Show MUSIC ANb FLOWERS AND PRETTY GIRLS flcKinley Seems to Be Enjoying a Butterfly Existence THE SADIE OLD SONG DELIGHTED WIT EVEItYTIHJfG AND EVEILYIIODY To the Majors Iliad the Question Now at Issue Involve a Distinct Issue Between KiRht and Wrong Between Honor and Dishonor AVe Cannot Afford to Trine Over n Mutter So Serious and Vital CANTON O Sept 24This was one of the most picturesque days of the presidential campaign In Canton There was abundance of music flowers and pretty women The delegations numbered 3000 The first composed of miners came from West Newton P They arrived shortly before noon and had not been gone long before a delegation from Oil City marched up the streets cheered at ever step by the enthusiastic spec ttor This delegation came in a sp del train composed largely of Pullman cars for it contained a large number of ladies The bands preceded by the Canton troop of mounted horsemen headed the delegation Then came the McKinley and Hobart club and the First Voters club of Oil City and 45 pretty young women representing every state in the Union each carrying a i basket of flowers with streamers bearIng I bear-ing the names of each state After the girls came a marching club of 300 A large number of the most prominent prom-inent men of Oil City with their wives and daughters walked in the Darade I was A REMARKABLE DELEGATION At Major McKinleys n pyramid stand had been erected by directIon of the Oil City people and the great baskets of flowers with their stream ing ribbons were placed upon It form ing an apparently solid pyramid of roses 15 feet high After the speechmaking speech-making each girl handed her basket gr of roses to Major McKinley who passed pass-ed them over to attendants to place on the stand While the delegation was waiting for the speeches rousing cheers for Mrs and McKin 115 McKinley ad Major 11cKin leys mother were given gven The third and last delegation was from Westmoreland county Pa I was largely compose of miners and glass workers The Westmoreland delegation was 3000 strong I was made UD of voters of Greensburg ScoWdale Latrobe Lat-robe Ligioniere Mammoth and Mount Pleasant and it took three special trains to carry it Major McKinley wsIN IN EXCELLENT CONDITION today and spoke with much clearness and vigor In response t the spokesman spokes-man from the Oil City delegation he said saidThis is indeed a very greathonor and tribute to a patriotic and noble cause My fellow citizens hat would be more beautiful o more inspiring than to have these young ladies representing seating every state of the American Union on this lawn today to testify their devotion to the principles and purposes and aspirations of this great Union of states Great applause You come from the great oil district of Pennsylvania and know better than I can tell you the amazing growth of I your Industry The system I would favor for the country is the system of the fathers a system which came in with the government gov-ernment a system with which we have had the highest degree of prosperity which seeks the same growth in population popu-lation the same increase In wealth the same diffusion of prosperity every where that you have enjoyed in Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Applause I you will but glance ait the census map showing the proportion of improved im-proved and unimproved lands in the United States if you will consider for an instant the cause of our increased population i you will take into calculation OUR MARVELOUS RESOURCES which are a yet but little known I think you will agree with me that we ought t have a distinct and pronounced Industrial and commercial policy genuinely gen-uinely American and thoroughly patriotic i I pat-riotic Great applause Factories should increase all over the country and when the factories Incre i mines I increase and when both increase mhe home market for the farmer is improve Im-prove and his prices are better Great II applause and cries of Thats right Let us not be disturbed by overproduction overproduc-tion but rather take of ton rther take means preventing prevent-ing the underconsumption of American products by preserving and enlarging our home market and extending our I foreign markets beyond the sea Ap I plause and cries of Good good Let us continue the policy of Washington I HamiKon Jefferson Lincoln Grant I Stevens of your ow state applause and Cameron Blaine and Garfield and the scores of other distinguished statesmen states-men whose great services made the I GREATEST AND MOST PROSPEROUS I PROSPER-OUS country < of the world Equal credit I could perhaps be accorded to others than illustrious names I have mentioned men-tioned but greater distinction none can claim Cheers Their first their i ablest their highest aspirations were for America and Americans Renewed cheering We want a better American I sentment Cries of Thats right Major Ma-jor We want to cultivate a highsr I I national spirit we want to keep high the American name Applause I I am proud that my ancestors came I I from the state of PennsYlvania Great cheerlnt It gives me sincere pleasure pleas-ure to meet and greet all of my fellow citizens who are assembled about me and I am sure it will give Mrs McKinley McKin-ley great pleasure to meet the young ladies who a the bearers of the beautiful beau-tiful flowers representing our glorious Union Great cheering Major McKinleys address In response to the remarks of Colonel Huff spokesman spokes-man of the Westmoreland county delegation dele-gation were in part a follows I thank you one and all for the good cheer which you bring me today In this contest old party lines are being more or less effaced and patriotic citizens citi-zens are coming together upon one common platform to suytaln the public honor and support the o faith of the government of the United States Cheering and applause This contest in some of It aspects is the old yet I never new contest between the right and wrong Lincoln said In one of his debates orpfnet Douglas K Is a question between right and wrong that I is the real issue That is the Issue that j l will continue in this country when these i principles or tongues fit ours are silent I is the eternal struggle between these I two principles right and wrong throughout the world They are two principles that have stood face to face I I from the beginning of time and will i ever continue to struggle until the right I shall ultimately triumph We are confronted this year with a question of not mere partisan differences I pIe differ-ences but with a great mora princi pleTo To my mind the question involves al 0 distinct issue between right and wrong between honor and dishonor and I believe be-lieve it will on reflection be so considered con-sidered by an overwhelming majority of American voters on the 3rd of November No-vember next Applause and cheering We cannot afford to trifle about a matter mat-ter so serious and vital to our standing and welfare as a people and I appeal to you my fellow citizens of Westmore land county and all who love their country and our institutions to rise In their might and defeat this unworthy I issue by such n ast majority a will put it to rest forever Applause and cries of We will The first speech of the day was the shortest I was made in response to the miners representatives Mr McKinley Mc-Kinley devoted his remarks mainly to the tariff I |