The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-10

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a great distance. almost the greatest
distance of any delegation which has
yet visited me, to pay your respects to
me, not personally, but rather TO testify
your
DEVOTION TO THE PRINCIPLES
of the Republican party and your deter
n?ination that those principles shall tri-
umph at the election on the third day
Of November. Your presence here re-
calls pleasant and inspiring memories
connected with the early history of
your state.
The ex-Confederate veterans, who
were expected to arrive at $3.50 in the
morning, did not all reach Canton until
4 o'clock this afternoon. They came on
three special Baltimore & Ohio trains.
from the valley of the Shenandoah,
and the party numbered in the aggre-
gate nearly 1000. One-half of them
were men who had worn the Confeder-
ate Gray and fought under Stonewall
jackson, and hundreds of them have
never voted the Republican ticket. The
veterans from Virginia were met at the
train by the Grand Army posts of Can
ton and Stark county and by the Union
Veterans Patriotic league, of CIeve-
land, and were escorted to the taber-
nacle, where an elaborate dinner was
served by the women OF Canton.
After dinner they marched to Major
McKinley's house. Scores of the ex-
Confederate soldiers walked arm in
arm with the Union veterans gray
uniforms and blue were mingled in the
parade. Along the line OF march, the
veterans We're cheerei at every step
and they made brave spectacle as
they swung up the broad street and
passed under the White arch at the
foot of the hill leading to Mckiniey's
residence, just at sunset, The last rays
of the sun cleaned in the faces of the
men who had faced each other as foes
in deadly battle, and those same rays
fell upon and gloritied forty American
flags which waved above them as they
marched.
IT WAS AN IMPRESSIVE SIGHT.
At Major McKinleys house the re-
ception given the visitors was most
cordial. Flags and handkerchiefs 1ut-
tered from every window and Mrs. Nc
Kinley, leaning out on the sill from
a second story window, waved a small
silken banner. The two thousand spec
tators on the streets and in the neigh
boring yards lifted their voices in
chorus of cheers. and then from the
great delegation of southerners rose a
storm of hurrahs-the old rebel yell
The cheering when Major Mckinley
appeared on the stand was prolonged
and vehement. The speakers in behalf
of the delegation of confedera were
A. P. Funkhouser. editor of paper at
Harristonburg, Va, and General j. E.
Roller. Major Mckinley said:
MY fellow citizens: 1 welcome to my
home the representatives of a state of
proud ancestral memories. Great
IL +ata of "a c11 nc
(applause), the president of the con-
vention which framed the federal con-
stftution and the first and foremost
president of the United States; the
state of Jefferson, the author of the
declaration of independence, great APP
plause and "Hurrah for McAinley'D,
which lighted the torch of liberty
that has girdled the globe; the state
of Madison, the expounder of the fed
eral constitution and the state of Mon
roe. who promulgated the great doe
trine of international law that prevents
European interference in this hemis-
phere great applause); the state that
was generous in the concessions of
territory that gave Ohio to the federal
Union. loud cheering) Thrice well
come, men of Virginia, men of the
Shenandoah valley thrice welcome, the
descendants of such noble sires, to
MY HEART AND MY HOME.
loud cheering9 Patriotism is not
bounded by state or class or sectional
lines. We are a reunited country
Cries of Yes, yes, that's what we
are" and tremendous applause) We
have but one flag, the glorious old
stars and stripes tremendous yeiling),
which all of us love so well. and that
we mean to transmit in honor and
glory to our children north and south.
Sectionalism was surrendered at APP
pomattox tapplause), and the time that
has followed has removed whatever lin
gering resistance that remained In
deed, if anything was needed to utterly
and effectually destroy it, it has been
furnished in the events of the contest
now upon us for the honor of the Amer
lean name and that permanent peace
which was the dying prayer of the
great captain of our armies, Ulysses
s. Grant. Wociferous cheering) The
spirit of fervent
AMERICANISNI Is ABROAD IN THE
LAND
and no more earnest or sincere is the
sentiment in the north than in the
south. This year the words of your
Veterans legion borne on your breasts
oday, No north, no south, no east,
10 wesi the Union forever
'ounds forth Ike bugle note
:alling patriots together, and it is an
oppression of the purpose of the Amer
can people both north and south
tremendous applause); proclairulng
liberty, union and honor as the high
lin of every survivor of that great war
II either side and of every patriot in
he country. The consDiring and IN
1nquerable sentiment Of this cam
aign is-country first. country last and
l'ntry with stainless honor. all the
me. (Cries of Good good and
great cheering) The voice of the mis-
,aided partisan is not lieeded the
nee OF patriotism strikes a responsive
lord this year. The voice of prejudice
nd hate is lost in the ,rrand chorus
e neace and good Will Natinnnl ll,,itv