The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
ALL GOING. I
TO CAN TON
Sixteen Delegations Visit
the Home of Major
Mckinley.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN
TURN OUT.
Pilgrimages to the Shrine of the
Republican Nominee Are
Very Popular.
WAGEWoRKERs WHO LONG
FOR PROTECTION.
Possibilities of the Nation and the
Way to Prosperity Pointed Out
by the Next President.

CANTON, OHIO, Sept. 26.-Major Nc
Kinley made eleven speeches to-day and
spoke to sixteen delegations, numbering
in the aggregate about 5000 persons.
The delegations were in the main COM
posed of laborinR men, and the spokes-
men in most cases took occasion to assure
Major Mckinley that the men came of
their own free will, paid their own fares
and in some cases lost half a days wages.
The delegations arrived so rapidly this
afternoon that Major Mckinley could not
take time to shake hands with his callers
and he is good deal less fatigued tonight
than he would have been had he grasped
the hands of several thousand pc rsons.
Next week will be an active one. There
are two or more delegations scheduled for
every day except Saturday, when there
will be fifteen.
Major McKinIey's most active day of
the campaign commenced with the call of
the Peoria Republican Travelling Mems
Club. The Peoria men, 200 in numb Der,
left home at o'clock Friday afternoon
and reached here at 9:20 this morning
This delegation Travelled further than any
that has visited Major Mckinley save the
one which came from Vermont.
Major Mckinley was enthusiastically
cheered when he appeared on the porch.
In response to the remarks of Spokesman
Graft, Major Mckinley said:
I am more than glad to greet at my home the
Travelling Mems Republican Club of the city of
Peoria. I congratulate you upon the thriving
city and glorious State in which you live. 1t
is, by the census, the third State in the Amer
lean Union. 1t comes to few States to have
furnished TO this glorious Union the matchless
men you have furnished-Y and Oglesby
and that splendid statesman and patriot,
John A. Logan, and that great Democrat, Ste
phen a. Douglas, who loved his country more
than he loved his party and supported Mr..
Lincoln in that crucial period in the history
OF the Republic. [Applause.l And no man
can think OF your great State without recalling
that you furnished Abraham Lincoln, the
mighuest statesman OF the country. ZAP
plause.l And General Ulysses S. Grant, the
greatest warrior of the Republic. [Renewed
cheering.l When Abraham Lincoln issued
his immortal proclamation of liberty
the whole world knew that wnat
Lincoln had decreed Gram would execute with
the thunder Of his artillery. [Great applause
and cries of "Good, goodr'l I am glad to
know that your prospects are so good for
splendid victory in Illinois this year. Tire
mendous cheering nd cries of 1--WE will give
Mckinley 150yO00."l What a spectacle, my
friends, to the world in this Government of
100000 Of free people governed by them
selves and governing themselves, changing
their Chief Executive every four years and
their la w-Inaking power every two years if it be
their will so to do, and the Government going
on without halt or interruption, working out
what 10000, 900 of people from time to time
believe will subserYe their highest destiny
More than 120 years have passed since the
Government was founded. ana in every trial
of our history we have demonstrated our Ca
pacity for self-government, and shown to all
mankind the blessings and advantages of the
Republic [Great applause and cries of ''That's
rightPl
Now and then in our popular elections we
may have been sWayed by passion or moved
by the demagogue from our moorings; but the
American people are never fooled but once on
subject. [Cheersl For when once deceived
they never follow the deceiver the second time
Renewed cheering and cries of "Rightp'l I
have known and so have you times in our his
tory when the majority of the people were
made to believe that certain policies would
serve their best interests and when IL trans
pired that they did not they swiftly turned
upon the party which deceived them and
turned it out of power cheers and cries of
"Good, goodp'l and they viii do ii again. The
Judgment of the people is swift and terrible
against those who mislead and delude them.
The people are never led astray by deceit or
MISREPRESENTATION when they investigate for
themselves. This they are doing this year in
q marked degree. 1t is of no avail that party
leaders appeal to passi jon when the people are
alive 10 their own and the public interests.
II will not do to say to the men who
are Door in this worlds goods, "You must
ct off by yourselves, form a class of your
own your interests are opposed to those who
employ you" That is not enough this year.
The poor man inquiries: "What gooi will that
do me? How viii that Detter my condition.
How will that bring bread TO my family and
cheer to my children? Will Be benefited by
despoiling my employer? Win it give me
more employment and better wages 10 strike
down those whose money is invested in pro-
ductive enterprises which give me work and
1vegesT' Four years ago it was said that the
manufacturer was making too much money.
Won renemD Der it, But that cannot be said
now. [Cries of 'No. no.''] And that the rob-
her tar.f which was enrichlng him must be
torn mn root and branch, 10 the end that he
should be deprived of what some people were
nIeased TO call his "ill-gotten gains" The
country seemed to share in the suggestion and
the trial was entered upon, with what result
every manufacturer, commercial man, travel
ing man OF workingman best knows. 1t has
been discovered to our hurt and sorrow that
Won cannot injure the anufacturer without
iuiuring the laborer. Applause and cries OF
.'Tbat's right.''l 1t has been found too, that
Won cannot injure the manufacturer without
iniuring the whole business of the country.
[Renewed cries OF '"Thats right."i
You may close the shops by adverse tariffs
because you imagine the manufacturer is
making too much, but with that done you
close the door of employment in the lace OF