The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18
THE MAJOR STARTED EARLY.
He Made His First Speech Before He
Took Breakfast

Took Breakfast.
CANTON, O., Oct 17.-Maj. McKin-
ley began speaking before breakfast
today. About Ssseelock a delegation
of several hundred from Monroe
county, Michigan, entered the front
yard shouting and cheering for Nc
Kinley. They were. introduced as
representative business men, farmers
and other citizens of that territory by
d. A. Curtis ~ sd -5s
While Maj Mckinley was taking
breakfast the yard filled to the fences
on all sides and the air was rent with
PENNSYLVANIA, shouts and cheers. There
were four or FIVE trainloads, which
brought three distinct delegations, g.
large one of farmers, mechanics and
business men from Altoona and Blair
county, Penn, and smaller delegations
from South Fork and Porter in Cam
bria county, Penn. A number of
notices were carried, among them
being 1882, wages AZ cents per ton and
full time; 1895, wages 35c a ton and no
work. Nova Scotia coal did it.
The third address of the day was to.
several hundred residents of Hunting
ton, Penn, the home of Mrs McKin-
ley's ancestors. They brought with
them, for Mrs. Mckinley, framed
picture of the home Of her grand par
ents, and also some nails made by her
grandfather in 1915. The party was
introduced by Judge Williamson, of
Huntington.
Maj. Mckinley responded to D. A.
Curtis, of Petersburg, who spoke on
behalf of the delegation from Monroe
county, Mich, as follows:
My Fellow Citizens and Ladies and Cen
tlemen: can assure you Of one thing-that
you are the first callers I have had this
morning. Qaughter) And l shall expect ON
the night of the 3rd of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
the assurances Of your spokesman-to hear
the first advices OF a splendid republican vic
tory from the county of Monroe and the State
OF Michigan; / am glad to greet and well
come you this morning. 1 have never be-
lieved, as some people have been saying, that
there was ever any danger about the State
of Michigan.
have had the slightest doubt about where the
electoral vote Of your glorious state would go
in the presidential contest of 1896. No state
in the Union is moro deeply Interested in the
genuine American policy that will protect
your property, your interests, your mines, the
products of your forests from undue COM
petition than the Slater of Michigan. ZAP
plause.) And there is no state that Is more
deeply interested in having protective policy
than the State of Michigan. Applause) There
is one thing that the republican party is dedi-
Gated to, and that is labor first; then to law
and order These are indispensable to the
welfare of mankind and indispensable to the
prosperity and the permanency of the re-
public. l am glad to know from your spokes-
man that you believe not only in a protective
tariff but that you believe in honest money
Great cheering) When you do your work,
whether it be on the farm or in the factory
or in the mine, you want to receive in pay
ment dollars that are good every day and
every week and month and everywhere in
every part Of the civilized world. That is the
kind of money we have now, and we have
more of 1t than ever had in our history be-
fore. To enter upon the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver would be to remit this
country to silver alone and deprive us of the
gold we have. Instead of increasing the circu-
lation it would decrease the circulation of
the country, and instead Of giving us good,
they would ask us to do our business with
53-cent dollar, and bring ourselves to the
financial plane Of Mexico and China. We de-
cline to do it. Great cheering.) I am glad
to see you. 1t will be my pleasure to meet
and greet each one of you personally. Great
applause)
Ten coach loads of people from Grand
Rapids and Kalamazoo and Western
Michigan constituted the fourth au-
dience addressed by Maj Mckinley.
The party was largely composed of
members of the railroad mems Sound
Money Clubs but business men, pro-
: fessional men and citizens generally,
We're represented. The Introductory
address was made by attorney W. B.
Perkins.
This is no exception to the former
Saturdays of the campaign. The crowd
at noon is as large as on any day of
the campaign, and the announcements
for the afternoon promise to break all
records. There are over 80 special trains
scheduled for today the first Of which
arrived before daylight. The delega-
tons range from little parties from
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio coun-
ties, to single delegations of thousands
from Kentucky. Maryland, Pittsburg
and Ashtabula county, Ohio,
The streets between the depots and
the Mckinley home rare damned with
narchers and spectators on the side
walks. The air Is filled with shouts
and cheers and hurr6bs from the Wis
itoTs mingling with the music Of many
bands and drum corps The Mckinley
lawn has been filed all day. The earlier
speeches were rhadeu from a chair on
the porch, but the crowd soon increased
beyond the capacity of the yard and
the Epas1ax Eas transferred to the