The herald., 1896-10-17
Numerous Delegations Sent to
Hear Mckinley
THE FREE TRADE MA DNESS
SaddIed With the Charge of the Wide
spread Depression
The Visitors Paid for Their Ride by
Loud Cheering of the Remarks of
the Speaker.
Associated Press Special Wire


CANTON, Ohio, Oct. 16.-Congress-
man James H. Codding of the Fifteenth
district of Pennsylvania led a delega-
ton of several hundred people of Le-
high vallew to McKinley's home this
morning and introduced them as miners,
merchants and business men. The par
ty was organized in the towns of Brad
ford. Luzerne, Wyoming, Carbon and ad-
Jacent territory.
The demonstration was enthusiastic.
Tyler and Wetzel counties, Va, sent
greetings to Mckinley with a delegation
of representative citizens in a special
train of twelve coaches which reached
Canton about noon. Sisterville furnished
q great part of the crowd, organized as
the Elkins Invincibles, named in honor
of Senator Elkins. The party greeted
Mckinley with cheers and hurrahs. They
were introduced by r. l.. Moore and p
Ashannon.
Among Mckinley's visitors was par
ty from the northern peninsula of Mich
igan. They were on the road two days,
having started from Calumet, Houghton
and vicinity Wednesday. The party was
small and made no formal demonstra-
ton, but called at the house, where they
had a friendly visit with Mckinley.
Responding to the spokesmen of the
Elkins Invincibles of Sisterville, w. Va,
and the delegations from Tyler and
Wetzel counties, w. Va, Major McKin-
ley said:
The way some of your orators used to
talk to you was if the tariff was a good
thing for the Ohio farmers and laborers,
it would be positive detriment to the
West Virginia farmer and laborer; as if
it could benefit the miner Of Pennsylva-
mia, but injure the miner of West Vir-
ginia; as if the wheat and grain grower
in Kansas or the beet producer of Ne
braska would grow rich by it's opera
tions, and the cotton and sugar planters
of Texas and Louisiana become impov-
erished under it. Time and again you
have heard them declare that while pro-
lection might be a good thing for New
England, it was curse to the west and
south. You know better now. after hav-
ing had three and a half years expert
ence under partial free trade. In vain
did Republican speakers and papers
demonstrate against this madness, but
of no avail; and so the people gave it a
trial. With what result? Is it not true
that partial free trade has injured us,
one and all? Is it not true that partial
free trade has injured every interest
| and every industry in West Virginia
Have not the people and the government
grown steadily poorer under it's destruc-
tive ojerations? Have not both produc-
er and consumer been injured?
Continuing, Major Mckinley spoke at
| length of the prosperity of the south un-
der the protective tariff reminding his
| visitors that the period of greatest pros
| perity was after the so-caled crime of
1873, between 1880 and 1890 He insisted
! that this prosperity had been due large
| ly to a protective tariff policy.
MORE COMING.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 1.-two thousand
workngmen left here tonight over the
B. and O. for Canton, Ohio where they
will be received by Major Mckinley to-
morrow. The Fifth Regiment band will
furnish music, and it's leader has writ
| ten piece which he has dedicated tt
Mother Mckinley, and which will be
| played as the party marches past her
house. There are in the excursion 9OC
members of the Wage earners' associa-
ton, 800 employees of the Baltimore anG
Ohio railroad, 500 potters and members
! of the Masters club