Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-24
/: The Republican Party stands
: for honest money and the chance
T: to earn it by honest toll.
: WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
McKinley's Tribute to Old Washington,
the Mother County,
Observation-Disclosures.

the Mother County.
In part Major Mckinley said to the
immense delegation from Washington
county on Thursday of this week at
Canton:
''These representatives of Marietta
recall to our minds that it was the first
settlement in this great commonwealth
and have thought it might not be un-
timely to pay some tribute to the great
meu, the noble pioneers, to whom we
owe SO much for our civilization and
great commonwealth, for l recall many
visits to Marietta and remember with
pride and pleasure my receptions there.
Perhaps we are too forgetful of the
heroic part of our noble ancestors, the
first settlers of the Northwestern terri
tory and the five or six states erected
from it's imperial domain, for we will
not surrender fair Minnesota, the
great wheat and flour state, if part of
it does lie west of the Mississippi river,
your original boundary.
For there was time when Wash
ington county was the only organized
county in all that magnificent empire
which stretched from Pennsylvania on
the east to the Mississippi on the west
and from the Ohio on the south to the
great lakes on the north-an empire,
say, more majestic than was eyer pre-
sided oyer by any king or czar, because
majestic in the peace and plenty and
prosperity which it's citizens may
quickly and readily attain.
washington county may we'll boast
long line of eminent and patriotic
citizens, for they are the common
pride of the state and country. 1t re-
quires no effort of the memory to re-
call such great and honored names as
Rufus Putnam, Major Tupper, Commo-
dore Whipple, Judge Ephriam Cutler,
Return j. Meigs, DR.. Hildreth, Ohio's
greatest historian, DIR. Andrews, of
grand old Marietta college; that great
organizer of the volunteer army, Gen
eral Buell.; General John Fl. Eaton,
commissioner of the national bureau of
Ter, and that hero of Shermans great
march, General Fearing, and that other
splendid soldier, Colonel Hildebrand
distinguished in the battle of Shiloh.
"All these come to my mind as l
speak to you, but l miss familiar face
and regret his unavoidable ABSENCE
that of my old friend, the brave and
gallant commander of the Iron Brigade,
General Rufus R. Dawes, to whom
wish the greatest peace and happiness
in his declining years, which are full of
honor and the happy recollection of
good deeds hlavely done. --------
''It is such men as those, my fellow.
citizens, that have made our country
great and deseryedly distinguished
above all others. / never speak to a
Washington county audience, / never
see the people of dear old Marietta, the
first settlement of the great west
without thinking of the boundless
blessings these first settlers, perhaps
unconsciously, brought to their be-
loyed country and to mankind.
1T is impossible to speak to them
without recalling the glorious ordi-
naance of freedom that passed the
American congress July 10, 1887, with
but one dissenting vote.
my fellow-countrymen, may we all
be inspired by the same blessed spirit
of patriotism that moved the grand and
great men who founded our government
and we have in the contest now upon