The San Francisco call., 1896-08-30
ALL CHEER
MCKINLEY.
Thousands of Voters Go to
Canton to Greet the
Major.
GERMAN-AMERICANS IN
THE LEAD.
Their Devotion to the Country
Shown in the Past and
Present.
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS ALSO
PAY THEIR RESPECTS.
Visitors Literally Applaud the Can
didate's Views on Protection
and Reciprocity.

CANTON, ONO, Aug. 29.-Two State
delegations which were expected to-day
postponed their visits at the last moment,
and instead of four Major Mckinley made
two speeches to-day. The second one was
to 1000 representative German-American
voters from Cleveland, who arrived on a
special train at o'clock and marched to
the Mckinley residence with their own
bands and glee clubs. Each man in the
delegation carried a small American flag,
and several large ones were borne in the
procession al different points. There were
fully 1000 people clustered in densely
PACKED groups abont Major Mckinley IS
home awaiting the arrival of the German
American delegation. Most of the Chicago
Commercial Club was there.
When Major Mckinley appeared the
1000 Cleveland men waved their flags. The
first speaker, Captain E. II. Bohm, was in
troduced by Colonel Louis Smithnight.
The next spokesman for the German
Americans was ex- Representative Snyder.
He made a stirring address, declaring that
the German Americans would stand by
Mckinley as a stone wall for sound money
and protection. On election day, the
speaker declared, they will speak for pros
perity, for honesty and National honor.
When Major Mckinley mounted the chair
to speak the cheering was tumultous. He
said:
My fellow-citizens: tits with peculiar pleas
ure and satisfaction that 1 welcome this repre-
sentative body of German-American citizens of
Cleveland and of Northern Ohio to the city of
Canton and my own home. I appreciate most
heartily your call, which as a compliment to
myself prize very highly, but more than all
and above all I value it as q significant ex-
preston of your interest and zeal in the great
political campaign upon which We have en-
tered. IApplause.l The citizens of the United
States have learned not only to respect, but to
depend upon the Germans as a great and po-
tent influence in our eivilization-safe and
steady in every emergency, and patriotic in
every crisis. [Great applause.l Loving your
mother country as you do SO afectionately
does not mean that you love your adopted
country less, but that you have hearts big
enough for the love of both. Applause and
cries of "Good, Pood."l Transplanted in the
free soil of America, German characteristics
have strengthened our institutions end exer-
cised both a salutary and wise influence in our
progress as a Nation.
Love of Fatherland, that deep and noble
sentiment which has ever distinguished you,
means to our German citizens always love of
America and her free institutions and abso-
lutte and unqualified devotion to every true
American interest. [Great applause.1 Respect
for law and order and faithful obedience to
constituted authorities have been distinguish
.sing traits of the Germans on both sides eff the
Atlantic, while hatred of wrong and oppres-
sion has called him to arms as quickly from
his farm on our Western prairies as from his
ancestral vineyard on the Rhine. Historians
have recorded in all its greatness the strength
and service of that German army which rallied
to the standard of liberty and union at the
cal of Lincoln and enrolled in its splendid
history the imperishable names of thousands
who so nobly suffered and died for their i'm
periled country. TGrest cheering.1 But no
such sacrifice, honorable as it is can do
ijustice to the services of those brave men, nor
can it estimate at its true value their firm sup
port of the Union in its moral effect upon all
our people. EApplause.l Proudly can the
German-American soldiers point to their
deeds of valor and suffering IN that great war.
Confidently can they claim that they brought
no shame upon the German name and bore
themselves upon the battle-felds of America
as did the soldiers of Frederick and Blucher
in the old wars and Won Moltke in the great
lest European wars of recent years. [Great
.cheering.l The Government appreciated their
splendid services. When the news of the fall
of Richmond reached Washington the people
assembled in large numbers at the residence
OF the Secretary OF State Responding to their
call for a speech, Mr.. Stanton said: "I will
NOW write my glowing dispatches. What
shall I tell the King of Prussia2" He an
swered his own question with this glowing
tribute to our German citizens: 81 will tell
him that the Germans have been faithful to
the Union standard, as his excellent Minister.
Baron Gerolt, has been constant in his friend
ship to the United States" Tremendous ap-
plausel
NY fe1low-citizens. better or more faithful
soldiers never mustered under any flag, fight
ing for any cause, than those willing and
sturdy German-American volunteers EGreat
cheeringl The troops who fought under
Which and Siegel, Kautz and Austerhaulz.
Schurz and Heintzelman, Hartranft and Welt
eel, were the equals of their trained kinsmen
of The imperial armies of Germany. Renewed
chearingl You wall remember that old Gen.
erfY Which used TO boas. laughingly: ,sGive
m&two brigades of nv corn-fed Western Ger
mS5ns and will land them on the north coast
anA take the empire" Tremendous applause /
GeAeral Sheridan, too, declared, after visiting
Epkope, where he studied the movements OF
ths Pranco-Prussien War, that he saw no
troops that excelled our own, either of the
Eastern or Western armies, and Abraham Lin
coin proclaimed over and over again that they
were True, pdtrlOJlC anu 1a1tQlQl TO the nag OF
our country. [Great caeering]
But, nv fellow citizens it is of the German.
American in peace that I would now speak,
conservative, industrious, steady, sensible,
honest, fond of home and family, good clti
Zen-and who could be fond of home and fam
ily and not be a good citizen? Renewed
cheers and cries of "Hurrah for Mckinley. ~
Not deluded by false theories OF finance, nor
mlsled by catch phrases of the campaign. AS
in the crisis of the Civil War he was faithful
to4he country and sustained the flag, SO in
every crisis since he had stood for the honor
and integrity of the Government of the United
States, always standing opposed to imitation
and reputation, no matter what the form or
nature Of the guise in which the spurious
policies were presented, tApplsuse.l More
than once in the close States during
the struggle tor the resumption OF specie pay
ments the German-American vote turned the
scale in favor of honest finance and the Ma