The herald., 1896-06-20

party from Canton would come home
this evening. 1t was shortly after 6
o'clock, just before the governors din
ner hour, when shrieking whistles of To-
comotives heralded the approach Of the
New Workers and returning Cantonians,
as we'll as special train load of 500 peo-
| pie from the Mahoning valley, where
Governor Mckinley spent his boyhood
days.
! An escort committee, with bands and
drum corps, including fifty horsemen,
met the delegation at the station. The
streets were densely crowded for blocks
In every direction leading to the govern
or's home. The crowds rushed through
| the fences and crowded into the door,
ways of the house in their excitement.
1t was necessary for the governor to go
to the side door to meet his returning
fellow-citizens, as it was impossible for
| him to reach the front door, where he
had been speaking. Congressman r. w.
Taylor of the Eighteenth the old Nc
Kinley district, mounted a box when
Governor Mckinley appeared and said:
Governor Mckinley: While we have
not the good fortune to be the first to
congratulate you in person on the honor
which the Republican party has be-
slowed on you, we rejoice to know that
we are from the van car of the return
| Ing hosts that witnessed that splendid
reception whereby you were nominated
for the presidency. There we saw the
Republican party place you in nomna-
ton. and, while it honored you, it hon
ored itself. and gave permanent express
sion to the wish and desire that have
| been in the hearts of the American peo-
pie for many years. prolonged cheers.)
Twenty years ago Stark county gave
you to the congressional dis
| trict which you have made famous
Five years ago this splendid district
gave you to the state of Ohio and now
our glorious state has given you to the
nation, whose true son you are and
whose interests have been your constant
care. cloud applause.)
Governor Mckinley, may your heart
be thrilled when you recall that you are
first in the hearts of your countrymen,
not because you are presidential nom
inee, but best and most glorious of all,
you are first in the hearts of your coun-
trymen. (Cheers.) May every bless
ing that life we'll spent always merits
attend you, is the wish of these your
friends about you." cloud and contin-
ued applause)
Congressman Taylor was followed by
George E Baldwin on behalf of Stark
county and Judge William r. Day, who
brought with him from Richmond, Ind,
large box of beautiful flowers, sent to
Mrs Mckinley as a souvenir of the en-
tertainment given the Canton party on
its return from st. Louis He congratu-
lated Mckinley as a neighbor.
Governor Mckinley responded to his
Canton friends as follows:
MY Fellow-citizens: How can be-
fittingly respond to this splendid tribute
which has been paid by three of my old
| and earliest friends. I think 1 might be
excused by merely saying that am in
adequate to the task and can only ex-
press my gratitude from full and over
flowing heart. I have had good many
touching incidents in my life. Yester-
day, Immediately after the nomination,
I was surrounded by my neighbors and
fellow-citizens who did not go to St.
Louis, and by my friends from Alliance
and Massillon, and then came 1000 more
Of them from the city Of Akron last
night. With all these tokens, I was
deeply and profoundly impressed, but
somehow the words spoken by these
three gentlemen, surrounded as am by
their associates, who journeyed together
to st. Louis, somehow they have touched
me more deeply and sounded the depth
of heart more profoundly than anything
that has gone before. In this audience
today are representatives of all the
counties which for years constituted my
congressional district and with which
have been associated all my life. A
large body of my fellow-citizens are here
from Trumbull county, the place of my
birth. (Great applause.) A large num-
ber are here from Mahoning county
CHEERS from Mahoning citizens), the
place where 1 spent all my boyhood
days; the county where I received my
education and from which I enlisted in
the war for the preservation of the
union way back in 81 cloud cheers), and
then around me are the later friends,
for from Mahoning l came to Stark
nearly thirty years ago. You have all
been my friends ever since. And the
good people of Trumbull county and the
good people of Mahoning and the West
ern reserve, which was so long repre-
sented in the national house by Gid
dings and Wade and the immortal Gar
field (applause), and, my fellow-citizens,
I will only thank you and every one Of
you from the bottom of my heart for
these manifestations of your friendship,
your devotion; and as you seem to have
brought back what you went for. those
whom you left behind want me to say
they are glad to see you home again."
CThe crowd then united in three rousing
cheers for 1.-The next president.")
BY this time the New York party had
succeeded in forcing it's way to the front
piazza, led by Hon. John E. Milholland
1t took some time for Governor McKin-
ley to get through the house and through
the crowd in the hall to greet his east
ern visitors.
Mr.. Milholland mounted chair and
presented Senator Miller, who said:
Ladies and Gentlemen: I thought
it proper on our way home from the St.