The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-27

CANTON, O., June 26.-Five thou
sand of the 100000 Of Stark county
greeted Governor Mckinley, his wife
and mother, in a. public reception by
the women of Canton late this after
noon, and of these 5000 there was not
a man present besides the governor,
the patrolmen at the doors and the
two reporters.
1t was a non-partisan affair. The
house was darkened. There were hand
some floral and electric light effects.
Two hundred handsomely dressed wo-
men assisted in the reception There
was music, and the beautiful home of
the late Jacob Miller, with its large
rooms and broad lawns and shady
trees, presented a scene long to be re-
membered.
For a. half dozen blocks each way
the streets were crowded from o'clock
until g.
Mrs. Alice Danner Jones, one of the
most eloquent women of Ohio, present
ed Governor Mckinley, wife and
mother, aged 81 years, from the bal
cony overlooking the lawn, saying:
1--WE, THE WOMEN OF CANTON"
Mother and wife of William Nc
Kinley: You know the import of this
meeting We, the women of Canton
and Starke county, would show honor
TO the two women, nearest and dear
est to the man to whom not only Can
ton, but an entire nation is paying
homage He is bound to you by ties
even closer than the ties which bind
him to his country, and we believe he
will say with US that the better part
of him is of your making. The path
which we now see so plainly leading to
the White horse had it's beginning
within the doorway of the little frame
house in Niles. There the wisdom of a
father and the loving guidance OF a
mother laid
THE FOUNDATION STONES
in a young Boys life of the justice,
the sagacity and the charity which
cflaracterizes the statesman of today.
..Ah, motheri The hands you guild
ed then have grown stronger as your
own have grown feeble. Lies disci-
pine of caam and storm has left its
marks upon your boys face, but the
necessary lessons and teachings are
still remembered and the touch of
your aged hands upon his hands today
so limitless in its reach that only bal
ances unseen can estimate its worth.
Mrs. Mckinley, over twenty-five
years ago you prophesied Canton's fu-
ture pride in Canton's young attorney
J You plighted to him your girlish faith
and within the old Presbyterian church
YOU
LINKED YOUR LIFE WITH HIS.
Canton has been proud of him fol
many years, and Canton has beer
every act To-Day bears upon it the
stamp of his association with a. re
fined, exalted womanhood.
so purely wonanly is your wifelJ
devotion SO in sympathy with his every
interest has you life always been tina.
were you to part today we believe tina
like Lafayette, he would exclaim il
the bitterness of his heart: She wa
so one with me that life seems robbed
of half its power without her.
Proud as we ar2 of our statesman
so are we of the wife's and mother
part in giving to us one in whom w
all can safely trust. Women such a
you have given to our nation in tn
past her noblest, brayest sons.
John Quincy Adams owed his great
ness to his mother; Washington con
suited his mother; Lucy Webb Haye
was her husbands truest helper; Jack
son referred to the opinions of hi
idolized wife, and the name of Id
Saxton Mckinley will be associate
with the name of
HER INDUSTRIOUS HUSBAND.
Fourteen years ago, on the Sunda
following his nomination, James 4
Garfield walked into the old HON
church, bearing on his arm his age
mother, and on last Sabbath morn
ing, into the church of his early fait
walked our future president. and wit
him walked his mother.
with home anchorage such as thi
we women have no fears that unde
the coming administration his heal
fires will burn dinner.
Our men may deal with questions c
tariff and finance and political polio,
We women believe that importane
of pure living is higher than all, an
are satisfied that should you be Gale
to preside over the destinies of the M
ton we shall have man at the hea
with a character so pure and a recor
. so untarnished that any mother hel
today would feel proud to know thu
the steppings of little boys might /
in lines parallel with his.
Governor and Mrs. Mckinley,
giving you to the nation we do n,
: feel that we are losing you.
TOO many ties, sacred and tende
will bring you back to Canton Thel
are
;. PLEASANT FRIENDSHIPS Herr
there are deeper loves. there are home
on South Market and West Tuscan,
was, and in West Lawn there a.
many graves which will make Canto
q mecca for your returning feet
In this your hour of triumph ar
I ours Of pride, when to you and you
we extend congra tulations to yol
townswomen, we cannot refrain fro
paying tribute to the memory of OF
who bears also the name of McKinle
who will be remembered in Canton
S long as those who were in conta
t with her have the powers of remen
i bering Anna Mckinley. who possess
: that power, that force of characte