The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-19
More Than Twenty Delegations Call on
Major Mckinley.
PILGRIMS COME BY THE THOUSAND
They Come Bearing the Banners Of
Peace From Widely Separated
States, and Represent Every Walk
and Calling in Life. Labor and
Capital Hand in Hand.

speeches to his visitors. The pilgrims
came from Maryland. West Virginia.
Kentucky. Pennsylvania, Ohio. Michi-
gan and Indiana, and they represented
about every calling in life, professional
and laboring men and young and old
people crowding the streets of Canton
and applauding the speeches of Major
Mckinley.
Canton o., Oct. 1S.-Delegations be-
gan to arrive in Canton at $50 o'clock
yesterday morning, the first comers be-
ing from Pennsylvania and Michigan.
AT s o'clock 300 voters from Monroe
county, Mich, marched up Market
street to Major McKinley's house and
caused him to dispatch his breakfast
with haste. They were not kept wait
ing more than ten minutes. Their
spokesman. d. A. Curtis. of Monroe.
Mich, made lively address to Major
Mckinley. and assured him that MS
plurality in Michigan would exceed 2o.-
900.
TO CALLERS FROM MICHIGAN.
Major Mckinley addressed his callers
as follows:
I am glad to greet and welcome you
this morning. ! have never believed. as
some people have been saying. that th"rc
ever was any danger about the state ol
Michigan. There has never been II mo-
ment of time when / had the slightest
doubt where the electoral vote OF your
glorious state would go in the presidAn-
tial contest of 1896. No state in the mon
is more deeply Interested in the genuine
American policy that will protect your
property, your interests, your labor your
mines, the products OF your forests from
undue competition from the other Slhe
than the state of Michigan, and there Is no
state that is more deeply interested in
having u protective policy than the STATE
of Michigan. (ApplauseD
There is one thing that the Rcpubucan
party is dedicated to, and that is labor
first, then to law and order these are. m
and indispensable TO the prosperity ana
the permancncy Of the Republic. | am
glad to know from your spokesman, thdt
you believe not only in a protective tar
Great cheering) When YOU do your
work, whether ii be on the farm or in the
mine yoa want to receive in payment dol
lars that are good every day and every
month and everywhere in cverp part OF
the civilized world. Applause)
Major McEinley's next callers came
with drums beating and flags dying at
. o'clock. There We're three delegations
in the assemblage that filed the Nc
Kinley yard one was from Altoona
Blair county. Pennsylvania. number
ing lAOO men: delegation of $50 min
ers came from South Fork and another
of $50 miners came from Portage, Cam
bria county, Pennsylvania. W. II.
Schwartz. of Altoona, introduced the
Blair county delegation: j. II. Dietrich
spoke for the South Fork visitors, and
r.. H. Hughes, himself Il miner, was
spokesman for his fellow w-workers from
Portage.
WORDS FOR PENNSYLVAN1ANS
Major Mckinley seldom faced Il more
enthusiastic audience than this one of
PENNSYLVANIA Wurkingmen, and he
spoke with uncommon earnestness. he
said:
This is Il year of true and genuine pa
trotism. This is Il year which registers a
revival of true Americanism. Rivers 30
not divide US; mountains cannot Scpa-
rate us: state lines and sectional lines are
all ohlteiated. ana this year we stahd
unitedly for the American union, the
american honor and glorious old S;drs
land Stripes. Great cheering.) Two weeks
from next Tuesday the people of this coun-
Try will exercise that majestic sovereign
~ which Is peculiar to no other nation
but ours. 1t is difficult to measure the
fun force of national election. of its
mighty power for good or i'll. 1t deter
mines policies and administrations and
legislation affecting every industry Of
The country Its power is both appalling
and inspiring.
If We needed any demonstration of the
mighty effect of such an Ction as is to
occur two weeks from next Tuesday, 1t .
furnished in that of 1892, when from sun
changed the administration, not in per
son merely, but in purpose. That election
was a verdict for new policy which was
opposed to that which had prevailed for
the greater part of the lifetime of the Re
public. The nation stood in dread silenn'.
in fear of it's own verdict, and with all the
rejoicing there was much foreboding. Men
looked into the future with fear ana up-
cancelled; contracts were annulled; buy
ing and selling was curtailed; plans
which had been formed for the extension
of business were abandoned; works al
chinery: doubt and uncertainty hung over
the country. Have | overdrawn the pic
ture? Cries of 'No!o Did We apprn-
ciate the full force of that great national
votes upon its result. and of the result on
the country (Cries of mo" l fear not.
speak of this. not to recall the past,
which is beyond our recall, but rather 10
election its vital and supreme Importance,
to the end that We may realize the sacred
and valued interests which are involved
in popular election under our form of
government.
More-inflntely more-is involved in the
contest OF 1896 than in the contest of 1892.
grave and serious as it was. We have all
at issue that was then involved, and moro.
Then IL was only a question of the princi-
pie of taxation which should govern us,
about which honest men might fairly diff
fer, but about which there is less differ
ence now than then. Now the serious
question Is involved of all statutes, of ev-
cry form of property, real, personal and
mixed; wages in shops, In mines and on
the farms: investments in building and
loan associations and savigs banks: the
value of every trust estate; the endow-
ment of every college and charity, every
salary and income; the savings of frugal
toll. the inheritance of the helpless minor
children and the pension OF every soldier
and sailor or their widows and orphans,
are involved, and will be affected by the
votes of the American people two weeks
from next Tuesday. (Applause.l Every
one of these vital interests is assailed. Not
one of them escapes. My fellow-citizens,
shall the assault be successful? (Crie of
mo, never"o
Two hundred citizens of Huntingdon
county, Pennsylvania, were the next
callers. Judge Williamson introduced
them to Major Mckinley, who made
short address.
TRAVELLING MEN IN LINE.
The ninth speech was made to one
of the largest delegations of the day.
1t was composed of travelling men from
Columbus and Toledo, o. Several
bands and the Columbus Glee club
were with it. j. Fenimore spoke in be-
half of the Columbus Commercial
Travellers, and E. 4. Dow for the To-
lcdo mcr. Major Mckinley made a
girs reFDonse, saying:
Ylu have discovered In the last four
years that II is good deal safer to consult