vote? (Shouts of yes.
we wish If was tomorrowiS Then NV
fel,ow.citizens n is needless for me to
cav another word as another dele0a :.
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