The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-31
SURPRISED THE MAJOR
MkINLEY HAD UNUSUALLY LARGE
DELEGATIONS MONDAY.
Gold Standard Candidate Referred
Again to the Charge of
Coercion.

Canton, Ohio oct. 26.-The largest
crowds In Canton have been confined
most generally to Saturday. Today.
however, 1t was a surprise even to the
much-surprised CantonIans. Organized
delegations came from New Jersey New
York, Pennsylvania. Ohio and Illinois.
The day was fair and the professions
of unusual brilliancy. The New Jersey
Frelinghuysen Lancers set the style, and
the day throughout was distinguished by
the most handsome paraphernalia OF par
ade yet Witnessed. The Erie railway en-
ployes delegates were numbered by the
thousands
They gathered and packed and swayed
about the house so that the speaking
from the porches to be heard by the
vast crowd was impossible. The tenn
pcrary reviewing platform used on Sat
urdays Is not allowed to stand after the
day is over. There was therefore, no
place to speak from from but the porch.
Tables had to be carried from the house
to improvse a rostrum, so that the peo-
pie jammed solid across the streets and
crowded upon the lawns Of neighbors'
homes. The women, as well as the men,
in the railway delegation, each carried
on American flag. These were waved
vigorously.
Much Noise and Fireworks.
Torpedo cannons were exploded, rock
cts fired and tin horns were blown, while
drums added to the enthusiasm of the
scene Nearly all of tine Introductory
speeches referred to the coercion charge
of Mr.. Bryan. and several spokesman
challenged the proof for a single case of
coercion.
Major Mckinley again referred to the
charge of forcing employees, saying:
There are some people who seem to
think that the best way to get on in this
world is to be against one another. and
that there is natural antagonism between
those who employ labor and those who
are employed. They are disturbed, how
ever. when they discover that the en-
ployer of labor and labor itself are on
good terms, and wherever that occurs
they commence crying coercion. 1t is
cooperation. the one working with the
other for the public good and for their
advantages severally."
This and similar sentences were re-
ceived with tumultous applause. cheering
and waving Of flags
Mckinley in his remarks to the Railway
Mems Non-Partisan Sound Money League
of New England said:
Mr. Robertson and My Fellow Citizens
of New England: am delighted to nave
you pay me this visit l appreciate that,
while you are few in numbers you rep
resent quite as large a constituency as
any OF the larger delegations that have
honored me with visits. 1t is especially
gratifying to know that. in a measure,
this is a non-partisan campaign, as the
title of your organization indicates. This
is a year when the fires of patriotism are
burning n our hearts and the flowers of
patriotism are blooming over the garden
walls of politics. l am glad indeed to meet
you all, and l value more than l can tell
you your good wishes. We have much at
stake this year. in the soundness of our
currency and the integrity of the nation,
and 1 value highly the support and as
sistance of the railroad men of the Unit
ed States. ] greet these representatives,
of New England and give them hearty
welcome"