New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-11
ANOTHER NOTABLE DAY IN CANTON


Canton Ohio. Oct. l0.-Major Mckinley has sur
passed himself to-day and again broke his magnih-
cert record as strong. ready, versatile, enectWe
speaker. He has grown in favor and effectiveness
with every party demand upon his resources. and
to-day he reached the highest plane he has at
tained as masterful and potent campaign orator
He spoke to g. 900 people and delivered twenty
speeches Thirty delegations came to greet him.
and they represented nearly every form OF indus
trial and commercial activity. Major Mckinley met
them ALL addressed them all, and sent them all
away fred with enthusiasm and renewing their
loyalty and devotion to the Republican party. lie
began speaking at $3.50 in the morning. and 1t was
o'clock In the evening when the last delegation
marched away. with its torches and banners and
bands
The railroads were unable to bring to Canton to-
day all Of the people who wished to come to visit
Major Mckinley. In the city OF Cleveland alone
500 we're unable to get transportation TO Canton
Congressman Boutelle of Maine. who spent the
day here said tonight: II have never witnessed
such a spectacle as have seen In Canton to-day.
The enthusiasm intense, the crowds prodigious
and Mckinley was superb.
Delegations began to arrive in Canton at 4:SO
o'clock this morning The echong tread or the de-
parting Confederate veterans had hardly died away
before the shouts OF fresh arrivals were heard. The
arst-comers before daybrcak were from Lebanon.
Penn They followed few hours later by
LARGE delegations from other towns In Pcnnsyvanil
kentucky New-York and Indiana.
At $40 Major Mckinley received the delegations
from Lebanon and Reading, Penn. and IA large
delegation from Lansing Mich. on behalf OF the
PENNSYLVANIA visitors Gabriel Myer OF Lebanon.
made a stirring speech. ID. B Anger, Deputy
Auditor General OF Michigan. spoke for the deega-
ton from that Sta;e. Both delegations were un-
commonly enthusiastic and checrcd the candidate
with vehemence when he appeared on the porch
TALKING To A THOUSAND VOTERS.
Major Mckinley addressed the three delegations
a, once There were a thousand voters in the
audience which faced him. lie said:
Your early cali is an example Of promptness
which trust will be followed on the third day OF
November In every part II our country. bid my
fellow-citizens of Michigan and Pennsylvania
| warm welcome TO my city and home The best
thing in this world next 10 liberty. Is labor. ana
The best thing for labor is an opportunity TO
| work tApplause) This is the opportunity for
| which we are all striving this year. ana when
! we hone through a change OF policy in the Admin
! istrator Of the Government OF the United states
10 enjoy TO a larger degree than We have done In
the las, three and half years What we want more
| than anything else in order to bring this oppor-
tunlty 10 labor Is restoration OF confidence WIN
| confidence shaken. money seeks It's hidinS pace
ard goes gu, OF the channels or business ana
! legitimate investment, and away from iarhihs
! manufacturing and mining enterprises
| do not know OF better illustration OF the
value of confidence - the country than is found
In our own experience during the last twenty
years You will remember that this country re-
| sumed specie payments on January |. 1919. We
had outstanding then, as We have now, S3i0ooo
OUD OF what Ia commonly known as greehpach
currency Every dollar Of that from that date
was redeemable In gold upon presentation at the
| Treasury Of the United States SO great was l'le
confidence Of the people In the ability or tne coun
try that from 1879 to 1898 but SlG.Ooo.VU was
| presented for redemption and the gold taken ou-
| -S46.OOO0nO In fourteen years-and yet In the
| last three and half years since confidence has
! been disturbed. more than S2Oo,OW.oW or green
| backs have been presented 10 the Treasury OF the
| United States for redemption ana the gou taken
cut.
Now II confidence had existed. II the holders
| 81 these greenbacks had not been feariui, ana
! they were only made so because the Treasury
| OF the United States was not collecting enough
| money to pay its bills. that the revenue or the
| Treasury was inadequate for public expendi-
lures and arined as they were. ,ney sem M 'e, e,
greenbacks In for redemption and took the goh
| out The gold reserve. therefore. was en-
| croachcd upon. and from time to time We nave
| been compelled to sustain ii. to borrow money
| IN pu, gold into the Treasury OF the United
| STATES Now, the Republican party believes
| that It Is the duty Of the Government hrst 10
raise enough money to run the Governments
| IAnplauscJ We don. want any deficiencies In
the public treasures. and II we have no de-
| Gcency we will have no debts. and II we nav"
no debts we Will have no bonds. ana wheh we
| have no deficiencies everybod VIII have conn
dcncc in the solvency Of the Treasury OF the
| United States.
! in raising enough money to run the Govern
! ment but we believe In having tarin upon for-
| oipn competing products nlGn enough 10 pro-
tect American labor and American manufact-
urers' IApplauseD We believe it is the first duty
! of the Government OF the United States to pro-
tect and defend It's own cltizens tApplaTse) %
| II is the poorest policy on the part OF the GOV
| eminent to give work to the labor Of other Ma.
tions while we have idle men In the United
| states (Applause and cries OF "GoOd.) Now.
when we have once accomplished that we pro-
bose TO continue the good money we nave IN
| this country. Applause) We do not want any
| short dollars any more than we want Igh'
| weights (Applause) We are In favor OF
good. round 1OO-cent dollar with which to pay
the labor OF this country. and measure the eX,
change OF the American people, ana we VIII
have no other kind. Applause)
| Tho three delegations had scarcely left the yard
| before n delegation from Rock Island. Ill. num-
| bering 2Oo and the Hardware Mems Sound money
| Club of Reading. Penn.. marched nv Mayor j. H.
| Kcnney of Reading. spoke for the hardware men.
, his address was one OF the most polished that
| has bccn heard from the spokesmen OF the visit
| ing delegations ID. B. Sweeney. OF ROCK lsland
! delivered n carefully considered speech TOT MS
delegation and assured Major Mchihiey that
Illinois would give him more than 6oVco p'urar'y'
| cprrTING VISITORS FROM THREE STATES
Major Mckinley addressed these delegations as
follows: ,
,.'e,s ~ Reading Penn; Rock Island and Mo-
linz ILL., and Davenport. Iowa. al my nome III the
civ OF Canton. You come from three states OF
the mIghtiest Government OF the eartn. TAP
,IauseI You come representing diverse occupa-
p pa and varied empoyments. But you come
,ri,h a single mission. You come with common
nurpose, and that purpose Is to manifest your de-
rro,ion TO the great principles or the Republican
or,w ond YOUR determination to see that those
rrrnciples shall triumph on the third day of No
rrsmber. (Applause) You come because, as your
sn,Lasmen have so well said. you are Interested
in the welfare and the prosperity OF the country
mh,ch YOU love and which you believe will he best
'nserved by a Republican victory at the ensuing
election. now only a little more than three weeks
away (Applause) ,,, T.,
Won have come because you believe In pro-
,ective tariff (Applause) You believe In that
creat American policy established at the begin
80. ~ Inc Government Of the United States.
al NJ the earliest statesmen