The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-10-14
HEARD At CANTON.
Telephone Brings Sound Money Cheers In
Chicago to McKihley's Ears.

| HEARD AT CANTON.
Telephone Brings Sound Money Cheers In
Chicago to McKihley's Ears.
! Canton, o., Oct. 1O.-Friday was
memorable day in Canton. In addi-
ton to the activity here Maj.
Mcinley was enabled to hear the
shouts and sounds from the great
demonstration in Chicago, and the
tramp of the 100000 marching re-
publicans echoed by iong-distance tele-
phone in Maj. McKinley's study and in
Mrs. McKinley's living room.
The telephone company had put di-
rect Chicago, wire into the Mckinley
house for use Friday and there were IL
receivers attached to this end of it.
The first delegation to arrive was
that from Knoxville and East Tonnes
see. There were about 500 Ten
nessee Mckinley republicans in the
party, and they were all enthusiastic
and demonstrative.
| The next delegation came from the
Monongahela' valley in Pennsylvania,
and this was followed by body of citi-
Zens from Warren and Forest counties
| III Vic SduiC SllhtOA COuuty WI
farmers. to the number of 800, came
next. Maj. Mckinley had not been mott
fed of the coming of this delegation and
his remarks were wholly impromptu.
At four p. m. three special trains,
bearing nearly 1000 persons from the
| Shenandoah valley, arrived. One-haif
of them were men who had served in
the confederate army and fought under
| Stonewall Jackson. The veterans from
| Virginia were met at the train by the
grand army posts of Canton and Stark
county and by the q. V. Patriotic league
of Cleveland, and were escorted to the
Tabernacle. where an elaborate dinner
was served by the women of Canton.
After dinner they marched to Mai. Nc
kinley's house.
The cheering when Maj. Mckinley
appeared ON the stand was prolonged
and vehement. The speakers in behalf
of the delegation of confederates were
A. p. Funkhouser, editor of paper at
Harrisonburg, Va, and Gen. j. e. Rol.
Ter. Maj. Mckinley was at his best.
His voice was never clearer. never more
resonant, never gifted with greater
carrying power than as he preached the
gospel of peace and of national unity.
He was given the most earnest atten-
ton and at times was interrupted by
tumultuous outbursts of applause.
After his speech handsome flag was
presented to the ex-confedcrate vet
Grams. During his remarks to the vet
| Grams Maj. Mckinley said:
Patriotism is not bounded by state or
class or sectional lines. We are a reunited
country. We have but one flag, the glo-
i rions old stars and stripes which all of
| US love so well, and that we mean to trans
NIT in honor and glory to our children,
| north and south. Sectionalism was sur
| rendered at Appomattox. and the years
that have followed have removed whatever
lingering resistance then remained. In
oeed, II anything was needed to utterly and
cffectually destroy it, it has been fur
nished in the events of the contest now
upon US for the honor of the American
name and that permanent peace which was
the dying prayer of the great captain of
our armies. Ulysses s. Grant The spirit
! or ferVent Americanism is abroad in
! the land. and no more earnest or sincere is
! this sentiment in the north than in the
south. This year the words Of your vet
Grams legion. borne on your breasts to-
| day. No north. no south, no east, no west.
a q
| buGle note calling patriots together and
! Is an expression of the purpose of the
American people. both north and south.
| proclaiming liberty. union and honor as
| the high aim of every survivor of the great
war, on either side. and of every patriot
IN the country. The inspiring and uncon-
| Cuerable sentiment of this campaign is:
Country first. country last and country
with stainless honor all the time. The
voice or the misguided partisan is not
needed: the voice of patriotism strikes a
responsive chord this year. The voice of
prejudice and hate is lost in the grand
| chorus of peace and good will, national
unity and national integrity.
Let 1t go FORTH let it be everywhere pro-
claimed. that the men of the north and
the men of the south are together and
stand for the enforcement of justice and
the supremacy of law. The voice that
| would reopen the conflicts Of the past.
ard the bitterness Of 60 years ago: that
would array class against class, or sec
ton against section, Is not a friend, but an
enemy of our glorious union. and stands
IN the pathway of its glorious progress.
Men OF the south. the only force now need
co Ill this free government Is that Of con-
science, justice, reason and intelligence;
This Is the irresistible power upon which
| rests our strength, security, permanency
and glory. We have entered upon a new
and blessed era; we have crossed the
dominion Of force into the kingdom Of
peace and law and mutual good will
Faith in each other; faith in the future
and a common destiny has made us one.
forever one"
William Jennings Bryan has left the
enemy's country not to return. He is
gone--not like beautiful dream, that
is loved and lost, but like nightmare,
from which the awakening brings well
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