The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-20
Mckinley Speaks-At Last.

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Mckinley Speaks-At Last.
TO judge from Major McKinley's re-
plies to the congratulations of his neigh
bors, he proposes to fight out the cam
paign on the same old line. Mum is
still the word. and the glad hand must
do duty for the clear head and the open
heart. 1t is a fine way to run a contest
for the Presidency and every voter will
naturally realize the enormous advan-
tage OF platitudes and generalities over
plain, straightforward, manly declarations
of specific principle.
The speech made by the Republican
Joss at Canton, last evening. is a model
of saying nothing more OF less genially
in a good many words. 1t is so complete
and mastery in its way, that we cannot
refrain from quoting it in full. 1t was
delegates from st. Louis. and this is
how it began
1LA0 S0AL @
fitting response to this splendid tribute
which has been paid by three OF my
old and earliest friends?
Il think | might be excused by merely
saying thai / am inadequate to the task
and can only express my gratitude from
a full and Overlooking heart. / have
had q good many touching incidents IN
my life. Yesterday. Immediately. after
neigfbors and feliow-c.tizens, who did
no get to ST. Louis, and by friends from
Alliance and Massillon, n then came
1000 more of them from the city OF
With all these tokens, I was deeply
and profoundly impressed, but somehow
the words spoken by these three gentle
men, surrounded as I am by their asso-
c:ates who journeyed together to st.
Louis, somehow they have touched me
more deeply and sounded the depth of
my heart more profoundly h my
thing tina has gone forth.
In this audience Today are repre-
~sentatives from ali the counties which
for years constituted my Congressional
district and with which I have BIN as
ISOLATED adj my life.
So much was no doubt justified, by way
Of exordium, but it is when he gets down
to fact that the Presidential candidate
shows his p%rofundity. The following pleas
ant commingling of autobiography and
local geography is assuredly enough to
wiring tears from the breast of any patri-
otic citizens:-
A large body of my fellow citizens are
here from Trumble County. the place OF
Der are here from Mahoning County Cloud
cheers from Mahoning County c~itizens),
the place where I spent all of my, boy
education, and from which / enlisted in
way back in 1851. cloud and continuous
later friends-for from Mahoning County
came to Stark, nearly thirty years ago.
You have all been my friends ever since
E6ning (cheers) and the good people of
that cid Mahoning Valley and the West
ern reserve, which was to long represent
ed in the National House by Giddings and
Wade and the immortal Garfield zap
plause)-the good people of these counties
are aIl around me here today. And. my
hank each and every one of you from the
bottom of my heart for these manifesto
lions of your. friendship, you devotion
and your loyalty
W. do not know whether It was the
crowd or the reporter who so .humorously
ihterjected the applause. Assureday, only
the loud and continuous cheers were need
ed to bring out the full SAVIOR of these
solid chunks of wisdosn and eloquence.
But if one wants to see heights of grand
eur and depths of emotion reached by a
Napoleonic soul. one must study the pero-
ration Of this unique effort. Here it isl
lCanton could not help but make a good
impression at st. Louis. Stark County
gould not help but make a good impress
sSn At not e f EGui tble and III Ma seoF t5e S0u pegg
men. / am surprised that any of them
should have been honored with any title
below a colonel and applause
what you went for, those who were left
behind want me to say that they are glad
TO see you home again. Cloud and con-
tinuous cheers.)
The crowd then united in three cheers
flor the e President"
The delicate and playful humor. coo,
VIII commend the Canton Joss to all
people Of good taste.
IN contrast with the profound thought
the serene earnestness of purpose and the
C-ieeronian dictdon Of the above great
EFFORT. we are moved to reprint the ap-
peal OF Grover Cleveland to the Demo-
cracy, without COMMENT
have made no figures as to the prob
able action of delegates already chosen
Or to be chosen to the Democratic Ma
ttonal Convention, but / refuse to be-
3eve that when the time arrives for
deliberate action there will be engrafted
upon our Democratic creed a demand for
the free. unlimited and independent coin
age of silver.
I cannot believe this because / know