The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-30
M'KINLEY TO COLLEGE MEN
HE IS PRESENTED WITH 4 BUST or HIMSELF BY MEN FROM U. OF c.

HE IS PRESENTED WITH 4 BUST OF
 HIMSELF BY MEN FROM U. OF c, Faithful Word Portrait of Bryan by One of
 Statesman-Lii1e Millions of Other Citi-
 zens- Prediction That Nebraska Will be
 Found in Republican Column, and That
 Bryan Will be Defeated in His Own
 Ward-Callers at Canton.
 Canton, O., July 29.--Two hours after Major Mckinley returned from Cleve- land to-day committee representing the Republican Club of the University of Chicago arrived and presented him with bust of himself by Hans Hirsch, member of the club. The committee consisted of Messrs. H. L. Ickes, G. w. Axelson and U. N. Kelso, the club president.
 MT. Ickes was spokesman. He said: We come as the representatives of the host of young republicans who are enrolled in our colleges to-day. We come because we are patriots, because the modern college men take an espec- ial interest in all that pertains to the welfare of their country"
 Major Mckinley in response said: Tt gives me very great pleasure to meet the committee from the republican club, and I canont forbear to say that if the republican party is to continue its progress of power and usefulness it must be done through the conscience and intelligence of the people. It is, in dee, good omen to find the young gen. tlemen of the many colleges of the United States joining themselves in re- publican organizations to sustain re- publican principles and the national honor, and there Is no class of men more potent than those who go out to every county and state
 They wield mighty power. and it is fortunate for the country that so many of them are enlisted this year for the principles of good government for which our party stands. I am glad to know that republican principles are such that they can be submitted with safety and confidence to the intelligence of the educated men of the country. am pleased, of course, with the bust which you have been pleased to bring to me, and I accept it in the spirit in which it has been presented. beg that you convey to the artist and mem bers of the republican club my sincere thanks for this remembrance"
 Ex- Governor Thayer of Nebraska had a long talk with the major this after noon. He feels in no alarmed state about the republican situation in Ne braska. He thinks the republicans will carry the state by 25,000.
 Concerning MT. Bryan Governor Thayer said: T live in the same ward with him and know him well. He Is upright in his dealings and have nothing to say against him as man. He is no special mark of dis tinction. MT. Bryan is like mil lion other good men. As states man MT. Bryan has not been success A few years ago he canvassed the state for the United States senate. The state went republican and Bryan did not get the votes. He helped the populist par ty and the democratic party to coal esce. Moreover he has been employed by the silver men of Colorado to agi- tate the question. He was nominal edi- tor of free silver paper for that pur- pose. I live in the same ward and want to say that we shall defeat him t,,L oy-5 t,, h ic oft nd in, ic county, which Is Lancaster There is another thing which Is against MT Bryan. He is free trader, although just now he is not saying much about that. You may put 1t down as thing beyond doubt that we will carry Ne braska."
 II want to give some reasons why MT. Bryan should not carry Nebraska, T said Governor Thayer. "He has never done anything for our state and had done much against it. For example there was large stwine manufactory at Fremont doing a good business. By his vote he destroyed 1t. Then the state had two sugar factories which represented one million capital. These by his vote and voice he helped to de- stroy and both are idle"
 Other callers at the Mckinley resi- dence to-day included Congressman J A. Pickler of South Dakota, and John Hadcock, a well known business man of New York and Pittsburg.
 MT. Hadcock thinks there is good deal of energetic talk about silver ir the west where he has been travelling, but says that when the people make a sober thought they will in the vast majority of cases vote for sound money.
 Representative Picker has faith in the republicans of South Dakota, and told Major Mckinley that the state would give him it's electoral vote There is a good deal of silver talk in Ohio at present, but largely among men who were at one time strenuous advocates of fiat money and who were very active in the greenback move ment.