Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-25
Mckinley Welcomes Visitors From
Neighboring States.
CONTRAST In CONDITIONS SHOWN
He Compares Four Years Ago
With the Present.
LATE POLITICAL NOTES

| tasted when the first delegation arrived
| This morning II was from Marion Ind
| occupied a SPECIAL train of eight coaches,
/ and represented the glass workers of Gran,
| county. Indiana. The Introduction WAS
made by DR.. w. r. Francis. Two bands
| came with the party.
| Shortly before IL o'clock a special train
OF twelve coaches on the C. c. e. s. brought
a delegation 10 Mckinley and extended the
greeting OF Crawford county, Pennsylvania.
| II included a club o: students from Alle-
| gheny College, whi-h Mckinley attended I'm
1860
| Rev. DIR. Flood of Meadville prominent
In Chautauqua circles, made the introduc-
| tory address.
Major Mckinley said to the first ,lelega-
| tiCn:
| My fellow citizens OF the city OF Marion
and Grant county, Ind. i congratulate you
upon bei 's first today. Naughter) No
| ether delegation has yet preceded YOU.
| Renewed laughtcr) L give each and
every one of you warm ard cordial vol
| conne 10 MY home. | welcome the repub-
| licans and the citizens OF the hoosier state
the state of that grand old war governor
oiirer T. Morton ,applause) and that
spIenoid President and patriot, benjamin
| Harrison. Great chceringD You are
| here this morning not to honor mo per-
soEaliy, but to honor the cause which Won
| ioNt anu WHICH you mean 10 support. h
you mean to support that cause because
you believe ii VIII insure your own best
| welfare and the best well-beine OF the
country at large. applause and cries OF
| That's right-D You believe in that cause,
because you have tired ii, and haN ng tried
| IL You know you haze been more prosper
Gus in your occupations under the policy
Wflch 1t represents than you have ever
been under any other policy. u.oud cries
| of That's right And if anything was
needed to confirm you In your devotion 10
perience of the last four years. Under no
other policy, under other principles.
| nave you enjoyed that degree of individual
or national prosperity which for more
than thirty years YOU enjoyed under re-
publican policy and republican administra-
tons Applausel And you here
| this morning 10 testify anew your devo-
ton TO republican PRINCIPLES and your deep
and abiding interest that they may he sue
| cessful throughout the country next No
vemDer. tCres of That's righLD
Agriculture and Manufacture.
You are interested in Indiana, just as We
| are interested here in Ohio. both in agrcul-
ture and In manufacturing. You know
| something in that great gas belt of what
| manufacturing means to any community.
You know that where there is successful
manufacturing there is prosperous city.
| and you know where there is a prosperous
city there is always prosperous agricul-
ture Cries Of You are right The
farms about a little manufacturing city
| advance in value and the market of the
| farmer is enhanced every time You put up
| new factory IN amy community or in any
| city. You have in your city OF Marion, as j
| recall,an industry which manufactures glass
| that used to be ia the city of Canton. Am
! right about that? tCries Of ''les.'D 1t
| is good industry. Well, now, that fairly
| illustrates my idea. That used to be- as L
said a Canton industry. We would very
mach have preferred to have had it remain
here, but ii was taken away. However 1t
did not go out of our own country. cGrest
applauseD 1t went into a neigilooring
state. and therefore benefits the American
family-American worknen still do the
work. We share in your good fortune and
prosperity. but we would have felt differ
entity if it had gone on the other side and
out of the Unitei States In wori, We
want to 10 our manufacturing at home, and
| If We cannot do Il in Ohio We are willing TO
have you do it in Indiana. (Great cheer
ing and cries of Good, good and What's
the matter with Mckinley?O
| And If We cannot do it In Canton 7 do
lot know Of any other city in Indiana
to which I would rather have had it go
than the city of Marion. (Applause.D
| Il an glad to meet you here this morn
ing We want in this country good times.
| good wages, steady employment, a good
| home market and then We want to continue
, the good, sound, round. honest dollars with
| which to do our business and pay our labor.
| Tremendous cheeringD
| My fellow citizens, 1 thank you for this
morning call and bid you hearty welcome.
| 1t will now give Inc pleasure to meet and
, greet each one of YOU personally. ZAP
| pause and cries of 'liurrah for Mckln-
| ley
Address To Pennrylvanfans.
DIR. Flood and Fellow Citizens OF Craw-
: ford Cour ty and of the City of Meadville,
| Pa: 1t gives me genuine pleasure 10 well
come you here at my home. i remember a
| year ago to have visited your city and
| county, and shall never forget the warm
| welcome which received from the faculty
and students of Allegheny College and
| from the old soldiers of northwestern
Pennsylvania: tapplause). and | am de-
lighted TO have portion of you return my
call. l all with pleasure and satisfac-
= tion the brief time I spent at old Allegheny
| College. 1t is among the dearest memories
| of my life. That old institution only a
, year ago conferred on me a very dstin-
. guished honcr. trust I may never dis
. appoint its confidence. (Applause and
cries of You never will
ct recall, too that from the walls Of old
Allegheny went out the young men to do
battle for their country, and none did bet
, ter service for the Union and the flag than
, the young men who went from that insti-
tuition and from the other great institutions
the land. (ApplauseD Your county Is
republican county. (Cries of You bet it
. is.D
, "Dr Flood has already stated that you
t have received a banner for having given
e the largest republican majority. / trust
: that majority will not be diminished in
G 1896. applause and cries of Not any.D
No matter what may be our occupation
In life, we are all interested I'm good gov
| ernment; we are all interested i'm good
| laws, and are all interested I'm having
| general prosperity. Unfortunately. we have
, | not enjoyed general prosperity in the last
four years. (Cries of mo. no.') Times
have been hard, business has been de-
: pressed. workingmen have been idle. farm
| ers were unable to receive Just reward for
| their husbandry, and now the thought of
| the people and the decree of the people Is
| to return to the good times OF 1872. tAp-
plause) Times from which We run away
4 | and which We have been regrettirg ever
I | since. Applause and cries of That's
| right.')
e Now. my fellow citizens. what we want
[ | this year is to cast our ballots for that
| party and for those principles which will
$ secure to us the greatest prosperity. Great
d | applause.) We want no idle men in the
L United States"