The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-03
MAI. M'kINLEY CALM AND LIKE
HIS MANAGERS, CONFIDENT AND
HAPPY.
WHOLE CITY TURNED OUT.
THOUSANDS OF MEN MARCHED AND
THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN
CHEERED.
HE DECLINED TO EXPRESS A VIEW.
Fixed Rule Of This Campaign Oh
served by the Republican Nenf-
tnee to the End.

CANTON, O., Nov. 2.-On the even
ing of the election Gov. Mckinley feels
serenely confident of success in the
presidential struggle which eliminates
tomorrow. Throughout the excitement
of the day, while visiting delegates
have come and gone, and the McKin-
ley cottage has been besieged with long
lines of eager enthusiastic crowds,
Gov. Mckinley, has maintained the
same calm, cheerful and confident air
that has marked him throughout the
campaign. Tonight he declined, in re-
Spouse to direct requests, to make a
public expression ON the outlook. He
has been asked many times for ex-
pressions, but has preferred to speak
only through his speeches, and he ad-
heres to this rule to the last His
manner speaks quite as forcibly as
words, however, in showing that he
fully shares the confident expectation
of those about him.
Mrs. Mckinley was confined to her
apartments, not yet up from an at
tack of la grippe, epidemic about town,
which has kept her in her room for
the past week. Most of the day was
passed by the major in greeting hun
dreds Of callers who kept coming in
unorganized groups of a dozen or two
from points far and near. Judge N L.
Marvin, of Akron an cid friend who
had not seen the hero of the Canton
pilgrimages for several months, voiced
the expressions of most of the callers
when he said: 81 never saw him look
better"
Col. A L. COnger, who has been
abroad and just returned, remarked: 81
expected to find a WORKOUT man. You
personally greeted hundreds of thou
sands of people the past ninety days
and made a dozen speeches a day, and
yet have grown stout under it,
Tonight the front of the house is
cobwebbed with wires. A host of spe-
cial correspondents are already here.
Thousands of people are thronging the
street between the public square and
the Mckinley home. For twenty years,
ever since he has been in public life,
MAJ. Mckinley has spent the night be-
lore election in his town home, ad-
dressing his neighbors and friends To-
night 1t seemed as if the whole CITY
was gathered about his home Torch
light professions are parading the
streets with bands Of music, and wo-
men and children are on the sidewalks
cheering the marchers.
During the evening Gov Mckinley
sat IN his library receiving many of
MS FELLOW toTnSmen. One of these
was a venerable, lite-haired friend
OF long standing who gave voice to his
enthusiasm by cengratulating the gov
7erho> on his election. The greeting
was sn1ilingly received, but the gover-
nor answered that the contest was not
yet over, and that 1t would be well to
Wa1t until tomorrow night before Of
fering congratulations
1t Isl noticeable that the crowds in
the street tonight are made I'D Of
townspeople. out to pay final tribute
To the man VINO has brought promi-
hence and profit to their city 1t has
practically left Canton to it's own peo-
pie for the first time In many weeks.
ana though the early part of the day
the streets were free from the march
ing thousands who have laid siege to
the city since the campaign began 1t
has awakened OminouS forebodings
among the storekeepers. Yet this is
offset in part by arrangements, al
ready under way, for publications to fol-
low the election, for many are pro-
ceeding as though success was already
assured.
1t is understood tonight that Mark
Hanna will reach here about $40 a. M.
after voting in Cleveland. remaining
with Gov Mckinley until late in the
day and then returning to Cleveland to
receive the returns. The governors
plans are to vote early, according to
an unvarying rule, and he expects to
cast his ballot by o'clock Many of
those who have aided him during the
arduous work of the campaign have
gone home to vote, Private Secretary
Boyle going to Columbus. Political Sec
rotary Smith to Urbane and Capt.
Heistand to Delaware, o.
The indications are that there will
be a comparatively quiet day here to-
morrow, although late in the day,
when the returns begin to come in, the
Mckinley cottage will be a center of
attraction. Gov. Mckinley is afford
ing every facility to the press and pub
lie to get at him, and there will be little