The record-union., 1896-08-01
old SOLDIERS AND WORKINGMEN
PAY A VISIT TO THE HOME OF
MAJOR MCKINLEY.
The Presidential Candidate Addresses
the Visitors, Thanking Them
for Their Goodwill,

CANTON. July 31.-A delegation of
about forty old soldiers and working
men, mostly engaged in the tin plate in
dnstry from Guernsey County, came to
Canton this afternoon to call on Major
Mckinley
Ex-Congressman J. D. Taylor acted
as spokesman He said in part:
I'VE have come to-day, Major Nc
Einley, to tender our personal regards
and to add congratulations to the many
hitherto given you. We have not come
as partisans, but as friends and neigh
bors. We have to-day before you in
this delegation members of the G. A. r.
OF Cambridge. They are men who have
learned to love you for your patriotic
devotion to your country in time of war
and in time of peace. These old COM
rades have come to pay tribute to your
high personal character, and for the
public service you have rendered. The
old soldiers want one thing remembered.
and that is that the honor and integrity
OF the old flag must be maintained. We
have come to believe that the star of
hope for the laboring man is resting in
Canton In behalf of the men and
" omen in this delegation-for there are
a number Of ladies who have come along
with us-I extend greeting to you and
Mrs Mckinley"
Major Mckinley spoke without man
uscript, and with usual emphasis. He
said:
Colonel Taylor, my comrades and
fellow citizens: 1t gives me great graf
iffcation to receive this call from my
old friends and neighbors and fellow
citizens of Guernsey County. / have
made many visits to your county in
years gone by. / know most of you per-
sonally; / know something of the quail
ity of your populations; know some
thing of the spirit of your people;
know something of your loyalty and
devotion to the Union in war and
know much of your loyalty and patri-
otism and good government in peace
And knowing you as well as I do I am
certain that neither flood nor fire would
stop you from doing what you had pro-
posed to do daughter and applause)
II am glad to meet the representa-
tives of labor who are assembled here
this morning; I am glad, my fellow-cit-
liens, to meet my old comrades of the
C. A. r. (Applause) My comrades of
thirty-five years ago, for the war COM
menced thirty-five years ago, and it is
nearly thirty-two years since it closed
/ is not so long nor so far away, but
as / look into the faces of the old SOL
diers before me to-day I see that age is
stamping the lines of care upon them
Their step is no longer as steady and
as firm as it was thirty-five years ago,
but their hearts are just rs loyal to the
old flag Of the Union. tremendous ap-
plause) And they are just as loyal to
national honor to-day as they were
loyal to national unity then.
''The old soldiers never We're in favor
of repudiating that debt. (Applause)
They wanted every dollar of the debt
paid in the best money known to the
commercial world. Great applause.)
There is nobody more interested in
maintaining a sound and stable cur
rency than the old soldiers of the re-
public applause and cries of "You are
right, Major.'), their widows and their
orphans.
Your old commander, General Grant.
whose memory is cherished by all of
you, performed two great and conspic-
uous acts while President of the United
States, one vetoing the imitation bill,
that would have cast US upon the sea
of a deprecated currency and the
ether was the signing of the Act for
the resumption or specie payments, that
placed every dollar of our money upon
the sound foundation of financial honor
and unquestioned national honesty.
II thank you. my fellow citizens, for
this CALL so expressive of your good
viii and congratulations, and assure
you that it will afford me much pleas
ure to meet every one of you person
ally" (Applause and cheers)
The largest dog in Connecticut is said
to be st. Bernard owned in Mystic
IT is 30 years old and stands 33 inches
high is 6 feet 10 inches long and weighs