Mckinley For Ten Minutes

Although the liotk-e was short, a crowd of nearly seven thousand people grepted Governor AYil iam G. McMeKinley, of Oiuo. when he passed througn Aun Arbor on Thursday afternoon last. The news that i;ov. McKtaley would pass through,. on the M. C. E'y, at 5:30 p. ju., local time, spread like wüdfire over the city. Not only students and Aim citizena were at the depot, but eitizens from Saline, Yiisilanti and other nelghboring places. A small platform had been creeted in front of the main entrance to the depot. The crOAvd seated itself on the bank and waited. Punetually on time the passenger train steamed into the depot, and b aiighty shout arose, -worthy of the weieome of a great man. Wftli no delay, Chairman Prettyman appeared with Goy. MeKinléy and presented him to the Tast audience. The Governor looked pk-nsed with liis welcome and some-vvliat astonished at the immensity of the erowd. He said as follows : "My fellow-citizens : It gives one very great p-leasure to meet with tlie citizens and studente of this great University town, whose Uni-ersity is one of the laxgest, if not the largest in the U. S. Whoss students are iai every state of the union, and the fame of whose president goes beyond the confines of our own country, and extends into other lands. I recall -with great pleasure and satisfaction, and it must be a great source of satisfactlon to you, to know that when the Pan American congress met in the United States, the government. selected this as onj of the model educational institutions of the country, to which they polnfced ior the observation and examination of our dii-t:nguished visitors. I remember, too, with much pleasure, the -lsit I made to you two yeara ago, when I addressed for the flanst time, the college clubs belonging to the Kepublican League of the republican party. As I said then. I say now, the republican party is quite -willing to submit its principies to the judgnient of the educated young men of the country. "We have nothing t-o iear in that respect. Mr. l.incoln once said that he didn't know yery much about political economy, but he knew when he bought a ton of iron in Europe and paid $20 for it, while he had ithe iron, Europe had the money, but then when he bought a ton of iron in the United States, he had the iron and the United States had the taoney. He might have gone_ ïurtlver, and sald that the ton of Iron that he bought in the United States, was made trom the iron and coal produced in the United States, which furnfehed employment and wagOS to the American workingman. What we want to do in this country, my fellow-citizens and my young friends of theUmiversity, is to keep wide open the door of opportunity. "We want to pursue no policy, we want to follow do theory of political economy, which will degrade our citizenship, and e hut out the young men of the country from the highest possibilities. In this our republican life, we have a most splendid example of these possibilities in the past. Our history is full of thern. Where the poorest and humblest have becoine the strong est and mightiest in the shapdng of public sentiment. No better example can be found than in the person oí that great soldier Gen. Grant. I remember two years ago to have been in the city of Galena, upon the occasion of the unveiling of the monument, which had been erected to lüs memory, by a fiiend of his, as weil as a friend of mine And while in that city many remi nisences were given to me, by the older citizens, of Capt. Grant. One of the stories which they told me was that he presided over the first union meeting ever held in the city o: 0 alona. He was little known, bu in four years from that time ho pre sided over tlie greatest unión meeting ever held beneath the flag at Appomattox Court House. He hail íiliecl tlie who e world witli hts lame in those four years, us he joumeyed i'n the pathway of the win, I am very glad to nieet yon, very glad to greet yon and regret that my engemntfi ooinpel me to leave yon now.'1 At this moment the conductor shouted "all aboanl" and Gov. McECinley returned 'co lii.s 'jar íol.owed by vigoi'ous cheeriiig. General A!g v and Gov. John Ï. llk-ii acoompanied Gov. MeKinlfy, and enjoyed tlie inspírlng seene.