The herald., 1896-09-27
BLACK SILK HATS
AND LINEN BUSTERS
Worn as Uniform by Nc.
Kinley Visitors
FUNDS available FOR CLOTHING
Which Were Not Expended for
Fare
NUMEROUS MANUFACTURE ERS ]
Send Delegations Of Employees to Cheer
for Protection
Coal Miners and GLASS Workers Ride 4 \
Palace Cars
iSf'
Receive Lecture on the Bless
ings Of Confidence-Al Are 5;
NUMEROUS MANUFACTURE ERSI
Send Delegations Of Employees to Cheer
for Protection
Coal Miners and Glass Workers Rid q
Palace Cars
A Band Of Buffalo Real Estate lkea
Receive Lecture on the Bless
ings of Confidence-Au Are 81;
Greeted Personally. hi
A.sociated Press Special wire

| Associated Press Special Wire
CANTON, Ohio, Sept. 26.-Today has
been the most notable day Of the cam
paign in Canton, except the formal
| opening of the county campaign on FRI
| day, last week, the crowd exceeding that
Of any other demonstration. Four or
| five states were represented In the days
| doings. and delegations came from be-
tween twenty and thirty towns, EXTEND
| ing as far west as Peoria, ILL.,, and a. far
| cast Buffalo. The delegations were
| SO massed that Mr.. Mckinley managed
to address them in eleven speeches. The
! closing demonstration of the day was
| that Of the Peoples Patriotic club Of,
| Cleveland, under the auspices Of Mra
J. w. Sheperd, the Ladies' Marching
club and band and other organizations
| Of Cleveland. The delegations repre-
senting the Western Reserve of Ohio
| required six special trains for trans
portation. 1t included organized bodies
Of naturalized American, who were for
merly subjects Of Bohemia, Hungary.
Italy. Germany. Poland. Afro-Ameri-
cans, and first voters. Mayor McKis-
sen Of Cleveland was master Of cere-
monies. A small delegation brought
the congratulations Of Piqua and Miami
county, Pa. Hon. T. b. Kyle presented
the party.
A special train, bearing several hum
dred commercial travellers from the
vicinity of Peoria, ILL.,. arrived here
this morning. The men were uniformed
in linen busters and black silk hats. ana
each carried a large bunch Of red, white
and blue plumes. They went direct to
the Mckinley residence, where they
were presented by Congressman J. ".
Graft of Illinois. After Mr.. CRAFTS
speech. Mckinley said to the travellers:
II congratulate you on the splendid
victory you achieved two years ago in
electing your present congressman and
turning strong Democratic minority
into an overwhelming Republican ma
JOrtiy. (Great applause and cries Of
"We'H do 1t again.'') And / am glad
to hear it is your purpose to do 1t again.
congratulate you upon the thriving
city and glorious state In which you
live. Illinois Is now by the census. the
third state in population in the United
States. 1t is taking tho place Of Ohio.
but will always believe you took your
census while Ohio was visiting your
great metropolis. getting ready for tho
worlds fair. Great laughter and hur-
rahs for Mckinley 1 congratulate you
also upon the rank Illinois has taken in
craftsmanship. Few states have fur
nished the union with such men as you
have furnished-Yates, Oglesby and that
splendid soldier and patriotic statesman
Grant, and that noble Democrat, Doug
las. who loved his country far more than
he loved his party, and who gave the
whole weight Of his mighty influence to
Lincoln in the crucial period in the bis. u
tory of the republic. (Great applause.)
And no man can think of your great
state without recalling that you fur
nished mankind and the ages with Linz
coin. the greatest statesman of this
country or any other In history. And
when he issued his immortal proclama.
ton of liberty, the whole world knew
that what Lincoln had decreed, Grant
would execute with the thunder of his
(Great applause.)
II am glad to know that your pros-
poets are so good for splendid victory
in Illinois this year. tremendous cheer
ing and cries of 1--WE will give McKinlep
l0O,G00.'D What a spectacle to the world
is this government-70, 000. 900 free peo-
pie. governed by themselves, governing
changing their chief exec
utive every four years and their law
making power every two years, II It b.;
their will SO to do, and the government I
going on without halt or Interruptions
working out what 70,Ooo.00O of people !.
from time to time, decide will subservG
their highest destiny.
More than 100 years have passed since n;
this government was founded. and Ia
every trial our history has fully dem-ss "a
onstrated our capacity for self govern 3
msnt. and shown all mankind the ~