Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-07
M'KINLEY IN CANTON.
President Given a Royal Welcome
at His Old IIome-A Large
Parade.

Canton. o.. July 3.-President Nc
Kinley and party reached the city on the
1890 train and were met at the depot
by the citizens of the city en- masse. \
large proportion of the populace marched
in parade to receive and escort the
PARTICIPANTS, military companies, old
soldiers and the organizations of last
falls Sampaign being conspicuous III the
line. Thousands of others went to the
depot unorganized and the crowd there
almost equaled that of the LIST of March,
when the President departed for the in
augurati0n. Booming cannon announced
the train as it crossed the city boundary
line.
The PRESIDENTS party were the guests
of Supt. Starr of the PENNSYLVANIA lines
on the daylight ride from Pittsburg this
morning. Although the McKinleys tray
eled quietly on regular train, thousands
of people were gathered at nearly every
station. At Alliance and Salem the
crowds were particularly large. The
President, unattended. went to the rear
platform and shook hands with hundreds
of his old congressional district constitu-
entS. Men, women and children clam
bered on to the train. Many reached into
the car windows to get a grasp Of tie
Presidents hand.
At Canton the crowd was so great the
police were kept busy making way from
the station platform to the carriages
The organized parade of citizens and
militia. marshaled by Capt. Harry
Frease, moved promptly through the
streets with the stars and stripes dis
played from nearly every window of the
mile march to the home of the Presi-
dents mother. Here Judge Baldwin de-
livered an address of welcome. TO
which the President responded briefly.
Both Maj. and Mrs. Mckinley look in
better health than when they left Can
ton in March
The jam about the home Of Mrs. Nancy
Allison Mckinley was terrific. The band
played Home, Sweet Home and Judge
Baldwin said:
Mr. President: Your old friends and
neighbors have assembled today to give you
= warm and heartfelt greeting upon your
return TO their midst after your Inaugural
ton IS President of the greatest nation
upOn The face of the earth. They realize
what you have accomplished; they realize
what YOU now present. and they now
realize fully the vicissitudes through which
YOU have passed to reach your present cx-
allied position. They understand just as
thoroughly that YOU have the same feel
ing of regard for your old friends that you
mad when you dwelt with us in the com
mon walks of life. Believing that you still
feel the same regard for them they come
out to see you, expressing to You by their
presence their great love and regard for
you and extending to ysu the warmeSt well
come of their hearts.
To which President Mckinley. amid
storm Of applause. responded:
Judge Baldwin and My Fellow Citizens:
L am glad to meet you all. 1t has been to
me Il great pleasure to return to my old
home, and that pleasure has been greatly
enhanced by the warm and generous reccp-
ton accorded to me by my friends and
neighbOrS. There is no place in this wide
world so dear to me as Canton great APP
9lausel. and there is no place anywhere
beneath the sun like homo. "a voice: God
bless YOU and cheersD l am glad to meet
and greet YOU here today. | thank my old
friend, Judge Baldwin, for the gracious
words he has spoken in your behalf in Civ
ing me welcome, and / trust that during
my brief stay here | shall have the pleas
IRE of seeing very many of YOU personally
And / want You to know that | have
looked forward with unalloyed pleasure to
my forty-eight hours here at my old home.
surrounded by my old friends. (Applause
and cries of Good, good.'1 l thank Won.