Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-18
Every Record n to Numbers and Dis
tance Travelled Br0ken-Major
Mckinley Makes More
Speeches Than Ever
In One Day Before.

Canton, o., Oct. H-To-night colored
electric effects from public buildings and
beautiful additions to the handsome Nc
Kinley arch made the city's main thor
oughfares respondent with illumination.
Added to this. the immense Maryland dele
cation is parading the streets. and Balti-
more seems to have set herself loose to
show Ohio the greatest pyrotechnical dis
play ever brought West.
Every record was broken to-day. Tho
number Of the delegations for any one
day was surpassed. The number Of
speeches was increased. The long distance
delegations exceeded all former pilgrimages
in extent Maryland sent 5000 people;
West Virginia, $500; Kentucky. 1000. ac-
cording to the reports Of the railroad peo-
pie. Nearly 500 carloads Of people have
come. in parties large or small, from near
ly half the states of the Union, and
score of the parties have been formally
addressed.
At times during the afternoon incoming
and uniformed delegations were packed
ON Market and Tuscarowas and Cherry
streets, in solid lines, for over q mile
AS the drum majors fought their way
towards tho Mckinley house. a steady
stream of organized callers were retiring
down the wide thoroughfare.
Twenty-eight organized parties had sent
word of their coming and were regularly
scheduled. but half as many more called.
The crush Of the crowd that carried away
fences and pieces of the porch made some
fofn OF ~ ID y
speeches from a reviewing platform near
the sidewalk.
1t required several special trains of ten
coaches each to transport the crowd con-
stituting the delegation representing the
employees of the Oliver Iron and Steel Com
pany, the Oliver Wire Company, the
Hainesworth Steel Company. the Baker
Chain and Wagon Iron Manufacturing
Company, and the Monongahela Tin Plate
Company, of Pittsburg; and the Oliver
Coke and Furnace Company. of Uniontown.
Pa. The delegation was introduced by
George T. Oliver, one Of the managers Of
the company. who also spoke for a dele
cation of representative citizens Of Fayette
county, Pa.
A delegation composed Of two carloads
Of people. the youngest of whom was so
years Of age, and among whom were q
number who had passed the four score
mark. came as the Old People'a Mckinley
Club. Of Westerville. O., and were intro
duced by Rev. 9. w. Downey. In the same
crowd. and listening to the tenth speech Of
the day. were students of the Ohio wes-
leyan university, of Delaware, and cti-
zens in general Of Delaware county, O.,
for whom H. s. Culver spoke; students Of
the Ohio Medical university, at Columbus
introduced by DR.. c. NJ. Taylor, and stu
dents from other colleges Of Columbus, for
H1-hn Il. kA aEa md 70,
citizens Of Brecksvtlle and vicinity, in
Northern Ohio.
Tho delegations from the Bluegrass state
came in five or six trains, aggresating
f1fty-eight coaches. They were addressed
in two sections. the first speech being in
response to Lieutenant Governor WORTH
ington. who spoke for the famous Garfield
Club. Of Louisville. and for the delegation
in general. and to Colonel H. s. Kuhn, of
the Louisville Anzeiger. who spoke for the
German-Americans Of Kentucky.
The central. eastern and western coun-
ties of West Virginia filled to the platforms
forty railway coaches, coming in train Of
five sections. State Senator Stuart Reed
spoke for the party in general, and W. p
Croft for the colored people Of West Vir-
ginia.
Shopmen. railroad men. street railway
men, business men, and the Maryland del
egation occupied five trains Of ten coaches
each. the first Of which covered the dis
tance of 500 miles and reached Canton
early in the day, but when the last came
and the demonstration was held, 1t was
necessary to turn on the electric lights
Addresses were delivered by ]. Talbert
for the party in general: William Olive
Smith, for the Anti-Wilson Bill Society of
Baltimore; Albert ]. Cullison, for the Dot.
ters, and by William o. Peach, for the
employees of the Transportation Company.
Numerous other delegations made good
chowipQS