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Escort Parade for President McKinley at Canton, Ohio August 30, 1899Entry/Object ID
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Carte de viste showing escort parade for President McKinley August 30, 1899. McKinley gave two speeches that day. Here is the text of both speeches. Remarks at Canton, Ohio, August 30, 1899.
Judge Baldwin and my Felloiv-Citizens :
I appear only for a moment that I may give expression to my appreciation of the welcome which you have extended to me to-day. After all, there is no place like home. And this is my home. Here thirty-two or thirty-three years ago I commenced my professional life. Here have been formed some of the most tender and sacred associations. Some of them, indeed, have been severed, but this is the seat and the center of my memory.
Heretofore, for nearly a third of a century, you have given me kindly greeting, words of encouragement, and showered upon me honor after honor, all undeserved, and I appear before you now only to express what is in my heart : that I am glad to see you ; glad to meet you^
to look into your faces once again, and feel the inspiration of yom' approval. [Loud and prolonged applause.]
Speech at Can'tox, Ohio, August 30, 1899.
Captain Fisher, Officers and Members of the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and my Fellow-Citizens :
It gives me great pleasure to meet you once more in this dear old town. I have appreciated during the day the "warmth of welcome and the heartiness of greeting which have been accorded to me by my old neighbors and friends.
I do not forget, as I stand in this presence, surrounded by these brave boys, that this old county of Stark was prompt in responding to the call of the government for soldiers in this war with Spain. I do not forget the alacrity with which they volunteered, and I have always been proud of the fact, for I noted it with great satisfaction, that this county furnished quite as many
soldiers, according to its population, as any other county in the United States. [Applause.]
You have won and earned the nation's gratitude and praise. You did your full duty in front of Santiago ; and no higher honor can be paid to the soldier of any country than to say of him that he did his whole duty. [Applause.]
You were more fortunate than many of your comrades. You got to the seat of hostilities. But every one of the two hundred thousand splendid young men who volunteered for that war was anxious to get to the front and at the place of greatest danger.
I am glad to meet my fellow-citizens liere to-night. I am thankful to them for the good will which is manifested by their presence ; and I shall go away from my city and my home strengthened for the great duties and responsibilities of the Executive office, and sustained and encouraged by the kindly expressions of my warm- hearted friends here. [Great applause.]
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