The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-09-19
INVASION OF CANTON
By Enthusiastic Admirers of Can.
didate Mckinley,
sBvENTY-FtvB LOADED TRAINS

They Came from All Points Of Ohio tc
Take Part in the Formal Opening OF
the Campalgn-Fully Sixty Thousand
Visitors TO the City.
CANTON, O., Sept. 1g.--The formal open.
Ing of the campaign in Canton yesterday
gives Ohio new mark in political dem.
onstrations Future comparisons will be
made with Sept Is, 1895, In Canton in the
future. That Is the ooncensus of opinion
expressed here last night And the opin'
ions come from old timbers in political
warfare, from men accustomed to big
crowds and familiar with the history OF
campaign work
The little city since early morning has
been literally damned with visitors from
distant cities and nearby towns The
parade this afternoon was an hour and
three minutes In passing u givens point
0nd 1t was a well organized and compact
parade, too; the men marching eight and
sixteen abreast But the marchers were
only fraction of the crowd, and when,
In response to bugle calls, they assembled
at points assigned, there Vas scarcely any
appreciable diminution In the crowds
which lined the streets along the proposed
at noon they had hauled 10000 people into
Canton. Seventy-five train loads came.
State Republican Chairman Charles
Kurtz estimated the crowds present on
the streets in the afternoon parade, at the
big tent meeting and about the Nc
Kinley home at 100000, and far ahead OF
anything In Ohio's history. Congress-
man Stephen A Northway of Garfeld's
old district said the meeting was three
times as large as the memorable Western
Reserve. Garfield meeting that was ad-
dressed by Grant and Conkling Hon
Sylvester T. Everett, of Cleveland, said
the memorable Grant Conkling meeting
at Warren could not compare with it.
Special excursions from Cleveland and
Il dozen other points added to the crowd
after the afternoon program had finished.
Sixty thousand may be considered a con-
servHtive estimate of the people who came
by rail outside of Stark county. OF the
80 200 people in the county probably half
were at the Canton meeting. The dele
CATION from Union township Columbiana
county, marched to the Mckinley home
during the day, and in response to their
greetings Mnjor Mckinley spoke at length
on the issues OF the day.
Some of the organizations left on the
early evening trains, but many others
arrived after the first parade, and in size
and general appearance the parade tonight
which prefaced the second tent meeting
was reproduction of the one in the after
noon. There was a score or more of bands
in the line, and the number of uniformed
organizations has never been equaled in
the state Last night the parade was made
through streets brightly Illuminated with
japanese lanterns, transparencies, colored
fires and pyrotechnics.
The enormous tent large as il is, fell far
short of tho demands made upon it dur
ing the speaking Many more than We're
admitted turned back disappointed Be
sides these a crowd, never less than 5000
and often double that size, surged around
the Mckinley home from early in the fore
noon till lutte at night, Many of the Wis
itors came to call on Major Mckinley
with their spokesman to offer their CON
gratulations, and to them he made brief
responses.
Major Mckinley rode In carriage with
some of the speakers during the first
parade When his home was reached, he
with State Republican Chairman Charles
f. Kurtz, left the carriages, and with Gov
ernor Hastings, Judge Baldwin, Mrs. Nc
Kinley and Mrs. Heisland, from a tenn
porary stand in the door yard, reviewed
the long line of marchers interspersed
with music by quartets glee clubs and
bands. The regular program in the
afternoon included Governor Bushnell 5
Introductory address and speeches by Sena-
tors Cullom and Thurston. In the even
Ing Governor Bushnell spoke briefly and
Governor Hastings Of Pennsylvania and
Congressman McCleary of Minnesota
made addresses