The herald., 1896-08-01
TO|LERS FROM GUERNSEY
Visit the Home of Major
Mckinley
TOOK THEIR TEARS WITH THEM
And Shed Them With Due
Prodigality
THE MAJOR MAKES A SPEECH
Full Of "reminiscences of Days During
the War
THE MAJOR MAKES A SPEECH
The Pensioners Admit Interest In the Sound
Money Question
The Hoary Chestnut Of the Tin Plate In.
dustry Again Serves to Point
Moral and Adorn the
Tale, Etc.
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire
CANTON, o., July 31.-The most en-
thusiastic and most affecting greeting
at the Mckinley home was today's visit
of farmers .workingmen and old SOL
diers of qGuernsey county, who arrived
here shortly before noon. The delega-
| tion left Cambridge and in short time
| struck the flooded lowlands.
For seven miles," said ex-congress-
man J. C. Taylor, "the locomotive poked
it's nose through the water overflowing
| the Tuscarawas river and it was fight
| to get through"
| AT the Mckinley residence Mr.. Taylor
acted as spokesman for the party. which
was under G. A. r. auspices.
| He spoke Of tin plate. of Cambridge.
| Chaplain w. Mcfarland of the United
| Presbyterian church, Cambridge, fol-
| lowed, saying:
81 came not tc speak but to see and
| hear and think. anr to grasp the hand
| of the most illustrious friend of labor in
! the United States or in the world"
Turning to Major Mckinley, who was
standing under the folds of an old flag,
waved above him by an old soldier, the
chaplain grasped McKinley's hand and
| trembling with emotion said IT know
| of no man who has done more to elevate
and dignity labor than you. know of
no man who has put brighter crown
of glory on the brow of honest toll than
yourself"
Tears came to many an eye and it was
with visible feeling that Mr.. Mckinley
said:
"Col. Taylor, Doctor Mcfarland, my
| Comrades and Fellow Citizens: 1t gives
me great qualification to receive this
call from my old friends and neighbors
and fellow citizens of Guernsey county.
1 have made many visits to your county
in years gone by and know most of you
personally. 1 know something of the
quality of your population. l know
something of the spirit of your people.
I know something of your loyalty and
| devotion in war; and I know much of
your loyalty and devotion to patriotism
| and government in peace. (Cheers)
| And knowing you as we'll as do know
| you, 1 am certain that no flood or fire
would stop you from doing what you
proposed to do. daughter and ap-
| plause.)
II am glad to meet the representatives
of labor who are assembled here this
morning. 1 congratulate them on the
| advance that has been made in the tin
| plate industry to which Col. Taylor has
| referred. I am glad to know that Re-
| publican legislation gave to the country
an industry that gives work and wages
to Americai workingmen and brings
| tn
| cheers.)
Il am glad. my fellow citizens, to meet
my old comrades of the Grand Army of
the Republic. My comrades of thirty
five years ago, for the war commenced
thirty-five years ago and it is nearly
thirty-two years since it's close.It seems
not so long ago nor so far away, but as
look into the faces of the old soldiers
before me today I see that age is stamp
ing its lines of care upon them. Their
step is no longer as steady and as firm
as it was thirtysix years ago, but their
hearts are just as loyel to the old flag
of the union. tremendous cheering.)
And they are just as loyal to national
honor today as they We're loyal to ma
tional unity then. (Applause) When
the war closed there were two great
debts resting upon this government.
One was debt to the men who had
loaned the money with which to carry on
its military operations. The other debt
was due to the men who had willingly
offered their lives for the preservation
of the American union. (Cheers.) The
old soldiers waited on their pensions I'M
| til this great debt of the gOvn~-lr1c-
Il was well out of the way. They wa.t /
patiently until the government of the
United States had reduced nearly two
thirds of that great money 6Abt. They
wanted every dollar of the debt paid in
the best coin known to the commercial
world Great applause.) And every
dollar of that debt up to this hour has
been paid in gold or its equivalent, the
best recognized money of the world,
and every dollar of that debt, my COM
rades, yet to be paid, will be paid in the
same unquestioned coin. tremendous
cheering) Most of that debt is out of the
way. The great debt of this government
now is to the surviving soldiers of the
republic. There are $4,000 pensions on
the honored pension roll of this govern
ment today, and the government pays
out of it's public treasury in pensions
over $14OO0O,000 every year to the SOL
diers and sailors, their widows and their
orphans Every dollar of that debt must
be paid in the best currency and coin
in the world. Great cheering, and cries
of 1.-The Republican party will see to
that.")
There is nobody more sinterexted ~