The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-17
LARGE CROWDS At CANTON
FIVE THOUSAND ENTHUSIASTIC
PEOPLE PAY RESPECTS TO
MAI. TKINLEY.
some Travelled NEARLY 700 NILES
Coming From Far-off Vcrmont-Other
Delegations From Pennsylvania
and Ohio-Maj. Mckinley
Addresses Them.

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to grasp the republican nominee by the
hand After travelling nearly 'oo hhlleS
The Vermont delegation reached canton
,parly in the morning and marched with
suick steps to the Mckinley home ana
Doid their respects. After the formal
presentations and response, Governor
fleet Grout Senator Proctor and others
made brief addresses of cOngratulation.
The Lorraine county delegates joined
lhe Pennsylvania republican league ana
lhe Erie Lincoln club and marched with
them. together nearly 5000 strong, with
half a dozen bands and scores OF pan
ncrs, to the house, about which thou
sands are daily gathering The banners
IN the trains and in the street read:
tom l.. Johnson's Steel Workers.
-"Our Money Is All Right, Give Us
Work"
"Open Our Mills. Not the MINIS
Lorraine County Sound Money Pill
grims.'
''Protection to American Farmers and
! Mechanics"
Judge J. w. Steele of Obcrlin spoke
FOR the Lorraine county people.
t'or the republican leagues of Penn
.sylvania and the Erie Lincoln club
Judge J. +. Downing immortalized Lin
coin at length and then, turning to Maj.
Mckinley, said:
will be made in placing William McEin-
ley, the boy soldier of 1861 and the wise,
experienced statesman of 1896, in the
presidential chair, and let me say we
are going to do it,
The United Pennsylvanians and
N)hiOans cheorcd and chCcrcd again as
Maj. Mckinley mounted chair to say:
ladies and Gentlemen and My Eel
low Citizcns-There are represented in
this vast asscmblage today citizens from
the state of Pennsylvania and citizens
from our own state; there are assembled
here the citizens of Lorraine county,
Ohio; the Lincoln club from the city of
Erie Pa. and republican leagues of the
state of Pennsylvania, which only yes
terday adjourned in the city of Erie.
You are here representing different occu-
pati0ns and callings in life, but you are
all here with common purpose, all
here with common aim and all march
ling under the same glorious old flag.
Tremendous cries of 'Hurrlh for Nc
.Kinley.)
II bid each and every one of you wei
come to my home. | know much of my
fellow citizens of Ohio who do me much
honor by their visit today. | know
something of the great resources of
Lorraine county and its splendid agricul-
tural lands; its great port on the lake
and its manufacturing industries, but,
above all, | know and value the SPLEEN
did spirit of loyalty and patriotism of
its people, Great chccring)
~ bid the Lincoln club of the city of
Erie welcome to my home. You bear
the most honorcd name in republican
iytnnals--a name which belongs not only
70 single city, Il single state, to any
aggregation of clubs, but to the whole
American people. 1t is not the property
Of any political party, 1t belongs to
the ages. Great applause) 1t is full
OF inspiration and embodies every rcpub-
lcan doctrine and represents the best
aims and purposes of American citizens.
| doubt if there is any other name in
American history which more fully rep
rescnts the possibilities and triumphs OF
American opportunity than that OF
Abraham Lincoln. tChccrs.) His life
and career put to shame the theory, now
so insidiously proclaimed, that there ar,
class divisions in the United States
Tremendous applause and cries of good.
Humble Of birth, surrounded by poverty
forced by circumstances to acquire what
taver education he had. he forged to the
ranks in front. reaching the highest
place in the gift of II free people and tn,
greatest place i'll the world. Great ap
plauSe and cries of wen put Mckinley
there, tool He demonstrated. while il
Office, wonderful ability and met every
public cXigency in the most trying year.
i'll our history with consummate Sagacitl
and strength. 1t is gratifying to us t,
know that on the great issues which arr
dividing us this year Lincoln stood from
the beginning of his early manhoo,
where we stand today. We have thu
satisfaction of knowing that in thu
present struggle we are close to him an'
have his approval of the great principle
we advocate. (Applause) No MAJ
has shown more thorough knowledge o
the laws and their influence upon domcs
tic prosperity than he. Forty-thrc
years ago he made an address upon tn
subject of tariff and taxation and thci
effect upon the condition of the countr
which | do not think was cNcclled b.
anybody before or since. 1t is peculiar
~ applicable to the present situation.
Lincoln said: The first of our rcsC
buttons declares tariff duty on foreig
imports producing sufficient revenue TO
the support of the general government
and so adjusted as to protect American
industry, to be indispensably necessar
TO the prosperity of the American pee
pie; and the second declares direct taxa
zion for II national revenue to be in
proper Great applause)
Listen to his description of the cor
dition of the country at the time whe
he spoke and how wildly it portray
the times in which we live:
For several years past the revenue
of the government have been unequal {
its expenditures and consequently loans
some direct and some indirect in form
have been resorted to. BY this mean
Il national debt has been created and
still growing on us with rapidity fearfr
to contemplated rapidity only reason
able to be expected in time of war
you would think that Abraham Lii
coin was describing the years from 1S9
10 1896. (Applausel Is it any wor
der. when at the national convention a
Chicago May II, 1S60-the second nj
tional assemblage of the great republica
party-this resolution was passed. whic
is the same doctrine that we advocat
now:
Resolved. That, while providing rev,
nue. for the support of the government b
duties on imports, sound policy require
such an adjustment of these imports q
TO encourage the development of the il
dustrial interests of the whole countr!
and we commend that policy of nations