The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-04
Guns Doomed and All the People of
the Distinguished Couple.
BRIEF SPEECH AND RESPONSE
MAJOR M'KINLEY'S REPLY TO JUDGE
BALDWIN'S GREETING.
Many Callers at "Mother" McKinIey's
Residence, Where the Chief
Executive Is stopping.


morning sounded out their welcome to
President Mckinley until midnight the
weather had been as warm as the warmest
days in Washington. The thermometer
| registered up in the nineties all day. When
| the greeting of his old townsmen was over,
| the President donned a light serge sack coat
and sat about the vine-clad piazza of his
mothers home. Both he and his wife stood
the trip well. The warm weather is not
oppressive to Mrs. Mckinley During the
| afternoon there was a constant stream of
callers from neighbors and friends in all
walks of life After tea, when the suns
| rays had spent their greatest heat, the
| President and Mrs. Mckinley took an open
carriage for drive. They We're accom-
panied by his mother, Mrs. Nancy Allison
| Mckinley, whose place in history is unique,
! beautiful and charming beyond ordinary
| measure. She lives at the age of eighty
| eight years to welcome home for the
Fourth of July visit her son, the President
! of the United States, and in the son, her
Canton neighbors and the people OF the
Nation recognize much of the sturdy char
| acter, truly Christian spirit and the warm
| heart of the mother. 1t is nearly a mile
J over smoothly paved streets to the Nc
kinley cottage made famous by last
years famous front porch campaign. Here
the President found new fences erected and
new grass growing, where hundreds Of
thousands of political pilgrims had trOd the
old lawn into clay packed as hard as brick.
1t was here that President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley began housekeeping, and thousands
of memories cluster about the old home.
Next the drive took them to the beautiful
Westlawn Cemetery, where mother, son
and wife laid flowers on the graves of the
two little ones whose death twenty years
ago brought sorrow to the bright young
lives of Maj. William Mckinley and his
wife 1t was dark when the carriage drove
back to the home where the President )
mother lives and where his father died
four years ago. President Mckinley was
approached by scores of old citizens; many
of Them called him Familiarity major, and
each received cordial greeting. He spent
much of the evening sitting on a chair on
the grassy plat in front of his mothers
home. In anticipation of his attending
church tomorrow scores of people from
towns and cities around have been en-
deavoring to arrange for seats at the First
NJ. E. Church. no
PEOPLE TURNED OUT EN- MASSE.
President Mckinley and party reached the
pot by the people en- masse. A large proper
ton of the populace marched in a parade to
receive and escort the party, bands militia
ry companies, old soldiers and the organiz-
atoms of last falls campaign being con-
spicuous in the line. Thousands Of others
went to the depot unofganized, and the
crowd there almost equaled that of the 1st
of March, when the President departed for
the Inauguration. Booming cannon an
nounced the train as it crossed the city
boundary line.
During a brief stop at Pittsburg early
this morning Capt. w. w. Fullwood. on be-
half of Encampment No. /, Union Vet
Grams Legion, presented the President and
Mrs. Mckinley with a huge basket of flow
ers. The President and party We're the
guests of Superintendent Starr, of the
Pennsylvania lines, during the ride from
Pittsburg. Although the McKinleys trav-
eled quietly on a regular train, thousands
of people were gathered at nearly every
station. At Alliance and Salem the crowds
were particularly large. The President, un-
attended, went to the rear platform and
shook hands with hundreds of his old con-
gressional district constituents Men, wom-
en- and children climbed on to the train and
many reached in the car windows to get a
grasp of the Presidents hand. At Alliance,
eighteen miles from home, the Canton re-
ception committee. headed by Judge Geo.
F. Baldwin and John c. Dueber and =
dozen others, boarded the train
At Canton the crowd was so great the
police patrol were kent busy making way
from the station platform to the carriages.
The organized parade of citizens and mill
tia, marshaled by Capt. Harry Frease
moved promptly through streets with the
stars and stripes displayed from nearly
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home of the Presidents mother. Here
Judge Baldwin delivered an address of well
come, TO which the President responded
briefly. Both Major and Mrs. Mckinley
looked in better health than when leaving
Canton in March.
WELCOME AND RESPONSE.
The jam about the nome of Mrs. Nancy
Allison Mckinley was terrific. The crowd
surged about the yard in the intense heat.
The beautiful lawn about the modest homie
was nearly laid waste before the President
had greeted his happy mother, now at the
age of lightweight. The band played
Home, Sweet Home" and Judge Baldwin
said:
Mr.. President-Your old friends and
neighbors have assembled to-day to give
you warm and heartfelt greeting on vo,1r
return TO their midst after your inaugura
ton as President of the greatest Nation on
the face of the earth They realize WHAT
you have accomplished; they realize what
you now represent, and they realize fully
all the ViclsSitudes through which you have
passed to reach your present exalted posi-
ton. They understand just as THOROUGHLY
that you have the same feeling of ra0a ~
for your old friends that YOU had Wben
you dwet with us in the common walks Of
life. Believing that you still feel the same
regard for them, they come cut To see Won
expressing 10 you by their presence their
great love and regard and extend to Won
the warmest welcome of their hearts -
To which Mr.. Mckinley, amid q storm
of applause. responded:
Judge Baldwin and My Fellow-cjtizens-
L am glad TO meet you all. 1t has been tn
me great pleasure to return to my old
home. and that pleasure has been gFearlv
enhanced by the warm and generous recen-
ton accorded TO me by my friends and
neghbors. There is no place IL. this wide
world so dear to me as Canton (great an
piausel, and there is no place anNwhere
beneath the sun ike home. "a voice God
bless you and cheers.) / am glad TO meet
and to greet you here to-day. / thank nv
old friend Judge Baldwin, tor the gracious
words he has spoken in your behalf in civ
ing me welcome, and I trust that duriny
my brief stay here / shall have the pleas7
ure of seeing very many of YOU person
ally. 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. Great an
plause and cries of Good good l thank
you"
Bullet Flattened ON His Skull.
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