The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-27
CANTON OVERWHELMED
Many Visitors Open the Last
Week Of the Campaign,
THEY CAME FROM SEVEN STATES

can Standard Bearer.
CANTON, o., Oct 27.-The largest crowds
in Canton have been confined most gem
orally to Saturdays Yesterday, however.
was II surprise, even to the much surprised
Cantonians Organized delegations came
from Massachusetts, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois. The day was fair and the pro-
cessions Of unusual brilliancy The New
Jersey trelinghuysen Lancers set tho
style, and the day throughout was dis.
tinguished by the most handsome para
phernalia yet seen. The Erie rail way EN-.
ployes delegation was numbered by thou
sands
After Major Mckinley returned from
attending the funeral of his late friend
W. X Miller, the paraders began their
marches They stood in waiting on North
Market street in double line from the Nc
Kinley home to the court house, half
mile straight away. They gathered and
packed, and swayed about the house so
that speaking from the porch, to be heard
by so vast n crowd was impossible. The
temporary reviewing platform used on
Saturdays is not allowed to stand after
the day is over. There was, however, no
place to speak from but the porch. Tables
wise a rostrum, so that the people jammed
solid across the streets and crowded upon
the lawns of neighbors homes might hear.
The women as well as the mon i'm the
railway delegations each carriedun Ameri-
can fag. These were waved vigorously.
Torpedo canes were exploded, rockets
fired, bazzoos and tin horns were blown,
while drums added to the enthusiasm of
the scenes. Nearly all of the Introductory
speeches referred to the coercion charge of
Mr. Bryan. and several spokesman chal-
lenged the proof for single case of CO.
ercion. Major Mckinley again referred to
the charge of forcing employees.
To the delegation from seymour, Wash
ington, and Mt Vernon, Ind, composed
mainly of railroad employees, Major Nc
Kinley said in part;
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
there is a natural antagonism between
those who employ labor and those who
are employed They are disturbed when
ever they discover that the employer of
labor and labor itself are on good terms,
and whenever that occurs they commence
crying coercion 1t is not coercion, it is
cooperation; the one working with the
other for the public good and for theirad-
vantage severally. We do not want in
this country antagOnism between capital
and labor; they ought to be close together
all the time. The one cannot get on with
out the other and instead of their being
enemies they ought always to be friends.
"Instead of encouraging sympathy be-
tween them, which we all ought always
to advance there are those who would
create antipathy between them for exam
pie. between railroad managers and those
who are employed by the railroads Now,
l do not believe i'm any such doctrine my
self. l believe in the common brother
hood of man. l believe that labor gets on
best when capital gets on best. and that
capital gets ON best when labor is paid the
most Instead of there being natural
nntagOnism there is a natural alliance be-
tween Them and the people who are for
ever seeking to create antagOnisms be-
tween those who employ labor and those
who are employed are the people who
never give any employment to labor at all.
"What we want in this country, and
am now addressing the Sound Money club
of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
railway alone, is first contidence-conh-
dence in each other, confidence in the
credit of the country, confidence in the
future, confidence in our money conf
dence that if we invest our money today
we will get something out of it at the end
of the year, If we have not any confidence
of that kind no one will feel like invest
ing money, and if money is not invested
there is no employment for labor.
"Then, too, as your spokesman has well
said, we want n tariff that will raise
enough money to keep this government
g I,I,t
debts and deficiencies either in the treasury
or among the people. We must pay as we
go. The labor of this country was never
so independent or its prospects so good as
during the thrty-three years when we
were under protective policy and on
sound money basis Labor never had so
many comforts, and the homes of our Ia
boring men so much cheer, hope and con-
tentment as during these thirty three
years. -Four years ago we abandoned that
policy. A good many men who voted to
abandon it would have been glad to have
voted at any time within the last three
years to restore it and they are all await
ing now a chance to vote it back,
I'VE want TO teach reverence for pub
lie law and to stand firmly for tranquility
rs against violence, We want to stand by
the great incorruptible judiciary of the
country, which is our bulwark Of safety
in every hour Of trouble and peril We
do not want any dishonest dollars. like
the name of your club, Sound Money.
We do not want anything unsound in this
government We want dollar that is as
good as gold, and just as good in the
hands of the poor as in the hands of the
rich. The first mission that a poor, de-
preciated, debased dullarpeforms is to find
its way into the hands of poor men who
cannot afford TO lose IT, This has been
the erraud Of poor dollars ever SINCE the
government began The poorest dollars
always eventually land in the pockets of
the poorest people"