The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-16
Marched From the Station to the
Nominees Home During
a Storm.
MRS. AvERYs ELOQUENT TALK
The Ohio Man Says Woman's Ad.
vancement Is the Best Thing
in Civilization.

| CANTON, ONO, July 15.-On their spe-
cial train, with their own band, several
hundred Cleveland women came to Can
ton this morning to call upon Major Me-
Kinley and congratulate him upon his
nomination. A fast and furious summer
rain fell throughout most of the morning,
but did not prevent Canton people from
turning out in large numbers with cor
! dial goodwill to welcome their fair visit
ors. The Cleveland delegation was met at
the station by large committee of Can
ton women under the leadership of Mrs.
Miller, president of the Sorosis Society.
The Cleveland women marched from the
railway station to the residence of Major
Mckinley. He was standing on the porch
| to receive them. The speech of congratu-
latlon was made on the part of the visitors
by Mrs. Elroy Avery of Cleveland, State
regent of the Daughters of the Revolution.
! Mrs. Avery spoke at some length. She
| said in part:
| We come from a city of great American in
dustries, which industries are suffering from
un-American legislation-an unfortifed city
on the border, facing the Canadian frontier
and yet recognizing that our best protection
against foreign aggression is a protective
| tariff
| but as women, as wives and mothers and sis
tiers. We cannot cast one vote for you, and yet
| we love our country; we desire and through
you we seek her prosperity and glory. We
know that when you enter at the door of the
| White House peace and comfort will enter at
! our doors; that when you receive your heri-
| tage by the decree of grateful people our
husbands and fathers will receive the fruits of
| their industry, and the heart of the wife and
mother will be made glad.
Every woman living IS interested in the
| money question. If our husbands earn the
money we spend, and we intend to spend it
with out pleading guilty to the charge of a
weakness for the bargain counter every thrifty
woman wants her few dollars to have as great
purchasing power as possible; to be worth
| 100 cents; to be convertible into twenty
/ pounds of sugar, not ten We stand ready to
welcome every one who refuses to dwell longer
in the tents of the opposition, and to bind up
| the wounds of every one who, breaking loose
| from the already disintegrating ranks of the
| enemy and placing patriotism above party,
! pledges his support to the advance agent of
| prosperity.
| Mrs. Avery's speech was heartily and
frequently applauded
| In response to Mrs. Avery's remarks
Governor Mckinley said in part:
Mrs Avery: I greatly appreciate this
friendly call and assure you that do not
undervalue the gracious message you have so
! eioquently delivered. 1t is an assurance of
the deep interest which you feel and which
should be felt by every family in the land in
the public questions of the day and their right
| full settlement at the polls. There is no limit
| alton to the influence that may be exerted by
women in the United States and no ADEQUATE
| tribute can be spoken of her services to man
kind throughout its long and eventful history
| The work OF women has been power in every
q nd al IIarf M
| in the home, the church, the school and the
community, in molding character for every
| profession and duty to which our race is con-
nected, has been potential and sublime.
One of the best things of our civilization in
America is the constant advancement of
/ woman to higher plane of labor and re-
sponsibility. The opportunities Tor her are
| greater now than ever before. This is sin
| gularly true here, where practically every
avenue of human endeavor is open to her
! Her impress is felt in art science, literature
| song and government. The home over which
] the trusted wife presides is the ideal of our
streng th-the best guaranty OF good citizen
ship and sound morals in government 1t is
| at the foundation; upon it all else is con-
structed. ] congratulate you upon what
] woman has done for grand and noble objects
| in the past. 1 rejoice with you at the wider
and broader field of the present and the
splendid vista of the future, which is every
Wnere opening up lot YOU again thank you
for your presence here and for this manifesta-
ton of your regard and good will.
| Major Mckinley was frequently ap-
plauded. When he finished speaking there
was an earnest cheer, and then Miss Biz
dele Switzer of Cleveland stepped forth
and presented Mrs. Mckinley with large
basket of handsome roses. The band, COM
posed of women, played, and song writ
ten for the occasion by Mrs. Stewart, pres.
ident of the Cleveland Sorosis, was sung
| by Mrs. Mary Ellsworth Clark, one of
| Cleveland's sweetest singers. The women
fell into line while the band was PLAYING.
and for nearly three-quarters of an hour
Major Mckinley shook hands with his
visitors.
The band which accompanied the Cleye-
land delegation was composed of women,
who used fans vigorously when they were
not blowing the big horns. 1t is good
band and its members did not resemble
professional musicians in the least. There
were no professional female agitators or
reformers among the hundreds who came
to Canton to-day.