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 WILLIAM McKINLEY 41 presidential nomination. In the campaign he was equally active. The democrats had carried the Ohio legislature in 1883, and he was again gerryman dered into a district supposed to be strongly against him. He accepted a renomination, made a diligent canvass, and was again elected, defeating David R. Paige, then in congress, by 2,000 majority. But his energies were by no means confined to his own district. He accompanied Mr. Elaine on his cele brated western tour, and afterward spoke in the states of West Virginia and New York. In the Ohio gubernatorial canvass of 1885 Ma jor McKinley was equally active. His district had been restored in 1886, and he was elected by 2,550 majority over Wallace H. Phelps, the democratic candidate. In the state campaigns of 1881, 1883, and 1885, and again in 1887, he was on the stump in all parts of Ohio. In the 49th congress, April 2, 1886, he made a notable speech on arbitration as the best means of settling labor disputes. He spoke at this session on the payment of pensions and the surplus in the treasury, and both speeches merit attention as forcible statements of the posi tion of his party on those questions. Major McKinley delivered a memorial address on the presentation to congress of a statue of Gar- field, January 19, 1886. He also advocated the passage of the so-called dependent pension bill, February 24, over the president s veto, as a &quot;simple