The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-28
CRQNDING INTO CANTON j!
The Enthusiasm Grows as Election Day
Draws Nearer.
MONSTER PATRIOTIC CONCERT
An Impromptu Affair Which is Participated
in by Visiting Delegations From Many
sections-Major McKinleys Address
to Visitors From New England.

to Visitors From New England.
CANTON, o., oct 2S-Thero never was
more inspiring scene than that witnessed
In the public square of Canton from 1 to
o'clock Yesterday afternoon. Bands of
people, including the ladies from Norwalk,
many of the visitors from Boston, West
Virginia Maryland and Cleveland, gath
cred in front Of the handsome court house
on Broad Public Square and sang pa
triotic melodies interspcrsed with music
by the bands, frequent cheers and tho
waving of flags banners and campaign
parasols, with which the women 5 delega-
ton was supplied. The affair was entirely
mpromptu, and ended at . clock with
"Home, Sweet Home from both tho
bands and the vast audience, WHICH had
gathered first as spectators and then us
participators in that great patriotic con-
cert,
Yesterday demonstration was full Of
beauties and features. 1t was notable for
n large crowd 1t was notable for the
wide range of territory represented by the
visiting delegations. 1t was notable for
the varied interests of the people who
came The demonstration began in earn
est at noon with the arrival of party
representing three st tes and it continued
till dark. All that time the Mckinley
residence was surrounded by an inter-
ested crowd, shouting and cheering for
the nominee, and applauding the splendid
delegations which marched up the street.
In the first party We're sixteen coach
loads coming from eastern West Virginia,
western Maryland and Martin Ferry, o.,
the latter delegation being composed of
women coming with greetings for Major
Mckinley and with beautiful flowers for
Mrs. Mckinley. Employees of three large
Cleveland manufacturing concerns were
next upon the scene, and when they gave
way it was to make room for more Ohio
people-men and women from Mingo
Junction, o.. the employees of aIarge iron
md steel plant, and their wives and
friends.
After these came the New England dele
cation. This party occupied a special trHin
Of six sleepers and two dining cars, and
was on the way from o'clock Monday
afternoon till 9 o'clock yesterday after
noon. The party came largely from Bos-
ton, but number of other New England
towns were represented. The visitors were
introduced by Frank w. Rollins, eX-preGi-
dent of the New Hampshire senate. Many
relies and mementoes of the visit were
brought for Mrs Mckinley from Boston,
from New Bedford and from historic
Salem, including wales teeth, twigs from
Il tree planted by Governor Endicott in
1928 and a gold witch spoon. The party
remained in Canton till o'clock, and
then went TO Cleveland
No prettier sight has been witnessed in
the whole campaign than the reception IF
the Women's Mckinley club, of Norwalll,
n Nj. al, .,Fr
splendidly organized and drilled, and
when on parade carries campaign um-
brelas on which portraits Of Mckinley
and Hobart are conspicuous. The club is
commanded by Chief Marshal Mrs. A. L.
Bloxham, and their evolutions may well
attract the envy of voting clubs.
Then came a visit of five or six carloads
of insurance men from Cleveland.
In his speech to the New England dele
cation Major Mckinley said;
II has been my observation that what
ever considerations move New England
to action move every pat of our common
country. What is good for New England
Is good for Ohio What il good for New
England is good for the great west. What
Is good for one part of our country Is good
for every part This is IA year, my fellow
citizens, when partisanship counts but for
little and patriotism for everything.
This assemblage furnishes an impressive
tribute to the cause of national honor and
the upholding of the American name No
other audience anywhere could more ad-
dress on the subject most dear to my heart
and most dear to the American people l
am sure, than this assemblage from dear
old New England.
1--WE have presented in this campaign a
question that should in no sense be polit-
lcal, partisan or sectional strange but
very serious question, astounding indeed
at this juncture of our national affairs; a
question fraught with the greatest peril
TO every interest of the United States,
The problem is not one of the present, but
of the tomorrow and of the horeafter-the
bold, bald question of national integrity
md national honor. Both these are in
volved in the die of our ballots one week
from today. 1t is not n question simply
rs to whether one party or another shall
win, rs in pimes past-that sinks into
comparative insigniiicancc in "A crisis like
this-but it is question whether now, in
our greatest strength and majesty, we
shall proclaim to the world whether or
not we are nation of people that can be
trusted, or whether or not we shall allow
1t said that we, the people of the United
States, believe in paying our honest debts
In bits of metal stamped in the name and
by the authority of the great republic as
worth hundred conts for all dues, public
and private, whom in fact they are worth
only fifty cents
MY fellow countrymen, the mere state
ment of the proposition brings the indig-
nant answer of instant and instructive
condemnation. My friagds. do not know
what you may isH6fNa rersoA-
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