People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — GIFT FOR M’KINLEY. [ARTICLE]

GIFT FOR M’KINLEY.

The Big Illinois Campaign Horn Goes to Canton. The big tin horn, 80 feet long and 6 feet in diameter at the end, which was a big feature in all the Repnblioan campaign parades in oentral Illinois, is to be carried overland from Decatur, Ills., to Canton, 0., and presented to President Eleot McKinley at noon on Jan. 1, 1897, as a New Year’s gift. Six men have been seleoted to oarry tbe horn every step of the way. A firm at Decatnr will forfeit SI,OOO if the men fail. A citizen will give SI,OOO if they succeed. The men are to start with the horn, eaoh without a cent of money, and before they reach Canton they are to earn SI,OOO by the sale of pictures of the horn and of themselves. They are to report daily as to the progress of the trip and send to a bank each day every cent they may have realized at points visited on the journey. All of the big cities will be visited.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.