Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-30
SANE OLD STORY AT CANTON
Fourteen Delegations from Four States
Call on the Candidate.
mKINLEY DEMANDS QUALITY IN MONEY
Recalls the Time when the VoIums
WINS Increased TO such II Point
that the value Almost
Left IL.

CANTON, O., Oct 29.-Historans OF the
campaign OF 1896 will record Thursday,
October 90 as one OF the red letter days.
Major Mckinley has been kept busy since
early morning and visitors came so fast
about the middle OF the day that he could
not find time to lunch till after o'clock.
One party was in town before Z o'clock, but
considerably delayed their call till the major
had finished his breakfast. Others came at
short intervals during the day and tho
crowd became so large that the speaking
had to be transferred from the porch to the
reviewing stand. Every caller was intent
on shaking hands with the nominee and so
far as possible the opportunity was granted,
though 1t was a herculean task. At one time
the crowd became so large that II was inn
possible to organize a line for handshaking
reception But hundreds fingered about the
house waiting for the major to rcappear and
toward evening he came out upon the porch
to meet them.
Major Mckinley made five formal ad-
dresses, the last to seven carloads OF people
coming from Fulton and Williams counties,
Ohio, and DeKalb and other northwestern
counties in INDIANA There were two intro
ductory addresses. The FIVE audiences ad-
dressed were the fourteen delegations in
which were railroad men, business men,
manufacturers farmers mechanics. miners,
oilmen, glass workers. iron workers. bankers,
Professional men, printers, men and women
office employees. coming from four states
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Ohio. Besides the five speeches Major Nc
kinley received a large number Of individual
callers from all over the country, shook
hands with a large party OF women stenog-
raphers from Akron. who had a tallyho
parade and who were afterwards received
by Major McKinley's mother, met and spoke
informally in his library to the directors and
officers of the German Deposit bank of Pitts
burg, and made brief address I'm the same
place responding to the greetings of a small
party Of business men and manufacturers Of
PH;sburg
QUALITY NEEDED IN MONEY.
special train OF seven coaches arrived at
I o'clock this morning, bringing the em-
ployes Of the Kanawha Il Michigan rail-
road. The party left Charleston w. Va,
at o'clock last night and Travelled for twelve
hours. At . o'clock the visitors were es-
corted to the Mckinley homo and were there
introduced by w. w. Brown. a conductor
on the road. MIR, Mckinley said to them:
Mr.. Brown and My Fellow Citizens
give to the Sound Money club of the Kama
waha Michigan Railroad company sn-
home. | am glad TO receive assurances
through your spokesman that. acting as
free and independent citizens, you bring
Of the republican party. as well as assur-
ances Of your puri ose 10 give that party
Sbui NlAidiN'iillS Stliipil hh Tue Oh VI NO-
vcmber applause and cries OF I'VE wilD
II is the proud boast Of our American
before the law. that our constitution and
our laws recognize neither creed color nor
Se coSstipon and iaws N an ske enjoy %
tbeir blessings and benefits; and all alike
seSere!eS IN he fxslSss q w 'h greet res
Tuesday you VIII, | trust. exercise for. y.,'r~
own best interests and the interests yof
your state ana country. III
Some persons seem to think that thlway
to get rich In this country Is to depreeiate
the quality of the money we have, and
some people have gone 50 far as to say that
II does not make any difference about the
titv. ! think some OF the men standing
around me today, who were across tho
Der that quality had very much to do with
the value of the money, and that while
there was quantity in plenty of a certain
Cries of "That's right aud 'Hurrah for
said in speech at Augusta Ga: cit was
said of the confederate money during the
was sent to market for basketful of sup
plies for daily family use. The last break
pulled us away from these, was small
steak, plain biscuit and warm water that
had a faint suspicion of coffee about IT;
and this sumptuous rcpast cost me exactly
$29 in confederate money and ! felt then 1
wac swindling mine host ms GRANTS guns
heard poor private had to pay $500 for "a
still scantler meal"
What we want in this country. my fell
low citizens no matter where we live. is a
good, honest dollar that has value in 1t.
When we give our labor to our employer.
when we give our eight ten hours n
days work to the railroad company, we
have given them the best work we have
resent the value of tho work we give 10
those railroad companies We want no
appreciated dollars in the United States.
three years and half We don't like them
and don't want short dollars.
Then there are some people who seem
to believe the way TO get on best is to
have one body of our citizens arrayed
against another. | do not believe that.
our constitution and flag, and that all of
us have a right TO aspire to the highest
Inn thimss 5,v mat Tho free government like
has demonstrated is that the poorest and
humblest boys, with poor surroundings,
but with clean hands ana pure heart may
reach the highest place in the gift of tho
republic. cries of Good, good!'' and APP
| spuln the attempt to array one body or
class of my fellow citizens against another
ana ] resent with Indignation the idea that
have been nntr!ots I'm every crisis of our
country. They require no coercion TO
make them love their country. their homes,
their mothers, their wives and their chill
drCn. loud and continuous cheerlng)
am glad to know that the railroad en-
pioyes from one end Of this country to the
same flug-thc flag of national honor and
public and private integrity. applause and
cheers) J am glad to know that the em-
poycs of railroad lines all over the United
States, for, they have visited me from
nearly every state. are standing together
as never before, for the maintenance OF
sound currency and pcrpctulty of our free
institutions, that recognize neither class,
creed nor condition.
thank you, my fellow citizens for this
call We are now so near the time when
this great jury IL to render it's verdict
that arguments seem wholly unnecessary.
| think you are all ready to vote. / think
you are waiting with supreme impatienCe
for the hour when you can put In the
box that ballot which viii express the
best aspirations Of your hearts, not only
for yourselves, but for your families. L
bid you welcome ana give you hearty
greetings to my home. ] wish you n safe
return to your homes, and trust that after
the election Is over, the vote Of the AmCri-
can people will be found on the side OF
right, Justice and patriotism. will be
glad to greet you all personally. Three
rouSlng cheers were then given for the next
president Of the United States)
A small party of business men and manu-
facturers OF Plttsburg called at the Mckinley
home this forenoon II Yves made up OF
Colonel j. NJ. Shoemaker, o. II. Chlds w.
s. Abbott James Laughlln, y. VI. Ferguson,
a, w. Wood. j. r. McGnty, II. M. Formes,
w, w. wilcox, W. w. Lawrence, W. 3.
Masee. Shoemaker was spokesman. They