The herald., 1896-08-30
A GERMAN BAND
Listens to the Speeches and Enjoys the
Music

Music
CANTON, O.. Aug pa thousand
German Americans of Cleveland met
this afternoon and made one of the most
impressive and enthusiastic delegations
that has yet come to Canton. They fin
ished in splendid style the magnificent
demonstration of the day, so auspicious-
ly begun by the big commercial travel
ers' party from Chicago. The mercan-
tile travellers and their Canton COM
rades, Joined by the Dueber- Hampden
Mckinley club filed a mile of the street
with red, white and blue protection and
gold standard umbrellas as they parad-
ed to the Mckinley home. The Ger
man Americans and the thousands that
Joined them each carried an American
flag. AS Major Mckinley appeared on
the doorstep of his home he was salutei
by his callers with such a waving Of
Old Glory as he had seldom seen before.
The Cleveland Harugariri Maenner-
choir made a glorious ending of the ova-
ton and a brass band gave accompani-
ment to a second outbreak of applause
Col. L. p. Smithnight presented Mr. Ed
ward Bohm, who made classic ad-
support of honest money" and ''un-
flinching patriotism,' for those whose
mother country was that of Seigel and
Schurz State Representative Charles
Snider, a fluent talker, carried the as
semblage by storm. He voiced many ell
oquent sentiments When Mr.. Snider
had finished Major Mckinley responded
as follows:
My Fellow Citizens: 1t is with pecul-
lar pleasure and satisfaction that l now
welcome this representative body Of
German American citizens of the city Of
Cleveland and of Northern Ohio to the
city of Canton and my home. I appre-
ciate most heartily your call, which, as
a compliment to myself, l prize very
highly, but more than all and above all,
/ value it as a significant expression of
your interest in the great political cam
paign upon which we have entered. The
citizens of the United States have
learned not only to respect. but to de-
pend upon the Germans as a great and
potent influence in our civilization, safe
an dsteady in every emergency and pa
triotic in every crisis. (Applause) Low
ing your mother country as you do so
affectionately does not mean that you
love your adopted country less but that
you have hearts big enough to love
both (Applause)
Ny fellow citizens, better or more
faithful soldiers never mustered under
any flag, fighting for any cause, than
those willing and steady German vol
unteers. Great cheerng) The troops
who formed under Willich and Siegel,
kauntz and AVesterhunz, Hartranft
Weitzel and HeintZelman We're the
equal of their trained kinsmen of the i'm
perial armies of Germany. You will re-
member that old Gen. Which used to
boast laughingly: Give me two bri-
gades of my corn-fed western Germans
and | will land them on the north coast
and take the empire" (Tremedous ap-
plause)
Gen. Sheridan, too, declared, after Wis
iting Europe, where he studied the
movements of the Franco Prussian
war, that he saw no troops that excelled
our own either of the western or the
eastern armies, and Abraham Lincoln
proclaimed over and over again that
the Germans were true, patriotic and
faithful to the flag of our country But,
my fellow citizens, it is of the German
American in peace that | would now
speak, conservative, Industrious, steady,
sensible, honest, fond Of home and fam
lily, good citizen-and who could be-
fond of home and family and not be 4
good citizen? (Cheers) Not deluded bv
false theories of finance, nor misled bv
catch phrases of the campaign. As in
the crisis of the civil war he was faith
ful to the country and sustained the
flag, so in every crisis since he has
stood for the financial honor and intec-
rity of the government of the United
StateStil ways standing opposed to in.
fiation and reputation, no matter what
the form or nature of the guise in which
these specious policies were presented
More than once in the close states dlIr-
ing the struggle for the resumption of
specie payments the German American
vote turned the scale in favor of honest
fnance and the nations plightad faith
The German citizens do not believe in
either cheap men or cheap money. (Ap-
plause) They typify sturdy manhood
in their own lives, aud they insist unon
sound money in their own businesses 7.
is gratifying to every lover of his conn
try to feel that the German-Americane
of the United States are standing unit
edly today for protection to American
Industries, for protection to American,