The San Francisco call., 1896-10-27
Splendid Surprises the Order
of the Day at Canton.
Men of Ali Glasses Assure Protec=
tion's Champion That They
Support Him.


expecting a lively time or any large dele
cations, but it proved to be the most i'm
portant Monday of the campaign, and
seven delegations, one numbering about
5000, came to pay their respects to the can
didate. The belief that owing to the
nearness of election day delegations will
contain fewer persons seems to have been
unfounded. The delegations came to-day
from Massachusetts, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois. The throngs were perhaps more
enthusiastic than ever. Major Mckinley s
health and voice were at their best. There
was an uncommon variety in the charac-
ter of the delegations, and all branches OF
honest toll and professional life sent rep
resentatives. The weather was delightful.
Major Mckinley received an interesting
communication to-day. 1t was signed by
2SS Union veterans of Crowley County,
Kans., who are favorable to the principles
OF the Republican party, and who believe
that the hope OF the country rests in its
triumph. and pledge themselves to sup
port the candidate. The signatures are
affixed to the document. Crowley County
is the birthplace of Populism.
Major Mckinley began his last week of
speeeh-making with an address to 400
employees OF the Baltimore and Ohio
Southern Railroad from the towns of Sey-
mour and Washington, Ind. o. H. Mont
gomery OF Seymour was spokesman. He
reviewed the issues of the campaign in a
forceful, convincing way and was roundly
applauded when he declared: t'The best
,loTT oAo I,v ~, nOrS
dess of Liberty is none too goou for those
who toll
Major Mckinley was greeted with pro-
longed cheers when he stepped forward to
speak. His remarks were accordingly
earnest and were in the main confined to
a discussion of the relations between en-
ployer and employe. He said there must
lie no coercion, but thorough harmony
and cooperation.
The next callers were 600 employees of
the Cleveland, Lorraine and Wheeling
road. Their spokesman was L. H. Eddy
a locomotive engineer, who made brief
ringing speech. Major Mckinley ad-
dressed the delegation on the money and
tariff issues.
The delegation of the day in which the
llveliest interest centered was one from
Newark and Trenton, n, j., which reached
Major McKinley's shortly after halfpast
IL. The New Jersey men had to await
their turn to be addressed, as there were
two delegations Immediately in advance
of them. The New Jersey delegation was
accompanied by 100 mem bers of the FREE
linghuysen Lancers, a splendid organiaa-
ton, formed in 1868, and probably the
most thoroughly drilled and handsomely
uniformed body OF men that has been seen
in Canton during the campaign. The ex-
cursion was organized by the Republicans
of Newark. The Iancers had with them
their own drum corps of thirty mem bers.
The speaker for the delegation was John
R. Gibson, Comptroller of the city of
Newark. He said:
1--WE have journeyed nearly a thousand
miles to bring you message of cheer from
the citizens OF our great industrial city
and to give you the assurance, if further
assurance is needed. that the State of
Garret A. Hobart will give a majority of
$1,000 for the restoration of our industries,
for the better employment of our citizens
and for the continuance of a financial
policy as sound as the Government ITSELF"
Major Mckinley responded as follows:
bid you warm welcome to my State, my
city and my home. 1 think we all have a
growing affection for the original thirteen
States that laid the foundation for our splen-
did political fabric. For more than 100 years
it has stood the shock of battle from without
and from within, and is stronger and more
patriotic to-day than it has ever been. as will
be seen by its vote a week from tomorrow
NJ 1o,4 H. At
of those glorious thirteen original States. She
not only has the distinction of membership
in that original family, but she is full OF his
toric memories and sacred historic events
leading up TO our National independence I
am glad to meet you at my home, members of
this old and historic company, twenty-eight
years old and bearing the honored name of
Frelinghuysen, one of the most illustrious not
only in the annals OF your State, but in the
ann ais of the Nation as well-a name that is
synonymous with protection to our industries
and 10 our National honor; name that is
synonymous with honest finance, good cur
'rency and public and private morality. Lam
glad to welcome you, my fellow citizens from
the State and home of my distinguished asso-
eiate on the ticket-that splendid typical rep
resentative American, that honest citizen,
that incorruptible statesman, Gafret A. Ho-
bart Loud and prolonged cheers.l
No ordinary event could have brought you
a thousand miles to the city OF Canton; no
ordinary political contest could have assem-
bled on this lawn thousands and tens of thou
sands of men and women from every quarter
OF this country. 1t is only because in the
public mind there exists belief that we are
confronted with great public peril, and be-
cause we mean by our votes to shun and
avoid II. This is the meaning of it ALL We
have experienced only calamity by following
false teachers. We dom propose to experience
another and greater calamity by following the
same teachers. We have already withstood
the experience of partial free trade, policy
the result OF which your eminent spokesman
nas so fttingly described, a policy that has
tProught idleness upon our workingmen ana
&tnguished the fires in our furnaces. This
has been your experience tor the past three
and a half years.
1t is proposed now TO add to that, as though
we had not suffered enough. that fatal heresy
that some how or another people can get rich
by deoasing our currency. They have reduced
wages, reduced employment, and now they