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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-22
Eleven States and Three National Organizations Send
Greetings to the Republican Candidate
Countless Thousands Thong the Streets Of Canton and Listen
to His Words of Patriotism.

Canton, O., Oct. 10.-"The greatest
political demonstration ever known was
the verdict of the veteran observers OF
the events which occurred here today.
For weeks there has not been a day,
except the Sabbath, i'll which MAJ. Nc
Kinley has not been greeted 10y numer-
Gus delegations, but today was the great
est of them all.
Before daylight the special trains bear
ing delegations of voters from both the
old political parties began rolling INTO
the depot and as early as O'Clock
the inpatient visitors began forming IN
line to march TO the modest home which
is now the Mecca for citizens OF all
states and sections, and for men OF all
past party affiliations. All day long
delegations of cheering, shouting men
from all the walks of life-workngmen,
merchants, ministers, workers IN iron
and clay and brass and steel, CONNER
cial statesmen, miners, farmers, planters,
railroad men and grain Dealers
Mrched to Maj. McKinley's home. ana
with huzzas. speech making and hand
baking testified their regard Tor nm.
and the fealty of their states and sections
to the cause which he represents.
Forty special trains were required 10
bring the forty separate organizations
from twelve different states who sought
in this single day TO do honor to the
candidate of the Republican party, the
representative of sound money, sound
financial principles and sound govern
ment.
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association TO Mai. Mckinley. who adj

association to Maj. Mckinley, who adj
dressed his callers briefly. saying:
"It gives me extreme pleasure to meet
the representatives of the board of mis-
sions and of publication of the Evangeli-
cal Association of the United States. 1t
is indeed to me a very high compliment
to have body like yours turn aside from
it's business sessions that call it together
to make a visit to my home to give me
assurances of your support and OF the
devotion which you have for the prin-
ciples for which | stand. l appreciate
this call. / would expect from body of
religious men that they would stand by
public honor and public honesty as your
bishop has described. | would expect
from you that you would stand by public
law, public tranquility and public secur-
ity. and the honor of the country 10
which you hclcrg. 1t is the proud boast
of our American institutions that every
citizen beneath our flag can worship God
according to the dictates of his own con-
science in every corner of this great
country, and | am always glad to meet
a body of men who have dedicated their
lives to the Improvement and betterment
of humanity. for as you better its condi-
ton you elevate citizenship, and when
you elevate citizenship you have exalted
country. | thank YOU for this call and
bid you all good afternoon" Great APP
plause)
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MINERS OF ANTHRACITE COAL.
Three Hundred Workingmen from the
Pennsylvania Coal District.

Three Hundred Workingmen from the
Pennsylvania Coal District.
The little reviewing stand was brought
into requisitiOn at this point, when the
crowd had become so dense that the
porch could no longer be used, and Maj.
Mckinley faced some 300 miners from
the anthracite district of Pennsylvania,
who were introduced by Prof. w. L.
Gregory. Maj. Mckinley responded as
follows:
You have all found in your own
lives that if you get anything that is val
liable you have to work for it. You
have found in your own experience that
there is no way to earn a living or ac-
cumulate property except by labor and
toll, energy and industry, and by frugal
savings, and knowing that all that you
are Interested in at this moment is how
you can best use what you have-your
labor, your farms, your products: in n
word, all you want is an opportunity
TO work, and when that opportunity is
furnished you you will perform the la
Dor, and there are not enough minis
in the United States or in the world to
give employment TO the miners of Penn
sylvania. Therefore, my fellow citizens.
you must not be looking to the minis
for the money which you need. You
must look 10 the mines, to the mills and
the factories. Great applause) You do
not mine coal unless somebody wants to
use that coal, and the more users of
coal there are, the more miners there
will be and the better will be their en-
ployment and their wages. Cries of
Right, right.D
Now, that is the whole philosophy of
this business. (Applause.) When you
have an opportunity to work you want
to be paid in dollars that are as good
as any in the world; when you have
given your good, hard blows in the
mines or in the factories, given the mine
owner or the factory -owner a good, hon
est days work, you want to be paid in
good, honest dollars that will not de-
preciate over night tremendous cheer
ing) SO what the country wants is
work and the continuance of the good
money we have, and the prevalence of
law and order. We want peace and
tranquility in this country; we want TO
preserve the honor of the government
of the United States, and we will re-
nounce reputation in every form. / am
glad to meet my fellow citizens from
the state of Pennsylvania We have
in this country miners by the hundreds.
| know something about them. | know
that the only aim they have is an honest
one. to stand by honest things, and l
know how the farmers of Stark county
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STEEL COMPANY EMPLOYEES.
A Delegation OF Three Hundred Work
ingmen.

Concluding his preceding address TO
the miners, Maj Mckinley had to but
face about to find patiently awaiting an
audience of some 300 steel workers, em-
ployed by the Otis Steel company of
Cleveland. This party was introduced
by Otto Grabien. and Maj. Mckinley
responded briefly. saying
Il am honored by this visit and en-
conraged by it because / know that you
bring To me assurances of loyalty TO the
great principles Of the Republican party
and OF your untiring zeal to make these
principles victorious on the Sd day of
November, This audience fairly repre-
sents the conditions with which the bust
ness OF this country is done. The men
on the other side of me mine coal. The
men on this side use coal in their mills,
and because you so use il the others
mine II. If you created no demand for
it there would be no demand for the
miner.
Il use this illustration 10 show you how
dependent we are upon each other; how
every thread of business is interviewer
with every other thread of business, and
when you snap one thread you injure all.
When the employer does not find ii prof
liable TO manufacture he ceases to do so,
and when he does not manufacture you
do not have employment. When he finds
il profitable TO manufacture you have
steady employment at fair wages. Now,
what we want to do in this country is
TO favor whatever policy will encourage
American industry and promote Amerl-
can manufactures That which VIII
build more factories and give more en-
ployment to workingmen should be the
true, genuine and universally accepted
American policy.
Il am one of those who believe that
we should look after our own people be-
fore we look after the people of other
lands, who owe no allegiance to the gov
eminent Of the United States. / believe
the right policy is the one which pro-
tects the American workshop by putting
n tariff upon the products of the foreign
workshop My fellow citizens, | do not
believe that we ought to have n tariff
policy that will let the products Of cheap
or lands and of unpaid labor come into
this country and destroy our manufac-
tories and impoverish and degrade our
labor. The protective policy is my pol
icy. 1t is the doctrine | have always
believed in, and j make no apology to
anybody anywhere for holding that view,
and if on the Sd day of November the
American people in their sovereign ca
pacity shall decree that n protective pol
icy shall be restored and sound money
continue, | hope and fervently pray that
we will enter upon an era of prosperity
that will give happiness and comfort to
every American home. tremendous
cheering and cries of "Hurrah for Me-
Kinley.0 l thank you for this call and
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No Need for MCKINLEY ITO Sang Roma the CVrhe
The Circle Sauzgs A1onma TO Him.
1883

affirm that the experience of mankind
has shown that by reason of their ratur-
al qualities gold is the necessary money
of the large affairs of commerce and bust
ness, while silver is conveniently adapt
ed TO minor transactions; and the most
beneficial use of both can be insured only
by the adoption of the former as the
standard of monetary measure and The
maintenance of silver at a parity 18th
gold by its limited coinage under suitable
safeguards of law. Thus the largest pos
sible employment of both metals is
gained with value universally accepted
throughout the world which constitutes
the only practical bimetallic currency,
assuring the most stable standard end
especially the best and safest money for
all who earn their livelihood by labor or
the produce of husbandry. They cannot
suffer when paid in the best money
known TO man, but are the peculiar and
most defenseless victims of a debased
and futtuating currency, which offers
continual profits to the money changer
at their cost.
what have read my fellow citizens,
is not the statement of the Republican
convention, but of Democratic con-
vention, the most representative which
probably ever assembled in the country.
Senators and representatives in public
life today, leaders of the Democratic
party in their respective states, thus de-
nounce the Democratic convention held
in the city of Chicago. They speak
words of truth and soberness. You can
not debase the currency of the United
States without degrading the public hon
or. They speak the voice of patriotism.
They repudiate their own party conven-
ton and characterize its resolutions as
unsound, injudicious, unpatriotic, and
revolutionary. They are TO be COM
mended by every lover of his country
everywhere for their courageous stand
and for their bold denunciation of doc
trines which, although adopted by con-
yention representing large body of
Democrats, are a menace to the peace
and tranquility, the credit and the cur
rency of the country.
The Crisis Is BraveIy Met.
at falls to the Republican party this
year. as in many other years of the past,
to carry the standard of national honor.
and IL shall never be lowered in its
hands. Ii meets the crisis with the old
time courage, and If il is given power
the whole world will know that it will
never permit the currency of the country
TO be debased or its financial honor
stained. Our adversaries talk fluently
about the money of the fathers" l
want to say for the fathers that their
money was always good and honest.
They insist that gold and silver alike
constitute the money of the constitution
and the currency established by the early
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1000 COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.
Three Great States Send Their Travelling
Statesmen,

The second body Of visitors was made
up of commercial travellers from New
York, Ohio and Indiana, and TO their
tumultuous greeting Maj. Mckinley re-
sponded by saying
Nobody knows sooner than the COM
mercial traveller whether times are good
or bad. No class of men so registers the
waves of business as the men who stand
before me here today. You are interest
ed in your occupations and in having
prosperity extend from one end of the
country TO the other. You are interested
in having all of our workshops running;
all our mines in operation, and all our
workingmen constantly and profitaby
employed. You are. therefore, this year
possibly more than ever before interested
in the triumph of the political principles
which envelop the well-being and high
est prosperity of the American people.
You know better than anybody else
that you cannot sell your goods TO your
customers unless your customers can sell
goods to the people. You know that the
people cannot buy unless they have some
thing to do at which they can earn mon
ey, that they may buy them. That's
what is the matter with the country to-
day. That's the diagnosis of our cOndi-
ton ut this hour. Business has been
stopped: the wheels of industry are not
running; idle men are on the streets.
Many of the manufacturing establish
ments are closed and You are not doing
as well as you were in 1892.
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THE best thing ] can wish for each
and everyone of you is n return to the
splendid prosperity of four years ago.
The money OF the country, happily, is all
right; the Republican party made il all
right. and Grover Cleveand's administra-
ton has kept it good. We propose TO
continue that good, sound. unquestioned,
undepreciating money with which to do
the business of this great country. Great
cheering)
A Glance Into History.
What q nation we arei Why, in
1860, when Abraham Lincoln of blessed
memory the immortal hero of emancipa-
ton and the war, when he took control
of this government our entire wealth was
S16,000,0O0, When Benjamin Harri-
son went out it was S63, 000,0OO,O 900, and
more than two-thirds of the great war
debt had been wiped out. Since that time
we have been doing little else but make
debts for the government and debts for
the people. / am greatly honored by this
call. Too many delegations are visiting
me today to permit my longer OBTAINING
you. / appreciate this visit. 1t is inspir-
ing to the cause which ! represent, and
will encourage the Republican spirit ev-
erywhere. | know the value of the
commercial traveller When he is against
you, look out" Great laughter and APP
plause.)
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VETERANS FROM MARYLAND.
Major Mckinley Delivers to Them IN
Unusually Earnest Address.


The Maryland G.. A. X. club, one OF
the delegations of the day, was honored
with one of the most earnest addresses
Maj. Mckinley has yet delivered. In
response to Gen. Theodore II. Lang, VINO
spoke for the Maryland visitors, MAJ.
Mckinley said:
"The spectacle which we witness in
inspiring. There are delegations here
from New York, Pennsyvania, ONO,
Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Mary
land. (Great applause and cries OF
"Iowa.'O Yes, Iowa and Kentucky, and
on Yesterday we had delegations from
the Old Dominion state of Virginia ana
from the state of Tennessee. All are
welcome to my home and city, for all of
them are moved by common purpose,
and that purpose is to save the country
from reputation and dishonor.
This visit on the part of my fellow
citizens from Maryland indicates their
concern at the present condition ot me
country, and manifests BELIEF on thelr
part that the sooner it comes TO an tnd
the more gratifying it will be. 1t - an
unmistakable expression of your bellet
that the change most 10 be desired can
only be secured through Il Republican
triumph, and that you are jealous End
alert to do your full part in bringing
about the result. This campaign has
many peculiar phases. 1t involves the
most vital interests to country. IL is
unique in American politics. One OF the
old and most honored political parties OF
this country is very much divided TINS
year. A part of il has united with the
other parties, and i'm some of the states
the alliance has been rejected, and the
fusion repudiated, so that the condition
is not altogether and everywhere bar-
monious. The old leaders of the Demo
cratic party, those who carried its bur
dens and fought its battles in the past,
framed in the city of Indianapolis few
weeks ago an indictment against their
old party associates who met at Chicago,
which in severity has been unequaled.
They pronounced the declarations 1f the
Chicago convention, which was Demo
cratic in name, as an attack upon in
dividual freedom, right of private con-
tract, the independence of the judiciary
and authority of the President 70 en-
force the laws of the United States.
Chicago Convention Arraigned.
"They charged the Chicago convention
with q reckless attempt to increase the
price of silver by legislation to the de-
basement of our monetary system, and
threatened unlimited issues of paper
money by the government They pro-
claim i'm view of these and other grave
departures from Democratic principles
that they cannot support the candidate
of that convention, nor be bound by its
acts. They declare that the Democratic
party has survived many defeats, but
could never survive a victory won in be-
half of the policy proclaimed in its rame
at Chicago. On the money question they
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-22
SOUND MONEY RAILROAD MEN.
Employees of Cleveland, Akron and CO.
Iumbus Company.

The employees of the Cleveland, Akron
and Columbus Railway company and
sound money clubs of Akron, o., were
introduced by Mr.. Sampson, and were
addressed by the Republican nominee as
follows:
81 am glad to have the assurance
through your spokesman that you be-
lieve that the triumph of the principles
for which the Republican party now
stands will be best for you, and so be-
lieving that you intend TO vote the Re-
publican ticket. | think you all for this
greeting. / feel that you are not strang
ers to me. have been riding over your
lines for more than twenty years, and l
know many of your employers: and / do
not know of any business in the country
where its employees can so definitely
know the condition of the business of the
country as the men who are employed
by the railroads. You know il in the
shop. you know it in the ticket office, you
know it travelling on the trains; every
switchman. every brakeman, every con-
ductor. and every engineer knows the
condition of the business of the country
and of the railroad by the amount of
business that railroad does. He knows
when the country is prosperous and when
it is in n state of depression, and he does
not have TO wait for the report of the di-
rectors of the railroad to know whether
there have been any dividends declared
or not He knows ii from the amount
of work and the amount of wages he
receives.
"Now, my fellow citizens, you are
prosperous when the country is prosper
Gus. and the country is prosperous when
il takes care of its own people, its own
manufacturers, its own mines and prod
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-22
MAINE HEARD FROM.
Congressman Boute1Ie Speaks for th
State of Blaine and Reed

Congressman BoutelIe Speaks for the
State of Blaine and Reed.
One of the distinguished visitors of the
day was Congressman Bontelle of Marie,
who was introduced TO one of the visit
ing delegations by Mr.. Mckinley, with
such happy words that he could not es-
cape participating in the speech mak king
which Gov. Mckinley was expected to
alone perform. At the close of one Of
the addresses Mr.. Mckinley, turning to
Mr.. Boutelle, who stood near him, said:
I'VE have present with us Cen Bou-
telle of Maine, and while the delegation
is marching up the hill (another delega-
ton was then approaching l am sure
you will be glad TO hear voice from
the state of Blaine that has just given
us nearly $4,000 majority" applause
and cheers)
Mr.. Boutelle said:
''The governor has taken a slight adj
vantage over me in bringing me before
you, but desire to say to you that there
is no Republican in the state of Maine
who would not deem it an honor and n
privilege to stand here, at the residence
of William Mckinley of Ohio and thank
you for the splendid manifestations Of
loyalty which you have exhibited here.
We have got through with our little
piece Of work in Maine; we have set the
mark, $4,000 high. for the other states
of the American Union to go by. We
want TO see Ohio more than double IL.
We want to see Indiana come up with
10000, and we are going to see, my
friends. on the Sd day of November n de-
feat of free trade, free silver, and repu-
diation more disastrous than has ever
before overtaken demagogism in this
country, and now, gentlemen, l propose
three hearty cheers for the next Presi-
dent of the United States" (They were
given with VIM
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are benefited when the mines of Stark
county are running.
II thank you over and over again Tor
this call. / must now turn TO the other
side of this stand and address another
delegation, the members of which have
the same purpose in their hearts thar
you have-victory for the principles of
protection, honest money and good gov
ernment. Great applause) thank
you and bid you good afternoon"
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IRON WORKERS AT THE FRONT.
They Testify Their Feaity to Protection
and Prosperity.

No delegation of the day was more
cordially welcomed than the band Of
iron workers from Cleveland, whose
sturdy figures and frank faces were seen
as soon as the commercial travellers had
given place, and to them Mr.. Mckinley
said:
II welcome you to Canton and my
home. / am glad TO learn from your
banners and your spokesman that you
stand for the great purpose of the Repub-
lican party and the American union, that
gives to every citizen of every race and
nationality equal chance and opportunity
in the race of life-a Union that knows
neither caste nor classes. nor creeds nor
nationality, but gives equal protection
to all. / am glad to see from your ban
ners that you are in favor of protection
TO American industries. So am j. /
believe il is the duty of the American
people to vote for that policy which will
protect American industry, defend Ameri-
can labor, and preserve the old scale
of American wages. / thank you heart
lily for this call. / am always glad to
meet the workingmen, and there is moth
ing in this campaign that gives me more
encouragement than TO have behind me
the men who toll Great cheering and
cries of "Hurrah for McKinley.~
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dollars any more than we want light
weights. We are in favor of good, round
1OO-cent dollars with which to pay the
labor of this country and measure the
exchanges of the American people and
we will have no other kind.
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ucts, and its own labor. The country Is
prosperous when we have plenty of abor,
if we are paid in good money. We be-
lieve in sound money, and we are going
always to have it," Continuous cheer
ing)
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THREE STATES ABREAST.

Delegations from Illinois, Iowa and
Pennsylvania Grouped.
Scarcely had the preceding crowd va
Gated the lawn when the shouts and
cheers of another comira up the street
Hardware Mems Sound Money club Of
Reading, Pa, and railroad men and
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-22
ONE DAY AT CANTON.

umph. loud cries OF I'VE wen; we
will, followed by three rousing cheers
for the next President.
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bid you good afternoon" Great cheer
ing)
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EVANGELICAL MISSION BOARD.

Bishop Thomas bowman Introduces his
Associates to the Nominee.
Bishop Thomas Bowman introduced
the missionary board of the Evangelical
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