The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-01
EXCEPTING FORMAL OPENING.
YESTERDAY WAS MOST NOTA-
BILE DAY OF CAMPAIGN.
Several STATES WERE REPRESENTED
Delegations Were SO Manipulated That
Eleven Speeches Suffced to Go
Rouhd-Several Hundred Com
mercial Angels of Peoria
Were First.

II Canton, o., Sept. 26.-Today has been
the most notable day of the campaign
in Canton, excepting the formal opening
of the county campaign on Friday of last
week, the crowd exceeding that of any
other demonstration. -Four or five states
were represented in the days doings and
delegates came from about twenty
towns, extending as far west as Peoria,
ILL.,, and as far east as Buffalo. \. Y.
The delegations were so massed that
Maj. Mckinley managed to address all
i'll eleven speeches. The closing dem
onstration of the day was to the Peoples
Patriotic club of Cleveland, under the
auspices of Mrs. j. w. Shepard of the
Ladies club of Cleveland.
Maj. Mckiffon of Cleveland was mas
ter of ceremonies. This, like the many
other delegations of the day, was con-
spicuous for numerous bands and drum
corps, gaily uniformed and well drilled.
Congressman j. V. Graft of the -Four
teenth Illinois district introduced the Pc
oria travelling men, to whom Maj Ne
kinley responded as follows
congressman Graft and My Fellow
Citizens-I am glad to greet at my home
the Travelling Mems Republican club of
. Peoria. | can not refrain from congrat-
ulating you at this time on the splendid
victory which you achieved two years
ago in electing your present congressman
s and turning strong Democratic ma
. Jority into an overwhelming republican
majority great applause and cries of
I'VE will do it AGAIN. and l am glad to
near from SO many voices about me that
. 1t is your purpose to do it again. | con-
graduate you on the thriving city and
glorious state in which you live. Hi
nols is now, by the last census, the third
state in population in the American
union. 1t has taken the place of Ohio.
but | have always held that you took
your census while Ohio was visiting your
great metropolis, getting ready for the
Worlds fair. Great laughter and cries
of " Rah for Mckinley.') | congratu-
late you most heartily upon the rank IL
linois has taken in population and also
the rank she has taken in craftsmanship
1t comes to few states to have furnished
TO this Union the grand men YOU have
furnished-Yates and Oglesby. that
splendid soldier, patriot and statesman.
John A. Logan great applause). and
that noblest of men, Stephen A. Doug
lass, who loved his country far more than
he loved his party and gave the whole
weight of his mighty influence to Mr..
Lincoln in the crucial period in the his
tory of the republic. (Applause) And
no man can think of your state without
recalling that you furnished to mankind
Abraham Lincoln, the greatest states
man of this country or any other in the
worlds history tremendous checrng)
and Gen. Ulysses Grant the first captain
of the republic. (Renewed applause.)
When Abraham Lincoln issued his i'm
world knew that what Lincoln had de-
creed Grant would execute with the
Thunder of his artillery. Great APP
plause and cries of Good, good.'O
4 81 am glad to know that your pros
poets are so good for Il splendid victory
in Illinois this year. tremendous cheer
ing and cries of 1--WE will give Mckinley
150,000.'D What Il spectacle. my fel-
low citizens. to the world is this govern
ment of I0,000.0O0 free people, them
selves changing their chief executive
every four years and their law-making
power every two years if it be their will
so to do, and the government going ON
without halt or interruption, working out
what 1O0O0.0OO people from time to time
will believe their highest destiny. More
than 100 years have passed since the GOV
ernment was founded and in every trial
of our history we have demonstrated
gour capacity for seltgovernment and
shown 70 all mankind the use and the
advantages of the great republic. Great
applause and cries of You are right."0
Now and then in our popular elections
we may have been swaycd hy passion ar
moved by the dnmagOglle from our moor
ings, but the American people are not
fooled but once on Il subject great cheer
ing). for once deceived they never fol-
low the dcceiver the second time. Gre
newed choering) | have known. and so
have you, time in our history when the
majority of the people were made to be-
leve that certain politics would serve
their best interests and when it trans
pred that they did not they swiftly
turned upon the party which deceived
them and turned it out Of power.
And they will do it again. The Jtdg-
ment of the people is swift and terrible
against those who mislead and deludc
4 HON Tho nponln arc never led aStray