The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-20
GREETS WARMLY.
Gov. Mckinley Kept Busy Re
ceiving the InpOuring Hosts
That Are Moving on to Canton
to Shake His Hand.
ST. LOUIS VISITORS
Stop on Their Return and Call
on Him.
Hundreds Of Cheering Tele-
grams Received Daily.

Canton o.. June 20.-Governor Nc
EZinley made two more addresses at his
home last night. The day was an event
ful one. The wild enthusiasm has i'm
creased. each incoming delegation is
greeted with steam caliopes and
shrielSing whistles Of every kind, while
trumpets, tin horns, bands and drum
corps give music to the merry march
ers.
Delegations called last night in rapid
succession. but the governor shows no
sign of wear or relapse after the strain
OF convention week.
He arose at the usual hour and after
breakfast opened his mail. while he
talked to friends around him. Among
the callers were Secretary Col Clarke
of the Home Market club Of Boston,
and ex-COmmitteenan Shaw, of that
organization. After shaking hands
with several hundred visitors from
neighboring towns he took his custo-
mary drive a short time before lunch
con During the day the news spread
that the New York Mckinley league
would stop at Canton on its way home
from st. Louis and that the special
convention party from Canton would
come home i'm the evening
1t was shortly after o'clock just be-
fore the governor dinner hour when
the shrielzing whistles of locomotives
heralded the approach of the New
Workers. and returning Cantonians, as
well as a special train load of 500 peO-
pie from the Mahoning valley, where
Governor Mckinley spent his bOyhOOd
days. An escort committee with bands
and drum corps, including fifty horse
men, met the delega lions at the station
The streets were densely crowded for
blocks in every direction leading to the
governor home. The crowds rushed
through the fences and crowded into
the doorways of the house i'm their eX-
element lit was necessary for the gov
ernor to go to the side door to meet his
returning fellow citizens, as it was inn
possible for him TO reach the front
where he had been speaking Con-
gresham r.. w. Taylor. Of the Eigh-
zeenth the old Mckinley district
mounted q box when Governor McKin-
ley appeared and said:
Governor Mckinley. While we have
not had the good fortune to be the first
to congratulate you in person upon the
honor which the Republican party has
bestowed upon you. we rejoice to know
that we are the vanguard of the re-
turning hosts that Witnessed that
splendid reception whereby you We're
nominated for the presidency. There
we saw the Republican party place you
it honored itself and gave permanent
expression to the wish and desire that
has been in the hearts Of the American
people for many months. prolonged
applause.l
Twenty years ago Stark county
gave you to the congressional district
which you have made famous Five
years ago this splendid district gave
you to the state of Ohio, and nOw( our
glorious state has given you to the ma
tfon, whose true son you are and whose
interests have been your constant care.
loud applause.l
Governor Mckinley, may your heart
be thrilled when you recall that you are
first in the hearts of your countrymen,
not because you are presidential
nominee. but best and most glorious of
ALL you are a presidential nominee be-
cause you are first in the hearts Of your
countrymen- LCheers.l
May every blessing of a life well
spent always merit and attend you is
the wishes of these. your friends. about
you" loud and continued applause
Congressman Taylor was followed by
Judge George d. Baldwin on behalf of
Stark county, and Judge VIM. r. Day,
who brought with him from Richmond,
Ind, q large box of beautiful flowers,
sent to Mrs. Mckinley as a souvenir of
the entertainment given the Canton
party on it's return from St. Louis He
addressed and congratulated Major
Mckinley as a neighbor."
Governor Mckinley responded to his
Canton friends as follows;
MY fellow citizens. How can I
make fitting response to the splendid
tribute which has been paid by three
Of my old friends. think I might be
excused by merely saying that I am in
adequate to the task and can only ex-
press my gratitude from a fun and
overhowing heart. Il have had a good
many touching Incidents ia my life
Yesterday. Immediately after the nomi-
nation. 4 was surrounded by neighbors
and fellow citizens. who did not go to
st. Louis, and by friends from Alliance
and Massillon. and then came 1000
more OF them from the city of Akron
last night With all these tokens. [
was deeply and profoundly impressed
but somehow the words spoken by these
three gentlemen, surrounded as am
by their associates. who journeyed to
St Louis-s0mehow they have touched
me more deeply and sounded the depths
of my heart more profoundly than any
thing that has gone before.
In this audience today are repre-
sentatives of all the counties which for
years constituted my congressional dis
trlcr and with which have been assoc
ciated all my life. A large body of my
Iellov-cltizens are here from Trumbull
county. the place of my birth (Great
Applause-) A large number are here
from ManOnlDg county Cheers from
MahOning citizens. the place where
spent all my boyhoOd days; the county
Nnere 4 received my education. and
from which 4 enlisted in the war for
the preservati ton of the Union away
back ia 1861 Goud and continuous
cheering), and then around me are the
later friends. From Mahoning county