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McKinley as a Candidate. 
 
 HIS SPEECHES SINCE HIS NOMINATION, 
 
 June 1 8 to August i, 1896. 
 
McKlNLEY.THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE, 
 
 THE CONGRATULATIONS OF THE COUNTRY, 
 
 THE CALLS OF DELEGATIONS AT CANTON, 
 
 THE ADDRESSES BY THEM. 
 
 HIS ELOQUENT AND EFFECTIVE RESPONSES. 
 
 FULL TEXT OF EACH SPEECH OR ADDRESS MADE BY HIM 
 FROM JUNE 18 TO AUGUST 1, 1896. 
 
 COMPILED FOR THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE 
 
 By JOSEPH P. SMITH. 
 
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 The Repositon- Press, Canton, O. 
 1896. 
 
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McKINLEY AS A CANDIDATE 
 
 THE JOLLIFICATION AT CANTON. 
 
 THE nomination of William McKinley as the Republican candidate for 
 President has been ratified more generally and enthusiastically by all 
 classes of his fellow citizens, the country over, than perhaps that of any 
 other candidate of his or any party in our history. On the afternoon and 
 evening of Thursday, June 18th, the day on which he was nominated, Canton, 
 Ohio, his home, was alive with delighted people. It had been arranged that 
 the citizens of Canton should assemble in the Public Square, immediately on 
 receipt of the news from St. Louis, form a brigade, and march to the McKinley 
 residence, on North Market Street. But the people took the matter into their 
 own hands ; regardless of plans or programmes in the exuberance of their joy 
 they rushed <?« wjass^ and pell mell to the Major's home, from every direction 
 and street and square in the city. The decisive ballot at St. Louis was not yet 
 finished before they had assembled by thousands, blocked North Market 
 Street, crowded upon the lawn and surrounded his residence, and were 
 surging through it, with every possible manifestation of satisfaction and 
 delight. .Even before the arrival of the brigade from the Square, not a quarter 
 ■of a mile distant, Major McKinley was obliged to come out and acknowledge 
 the deafening calls of his neighbors and friends. AVhen the column from 
 •down town had forced its way up the crowded street, he was again compelled 
 to appear, and Hon . F. E. Case, a prominent manufacturer, made the following 
 address : 
 
 "Major McKixley: Your neighbors and townsmen wish to be the first to 
 ■congratulate you upon your nomination to the highebt ofTice within the gift of 
 the people of the United States. None know better than these neighbors here 
 assembled how well this honor is merited. They were the first to witness the 
 beginning of your public career. They saw you quit your academic studies, 
 with the ardor of youth, and a bravery beyond your years, to devote your 
 services to your imperilled country. "the courage and ability you then 
 displayed, a promise of what followed in later years, won for you that rank 
 and title by which we have so long and familiarly addressed you. A few of 
 your veteran comrades have again formed in line, and, joining the citizens of 
 Canton, take this opportunity to make pronounced their high regard for you. 
 The ability and fidelity with which you have discharged great public trusts, 
 and the recognition by your countrymen of long and useful service to the 
 State and Nation, are exceedingly gratifying to your Canton and Stark County 
 friends. We welcome you as neighbors, without distinction of party, bearing 
 in mind, that, while you have acted in a broader field, you have not lost sight 
 •of the duties and obligations of the citizen, and that with your many cares and 
 responsibilities you have always found time and opportunity to lend your 
 valued assistance to ail that makes for good in our community. We unite in 
 extending to you our hearty congratulations and good wishes." 
 
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Major AlcKinley's Response. 
 
 Mounting a chair on his doorstep, Major McKinley faced the thousands oi 
 his expectant and joyous fellow citizens, and when the storm of applause had 
 sutRciently subsided to make himself heard, he spoke as follows: 
 
 "My Friends and Fellow Citizens : I am greatly honored by this demon- 
 stration. Its non-partisan character forbids political discussion, and I appear 
 only to make grateful acknowledgment for your address and congratulations. 
 I am |not indifferent to the pleasure which you exhibit at the news just 
 received from the Kepublican National Convention. For days your interest 
 has been centered upon St. Louis, and your presence in such vast numbers here 
 this afternoon testifies your personal good will to myself and family, as well as 
 your gratification with the work there done. Your cordial assurances are the 
 more highly appreciated by me because they come from my fellow citizens — 
 men of every party, my old army comrades, my neighbors and former constit- 
 uents — with whom I have lived almost a life time, and who have honored me 
 over and over again with important public trusts. Your warm words of 
 greeting are heartily reciprocated and will be cherished forever. Many of 
 those around me have not always agreed with me touching political questions; 
 but it is pleasant, as I look into your faces, to recall that in all the years of 
 the past there has never been a moment when you have withheld from me 
 your friendship, encouragement and confidence. You have always been as 
 generous as loyal, and i.iy heart is full of gratitude to all of you. 
 
 "There is nothing, it seems to me, more gratifying, or more honorable, to 
 any man, than to have the regard of his fellow townsmen, and in this I feel 
 that I am and have always been peculiarly blessed. Never were n-eighbors 
 more devoted or unfaltering in their support to any one than you have been to 
 me. You have made my cause your cause, and my home among you has been 
 in consequence one of constant and ever increasing pleasure. This county and 
 city are very near and dear tome; here I have spent my life since early 
 manhood, so that I have been identified with this magnificent county for nov. 
 nearly a third of a century. I have followed its growth with the fondest pride 
 and noted with peculiar satisfaction that it has kept pace with the most- 
 advanced and prosperous communities. I am especially glad to greet you here 
 at the house whert' our married life began, and our children were born — and in 
 this feeling I know Jlrs. ISIcKinley heartily joins; our greatest joys and 
 deepest sorrows are ineffaceably connected with this home and city. You have 
 never failed to greet me with your best wishes and congratulations upon every 
 occasion of my nomination or election to a public office, commencing twenty 
 years ago, when I was first named by my party for Congress.. I can not under- 
 take to estimate the value of these many friendly demonstrations, so encourag- 
 ing, so helpful, so inspiring — far beyond what you could have anticipated 
 or believed at the time. Your call to-day, though not entirely unexpected, is 
 most highly appreciated, and I thank you from the heart for what you have 
 said, as expressive of the feelings of yourself, sir, and those for whom you 
 speak. This latest evidence of your esteem makes me moi-e indebted to you 
 than ever and the happy memory of your kindness and confidence will abide- 
 with me forever." 
 
ALLIANCE SECOND TO GREET Hin. 
 
 In forty-five minutes from the time Major McKinley's nomination was 
 assured by the deciding vote of tlie Ohio delegation in the St. Louis Conven- 
 tion, two thousand citizens of Alliance and Eastern Stark County, coming 
 twenty miles by special train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail- 
 road, stood at his door in Canton, and offered their heartiest congratulations, 
 through Hon. S. J. Williams, State Senator from this district. The run had 
 been made from Alliance in twenty minutes and ten full companies of citizens 
 and students from Mt. Union College were in line. Major McKixle y spoke 
 briefly in reply to the address of Mr. Williams, thanking the people for their 
 personal good will, but making no reference to politics. 
 
 HASSILLON AND AKRON. 
 
 The crowd had begun to disperse, but its attention was re-arrested by the 
 arrival of a monster delegation from MassiUon and Western Stark County, 
 which came by special train on the Interurban Electric Railway. Nineteen 
 cars were jammed with people, hundreds of whom were employes of Russell & 
 Co's great machine shops. Dozens could not get into the cars but clung to the 
 sides and tops of the coaches, despite danger and inconvenience. They reached 
 Canton at 7:15 and marched at once to Major McKinley's residence, where Mr. 
 E. A. JoxEs, of Cleveland, formerly Superintendent of the Massillon Public 
 Schools, made a speech of congratulation, "both on what he had done, and 
 what was deservedly in store for him, as the faithful friend and servant of the 
 people." To this Major McKinley responded that he was "deeply grateful, 
 for their words of encouragement and cheer, and that he was always glad to' 
 hear from and meet the laboring men of Massillon, and all his friends in that 
 city. I remember well," said he, "that when I was given my first public trust 
 (his nomination for Prosecuting Attorney) twenty-seven years ago, the 
 suggestion first came from Western Stark County, and I am proud of the 
 fact that since then you have given me your loyal and unswerving support 
 through the whole of my public career. I bid you all welcome, and good night." 
 
 By this time the Akron delegation was beginning to arrive. It reached 
 Canton at 7:40, via the Cleveland, Terminal and Valley Railroad, in four 
 special trains often coaches each. Fully four thousand men were in line, and 
 the scenes as they marched through the streets to the music of bands, and on 
 their arrival at the McKinley residence, were those of indescribable enthusiasm. 
 Capt. PaulE. Werner, a prominent German publisher of Akron and Chief 
 Marshal of the evening, spoke for the visitors from Summit County. He said: 
 
 "Major McKinley: These men come from the city of Akron. Among 
 them are hundreds of personal friends whom you have known for ma.iy years. 
 We consider you as one of our number. When your nomination was announced 
 in our city it required but an hour's notice for them to congregate at the 
 railroad station ; they left their workshops, their homes, their stores, their 
 offices, to hasten to congratulate you. I introduce, fellow-townsmen. Major 
 William McKinlijv, the nominee of the Republican National Convention, and 
 our next President of the United States." (Wild cheering and applause.) 
 
Major McKinley's Response. 
 
 The demonstration continued for several minutes, but when quiet was 
 somewhat restored, Major McKinley spoke as follows : 
 
 ''Capt. Werner and My Fellow Citizens: The crowd is so great that I 
 fear I will not be able to make myself heard. I only appear that T may thank 
 you for your gracious words and sentiments, as representing the citizens of 
 Akron and Summit County. Wo are not strangers, but neighbors for many, 
 many years past. More than once Summit County was part of the Congres- 
 sional district I had the honor to represent. I remember twelve years ago, that 
 I opened the campaign in Copley ; I recollect, too, that in 1893, 1 opened the cam- 
 paign in the State of Ohio, as the Republican candidate for Governor, in the city 
 of Akron, and I cannot but believe that it is a good omen to have Akron and 
 Summit County with us in any cause. I welcome you here to-night, and beg 
 to express my warm appreciation of your coming thus early to tender me 
 your congratulations. In this gi-eat audience are some of my old constituents 
 of the 18th Ohio District— the first district that I had the honor to represent 
 in Congress. Little Carroll, too, which I see is represented here, never failed 
 to roll up a splendid majority for me, no matter what other counties might do 
 for the Republican party and its cause. Indeed, this seems to be aspotaneous 
 reunion of my old Congressional district, and I bid you hearty welcome to my 
 home. You have long had my heart, and I thank you, and bid you good 
 night." 
 
 CARROLLTON, OSNABURG, MINERVA AND NILES 
 
 Meanwhile five coaches of passengers had arrived from Carrollton,. 
 Osnaburg, Minerva, and vicinity, after forty miles ride on a special train via 
 the Cleveland, Canton and Southern Railroad. It had left Carrollton, the county 
 seat of Carroll County, at 6:40 Thursday evening, and reached Canton two 
 hours later. About six hundred men were in line un:!or command of Capt. W. 
 F. Butler, recently sheriff of Carroll County. They marched at once to the 
 McKinley residence, where they were greeted pleasantly by Major and Mrs. 
 McKinley, whence they soon joined the rejoicing thousands who were marching 
 about the city in groups and companies, singing and shouting as they went. 
 The booming of artillery, the clanging of bells, and the shrieking of whistles had 
 gradually given way to the more melodious but no less boisterous shouts and 
 Bongs of the multitude. 
 
 A hundred citizens of Niles, Trumbull County, Ohio, the birthplace of 
 Major McKinley, sixty miles away, arrived by special train at ten o'clock, 
 Thursday night, and called to tender him their fervent congratulations. The 
 Major thanked the visitors and shook hands with all of them, as he had so 
 many thousands of others during the course of the afternoon and evening. He 
 was late in retiring, b^t hundreds of the happy throng continued to jollify all 
 night long. It is safe to say that he spoke to or greeted personally more 
 than 50,000 people, between nve o'clock and midnight. Never had Canton 
 known bo great a day in all her history. 
 
CANTON REPUBLICANS AT HOME AGAIN. 
 
 The announcement of the expected return of Canton's contingent at St.. 
 Louis, Friday afternoon, July 19th, was the signal for a renewal of the demon- 
 strations which had commenced Thursday evening and continued throughout 
 the night. The newly organized escort of the First Ward Kepublican Club was 
 first on the street, and the horsemen made a splendid appearance heading the 
 parades. With this addition the evening was almost a duplicate of Thursday 
 night. "Here they come; there is Canton !"— and the cheers which had been 
 held in reserve for the Canton people all afternoon broke forth in mighty 
 volume as the long column appeared in view. In a short time swarms of 
 men and women filled every available inch of ground in the McKinley yard. 
 Following closely upon the Canton people were delegations from Youngs- 
 town and Warren, in which were about five hundred people, and these com- 
 m-ingled with the immense throng. It had been arranged that Major 
 McKixLEY should address these delegations from the front veranda, but he 
 went to the north side of his house to better accommodate the combined dele- 
 gations. The Warren contingent, with many from Niles and Poland, were 
 headed by the Warren band. The visiting delegations represented the 
 industrial interests of the Mahoning A'alley, and visited Canton for the sole 
 purpose of congratulating Major McKinley and assuring him that their untir- 
 ing labors were pledged to a victorious result at the polls next November. 
 There was a large representation of the Giddings Republican Club of Warren, 
 and of the Republican Central Committee of Trumbull County. 
 
 Major McKinley's appearance with Hon. William R. Day, Judge George 
 E. Baldwin, and Congressman Robert W. Tayler was the signal for an out- 
 burst of cheers from thousands of throats that rivaled those of the previous 
 evening. After quiet had been obtained, Mr. C. A. Yates, of Massillon, 
 mounted the improvised platform and in a short address, presented Hon. 
 Robert W. Tayler, of Lisbon, Columbiana County, Major McKinley's 
 successor in the lower house of Congress, who said: "While we have not the 
 good fortune to be first to congratulate you on the honor the Republican 
 party has bestowed upon you, we rejoice to know we are the vanguard 
 of the returning host that witnessed the splendid demonstration whereby you 
 were nominated for President. The recollection of that scene will never 
 be effaced from our minds There we saw the Republican party place you 
 in nomination, and while it honored you it honored itself, and gave per- 
 manency to the wish that has been in the hearts of the American people 
 for many months. This delegation left Canton with rising hopes that have 
 been amply fulfilled. You are not only loved at home, but wherever the 
 American flag floats. Twenty years ago Stark C-^unty gave you to Congress, 
 four years ago she gave you to the State, and now she gives you to the Nation 
 which has been your constant care. We know that the constancy, honor and 
 patriotism which have distinguished you to this hour will characterize you 
 evermore. You are first in thei' hearts of your countrymen, not because you 
 are a Presidential nominee, but because as that nominee you so conspicuously 
 represent the great principle whose triumph is their chief concern as well 
 as yours. That you may receive every blessing that a life well spent can bring, 
 i9 the wish of those about me. 
 
Following Congressmen Tavlek, Mr. Yates presented Judge GeobgeE. 
 Baldwin, who spoke in behalf of Stark County. He said: 
 
 "Major McKiNLEY : Language fails me as I attempt to convey to you the 
 congratulations of those of your neighbors and friends who for over twenty 
 years have watched with interest your wonderful progress. On last Saturday 
 about three hundred of your neighbors and friends concluded they would go 
 to St. Louis, and they took with them their bag and baggage, determined to 
 remain there until you were nominated ; and of the wonderful influence they 
 had in bringingabout thisgreatresulc modesty forbids me to speak. (Laughter 
 and applause.) If you could have seen the great throngs of people that assem- 
 bled at the Union Depot in St. Louis on Sunday afternoon and have heard 
 their expressions, and could have seen the McKinley badges upon the coats of 
 four-fifths of the great crowd that gathered you would then have had an idea 
 of the intense interest the masses of the people have in you and in the 
 welfare of this country. On the day that the Convention assembled, if you 
 could have seen the thousands upon thousands of intelligent faces looking 
 toward the Great Convention that was to meet that day, anxious and eager that 
 some measure should be adopted and the man nominated that they believed 
 was most certain to bi-ing back prosperity to them, you would have been 
 inspired by the interest and great efforts of your party to bring about 
 those grand results, which, 1 am pleased to say, were fully accomplished. 
 I remember when you first came into public life ; many of us here were 
 present when you were nominated for Prosecuting Attorney, and well, 
 faithfully, boldly and honestly did you discharge your duties. By more than 
 twenty years of faithful, honest and able service you have endeared yourself to 
 all good people, not only of this vicinity, but the country at large. During 
 the time of your service in Congress prosperity perched upon the banners of 
 our people; the wheels of industry revolved, and the whistles of the 
 workshop told of the happy condition of the American laborer, whose toil was 
 everywhere sought and always remunerated by a good day's wages. But the 
 Democratic party was allowed to come into power. Then the scene changed — 
 the wheels of industry ceased to revolve, the hum of the spindle died out, the 
 whistle of the factory was soon silenced. The people began to ask that party 
 to fulfill its promises; they called aloud for work— even for bread, but the 
 echo was the only answer to their wailing cry. Then they looked again to the 
 Republican party and to the man who had always championed and so bravely 
 battled for protection, to bring back those industries and that prosperity. 
 They turned their faces to you, sir, the great people of this Nation arose in 
 their might and demanded you for their standard bearer, (Tremendous 
 cheering.) The Convention at St. Louis listened to their cry; they felt that 
 this is the year of the people— the people had spoken and the great party of 
 the people was bound to obey their behests. They yesterday placed you in 
 nomination as the leader of thegi*eatest party of the greatest nation upon the 
 face of the earth. Already we have some evidences of returning prosperity; 
 (cheers) the rising sun of prosperity has already thrown upon the lattice window 
 of hope his early smile and the wage earners begin to rejoice at the 
 prospect. As soon as this can be fully realized, they will flock to your 
 support, and when the old party is in power again, it will come to stay. 
 (Loud cheers.) They have selected you as their standard bearer, and regard- 
 less of party, faith or creed, they will rally and elect you as President of the 
 United States. (Vociferous cheering.) No man has ever stood as near the 
 hearts of the people, since the days of the matchless and immortal Lincoln, as 
 
you. We confide the care, the custody and the keeping of the Industries 
 of the people of this country and their prosperity to you. We believe you will 
 be elected by the greatest majority any President ever received, (continued 
 cheering), and that you will faithfully, honestly and ably conduct the affairs of 
 this great and glorious Nation until prosperity shall perch on its banners 
 ever more." (Loud and continuous applause. ) 
 
 The appearance of Judge William R. Day, of Canton, as he stepped upon 
 the platform, was the signal for another burst of cheers. His remarks were 
 most appropriate, eloquent and tender, and greatly affected all his hearers, 
 especially his esteemed friend, Major McKinlet, who was moved to tears by 
 them. He said: 
 
 "Major McKinley: I speak to you, not as the Governor of Ohio, or the 
 President of the United States — that surely you shall be, — but 1 claim the 
 great privilege on behalf of these, your old friends, of still addressing you as 
 'neighbor.' For we have not forgotten that in all these years of success, and 
 while your fame has spread to the uttermost corners of the civilized world, and 
 you now 'stand on fortune's crowning slope,' to us you have always been the 
 companion, the counselor, the guide, and familiar friend. Greater tribute 
 than this can no man bring. Those who know you best, love you most. To-day 
 we had a very pleasant surprise in a gift of these flowers from some ladies of 
 Eichmond to your most gracious and noble wife. (Cheers.) I am proud, sir, 
 that this representative lady, when she brought them in, said 'Governor 
 McKiNLEY is in the heart of every good mother and every good wife in all this 
 broad land (continued applause), and we send these flowers to his noble wife 
 as some slight expression of our appreciation of him and good will to her. 
 These flowers are typical of the purity of his life and character, as unsullied as 
 his honor, and as fragrant as his good name ' Major McKixley^ accept these 
 flowers for Mrs. McKixley, from the ladies of Richmond, Ind , with their best 
 wishes for her health and prosperity, and your continued success." (Applause.) 
 
 • Major McKinley's Response. 
 
 Major McKinley' was escorted to the stand amid deafening cheers, and 
 gave evidence of great emotion when he spoke, as follows: 
 
 "My' Fellow Citizens : How can I make fitting response to the splendid 
 tributes which have been paid me by my earliest friends ? I think I 
 might be excused by merely saying that I am inadequate to the task, and can 
 only express my gratitude by the silence due to a full and overflowing heart. 
 I have experienced many touching incidents in my life. Yesterday immediately 
 after the nomination I was surrounded by my neighbors and fellow citizens of 
 Canton, who did not go to St. Louis, and by friends from Alliance and Massillon, 
 and then came 4.000 more from Akron last night. With all these tokens, I was 
 deeply and profoundly impressed, but somehow the words spoken by these 
 gentlemen, and surrounded as I am by their associates who journeyed with 
 them to St. Louis — somehow they have touched me more deeply, sounded the 
 depths of my heart more surely, than anything that has gone before. In this 
 audience I see representatives from all of the counties which constitute the 
 Congressional district with which I have been associated ail my life. A large 
 number of my fellow citizens are here from Trumbull County, the place of 
 my birth. (Great applause.) A large number are here from Mahoning County 
 (cheers from Mahoning citizens), the place where I spent my boyhood, the 
 
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county where I received my education, and from which I enlisted in the war for 
 the preservation of the Union, away back in 1861. (Loud and continuous 
 cheering.) And then around me are the later friends, for from Mahoning 
 County I came toSta^k, nearly thirty years ago. You have allbeen my friends 
 ever since; I am proud to include among my immediate friends not only the 
 good people of Stark, Mahoning and Trumbull, but all the grand old "Western 
 lieserve, which was so long represented in the National Congress by Giddixgs 
 and "Wade, and the gifted and immortal Garfield. (Applause.) And now, my 
 friends and fellow citizens, I know that you will excuse me — I want only to 
 add, in terms of sincere affection, that I thank each and every one of you from 
 my heart for these manifestations of your friendship, devotion and loyalty 
 and as you seem to have brought back what you went for, those whom you left 
 behind want me to say that they are glad to see you home again." 
 
 GREETINGS FROJl THE EMPIRE STATE. 
 
 The McKinley League of the State of New York arrived from St. Louis 
 via the Pennsylvania lines, at Coshocton, Ohio, on Friday, June 19th, and came 
 to Canton that evening on a special train over the C, C. andS. R. E. They 
 chose Hon. John E. Miluolland, of the New York Tribune, as spokesman and 
 marched at once to the McKinley residence, where Mr. Milhollaxd climbed 
 on a chair and presented to Major McKinley the friends before him. Hon. 
 W.-vRXER Miller, of Herkimer, was first introduced, and spoke as follows : 
 
 "Ladies and Gentlemen: "We thought it proper on our way home from 
 the St. Louis Convention to call here and pay our respects to the man who had 
 been honored by the Republican party, he who is your fellow townsman and 
 neighbor. It has been my privilege to know Major McKinley for nearly 
 twenty years and it affords me great pleasure to assure him on behalf of the 
 Republicans of New York that we shall give to him and to the principles he 
 represents, the largest majority in November that has ever been given to any 
 Presidential candidate since the organization of the Government. (Loud 
 cheers.) The Republicans of New York will be second to none in the whole 
 country in their loyalty to the party, and in their efforts and labors for 
 its success. We have but a moment to spend here and therefore I do not wish 
 to take up your time in making a speech. I came hei-e simply to take the 
 hand of Major McKinley and to assure him of the affection and love of the 
 people ot New York. And now, gentleman of the McKinley League of the 
 Empire State, it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you Major 
 William McKinley,. the next President of the United States." (Applause.) 
 
 riajor ricKinley's Response. 
 
 When comparative silence had been restored. Major McKinlk^ ,ii: 
 
 "My Fellow Citizens of New York : It gives me very gr pleasure to 
 meet and greet you here at my home today. It was most gracii, ..a on your part 
 to pause in your journey to the East long enough to give me the pleasure 
 of meeting you face to face ; and nothing could have been more agree- 
 able to me than to be presented to the members of the McKinley League of 
 the State of New York, by my old friend, long a member of the House of Rep- 
 
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resentatives, and Senator at Washington — Hon. "Warner Miller. (Long ap- 
 plause. ) I am always glad to meet and greet him. All we have to do this year, my 
 fellow citizens, is to keep close to the people. (Loud cheering.) To hearken 
 to the voice of the people and have faith in the people, and if we do that the 
 people will win for us a triumph for the great principles which in all the years 
 of the past have given us pleaty and prosperity. " (Great cheering. ) 
 
 When the Major stopped speaking, Mr. Milholland again mounted a chair 
 and introduced Hon. Geokge E. Matthews, of Buffalo, President of the 
 New York McKinley League. Mr. Matthews' voice was exceedingly hoarse ; 
 he explained the circumstance by saying that it had become so by shouting 
 for McKixLEY, and assured the Major that his voice would be restored in 
 time to make speeches in his behalf and shout again when the victory was won 
 next November. At the conclusion of the speeches, Mr. Milhollaxd exhibited 
 the famous "Ferris Wheel Petition," which consisted of five and three-fourth 
 miles of paper, and contained the signatures of 247,000 people of the State of 
 New York asking for the nomination of William McKinley for President. Mrs. 
 McKinley and Mother McKinley joined the Major and an impi-omptu reception 
 was held at the front door of the residence, during which many of the New 
 Yorkers were received by the family. A pleasing incident of this reception 
 was the presentation of a handsome badge to Mrs. McKinley, on behalf of the 
 women of New York, who extended their heartfelt congratulations. Mrs. 
 McKinley received the souvenir with a smile and gi-aceful bow, expressive 
 alike of her own pleasure and the thanks of herself a-nd family. 
 
 A DELEGATION OF COLORED CALLERS 
 
 In company with the New York Republican League, which called upon 
 Major McKinley, June 19th, was a delegation representing the Colored Republi- 
 can League of New York State. They were cordially received by him, and a 
 congratulatory address in writing was presented by Rev Dr. Ernest Lyon, 
 Pastor of St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church, of New York City, and 
 President of the Preachers' Alliance. In behalf of the colored Republicans, Dr. 
 Lyon said : 
 
 "To the Hon. William McKinley: We are here as a body of colored 
 American citizens, representing various organizations in the Empire State. 
 AVe have come with our fellow citizens to congratulate you on your nomination 
 as the standard bearer of the grand old Republican party, and to assure you 
 that we shall return to our respective homes to labor zealously for the success 
 of the ticket nominated by the representatives of the people in convention 
 assembled at St. Louis." 
 
 Signed on behalf of the Ministei-ial Alliance, Ernest Lyon, (D. D. ) President ; 
 Alfred C. Cowan, President Colored Republican Association of New York ; 
 Edward E. Leb, Assistant 8ergeant-at-Arms at the Republican Convention, 
 St. Louis, J. H. SiMMS, Editor and Publisher of the New York Central Echo, 
 and President of the Henry Highland Garrett Republican Club, New York 
 City; A.M. Thomas, attorney-at-law, Buffalo, N. Y. ; Samiel Morgan, Presi- 
 dent Colored Republican County Chib of New York City; Alfred J. Scott, of 
 the Eleventh Assembly District, and J. A. Smith, of the Twenty-fifth Assem- 
 bly District 
 
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MORE NEW YORK HEN. 
 
 Tiie vifii K) Ma Jul- McKixLEY of the New York State McKinley League on 
 Fi-idaj' evening, was followed Saturday morning, June 20tli, by that of another 
 ilistinguislied party from tlie metropolis, en route home from St. Louis, at 8:12 
 o'clock, via the Ft. "Wayne railroad. The party was composed of the following 
 Ijentlemen: Hon. Corxklus N. Bliss, President American Protective Tariff 
 League; General IIoKAt'E Portkr, President Union League, Kew York Citj'; 
 General AxsuN G. McCook, Cliamberlain, New York City; General Chaklks 
 II. T. CoLLis, Commissioner of Public Works; Colonel S. V. R. Ceuger, Pres- 
 ident of the Park Commission ; Frank D. Pavey, ex-State Senator; Richakd J. 
 Lr.wis, and Pobeet Miller, ex-members of the New York Assembly; Hon. 
 AVillia.m Brookfif.ld and Axdrew Jacobs, members New York State Com- 
 mittee; and Messrs. Hexry C. Eobixsox, "William S. Bragg, Thomas F. 
 Eauax, Bkxjamix Oppexheimer, "William Hexckel, John G. Graham, Axdrew 
 P. Dedi, Thomas Hi'mphery, J. E. McMillex, Moxtague Leslie, J. F. Mc- 
 GowAX and Lloyd Collis. Hox. James R. Garfield, of ^Mentor, the Republican 
 leadi'r of the Ohio State Senate, also accompanied tlie party. They were 
 cordially ri'Ceived by Major and Mrs. McKinley, and a number of the party 
 called on Mother McKixley at her home on AVest Tuscarawas street, before the 
 departure of their train at 1:21 that afternoon. 
 
 GREETINGS FROfl THE TIN WORKERS OF NILE5. 
 
 Saturday, June 20Lh, was a day of tin buckets, banners, canes, whistles 
 and horns — aiid speeches. Tlie operatives of the tin plate industries of Niles, 
 Ohi(j, paid tjnir respects to the statesman whom they pronounce their gi-eatest 
 friend and clianipion. Tlie visitors were decorated with the badges of the Niles 
 McKinley League and tin souvenirs ; they carried tin canes, with medalions 
 of MeKixLEYas heads. The party was composed cliiefly of the operatives of the 
 FalcTm Tin Phite Factory, which has been in operation ever gjince the enact- 
 ment of the McKinley Law gave proper jn'otection to this industry. They bore 
 two large streamers, or sheets of tin, like banners, nearly as long as tlie line of 
 paraders, on one of which was the inscription, "From Niles to the Wliite House," 
 and on the other, "Who Made the Niles Tin Mill? The McKinley Bill, Of 
 Course." All along the line of march the cheering by both paraders and 
 spectators was most vociferous. The Niles men have a yell which is peculiar to 
 themselves. It is, 'Rah, Rah, Right." "Who's all right?" ":McKinley's all 
 i-iglit." "Where was he born? N-I-L-E-S" 1 Tliis was repeated frequently. 
 Apt, as it may seem, Niles, the birthplace of Major McKixley, is the location of 
 large tin phite industries. Mr. Joseph Smitu, chairman of tlie meeting, pre- 
 sented Col. William H. Smiley, as Major McKixley appeared on the veranda of 
 his residenci^, who said : 
 
 "Major 3i(Kixli:v: T liave the pleasure of introducing to you some 
 hundreds of ti:e citiztMis of your native town of Niles. Among tliem is a 
 very large number of the employes of our town. We realize that what we 
 have been, what "vve are, and what we hoi)e to be, is largely due to 
 tliat wliich is now called Protection, but that sometimes has been called 
 'McKinleyism.' (Cheers.) AVe realize n»)t only what you have done 
 for us, but what it has cost you to do it. We know what it must have cost a 
 
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man in the Fifty-first Congress, which gave us our tin mill. (Loud unc 
 Tociferous cheering.) AVe know that you would have sacrificed every interest 
 and given your life to your country, and to us, and if there is anytliing we can 
 do for you we want to do it. In 1891 the candidate for Governor who opposed 
 you, stood on the platform of a car in our town and said to the citizens of 
 Niles: 'No man will ever live to see tin made in Niles,' (at this moment a 
 tremendous rattling of the tin banners carried by the Niles delegation was 
 heard) bat that is only one of the many mistakes our adversaries have made. 
 Every Eepublican President, and every man who has led the Republican party to 
 victory since the days of Lixcolx, was (perhaps, strangely enougli,) born in 
 Ohio, Major McKixley will be tlie fifth and when there will add to the glory 
 of being born in Ohio — and especially of having been born in Kiles. (Loud 
 cheering.) What can the Nation do except to do as that Convention did, and 
 elect him unanimously ? Gentlemen , I now introduce you to Major McKixley. "^ 
 (Three rousing cheers were given him.) 
 
 riajor ricKinley's Response. 
 
 The Major stepped upon a chair and bowed his acknowledgements for 
 the great api)lause that greeted him. He recognized among the hundreds of tlie 
 citizens of his birthplace, and tlie thousands of others crowding into tlie yard, 
 the face of an old friend of his boyhood days, and did not forget it. He said: 
 
 "Mr. Smiley, axd My Fellow Citizexs: I am very glad indeed to meet 
 so many citizens of my native town. I do not find many of the faces tliat I 
 used to know in my boyhood in this audience, but I think I have been uOie tt) see 
 one that I remember to have seen in the village of Niles when I was a boy, and 
 that is Henry Masox's. I recollect him as tlie merchant of the town, and as I 
 look into his face to-day, I remember tjiat he was kind to every boy — and I like 
 a man who is kind to boys — (loud cheering) — and am especially pleased to meet 
 him here again, after a lapse of forty years, in my home at Canton. I am glad 
 to meet and greet so many of the workingmen of the thriving little city of 
 Niles, I am glad to have demonstrated in my native town that we can make 
 tin plate in the TJnitedStates,andinreply to what your si^okesman has been kind 
 enough to say of my efforts in that connection, I answer that if I have been 
 associated with any legislation that has given to a single American working- 
 man a day's work at American wages which he did not receive before, that is 
 honor enough for me. (Loud and continuous aijplause.) "What we want in thi* 
 country is a policy that will give to every American workingman full work at 
 American wages. A policy that will put enough money into the Treasury of 
 the United States to run the Government. A policy tliat will bring back to us 
 such a period of prosperity and of plenty as that we enjoyed for more tlian 
 thirty years prior to 1893, I am glad to welcome you all to my home; it i& 
 especially pleasant to have tlie men from my boyliood town and the place of my 
 birth gather around me as they have to-day, and I reciprocate most warmly 
 all the kind sentiments that liave been so generously spoken in your behalf by 
 your Chairman, I wish for old Niles prosperity in every workshop and factory, 
 and in every home, love, contentmnnt and happiness. I thank you, and bid you 
 good afternoon." (Tlu'ee prolonged cheers for Major McK^^'LEY were agaia 
 given.) 
 
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WORKINQnEN FROM WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA. 
 
 A delegation of vvorkingmen from "Wheejing, AVest Virginia, took up the 
 I'elebration, Stiturdiiy afternoon, June 20th, where the !Niles tin workers left 
 off, and right royally did they sajute Major ^McKixley. Fully fifteen hundred 
 cnrluisiastic, shouting AVhoeling workingnien appeared at ]Major McKixley's 
 home shortly after live o'clock. The party came in two delegations, tiie first 
 being about six hundred workingmen employed at the La Belle Iron, Steel and 
 Tin Works. The second and larger section arrived about an hour later. In 
 the La Belle delegation were many tin badges and baimers, on which were the 
 woi-ds "1896. La Belle Iron, Steel and Tin Works." One of these banners was 
 presented to Major MoKixley by the w'orkingmen, and when he appeared on his 
 doorstep three hearty cheers were given for him. Hon. William C. Ci'rtis, a 
 member of the AVest A'irginia House of Delegates, stepped forwai-d and 
 congratulated Major McKixley, as follows : 
 
 "Air. Presidext: If there has ever been a nominee of any political party 
 in the history of this country that had a cinch upon that title, you are certainly 
 the man, and as Air. President I hail you in advance. I have the honor and 
 tlie i)leasure of introducing to you this delegation of iron, steel and tin plate 
 workers of the La Belle Alills of AVheeling, AV. Ya. (Cheers.) In this delega- 
 tion we have the president of the mill, the directors, the inanagers and the 
 workingmen. (Applause.) We have come, irrespective of party affiliation, 
 to do honor to the man ' by whose instrumentality it M'as made possi- 
 ble for that mill to manufacture tin plate. Under the bright influence 
 of that law over $100,000 has been expended on the mill, giving it a capacity to 
 turn out thirty tons of tin plate per day. (Loud applause.) Notwithstanding 
 the fact that the enemies of protection told us that we could not manufacture 
 tin plate in this country, yet within four years' time nearly two hundred tin 
 mills liave been established with a capital of $9,000,000, employing 12,000 hands, 
 and paying them as wages $8,000,000 per year. Permit me, in conclusion, to 
 present you witli this banner made of Alclvinley tin at the La Belle Alills, and 
 I want to say that I am instructed to pledge to you the enthusiastic sujiport of 
 this delegation from now until the sun sets on the evening of November third, 
 next." (Loud applause.) 
 
 Major McKinley's Response. 
 
 AVhen the cheering had subsided, Alajor AIcKxxley replied: 
 "Air. Curtis axd AVokkixg.men op AViieelixg: I beg to thank this 
 great assembly for the generous messjige of good will and cungratu- 
 lalions which you have brought me from the Little Mountain Slate. 
 Tliere is no tribute greater, there is no tribute tiiat should be dearer to any 
 man, than to have it said, as you have been kind enough to say to me, that he 
 had contributed in the smallest degree to the establishment of an industry 
 new in the United States, which gave additional employment to American 
 labor and brought greater comfort to American homes. I shall long cherish, my 
 fellow citizens, these kindly woi-ds, and this demonstration v\'hich comes from 
 the workingmen of AVheeling, irrespective of party. I can not misunderstand 
 — nobody can misunderstand — the meaning of these demonstrations on the 
 part of the workingmen. Those who have come here this afternoon, and those 
 
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who were here this morning, have made tlieir purpose phiin and distinct. 
 They mean just one thing; and that is: That in the mind of every American 
 workingnian is the thought tliat this great American doctrine of protection is 
 associated with wages and work, and linked with home, family, country, and 
 prosperity. That, my fellow citizens, is what all these great manifestations 
 signify. They mean that the people of this country want an industrial policy 
 that is for America and Americans. (Loud and continuous applause.) They 
 mean that they intend to return to that policy which lies at the foundation 
 of our ]S;ational prosperity, which is the safest prop to the Jvational Treasury, 
 and the bulwark of our industrial independence and financial honor. I thank 
 you, workingmen of "Wheeling, for tliis friendly call. I thank you heartily for 
 the kind words you have spoken ; I wish you all a safe return home, and I wish 
 for you, and my countrymen everywhere, a speedy return to the happier and 
 better days we used to have." (Great cheering.) 
 
 Tln-ee-quarters of an hour after the LaBelle delegation had arrived, the 
 -second section reached the McKinley residence. It was composed of citizens 
 of Wheeling and members of the Ohio County E'epublican Club, wlio created 
 gi-eat enthusiasm by their fine appearance. Capt. B. B. Dovexer, Member of 
 Congi-ess from tlie Wheeling district, spoke for the visitors as follows : 
 
 "Major McKtxley: I have an honor that I appreciate as the spokesman of 
 a Club tliiit represents true Republicanism in our State, a Republican- 
 ism that has come up through gi-eat tribulation to fight the battles of freedom 
 and tlie principles of the Republican party. To-day is the anniversary of the 
 birth of West Virginia. I made your acquaintance amid the mountains of our 
 State when we were struggling for the second baptism of liberty and independ- 
 ence in this country. Since that time, thirty-three years ago, we have placed 
 the star representing our State in the firmament of the Union, as bright, Ave 
 believe, r.: --y that decorates the blue field of our country. These people here 
 are mountaineers of West Virginia, whose Republicanism is as grand as their 
 hills. We bring to you on behalf of the loyal Republicans of our State, from 
 the mountains and the valleys, a glad greeting of congi-atulation, and know 
 that we shall see you elected President of the United States of America." 
 (Loud cheers.) 
 
 Major McKinlcy's Response. 
 
 "Capt. Dovexer axd My Fellow Citizexs of Wheelixg: I have been visit- 
 ing Wheeling for a good many years, and I am glad to have you at last return 
 my frequent calls. (Laughter and applause.) Upon every occasion that I 
 have visited your city and State it was to carry the banner of the Republican 
 party and speak for its immortal principles. I remember having gone 
 tlu-ough the State in 1894, when the Little Mountain State was transferred 
 from the ranks of our opponents to the columns of the Republican party. 
 (Applause.) I have not seen you since, and therefore take this occasion to 
 congi-atulate you upon that splendid victory. You put four Republican 
 Representatives in the National House at Washington, and sent that states- 
 man, Stehhex B. Elkixs, to the Senate (loud cheers) and thus added five more 
 votes to the Republican strength in the great parliamentary bodies of the 
 country. Am I not right in saying, my fellow citizens, that you have come to 
 stay with us? (Loud cries of 'Yes.') Tluit's what you did two years ago, and 
 you mean to keep on aoing so, I confidently believe, until the great Republican 
 
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party shall he hrouglit hack into powor in ovory hraneh of the Federal Govern 
 nient, and until we have returned to that glorious prosi)erity from which w«r- 
 ran away about four years ago. (Laughter and apj^lause.) I recall with 
 feelings of emotion the reference made by your Congro'^sman, and my friend, 
 Captain Dovexer, to our first meeting over in the Kanawha Yalley. "We were 
 then in the midst of war; the Southern States, or some of them, were in active 
 rebellion against the Federal Union. Thirty-three years have gone by; the 
 war is long since over, and its glories now belong to the vanquished as well 
 as victors. The settlement sealed at Appomattox is the common heritage of 
 all Americans, and to-day we only know the North and South as geographical 
 divisions. We are all one in devotion to the Union and the flag, and one in 
 striving to make the Nation more glorious than ever before. ( Cheers. ) 3 
 thank you for this call and will be glad to take by the hand each and every one 
 of you. (Applause.) 
 
 AVhen Major McKixley concluded one of the members of the delegation 
 pi'esented a huge bouquet of roses to Mrs. McKixley from the Ohio County lie- 
 publican Club of "Wheeling, He accepted the gift in behalf of Mrs. McKix- 
 ley, with a bow of thanks. The entire delegation then filed past and shook 
 hands with much pleasure and hilarity on part of the enthusiastic Virginia 
 Republicans. 
 
 ZANESVILLE SENDS A LARGE DELEGATION, 
 
 The demonstrations in honor of Major McKixley were resumed Monday 
 afternoon, June 22nd, and by evening were in full force and as joyous as ever. 
 An immense delegation from Zanesville and Dresden arrived over the C, C. and 
 S. Railway at seven o'clock, filling ten coaches. They pi'oceeded at once to 
 Major McKtxley's residence; here Hon. Hexry C. Van Voriiis, Member of 
 Congress from the Zanesville district, spoke foi- the visitors, as follows: 
 
 "Major McKixley: The people of JVIuskingum County, the Boys in Blue, 
 the Foraker Club, the McKinley Club, the Young INIen's McKinley Club and 
 tlie Dresden Rei>ubliean Club are here to congratulate you and the country 
 upon your nomination for the highest office witliin tlie gift of the Ajuerican 
 people. "We congratulate you and i-ejoice with the people of this Nation upon 
 your nominati(m, because we are assured that it will bring to and end great 
 commercial and industrial depression, and insure protection to our industries, 
 and maintain the honor of our Government. I have the honor, fellow citizens, 
 and it is a great pleasure as well, to introduce to you, the visiting delegations 
 from Muskingum County — Major "William MoKixley, the next President of 
 tiie United States." (Long continued api)lause.) 
 
 flajor McKinley's Response. 
 
 "When the applause had subsided. Major McKixley said: 
 "Mr. Va.n Voriiis axd My Fellow Citizens ok Miskingu:^! Couxty: It 
 appears to me that I have heaixl tliose voices before. (A voice, * Tlial's right. 
 Laughter and apjilanse.) I am very glad to mei-t my fellow citizens of Muskin 
 gum County. I have many times been greeted by great audiences in tlie city of 
 Zanesville, but this is the first oi)portunity I have had to welcome you to my 
 o vn home. I give you warm and cordial greeting. We have had some 
 
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experience in the last three years and a half. Experience has superceded 
 ])rophecy, and cold facts take the place of prediction. AVe all know more than 
 we knew then, and are ready and anxious to get back a period like that of 1892, 
 when this country was enjoying itshighest prosperity with the greatest domestic 
 trade it ever had, and tlie largest f(-)reign trade ever known with tlie nations of 
 the world. (Applause.) We want to get back the old policy, my fellow 
 citizens, which will give to labor work and wages, and to agi-iculture a home 
 market and the good foreign market which was opened up by the reciprocity 
 legislation of the Republican party. We have come to appreciate that protect- 
 ive tariffs are better than idleness, and tliat wise tariff legislation is more 
 business like than debts and deficiencies, and to feel that the sooner we change 
 the policy which increases the debts of the Government to that of paying as we 
 go, the sooner we will reach individual and National prosperity. And, my 
 countrymen, there is another thing the people are determined upon, and that 
 is that a full day's work must be paid in full dollars. (Cries of 'Good' and 
 loud cheers.) I thank Congressman Vax Yokiiis, and through him all the Clubs 
 of every name, for they are all Republicans tliis year, (Laughter and shouting), 
 for this cordial visit and promise of support. I will be glad to meet each of 
 you personally and grasp you by the hand." (Tremendous cheers.) 
 
 THE CALL OF THE HICHIQAN REPUBLICAN EDITORS. 
 
 The Michigan Republican Editorial Association, comprising the editors 
 and proprietors of the leading daily and weekly jiapers in that State, arrived in 
 Canton on the 1:05 o'clock C, C. & S. train, Wednesday afternoon, June 2-lth. 
 They came direct from Jackson, Michigan, where they were in session all day 
 Tuesday. While in convention assembled they adopted a resolution by a 
 unanimous vote endorsing the Republican National platform and the 
 nomination of William McKinley for President. It was then decided to 
 take a trip to Canton and meet the Nation's choice for President, personally. 
 They left Detroit at eleven o'clock by boat to Cleveland, thence to Canton in a 
 special C.,C. and S. coach. The party included President F. R. Gilsox and 
 wife, editor of the Benton Harbor Palladium ; Secretary W. R. Cook and wife; 
 editor Hastings Banner; Treasurer Mrs. T. S. Applegate, editor of the Adrian 
 Times and Expositor; L. A. Sherman and wife, of the Port Huron Times ; L. 
 E. Slusser, Marcellus Herald; E. B. Dana, Muskegon Chronicle; AV. E. Holt, 
 Bellevue Gazette ; Don Henderson, Allegan Journal; C. C. Swenberg, Grand 
 Rapids Herald; E. J. March, Hillsdale Leader; A. L. Bemis, Carson City 
 Gazette ; E. O. Dewey and wife, Owasso Times ; C. L. Brecon, Grand 
 Haven Daily News ; J. C. Jones and F. Ward, Hillsdale Standard ; C. S. Brown, 
 Banner Publi.shing Co., Hastings; George Barnes, Livingston County 
 Republican, Howell; J. H. Kidd and wife, Daily Sentinel, lona ; James 
 O'DoNNELL, editor of the Daily Citizen, Jackson; L. Merchant, of the 
 St. Joseph Herald; W. J. Hunsaker, manager of the Detroit Journal; 
 E. L. Bates, Pentwater News ; L. P. Bissell, Eaton Country Republican ; 
 Fred Slocum and wife, Tuscola County Advertiser, Cairo; C. J. Moore 
 and wife, of the Battle Creek Daily Journal; B. J. Loavrey, editor 
 Howard City Record ; L. M. Sellers, Cedar Springs Clipper; George E. Gil- 
 liam, Hornsville Recoi-d; George Dewey, Jr., Owosso Times; Roy Gilso:\ 
 Benton Harbor, H. G. Barnum and wife, and E. G. Spalding and wife Pox- 
 Huron Publishing Co. ; C. A. Baxter, of Detroit, ilember of the Nation^i 
 
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Committee of the Republican Leagne, and ^y. H. Sweet, of Yijsilanti. 
 The visitors were conducted to the iMcKinley residence and personally 
 received by Major and Mrs. McKixley. On behalf of the visitors, ex-Congress- 
 uiiiii O'DoxNEL introduced President Gilsox, who said: 
 
 "jMa jor McKixley : We have come to your home to add our voices to tlie great 
 chorus of congratulations that come to you from all over the Nation. We 
 come from Michigan, a State that has vast agi'icultural and commercial inter- 
 ests, all to be benefitted through your influence — a State now solidly Repub- 
 lican. We come from a profession which has done much in the past to educate 
 the people along the line of material development, that is devoted to the 
 American flag, the American farm, the American factory, and the American 
 fireside. We ow e much to you as business men and business women. The 
 largest cities in our State are represented here — Detroit and Grand Rapids — 
 as well as a number of the larger towns. We came so soon after the nomina- 
 tion ihat we had not time to gather in our hosts, so that our party is but a small 
 part oi what it would otherwise have been." 
 
 flajor ricKinley's Response. 
 
 "Mr. GiLsox AXD Ladies axd Gextlemex: I count it a very great honor, as 
 well as a very great pleasure, to receive this visit from the Republican editors 
 of the State of JMichigan. I have noted for many years the ability of the press 
 of your State, I have noted that the Republican press of Michigan has never fal- 
 tered in its loyalty to Republican principles, but under all circumstances has 
 been faithful to the Republican cause. Nor have I permitted to pass unobseiwed 
 the very friendly personal spirit which has been shown me "or long years by the 
 Republican editors of your State; during the discussions preceding the 
 Republican National Convention, your partiality was so strongly marked, and 
 so generous, that I can not now forbear to thank you. When your great State, 
 through its representatives at St. Louis spoke, it spoke unitedly, showing that 
 the Republican press and the people of Michigan this year were of one mind. 
 The power which you, ladies and gentlemen, exercise on the destinies of the 
 country can not be over estimated. You not only register public opinion, 
 but you have much to do with making and influencing public opinion, 
 and in a government like ours, where public opinion lies at the foundation, 
 and is supreme to government, the press is, indeed, mighty in its power. A 
 partisan press, too, is indispensable in a government like ours. As long as 
 we have parties we must have party newspapers, and it is very gratifying to 
 me to know that to-day the Republican party never had such strength and 
 support as it is receiving from the press of the United States. Its aims, its 
 purposes, and its principles are nearer and dearer to Republicans than 
 ever before, and I believe that they are nearer and dearer to the great masses 
 of our countrymen, considered independent of past party affiliations, than they 
 have ever been in the past, and that those principles never so well deserved 
 the support of the press as now. (Applause.) In this great National contest 
 you will have very much to do with the result, and I am sure the editors of 
 the State of Michigan, the Republican editors, can be counted upon to give 
 to those great principles of our party that so closely affect the prosperity of 
 the country their best efforts this year, as they have ever done in the years of 
 the past. It has given both Mrs. McKixley and myself genuine pleasure to 
 have you in our home. We bid you all welcome." (Applause.) 
 
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A UNIQUE AND ELEGANT HOHE RECEPTION. 
 
 The women of Canton, prompted by their great esteem for Major and Mrs. 
 McKixLEY, gave them an unique and elegant reception at the Jacob Miller 
 homestead, AVest Tuscarawas Street, on Friday afternoon, June 26th. It had 
 long been unoccupied but the good women of Canton had most beautifully 
 refurnished and decorated it, in honor of the occasion. Here gathered several 
 thousands of the women of Canton and Stark County to testify their respect 
 and reverence for Major and Mrs. McKinley, and his venerable mother, Mrs. 
 William McKixley, Sr. They crowded the Miller homestead, and the spacious 
 grounds surrounding it ; the reception began at 3 :00 o'clock, and for the next 
 two hours thousands of women paid their respects to their distinguished guests 
 of honor. At the conclusion of the reception, Mrs. Alice D. Joxes, of Canton, 
 spoke for the assembled tliousands: 
 
 "Mother axd Wife of William McKixley: You know the import of this 
 meeting. We, the women of Canton and Stark County, would show honor to 
 the two women nearest and dearest to the man to whom not only Canton but 
 the entire Nation is paying homage. He is bound to you by ties even closer 
 than tliose 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 House had its beginning within the doorway of 
 the little frame house in Niles. There tlie wisdom of a father and the loving 
 guidance of a mother, laid the fovmdation of the young boy's life, the justice, 
 the sagacity, and the charity of which characterize the statesman of to- 
 day. Ah, Mother, the little hands you guided then have been growing 
 sti'onger as your own have grown more feeble ! Life's discipline of calm and 
 storm has left its marks upon your boy's face, but the necessary lessons and 
 songs are still remembered, and the touch of your aged hands upon them 
 to-day is a motive power lor good, so pure, so limitless in its reach, that only 
 balances unseen can estimate its worth. Mrs. McKinley, over twenty-five 
 years ago you propliesied Canton's future pride in Canton's young attorney. 
 You plighted to him your girlish faith and within the old Presbyterian cliurch 
 you linked your life with his. Canton has been proud of him for many years, 
 and Canton has been proud of you. Governor McKixley' s every act to-day 
 bears upon it the stamp of his association with a refined, exalted womanhood. 
 So purely womanly is you wifely devotion, so in sympathy with his every 
 interest has yopr life always been, that were you not a part of it to-day we 
 believe like Lafayette, he would exclaim, in the bitterness of his heart, "She 
 was so one with me, that life seems robbed of half its power without her!" 
 Proud as we are of our statesman, we boast in wife's and mother's part in giving 
 to us one in whom we can all safely trust. Women sucli as you have given our 
 Kation in the past her noblest bravest sons. Joiix Quincy Adajis owed his 
 greatness to his mother ; Wasiiixgtox consulted his mother ; Lucy Webb Hayes 
 was her husband's truest helper ; Jackson deferred to the opinions of his idolized 
 wife ; and the name of Ida Saxtox McKixley will ever be associated with 
 the fame of her illustrious husband. Fourteen years ago on the Sunday 
 following his nomination, James A. Garfield walked into the old home 
 church, bearing on his arm his aged mother, and on last Sabbath morning 
 into the church of his early faith walked our future President, and with 
 him walked his mother. With home ancliorage such as this, we women 
 have no fears that under the coming Admistration liearth-fires will burn 
 dimmer or counting-rooms be closed. Men may deal with questions of tariff 
 
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and finance and political policy; we women believe the importance of pure 
 living is higher than all and are satisfied that if you are called to preside over 
 the destinies of the Nation, we shall have a man at the head with a character 
 so pure and a record so untarnished that any mother here to-day would feel 
 proud to know that the footsteps of their little boys were parallel with his. 
 Major and Mrs. McKixley, in giving you to the Nation, we do not feel 
 that we are losing you. Too many ties, sacred and tender, will bring you 
 back to Canton. There are pleasant friendships here, thei-e are deeper loves, 
 there are homes on 3Iarket and "West Tuscarawas, and, out in Westlawn, there 
 are tiny graves, and larger ones, which will ever make Canton a ]\Iecca for your 
 returning feet. In this your hour of triumph, and ours of pride, when to you 
 and yours we extend the congratulations of your townswomen we can not 
 refrain from paying tribute to one, who, bearing also the name of McKixley, 
 will be remembered in Canton as long as those who came in contact with her 
 have the powers of memory. Axxa McKixley possessed that latent power, 
 that force of character, that winning charm and gracious tact, which made her 
 queenly among women, and which, had she been a man, would have made her 
 second, not even to her honored brother, William McKixley. No richer 
 benison can we ask for you, than where, with wider reach, perchance than hers, 
 your hands may guide and govern." (Applause.) 
 
 riajor ricKinley's Response. 
 
 Fully 6,000 of the women of Canton and Stark County took part in this 
 memorable reception, ilajor McKixley thanked the great assemblage for the 
 honor done his wife and mother, but did not continue his remarks beyond 
 a brief acknowledgment. He said : 
 
 "Mrs. Joxes and "NVomex op Caxtox: I am sure that both my wife and 
 mother would have me express their warm appreciation of the gracious woi"ds 
 you have spoken, and I assure you that no honor can ever come to me that I 
 wiU esteem more highly than this loving tribute that you have paid to tjiose 
 who are so near and dear to me. In a single word I wish to add tliat I feel 
 no higlier commendation can be paid to any man than to have the approval of 
 the good women, mothers, wives, sisters, friends, of the city in which he lives. 
 It Mill give my wife and mother both the greatest pleasure to meet you all 
 personally. Again, I thank you." (Applause.) 
 
 NORWALK AND HURON COUNTY. 
 
 The Young Men's Republican Club, tlie Huron County Republican Com- 
 mittee and other citizens of Norwalk, Ohio, arrived in Canton at seven o'clock 
 Friday evening, June 26th, to extend their congratulations and proffer their 
 support to IMajor McKixley. The delegation came via the Wheeling and Lake 
 Erie Railroad to !Massillon and thence to Canton on the Interurban Electric 
 Railway, a journey of about one hundred miles. It was headed by tlie A. B. 
 Chase Band and accompanied by a Colored Glee Club. Judge Tiiom.\s called 
 the visitors to oixler, and in a few remarks introduced Hon. Lewis C. Laylix, 
 ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives, who said : 
 
 "Major IMcKixley: The Young !Men's Republican Club of Norwalk, 
 members of the Huron County Centi-al Committee, and many others, ask 
 
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me to convey to you their congratulations upon your nomination for 
 President. Forty years ago, when the Republican party, was organized. 
 a majority of the voters of Huron County gave it their allegiance as the 
 party of freedom, and from then until the present hour, not a single 
 Democrat has been ele*cted to a county office in old Huron. It is always ready 
 with a Republican majority. In every campaign it contributes to the party's 
 victories, victories which have given us such immortal statesmen as Lixcolx, 
 Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison. When the Democratic party came 
 into power three years ago, when the matchless tariff measure which bears 
 your honored name was stricken from the statute books, our people, in common 
 with many thousand more Republicans of this and othei' States, resolved 
 upon your leadership in the contest of 1896. We are here at your home now to 
 bring our hearty greetings and to congratulate the country on the dawn of the 
 Drighter day that will be ushered in by your election. Accept our greetings 
 and the assurance of our abiding confidence in your great triumph in Novem- 
 ber next." (Applause.) 
 
 riajor ricKin ley's Response. 
 
 "Speaker Laylin and My Fellow Citizens of Huron County: It gives 
 me great pleasure to meet you, and I am grateful to your spokesman, who has 
 been my friend for many years, for the generous words he has spoken, in the 
 expression of your respect and good will. I recall that Huron County was 
 one of the counties of this State that gave its support to John C. Fremont, our 
 firs.t candidate for President of the United States, and in all the eventful years 
 that have followed has steadily kept the faith in every contest. This is 
 creditable to both the patriotism and intelligence of her people, for no 
 man anywhere throughout the country doubts where the Republican party 
 stood in times past nor where it stands to-day. It stands for a re-united and 
 prosperous country ; it stands for the American factory, the American farm, the 
 American fireside, for American labor, American wages and American thrift 
 throughout every part of our much loved land. It stands for a protective 
 tariff which protects every American interest; it stands for reciprocity that 
 reciprocates — tliat gets something for what we give, from the nations of 
 the world. It stands for the reciprocity of Blaine and of Harrison and the 
 great Republican party. It stands now, as it has always stood, and always 
 will stand, for sound money with which to measure the exchanges of the peo- 
 ple, for a dollar that is not only good at home, but good in every market place 
 of the world. It is with these principles emblazoned on its banners this year 
 of 1896 that it appeals to the deliberate judgment of the American people. 
 Lincoln used to say, "there is no better hope in the world than tlu"s," and 
 to such a tribunal we, therefore, feel that we can confidently submit our 
 aims and purposes." (Great and long continued applause.) 
 
 THE CANTON RATIFICATION AND PARADE. 
 
 Canton was again the Mecca of thousands of people on Saturday, .Tune 27th, 
 The threatening weather did not prevent their coming to Major McKinley's 
 home city to assist the great crowd from Cleveland in ratifying his nomi- 
 nation. The exercises were under the auspices of the Tippecanoe Club, one of the 
 
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most famous llepubiican clubs in the country, but there were a score or more of 
 other large delegations from as maiij' towns within a. radius of a hundred miles of 
 Canton. Both at the speaking in the afternoon, at the corner of Third Street 
 and Cleveland Avenue, where a crowd collected filling the entire open square, 
 and as the immense pai'ade passed the reviewing stand in front of Major 
 McKixley's residence at night, the enthusiasm was unbounded. Judge 
 AVii,LiAM E,. Day, of Canton, presided at the meeting in the park, and strong 
 speeches were made by General Ciiarlks H. Grosvexor, of Athens, Ohio, 
 Hon. Charles Emory Smith, the distinguished journalist of Philadelphia, 
 Hon. James H. Hoyt, of Cleveland, Hon. Egbert W. Tayler, of Lisbon, and 
 Mr. H. AV. WoLCOTT, President of the Tippecanoe Club, of Cleveland. The great 
 feature of the speaking exercises, however, was the ovation given to INIajor 
 McKixLEY, as he came upon the rostrum to acknowledge the demonstrations 
 in his honor. He spoke as follows: 
 
 Major McKinley's Response. 
 
 "My' Fellow Citizexs : I thank you for this magnificent demonstration ; I 
 think I know just what it means. It is in no sense personal — but it is the 
 assurance of the interest which you feel in the great questions that are to be 
 considered in this eventful campaign, and settled by the American people at 
 the ^November election. It means, my fellow citizens, that you are attached 
 by every tie of fealty and affection to the great fundamental doctrines of the 
 Republican party. It means that you intend by your votes to write into 
 public law, to place permanently upon our statute books, what you believe to be 
 for the best interests of all the American people. (Loud and continuous ap- 
 plause.) Republican principles do not perish. They have not suffered by 
 defeat. They have not been dimmed by their temporary rejection by the people. 
 They are brighter and more glorious to-day than ever before. (Cries of 'Good,' 
 and 'That's right.') They are doubly dear to every American heart. (Loud 
 applause. Their defeat before the American people has never brought good to 
 any American interest, (A voice, 'Not one') but their triumph has always 
 brought many and far-reaching advantages to the American people. (Applause.) 
 My fellow citizens, these principles are to be tried before you this year — what 
 will your answer be in November? (A voice, 'The election of McKixley!' 
 tremendous cheering lasting several moments before the Major could resume his 
 speech.) AVhat are these principles, my fellow citizens? A protective tariff that 
 takes care of every American interest, and serves the highest good of American 
 labor (Great cheering.) A tariff that insists that our work shall be done at 
 home and not abroad. (Loud yelling and applause.) A reciprocity, that, while 
 seeking out the world's markets for our surplus products, will never yield up a 
 single day's work that belongs to the American workingman. (Vociferous 
 cheering.) Honest money, a dollar as sound as the Government, and as untar- 
 nished as its flag. (Loud cheers.) A dollar that is as good in the hands of the 
 farmer and the workingman, as in the hands of the manufacturer or the 
 capitalist. (Cheers.) These great principles emblazoned as they are upon the 
 banners of the Eepublican party will insure a sweeping triumph — 
 so that the third day of November next, will, as I firmly believe, bring 
 sweet messages of promise and happiness to every American home and 
 fireside throughout this broad land. (Continuous cheers.) I thank you, my 
 fellow citizens, for this manifestation of your good will. I am glad to 
 
welcome you to this city — a city near and dear to me by every tie oi affection— 
 a.city to which I owe much. "We are all proud to liave you liere to-day, and 
 my advice to the ^layor is to have the census taken at once." (Laughter and 
 renewed applause." 
 
 APOLLO (PENNSYLVANIA) REPUBLICAN CLUB. 
 
 Just after the Eatiflcation meeting on Market Square had closed, the mem- 
 bers of the Apollo (Pennsylvania) Republican Club, w^ho had arrived by a 
 special train too late to hear tlie speeches there, called upon Major McKixley 
 at his residence, and prevailed upon him to say "just a word" from the 
 reviewing stand on his lawn. He said: 
 
 Major flcKinley's Response. 
 
 "Gentlemen op the Apollo Republican Club: I assure you I very cordially 
 appreciate the courtesy and' compliment of this call; I appreciate it the more 
 because I know it means that you have traveled this long distance that you 
 might give evidence of the interest you feel in the questions that are engag- 
 ing public attention and which the people will determine later on. I congratu- 
 late youi' busy little manufacturing city upon the progress and prosperity 
 it has had, and I trust that in the future you will have still greater prosperity. 
 
 Some one has said that 'we are a nation of working people, and born busy.' 
 "Well, we have been, and will be again ; and that policy under which for more 
 than thirty years we enjoyed exceptional advantages and prosperity shall be 
 again restored to this country. I thank you all for the compliment of this 
 call and bid you good afternoon." (Tremendous applause and three cheers.) 
 
 SENATOR THURSTON'S NOTIFICATION ADDRESS. 
 
 On Monday, Jane 29th, the Presidential Notification Committee appointed 
 by the St. Louis Convention called upon Major McKinley, at his home in 
 Canton, to formally apprise him of his nomination as the Republican candidate 
 for President in 1896. Hon. John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, Permanent 
 Chairman of the National Convention, .spoke for the Committee. H6 said: 
 
 '"Major McKinley: 'We are here to perform the pleasant duty assigned 
 us by the Republican National Convention, recently assembled in St. Louis, 
 that of formally notifying you of your nomination as the candidate of the 
 •Republican party for President of the "IJnited States. We respectfully request 
 your acceptance of this nomination and your approval of the declaration of 
 principles adopted by the Convention, We assure you that you are the 
 unanimous choice of a united party, and that your candidacy will be immedi- 
 ately accepted by the country as an absolute guaranty of Republican success. 
 Your nomination has been made in obedience to a popular demand whose 
 universality and spontaneity attest the affection and confidence of the plain 
 people of the United States. By common consent you are their champion. 
 Their mighty uprising in your behalf emphasizes the sincerity of their con- 
 version to the cardinal principles of Protection and Reciprocity as best 
 exemplified in that splendid Congressional Act which justly bears your name. 
 "Under it this Nation advanced to the very culmination of a prosperity far 
 
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surpassing that of all other peoples and all other times ; a prosperity shared in 
 by all section;. "H interests and all classes ; by capital and labor; by producer 
 and consumer; a proc^ -"ity so happily in harmony with the genius of popular 
 government that its choicest blessings were most widely distributed among the 
 lowliest toilers and humblest homes. In 1892, your countrymen, unmindful of 
 your solemn warnings, returned that party to power wliich reiterated its ever- 
 lasting opposition to a protective tariff and demanded the repeal of the 
 McKinley Act. They sowed the wind. They reaped the whirlwind. The 
 sufferings and losses and disasters to the American people from four years of 
 Democratic tariff, are vastly greater than those which came to them from four 
 years of civil war. Out of it all great good remains. Those who scorned your 
 counsels speedily witnessed the fulfillment of your prophesies, and even as the 
 scourged and repentant Israelites abjured their stupid idols and resumed 
 unquestioning allegiance to Moses and Moses' God, so now your countrymen, 
 shamed of their errors, turn to you and to those glorious principles for which 
 you stand, in the full belief that your candidacy and the Eepublican platform 
 mean that the end of the wilderness has come and the pi'omised land of 
 American prosperity is again to them an assui'ed inlieritance. But your nom- 
 ination means more than the endorsement of a protective tariff, of recipi-ocity 
 of sound money and of honest finance, for all of which you have so steadfastly 
 stood. It means an endorsement of your heroic youth; your faithful years of 
 arduous public service ; your sterling patriotism ; your starlwart Americanism ; 
 your Christian character, and the purity, fidelity and simplicity of your private 
 life. In all these things you are the typical American ; for all these things you 
 are the chosen leader of the people. God give you strength to so bear the 
 honors and meet the duties of that great office for which you are now nominat- 
 ed and to which you will be elected, that your administration will enhance the 
 dignitj" and ijovier and glory of this Republic, -and secure the safety, welfare 
 and happiness of its liberty-loving people." (Great applause.) 
 
 Major ricKinley's Response. 
 
 "Senator Thurston and Gentlemen of the Notification Committee op the 
 Republican National Convention: To be selected as their Presidential 
 candidate by a great party convention, representing so vast a number of the 
 people of the United States, is a most distinguished honor, for which I would 
 not conceal my high appreciation, although deeply sensible of the great 
 responsibilities of the trust, and my inability to bear them without the gener- 
 ous and constant support of my fellow countrymen. Great as is the honor 
 conferred, equally ai*duous and important is the duty imposed, and in accept- 
 ing the one I assume the other, relying upon the patriotic devotion of the 
 people to the best interests of our beloved country, and the sustaining care 
 and aid of Him without whose support all we do is empty and vain. Should 
 the people ratify the choice of the great Convention for which you speak, my 
 only aim will be to promote the public good, which in America is always the 
 good of the greatest number, the honor of our country, and the welfare of the 
 peoi)le. The questions to be settled in the National contest this year are as 
 serious and important as any of the gi'eat governmental problems that have 
 confronted us in the past quarter of a century. They command our sober 
 judgment, and a settlement free from partisan prejudice and passion, beneficial 
 to our selves and befitting the honor and grandeur of the Kepublic. They 
 
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touch every interest of our common country. Our industrial supremacy, our 
 productive capacity, our business and commercial prosperity, our labor and its 
 rewards, our National credit and currency, our proud financial honor, and our 
 splendid free citizenship)— the birthright of every American— are all involved 
 in the pending campaign, and thus every home in the land is directly and 
 intimately connected with their proper settlement. Great are the issues 
 involved in the coming election, and eager and earnest the people for their 
 right determination. Our domestic trade must be won back, and our idle 
 working people employed in gainful occupations at American wages. Our 
 home market must be restored to its proud rank of first in the world, and our 
 foreign trade, so precipitately cut off by adverse National legislation, reopened 
 on fair and equitable terms for our surplus agricultural and manufacturing 
 products. Protection and Reciprocity, twin measui-es of a true American 
 poP.cy, should again command the earnest encouragement ot the Government 
 at Washington. Public confidence must be resumed, and the skill, the energy 
 and the capital of our country find ample employment at home, sustained, 
 encouraged and defended against the unequal competition and serious disad- 
 vantages Avitli which they are now contending. (Applause.) 
 
 "The Government of the United States must raise enough money to meet 
 both its current expenses and increasing needs. Its revenues should be so 
 raised as to protect the material interests of our people, with the liglitest 
 possible drain upon their resources, and maintain that high standard of civili- 
 zation which has distinguished our country for more than a century of its 
 existence. The income of the Government, I repeat, should equal its necessary 
 and proper expenditures. A failure to pursue this policy has compelled the 
 Government to borrow money in a time of peace to sustain its credit and pay 
 its daily expenses. This policy should be reversed, and that, too, as speedily 
 as possible. It must be apparent to all, regardless of past party ties or affilia- 
 tions, that it is our paramount duty to provide adequate revenue for the 
 expenditures of the Government, economically and prudently administered- 
 This the Republican party has heretofore done, and this I confidently believe 
 it will do in the future, when the party is again entrusted with power in the 
 legislative and executive branches of our Government. The National credit) 
 which has thus far fortunately resisted every assault upon it, must and will be 
 upheld and strengthened. If sufficient revenues are provided for the support 
 of the Government, there will be no necessity for borrowing money and increas- 
 ing the public debt. The complaint of the people is not against the Adminis- 
 tration for borrowing money and issuing bonds to preserve the credit of the 
 country, but against the ruinous policy which has made this necessary. It is 
 but an incident, and a necessary one, to tlie policy which has been inagurated. 
 The inevitable effect of such a policy is seen in the deficiency of the United 
 States Treasury, except as it is replenished by loans, and in the distress of the 
 people who are suffering because of the scant demand for either their labor or 
 the products of their labor. Here is the fundamental trouble, the remedy for 
 which is Republican opportunity and duty. During all the years of Republican 
 control following resumption, there was a steady reduction of the public debt, 
 while the gold reserve was sacredly maintained, and our currency and credit 
 preserved without depreciation, taint or suspicion. If we would restore this 
 policy, that brouglit us unexampled prosperity for more than thirty years 
 under the most trying conditions ever known in this country, tlie policy by 
 which we made and bought more goods at home and sold more abroad, the trade 
 
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balance would be quickly tui'ned in our favor, and gold would come to us and 
 not go from us in the settlement of all such balances in the future. (Cheers.) 
 
 " The party that supplied by legislation the vast revenues for the conduct of 
 our greatest war ; that promptly restored the credit of the country at its close ; 
 that from its abundant revenues paid off a large share of the debt incurred in 
 this war, and that resumed specie payments and placed our paper currency 
 upon a sound and enduring basis, can be safely trusted to presei-ve both our 
 credit and currency, with lionor, stability and inviolability. Tlie American 
 people hold the financial honor of our Government as sacred as our flag, and 
 can be relied upon to guard it with the same sleepless vigilance. They hold its 
 preservation above party fealty, and have often demonstrated that party ties 
 avail nothing when the spotless credit of our country is threatened. The money 
 of the United States, and every kind or form of it, whether of paper, silver or 
 gold, must be as ^ood as the best in the world. It must not only be current at 
 its full face value at home, but it must be counted at par in any and every 
 commercial center of the globe. The sagacious and far-seeing policy of the 
 great men who founded our Government ; the teachings and acts of the wisest 
 financiers at every stage in our history ; the steadfa.st faith and splendid 
 achievements of the great party to which we belong, and the genius and 
 integrity of our people have always demanded this, and will ever maintain it. 
 The dollar paid to the farmer, the wage-earner, and the pensioner must continue 
 forever equal in purchasing and debt-paying power to the dollar paid to any 
 Government creditor. (Great applause.) 
 
 " The contest this year will not be waged upon lines of theory and specula- 
 tion, but in the light of severe practical experience and new and dearly acquired 
 knowledge. The great body of our citizens know what they want, and that 
 they intend to have. They know for what the Republican party stands and 
 what its return to power means to them. They realize that the Republican 
 party believes that our work should be done at home and not abroad, and 
 everywhere proclaim their devotion to the principles of a protective tariff, 
 which, while supplying adequate revenues for the Goveri;ment, will restore 
 American production, and serve the best interests of American labor and devel- 
 opment. Our appeal, therefore, is not to a false philosophy, or vain theorists^ 
 but to the masses of the American people, the plain, practical people, whom 
 LixcoLX loved and trusted, and whom the Republican party has always faith- 
 fully striven to serve. (Applause.) 
 
 " The Platform adopted by the Republican National Convention has received 
 tny careful consideration and has my unqualified approval. It is a matter of 
 gratification to me, as I am sure it must be to you and Republicans everywhere. 
 and to all our people, that the expressions of its declaration of principles are so 
 direct, clear and emphatic. They are too plain and positive to leave any 
 chance for doubt or question as to their purport and meaning. But you will 
 not expect me to discuss its provisions at length, or in any detail, at this 
 time. It will, liowever, be my duty and pleasure at some future day to make to 
 you, and through you to the great party you represent, a more formal accept- 
 ance of the nomination tendered me. 
 
 " Xo one could be more profoimdly grateful than I am for the manifestations 
 of public confidence of which you have so eloquently spoken. It shall be my 
 aim to attest this appreciation by an unsparing devotion to what I esteem the 
 best interests of the people, and in this work I ask the counsel and support of 
 you, gentlemen, and of every other friend of the country. The generous 
 expressions with wliich you. sir convey the ofiBcial notice of my nomination 
 
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are liighly ai)i)reciated, and us fully recii)i-o(,-ai>'a, and I thank you, and your 
 associates of the JS'otificatiqn Committee, and the great party and convention 
 at whose instance you come, for the high and exceptional distinction bestowed 
 upon me." (Grea-t applause, and "three cheers for our next President." 
 
 The Notification Committee consisted of the following gentlemen: 
 Alabama, Charles D. Alexander, Attalla; Alaska, C. S. Joirxsox, Juneau; 
 Arizona, John ^V. Dorrixgtox, Yuma; Arkansas, Hexry M. Cooper, Little 
 Rock, represented by Colonel H. L. Eemmel, Newport; California, Fraxk 
 
 A. Miller, Riverside; Connecticut, George E. Sykes, Rockville; Delaware, 
 Hexry G. Morse, Wilmington ; Florida, Dexxis Eagax, JackscnviUe ; Georgia, 
 MoxROE E. MoRTOX, (colored), Athens; Illinois, Charles H. Deere, Moline ; 
 Indiana, Hiram Browxlee, Marion ; Indian Territory, Joseph R. Foltz, South 
 McAlister; Iowa, C.a.lvik Maxxing, Ottumwa; Kansas, Nathaniel Barxes, 
 Kansas City; Kentucky, Johx P. McCartxey, Flemingsburg ; Louisiana, 
 Walter L. Cohex, (colored). New Orleans; Maine, George P. Westcott, 
 Portland, represented by Hon. Charles E. Towxsexd, Brunswick; Maryland, 
 "William F, Airy, Baltimore; Massachusetts, jMartix V. B. Jefferson, 
 Worcester; Michigan, Thomas J. O'Briex, Grand Rapids; Minnesota, Moxroe 
 Nichols, Duluth; Mississippi, W. D. Frazee, West Point; Missouri, T. H. 
 Haughawout, Carthage ; Nebraska, Jonx T. Bressler, Wayne ; Nevada, John 
 
 B. OvERTox, Virginia City ; New Hampshire, William D. Sawyer, Dover; New 
 Jersey, Ferdixaxd W. Roeblixg, Trenton; New Mexico, Pedro Perea, 
 Bernalillo, represented by Captain Jack Crawford, "the Poet Scout," Santa 
 Fe; New York, Fraxk Hiscock, Saratoga; North Carolina, Claude M. Berxard, 
 Greenville ; North Dakota, C. M. Johxsox, Dwight ; Ohio, Marcus A. Haxxa, 
 Cleveland; Oklahoma, John A. Buckles, Enid; Oregon, Charles B. Hilton, 
 The Dalles; Pennsylvania, Theodore L. Flood, Meadville ; Rhode Island, 
 Johx C. Saxborx, Newport; South Carolina, E. H. Dees, (colored), Darlington, 
 South Dakota, Walter E. Smead, Lead City ; Tennessee, Erxest Caldwell, 
 Shelbyville ; Texas, J. W. Butler, Tyler; Utah, Lixdsay E. Rodgers, Ogden ; 
 Vermont, James W\ Brook, Montpelier, represented by Judge H. A. 
 HusE, Burlington; Virginia, J. S. Browxixg, Pocahontas; Washington, 
 Hexy L. Wilson, Spokane; West Virginia, W. Newton Lynch, 
 Martinsburg; Wisconsin, M. C. Rixg, Neillsville ; Wyoming, Hexry J. 
 NiOKERSox, Lander. Hon. Charles W. Fairbaxks, of Indianapolis, Temporary 
 Chairman of the National Convention, was also present, and spoke at the no- 
 tification meeting. The notification exercises were held at Major McKixley's 
 residence, himself, wife and mother, with other members of the family, appear- 
 ing on the front porch, from which Senator Tiiurstox and himself spoke 
 to the Committee, who were seated on camj) chairs on the lawn dui'ing the 
 entire coj-emonies, which Avere witnessed by thousands of enthusiastic visitors 
 and citizens. At their close a luncheon was served the Committee in a large 
 tent on the lawn in the rear of the residence. 
 
 THE CONVENTION GAVEL. 
 
 During the notification proceedings Mr. Hexry H. Smith, of Washington, 
 D. C, formerly a clfrk in the House of Representatives, presented 
 Major McKiNLEY with the gavel used in the St. Louis Convention when he 
 was nominated for President. Its history, as described by Mr. Smith, is 
 as follows : 
 
"Major McXixley: This gavel was presented to the National Convention 
 by 'Sir. W. H. Bartells, of Carthage, Illinois. It was made from a log taken 
 from the cabin occupied by Abraham Linculx in 1832 at Salem, Illinois. On 
 one head of the gavel is inscribed on a silver plate the name of tiie donor and 
 the above stated facts, while on the other on a gold plate, appear the words: 
 'National Republican Convention, held at St. Louis, Missouri, June 16, 1896, 
 nominating AVilliam McKixley for President.' This gavel, which stands as 
 en emblem and type of sturdy Americanism and American homes and 
 industries, was placed in my hands as Assistant Secretary of the Convention, 
 and of the Notification Committee, for presentation to you on this most happy 
 occasion." 
 
 Hajor ricKinley's Response. 
 
 "]Mr. Smith: I thank you for this beautiful gift, and for the courteous 
 terms in which you have conveyed the wishes of the Convention. I am glad to 
 have so valuable a souvenir of the eleventh great National Convention of the 
 Republican party, and am especially grateful for the remembrance on account 
 of the historic associations connecting it with the name of the martyred 
 Lincoln, whose memory is an inspiration to every American." (Applause.) 
 
 COLUHBUS CLUBS CONGRATULATE HIH. 
 
 While the Committee on Notification were lunching a large delegation 
 from Columbus, Ohio, arrived via the Ft. Wayne Railroad. There were seven 
 coaches in the train bringing the delegation, and included in it were the 
 Buckeye Republican Club, the Columbus Glee Club, and several hundred 
 other citizens, headed by the famous Fourteenth Regiment Band. They 
 marched at once to the McKinley residence where they were presented by 
 Hon. David K. Watson, Member of Congress from the Columbus district, who 
 spoke as follows: 
 
 "Major McKixley: The Republicans of the Capital City of this State 
 have come to pay their respects to you as the candidate for President of the 
 United States, nominated at St. Louis by the great Republican party to the 
 highest and greatest office which it is possible for a human being to occupy. 
 During the four years that you were Governor of Ohio you resided among us, 
 and in that time we learned to greatly admire and esteem you personally, and 
 to have unbounded confidence in your future life. The Republican party is 
 entering upon its eleventh great contest for National supremacy. Forty years 
 ago it lost its first battle under the leadership of Fremont, because the States 
 of Pennsylvania and Illinois cast their electoral votes for the Democratic can- 
 didate. But those great States have quit that nonsense, and this year their 
 electoral votes will be cast for you. (Loud cheers.) The Republican party 
 won its second and third great contests under the leadership of Lixcolx; its 
 fourth and fifth under Gkaxt; its sixth under Hayes; its seventh under Gar- 
 field; we lost the eighth under Blaine ; won the ninth under Harrison, and 
 lost with him the tenth. But, sir, we know we will win the eleventh under 
 your magnificent leadership, (Loud applause.) In the halls of Congress you 
 were the one great man who always led American thought in the direction of 
 protection to American labor, (Cheers.) You have always stood for a higher 
 American manhood and the development of American character. Your 
 
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National policy gave American markets to American products at American 
 prices, and to-day, as ever, you still stand for all that is Republican and 
 American. You are to many iieople, in a peculiar sense, both candidate 
 and platform, and condensed tlie entire issue of this campaign into a single 
 sentence wlien you declared at Chicago on Lincoln's birtliday, last February, 
 that 'the Republican party stands now, as ever in the past, for an honest dollar 
 and the chance to earn it by honest toil." (Cheers.) The Repubhcans of 
 Columbus, Ohio, greet you as the next President of this, the great Republic." 
 (Prolonged api^lause.) 
 
 riajor ricKinley's Response. 
 
 "CoNGRESSMAX Watson AND My Fellow Oitizexs OF CoLXJMBUst You have 
 done me great honor which I highly appreciate, by tlie call you have 
 made upon me to-day. It is with gi-eat pleasure I recall the four years I 
 spent in the Capital 'City, for that old town became, indeed, very dear tome. 
 I felt through those years that tliere was not a moment that I did not 
 have the sympathy, the support, the good will, the constant encouragement 
 of the citizens of Columbus, irrespective of political affiliations. No four 
 years of my public service were more agreeable to me, and I shall always 
 cherish their pleasant memories. (Applause.) I thank you, Congressman 
 Watson, for the gracious words you have spoken personal to myself. I do 
 believe in my country, I believe in its vast resources and capacities,' and I 
 believe that it is entirely with the peox:)le to say what shall be tlie possibilities 
 of the future for the United States. Lincoln said the people never had been 
 appealed to in the right way in vain, and I am sure, in the bright light of his 
 faith, that the people of this country, from ocean to ocean, will stand by those 
 principles and policies that will secure to the United States the greatest 
 prosperity and conserve its highest destiny. (Cheers.) We have present 
 with us, and it gives me gi*eat pleasure to present to you, some of the Notifica- 
 tion Committee from the Republican National Convention. The first gentle- 
 man I desire to present is that illustrious citizen of Nebraska, her great 
 United States Senator, Hon. John M. Thurston." (Prolonged applause.) 
 
 Senator Thurston's Pleasant Response. 
 
 "My Fellow Citizens: It has been a matter of great gratification tome 
 to come here to-day in an official capacity for tlie purpose of bringing notifica- 
 tion to Major McKinlev that tlie people of this country had determined that 
 he shall be the next President of the United States. (Loud applause.) We 
 have come to Ohio once again for our candidate, but not merely because Ohio 
 is his native State. Washington and Lincoln do not belong to Virginia and 
 Illinois alone, they are part of the priceless inheritance of the American people. 
 Ohio has given birth to Grant and Garfield, Hayes and Harrison, and, great 
 as any — McKinley. (Loud applause.) But we made them Presidents of the 
 United States not because they stood for tlie State of Ohio, but because they 
 stood for the Nation, as broad as tlie land and an Americanism as glorious as 
 the flag. (Loud applause.) Four years ago the Democratic party said to the 
 American people, "Give us free trade, and the prosperity of this country will 
 increase." You voted free trade and prosperity receded. They said, "Give us 
 
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free trade and new industries arid factories will open,'" — but they closed. They 
 said, "Give us free trade and there will be increased employment for American 
 
 labor," but there was increased idleness instead. They said, "Give us free 
 
 trade and wages will rise," but they failed to rise. They said, "Give us free 
 
 trade and business will boom," but it busted. (Laughter and applause.) 
 
 To-day in the light of their past experience it is absolutely necessary to 
 abandon their old petition, and they now say, "Give us free silver and all these 
 glorious results will follow." Don't you think in the light of their past 
 repudiation and bankruptcy that you had better have a little collateral 
 security before you accept their new promise of American prosperity? (Loud 
 applause.) The Republican party stands for a dollar on which there shall be 
 an American eagle — but with no feathers dragging in the dust. (Applause.) 
 The Republican party declai-es that the labor which is to be done for the 
 people of the United States shall be done by the people of the United States 
 and under tlie glorious old Stars and Stripes. (Cheers.) I thank you for this 
 distinction and for your kindness in listening to me. From now^ until the cam- 
 paign closes, I shall go forward from stump to stump not only with boundless 
 enthusiasm for the platform and for the nominees but with the absolute 
 assurance that the American people know what they want and that they are 
 getting it just as fast as they can." (Loud cheers.) 
 
 Mr. Hiscock's Happy Reply. 
 
 Major MoKixLEY then introduced ex-Senator Frank Hiscock, of Syracuse, 
 New York, who spoke as follows : 
 
 "Ladies and Gextlemex : You are here to-day as the immediate friends and 
 neighbors of Major McKixlet, the candidate of the Republican party for the 
 Presidency. Your hearts are overflowing with love for him ; your judgments 
 approve him and you most heartily endorse tlie principles for which he has so 
 long labored, and which are now the platform of the Republican party. I 
 came here from the State of New York, representing that State as a member of 
 the Notification Committee to notify him of his nomination, and I say to you 
 that he is as truly in the hearts of the people of the State of New York, as he 
 is in youi's. (Loud applause.) I proclaim to you without fear of contra- 
 diction, that he is as much approved by the Republicans of the State of New 
 York, and not by their judgments alone, but by those of one-half of the Demo- 
 cratic party of tlie State of New York also (laughter and ajiplause) as he is by 
 you. Tliis year we had a superabundance of candidates for the Presidency — 
 men jr.stly presented as statesmen of no mean merit. Thomas B. Reed is a 
 gj-eat man. (Applause.) New York presented the name of the grand Governor 
 of our State, Levi P. Morton, who was elected by 156,000 majority. (Applause. ) 
 Iowa presented the name of AVilliam B. Allison, her great statesman. 
 (Applause.) But Ohio presented the name of William McKinley. (Loud yells 
 and applause.) Now I say to you, confidentially, that before Ohio presented 
 his name the i)eople had already in their hearts ratified his nomination. 
 (Laughter and applause.) I liave only this to say to you in conclusion: We 
 have our own little difficulties in New York, once in a while. (Laughter 
 and api)lause.) But wliile lliat is true, and while it is a fact that we have as 
 many difficulties and fight as severely over tliem as the people of any otlier State 
 in the Union, still in proportion to population, as well tis in actual figures, 
 
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Kew \ oi'k will give a larger majority uu- Wilmaw IMcKinlky next November 
 than Ohio can iiossibly give him." (Great applause.) 
 
 Excellent short speeches were also made of the most enthusiastic character 
 by Hon. Charles E. Townsexd, of ]\[aine ; Dr. Tjieopore L. Flood, of Pennsyl- 
 vania, Hon. J. S. Bkowxixg, of Virginia: Jndge J. A. Huse, of Yermont; Hon. 
 Hexry L. WiLsox, of 'Washington ; Hon. Charles W. Fairbaxks, of Indiana, 
 Colonel H. L. Eemjiel, of Arkansas ; Hon. Calvix Maxxixg, of Iowa; Hon. M. 
 y. B. Jeffersox, of Massachusetts, and Hon. M. A. Haxxa, of Ohio, while an 
 original poem was recited by Captain Jack Craavford, of New Mexico. It is 
 safe to say that never on any previous occasion of tiie kind had there been so 
 gi'eat a demonstration ; never such indisputable evidences of harmony, enthu- 
 siam, and confidence; never sucli determination to succeed, and never a more 
 flattering prospect of sweeping success. 
 
 THE UNION VETERAN LEGION. 
 
 At the conclusion of the speech-making, at the Notification Meeting on 
 June 29tli, a committee of soldiers from Columbus, Ohio, waited upon Major 
 McKiNLEY and presented him the following interesting memorial : 
 
 Headquarters ExcAMPMEXT No. 78, 
 TJniox Yeterax Legiox. 
 
 Columbus, Ohio, June 23, 1896. 
 Whereas, One ^i the members of this encampment, in the person of 
 Comrade "Williaji McKixley, has been selected by one of the great political 
 parties as its candidate ftr President at the coming National election; there- 
 fore be it 
 
 Resolved hy this Encampment., That we congratulate our comrade, William 
 McKixley, whose record as a soldier, statesman and patriot has won for him 
 the respect and admiration of the civilized world, on the prospect of his being 
 called to the highest executive office of the country he fought to preserve ; and 
 Resol-ccd further, Tliat we rejoice that this Encampment is honored by 
 containing on its roll of members one whose record and worth have brought 
 to him this deserved recognition and high endorsement from a large and 
 representative body of his fellow countrymen. 
 Adopted. 
 
 Theodore Joxes, Colonel, 
 C. C. HiGGixs, (Adjutant, 
 Lloyd Meyers, 
 J. Ed. Mixxich, 
 Warxek Mills, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 TIPPECANOE VETERANS ALSO. 
 
 On the same day Major McKixley was also presented with tlie following 
 address : 
 
 The Old Tippecanoe Club of Chicago, Illinois, organized in 1888 by veterans 
 who voted in 1840 for General William Hexky IIarrisox for President of the 
 United States, congratulates the country upon tlie nomination by tlie Republi- 
 can National Convention of Hon. AVilliam McKixley for tliat hi;?]i office. 
 We feel confident of liis triumphant election, and believe that under liis admin- 
 
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istration the cardinal principle lor which the members of this Club have always 
 contended, American protection to American industries and American labor 
 will be readopted into law and permanently sustained. Witli reciprocity in 
 trade, and the currency intact at one hundred cents on the dollar, according 
 to the Ropublican platform, the dignity as well as the financial honor and 
 integrity of the ISTation will be inviolably maintained, and the hum of diversi- 
 fied industry, everywhere resounding throughout the land, will be evidence 
 conclusive of returned and enduring prosperity, and of happiness and content- 
 ment among all the people. 
 
 Unanimously adopted, June 27, 1896. 
 
 Thomas Goodmax, President. 
 
 C. R. Hagerty, Secretary. 
 
 OLD HEDINA CONGRATULATES BOTH NOHINEES. 
 
 Hon. Garret A. Hobart, of New Jersey, the Republican candidate for 
 Vice President, arrived at Canton, via the Pennsylvania lines, on Tuesday 
 morning, June 30th. He was met at the depot by Major McKixley and driven 
 in his carriage to the McKinley home, there being no public demonstrations, 
 in deference to the wishes of both candidates. It happened, however, that 
 soon after the arrival of Mr. Hobart, several hundred of the leading citizens of 
 Medina County, Ohio, arrived via Massillon on the Interurban Electric Rail- 
 way, and were escorted to Major McKixley's residence by the Canton Troop 
 of Invincible Republicans. The visitoi-s came from Medina, Wadsworth, Lodi, 
 River Styx, and other points in Medina County, and were headed by the Lodi 
 Band. The Medina Glee Club, also accompanied them and sang " In A Little 
 While," and other campaign airs effectively. The " Old Guard at Orrville," 
 in 1884, as one of the campaign banners called them, was also numerously rep- 
 resented. Judge Albert Muxson, of Medina, who had the honor of presenting 
 Major McKinley's name in both the conventions at Orrville in 1884, and again 
 in 1890, was now selected by his friends to introduce them to " the next Presi- 
 dent." He said: 
 
 "Major McKixley: We come to-day upon no political errand, but to 
 renew the old friendships that were made in 1884 and to pledge anew our 
 fealty to the principles of the gi-and old party which you so ably represent as 
 its Presidential candidate i;i the pending campaign. The years as they have 
 passed into history since 1884 have made great changes in men, parties and 
 events. But one thing we know, principles never change. They are eternal; 
 they withstand the wi'eck of time and the decay and dissolution of nations. 
 The record of the Republican party stands without a peer in the history of 
 political organizations. Its fame is secure ; neither time, nor the changes 
 made by time, in the wreck of kingdoms and principalities, which is sure 
 to come in the onward flow of events, in nature's unbendiiig order, will ever 
 dim or efface the brilliancy of the, reeoi-d of the gi*and old party." [Judge 
 Mfxsox then spoke at some length of the Republican party and its record, 
 contrasting it with the unfulfilled promises of the Democratic party, and in 
 conclusion said:] "Should it be your mission, of which we have no doubt, to 
 lead this gi-eat people out of the wilderness of disti'ess and unrest up into the 
 highlands of a broad and expanding industrial prosperity, you will be hailed 
 and recognized as a public benefactor in every town, village, and city of the 
 great Republic." (Applause.) 
 
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you li.ave always done, and we mii«t all ever strive to keep the Union worthy 
 of the brave men who sacrificed, suffered and died for it. I will be glad, m; 
 comrades, to meet you all personally." (Loud cheering and applause. ) 
 
 At the conclusion of the address, and the demonstration that followed, a 
 informal reception was held. The old veterans filed up to the porch, an 
 extended the hand of fellowship — and some of them only had one hand to givf . 
 They were all happy with the bright inspirations of the visit, which came to 
 an end, all too soon, at six o'clock. 
 
 A CONTEST FOR PRINCIPLE. 
 
 Among the messages received by Major ]\IcKinley, Monday morning, June 
 20th, was a letter from the Young Men's Republican Club of Omaha, Nebraska, 
 saying: 
 
 "To the Hon. William McKixley, Canton, Ohio. The Young Men's 
 Republican Club of Omaha, sends greeting to the standard bearer of the 
 Republican party, and gives him assurance that the nomination of a citizen of 
 Nebraska, by the Democratic National Convention will in no wise affect the 
 enthusiasm and the loyalty of the young Republicans of Omaha. This is a 
 contest 'of principles, and in this contest we shall fight for the triumph of 
 William McKinley, who stands for National honor and National prosperity, 
 
 Charles E. Wixteu, Tresident. 
 James A. Beck, Secretary}', 
 
 ENTHUSIASTIC, ACTIVE AND CONFIDENT. 
 
 Also the following: 
 
 York, Nebraska, July 20, 1898. 
 
 " Hon. William McKinley, Canton, Ohio: Notwithstanding Nebraska is 
 the center of the Populistic maelstrom. Republicans are enthusiastic, active 
 and confident. York has a McKinley Club of 525 members, which includes 10( 
 old soldiers. The Club sends its compliments to its great leader, the nex: 
 President of the United States. Nebraska Republicans are not altirmed nor in 
 timidated ; they have fearlessly faced and combatted Populistic vagai'ies foi 
 
 six years. 
 
 N. V. Harlan, President. 
 
 FOUNDERS' DAY IN THE FOREST CITY. 
 
 Major McKinley left Canton on July 22nd for the first time since his nomi- 
 nation for President. He went to Cleveland to attend the opening exercises 
 of the Cleveland Centennial Celebration on Founders' Day, or the hundredth 
 anniversary of the city's first settlement. His appearance in the city created 
 the greatest enthusiasm, and as he passed along the line of tlie great parade, 
 which was witnessed by fully 250,000 people, there were constant demonstra- 
 tions in his honor. His address on this occasion was as follows: 
 
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Major ricKinley's Response. 
 
 ''Mr. President and My Fellow Citizens: The people of Cleveland do 
 well to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of their gi'eat and beautiful city. 
 Its original builders are long since gone, and their mighty struggles are pass- 
 ing from individual recollections into the field of tradition and history. Anni- 
 versaries like tliis increases our pride for the men who wrought so excellently, 
 despite their trials and hardships, from which the present generation would 
 intuitively shrink. Tliey recall to our minds the high character and courage, 
 the lofty aims and gi-eat sacrifices of our sturdy ancestors, and inspire us to 
 revere their memories and imitate the virtues. The thoughtful observance 
 of an anniversary like this, therefore, does all who are associated with it, or 
 who come within its influence, positive good. It unfolds the past and enlight- 
 ens the present, and by emphasizing the value of the ties of family, home and 
 country, it encourages civic pride and appeals to the highest and best senti- 
 ments of our hearts and lives. We liave brought to our minds the picture of 
 the beginning and the little we then possessed, in vived contrast with the 
 much "that has been acquired and accomplished since. And if the lesson is 
 ri'ditly learned, it suggests to all of us how much we have to do -to contribute 
 our share to the progress and civilization of the future. It is a counting of the 
 sheaves garnered in the harvest of the past, and a stimulous to higlier 
 endeavor in the future. A hundred years of effort and sacrifice, of skill and 
 activity, of industry and economy are placed before our eyes. To-day the 
 present generation pays its homage to Cleveland's founders, and offers in 
 her own proud strength and beauty a generous and unqualified testimonial 
 to their wisdom and work. (Applause.) The statistics of the population 
 of Cleveland, and of her growth, production and wealth, do not and can 
 not U'll tlie story of her greatness. We have been listening to the interesting 
 and eloquent words of historian, poet and orator, graphically describing her rise 
 from obscurity to prominence. They htive woven into perfect and pleasing 
 narrative the ti-uthful and yet well established record of her advancement 
 from an unknown frontier settlement in the Western wilderness to the proud 
 rank of eleventh eity in the United States, the grandest country in the world. 
 (Applause.) We have heard with just pride, so marvelous has been her pro- 
 gress tliat among the greatest cities on the earth only sixty-two now out- 
 rank Cleveland in population. (Applause.) Her life is as one century to 
 twenty compared wilh some of that number, yet her civilization is as far ad- 
 vanced as the proudest metropolis in tlie world. (Applause.) In point of 
 government, education, morals, and business thrift and enterprise, Cleveland 
 maywell claim recognition with the foremost, and is fairly entitled to warm 
 congratulations and high eulogy on this her Centennial Day. Nor will any 
 envy her people a season of self gratulation and rejoicing. You maugurate 
 to-day a centennial celebration in honor of your succes.sf ul past, and its be- 
 ginning is with singular appropriateness, called Founders' Day. We have 
 heai-d with interest, the description of the commercial importance of this 
 city a port on a chain of lakes whose tonnage and commerce surpass those of 
 any other sea or ocean on the globe. AVc realize the ex(;ellence and superior- 
 ity of the great railroad systems which center in Cleveland. We marvel at the 
 volume and variety of your numerous manufactories, and see about us, on every 
 h ind the pleasant evidence of your comfort and culture, not only in your beau- 
 tiful'juKl hospital homes, but in your churches, schools, charities, lactones, 
 business houses, streets and viaducts, public parks, statues and monuments- 
 
indeed, in your conveniences, adornments and improvements of every sort, we 
 behold all the advantages and blessings of the model, modern city, worthy to 
 be both the pride of a great State and much grander Nation. (Great ap- 
 plause.) This is the accomplishment of a century. "Who wrought it — who 
 made all this possible? "Whence came they, and what manner of men and 
 women were they to undertake to reclaim the wilderness from its prinieval 
 savagery? Such are the questions that come instinctively to our lips. We are 
 told that the original band of fifty pioneers, under the leadership of Moses 
 Clevklaxd, arrived at the mouth of the Cuyahoga on July 22, 1796, and that 
 they ascended the bank and beheld the beautiful plain, covered with luxuriant 
 forests, w^iich they properly defined as 'a splendid site for a city.' Perhaps the 
 historian can remember the names of a dozen, or discover among us as many of 
 their immediate descendants as there were original settlers, but whotiier we 
 can call them all or any of them by name, or not, this we do know — they were 
 men of pure lives, nobly consecrated to the good of the community. Sober, 
 serious, even stern and austere they may have been, but grand was their mission 
 and well did they accomplish it. (Applause. ) . They planted here in the wilder- 
 ness, upon firm and enduring foundations, the institutions of free government. 
 (Applause,) They recognized and enforced the glorious doctrines and priceless 
 privileges of civil and religious liberty, of law and order, of the rights, dignity 
 and independence of labor, of the rights of property, and of the inviolability 
 of public faith and honor. (Applause.) Never were any men more zealous in 
 patriotic devotion to free government and the Union of the States. On their 
 long and toilsome journey from their Connecticut homes they did not forget 
 the Fourth of July, and, though in sad straits, they celebrated it with thank- 
 fulness and joy, and unfurled to the breeze our glorious old flag, \>'ith its 
 thirteen stars and stripes, on the Nation's natal day, on itsnovi'fardistant twen- 
 tieth anniversary, (Great applause.) They believed not only in the Declara- 
 tion of Independence, but in the Constitution which gave effect and force to 
 its immortal truths (applause) ; and no men anywhere struggled more bravely 
 to sustain its great principles than some' of these very settlers. (Applause.) 
 Indeed, the tribute which "VN'asiiixgton had paid but a few years before to the 
 men Avho had settled at the mouth of the Miskingum may well be applied to 
 the little band that founded the Foi-est City. 'No colony in America,' said he, 
 'was ever settled under such favorable auspices. Information, prosperity, and 
 strength will be its characteristics. There never were men better calculated 
 to pi-omote the welfare of any community.' They were of the same ancestral 
 stock, of like education and training, and had gained a similar high reputation 
 for ability and energy. Their ideas of government and of the value and im- 
 portance of education were drawn from the same sources, w^hile their religious 
 faith and sense of justice were also similar. They may frequently have been 
 discouraged, but they were always brave and determined. Tlieir faith was 
 sublime. They were of the stock which gave to the world a civilization without 
 a parallel in recorded history, and offeretl to the struggling races of men every- 
 where assui'ances of the realization of their best and highest aspirations. 
 (Applause.) They opened the door to the oppressed in every land, and the 
 wisdom of their foresight has been abundantly verified by the infusion into our 
 society of those strong and sturdy foreign elements which have given to the 
 Republic so many of its best and patriotic citizens, by whose aid this State 
 and city have become so gi'eat. (Applause.) Every step in your advance- 
 ment is but the confirmation of the wisdom of the fathers, of their foresight 
 and keen sagacity. (Applause.) Your progi'ess and prosperity is their highest 
 
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testimonial, their most lasting memorial. Glorious pioneer, lie made and left 
 his impress wherever he pitched his camp or raised his cabin ! (Applause.) His 
 was the impress of tlie sturdy manliood that feared God and hn-ed liberty. 
 (Applause.) He stands as the repi*esentative of a great age and well improved 
 opportunity, 'the sturdiest oak in the great forest of man.' (Applause.) 'As 
 the peak which first catches the morning light is the grand monjtrch of the 
 liills,' so the sturdy i^ioneer who struck the first blcnv for freedom is the grand 
 monarch of our civilization. (Great applause.) Let me commend you to his 
 precious example. It is richer than titles of royalty. (Applause.) God gi-ant 
 that the fires of liberty which he kindled ; that the respect for law and order 
 which he inculcated ; that the freedom of conscience and religious liberty 
 which he taught, and which found expression in the Constitution of the 
 United States ; that the public credit and honor which he established 'as the 
 most important source of our strength and security ;' and that the fervent and 
 self-sacrificing devotion to our splendid free institutions, which were ever the 
 animating and controlling purposes of his nature, may be as dear to the 
 people of this and each succeeding generation as they were to him." (Great 
 and long continued applause.) 
 
 MAJOR McKINLEY AT ALLIANCE. 
 
 The city of Alliance will long remember Thursday, July 23, 1896, as one of 
 the notable days in her history. The semi-centennial of Mt. Union College 
 attracted a large crowd, and the announcement that IMajor McKixley would 
 attend brought thousands more from all the country round about. He reached 
 Alliance from Cleveland on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad at 9:30 
 o'clock, and was taken at once to Mt. Union College. As he entered the hall 
 the vast crowd assembled arose, and led by Bishop Yincext, gave him the 
 Chautauqua salute. Tliis was followed by a round of cheers, and then Hon. 
 Lens-ls Miller, of Akron, introduced him, and he spoke as follows: 
 
 riajor HcKinley's Response. 
 
 Mr, Presidext, ]\lE>rBEKS op the Faculty axd Studexts of Mt. Union 
 College, AXD My Fellow Citizens : It gives me very great pleasure as your 
 neighbor, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of this college to be present 
 with you on this your semi-centennial anniversary. Tliis old institution lias a 
 proud history, and I ran not stand in your presence to-day without having come 
 to my mind and lips names which are familiar to all who know its career. The 
 venei'able founder of the institution. Dr. E. A. Hartshorx, is on the platform. 
 (Applause.) I remember many of his early struggles for the establisliment of 
 this seat of learning. Some of his associates in the original work are still with 
 you, and I do not know anywhere in the werld mox-e self-sacrificing and more 
 devoted instructors than the former and present faculty of Mt. Union College. 
 (Great Applause.) What a splendid work this institution has done ! Every- 
 where I go, in every State and Territory of the Union, I find members of the 
 Alumni Association of Mt. Union College, and wherever I find them I hear 
 them classed as among the best citizens of the communities in which they 
 reside. (Cheers and applause.) You not only educate men and women here. 
 
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hat you give what is more priceless than education — you give character to 
 men and women. I have come this morning, violating a rule which I had 
 established for myself, that I might mingle with you on this joyous day of 
 jubilee, your fiftieth anniversary. The value of university education can not be 
 overestimated. Its support can not be too generous, nortoo earnest, upon the 
 part of our people. But, after all, my fellow citizens, the hope of the Re- 
 public, its safety and security, and the strength and perpetuity of popular 
 government must rest upon the great public school system now happily and 
 firmly established throughout the United States. (Great applause.) Nothing 
 can take its place ; and, fortunately, the public school is everywhere becoming 
 the vestibule of the university. As the curric-ulum of the free school is ad- 
 vanced the tie between fundamental and higher education is closer and 
 stronger, and is more clearly recognized and appreciated. We can not have 
 too much education if it be of the right kind ; and if it be rightly applied it is 
 of inestimable value to the citizen in every walk and profession of life. 
 Young men and v.omen, what your education will be and do for you 
 depends upon yourselves. The chief difference in men, in school or out, 
 is the amount of work they de. No measure of genius, so called will 
 take the place of well directed hard work. It is not so much what is in 
 the course of studies at college which does you good, as it is what you master 
 there. The mental discipline, and the application of what you learn, is the 
 aim of real education. The acquisition of learning is useless unless it is put to 
 some wise end in the practical affairs of life. The young man who has 
 received only an elementary training is at a disadvantage compared with his 
 rival who has received a higher education. This is evident from the ease and 
 dexterity with which the one successfully disposes of problems that the other 
 wrestles with, perhaps unavailingly, for hours or days at a stretch. The need 
 of the times is a thorough education, thorough equipment for life's work ; and 
 that man succeeds best who is practical, sensible and broad, who really knows 
 the m.ost, has the best stored mind, and knows best how to use it. Do not 
 permit college ideals to warp you nor to remove you from active participation 
 in the every day affairs of life. You have something to do, every one of you 
 in this active world. Fortunately for the United States, the founders of the 
 Government clearly foresaw that the perpetuity of our institutions could be 
 secured only by making ample provision for popular education. They realized 
 far better than we do, that without learning there could be no real liberty, and 
 that the one could not be enjoyed without the other. (Applause.) To my 
 mind the most wonderful work of the fathers, second only to union and inde- 
 pendence, was the broad, wise and enduring provisions they made for public 
 instruction. No country in the world is so well provided with educational 
 advantages ; no colleges in any other land have bestowed upon them such 
 munificent gifts as the educational institutions of the United States. (Ap- 
 plause.) By the ordinance of the Congress of the Confederation in 17S5. 
 Section 16 (a square mile) of every township was reserved for the maintenance 
 of public schools. The Ordinance of 1787 confirmed the Ordinance of 1785, and 
 declared that 'religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary to good gov- 
 ernment and the happiness of mankind, schools, and the means of education, 
 shall be forever encouraged.' In contemplating this Ordinance I marvel at 
 the supren^e sagacity of its authors. The people and especially the youth of 
 the present day, little cooiprehend the importance and grandeur of this great 
 act, as it relates to education alone. It was without precedent or suggestion 
 in the previous legislation of mankind. Even its framers could have but 
 
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faintly conceived the immensity of the domain and the value of the boon they 
 were conferring upon posterity. It is without pai*allel among the gi-eat acts of 
 patriotism which the grand men of that age were constantly performing. 
 Priceless heritage to American youth, it has exerted an influence most benign 
 upon every State since organized I Especially the groat States of the North- 
 west, whose school systems and schools are to-day probably the best in the 
 world. (Applause.) In them is found the most perfect imion between the 
 elementary and advanced schools, from the kindergarten to the university, 
 ever known or attempted by any country, with abundant means for the sup- 
 port of all from the lowest to the highest. The total amount of money 
 realized from this munificent grant can not be accurately stated, but enough, 
 is kno^^^l to warrant the estimate that it is now not less than one hundred 
 million dollars. In referring to this great Ordinance I love to recall the words 
 of Webster. They can not be repeated too frequently, nor become too 
 familiar to the pupils of this and of every generation. You will remember 
 that he said: 'We are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity, we 
 help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus, but I doubt whether one 
 single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of a more 
 distinct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its- 
 consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see them, perhaps,^ 
 while the Ohio shall flow. It fixed forever the character of the population in 
 the vast region northwest of the Ohio.' The spirit of this Ordinance found 
 lodgment in the Constitution, and the words and acts of the father can not 
 fail to instruct and inspired the people of every age in American history. 
 Enlightened citizenship was to the fathers the great essential to every State 
 and community. Washington, in his Farewell Address, gave utterance to these 
 wise admonitions, which are as applicable to the people of to-day as they were 
 to the people of the Revolutionary period. He said: 'Promote, as an object 
 of primary importance, institutions for the general diffussion of knowledge. 
 In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it 
 is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.' We must not forget 
 that one great aim and object of education is to elevate the standard of 
 citizenship. The uplifting of our schools will undoubtedly result in a higher 
 and better tone in business and professional life. Old methods and standards- 
 may be good, but they must advance with the new problems and needs of the 
 age. This age demands an education which, while not depreciating in 
 any degi-ee the inestimable advantage of high intellectual culture, shall best 
 fit the man and woman for his or her calling, whatever it may be. Character is 
 the foundation upon which we must build if our institutions are to endure. 
 Our obligations for the splendid advantages we enjoy should not rest upon us 
 too lightly. We owe to our country much. We must give in return for these 
 matchless educational opportunities the best results in our lives. (Applause.) 
 AVe must make our citizenship worthy the great Republic, intelligent, patriotic, 
 and self-sacrificing, or our institutions will fail of their high purpose, and our 
 civilization will inevitably decline. Our hope is in good education and good 
 morals. Let us fervently pray that our educational institutions may always be 
 generously supported, and that those who go out from tliese halls will be 
 themselves the best witnesses of their force and virtue in populai- government.''" 
 (Great applause.) 
 
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SPEECH ON THE CAHPUS. 
 
 But the crowd assembled was far in excess of the capacity of the hall. Those 
 who could not gain admission waited outside to greet Major McKixley, 
 the guest of honor of the day. His appearance was the signal for an outburst 
 of applause, and the great throng began to call for a speech. The distinguished 
 guest smilingly demurred until the outcry was so great that he was obliged to 
 raise his hand for silence and thank them for their kind reception — speaking as 
 follows : 
 
 "My Fellow Citizens: I am very glad indeed to have the pleasure of 
 meeting my old friends and constituents of Stark, Columbiana and Malioning 
 Counties. I am glad to know that 1896 is to be a year of patriotism and dedi- 
 cation to the country. (Applause.) I am glad to know that the people all over 
 the country this year mean to be devoted to one flag, and that the glorious old 
 Stars and Stripes (apphiuse) ; that the people this year mean to maintain the 
 financial honor of the Nation as sacredly as they would maintain the honor of 
 the flag. (Ceering and applause.) lam glad to meet and greet you all this 
 morning, and I would be pleased to talk longer to you, but for an engagement 
 which takes me to Cleveland. I thank you all and bid you good-bye." "Great 
 applause.) 
 
 TO ALLIANCE WORKINQMEN. 
 
 At the Alliance station, where his train was surrounded by the employes of 
 the Morgan Engineering Company, the Steel Works, and hundreds of other 
 citizens, Major McKinley spoke as follows: 
 
 "My Fellow Citizens: I am very grateful for this unexpected call and 
 greeting. For more than a quarter of a century I have been in the habit of 
 coming to the city of Alliance, meeting her people and conferring with them 
 touching public questions of great individual and National concern. I am here 
 to-day to attend the fiftieth anniversary of Mt. Union College, and I only 
 appear now that I may acknowledge the kind welcome which you have so gen- 
 erously given me. (Applause.) All of us are interested in the welfare of our 
 country, because in the welfare of our country is involved the individual welfare 
 of every citizen. If our great country is prosperous then the people are pros- 
 perous. AVliat we want, no matter what political organization we may have 
 belonged in tlie past, is a return to the good times of four years ago. We want 
 good prices and good wages, and when we shall have them again we want them 
 paid in good money. (Applause and cries of 'You are right.') Whether our 
 prices be high or low, whether our wages be good or bad, they are all better by 
 being paid in dollars worth one hundred cents each. (Tremendous cheering.) 
 If we have good wages, they are better by being paid in good dollars. If we 
 have poor wages, they are made poorer by being paid in poor dollars. What 
 we all want more than anything else is to keep our money equal to that of the 
 most enlightened nations of the earth and maintain unsullied the credit, the 
 honor, and the good faith of the Government of the United States. (Great 
 applause.) We are the gi-eatest country in the world — gi-eatest in our freedom, 
 greatest in our opportunities, greatest in our possibilities — and we are too 
 great to taint our country's honor or cast suspicion on the ci'edit or the 
 obligations of our Government. (Applause.) I thank you, my fellow citizens, 
 and especially you, my friends, the woi-kingmen of Alliance, who have left 
 
youi' shops and fat'luriis lu alLe&t your inlert-.-^l hi llie great political contest 
 now pending, for let me tell you that I believe no higher compliment cauld be 
 paid to any cause than to have the support of the men who toil. (Applause.) 
 I thank you all and bid you good-bye." 
 
 Then ensued another great demonstration, the workingmen crowding about 
 Major McKixLEY and repeatedly cheering him. He greeted all cordially, 
 shaking hands with hundreds, and culling many by name, until at 11:40 
 his train pulled out for Cleveland. 
 
 THE NEW ENGLAND DINNER. 
 
 iSew England Day was celebrated at Cleveland on the Campus of Adelbert 
 College, on AVednesday, July 23d, and tliere Major McKixley was given another 
 most flattering reception, and prevailed u-pon to make his fourth speech of the 
 morning mtd afternoon. He was hailed with rapturous applause, and spoke as 
 follows : 
 
 "Mr. President and Ladies axd Gentlemen: It gives me sincere pleasure 
 to meet and address for a moment the Kew England Society of the city of 
 Cleveland and "Western Eeserve of Ohio. Those of us who are not descendants 
 of the Pilgi-ims of New England join cheerfully with those who are to pay high 
 tribute to the men who did so much for civilization and for the establishment 
 of free government on this continent. (Applause.) There has been every 
 variety of characterization of the New England pilgrim and pioneer — some of 
 it of a friendly nature, but far too much of it captious, harsh and unjust. At 
 this moment the picture of the Puritan painted by that gifted son of New 
 England, the late George William Curtis, whose memory we revere and will 
 ever cherish rises before me. (Applause.) He said that the Puritan was 'narrow, 
 bigoted, sour, hard and intollerant, but he was the man whom God had sifted 
 three kingdoms to find as the seed-grain wherewith to plant a free Republic' 
 and that he had 'done more for liberty than any man in human history' 
 It is said that the blood of New England courses through the veins of a quarter 
 of the population of the United States. I know not how this may be, but I 
 do know tliat the ideas, principles and tlie conscience of New England course 
 through every vein and artery of the American Eepublic. (Cheers and applause.) 
 A\'ell may you be proud to be descended from New England people, for never 
 was anything more happily said of them than these words by Whittier: 
 
 'No lack was In thy primal stock, 
 
 No weakling founders hnildecl here ; 
 They weie the men of Plymouth Rock— 
 . The Huguenot and the Cavalier.' 
 
 The Puritan has fought — aye, and died — on every battle-field of the Republic 
 from Concord and Bunker Hill to Gettysl)iu'g and Apjiomattox. (Great 
 applause.) And the torch of liberty he lit still illumiiios the whole world. I 
 bid you, again in tlie language of our beloved Whittier, — 
 
 'Hold fast to your Puritan heritage; — 
 But let the free lipht of the age. 
 Its life, its hope, its sweetness add 
 To the sterner faith your fathers had.' 
 
 (Great cheering.) 
 
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THE WINDOW GLASS WORKERS OF AHERICa. 
 
 The streets of Canton were filled with inarching people Saturday morning, 
 July 25th, wlien the eight hundred delegates of the "Window Glass Workers' 
 Association of North America came to pay their respects to their esteemed 
 friend and champion, William McKinley. The delegates had been in attend- 
 ance a* the eighth annual National Convention of the Association in Pittsbur'g, 
 and concluded it would be a fitting v.-ay to close their session by paying him a 
 visit. The delegation arrived at 10:40 via the Ft. AVayne railroad on a special 
 train of eleven coaches. They were met at the depot by the Canton Troop, 
 and the First Ward Drum Corps, and, headed by the Select Knight's Band, of 
 Pittsburg, they marched to Major McKinley's residence. When the column 
 reached the house the band rendered a patriotic selection, and while awaiting 
 the appearance .of Major McKixley the Glee Club of twenty members sang 
 several campaign airs which were heartily cheered. When Major McKixlev 
 appeared in the midst of the Committee he was received with a great demon- 
 stration of applause from all present, during which Mr. Hexry Bosticic, a 
 delegate from Princeton, Indiana, climbed upon a chair, and as soon as silence 
 was restored, spoke as follows : 
 
 "Major McKixley: I have been delegated by the Committee representing 
 my fellow vrorkmen, the delegates to the Eighth National Convention of 
 Window Glass AVorkers of North America, to present them to you, and the 
 sentiments I express are such as I have been instructed to express by this 
 Committee, consisting of James Campbell, G. L. Cake, George Ambos, Johx 
 T. Morgax, Hexry Bostick and John P. Eberhart. The men vi'ho stand 
 before you to-day have come from the States ranging from the Berkshire hills 
 in Massachusetts to the broad prairies of Illinois, and from the Great Lakes to 
 "beyond Mason and Dixon's line. From eleven States we come, represent- 
 ing the overwhelming majoj-ity sentiment of all our fellow workmen who toil 
 in \he great window glass industry in every factory in the "United States. AVe 
 •come fresh from the .exacting school of experience. Our people have seen the 
 tai'iff reduced in 1846, and that they suffered a reduction in wages in conse- 
 -quence. Another reduction of the tariff occurred in 1857, with a like reduction 
 in our wages. The tariff was increased in 1861, and our wages were accord- 
 ingly advanced. Again in 1890 the tariff was advanced, and we received a 
 corresponding benefit. In 1893 the Gorman-AVilson Bill was passed, destroy- 
 ing the protective features of the then existing McKinley Law, and gi'eatly 
 reducing the tariff, and we were in consequence not only greatly reduced 
 in the rate of wages received for a given amount of work, but were tlirown 
 into a state of idleness, hunger and hardship. AVe come then to greet you 
 whom that experience has taught us to regard as the only inflexible, unbend- 
 ing and universally recognized champion of the very cornerstone of American 
 progress — jirotection to home industries. Its effects are general and advan- 
 tageous to every class of American citizens. To the farmer, by making dutiable 
 the imports of such foreign products as meet like home products in the 
 American markets, and by creating through the general operations of the 
 policy, an active, reliable and remunerative market for all his products; to 
 the employer who uses his capital in operating manufacturing enterprises, 
 by creating and maintaining an active and healtiiy market for his wares, 
 insuring to him t]irou:!;h an increased ability of the people to buy and 
 use his wares, an active and steady-demand, and hence a reliable activity 
 in business ; and for the .laborer who toils in the employer's shops, by 
 
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insuring him steady employment at fair wages, with all tlie attendant 
 blessings and privileges of working and living as citizens of this gi'eat and 
 wonderfully resourceful country should be privileged to work and live — for we 
 know that an increased development of and pi-oduction from our natural 
 resources, if coupled with the multiplied consumption of the product by our 
 own people, must inevitably exert a refining influence on our American 
 civilization, and tend to elevate the standaixl of American citizenship, which 
 can never rise higher than the average of the intelligence, morality and man- 
 hood of the whole people. We love our country and have confidence in our 
 Government. "We believe that its immense wealth, phenomenal resources, 
 the loyalty and bravery of its sons, the intelligence and genius of its people, all 
 based upon and nurtured by the beneficent influence of its free institutions, 
 insure it against destruction or serious hurt from invasion with the sword by 
 any foreign foe, but our experience has- taught, us that the invasion of our 
 markets by tlie cheap labor of Europe is dangerous and destructive to the 
 very foundation of our liberties, and constitute a foe to our institutions in all 
 that makes them truly free and distinctly American . inasmuch as they are based 
 upon and can be maintained only by a care for the education of our children up 
 to a high and intelligent citizenship. (Applause.) We believe that the only 
 power that can successfully meet and rendei the invasion of this natural foe 
 harmless is the operation ol that great bulwark of American prosperity, the 
 protective principle strictly adhered to in the levying of duties on the 
 importation of foreign products, which principle we believe to have been most 
 ably and fully enunciated in the provisions of that wisely conservative and 
 patriotic measure, the McKinley Law, of which we recognize you as the 
 great architect who planned and builded it, schedule by schedule, and inaug- 
 urated that grand system that spoke out hope and prosperity to the people 
 and all the people of this Nation. We want that principle restored to the 
 statutes. We are satisfied with the quality of our dollars, and have no fear about 
 the volume of our money as a Nation, if the tariff is so regulated, and levjed 
 on such principles, as to protect American industries, and provide sufficient 
 funds to meet the ordinary expenses of the Government, thereby insuring to us 
 the opportunity to work and receive the money that is the just reward of an 
 American workingman. At the same time we demand that if the employers 
 in foreign countries would bring the products of their cheap labor to compete 
 in our markets with the products of our free American labor, they must meet 
 us on even ground by bringing back with those products some of the gold that 
 the present Administration has been forced first to borrow, and then return to 
 them as interest on the public debt — a debt they are steadily increasing, 
 and rendering more burdensome, day by day, as they proceed. All, or 
 nearly all of this, is through the operations of their great panacea, 
 * Tiu-iff Reform,' sometimes called ' Tariff for Revenue Only,* which we 
 would amend by changing the punctuation and adding a few woi'ds, 
 making it read, ' Tariff for Revenue, Only it Fails to Produce the Revenue.' 
 (Cheers.) We desired to greet you personally, Major McKinley, because we 
 look upon you as the favorite son of the United States, not the choice of any 
 political machine, or urged by the people within the confines of a single State ; 
 but the one to whom the people all looked when they began to realize that 
 the time had come when a standard-bearer must be chosen as a candidate of a 
 great ])arty for President of the United States — the one whose name spon- 
 taneously burst from the care and sorrow-burdened hearts of the American 
 people— the one grand character round whom every humble home and hearth- 
 
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stone in our bi"oad. land was clustering its hopes and are still clinging its faith 
 for better and brighter days. "We greet you, then, as our ideal of American 
 citizenship, the unassuming soldier, patriot and statesman, the hope of our 
 people and the next President of the United States." (Tremendous cheering.) 
 
 Major McKinley's Response. 
 
 " Mr. BOSTICK AXD WiNDOWGLASS WoRKERB OF Tna UxiTED StATES ! It IS 
 
 peculiarly gratifying to me to have this lai'ge body of the representatives of 
 your Association, fresh from your deliberative Convention, and speaking for 
 your great industry scattered over eleven States of the Union, honor me with 
 a call of greeting and congratulation. I appreciate the woi-ds of confidence 
 so eloquently expi-essed by your spokesman and agree with him that there is 
 something fundamentally wrong about our governmental affairs that demands 
 a speedy remedy, which can only be had by the people speaking through the 
 constitutional forms at the next general election. (Great applause.) You 
 have spoken of some of our difficulties with singular force and accuracy, 
 demonstrating that you appreciate fully the great problems which are before 
 the people for investigation and settlement. Nothing could be better said 
 than that a great essential to the credit of the country is to provide enough 
 revenue to i"un the country. The credit of any government is imperiled so long 
 as it expends moi*e money than it collects. The credit of the government, like 
 that of the individual citizen, is best subserved by living within its means, and 
 providing means with which to live. Every citizen must know, as you have 
 stated, that the receipts of the United States are now insufficient for its 
 necessai-y expenditui"es, and that our present revenue laws have resulted in 
 causing a deficiency in the Treasury for almost three years. It has been 
 demonstrated, too, that no relief can be had tlirough the present Congress. The 
 relief rests with the people themselves. (Cheers.) They are charged with the 
 election of a new Congress in November, which alone can give the needed relief. 
 If they elect a Republican Congress, the whole world knows that one of its first 
 acts will be to put upon the statute books of the country a law under which the 
 Government will collect enough money to meet its expenditures, stop debts 
 and deficiencies, and adequately protect American labor. (Great cheering and 
 applause.) This would be one of the surest steps toward the return of con- 
 fidence and a revival of business prosperity. (Applause^) The Government, 
 my fellow citizens, has not been the only sufferer in the past three years, as 
 your spokesman has vivid] y shown. The people have suffered, the laboring 
 man in his work and wages, the farmer in his prices ai.u. markets, and our 
 citizens generally in their incomes and investments. Enforced idleness among 
 the people has brought to many American homes gloom and \\Tetchedness» 
 where clieer and hope once dwelt. Both Government and people have paid 
 dearly for a mistaken j)olicy, a policy which has disturbed our industries and 
 cut down our revenues, always so essential to our credit, independence and 
 prosperity. Having stricken down our industries, a new experiment is now- 
 proposed, one that would debase our cuiTcncy and further weaken, if not 
 wholly destroy, public confidence. "Workingmen, have w-e not had enough of 
 such rash and costly experiments? (Cries of 'We have !' '"We have!') Don't 
 all of us wish for the return of the economic policy which for more than a third 
 of a century gave the Government its highest credit and the citizen his greatest 
 prosperity? (Great applause and cries of 'Yes,' 'Yes.') As four years aga 
 
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the people were warned against the industrial policy proclaimed by our politi- 
 cal adversaries, which has since brought ruin upon the couritry, and were 
 entreated to reject the theories which actual trial had always shown to be 
 fraught with disaster to our revenues, employments and enterprises, so now 
 they are again warned to reject this new remedy, no matter by what party or 
 leaders it may be offered, as certain to entail upon the country only increased 
 and aggravated disaster and suffering, and bring no good or profit to any pubKc 
 interest whatever. (Applause.) Circumstances have given to the Eepubiican 
 party at this juncture of our National affairs a place of supreme duty and i"e- 
 sponsibility. Seldom, if ever, has any political party occupied a i)Ost of such high 
 importance as that intrusted to the Kej)ublican party this year. Indeed, it may 
 be confidently asserted that never before has any political organization been so 
 clearly and conspicuously called to do battle for so much thtit is best in grovern- 
 ment than is this year demanded of the llepublican party. But, happily, it will 
 not contend alone. It will number amoDg its allies, friends and supporters, 
 thousands of brave, patriotic and conscientious political opponents of the past, 
 who will join our ranks and make common cause in resisting the proposed 
 debasement of our currency and tlie degradation of our country's honor, — 
 earnest and strong men who will strive as zealously as we for the triumph of 
 correct principles and the continued supremacy of law and order, those strongest 
 and mightiest pillars of free government. (Great applause.) The determina- 
 tion of this contest calls for the exerci.^e of the gravest duty of ^'ood citizenship, 
 and partisanship should not weigh against patriotism, as, indeed, I am very sure 
 that it will not, in the calm and proper settlement of the questions which 
 confront us. The whole country rejoices to-day that the strong and sturdy 
 men who toil are enlisted in the cause of American honor, American patriotism, 
 American production and American prosperity — a cause which must surely 
 win before the great tribuntil of the American people. (Tremendous applause.) 
 I thank you, my fellow citizens, for the compliment of this call, and your mani- 
 festations of personal regard and gotxi will, and it will give me sincere pleasure 
 to meet each of you personally." (Loud and long continued applause.) 
 
 CHICAGO UNIVERSITY REPUBLICAN CLUB. 
 
 The Committee which called at his residence, Wednesday afternoon, 
 •July 29th, to present to ]Major 3IcKixley a bust of himself, modeled by 
 the famous sculptm* IIaxs Hiksh, was received in the parlor. A party of news- 
 paper men and several personal friends of Major McKixley attended when 
 the presentation was miule by J. C. Ickes in behalf of the Eepubiican Club 
 of Chicago University. The gift came as a token of the high appi'eciation of 
 tlie students of the University for Major McKixley, and Mr. Ickes said: 
 
 "Major McKixley: The eyes of all America are just now turne(J 
 toward Canton as the City of Hope whence is to come forth the champion who 
 is to save his country from the heresies which threaten her. Already a number 
 of wise men have come out of the East to see this new prophet wlio has arisen, 
 and tliey have spread abroad such repoi'ts of his might and power that our 
 hearts have prompted us to see for ourselves. With this jnirpose in view we 
 iuive traveled from afar out of the boundless West and we rejoice to find our 
 hopes ni'jre than realized. We come as the representatives of the host of 
 yotmg Republicans who are enrolled in our colleges to-day; we come because 
 we are pjitrioti*- nvA 1 ip'v.use the niocbn'n college man takes itn oppoc!:;! interest in 
 
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all that pertains to the welfai-e of his country. We all love William :»IcKixlkv 
 and all that his name stands for in the in-eseAt great crisis of our National life. 
 (Applause.) We often hear it said that there is nothing in a nair.e, but I can 
 repeat to you a name that means honor, sincerity and truth, a name tlint has 
 already been written in history among the noblest and best men that our 
 country has produced, a name that is to receive still gi-eater fame and glory in 
 the future. I refer to the Republican nominee for President of the United 
 States— William ]\IcKixLET. (Applause.) Major ]McKixley, in behalf of the 
 Republican Club of the University. of Chicago, it is my privilege to present to 
 you this masterpiece of a gi-eat artist, a masterpiece not only because of its 
 perfection, but because of him whom it represents, hoping that you will accept 
 ' it in the spirit in which it is offered— a spirit of profound love and esteem." 
 (Applause.) 
 
 riajor ricKinley's Response. 
 
 "Mr. Ickes axd Gentlemen: It gives me great pleasure totmeet tliis 
 Committee from the Republican Club of the University of Chicago, and I ciin 
 but say tliat if the Republican party is to continue its progress of power 
 and usefulness, it must be done through the conscience and intelligence of t]ie 
 people. It is indeed a good omen to find the young gentlemen of the many 
 colleges of the United States attaching themselves to the Republican organiza- 
 tions to sustain correct political principles and the National honor. (Applause.) 
 There is no class of men more potent than those who go out from the colleges 
 into every county and State of the Union. They wield a mighty power, and it 
 is fortunate for the country that so many of them are enlisted this year for the 
 principles of good government and clean political methods, an honest canvass 
 and a pure and intelligent civil service. (Applause.) I am glad to know that 
 Republican principles are such that they can be submitted with safety and 
 confidence to the intelligence of the educated men of the country. I am pleased 
 witb the bust which you have been so kind as to bring me, and I accept it in 
 the spirit in which it has been presented. I beg that you convey to the artist 
 and members of the Republican Club of the University of Chicago my sincere 
 thanks for it." (Applause.) 
 
 THE KNOXVILLE flcKINLEY AND HOBART CLUB. 
 
 The McKinley and Hobart Club, of Knoxville, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburg, 
 accompanied by a number of friends, came to pay their respects to Major 
 McKixLEY on Thursday, July 30th. It was a fine delegation, numbering some 
 five hundred men, thoroughly representative of a great State, coming from 
 farm, forge, shop and store, and, in tlie words of the spokesman, -"representing 
 that hive of industry — that mighty workshop — composed of Pittsburg and her 
 neighboring borough." The delegation was well organized and marched like 
 a regiment of regulars. A band headed the procession and a quartet styled 
 the "Tariff League Singers of Pittsburg," accompanied the CUib. Mr. Joiix 
 P. Eberiiard, President of the McKinley and Hobart Club, who is also 
 President of the Glass Workers' Union, acted as spokesman for tlie visitors. 
 He said: 
 
 "Major McKinley: We come from that wonderful hive of industry, that 
 mighty workshop, composed of Pittsburg and its neighboring boroughs. We are 
 
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Eepublicans, and we believe in our party and its principles. "VVe are proud ot 
 its r'ecord and the result of its policy in the past ; and we have faith in tliat party 
 as being the only medium through which we may hope for a return of pros- 
 perity to the peoi)le, both in the agricultural and manufacturing industries of 
 the whole country. We believe in bimetallism, and we recognize in the 
 Eepublican party the only real, true and safe advocate of that policy, namely, 
 the use of both gold and silver as money, each interchanget^^le with the other, 
 each dollar good as every other dollar. We do not, and we feel assoi-ed that 
 you do not, believe in monometallism, or the use of either gold or silver as the 
 only money ; and knowing this, we know you will and must opiiosethe visionary 
 ideas of those who would seek to create values by the legislative fiat of the 
 Isation, and the attempts of those who seek to place us upon the single silver 
 basis, thereby driving our gold out of circulation and out of the country. We 
 believe you will use all the power you possess as the Chief Executive of the 
 United States to bring about, by international agreement, which is the only 
 manner in which it can be accomplished, the restoration of silver as a money 
 metal at a fixed ratio Avith gold. We believe, sir, that wise legislation, on the 
 principle otprotection, and to the end that it will yield an abundant revenue for 
 the expenses of the Government, for the payment of debts, for the improvement of 
 our rivers and harbors, for the upbuildingof our navy, and for internal improve- 
 ments of various kinds will restore our country to gi-eat prosperity and will 
 solve the money problem about which so many of our people seem to be con- 
 cerned. We recognize in your public career and in your private. life those 
 noble qualities of mind and heart that give us the assurance that the great 
 interests of thi^ country, over which you will shortly be called to preside, will 
 be in safe hands, and that you, trusting in the strength and guided by tiie 
 counsels of tlie Supreme Kuler of nations, will be able to discharge the grave 
 resi)onsibility and execute the duties of your high office so as to lead us as a 
 people in the higher paths of duty to more glorious achievements than have 
 marked our wonderful past." (Applause.) 
 
 flajor ricKinley's Response. 
 
 Afte-r the storm of applause wliich greeted ^Major McKinley had subsided, 
 he said: 
 
 'OIr Ebkrharf) and My Fellow Citizens: I am glad, indeed, to meet 
 and greet the Knoxville McKinley and Hobart Club in this city and at my 
 home, and I thank you cordially for traveling so long a distancs to express 
 your personal good will to me and your devotion to tlie great principles of the 
 Republican party. Yon are right, Mr. Si)okesman, in saying tliat tlie Eepub- 
 Vwnn party stands now as it has always stood for a sound and stable cur- 
 rency and for the maintenance of all its money of every kind at ptu-ity, so that 
 it shall always be equal to the best money of the most civilized nations of the 
 earth. (Applause.) A depreciated currency, as you have so well said, would 
 work disaster to the int<?rests of the people, and to none more than those of 
 the workingmen and farmers. Long years ago Da.vihl Webster said that 
 those who were the least able to bear it were the first to feel it and tlie last 
 to recover from it. 'A disordered currency,' said he, 'is fatal to industry, 
 frugality, and economy. It fosters t!ie spirit of speculation and extravagance. 
 It is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's fields with the 
 
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sweat of the poor niaTi"'s brow.' Tliat which we call money, my fellow citizens, 
 and Avith which values are measured and settlements mjide, must be as 
 true as the bushel which measures the grain of the farmer, and as honest 
 :as the hours of labor which tlie man who toils is required to give. (Loud 
 applause.) The one must be as full aTid complete and as honest as the other. 
 (Applause. ) Our currency to-day is go(Kl — all of it is as go(xi as gold and lias ];)een 
 so ever since the Republican party secured the resumption of specie payments 
 in 1879 — and it is the unfaltering determination of the Republican party to so 
 keep and maintain it forever. (Cheers.) It is the duty of the people of this 
 country to stand unitedly against every effort to degrade our currency or debase 
 our credit. (Cries of 'They will.') They must unite now as they have united in 
 the past in overy great crisis of our country's history without regard to past 
 party affiliations or differences to uphold the National credit and honor as 
 sacredly as our flag. (Cheers.) AVhen the country seemed wildly bent on 
 inflation in the years preceding the resumption of specie payments the sober 
 sense of the American peojjle without regard to party united and stemmed that 
 threatened tide of irredeemable paper money and repudiation and placed and 
 kept the Nation on the rock of jiubl ic honor, sound finance and honest currency. 
 You have rightly stated that the Republican party not only believes in sound 
 money and the liigheist public faith and honor on the part of the Government 
 of the United States to all its creditors, but also that it believes in a tariff 
 which while raising enough money to conduct the Government, economically 
 administered, will serve the highest and best interests of American labor, 
 American agriculture, American commerce, and American citizenship, 
 (Cheers.) Some of our political opponents are given to saying that the tariff 
 question is settled. If we are not wrong in interpreting their meaning, we 
 think they are right, (laughter), and thank them for the confession. (Applause. ) 
 We believe that the tariff question is settled — settled in the minds and hearts 
 of the American people, and settled on the side of protection. (Tremendous 
 cheering.) But, howeTer firmly it may be settled in the public mind, it is not 
 yet settled in public law. What is in the hearts and consciences of the people 
 touching any public question is not effective until it is written in public 
 statute, and this can only be done through the elective franchise in the choice 
 of a Congress of the United States, which makes our public laws. No one, I 
 take it, will regard the present tariff law as a just and final settlement of the 
 question. Whatever may be our differences about the economic i^rinciple upon 
 which tariff legislation should be made, all agi'ce that the present tariff law is 
 a failure, even as a revenue measure. So, without discussing the principle of 
 free trade or protection, everybody must appreciate tliat no law is a settlement 
 which creates every month a deficiency in the public treasury. (Loud applause 
 and cheers for 'McKinley.') The people of this country are not satisfied with 
 such an enactment, and will not be satisfied until a public law shjill express 
 tlie public will in a statute which provides adequate revenues for the neMs 
 of the Government, full security for its credit, and ample protection to the 
 labor, capital and energy of the American people. (Applause.) I tliank you 
 my follow citizens, for this friendly call, and I assure you that it will give me 
 pleasure to meet each of you personally. 
 
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CAHBRIDQE AND GUERNSEY COUNTY. 
 
 Three hundred citizens of Guernsey County visited Canton on Friday 
 morning, July 31, to pay their personal respects to Major McKixley and tender 
 formal congiwLulations. The delegation was about evenly divided between 
 members of the G. A. R. Posts of Cambridge and employes of the Cambridge 
 tin mill. The party came to this city by way of the C, T. and Y. railroad, 
 arrived here at eleven o'clock, and were at once escorted to Major McKixley's 
 residence by George D. Harter and Canton G. A. R. Posts and the McKinley 
 Drum Corps. When they arrived at the McKixley I'esidence after a selection 
 by the O. U. A. M. band of Cambridge, Mr. H. S. Moses, commander of George 
 D. Harter Post, px-esented Colonel Joseph D. Taylor to Major McKixley as the 
 spokesman for the visitors. He referred to the flood of high water through 
 whicli their train had come from Cambridge, and said: 
 
 "Major McKixley: We come to-day to tender you our personal regards 
 and to add congratulations to the many hitherto given you. We have not come 
 as partisans but as friends and neighbors. You have to-day before you in this 
 delegation many comrades of the G. A. R. of Cainbridge. They are men who 
 have learned to love you for your patriotic devotion to your country in time of 
 war and in time of peace. These old comrades have come to pay tribute to 
 your high personal character and for the jjublic service you have rendered. 
 The old soldiers want one thing remembered, and that is that the honor and 
 integi'ity of the old flag must be maintained. (Cheers.) You heai-d it said in 
 Congress that we could not make tin in this country but I want to say that we 
 have in this crowd men who are employed in the Cambridge tin mill. They 
 work in a tin mill which has sent out 6,000 tons or 120,000 boxes, of tin a year 
 and it is as good as any tin plate made across the water. (Cheers.) Tliese men 
 have come from Guernsey County, from all the walks of life. We have come to 
 believe that the star of hope for the laboring man is i;esting in Canton. In 
 behalf of the men and women in this delegation — for there are a number of 
 ladies who have come along with us — I extend greeting to you and ]\Irs. 
 McKixley." (Apj)lause.) 
 
 After the cheering had ended Dr. AV. H. McFarlaxd was introduced. He 
 is bowed under the M^eight of years and as Chaplain of the Xinety-eightli Regi- 
 ment Ohio Volunteer Infantry is well known tliroughout the State. He said 
 that he had come to see and hear and grasp the hand once more of the most 
 illustrious friend of labor in the United States. (Cheers.) "He is the man 
 wlio has done more for the laboring men than any other man in this country — 
 or in the world for that matter. No one has done more to elevate or dignify 
 labor and no man has jmt a brighter crown of glory on the brow of honest toil 
 than you." (Great applaase.) 
 
 riajor ricKinley's Response. 
 
 Major McKixley spoke without manuscriiii, or notes, and with great force 
 and eloquence. He was cheered time and again, and at the conclusion of his 
 address there was the crush of visitors to grasp his hand. He said : 
 
 "CoLoxEL Taylor, Djt. McFarlaxd, My Comrades axd Fellow Citizexs: 
 It gives me gi-eat gratification to receive this call from my friends and fellow 
 citizens of Guernsey County, where I have made hO many visits in years gone 
 by that I k:unv most of you personally. But aside from that I know some- 
 thing of the quality of your population and the spirit of your people. I know 
 
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you have always done, and we must all ever strive to keep the Union worthy 
 of the brave men who sacrificed, suffered and died for it. I will be glad, my 
 conoi'ades, to meet you aH personally." (Loud cheering and applause. ) 
 
 At the conclusion of the address, and the demonstration that followed, an 
 iiiform.al reception was held. The old veterans filed up to the porch, and 
 extended the hand of feUowship — and some of them only had one hand to give. 
 They were all happy with the bright inspirations of the visit, which came to 
 an end, all too soon, at six o'clock. 
 
 A COIVTEST FOR PRINCIPLE. 
 
 Among the messages received by Major MoKinley, Monday morning, June 
 20tli, was a letter from the Young ivlen's Republican Club of Omaha, Nebraska, 
 saying: 
 
 "To the Hon. William McKinley, Canton, Ohio, The Young Men's 
 Republican Club of Omaha, sends greeting to the standard bearer of the 
 Republican party, and gives him assurance that the nomination of a citizen of 
 Nebraska, by the Democratic National Convention will in no wise affect the 
 enthusiasm and the loyalty of the young Republicans of Omaha. This is a 
 contest of principles, and in this contest we shall fight for the triumph of 
 William McKinley, who stands for National honor and National prosperity. 
 
 Charles E. Winter, Trestdent. 
 James A. Beck, Secretary. 
 
 ENTHUSIASTIC, ACTIVE AND CONFIDENT. 
 
 Also the following: 
 
 York, Nebraska, July 20, 1896. 
 
 ^' Hon. William McKinley, Canton, Ohio: Notwithstanding Nebraska is 
 the center of the Populistic maelstrom. Republicans are enthusiastic, active 
 and confident. York has a McKinley Club of 525 members, which includes 106 
 old soldiers. The Club sends its compliments to its great leader, the next 
 President of the United States. Nebraska Republicans are not alarmed nor in- 
 timidated; they have fearlessly faced and combatted Populistic vagaries for 
 
 six years. 
 
 N. V. Harlan, President. 
 
 FOUNDERS' DAY IN THE FOREST CITY. 
 
 Major McKinley left Canton on July 22nd for the first time since his nomi- 
 nation for President. He went to Cleveland to attend the opening exercises 
 of the Cleveland Centennial Celebration on Founders' Day, or tlie hundredth 
 ar.r.iversary of the city's first settlement. His appearance in the city created 
 the gi-eatest ent'.iusiaczn, ar.d as he passed along the line of the great parade, 
 wliich was witnessed by fully 250,000 people, there were constant demonstra- 
 tions in his honor. His address on this occasion was as follows: 
 
Major ricKinley's Response. ■ 
 
 "Mr. President and My Fellow Citizens : Tlie people of Cleveland do 
 well to celebnite the liundredth anniversary of their great and beautil'ul cily. 
 Its original builders are long since gone, and their mighty struggles are pass- 
 ing from individual recollections into the field of tradition and history. Anni- 
 versaries lilce this increases our pride for the men who wrought so excellently, 
 despito tlieir trials and hardshix)s, from which the present generation would 
 intuitively shrink. They recall to our minds the high character and courage, 
 the lofty aims and groat sacrifices of our sturdy ancestors, and inspire us to 
 revere their memories and imitate the virtues. The thouglitful observance 
 of an anniversary lilce this, therefore, does all who are associated with it, or 
 will) come within its influence, positive good. It unfolds the past and enliglit- 
 ens tlie present, and by emphasizing the value of the ties of family, home and 
 country, it encourages civic pride and appeals to tlie highest and best senti- 
 ments of our hearts and lives. We have brought to our minds the picture of 
 the beginning and the little we then possessed, in vived contrast with the 
 much that has been acquired and accomplithed since. And if the lesson is 
 rightly learned, it suggests to all of us how much we have to do to contribute 
 our share to the j)rogress and civilization of the future. It is a counting of tlie 
 sheaves garnered in the harvest of the past, and a stimulous to liiglier 
 endeavor in tlie future. A hundred years of effort and sacrifice, of skill and 
 activity, of industry and economy are placed bci'ore our eyes. To-d;;y the 
 present generation pays its homage to Cleveland's founders, and offers in 
 her own proud strength and beauty a generous and miqualified testimonial 
 to their wisdom and work. (Applause.) The statistics of the population 
 of Cleveland, and of her growth, production and wealth, do not and can 
 not tell the story of her greatness. We have been listening to the interesting 
 and eloquent words of historian, poet and orator, graphically describing her rise 
 from obscurity to prominence. They have woven into perfect and pleasing 
 narrative tlie truthful and yet well established record of her advancement 
 from an unknown frontier settlement in the Western wilderness to the proud 
 rank of eleventh cily in the United States, the grandest country in the world. 
 (Applause.) We have heard with just iJride, so marvelous has been her pro- 
 gi-ess, that among the greatest cities on the earth only sixty-two now out- 
 rank Cleveland in population. (Applause.) Her life is as one century to 
 twenty compared with some of that number, yet her civilization is as far ad- 
 vanced as the proudest metropolis in the world. (Applause.) In point of 
 government, education, morals, and business thrift and enterju'ise, Cleveland 
 may well claim recognition with the foremost, and is fairly entitled to warm 
 congratulations and high eulogy on this her Centennial Day. Kor will any 
 envy lier people a season of self gratulation and rejoicing. You inaugurate 
 to-day a centennial celebration in honor of your successful past, and its be- 
 ginning is with singular ajipropriateness, called rounder^' Dj-y. ^Ve have 
 heard with interest, the description of the commercial importance of this 
 city, a port on a chain of lakes wiiose tonnage and commerce surpass tliose of 
 any other sea or ocean on the globe. We realize the excellence and superior- 
 ity of the great railroad systems which center in Cleveland, We marvel at the 
 volume and variety of your numerous manufactories, and see about us, on every 
 hand, the pleasant evidence of your comfort and culture, not only in your beau- 
 tiful and hospital homes, but in your churclies, schools, charities, factories, 
 business houses, streets and viaducts, public parks, statues and monuments — 
 
indeed, in your conveniences, adornments and improvements of every sort, we 
 behold all the advantages and blessings of the model, modern city, worthy to 
 be both the pride of a great State and much grander Nation. (Great ap- 
 plause.) This is the accomplishment of a century. Who wrouglit it— who 
 made all this possible? Whence came they, and what manner of men and 
 women were tliey to undertake to reclaim the wilderness from its primeval 
 savagery? Such are the questions that come instinctively to our lips. We are 
 told that the original band of fifty pioneers, under the leadership of Moses 
 Clkvelaxd, arrived at the mouth of tlie Ouyalioga on July 22, 1796, and that 
 they ascended the bank and beheld the beautiful plain, covered with luxuriant 
 forests, which they properly defined as 'a splendid site for a city.' Perhaps the 
 historian can remember the names of a dozen, or discover among us as many of 
 their immediate descendants as there were original settlers, but whetiier we 
 can call them all or any of them by name, or not, this we do know — they were 
 miMi of pure lives, nobly consecrated to the good of the community. Sober, 
 serious, even stern and austere they may have been, but grand was their mission 
 and well did they accomplish it. (Applause. ) They planted here in the wilder- 
 ness, upon firm and enduring foundations, the institutions of free government. 
 (Applause,) They recognized and enforced the glorious doctrines and priceless 
 privileges of civil and religious liberty, of law and order, of the rights, dignity 
 and independence of labor, of the rights of property, and of the inviolability 
 of public faith and honor. (Applause.) Never were any men more zealous in 
 patriotic devotion to free government and the Union of the States. On their 
 long and toilsome journey from their Connecticut homes they did not forget 
 the Fourth of July, and, though in sad straits, they celebrated it with thank- 
 fulness and joy, and unfurled to the breeze our glorious old flag, \/ith its 
 thirteen stars and stripes, on the Nation's natal day, on its now far distant twen- 
 tieth anniversary. (Great applause.) They believed not only in the Declara- 
 tion of Independence, but in the Constitution which gave effect and force to 
 its immortal truths (applause) ; and no men anywliere struggled more bravely 
 to sustain its great jirinciples than some of these very settlers. (Ajsplause.) 
 Indeed, the tribute which Washixotox had paid but a few years before to the 
 men who had settled at the mouth of the Miskingum may well be applied to 
 the little band that founded the Forest City. 'No colony in America,' said he, 
 'was ever settled under such favorable ausj) ices. Information, prosperity, and 
 strength will be its characteristics. There never were men better calculated 
 to promote the welfare of any community.' They were of tlie same ancestral 
 stock, of like education and training, and had gained a similar high reputation 
 for abilitj' and energy. Their ideas of government and of the value and im- 
 portance of education were drawn from the same sources, while their religious 
 faith and sense of justice were also similar. They may frequently have been 
 discouraged, but they were always brave and determined. Tlieir faith was 
 sublime. They were of the stock which gave to the world a civilization without 
 a parallel in recorded history, and oflfered to the struggling races of men every- 
 where assurances of the realization of their best and highest aspirations. 
 (Applause.) They opened the door to the oppressed in every land, and the 
 wisdom of their foresight has been abundantly verified by the infusion into our 
 society of those strong and sturdy foreign elements which have given to the 
 Republic so many of its best and patriotic citizens, by whose aid tliis State 
 and city have become so gi-eat. (Applause.) Every step in your advance- 
 ment is but the confinnation of the wisdom of the fatliers, of their foresight 
 and keen sagacity. (Api^lause.) Your progi-ess and prosperity is their highest 
 
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testimonial, their most lasting memorial. Glorious pioneer, he made and left 
 his impress wherever he pitched his camp or raised his cabin ! (Applause.) His 
 was the impress of the sturdy manhood that feai-ed God and loved liberty. 
 (Applause.) He stands as tlie representative of a great age and well improved 
 opportunity, 'the sturdiest oak in the gi-eat forest of man.' (Applause.) *As 
 the peak wliioh first catches the morning liglit is the grand monarch of tlie 
 hills,' so the sturdy pioneer who struck the first blow for freedom is the grand 
 monarch of our civilization. (Great applause.) Let me commend you to his 
 precious example. It is richer than titles of royalty. (Applause.) God gi-ant 
 that the fires of liberty which he kindled ; that the respect for law and order 
 which he inculcated; that the freedom of conscience and religious liberty 
 which he taught, and which found expression in the Constitution of the 
 United States; that the public credit and honor which he established 'as the 
 most important source of our strength and security ;' and that the fervent and 
 self-sacrificing devotion to our splendid free institutions, which were ever the 
 animating and controlling purposes of his nature, may be as dear to the 
 people of this and each succeeding generation as they M'ere to him." (Great 
 and long continued applause.) 
 
 MAJOR McKINLEY AT ALLIANCE. 
 
 The city of Alliance will long i-emember Thursday, July 23, 1896, as one of 
 the notable days in her history. The semi-centennial of Mt. Union College 
 attracted a large crowd, and the announcement that Major McKixley would 
 attend brought thousands more from all the country round about. He reached 
 Alliance from Cleveland on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad at 9:30 
 o'clock, and was taken at once to Mt. Union College. As he entered the hall 
 the vast crowd assembled arose, and led by Bishop Vincent, gave him the 
 Chautauqua salute. This was followed by a round of cheers, and then Hon. 
 Lewis Miller, of Akron, introduced him, and he spoke as follows: 
 
 riajor ricKinley's Response. 
 
 Mr. President, Members of the Faculty and Students of Mt. Union 
 CoLLECiE, AND My Fellow Cittzens: It gives me very great pleasure as your 
 neighbor, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of this college to be present 
 with you on this your semi-centennial anniversary. Tliis old institution luis a 
 proud history, and I can not stand in your presence to-day witliout having come 
 to my mind and lips names which are familiar to all wlio know its career. Tlie 
 venerable founder of the institution, Dr. E. A. Hartshorn, is on the platform. 
 (Ai)plause.) I remember many of his early struggles for the establisliment of 
 this seat of learning. Some of his associates in the original work are still with 
 you, and I do not know anywhere in the world more self-sacrificing and more 
 devoted instructors than the former and jn-esent faculty of Mt. Union College. 
 (Ch'eat Applause.) What a splendid work this institution luis done I Every- 
 where I go, in every State and Territory of the Union, I find members of tlio 
 Ahunni Association of Mt. Union Colh?ge, and wherever I find them I liear 
 them classed as among the best citizens of the conununities in whicli they 
 reside. (Clieers and applause.) You not only educate men and women here. 
 
but you give what is more priceless than education — you give character to 
 men and women. I have come this morning, violating a rule which I had 
 established for myself, that I might mingle with you on tliis joyous day of 
 jubilee, your fiftieth anniversary. The value of university education can not be 
 overestimated. Its support can not be too generous, nor too earnest, upon the 
 part of our people. But, after all, my fellow citizens, the hope of the Re- 
 public, its safety and security, and the strength and perpetuity of popular 
 government must rest upon the great public school system now happily and 
 firmly established throughout the United States. (Great applause.) Nothing 
 can take its place ; and, fortunately, the public school is everywhere becoming 
 the vestibule of the university. As the curriculum of the free school is ad- 
 vanced the tie between fundamental and higher education is closer and 
 stronger, and is more clearly recognized and appreciated. We can not have 
 too much education if it be of the right kind ; and if it be rightly applied it is 
 of inestimable value to the citizen in every walk and profession of life. 
 Young men and women, what your education will be and do for you 
 depends upon yourselves. The chief difference in men, in school or out, 
 is the amount of work they de. No measure of genius, so called will 
 take the place of well directed hard work. It is not so much what is in 
 the course of studies at college which does you good, as it is what you master 
 there. The mental discipline, and the application of what you learn, is the 
 aim of real education. The acquisition of learning is useless unless it is put to 
 some wise end in the practical affairs of life. The young man who has 
 received only an elementary training is at a disadvantage compared with his 
 rival who has received a higher education. This is evident from the ease and 
 dexterity with which the one successfully disposes of problems that the other 
 wrestles with, perhaps unavailingly, for hours or days at a stretch. The need 
 of the times is a thorough education, thorough equipment for life's work ; and 
 that man succeeds best who is practical, sensible and broad, who really knows 
 the most, has the best stored mind, and knows best how to use it. Do not 
 permit college ideals to warp you nor to remove you from active participation 
 in the every day affairs of life. You have something to do, every one of you 
 in this active world. Fortunately for the United States, the founders of the 
 Government clearly foresaw that the perpetuity of our institutions could be 
 secured only by making ample provision for popular education. They realized 
 far better than we do, that without learning there could be no real liberty, and 
 that the one could not be enjoyed without the other. (Applause.) To my 
 mind the most wonderful work of the fathers, second only to union and inde- 
 pendence, was the broad, wise and endui-ing provisions they made for public 
 instruction. No country in the world is so well provided with educational 
 advantages ; no colleges in any other land have bestowed upon them such 
 munificent gifts as the educational institutions of the United States. (Ap- 
 plause.) By the ordinance of the Congress of the Confederation in 1785, 
 Section 16 (a square mile) of every township was reserved for the maintenance 
 of public schools. The Ordinance of 1787 confirmed the Ordinance of 1785, and 
 declared that 'religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary to good gov- 
 ernment and the happiness of mankind, schools, and the means of education, 
 shall be forever encouraged.' In contemplating this Ordinance I marvel at 
 the supreme sagacity of its authors. The peojile and especially the youth of 
 the present day, little coaiprehend the importance and grandeur of this great 
 act, as it relates to education alone. It was without precedent or suggestion 
 in the previous legislation of mankind. Even its framers could have but 
 
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faintly conceived the immensity of the domain and the value of the boon they 
 were conferring upon posterity. It is without parallel among the great acts of 
 patriotism which the grand men of that age were constantly performing. 
 Priceless lieritage to American youth, it has exerted an influence most benign 
 upon every State since organized! Especially tlie great States of the North- 
 west, whose school systems and schools are to-day probably the best in the 
 world. (Applause.) In them is found the most perfect union between the 
 elementary and advanced schools, from the kindergarten to the university, 
 ever knovsTi or attempted by any country, with abundant means for the sup- 
 port of all from the lowest to the highest. The total amount of money 
 realized from this munificent grant can not be accurately stated, but enough 
 is known to warrant the estimate that it is now not less than one hundred 
 million dollars. In referring to this great Ordinance I love to recall the words 
 of Webster. They can not be repeated too frequently, nor become too 
 familiar to the pupils of this and of every generation. You will remember 
 that he said: 'We are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity, we 
 help to perpetuate thefame of Solox and Lyourgus, but I doubt whether one 
 single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of a more 
 distinct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its 
 consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see them, perhaj)S, 
 while the Ohio shall flow. It fixed forever the character of the population in 
 the A^ast region northwest of the Ohio.' The spirit of this Ordinance found 
 lodgment in the Constitution, and the words and acts of the father can not 
 fail to instruct and inspired the people of every age in American history. 
 Enlightened citizenship was to the fathers the great essential to every State 
 and community. Washington, in his Farewell Address, gave uttei-ance to these 
 wise admonitions, which are as applicable to the people of to-day as they were 
 to the people of the Revolutionary period. He said: 'Promote, as an object 
 of primary importance, institutions for the general diffussion of knowledge. 
 In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to p.ublie opinion, it 
 is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.' We must not forget 
 that one great aim and object of education is to elevate the standard of 
 citizenship. The uplifting of our schools will undoubtedly result in a higher 
 and better tone in business and i)rofessi()nal life. Old methods and standards 
 may be good, but they must advance with the new problems and needs of the 
 age. This age demands an education which, while not depreciating in 
 any degree the inestimable advantage of high intellectual culture, shall best 
 fit the man and woman for his or her calling, whatever it may be. Character is 
 the foundation upon which we must build if our institutions are to endure. 
 Our obligations for the splendid advantages M-e enjoy should not rest upon us 
 too lightly. We owe to our country much. We must give in return for these 
 matchless educational opportunities tlie best results in our lives. (Applause.) 
 AVe must make our citizensliip worthy the great Republic, intelligent, patriotic, 
 and self-sacrificing, or our institutions will fail of their liigh purpose, and our 
 civilization will inevitably decline. Our hope is in good education and good 
 morals. Let us fervently pray that our educational institutions may always be 
 generously supported, and that those who go out from these halls will be 
 themselves the best witnesses of their force and virtue in popular government." 
 (Great applause.) 
 
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SPEECH ON THE CAHPUS. 
 
 But the crowd assembled was far in excess of the capacity of the hall. Those 
 who could not gain admission waited outside to greet Major MoKinley, 
 the guest of honor of the day. His appearance was the signal for an outburst 
 of applause, and tlie great throng began to call for a speech. The distinguished 
 guest smilingly demurred until the outcry was so gi-eat that he was obliged to 
 raise his hand for silence and thank them for their kind reception — speaking as 
 follows : 
 
 "My Fellow Citizens: I am very glad indeed to have the pleasure of 
 meeting my old friends and constituents of Stark, Columbiana and Mahoning 
 Counties. I am glad to know that 1896 is to be a year of patriotism and dedi- 
 cation to the country. (Applause.) I am glad to know that the people all over 
 the country this year mean to be devoted to one flag, and that the glorious old 
 Stars and Stripes (applause) ; that the people this year mean to maintain the 
 financial honor of the Nation as sacredly as they would maintain the honor of 
 the flag. (Ceering and applause.) lam glad to meet and greet you all this 
 morning, and I vrould be pleased to talk longer to you, but for an engagement 
 which takes me to Cleveland. I thank you all and bid you good-bye." "Great 
 applause.) 
 
 TO ALLIANCE WORKINQMEN. 
 
 At the Alliance station, where his train was surrounded by the employes of 
 the Morgan Engineering Company, the Steel Works, and hundreds of other 
 citizens. Major McIvinley spoke as follows: 
 
 "My Fellow Citizens: I am very grateful for this unexpected call and 
 greeting. For more than a quarter of a century I have been in the habit of 
 coming to the city of Alliance, meeting her people and conferring with them 
 touching public questions of great individual and National concern. I am here 
 to-day to attend the fiftieth anniversary of Mt. Union College, and I only 
 appear now that I may acknowledge the kind welcome which you have so gen- 
 erously given me.. (Applause.) All of us are interested in the welfare of our 
 country, because in the welfare of our country is involved the individual welfare 
 of every citizen. If our great country is prosperous then tl)e people are pros- 
 perous. "What we want, no matter what political organization we may have 
 belonged in the past, is a return to the good times of four years ago. We want 
 good prices and good wages, and when we shall have them again we want them 
 paid in good money. (Applause and cries of 'You are right.') Whether our 
 prices be high or low, whether our wages be good or bad, they are all better by 
 being paid in dollars worth one hundred cents each. (Tremendous cheering.) 
 If we have good wages, they are better by being paid in good dollars. If we 
 have poor wages, they are made poorer by being paid in poor dollars. What 
 we all want more than anything else is to keep our money ecjual to that of the 
 most enlightened nations of the earth and maintain unsullied the credit, the 
 honor, and the good faith of the Government of the United States. (Great 
 applause.) We are the greatest country in the world — greatest in our freedom, 
 greatest in our opportunities, greatest in our possibilities — and we are too 
 great to taint our country's honor or cast suspicion on the credit or the 
 obligations of our Government. (Applause.) I thank you, my fellow citizens, 
 and especially you, my friends, the workingmen of Alliance, who have left 
 
your shops and factories to attest your interest in the great political contest 
 now pending, for let me tell you that I believe no higher compliment cauld be 
 paid to any cause than to have the support of the men who toil. (Applause.) 
 I thank you all and bid you good-bye." 
 
 Then ensued another great demonstration, the workingmen crowding about 
 Major McKiNLEY and repeatedly cheering him. He greeted all cordially, 
 shaking hands with hundreds, and calling many by name, until at 11:40 
 his train pulled out for Cleveland. 
 
 THE NEW ENGLAND DINNER. 
 
 iNew England Day was celebrated at Cleveland on the Campus of AAelbert 
 College, on "Wednesday, July 23d, and there Major McKixley was given another 
 most flattering rece})tion, and ju'evailed upon to make his fourth sptach of the 
 morning and afternoon. He was hailed with rapturous applause, and spoke as 
 follows : 
 
 "Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen: It gives me sincere ijleasure 
 to meet and address for a moment the New England Society of the city of 
 Cleveland and Western Reserve of Ohio. Those of us v^ho are not descendants 
 of the Pilgrims of New England join cheerfully with those who are to pay high 
 tribute to the men who did so much for civilization and for the establishment 
 of free government on this continent. (Applause.) There has been every 
 variety of cliaracterization of the New England pilgrim and pioneer — some of 
 it of a friendly nature, but far too much of it captious, harsh and unjust. At 
 this moment the picture of the Puritan painted by that gifted son of New 
 England, the late George "William Curtis, whose memory we revere and will 
 ever cherish rises before me. (Applause. ) He said that the Puritan was 'narrow, 
 bigoted, sour, hard and intollerant, but he was the man whom God had sifted 
 three kingdoms to find as the seed-grain wherewith to plant a free Republic,' 
 and that he had 'done more for liberty than any man in human history' 
 It is said that the blood of New England courses tlu-ough the veins of a quarter 
 of the population of the United States. I know not how this may be, but I 
 do know that the ideas, principles and the conscience of New England course 
 through every vein and artery of the American Republic. (Cheers and applause.) 
 Well may you be proud to be descended from New England people, for never 
 was anything more happily said of them tlian these words by Wiiittier: 
 
 •No lack was in thy primal stock, 
 
 No weakling founders huilded here ; 
 They weie the men of Plymo'iiih Rock— 
 
 The Ilujrueuot aud the Cavalier.' 
 
 The Puritan has fought — aye, and died— on every battle-field of the Republic 
 from Concoixl and Bunker Hill to Gettysburg and Appomattox. (Great 
 applause.) And the torch of liberty he lit still illumines the whole world. I 
 bid you, again in the language of our beloved Whittier, — 
 
 'Hold fast to your Turitan heritage:— 
 But let the free lisht of the age, 
 Itrf life, its hope, its sweetness add ' 
 To the sterner faith your fathers had.' 
 
 (Great cheering.) 
 
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THE WINDOW GLASS WORKERS OF AHERICA. 
 
 The streets of Canton were filled with marching people Saturday morning. 
 July 25th, when the eight hundred delegates of the Window Glass Workers' 
 Association of Isorth America came to pay their respects to their esteemed 
 friend and champion, William McKinley. The delegates had been in atteiid- 
 ance at the eighth annual National Convention of the Association in Pittsburg, 
 and concluded it would be a fitting w^ay to close their session by paying him a 
 visit. The delegation arrived at 10 :40 via the Ft. Wayne railroad on a si^ecial 
 train of eleven coaches. They were met at the depot by the Canton Troop, 
 and the First Ward Drum Corps, and, headed by the Select Knight's Band, of 
 Pittsburg, they marched to Major McKixley's residence. When the column 
 reached the house the band rendered a patriotic selection, and while awaiting 
 the appearance of Major McKixley the Glee Club of twenty members sang 
 several campaign airs which were heartily cheered. When Major McKixley 
 appeared in the midst of the Committee he was received with a great demon- 
 stration of applause from all present, during which Mr. Henry Bostick, a 
 delegate from Princeton, Indiana, climbed upon a chair, and as soon as silence 
 was restored, spoke as follows : 
 
 "Major McKixley: I have been delegated by the Committee representing 
 my fellow workmen, the delegates to the Eighth National Convention of 
 Window Glass Workers of North America, to present them to you, and the 
 sentiments I express are such as I have been instructed to express by this 
 Committee, consisting of James Campbell, G. L. Cake, George Ambos, Johx 
 T. Morgax, Hexry Bostick and Joux P. Eberhart. The men who stand 
 before you to-day have come from the States ranging from tlie Berkshire hills 
 in Massachusetts to the broad prairies of Illinois, and from the Great Lakes to 
 beyond Mason and Dixon's line. From eleven States we come, represent- 
 ing the overwhelming majority sentiment of all our fellow workmen who toil 
 in the gi-eat window glass industry in every factory in the United States. AVe 
 come fresh from the exacting school of experience. Our people have seen the 
 tariff reduced in 1846, and that they suffered a reduction in wages in conse- 
 quence. Another reduction of the tariff occurred in 1857, with a like reduction 
 in cm* wages. The tariff was increased in 1861, and our wages were accord- 
 ingly advanced. Again in 1890 the tariff was advanced, and we received a 
 corresponding benefit. In 1893 the Gorman-Wilson Bill was passed, destroy- 
 ing the protective features of the then existing McKinley Law, and gi'eatly 
 reducing the tariff, and we were in consequence not only greatly reduced 
 in the rate of wages received for a given amount of work, but were thrown 
 into a state of idleness, hunger and hardship. AVe come then to greet you 
 whom that experience has taught us to regard as the only inflexible, unbend- 
 ing and vmiversally recognized champion of the very cornerstone of American 
 progress — protection to home industries. Its effects are general and advan- 
 tageous to every class of American citizens. To the farmer, by making dutiable 
 the imports of such foreign products as meet like home products in the 
 American markets, and by creating through the general operations of the 
 policy, an active, reliable and remunerative market for all his ijroducts; to 
 the employer who uses his capital in operating manufacturing enterprises, 
 by creating and maintaining an active and healthy market for his wares, 
 insuring to him through an increased ability of the people to buy and 
 use his wares, an active and steady demand, and hence a reliable activity 
 in business; and for the laborer who toils in the employer's shops, by 
 
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insuring him steady employment at fair wages, with all the attendant 
 blessings and privileges of working and living as citizens of this great and 
 wonderfully resourceful country should be privileged to work and live — for we 
 know that an increased development of and production from our natural 
 resources, if coupled with the multiplied consumption of the product by our 
 own people, must inevitably exert a refining influence on our American 
 civilization, and tend to elevate the standard of American citizenship, which 
 can never rise higher than the average of the intelligence, morality and man- 
 hood of the whole people. We love our country and have confidence in our 
 Government. We believe that its immense wealth, phenomenal resources, 
 the loyalty and bravery of its sons, the intelligence and genius of its people, all 
 based upon and nurtured by the beneficent influence of its free institutions, 
 insure it against destruction or serious hurt from invasion with the sword by 
 any foreign foe, but our experience has- taught> us that the invasion of our 
 markets by the cheap labor of Europe is dangerous and destructive to the 
 very foundation of our liberties, and constitute a foe to our institutions in all 
 that makes them truly free and distinctly American, inasmuch as they are based 
 upon and can be maintained only-by a care for the education of our children up 
 to a high and intelligent citizenship. (Applause.) We believe that the only 
 power that can successfully meet and render the invasion of this natural foe 
 harmless is the operation ol that great bulwark of American prosperity, the 
 protective principle strictly adhered to in the levying of duties on the 
 importation of foreign products, which principle we believe to have been most 
 ably and fully enunciated in the provisions of that wisely conservative and 
 patriotic measure, the McKinley Law, of which we recognize you as the 
 gi-eat architect who planned and builded it, schedule by schedule, and inaug- 
 urated that grand system that spoke out hope and prosperity to the people 
 and all tlie people of this Nation. We want that principle restored to the 
 statutes. We are satisfied with the quality of our dollars, and have no fear about 
 the volume of our money as a Nation, if the tariff is so regulated, and levied 
 on such principles, as to protect American industries, and provide sufficient 
 funds to meet the ordinary expenses of the Government, thereby insuring to us 
 the opportunity to work and receive the money that is the just reward of an 
 American workingnian. At tlie same time we demand that if tho employers 
 in foreign countries would bring the products of their cheap labor to compete 
 in our markets with the products of our free American labor, they must meet 
 us on even ground by bringing back with those products some of the gold that 
 the present Administration has been forced first to borrow, and then return to 
 tliem as interest on the public debt— a debt they are steadily increasing, 
 and rendering more burdensome, day by day, as they proceed. All, or 
 nearly all of this, is through the operations of their great panacea, 
 'Tariff Reform,' sometimes called 'Tariff for Revenue Only,' which we 
 would amend by changing the punctuation and adding, a few words, 
 making it read, ' Tariff for Revenue, Only it Fails to Produce the Revenue.' 
 (Cheers.) We desired to greet you personally, Major McKixley, because we 
 look upon you as the favorite son of the United States, not the choice of any 
 political machine, or urged by the people within the confines of a single State; 
 l)ut tlie one to whom the people all looked when they began to realize that 
 the time had come when a standard-bearer must be chosen as a candidate of a 
 great party for President of the United States— the one whose name spon- 
 taneously burst from the care and sorrow-burdened hearts of the American 
 people— the one grand character round whom every humble home and hearth- 
 
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stone in our broad land was clustering its hopes and are still clinging its faith 
 for better and brighter days. We greet you, then, as our ideal of American 
 citizenship, the unassuming soldier, patriot and statesman, tiio hope of our 
 people and the next President of the United States." (Tremendous cheering.) 
 
 Major McKinley's Response. 
 
 " Mr. BOSTICK AND WiNDOWGLASS WoRKERS OF TH.O UNITED StATES : It iS 
 
 peculiarly gratifying to me to have this large body of tlie representatives of 
 your Association, fresh from your deliberative Convention, and speakfng for 
 your great industry scattered over eleven States of the Union, honor me with 
 a call of greeting and congratulation. I appreciate the words of confidence 
 so eloquently expressed by your spokesman and agree with him that there is 
 something fundamentally wrong about our governmental affairs that demands 
 a speedy remedy, which can only be had by the people speaking through the 
 constitutional forms at the next general election. (Great applause.) You 
 have spoken of some of our difficulties with singular force "and accuracy, 
 demonstrating that you appreciate fully the great problems which are before 
 the people for investigation and settlement. Nothing could be better said 
 than that a great essential to the credit of the country is to provide enough 
 revenue to run the country. The credit of any government is imperiled so long 
 as it expends more money than it collects. The credit of the government, like 
 that of the individual citizen, is best subserved by living within its means, and 
 providing means with which to live. Every citizen must know, as you have 
 stated, that the receipts of the United States are now insufficient for its 
 necessary expenditures, and that our present revenue laws have resulted in 
 causing a deficiency in the Treasury for almost three years. It has been 
 demonstrated, too, that no relief can be had through the present Congress. The 
 relief rests with the people themselves. (Cheers.) They are charged with the 
 election of a new Congress in November, M'hich alone can give the needed relief. 
 If they elect a Republican Congress, the whole world knows that one of its first 
 acts will be to put upon the statute books of the country a law under which the 
 Government will collect enough money to meet its expenditures, stop debts 
 and deficiencies, and adequately protect American labor. (Great cheering and 
 applause.) This would be one of the surest steps, toward the return of con- 
 fidence and a revival of business prosperity. (Applause.) The Government, 
 my fellow citizens, lias not been tlie only sufferer in the past three years, as 
 your spokesman has vividly shown. The people have suffered, the laboring 
 man in his work and wages, the farmer in his prices ai.>I markets, and our 
 citizens generally in their incomes and investments. Enforced idleness among 
 the people has brought to many American homes gloom and wretchedness, 
 where cheer and hope once dwelt. Both Government and people have paid 
 dearly for a mistaken policy, a policy which has disturbed our industries and 
 cut down our revenues, always so essential to our credit, independence and 
 prosperity. Having stricken down our industries, a new experiment is now 
 proposed, one that would debase our currency and further weaken, if not 
 wholly destroy, public confidence. AVorkingmen, have we not had enough of 
 such rash and costly experiments? (Cries of 'We have!' 'We have!') Don't 
 all of us wish for the return of the economic policy wliich for more than a thinl 
 of a century gave the Government its highest credit and the citizen his greatest 
 prosperity? (Great app;ause and cries of 'Yes,' 'Yes.') As four years ago 
 
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the people were warned against the industrial policy proclaimed by our politi- 
 cal adversaries, which has since brought ruin upon the country, and were 
 entreated to reject the theories which actual trial had always shown to be 
 fraught with disaster to our revenues, employments and enterprises, so now 
 they are again warned to reject this new remedy, no matter by wliat party or 
 leaders it may be offered, as certain to entail upon the country only increased 
 and aggravated disaster and suffering, and bring no good or profit to any public 
 interest whatever. (Applause.) Circumstances have given to the Republican 
 party at this juncture of our National affairs a place of supreme duty and re- 
 sponsibility. Seldom, if ever; has any political party occupied a post of such high 
 importance as that intrusted to the Republican party this year. Indeed, it may 
 be confidently as:^erted that never before has any political organization been so 
 clearly and conspicuously called to do battle for so much that is best in grovern- 
 ment than is this year demanded of the Republican party. But, happily, it will 
 not contend alone. It will number among its allies, friends and supporters, 
 thousands of brave, patriotic and conscientious political opponents of the past, 
 wlio will join our ranks and make common cause in resisting the proposed 
 debasement of our currency and the degradation of our country's honor, — 
 earnest and strong men who will strive as zealously as we for the triumph of 
 correct principles and the continued supremacy of law and order, those strongest 
 and mightiest pillars of free government. (Great applause.) The determina- 
 tion of this contest calls for the exercise of the gravest duty of ^ood citizenship, 
 and partisanship should not weigh against patriotism, as, indeed, I am very sure 
 that it w-ill not, in the calm and proper settlement of tlie questions which 
 confront us. The w^hole country rejoices to-day that the strong and sturdy 
 men who toil are enlisted in the cause of American honor, American patriotism, 
 American production and American prosperity— a cause which must surely 
 win before the gi-eat tribunal of the American people. (Tremendous applause.) 
 I thank you, my fellow citizens, for the compliment of this call, and your mani- 
 festations of personal regard and good will, and it will give me sincere pleasure 
 to meet each of you personally." (Loud and long continued applause. ) 
 
 CHICAGO UNIVERSITY REPUBLICAN CLUB. 
 
 The Committee which called at his residence, Wednesday afternoon, 
 .July 29th, to present to :Major McKixley a bust of himself, modeled by 
 the famous sculptor Haxs Hiksh, was received in the parlor. A party of news- 
 paper men and several personal friends of Major McKixley attended when 
 the presentation was made by J. C. Ickes in behalf of tlie Republican Club 
 of Chicago University. The gift came as a token of the high appreciation of 
 the students of the University for Major McKixley, and Mr. Ickes said: 
 
 "Major McKixley: The eyes of all America are just now turned 
 toward Canton as the City of Hope whence is to come forth the champion who 
 is to save his country from the heresies which threaten her. Already a number 
 of wise men have come out of the East to see this new prophet wiio has arisen, 
 and they have spread abroad such reports of his might and power that our 
 hearts have pi-ompted us to see for ourselves. With tliis purpose in view we 
 have traveled from afar out of the boundless West and we rejoice to find our 
 hopes more tlian realized. AVe come as the representatives of the host of 
 young Republicans who are enrolled in our colleges to-day; we come because 
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all that pertains to the welfare of his country. AVe all love Y\'illiam McKixlky 
 and all that his name stands for in the present great crisis of our National life. 
 (Applause.) "We often hear it said that there is nothing in a name, but I can 
 repeat to you a name that means honor, sincerity and truth, a name that has 
 already been written in history among the noblest and best men that our 
 country has produced, a name that is to receive still greater fame and glory in 
 the future. I refei* to the Republican nominee for President of the United 
 States— William McKixley. (Applause.) Major McKixley, in behalf of the 
 Republican Club of the Universityof Chicago, it is my privilege to present to 
 you this masterpiece of a gi-eat artist, a masterpiece not only because of its 
 perfection, but because of him whom it represents, hoping that you will accept 
 it in the spirit in which it is offered — a spirit of profound love and esteem." 
 (Applause.) 
 
 riajor HcKinley's Response. 
 
 "Mr. Ickes axd Gextlemex: It gives me great pleasure to meet this 
 Committee from the Republican Club of the University of Chicago, and I can 
 but say that if the Republican party is to continue its progress of power 
 and usefulness, it must be done through the conscience and intelligence of the 
 people. It is indeed a good omen to find the young gentlemen of the many 
 colleges of the United States attaching themselves to the Republican organiza- 
 tions to sustain correct political principles and the National honor. (Applause. ) 
 There is no class of men more potent than those who go out from the colleges 
 into every county and State of the Union. They wield a mighty power, and it 
 is fortunate for the country that so many of them are enlisted this year for the 
 principles of good government and clean political methods, an honest canvass 
 and a pure and intelligent civil service. (Applause.) I am glad to know that 
 Republican principles are such that they can be submitted with safety and 
 confidence to the intelligence of the educated men of the country. I am pleased 
 with the bust which you have been so kind as to bring me, and I accept it in 
 the spirit in which it has been presented. I beg that you convey to the artist 
 and members of the Republican Club of the University of Chicago my sincei-e 
 thanks for it." (Applause.) 
 
 THE KNOXVILLE HcKINLEY AND HOBART CLUB. 
 
 The McKinley and Hobart Club, of Knoxville, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburg, 
 accompanied by a number of friends, came to pay their respects to Major 
 McKixley on Thursday, July 30th. It was a fine delegation, numbering some 
 live hundred men, thoroughly representative of a great State, coming from 
 farm, forge, shop and store, and, in the words of the sjiokesman, "representing 
 that hive of industry — that mighty workshoji — composed of Pittsburg and her 
 neighboring borough." The delegation was well organized and marched like 
 a regiment of regulars. A band headed the procession and a quartet styled 
 the "Tariff League Singers of Pittsburg," accompanied the Club. Mr. Joiix 
 P. EBERiiARn, President of the McKinley and Hobart Club, who is also 
 President of the Glass "Workers' Union, acted as spokesman for the visitors. 
 He said: 
 
 "Major McKixley: We come from that wonderful hive of industry, that 
 mighty workshoj), composed of Pittsburg and its neighboring boroughs. "Weju-e 
 
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lie])ublicans, and we believe in our party and its principles. AVe are proud ot 
 its record and the reyult of it.s policy in the past ; and wo have faith in t]uiti)arty 
 as being the only modi an: tlirougli wliicli we may hope for a return of pros- 
 jierity to the people, botli in the agi-icultural and manufacturing industries of 
 the whole country. "We believe in bimetallism, and we recognize in the 
 Kepublican party the only real, true and safe advocate of that policy, namely, 
 the urfe of both gold and silver as money, each interchange.^^le with the other, 
 each dollar good as every other dollar. We do not, and we feel assured that 
 you do not, believe in monometiillisni, or the use of either gold or silver as the 
 only money; and knowing this, we know you will and must oppose the visionary 
 ide<is of those who would seek to create values by the legislative fiat of the 
 Tsation, and the attempts of those who seek to place us upon the single silver 
 basis, thereby driving our gold out of circulation and out of the country. "We 
 bclieveyou will use all the power you possess as the Chief Executive of the 
 United States to bring about, by international agreement, which is the only 
 manner in which it can bo accomplislied, the restoration of silver as a money 
 metal at a fixed ratio with gold. We believe, sir, that wise legislation, on tlie 
 principle of protection, and to the end that it will yield an abundant revenue for 
 the expenses of the Government, for the payment of debts, for the improvement of 
 our rivers and harbors, for the upbuildingof our navy, and for internal improve- 
 ments of various kinds will restore our country to gi-eat prosperity and will 
 sdlve the money problem about which so many of our people seem to be con- 
 cerned. We recognize in your public career and in your private life those 
 noble qualities of mind and heart that give us the .assurance that the great 
 interests of this country, over which you will shortly be called to preside, will 
 be in safe hands, and that you, trusting in the strength and guided by the 
 counsels of the Supreme Euler of nations, will be able to discharge tlie grave 
 responsibility and execute the duties of your high office so as to lead us as a 
 ])eoide in the higher patlis of duty to inore glorious achievements than have 
 marked our wonderful past." (Applause,) 
 
 riajor ricKinley's Response. 
 
 After the storm of iipjilausc wliich greeted riajor McKinley had subsided, 
 he said: 
 
 "I^Ik EisKuiiAKo Axi> Zl\- Tfa,-ij>\,- Citizexs: I ana glad, indeed, to meet 
 and greet the Knoxville McKinley and liobart Club in tliis city and at my 
 honie, and I thank you cordially for traveling so long a distanco to express 
 your personal good will to me and your devotion to tlie great principles of tlie 
 Kepublican party. You are right, Mr. Spokesman, iii saying that the Eepub- 
 l.'can party stands now as it has always stood for a sound and stable cur- 
 rency and for the maintenance of all its money of every kind at parity, so that 
 it shall always be equal to the best jnoney of the most civilized nations of tlie 
 e;>rLh. (Applause.) A depreciiited currency, a< you liave so well said, woukl 
 work disaster to the interests of the people, and to none more than those of 
 tlie workingmen and farmers. Long yeai-s ago Daniel AYebster said that 
 those who were the least able to bear it were the first to feel it and the last 
 to recover from it. 'A disordered currency,' said he, 'is fatal to industry, 
 frugality, and economy. It fosters the spirit of speculation and extravagance. 
 It is the most e(Te<;tual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's fields with the 
 
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sweat of the poor man's brow.' That whicli we call money, my fellow citizens, 
 'and with which values are mea.^ured and settlements made, must be as 
 true as the bushel which measures tlie grain of the farmer, and as honest 
 as the hours of labor which the man who toils is required to give. (Loud 
 applause.) The one must be as full aiid complete and as honest as the other. 
 (Applause. ) Our currency to-day is good— all of it is as gocxl as gold and has been 
 so ever since the Republican party secured the resumption of specie payments 
 in 1879 — and it is the unfaltering determination of the Republican party to so 
 keep and maintain it forever. (Cheers.) It is the duty of the people of this 
 country to stand unitedly against every effort to degrade our currency or debase 
 our credit. (Cries of 'They will.') Tliey must unite nov as they have united in 
 the past in every gi-eat crisis of our country's history without regai-d to past 
 party affiliations or differences to uphold the National credit and honor as 
 sacredly as our flag. (Cheers.) ^Yhen the country seemed wildly bent on 
 inflation in the years preceding the resumption of specie payments the sober 
 sense of the American people without regard to party united and stemmed that 
 threatened tide of irredeemable paper money and repudiation and placed and 
 kept the Nation on the rock of public honor, sound finance and honest currency. 
 You have rightly stated that the Republican party not only believes in sound 
 jnoney and the highest public faitli and honor on the part of the Government 
 of the United Siates to all its creditors, but also that it believes in a tariff 
 which while raising enough money to conduct the Government, economically 
 administered, will serve the highest and best interests of American labor, 
 American agriculture, American commerce, and American citizenship. 
 (Cheers.) Some of our political opponents are given to saying that the tariff 
 question is settled. If we are not wrong in interpreting their meaning, we 
 think they are right, (laughter), and thank thorn for the confession. (Applause. ) 
 We believe that the tariff question is settled— settled in the minds and hearts 
 of the American i^eople, and settled on the side of protection. (Tremendous 
 cheering.) But, however firmly it may be settled in the public mind, it is not 
 yet settled in public law. AVhat is in the hearts and consciences of tlie people 
 touching any public question is not effective until it is written in public 
 statute, and this can only be done through the elective franchise in the choice 
 of a Congress of the United States, wiiich makes our public laws. No one I 
 take it, will regard the present tariff law as a just and final settlement of the 
 question. Whatever may be our differences about the economic principle upon 
 which tariff legislation should be made, all agree that the present tariff law is 
 a iaikn-e, even as a revenue measure. So, without discussing the principle of 
 free trade or protection, everybody must appreciate that no law is a settlement 
 which creates every month a deficiency in tlie public trea^iury. (Loud applauce 
 and cheers for 'McKinley.') The people of this country are not satisfied with 
 such an enactment, and w ill not be satisfied until a public law shall express 
 the public will in a statute which provides adequate revenues for the needs 
 of the Government, full security for its credit, and ample protection to the 
 labor, capital and energy of the American people. (Applause.) I tliank you 
 my follow citizens, for this friendly call, and I assui-e you that it will give me 
 pleasure to meet each of you personally. 
 
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CAriBRIDGE AND GUERNSEY COUNTY. ♦ 
 
 Three hundred citizens of Guernsey County visited Canton on Friday 
 morning, July 31, to pay their personal respects to Major McKixlky and tender 
 formal congratulations. The delegation was about evenly divided between 
 members of the G. A. R. Posts of Cambridge and employes of the Cambridge 
 tin mill. Tlie party came to this city by way of theC.,T. and Y. railroad, 
 arrived here at eleven o'clock, and were at once escorted to Major JNIcKixley's 
 residence by George D. Harter and Canton G. A. R. Posts and the McKinley 
 Drum Corjis. "When they arrived at tlie McKixley residence after a selection 
 by the O. IJ. A. M. band of Cambridge, Mr. H. S. Moses, commander of George 
 D. Harter Post, presented Colonel Joseph D. Taylor to Major McKixley as the 
 spokesman for the visitors. He referred to the flood of high water through 
 whicli their train had come from Cambridge, and said : 
 
 '•^lajor McKixley: We come to-day to tender you our personal regards 
 and to add congi-atulations to the many hitherto given you. "We have not come 
 as partisans but as friends and neighbors. You have to-day before you in this 
 delegation many comrades of the G. A. R. of Cambridge. They are men who 
 have learned to love you for your patriotic devotion to your country in time of 
 war and in time of peace. These old comrades have come to pay tribute to 
 your high personal character and for the public service you have rendered. 
 The old soldiers want one thing remembered, and that is that the honor and 
 integi-ity of the old flag must be maintained. (Cheers.) You heard it said in 
 Congress that we could not make tin in this country but I want to say that we 
 have in this crowd men who are employed in the Cambridge tin mill. They 
 work in a tin mill which has sent out 6,000 tons or 120,000 boxes, of tin a year 
 and it is as good as any tin plate made across the water. (Cheers.) These men 
 have come from Guernsey County, from all the walks of life. "We have come to 
 believe that the star of hope for the laboring man is resting in Canton. In 
 behalf of the men and women in this delegation— for there are a number of 
 ladies who have come along with us— I extend greeting to you and Mrs. 
 McKixley." (Applause.) 
 
 After the cheering had ended Dr. "W. H. McFarlaxd was introduced. He 
 is bowed under the weight of years and as Chaplain of the Ninety-eighth Regi- 
 ment Ohio Yolunteer Infantry is well known throughout the State. He said 
 that he had come to see and hear and grasp the hand once more of tlie most 
 illustrious friend of labor in the United States. (Cheers.) "He is the man 
 who has done more for the laboring men than any other man in this country— 
 or in the world for that matter. No one has done more to elevate or dignify 
 labor and no man has put a brighter crown of glory on the brow of honest toil 
 than you." (Great applause.) 
 
 najor ricKinley's Response. 
 
 Major McKixley spoke without manuscript, or notes, and with great force 
 and eloquence. He was cheered time and again, and at the conclusion of his 
 address there was the crush of visitors to grasp his hand. He said : 
 
 "Coloxel Taylor, Dr. McFARLAxn, My Comrahes axd Fellow Citizens: 
 It gives me great gratification to receive this call from my friends and fellow 
 citizens of Guernsey County, where I have made bO many visits in years gone 
 by that I kniw most of you pei-.-^onsilly. But aside from that I kTiow some- 
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something of you loyalty and devotion to the Union in war, and I know much 
 of your loyalty and devotion to good government in peace, (Cheers,) and, know- 
 ing you as I do, I am certain that neither flood nor lire would stop you from 
 doing what you had i)roposed to do. (Laughter and applause.) I am glad to 
 meet the representatives of labor who are assembled here this morning/ I 
 congratulate them upon the advance that has been made in the tin-plate 
 industry to which my old colleague in Congress, Col. Taylor, has referred. I 
 am glad to know that Republican legislation gave to this country an industry 
 which insures work and wages to American workingmen and brings happiness 
 to American homes. (Great cheering and applause.) I am glad, too, my fellow 
 citizens, to meet my old comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
 (applause) my comrades of thirty-five years ago, for the war commenced over 
 thirty-five years ago, and it is nearly thirty-two years since its close. It seems 
 not so long, not so far away to us, but as I look into the faces of the old soldiers 
 before me, I can see that age is stamping its lines of care upon them. Their 
 steps are no longer as steady and firm as they used to be, but their hearts are just 
 as loyal to the old flag of the Union as ever. (Tremendous cheering.) They are 
 just as loyal to National honor to-day as they were loyal to National unity then. 
 (Applause.) When the war closed there were two great debts resting upon 
 this Government. One was the debt due to the men who had loaned the 
 Goverment money with which to carry on its military operations. The other 
 debt was due to the men who had willingly offered their lives for the preser- 
 vation of the American Union. (Cheers.) The old soldiers waited on their 
 pensions until this great debt of the Government was well out of the way. 
 They waited patiently until the Government of the United States had paid 
 nearly two-thirds of that great money debt and refunded it all to a lower rate 
 of interest. The old soldiers never were in favor of repudiating that debt. 
 (Applause.) They wanted every dollar of it, principal and interest, paid in the 
 best coin known to the commercial world; (great applause) and every dollar 
 of that debt, up to this hour, has been paid in gold, or its equivalent, the recogniz- 
 ed best money of the hour, (cheers) and every dollar of that debt, my comrades, 
 yet to be paid, will be paid in the same unquestioned coin. (Tremendous cheer- 
 ing. ) Most of that debt is out of the way. The great debt of this Government now 
 is to the surviving soldiers of the Republic. (Applause.) There are 970,000 
 pensioners on the honored pension roll of this Government to-day, and the 
 Government pays out of its public treasury in pensions over .$140,000,000 every 
 year to our soldiers and sailors, or their widows and orphans. Every dollar of 
 that debt must be paid in the best currency and coin of the world. (Great 
 cheers and cries of 'The Republican party will do that.') There is nobody 
 more interested in maintaining a sound and stable currency than the old 
 soldiers of the Republic, (applause and cries of 'You are right Major,') their 
 widows and their orphans. Our old commander. General Grant (applause) 
 whose memory is cherished by all of us, performed two gi-eat and conspicuous 
 acts while President of the United States. One wa,s the vetoing of the Inflation 
 Bill, which would have cast us hopelessly upon a sea of depreciated currency. 
 The other was the signing of the Resumption Act, for the safe and speedy 
 resumption of specie payments, which placed every dollar of money upon 
 the sound foundation of financial honor and unquestioned National honesty, 
 and the old soldiers this year, as in all the years of the past, following their 
 Old Commander, will stand by the financial honor of the Government, and 
 will no more permit their Nation's integrity to be questioned than they 
 would permit that flag (pointing to an American flag) to be assailed. (Applause 
 
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and cries of 'You are right.') I thank you, my fellow citizens, for your call 
 and congratulations, and assure you that it will afford me much pleasure to 
 meet each and all of you personally." (Applause and cheers.) 
 
 CONGRATULATIONS BY WIRE AND MAIL. 
 
 WHILE IMajor McKinley was receiving the personal congratulations of 
 thousands of his fellow citizens in Ohio, the wires were bu£,y convey- 
 ing him almost as many similar messages from all parts of the Union. 
 Not only was the special wire at his residence carrying him hundreds of friendly 
 greetings from St. Louis, but the telegraph oflHces in Canton were flooded with 
 messages they could hardly receive m.uch less deliver. The same condition 
 prevailed at Pittsburg, where at one o'clock Friday morning, June 19th, the 
 Western Union Co. reported that there were congratulatory telegrams piled a 
 foot high in their office which it was impossible to transmit. L^p to that 
 time several thousand had already been received by Major McKixley, the 
 rush beginning before his nomination and continuing for some days after. 
 A.mong the thousands of messages received, including some that came by mail, 
 were the following: 
 
 Hon. Garret A. Ilobart, of New Jersey, the Republican nominee for Vice 
 President: 'Accept n.y hearty congratulations and those of the New Jersey 
 delegation " To which Major McKixley replied: "I send you my cordial con- 
 gratulations and hope you can visit me on your way home." 
 
 Hon Thor.ias r>. Reed, of Maine, Speaker of the National House of Repre- 
 sentatives: ' I wish you a happy and prosperous Administration; happy for 
 yourself and prosperous for the country." 
 
 Hon. Matthew S. Quay, U. S. Senator, Beaver, Pennsylvania: "I congratu- 
 late you upon the splendid vote of confidence you received from the Convention, 
 which represents the absolute thought of the Republican party of the Nation. 
 
 Hon. Levi P. Morton, Governor of New York, Rhinecliff : "You may 
 recall my remark, in 1879, as we sat side by side in the House of Representatives, 
 that I expected some day to see you President of the United States. Please 
 accept to-day my heartiest congratulations." 
 
 Hon. "William B. Allison, U. 8. Senator, Dubuque, Iowa: "Accept my 
 sincere and hearty congratulations upon your nomination " 
 
 Hon. "William O. Bradley, Governor of Kentucky, Frankfort: "Allow me 
 to extend to you my hearty congratulations on your success. I have no doubt 
 you will be triumphantly elected, and that you will come fully up to the 
 expectations of your friends in the discharge of every duty which may be 
 presented. I v\us invited to go to Cincinnati to-night for a ratification 
 meeting. But owing to the large accumulation of important business during 
 my absence at the Convention, found it impossible to do so, and so telegraphed. 
 I shall not fail to do my duty in the approaching contest, unless it should be 
 from inability. Kindest wishes for your success." 
 
 Hon. Shelby M. Cullom, U. S. Senator, Springfield, Illinois: "Please 
 accept my hearty congratulations for yourself and Mrs. ^IcKinley. You will 
 be triumphantly elected." 
 
 Hon. Cushman K. Davis, U. S. Senator, St. Paul, Minnessota: "Permit 
 me to add my congratulations to the many you are receiving. \''our nomina- 
 
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tioTi IS a MfiTlment an-d realizatioTi ^t Republican principles decreed by the 
 ■people tlieanselves. I feel sure that history will date from that nomination 
 the greaiest epoch of prosperity for the American people they have ever 
 enjoyed," 
 
 Hot. CJharlesF, Manderswn, Omaha, Nebraska: "Congratulations of Mrs. 
 MandeTson -and myself on your nomination and certainty of election as 
 JPresident. 
 
 H^n. Benjaiain Harrison, ex-President of the United States, Indianapolis: 
 "I "beg to extend to you my hearty congi-atulations ujion your nomination and 
 to express my confidence thnt the people will in November ratify the work of the 
 St. Lo'ais ConvfTition. Please pre^ient my respects to Mrs. McKinley." 
 
 Hon. "Whitelaw Reid, New York: *'lt should be a matter of the greatest 
 personal pride to you that while our party has existed for a quarter of a century 
 there has never before been so good a chance lor a square fight and a splendid 
 victory for Protection and Honest Money." 
 
 Hon. George L. Wellington, U. S. Senator-elect, Cumberland, Maryland: 
 "Our State will give you eight electoral votes in November. 
 
 Hon. Stephen B. Elkins, IT. S. Senator, "West Virginia: "The people will 
 see to it that jour election wiO follow. West Tirginia^will be in the McKinley 
 column." 
 
 Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, XT. S. Senator, Niahant, Massachusetts: "I need 
 hardlj say that all I can do to secure yoor triumphant election and a Republi- 
 can victory will be done." 
 
 Hon. George C. Perkins, U. S. Senator, San Francisco. CaL : "In behalf of 
 the Republicans of California, I tender you my hearty congi-atulations and greet 
 you as the foremost exponent of our* pjirty priBciples. We congratulate the 
 people <of our country that you will be our next Pnesident." 
 
 Gee eral Joseph R. Hawley, U. fi. Senator, Hartford, Conn.; "We have a 
 ^noble cause, a noble platform and a noble candidate. Sincerest congratulations 
 .and hearty support." 
 
 Hon, Francis E. Warren, TJ. S. Senator, Cheyenne, Wyoming: "Permit 
 me to add my own to the sincere congratulations of Wyoming. It is the earn- 
 .est purpose of the party in this State to add to its unanimous endorsement for 
 •dominatioKi given you in State Convention some weeks since, its solid support 
 at the polla next November." 
 
 Hon. Joseph B. Foraker,'U. S. Senator-elect, Cincinnati, Ohio: "Heartiest 
 .congratulations upon your triumphant nomination." 
 
 Hon. J. C, Pritchard, U. S. Senator, Marshall, North Carolina: "Permit 
 ane to congratulate you on your nomination. I feel confident that you will 
 receive the electoral vote of North Carolina." 
 
 Hon, Nelson W. Aldrich, United States Senator, Providence, Rhode Island: 
 *'l congratulate you that you are to have the post of honor and responsible 
 leadership jn the great contest for Protection and Sound Money. I believe the 
 victory will be so emphatic that the policy we contend for will be accepted for 
 a genex'ation. I know how thoroughly your work will be a labor of love and 
 how well it will always be done." 
 
 Hon. Jolm M. Thurston, U. S. Senator, Omaha, Nebraska: "This is the 
 year of the ])eople." 
 
 Hon. Jolin Sherman, U. S. Senator, Mansfield, Ohio: "My Dear Sir: I 
 have not hurried in sending you my congratulations for your nomination as 
 the next President of the United States, but they ai-e not less hearty and 
 
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sincere. I will gladly do all I can to secure your triumphant election. Give 
 to Mrs. McKinloy my best wishes, in which IMrs. Sherman joins " 
 
 Hon. John II. Mitchell, U. S Senator from Oregon, "Washington, D. C. : 
 "Accept cordial congi-atulations." 
 
 lion. Jalius C. Burrows, U. S. Senator, Kalamazoo, Michigan: "Here's 
 my hand and lieart in sincerest congratulation ! The nominees and platform 
 will receive the triumphant endorsement of the American people," 
 
 Hon. Watson C. Bqaire, U. S. Senator, Seattle, Washington ; "You have 
 my earnest and hearty congratulations," 
 
 Hon. Jacob II. Gallinger, U. S. Senator, New Hampshire: "With pleasant 
 memories of the Forty-Ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, and in anticipation of 
 your triumphan!: election, I offer sincere congratulations." 
 
 Hon. SerenoE. Payne, M. C, Auburn, New York: "You have my most 
 sincere congratulations, as you will have my heartiest support. New York is 
 enthusiasticfor the ticket, and I believe we will beat Pennsylvania majorities." 
 Hon. Warren B. Hooker, M. C, Fredonia, New York: "Hearty congrat- 
 ulations. This district will give you IG.COO pluralty. " 
 
 Hon. Jamos H. Southard, M. C, Toledo, Ohio: "Accept heartiest congrat- 
 ulations. We ii\'3o congratulate ourselves. " 
 
 Hon. Winfield S. Kerr, M. C, Mansfield, Ohio: "Congratulations. The 
 ovation when you were named was the greatest ever accorded an American 
 citizen." 
 
 Hon. John Dalzell, M. C, Pittsburg, Pa.: "My congratulations and best 
 wishes for your future success and happiness and that of our people." 
 
 Hon. Jonathan P. Dolliver, M. C, Fort Dodge : "Iowa is now to a man for 
 you. My brother, Victor B. Dolliver, Joins with me in greetings and congrat- 
 ulations to the Advance Agent of the Prosperity that is at hand." 
 
 Hon. Charles P. Taft, M. C, Cincinnati: "Accept my warmest congratu- 
 lations on the results of the great Convention." 
 
 Hon. Matthew Griswold, M. C, Erie, Pa: "Congratulations. Honest 
 Money and Protection will win the fight. Hurrah for the first victory !" 
 
 Hon, Walter Evans, M. C, Louisville, Ky.: "Accept my most cordial 
 congratulations. I believe you will get the electoral vote of Kentucky." 
 
 General Charles A. Boutelle, M. C, Bangor, Maine: "Accept congratu- 
 lations. If we could not have Reed, we are glad to raise the banner of Blaine's 
 lifelong friend." 
 
 Hon. D. K. AVatson, M. C, Columbus, Ohio: "Your nomination is the 
 triumph of Protection ; your election will be the triumph of Patriotism, and 
 American homes will be the happier because of it. 'My congraulations on the 
 great work of to-day." 
 
 Hon. Seth L. IMilliken, M. C, Belfast, Maine: "Accept my sincere con- 
 gratulations and give my regards toHaniia." 
 
 Hon. George W. Hulick, M. C, Batavia, Ohio: 'T congratulate you and 
 the party on your nomination, and the whole people of this country upon the 
 promise of an Administration that will have for its guidance the patriotic 
 principles so admirably enunciated in the St Louis platform." 
 
 Hon. Joseph H, Walker, IM. C, Worcester, IMassachusetts: "Present to 
 Mrs. McKinley and accept for yourself my most hearty congratulations." 
 
 Hon, ^.larriott Brosius, M. C, Lancaster, Pa,: "Lancaster County sends, 
 coidial congratulations." 
 
 Hon. Charles F. Joy, M. C, St. Louis: "Hearty congratulations. Com- 
 mand my services in any way to assist in compassing your triumphant elec- 
 tion." 
 
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Hon. i'. ! . iienderson, ?.[. V., Dubuque, luwa : "Whii)X)ed I iii l.:ii>,o 
 Hearty and sincere congratulations." 
 
 Hon. John A. Pickler, M. C, Faulkton, S. D.: "Congi-atulations on your 
 nomination and tlie vindication of tlie McKinley Bill, for which, under your 
 leadership, I had the honor to vote. We will carry South DaI-:ota for the 
 Republican ticket, McKinley, Protection and Prosperity." 
 
 Hon. Richmond Pearson, M. C, Asheville, North Carolina: "McKinley, 
 Protection and Prosperity nominated on first ballot. Accept congratulations." 
 
 Hon.Lucien J. Fenton, M. C, Winchester, Ohio: "Hearty congratula- 
 tions. Your triumpli is the people's triumph." 
 
 Hon. George Edmund Foss, M. C, of Chicago: "The convention was only 
 a gi-eat ratification meeting." 
 
 Hon. Kelson Dingley, Jr., M. C, Lewiston, Maine: "Oongratuhvtions. 
 Maine Republicans were ardently for Reed until a majority made you the 
 Republican standard bearer. They are now as earnestly for you." 
 
 Hon. J. Frank Aldrich, M. C, Chicago: "Congratulations and best 
 wishes." 
 
 Hon. Joim F. Lacey, 'M. C, Oskaloosa, Iowa: "I congratulate you on your 
 nomination and hope to be in the Fifty-Fifth Congress to support your admin- 
 istration." 
 
 Hon. Edward S. Minor, M. C, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, from Washington. 
 "Hearty Congratulations. I leave for Wisconsin to enter at once on the 
 campaign of 1896." 
 
 Hon. Binger Herrman, M. C, Roseberg, Oregon, from Elko, Nevada: 
 "While crossing the continent to Oregon, I have just learned of your nomina- 
 tion. Accept hearty congratulations." 
 
 Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, M. C, Danville, Illinois: "I heartily congratulate 
 you upon your nomination." 
 
 Hon. R. C. McCormick, M. C, Jamaica, 'jSTew York: "We believe your 
 election is a foregone conclusion. Accept our w^armest personal congratula- 
 tions." 
 
 Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, widow of Ulysses S. Grant, New York: "Accept 
 congratulations for youself and Mrs. McKinley." 
 
 Colonel and Mrs. Erederick D.Grant, New York: "We send lo yon, our 
 future President, our heartfelt and joyful congratulations." 
 
 Mrs. U. S. Grant, Jr., San Diego, California: "Please aecciu jny congL-aiu- 
 lations upon your nomination." 
 
 Webb C. Hayes, Cleveland, Ohio: "Hearty congratuhnidii-.. AVo are 
 perfectly delighted." 
 
 Mrs. Lucretia R. Gariield, widow of the late President James A. Garfield, 
 Cleveland, Ohio, to Mrs. McKinley : "Our two families unite incongratulations 
 to you and Major IMcKinley in the earnest hope that the next four years 
 may bring to you the most of joy and the least of sorrow, and b.:> made to lli.^ 
 Nation years of triumphant prosperity." 
 
 Mrs. Ilrriet S. Bhiinc, widow of the late James G. Bhiinc, .. .^, ^ .....;„ . 
 
 "Hearty congratulations to yourself and Mrs. McKinley, with tender thoughts 
 Qf the past." 
 
 Hon. James G. Blaine, Jr., New York : "My hearty congratulation .s." 
 
 Hon. John A. Logan, Jr., cabled from Copenhagen: "Hearty congratula- 
 tions. All Americans abroad rejoice. Mother sends love to Mrs. McKinley." 
 
 Hon. Russell B. Harrison, Terra Haute, Indiana: "Please accept our 
 
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hearty congratulations on your nomination, which surely means success in 
 November." 
 
 Mrs. Nathaniel P. Banks, widow of the first Republican Speaker of the 
 National House of Representatives, Waltham, Mass. : "I rejoice in your nom- 
 ination, and have confidence in your election." 
 
 Mrs. M. A. Hanna, Cleveland: "Happiest and warmest congratulations on 
 your success." 
 
 Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, President Woman's Republican Association of the 
 United States, Geneseo, Illinois: " On behalf of two million American work- 
 ingwomen I extend my heartlest'congratulations." 
 
 Col. John Hay, one of President Lincoln's Private Secretaries, cabled from 
 Laliaye: "Cordial greetings." 
 
 Judge Robert H. Douglas, son of the late Stephen A. Douglas, Greensboro, 
 North Carolina: "Greetings and congratulations to the truest exponent of 
 American interest." 
 
 Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, Chicago, Illinois: "McKinleyism, originated as 
 a term of reproach, has become the only slogan of success." 
 
 Joseph Jefferson, Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts: " I beg to oflfer my con- 
 gratulations upon your nomination. 
 
 Richard Mansfield, Aurora, Illinois: "Accept my sincere congratulations." 
 
 Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, of New York: "I have attended many National 
 conventions and never left one more perfectly satisfied with ticket and platform. 
 I congratulate you on the honor, and the American x)eople on the result." 
 
 Hon. M. A. Hanna, Judge Albert C. Thompson, and General Charles H. 
 Grosvenor, Convention Hall, St. Louis: "Hearty congratulations. Never was 
 there such enthusiasm before. No telling when Foraker can go on with his 
 nominating speech. The convention has been cheering you for thirty 
 minutes." 
 
 Hon. Jolm Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, Pa., from Ho])oken, N. J. : "Send 
 this from the steamer, on which, at quarantine, I received good news. Hearty 
 congratulations." 
 
 Hon. John W. Noble, ex-Secretary of the Interior, St. Louis: "Please 
 accept my congratulations and my hope that you may be elected President. If 
 we may redeem ]^Iissouri at the same time it will be additional cause for thanks 
 and praise. The party has justice with it and is thrice armed." 
 
 Hon. Charles Foster, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, Fostoria, Ohio: "Your 
 success is the most remarkable in many respects in our history. To all intiMits 
 the nomination has perhaps more nearly the unanimity of the party behind it 
 than KTiy heretofore made." 
 
 Richard Hatton, New York: "A thousand congratulations from mother 
 and myself." 
 
 Hon. ■Thomas L. James, ex-Postmaster General, New York: " Everybody 
 shouts for McKinley and Ilobart, Protection and Honest Money." 
 
 Hon. Tliomas W. Ferry, ex-Senator and Acting Vice-President, Grand 
 Haven, Michigan: "Accept my hearty congratulations upon the merited 
 promptness of your Presidental nomination." 
 
 Hon. Samuel J. Randall, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia: "Please accept my 
 heartiest ccmgi'atulations. Long live the Apostle of Patriotism, Protection and 
 Prosperity !" 
 
 Hon. AVilliam L. Strong, Mayor, New York City: " New York will ratify 
 your nomiiKition in November by giving you the largest majority ever given a 
 Presidential candidate. " 
 
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Hon. Charles F.Vraivri^k, Zuaj or, Philarielphia, Pa.: "Warmest congratu- 
 lations." 
 
 General Powell Clayton, Eureka Springs, Arkansas: "The Republican 
 masses have expressed themselves just as the masses of the people will at the 
 polls." 
 
 Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York : "As a rule I do not like to prophecy, 
 but I think it is safe to say New York will give you the largest majority by far 
 that she has ever given a Presidential candidate." 
 
 Hon. John E. Russell, Boston, Massachusetts: "No man of all your 
 admiring and loving supporters more cordially and disinterestedly congrat- 
 ulates you and the country than I do. I am your sincere political opponent, 
 but no less your cordial and sincere friend." 
 
 Hon. Frank Hiscock, Syracuse, New York : "I assure you of my very great 
 personal satisfaction with your nomination. It was conducted in a most liberal 
 spirit and with absolute fidelity to the principles of our party. We 30 into 
 the canvass for your election unfettered by doubtful resolves and will gain a 
 glorious triumph for our country. You have the right to be very proud of the 
 love and respect of the American people for you." 
 
 Hon. H. Clay Evans, Planters Hotel, St. Louis: "Accept my congratula- 
 tions. It was a great victory, and Tennessee was unanimously for you . " 
 
 General Russell A. Alger, of Detroit, from the Convention Hall, St. Louis: 
 "The entire Michigan delegation send greetings and congratulations to the 
 next President." 
 
 Hon. John C. Spooner, ex-Senator, Madison, Wisconsin: "I congratulate 
 you with all my heart upon the St. Louis consummation. Your nomination 
 was really made long ago, and the Convention was merely a great National 
 Committee appointed by the people to tender it to you. It will be a great 
 pleasure to fight for such a ticket on such a platform." 
 
 Dr. John II. Vincent, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, congratu- 
 lated Mrs. Mclvinley, saying: "You appreciate as no one else can, your hus- 
 band's worth, nobility, power and tenderness." 
 
 Hon. John N. Dolph, of Portland, Oregon: " I congratulate you on your 
 nomination and certain election." 
 
 General Granville M. Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa: "You have my hearty 
 congratulations. As a true lowan I will give you the heartiest support that 
 lies in the power of an old comrade." • 
 
 Hon. Blanche K. Bruce, ex-Senator from Mississippi, St. Louis: "For 
 myself and people I heartily congratulate you . " 
 
 Hon. William D. Washburn, of Minnesota, from the Convention Hall, St. 
 Louis: "Heartiest congratulations on your nomination." 
 
 Charles Parsons, St. Louis: "Half my prophecy fulfilled, and remainder 
 will be. Accept my warmest congratulations. " 
 
 Hon. Tom Ochiltree, of Texas, cabled from London : "Sincere congratula- 
 tions for yourself and our country." 
 
 Hon. John Patton, Jr., Grand Rapids, Michigan: "Heartiest congratula- 
 tions to you and the country." 
 
 Hon. William P. Kellogg, of Louisiana, from St. Louis: "I may just as 
 well send congratulations to you as President-elect." 
 
 Hon. John A. Sleicher, Albany: "All New York extends the glad hand to 
 you." 
 
 Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, Washington, D. C: "My wife and family 
 
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join rne in congratulating you on the honor of having me named by the great 
 Republican party for the highest office in the gift of a Xation of seventy mill- 
 ions of people." 
 
 Hon. L. E. McComas. TJ. S. Judge, Washington, D. C: "I congratulate 
 you on your unanimous nomination, so long foreseen, so well deserved. You 
 will be President, a wise and safe one, well rounding out a great career. You 
 will, I am sure, carry Maryland and other doubtful Southern States." 
 
 Col. W. AV. Dudley, Washington, D. 0. : "In common with all good 
 Republicans I wish to send congratulations to you, because you deserve this 
 great mark of confideuce, and to the country, that your loyal warm heart will 
 control the destinies of the Kepublie for the next four years." 
 
 Hon. L. T. Michener, Washington, D. C. : "I congratulate you upon your 
 nomination, I earnestly desire your election and will do whatever I can to 
 accomplish that result." 
 
 Dr. Joseph Nimmo, Jr., Washington, D, C. : "I desire to congratulate 
 you most cordially upon your nomination, and to express to you my most 
 earnest hope and confident belief that if you live you will become President of 
 the United States at high noon on the fourth of March next." 
 
 Thomas ]NrcDougall, Cincinnati : "You are candidate and platform, the 
 great leader in the new era of peace and prosperity. Heartiest congratula- 
 tions." 
 
 Hon. Nathan Goff, U. S. Judge, Washington, D. C. : "Accept congratula- 
 tions. West A'irginia will send greetings in November." 
 
 Hon. Milton G. Urner, ex-Cogressman, Frederick, Maryland: "Please 
 accept my cordial congratulations upon your splendid victory." 
 
 Hon. William E. Mason, Chicago: "Itis done. Congratulations." 
 
 Judge P. S. Grosscup, Seattle, Washington: "Your second stage towards 
 the White House is completed. November will finish the third. Congratula- 
 tions." 
 
 Hon. Person C. Cheney, Manchester, N. H. : "Please accept my hearty 
 congratulations." 
 
 Hon. John M. Langston, Petersburg, Virginia: "Congratulations and 
 assurances of hearty support." 
 
 Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley, Hartford, Connecticut: "Accept the hearty 
 congratulations of the Connecticut delegation." 
 
 Hon. Albion Little, Portland, Maine. "You are clearly the choice of the 
 people." 
 
 Hon. Benjamin F. Jones, Pittsburg: "I beg to send my hearty congratu- 
 lations on your nomination." 
 
 Hon. John W. Guffle, Fredricksburg, Virginia: "Republicans of this 
 battle-scarred town recall with pleasure your service in the John S. Wise 
 gubernatorial campaign and extend hearty congratulations." 
 
 lion. Charles W. Fairbanks, Indianapolis, Indiana: "With all the warmth 
 of my heart, I congratulate you upon the great honor that rests upon you, and 
 which you so well deserve." 
 
 Hon. jNIorris M. Estee, San. Francisco: "You will carry California." 
 
 Hon. James S. Clarkson, Des Moines, Iowa: "I congratulate you on your 
 nomination and stand ready to do what I can to aid in making your success in 
 November as triumphant as your success at St. Louis." 
 
 Hon. Charles R . Douglass, son of the distinguished colored orator, Frederick 
 Douglass, Washington, D. C : "As one of the host of American citizens who 
 went to St. Louis for the purpose of securing your nomination to the highest 
 
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office in" the gift of the people, I desire to extend my congratulations and to 
 promise my untiring support until the close of the polls on tlie day of election. 
 My father, the late Frederick Douglass, had he lived until now, would be 
 found in the forefront of your supporters. I only hope to be as true to the 
 principles and oandidates of the Republican Party as he was." 
 
 Hon. L. B. Caswell, ex-Congressman, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin: "The 
 Convention did its work well. Accept most hearty congratulations.', 
 
 Hon. John R. Buck, ex-Congrcssman, Hartford, Connecticut: "I congrat- 
 ulate you most lieartily. You deserve it." 
 
 Emerson IVkOIillen, New York: "The people breathe easier to-day than 
 for many months past. With patriotism in high places, labor protected, and 
 sound finance assured, prosperity will inevitably beam upon the country. 
 Congratulations, in full faith that the American voters will make you Presi- 
 dent." 
 
 Hon, James J. McKenna, United States Circuit Judge, San Francisco, Cal- 
 ifornia : ** A crowning honor to a career of honor." 
 
 Hon. Wallace Bruce, United States Consul at Leith, Scotland : "The peo- 
 ple are happy." 
 
 \ Dr. James H. Canfleld, President of the Ohio University, Columbus: 
 " i'ou may recall that I told you last fall that the result of tlie State election 
 waJ a tribute to your personal hold upon the confidence of the people of this 
 Stave. The result of the Convention at St. Louis simply carries this thouglit 
 T)ut to the people of the Nation. I have been a close observer of men and 
 even\3 for several years, and do not hesitate to say that you have won your 
 own i^pmination by the strength of your character because the people believe 
 in yoii" 
 
 Dr\ T. P. Marsh, President Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio: "Praise 
 God frd^n whom all blessings flow." 
 
 Hon. James T. Cutler, President of the Chamber of Commerce, Roches- 
 ter, New York: " The party is to be congratulated. With such candidates and 
 on such aVlatform we can not be beaten, I expect to renew my acquaintance 
 with youdVring the campaign and hope to cast the vote of jMonroe County for 
 you in the\lectoral college, an honor and pleasure which in this case will be 
 greatly enh^iced by the personal esteem in which I hold you." 
 
 HowardVp. Nash, Eminent Supreme Recorder, Northport, New York: 
 " The entire Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity send congratulations to the next 
 President of fiie United States."' 
 
 H. D. JullVrd, New York City: "The business interests and the industrial 
 welfare of the Vhole country are to be congratulated on your nomination and 
 assm-ed electioA Prosperity will speedily return to us on the wings of Pro- 
 tection and SounJ Finance." 
 
 Hon. John G\Sawyer, Albion, New York: "The people will confirm the 
 action of the Contention by an unprecedented majority." 
 
 Hon. Daniel H Hastings, Governor, and Hon, H. C. McCormick, Attorney 
 General, of Pennsj\vania: " Pennsylvania rejoices at your nomination, and we 
 personally extend jsu. our heartiest congi-atulations." 
 
 Hon. A. S. Buslfaoll, Governor of Ohio, St. Louis: " I congratulate you, 
 Ohio, and the whole\people of the United States on your nomination for the 
 Presidency." 
 
 Hon. John W. GrWs Governor, Paterson, New Jersey: ■ \'r • < i):il;i ata- 
 late you. Ohio and Niv .Jersey will be joined in the most prosperous Adminis- 
 tration our country has\ver had." 
 
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Hon. Lloyd Lowndes, Governor, Annapolis, Maryland: "I congratulate 
 you and tender best wishes for your success." 
 
 Hon. E. N. Morrill, Governor of Kansas, Topeka: "I congratulate you 
 with all my heart on the magnificent endorsement you have received from the 
 people of our country. I feel sure that it will be ratified by an immense 
 majority at the polls, and that you will give us one of the ablest and purest 
 Administrations that the country has ever known. We shall work from now 
 on until the election night, t; give you a good majority in this State. May 
 God give you strength to sustain you in the discharge of the arduous duties 
 which will devolve upon you." 
 
 Hon. Urban A.Woodbury, Governor of Vermont, Burlington : "The country 
 is to be congratulated, 'i pr-^dictyour triumphant election and the return of 
 prosperity. Vermont will set the pace in September." 
 
 Hon. Charles W. Lippett, Governor of Rhode Island, from St. Louis: 
 "Congratulations to Mrs. McKinlcy and yourself upon the grand results cf the 
 day." 
 
 Hon. Daniel L. Russell, Republican candidate for Governor, Willmingtoo: 
 "North Carolina will ratify your nomination with eleven electoral votes in 
 the right column . " 
 
 Hon. L. K. Fuller, ex-Governor of Vermont, Brattleboro: "My heartiest 
 congratulations and best wishes. Vermont is as true as the stars of heaven in 
 this great work. Victory is within our reach. God bless and keep you. " 
 
 Hon. D. Russell Brown, ex-Governor of Rhode Island, St. Louis: "Accept 
 heartiest congratulations and earnest wishes for your election." 
 
 Hon. Arthur Thomas, ex-Governor, Salt Lake City, Utah: "Accept my 
 hearty, sincere and earnest congratulations." 
 
 Hon. Charles T. Sexton, Lieutenant Governor, Clyde, New York : ' Hearty 
 congratulations to our next President." 
 
 Hon. William H. Haile, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Springfield: 
 "You will be triumphantly elected." 
 
 Hon. John Palmer, Secretary of State, Albany: "Hearty congiatulations. 
 McKinley and Protection touch the hearts of the people of New Ycrk. " 
 
 Hon. Richard Dallam, Secretary of State, Annapolis, Md. : 'Ticket and 
 platform invincible. You are sure of Maryland's electoral vote.' 
 
 Hon. .Joseph Flory, State Railroad Comissioner, St. Louis: 'Missouri was 
 solid for you to-day and will be in November." 
 
 Hon. M. J. Dowling, Secretary of the National Republican League of the 
 United States : "Pursuant to a resolution unanimously adoptei at the meeting 
 of our Executive Committee in the city of St. Louis, I have thehonor of tender- 
 ing you the best wishes of the National Republican Leagui, representing a 
 volunteer army of working Republicans numbering more than two million 
 members, many of whom will cast their first vote for McKirley and Hobart." 
 
 Plotel Brotherhood, Philadelphia, Pa. : " The coloret people rejoice at 
 your nomination." 
 
 Charles H. Holmes, President, Boston, Mass.: "Ohelsea organized a 
 McKinley and Hobart Club to-night. Motto: 'Clear .he track for Major 
 Mack, for the good old times are coming back.' " 
 
 E. C. DeWitt, President, and seven hundred menroers, ]\Iarquette Club, 
 Chicago: "We pledge you our most active and earnest uiiport in the campaign 
 upon which we are entering, to the end that the Peopl'-'s Choice may prevail, 
 and the principles of the Grand Old Party, as set f orth n the platform on which 
 you stand, may be established." 
 
Capt. John K. Gowdy, Chairman Republican State Executive Committee, 
 "Rushville, Indiana: "Accept my hearty congratulations. The people have 
 spoken and they will speak again in November." 
 
 Hon. A. M. Higgins, President of the Indiana Eepublican League: 
 "Indiana thirty for McKinley at St. Louis. She will add three ciphers in 
 November." 
 
 Hon. Scott Swetland, Chairman Republican State Central Committee, 
 Vancouver, Washington: "In the name of the Republicans of the State of 
 "Washington, I wish to heartily congratulate you." 
 
 Hon. William B. Thorpe, Secretary California McKinley League, Sacra- 
 mento: "California will give you a rousing majority " 
 
 James A. Doyle, William Armstrong and Henry Roberts, Anaconda, Colo- 
 rado: "Accept our hearty congratulations from the greatest gold camp on 
 earth." 
 
 John S. Lentz, President Massachusetts Car Builders, and S. C. Blackell, 
 President Massachusetts Mechanics, in session at Saratoga: "Hearty con- 
 gratulations, fifteen hundred strong, to our next President." 
 
 C. A. Perkins, Chairman National Committee American College League: 
 "We will do everything in our power to roll up a big majority for the Advocate 
 of Protection." 
 
 Hon. Samuel J. Roberts, Chairman Eepublican State Executive Commit- 
 tee, Lexington, Kentucky, from Convention Hall, St. Louis: "We are shout- 
 ing ourselves hoarse. The hopes of many years have resulted in great joy." 
 
 Hon. Frank M. Laughlin, Chairman Republican State Central Committee, 
 San Francisco: "The. Republicans of California congratulate you and 
 promise their unqualified support at the polls of our united party pledged to 
 to Protection and Prosperity." 
 
 , William J. Muston, President, Pittsburg, Pa. : "The Americus Republican 
 Club extends to its honored fellow member sincerest congratulations, and 
 pledges its heartiest support, and a repetition of its triumphs of 18SS in great 
 parades." 
 
 L. F. Cain, President, Elwood Indiana: "The Elwood City Republican 
 League Club and -1,000 factory laborers send greetings to the next President of 
 the United States." 
 
 J. K. Merrineld, Union Depot, Kansas City, Missouri: "The laboring 
 men nominated you. Now they will elect you." 
 
 W. A. Rodenberg, and J. D. Gerlach, St. Louis : "Hearty congratulations. 
 
 The Twenty-First Illinois Congressional District will give you 5,000 majority." 
 
 J. T. McNeely, Cripple Creek, Colorado: "The Republican Party still 
 
 lives and thousands of Colorado Republicans are panting for the chance to vote 
 
 for you." 
 
 Hon. Eben S. Draper, Chairman, for the Massachusetts delegation, and 
 one hundred others, Buffalo, New York: "The Massachusetts delegation, re- 
 turning from the most important Republican National Convention since the 
 war, congratulate you upon the unanimity and enthusiasm of your nomina- 
 tion, and congratulate the country upon having at this crisis a leader who in 
 privatelife, public experience and administrative ability commands universal 
 confidence. Yve take this occasion to pledge our unswerving loyalty and 
 hearty devotion until the votes of all sections of the country proclaim you 
 President of the United States." 
 
 Harvey H. Lindley, Chairman, and Daniel T. Cole, Yice Chairman, Califor- 
 nia delegation St. Louis: "At a meeting of the California delegation, this 
 
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McKinley Club, Homestead, Pa. 
 
 Marion Club, Indianapolis, Pa. 
 
 McKinley Club, Frankfort, Kentucky. 
 
 McKinley League, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. 
 
 McKinley Club, Hartford, Connecticut. 
 
 Union Veterans League, Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Republican Club, Covington, Kentucky. 
 
 Republican State Editorial Association, Jackson, Mich. 
 
 Republican National League, Chicago. 
 
 German-American Republicans of the Northwest, St. Paul. 
 
 Car Builders' Convention, Saratoga, New York. 
 
 McKinley Ratification Meeting, Donaldsonville, La. 
 
 Company G, 10th O. N. G., AVauseon, Ohio. 
 
 Union League Club, San Francisco, California. 
 
 McKinley League, Sixteenth Assemby District, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Tippecanoe Club, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 New Amsterdam Republican Club, New York. 
 
 Champion Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 Garfield Club, Hamilton, Ohio. 
 
 McKinley League, New York. 
 
 American College Republican League, New York. 
 
 McKinley League, Onondaga County, New York. 
 
 Republican State Committee, Birmingham, Alabama. 
 
 Business Men's Republican Club, Zanesville, Ohio, 
 
 A. C. Harmer Club, Fifth Congressional District, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Pittsburg Coal Exchange, Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 Sand Plains Republican Club, Parkersburg, West Virginia. 
 
 McKinley and Hobart Club, Ottumwa, Iowa. 
 
 Fifteenth Ward Republican Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
 
 McKinley Club, Spokane, Washington. 
 
 R. C. McKinney Club, Hamilton, Ohio. 
 
 Republican Executive Committee of Green County, Xenia, Ohio. 
 
 McKinley Guards, Urbana, Ohio. 
 
 Republicans Eighth Congressional District, Williamsburg, Ky. 
 
 McKinley League, Richmond County, New York. 
 
 McKinley League, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 McKinley Club, Wal'a Walla, Washington. 
 
 McKinley League, Albany County, New York. 
 
 Sixth Wai-d Central Republican Club, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Republican Committee, Fulton County, Johnstown, N. Y. 
 
 Seventh Ward Republican League, Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Central McKinley Club, Knoxville, Tenn. 
 
 McKinley Ratification Meeting, North Tonawanda, N. Y. 
 
 McKinley Club, Ottawa, Illinois. 
 
 McKinley and Hobart Club, Wahoo, Nebraska. 
 
 McKinley and Hobart Club, Dewitt, Nebraska. 
 
 McKinley Club, Plattsmouth, Nebraska. 
 
 Unconditional Republican Club, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Thirty-Fifth AVard 3IcKinlcy Club, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 Home 3[arket Club, Boston, Massachusetts. 
 
 Young [Men's Republican Club, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Lincoln Club, Twenty-Sixth AVai-d, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
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McKinley Ratification Meeting, Oneida, X. Y. 
 
 McKinley Ciub, Garrettsville, Ohio. 
 
 Ohio Club, Norfolk, Nebraska. 
 
 Standard Republican Club, Fifth Ward, Louisville, Ky. 
 
 Etghlh Ward Hebrew Political Club, Pittsburg, Pa 
 
 McKinley Club, Wellsville, Ohio. 
 
 Hamilton Club, Chicago, 111, 
 
 McKinley Club, Owensboro, Ky. 
 
 United Republican Association, Philadelphia Pa 
 
 Cassias M. Barnes McKinley Club, Gu;hrie, OklaJioma 
 
 Francis F. AVilliams Eighteenth Ward Republican Battery, Brooklyn, N. Y 
 
 Charlestown Republican Club, Bunker Hill, Boston, Mass, 
 
 Twentieth Assembly District Republicans, Brooklyn', N. Y. 
 
 Republican Committee Queen's County, Minnesota, N. Y. ' 
 
 McKinley Club, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
 Detroit McKinley Club, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 Albany Republican League, Albany, Mich. 
 
 McKinley Club, Nero Springs, Iowa. 
 
 Lafayette Battery, Jersey City, N. .1. 
 
 Buffalo Republican League, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Montauk Club, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Quigg Club, New York, N. Y. 
 
 Continental League, Sap. Francisco, Califoraia. 
 
 Union Ltague Club, Philrdelphia, Pa. 
 
 Stalwart Republican Club, Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 McKinley Republican Club, Pullman, Illinois J 
 
 Commercial Travelers' Republican Club, Indianapolis, Indian*. j 
 
 Robert J. Wright Republican Club, New York. I 
 
 Republican Central Committee, Atoka, Indian Territory. ll 
 
 Peopleof Canton, Penneylvania. * \ 
 
 McKinley Club, Fort Dodge, Iowa. 
 
 McKinley Club, Ashtabula, Ohio. 
 
 McKinley Club, Lyons, New York. 
 
 Madison County McKinley Club, London, Ohio. 
 
 Young Men's Republican Club, Jamestown, New York.' 
 
 McKinley Club, Lockport, New York. 
 
 West Side Republican Club, New York. 
 
 Yonng Men's Thurston Club, Omaha, Nebraska. 
 
 McKinley Club, Newark, New Sersey. 
 
 McKinley Club, Hartford, Connecticut. 
 
 Citizens' McKinley League, Thirty-Seventh Ward, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Republican Executive Committee, Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia. 
 
 Cleveland Gray's, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 Forsyth Republican Club, Winston, North Carolina. 
 
 McKinley Republican League, Muscotah, Kansas. 
 
 McKinley Republican League, Lockport, New York. 
 
 Market Men's Republicen Club, Boston. Massachusetts. 
 
 Ross County Republican Executive Committee, Chillicothe, Ohio. 
 
 McKinley Club, West field. New York. 
 
 Chemung County Republican Committee, Elmira, New York. 
 
 National Republican Club, Washington, D. C. 
 
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Young Men's Republican Club, Hebron, Nebraska. 
 
 McKinley Club, Green Falls, New York. 
 
 Young INIon'ti Eepublican Club, Zanesville, Ohio. 
 
 Columbia Club, Indianapolis;, Ind. 
 
 Fellowship Club, Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Maine Woolen Manufacturers' Club, Sanford, Maine. 
 
 Young Men's Republican Club, Lebanon, Indiana. 
 
 McKinley Club, Waco, Texas. 
 
 Lincoln Club, Waco. Texas. 
 
 Marquette Club, Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 McKinley and Hobart Club, Chelsea, Mass. 
 
 Black Belt McKinley Club, Selma, Alabama. 
 
 McKinley Club, Covington, Indiana. 
 
 McKinley and Hobart Club, Canton, New York. 
 
 McKinley League, Fordham, New York. 
 
 Republican Centi'al Committee, of Clarke County, Springfield, Ohio 
 
 Frederick Douglass Republican Association, Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 Blaine Club, Twenty-Fifth Assembly District, New York City. 
 
 R. B Hayes Club, Twenty-Third O. Y. I., Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 McKinley Club, Springer, New Mexico. 
 
 Marion Club, Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 Republican Club, Twenty-Second Assembly District, New York City. 
 
 German American Lincoln Club, Baltimore Md. 
 
 Cambro-American Republican Club, Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 Michigan Club, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 Young Men's Republican Tariff Club, Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 Canby Post, No. 27, G. A. R., Ilwaco, AVashington. 
 
 Thomas B. Reed Club, Biddeford, Maine. 
 
 Francis Harper League, Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 McKinley League, Mt. Vernon, New York. 
 
 McKinley Club, Frankfort, Kentucky. 
 
 Republican League, Jacksonville, Florida. 
 
 West End McKinley Republican Club, Washington, D. C. 
 
 McKinley League, Syracuse, New York. 
 
 McKinley Club, Evansville, Indiana. 
 
 Capital City McKinley Club, Albany, New York. 
 
 McKinley Club, Peru, Indiana. 
 
 Newark Republican Club, Newark, Ohio. 
 
 Young Men's Rei)ublican Association, Jersey City, N. J, 
 
 Republioan Club, Modelia, Minnesota. 
 
 McKinley Club, Springfield, Illinois. 
 
 Tacoma Republican Club, Tacoma, Wasliington. 
 
 Cuba Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Cuba, N. Y. 
 
 Garfield Club, Urbana, Ohio. 
 
 French-American Republican Club, Marlboro, Mass. 
 
 Tho Americus Republican Club, Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 Hardin County Rej)ublicari Committee, Kenton, Ohio. 
 
 Elwood RepuTjlican League, Elwood, Ind. 
 
 Union Republican Club, Washington, D. C. 
 
 McKinley Ratification Meeting, New Orleans, La. 
 
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