The record-union., 1896-09-24
Two Delegations From the Gas Districts
Of Ohio and Indiana
Call at the Home of the Republican
Presidential Nominee.
The First Delegation Composed OF
First Voters, Various Republican
Clubs and Woman's Mckinley and
Hobart Club-One Thousand Ex-
Confederate Soldiers to Call LpOn
Mckinley on the Eighth of Next
Month.


Mckinley on the Eighth of Next
Month.
CANTON CO), Sept. 23.-The dele
cations which came to call on Major
Mckinley to-day We're from the natural
gas districts of Ohio and Indiana. The
first visitors were from Wood County
and Bowling Green, Ohio. They arrived
about 2:30 o'clock The delegation was
composed of a First Voters Club OF
Bowling Green, parts of the various Re
publican clubs of the county and the
Woman's Mckinley and Hobart Club.
The members of the latter organization
wore white Tam O'Shanter caps. The
whole delegation numbered 600. A. S.
Parker was spokesman. In response to
his remarks Major Mckinley said:
Il am very glad to meet at my home
this delegation from Wood County. |
am especially glad to make suitable
recognition of the women who have
honored me with their presence to-day.
(CheerS.) The presence of this body of
young men who are to vote for the first
time next November is to me an inspir-
ing sight, and that you are soon to en-
JOY the priceless privilege of citizenship
must be to all of you an inspiring
thought. / wonder whether you fully
appreciate the privilege and honor
which you are so soon to have. l fear
sometimes that few of us estimate suf-
frage at it's true worth. 1t clothes US
with sovereignty. 1t is a guaranty to
our liberties and institutions, and is our
surest safety. It is indeed a priceless
inheritance, and should be valued as
such by every young man. 1t should
never no never be thrown against the
country and should never represent
public dishonor. Great applause)
Il recall young men, my first vote.
With what a thrill of pride l exercised
for the first time the full prerogative Of
citizenship. In the crisis of war, on the
very field of conflict my first vote was
cast for Abraham Lincoln. Great
cheering) 1t is to me a priceless mem
Il ory You. gentlemen, DO not have tnat
privilege, but it having been denied you,
there will be some satisfaction to you to
vote for the party of Lincoln which rail-
lied the young men of the country
around the banner of liberty, union and
national honor between 1860 and 1865
(applause), and now summons you un-
der the same glorious banner. Re-
newed applause)
1T is seldom given to the first voters
of this country to start in so important
national contest, so involved and so
many interests at stake. 1t is a year,
too, when old party divisions count for
little; when men of all parties are united
ir the common object to save the coun-
try from dishonor and it's currency from
degradation. (Cheers)
My fellow-citiZens, I ventured a few
weeks ago to suggest in public speech
that 1T would be better to open the mills
than to open the mints. Great cheers
and cries of That's right.'D l see that
some of our political adversaries crit
icise the statement saying that it Is
putting the cart before the horse They
seem to think that the way to open up
the woolen mills, for example is to
start yardstick factory. Great laugh
ter and applause.) They forget that
you must make cloth before you can
measure it Crenewed laughter), and
that the weaver must be employed be-
fore the yardstick is required. (Ap-
Llause) But they say the yardstick is
too long L answer, if you make a
yardstick nineteen inches instead of
thirty-six inches, it's present length, you
Will not increase the output of cloth or
Its value, or give an additional days
la Dor to the American weaver Nor
Will a 52-cent dollar increase industrial
enterprises, add to the actual earnings
of anybody or enhance the real value OF
anything. Great applause) 1t will
ruin labor and wreck values, and has
done so wherever it has been used.
More cloth might require more yard
sticks Qaughter), but more yardsticks
or shorter ones will not create demand
tor more cloth. (Renewed laughter and
cries of Good, good!)
Nor will short dollars from wide open
mints free to all the world encourage
manufacturers. (Applause.) More fac
tories at work will find work for the
good dollars in their hiding places, and
find employment for the good men now
idle at their homes. tremendous
cheering) Industry must come first
Labor precedes all else. 1t Is the foun-
dation of wealth; it is the creator of all
wealth. (Applause) It's active en-
ployment puts money in circulation, and
sends it coursing through every artery
OF trade. Great applause) The mints
don't distribute IL in that way Start
the factories in full blast, and the
money will flow from the bank vault
- The lender will seek the borrower, not
as now, the borrower the lender. (Grea'
cheering) Start the factories and pu,
American machinery in operation, and
there will not be an idle man in the
country who is willing and able to work;
there will not be an American home
where hunger and want viii not disap-
pear, and there will not be a farmer
who will not be cheered and benefited
by his improving home market and by
the better and steadier prices for his
products. (Applause) Plenty ano
prosperity will return to us again, and
do not forget, men and women OF Wood
County, that you cannot coin prosper
ity (great cheering), and you cannot re-
vive industries through the mints. They
come through labor and confidence, ski
and enterprise and honesty-and they
will come no other way" (Great cneer'
ing)
The second and last delegation to-day
came from Muncie, Ind. -Four bands ol
music accompanied the Indiana visitors
and more enthusiastic delegation mas