The herald., 1896-10-27
CROWDS CONF 70 CANTON
Wearing the Uniforms Paid for
BY Hanna
CRACKERS AND TIN HORNS
Add 10 Noise Tbough Not Mnch to
Dignity
1t Is Not at All Surprising That the
Delegations Consist Largely Of
Railroad Employees.

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| crowds in Canton have been confined
/ most generally to Saturday. Today
however, was surprise even to the
much-surprised Cantonians. Organ
lied delegations came from New Jersey
New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois. The New Jersey Freling-
huysen Lancers set the style, and the
day throughout was distinguished by
the most handsome paraphernalia yet
witnessed. The Erie railway employees
delegation was numbered by thousands.
After Major Mckinley returned from
attending the funeral of his late friend
w. K. Miller, the paraders began their
march. They stood in waiting on North
Market street in double line from tn
Mckinley home to the courthouse, a
half-mile straightaway. They gathered
and packed and swayed about the house
SO that speaking from the porch to be
heard by so vast a crowd was impossi-
BILE. The temporary reviewing platform
used on Saturdays is not allowed to
stand after the day is over. There was,
therefore, no place to speak from but
the porch. Tables had to be carried
from the house to improvise rostrum,
so that the people jammed solid across
the streets and crowded upon the lawns
of the neighbors' homes might hear.
The women as we'll as the men in the
railroad delegation each carried an
American flag. These were waved Wig
orously. Torpedo cannons were expiod
ed, rockets fired and tin horns were
blown. while drums added to the entilu-
sin Of fhp Npa r o. of "a
Introductory speeches referred to the
coercion charge of Mr.. Bryan ard sew
eral spokesmen challenged the proof Of
a single case of coercion. Major Nc
Kinley again referred to the charge of
coercing employees, saying:
There are some people who seem -
think the best way to ge. on in this
world is to be against one another, ana
that there is natural antagonism be-
tween those who employ labor and those
who are employed. They are disturbed
whenever they discover that the en-
ployer of labor and labor itself are on
good sterms, -and whenever that occurs.
they eemme4lce crying coercion 1t is
cooperation, the one working with the
other for the public good and for their
advantages severally.''
This and similar sentences were re-
ceived with. ,tumultuous applause, cheer
ing and waving of flags
The last week of the campaign opened
up with six delegations scheduled to
visit MAsajoar AMfKFlii Mckinley from as many
states. 4 -, -. NJ. ~
About ii O'Clock the first arrived COM
posed of the railway mems gold stand
ard clubs, of Seymour, North Vernon and
Washington, Indiana. The foremost
part were employees of the Baltimore and
Ohio and Southwestern. Their spokes-
man was o. T. Montgomery of Seymour.
While the Indiana people were being ad-
dressed a large delegation of employees
of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling
railroad We're waiting, in the street.
This party was Introduced by L. H.
Eddy, a'iocomotive engineer While the
Ohio railway men were being addressed
the shouting and cheering and music
of the bands of the New Jersey delega-
tions were heard approaching the house.
The Qhioans crossed the street to the
lawns at the opposite side and reviewed
the magnificent parade to which Major
Mckinley bowed his acknowledgements
from a table at the front of the yard
Conspicuous among the New Jersey
delegation was the splendidly uniformed
and drilled marching club from Freling-
huysen. John B. Gibson of Newark in
troduced the New Jersey party. McKin-
ley endeavored to shake hands with all
these visitors and the result was the
greatest jam of the campaign.
The next delegation addressed by Ma
jor Mckinley was composed of twenty
six representatives of the railway mems
non-partisan sound money league of
New England, in which all branches of
railroad work were represented. Nc
Kinley received the party in his library,
where an informal Introductory address
was made by Alexander Robertson of
Boston, to which Major Mckinley re-
sponded as follows:
Mr.. Robertson and Fellow Citizens of
New England-I am delighted to have
you pay me this visit. appreciate that
while you are few in numbers you rep
resent quite'as large constituency as
any of the larger delegations that have
honored me with visits.
1t is especially gratifying to know
that in a measure this is a non-parti-
san campaign, as the title of your or
ganization indicates. This is a year
when the fires of patriotism are burn
ing in our hearts and the flowers Of
patriotism are blooming over the gar
den walls of politics. I am glad indeed
to meet you all, and value more than
1 can tell you your good wishes and as
suraees of support. We have much at
stake this year in the soundness of our
currency and the integrity of the ma
tion, and I value highly the support and
assistance of the railroad men of the
United States i greet these represen-
tatives Of New England and give them
hearty welcome
Three cheers were then given for the
major.
In his address to the delegation from
Seymour, Washington and Vernon, Iud.,
Major Mckinley said, in part:
II am glad that the railroad employees
of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
are deeply interested in the pending
campaign. There ere some people who
seem TO think the best way to get any
thing in the world is to be against
another, and that there is q natural
antagonism between those who en-
/ ploy labor and those who are employed.
They are disturbed when they discover
that the employer Of labor and labor