The herald., 1896-10-11
THEY CROWDED THE STREETS
And the Noise They Made Was Per-
fectly Awful
The Rebel Veil In Comparison, Is Thlsg
Of Beauty
The Wonderful Obedience of the EN-
ployes Is Explained by the Fact
That Their Employers Come
Along With Them.
Associated Press Snecial Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
CANTON, O., Oct. 1O.-Each day II
outdoing all records of enthusiasm and
numbers in Canton. Forty special trains
loads Of people came here today. ATT
o'clock this evening more delegations are
coming. They began coming at 4:S0 this
morning. They came in greater numbers
than ever before; merchants, working
men. hardware men. commercial travel
ing men, bishops, preachers, miners,
evangelists. potters. bankers, railroad
men, southern planters, iron operatives,
molders and many other trades and
professions, each had their share in the
procession. They came from Iowa, New
York, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Michi-
gan, Illinois, Missouri, West Virginia,
Ohio, in delegations. They came in smaN
parties from dozen other states. They
crowded Canton's wide streets for miles
as they were never crowded before They
marched and countermarched with the
sound of music galore. They outyelled
the wondrous yell of yesterday, the
famous rebel yell from the Shenandoah
valley of Virginia, that kept the echoes
booming all yesterday afternoon and
kinley home and crowded over porches
and reviewing stands until women faint
ed and men paled, fearful of panic and
the crush that kills. And calm and cool
among all this wonder of political DEM
onstrations, Major Mckinley was in the
midst of it all day. To have given every
caller handshake would have been 4
physical impossibility. He made more
than a score of addresses and numerous
short replies besides.
His friends who were with him in his
memorable campaign of 1894 when he
made nearly 500 speeches in four months.
say the campaign then did not compare
with that he is now going through. He
was accessible to every one He only
stopped ihandshaking with the thous-
ands today to make addresses and then
personally to greet other delegations,
His voice rang out clear and strong,
Wherever his eyes turned today, from
early morning until late tonight he look
ed into the eyes Of sea of faces. His
friends have wondered at his endurance,
His visitors today marveled at It.
Congressman Boutelle Of Maine said
nothing like today's doings had ever
Halsted said the world had never known
of mortal man ever being given such
greetings. Tonight at 10 o'clock thu
Maryland delegation is holding a mass
meeting at the tabernacle. The hand
some new court house and other public
buildings are brilliantly illuminated with
novel electrical effects. The streets ara
filled with marchers; pyrotechnical dis
plays are added to the striking features
of the parades throughout the evening
Thousands are keeping up the ceaseless
march under the beautiful Mckinley
arch and up Market street past the fam
Gus home about which the earth is trod-
den nearly as hard as the paved streets
Railroad men say over 400 crowded car.
loads OF people have been handled.
Fifty bishops, conference officials ana
prominent members Of the African NJ
e. conference, came with the greetings
of the centennial jubilee conference, now
in session in New York City. They were
given cordial greeting by Major Me-
kinley. They represent, according to
their spokesman, Bishop George W.
Clinton, nearly half million communi-
cants. and by the same authority 80 per
cent will vote and work for the Repub.
lican party.
In his first speech today to the Repub.
lican club of Lebanon county, Pa, ana
Lansing, Mich. Republicans, Major
Mckinley said:
THE best thing in the world next u
liberty is labor. and the best thing for
labor is the opportunity to work. This
is an opportunity for which we are N
striving this year and which we hope
through change of policy In the admin-
istration of the government laws to en-
joy to larger degree than we have done
during the last three and a half years.
What we want more than anything else
in order to grant this opportunity 70
labor is the restoration of confidence"
In his speech to the commercial travel
ers Major Mckinley said in part:
Il do not know where there could ~
found anywhere more representative
body of American citizens than the
commercial travellers of the United
States. Their business possibly better
than any other represents the depression
or prosperity of the country. Nobody
knows sooner than the commercial tray-
eler whether times are good or bad. No
class of men so registers the waves Of
business as the men who stand bsfeFe
me today.
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