The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-03
PBNEsYLVAgIANs AT CANTON.
Mckinley Begins AnotEser Zig Day
cf speech Making

CANTON, o., Oct. 8, 1896 half past
eight O'Clock this morning Major McKin-
ley began another record-brealzing day of
campaigning at his own home and from
his own porch Two delegations arrived
before six O'Clock; one came from Harris
burg, Pa, and numbered more than 800;
the other from the Sunday Greek Val
ley, in Athens county, Ohio The Sunday
Creek Valley is part of the great Hooking
Valley mining region. The delegation of
miners numbered six hundred w. j.
George, of Harrisburg, was The spokes-
man for the delegation from that city,
and J. NJ Allen, editor of the Athens
ferred to Major Mckinley as the friend
and benefactor OF the miners and recalled
his prompt and efficient action in the
to depopulate the region from which
this delegation came.
In addressing the two delegations Major
Mckinley said:-"It gives me great pleas
ure TO receive at my home fellow citizens
of the commonwealth Of Pennsylvania
and State of Ohio. Whatever injuriously
or beneficially affects the people of Penn
sylvania, alike affects the people of the
State of Ohio, and I could not but be
struck by the similarity of the messages
which have come from your respective
spokesmen as 10 the condition of the peo-
pie in these two great States. How sim
liar they were. 1t is the cry of distress,
gong up from every part of our common
country. What men want is business ac-
tiyity-'' (Cries of That's the stuff. >
Great applause and cries Of "Right')
Il cannot but appreciate most highly
this visit, made at such inconveniece and
tI,S from 50 great a distance. to my home.
regard and good will, I viii always re-
member and cherish. 1t is with peculiar
pleasure that wslc9me this club from
wealth of Pennsylvania. (Applause)
Coming, as You do, from city of great
rolling mills and other manufactures,
having a production in value of more than
$12.00O000 annually, when your establish
ments are all running full time, and from
one of the greatest manufacturing States
of the country, 1 need hardly be told of
the deep and profound interest which YOU
have in the rightful settlement of the
issues presented in this campaign. Both
portance to your industrial life and pros-
perditys sse to command your unrerNcing labor
Major Mckinley made his second speech
Hobart Republican Club of Buffalo, which
arrived on special train at 1915. There
were hundred and fifty members in the
party which called on Major Mckinley,
and they made a pretty picture grouped
Under the trees They wore trim uniforms
Of blue and white. When Major McKin-
gave him their salute, hundred and fifty
tiny bells tinkled simultaneously and mu-
sically for a moment, and then came the
best of music, a voney-o of cheers from the
brought three carrier pigeons with them,
which were sent back with the follow
ing message written by Major McKin-
ley
CANTON, Ohio, Oct s, 1896.
The Wheelmen's Mckinley and Hobart
Republican Club of Buffalo, N. Y, arriv-
the greeting to its friends In whom beg
to join VIM. MCKINLEY. :
In response to F. r. Steele, spokesman
for the Buffalo Wheelmen, Major McKin-
ley thanked the Buffalo delegation for its
call and excused himself from making a
formal speech for the reason that he
was scheduled to address all Of the wheel
men in a body later In the day.
Following the Buffalo men came dele
cation of $50 employees of the Standard
Manufacturing Company of Pittsburg