The record-union., 1896-09-27
Speaks to Sixteen Delegations, Numbering
Fifteen Thousand People,
Which Were in the Main Composed Of
Laboring Men.
This Week at Canton to be an Active
One Two or More Delegations
Scheduled for Every Day Except
Saturday, When There Will be
Fifteen-Fiis Greetings to Those
Who Called Yesterday.

Who Called Yesterday.
CANTON, Sept 26.-Major Mckinley
made eleven speeches to-day, and spoke
to sixteen delegations, numbering in the
aggregate about $4,000 persons. The
delegations were in the main composed
OF laboring men, and the spokesmen in
most cases took occasion to assure Ma
tor Mckinley that the men came of their
own free will, paid their own fares and
in some cases lost half a days wages.
he delegations arrived so rapidly this
afternoon that Major Mckinley could
not take time to shake hands with his
callers, and he is a good deal less ia
tigued tonight than he would have been
had he grasped the hands of several
thousand persons. Next week will be an
active one. There are two or more del
egations scheduled for every day except
Saturday, when there will be fifteen.
Major Mckinley'S most active day of
the campaign commenced with the call
of the Peoria Republican Travelling
Mems Club. The Peoria men, 200 in
number left home at , O'Clock Friday
afternoon and reached here at 500 this
morning. This delegation travelled fur
ther than any that has visited Major
Mckinley save the one which came from
Vermont Major Mckinley was enthu-
siastically cheered when he appeared.
In response to the remarks of Spokes=
man Graft Major Mckinley said:
Il am more than glad to greet at my
home the Travelling Mems Republican
Club of the city of Peoria. I congratu-
late you upon the thriving city and glo-
rious State III which you live 1t is by
the census the third State in the Amer
lean Union. 1t comes to few States to
have furnished to this glorious Union
the matchleSS men you have furnished
Yates and Oglesby and that splendid
statesman and patriot, John A. Logan,
and that great Democrat, Stephen A.
= ,uglas. who loved his country more
than he loved his party, and supported
Mr. Lincoln in that crucial period in the
history of the republic. (Applause) And
no man can think of your great State
without recalling that you furnished
Abraham Lincoln, the mightiest states
man of the country. Applause.) And
General Ulysses S. Grant, the greatest
warrior Of the republic. (Renewed
cheering) When Abraham Lincoln is
sued his immortal proclamation of lib
erty the whole world knew that what
Lincoln had decreed Grant would exc
cute with the thunder of his artillery.
Great applause)
4 am glad to know that your pros
Tects are so good for a splendid victory
in Illinois this year. tremendous cheer
ing and cries of I'VE will give McKin-
Icy 100000 What a spectacle, my
fellow citizens, to the world in this Gov
erEment of seventy million of free peo-
pie governed by themselves and gov
erning themselves. changing their chief
executive every four years and their
law-making power every two years, If
it be their will so to do and the Gov
ernment going on without halt or in
terruption, working out what seventy
millions of people from time to time be-
lieve will subserve their highest destiny.
More than 120 years have passed
since the Government was founded. and
in every trial of our history we have
demonstrated our capacity for Self-gov-
eminent. and shown to all mankind the
blessings and advantages of the great
republic. Great applause) Now and
then in our popular elections we may
have been swayed by passion or moved
by the demagogue from our moorings.
But the American people are never
fooled but once on a subject. Great
cheering) For when once deceived they
never follow the deceiver the second
time.
f have known. and so have you. times
in our history when the majority Of the
people were led to believe that certain
policies would serve their best interests
and when it transpired that thy did not.
they swiftly turned upon the party which
deceived them and turned it out of
power. and they will do it again. The
S,,Io Of he is
terrible against those who mislead and
deude them. The people are never led
astray by deceit or misrepresentation
when they investigate for themselves.
This they are doing this year in a
marked degree.
1T is of no avail that party leaders
appeal to passions when the people are
alive to their-own and the public inter-
ests 1t will not do TO say TO the men
who are poor in this worlds goods, you
must get of by yourselves and form a
class of your own: your interests are
opposed to those who employ you. That
is not enough this year The poor man
inquiries What good will that do me?
How will that better my condition? How
will that bring bread TO my family AMI
cheer to nv children? Will | be bene-
fitted by despoiling my employer? VIII
II give me more employment ana Dettef
wages to strike down those whose
money is invested in productive enter
prises. which give me work and wages
-Four years ago ii was said that the
manufacturer was making too mucn
money. you remember it, But that
cannot be said now (cries of mo, no ,:
and that the rohber tariff which was en-
riching him must be turned up, roots
and branch. to the end that he Snouid
be deprived of what some people were
pleased to call his ill-gotten profits. the
country seemed to share In the sugges-
fion and the trial was entered upon.
with what result every manufactures.
commercial man. travelling man or
working man best knows.
1T has been discovered to our hurt
and sorrow that you cannot injure the
manufacturer without injuring the
lahorer (Applause) 1t has been found,
roo. that you cannot iniure the manu-
facfurer without injuring the whole
business of the country. tApplause)
you may close the shops by adverse
tariffs, because you imagine the manu-