The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-06
PLEA FOR PROTECTION MADE by
MKINLEY TO A PENNSYL-
WANNA PARTY.
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED CAME.
KEYSTONE STATE DELEGATION
ONE OF THE LARGEST YET IN
CANTON.
'rRIBUTE PAID TO MATTHEW QUAY
Beaver County Crowd Cheered the
Name of the Republican Boss
of Their state.

CANTON, O.. Sept. 5.-The Beaver
county, Pennsylvania delegation,
reached the Mckinley home, $500
strong, at 1915 this afternoon.
They came on special trains
over the Pennsylvania road.
After an enthusiastic march
through the streets to the Mckinley
residence. the number was doubled by
acquisitions along the route and in
the city. Among the clubs in line were
the Lincoln club, of New Brighton
Mckinley and Hobart club, of Monaco,
Mckinley club. of Beaver, and Re-
publican club of Rochester. The party
was headed by Maj. Little, of Beaver
Falls. and f. H. Thomas, of New
Brighton. The reception given Maj.
Mckinley when he appeared upon the
porch to greet his visitors, was one of
the most enthusiastic scenes yet wit
messed at the house. The cheering
could be heard for blocks away, and
such a waving of hats and handker,
chiefs and umbrellas and banners has
seldom been witnessed
1t was some time before the speakers
could be heard. When order was Sc
cured. Edward A. Frethy, a moulder,
of Beaver Falls, Pa, was introduced.
and presented the congratulations and
assurances of hearty and continuous
support for Mckinley and the Repub-
lican cause by the people of Senator
Quays home Maj. Mckinley made
an appropriate response, speaking at
some length on the issues of the cam
paign. He said:
MKINLEY'S ADDRESS.
1t gives me very great pleasure to receive
this call from the workingmen and citizens
or Beaver county, of the state of Pennsyl-
wanna | greet you to my home as friends
and as allies in the great cause. in which
the honor OF the country and prosperity of
the people are involved. You are our near
est neighbors on the east, and are closely
connected, socially and in business rela-
tons, with the eastern part of the old con-
gressonal district which for so many years
l had the honor to represent.
The people of this country never were so
eager to vote now The last four years
have been long years, the longest four years
since our great civil war. Cries of That's
SOD Everything has suffered; everything
has been blighted but Republican principles
applause and laughter), and they are dear
er. more cherished and more glorious than
they have ever been before. Cries of That's
right.') The people of the country only
waiting for opportunity to embody these
great principles in public law and public
administration.
| have great affection for your old county
and for your commonwealth. Cries of ''Hur-
rah for Mckinley and Beaver county.') Both
have stood for the nation and its honor in
every crisis of our history. No state in the
Union has been more closely wedding to
Republican doctrines and Republican politics
than the state of Pennsylvania. No state
has achieved higher rank in manufacturing
and mining than yours, and no state has
been more devoted to the great doctrine of
protective tariff than the state from whence
you come. And, my fellow citizens, no state
exempifes the splendid advantage of that
system more than yours. I do not imagine
that you are ready to give it up. Applause
and cries of "No never" But that you
will still cling to it as the great American
patriotic policy. the best for your advance
ment and prosperity. Cheers and cries of
We will do that all right.O
| do not recall time in the history OF the
country when the question of protection was
an issue that your state did not declare by
emphatic majOrites in its favor Two years
Gen. Hastings the largest majority ever given
by your state and probably the largest popular
majority ever given to any candidate in any
state of the union. applause and cries of
I'VE will make yours bigger.O
My fellow citizens. l do not forget that this
delegation comes from the home of that dis
tinguished leader and unrivalled Republican
organizer great cheering and cries OF
Quay! Quay!'O, whose unfaltering (cries OF
Mckinley! McKinley?o devotion to Repuoh-
Canism has never wavered and whose devo-
ton to the cause have more than once as
sisted to achieve the most signal triumphs
in both your state and the nation | re-
member well that when the Wilson tarin law
went from the house to the senate and was
under discussion, Senator Quay stood reso-
lutely' for every interest in his state and pre-
vented the destruction OF great industries by
his famous speech, which the longest
ever delivered upon the tariff question in the
history of the republic, and which has not
yet been concluded. Great laughter and
applause) When he fighting for the
industries of your state on the floor of the
senate, if he could not them in any other
way, he resumed his speech, which went on
day after day without apparent diminution
of his manuscript, which laid before him.
Continued laughter and cries of "Hurrah for
Quay!) | wish he might have been a part of
this great delegation today, but his absence
is fully compensated by the fact that on an
other part of this great field of contest
he is serving the same cause in which you
are engaged, and for the success of which
so many of the people are striving. 1t in
wolves every cherished interest of the coun-
try and embraces the welfare of every citi-
zen of the republic. "a voice, You told the
truth then.O 1t involves the labor and wages
OF the people and the earnings accumulated
to the honor of the country, its financial in
tegrity. its good-all are at stake in this
great contest, and every lover of country
must be aroused to duty and quickened to
Sponsibility in this crisis. applause and
cries of You need not worry about that')
Our glorious country has suffered dis
honor in the past; it must suffer no dishonor
in the future. The past is secure, and glor-
tous. The present and future are our fields
of duty and opportunity. Those who have
preceded us have done well their part. Shall
we be less honest and patriotic and brave in
the performance of our part? (Cries of mo
no. In America we spurn all class distinc-
lions (Applanse and cries ofsttGorreet, cor
rect We are all equal citizens equal in
privilege and opportunity. In America. thank
God, no man is born to power. No one is
assured OF station or command, except by his
own worth or usefulness. But to any post
OF honor all who choose may aspire and his
tory has proved that the humblest in youth
are frequently the most honored and power
full in the maturity of strength and age