The Portland daily press., 1896-10-27
NEW ENGLAND RAILROAD MEN.
Represented at McKinley's Home in
Canton Yesterday.


Their support-Other Visitors.
Canton, Ohio, October 26.-Major Nc
KiIley began the last week of speech
masing with an address to 400 employees
of tae Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
railway men from the towns of Seymour
and Washington, Indiana. He was
greted with prolonged cheers when he
STEPPED forward to speak. His remarks
wer inathe main confnedsto discussion
Of the relation between employer and
empoye. He said there must be no ooer-
cion but harmony and corporation.
Tie next callers were 500 employees Of
the cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling rail
road MAJOR Mckinley addressed the dele
gatin on the money and tariff issues.
A delegation in which much interest
centred was one from Newark and
Trerton, N. j. 1t was accompanied by
100 members of the Frelinghuysen Lam
GERS, who had their own drum corps of
30 msm bers
Tb speaker for the delegation was
JohI 8. Gibson. comptroller Of the oity
of 1ewnrk.
Tie largest delegation today came
from the Erie lines between Salamanca,
New York and Chicago. 1t was made
up Erie employees and mum bered near
ly 800. The parade was led by 15O wom-
en-, who came from Huntington. W.
Va. The Mckinley yard could not hold
all the delegates. Major Mckinley
abaIdoned the porch and spoke from a
nhaj pIacad tah1a I,aar tha oaufra
of tie lawn. The cheers which greeted
himwere deafening. In response to the
spokesman the Major said: 81 want the
people Of this country, as in the past,
each man for himself to cast his ballot
az To subserve his own highest and best
interests. There is almost panic among
SOLID people OF this country because the
employers and the employees are maIoh-
ing under the came flag (applause) as
though there was something un-Ameri-
can about a fraternity betwt en- men who
employ labor and the laborers they en-
ploy. There Is nc union any where that
should be stronger than the union be-
tween labor and capital. (Cheers.)
The next delegation was not large, but
1t was representative. 1t came from Bos-
ton,a nd was composed of % men. the
executive committee of the Railroad
Men q Non-p -partiian Sound Money League
Of New England. Alexander Robertson,
r 'ssident OF the league said the delega-
ti0n represented every branch of railroad
work and 1t represented the 80, 600 rail
road workmen of New England
The delegation was escorted from the
station by the Grand Army band of 40
musicians and by the Canton Mounted
troop. Major Mckinley received them
In his library, md In response to the ad-
dress OF the Spokesman, said: Il am
delighted to have you pay me this visit.
am confident that while you are few
in numbers yOu represent quite as large
a constituency as any of the larger dele
cations who hare honored me with Wis
it. 1t Is especially gratifying to know
that, in a measure, this is great non
partisan campaign as the title of your
organization Indicates.
this is a year when the fires of patri-
otism are burning in our hearts and the
flowers of our own patriotism are bloom
ing over the garden wall of politics.
am glad, Indeed, to meet you. / value
more than / can tell you. your good
wishes and assurances of support. We
have s8 much at stake this year in the
soundness of our currency and the integ-
rity OF the nation, / value highly the
support and assistance of the railroad
men of the United States. / greet the
representatives of New England and give
were given for Major MoKinlsy.l
The last delegation of the day was
composed of the wheel women of Mas
silon, Ohio and Chicago. 1t is the first
organized wheel women's Mckinley clu b
in the country. Major Mckinley ad-
dressed some pleasant remarks to the Wis
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