Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-18
ALL CANTON RECORDS BROKEN
Half Of the States in the Union Repre-
sented at McKinley's Home.
FIVE HUNDRED TRAlNLoADS OF PEOPLE
sound Money Nominee Welcomes over
Forty Delegations and Makes
Score of Formal Spcechcs-En-
thusInsm Runs wild.

CANTON o., Oct. 17.-Tonght colored
electric effects from public buildings and
beautiful additions to the handsome Me-
Kinley March make the city's main thor
oughfare resplendent with Illumination
Added to this. the immense Maryland dele
cation is paradlng the streets, and Bati-
more seems to have set herself loose to show
Ohio the greatest pyrotechnical display ever
brought west Every record was broken
today. The number OF delegations for any
one was surpassed. The number OF speeches
was increased. The long distance delega-
tions exceeded all former pilgrimages in eX-
tent. Maryland sent 5000 people; West Vir-
ginia. $500; Kentucky, 1000, according TO
the reports OF the railroad people. Nearly
500 trainloads OF people have come In
parties, large and small. from nearly half
the states In the union, and a score of
them have been formally addressed. At
times during the afternoon solid line OF
incoming and uniformed delegations were
packed in on Market and Tuscarowas and
Cherry streets in solid lines for over
mile. AS the drum majors fought their
way toward the Mckinley house n steady
stream of organized callers was retiring
down the wide thoroughfare. Twenty-eght
organized parties sent worn ol llltlI NblllluB
and were regularly scheduled, but half as
many more called The crush OF the crowd
that carried away fences and pieces OF
porches made some women faint Major
Mckinley made his speeches from review
ing platform near the sidewalk
IL required several special trains Of ten
coaches each to transport the crowd consti-
tuting the delegation representing the en-
ployes of the Oliver Iron and Steel company,
the Oliver Wire company, the Hainesworth
Steel company, the Baker Chain and Wagon
Iron Manufacturing company. the Monon-
gahela Tin Plate company OF Pittsburg. and
the Oliver Coke and Furnace company of
Uniontown, Pa. delegation composed Of
two car loads OF people the youngest OF
whom was so years CT age and among whom
were number who had passed the four
score mark came as the Old Peoples Me-
Kinley club OF Westerville, o., and were in
troduced by Rev. C. w. Downey. In the
same crowd and listening to the tenth
speech OF the day we're students of the
Ohio Wesleyan university OF Delaware and
citizens in general OF Delaware county, Ohio,
for whom H. s. Culver spoke; students OF
~ Ahio Medical university at Columbus, in
,tuuuced by DR.. C. NJ. Taylor. and stu
dents from other colleges OF Columbus, for
whom A. l.. Coke spoke, and farmers and
citizens of Brecksville and vicinity In north
ern Ohio. The delegations from the Blue
Grass state came in five or six trains, ag-
gregating fifty-eigbt coaches, They were
addressed in two sections, the first
speech being in response to Lieutenant
Governor Worthington, who spoke for the
famous Garfield club of Louisville aud for
tho delegation in general and to Colonel II.
s. Kuhn of the Louisville AnZeiger, who
spoke for the COMMUNICATIONS of Ken
lucky The central eastern and western
counties of West Virginia filed to the plat
form forty railway coaches, coming in train
OF nve sections. State Senator Stuart Reed
Al. L., al
Croft for the colored people of West Vir'
ginia.
BIGGEST OF THEM ALL.
Shopmen, railroad men, street railway men
business men in the Maryland delegation
occupied five trains OF ten coaches each, the
first of which covered the distance of 50t
miles and reached Canton carly In the day
but when the last came and the demonstra.
tion was held. Ii was necessary 10 turn on
the electric lights. Addresses were delivered
by J. Talbert for the party in general, by
William Olive Smith for the Anti-WilsOr
Bill society OF Baltimore. by Albert j. Culli
son for the potters and by William O. Peach
for the employees OF the Transportation com
pany. Numerous other delegations made
good showings.
Major Mckinley began speaking before
breakfast About 8 o'clock delegation of
several hundred from Monroe county. Mich
igan, entered the front yard shouting and
cheering for Mckinley. They We're intro
duced as representative business men, farm
ers and other citizens of that territory by
ID. A. Curtis. Major Mckinley replied as
follows:
My Fellow Citizens and Ladies and Gentle
men: / can assure you of one thinS-that
you are the first callers whom | have had
this morning, Q.aughter) And l shall ex'
pect on the night of November 3, accepting
the assurances of your Spokesman, to hear
the first adyices of a splendid republican
victory from the county of Monroe and
n.
l am glad to greet and welcome you this
morning. l have never believed, as some
people have been aging, that there was
ever any danger about the state OF Michi-
gan. There has never been moment when
electoral vote of your glorious state would
go In the presidential contest of 1886. Nc
state in the union Is more deeply interested
In the genuine American policy that viii
protect your property, your interests, youi
labor, your mines and the products, of youi
forests from undue competition than the
state of Michigan (applause) and there Is
no state that Is more deeply Interested II
Mlchisan. Npplause0
There is one thing that the republican
rsts hrss and then to- aG and and order @ T5es,
are indispensable to the welfare of man
kind and Indispensable to the prosperity ant
permanoncy of the republic. / am glad Il
know from your spokesman that YOU be
lleve not only in protective tariff. bu
tEat you believe In honest money. (Grea
cheerlng) when you do your work
whether it be on the farm or In the factory
or IN tne mine, you want 10 receive III pay
ment dollars that are good every day ant
every week and every month and every
where, In every part of the civilized world
That Is the kind of money We have nov
and we have more of 1t than we ever haC
in our history before. To enter upon tn,
free and unlimited coinage of silver woul,
he to remit this country TO silver alone an,
deprive US of the gold we have. Instead o
increasing the circulation ii would decreas
tho circulation of the country, and insteat
of giving us good, round, 1C0-cent dollars
which we have now, they would ask US L
do our business with 53-cent dollar ant
bring ourselves to the financial plane o
Mexico and China. We decline to do II
(Great checring)
am glad 10 see you. 1t will be my pleas