The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-10-14
THE OHIO CONTEST.
RECEPTION OF THE INDIANA ORA
TORS,

TORS.
ENTHUSIASTIC RECOGNITION OF MERIT BY PEo-
PIE AND PRESS.
The Cincinnati Enquirer editorially refers
to Mr.. Voorhees, speech IS follows: The
very able speech delivered by the Hon. Dan
W. Voorhees, OF Indiana, at LoVelSnd, yes
terdsy, should be read by every voter of
Ohio. 1t is one of the clesrest and most
comprehensive expositions of the financial
issues that we have seen this year. Mr..
voorhees, is not alone an orator IN a rhetori-
cal sense. He is an orator in that he knews
how TO array facts and present them to the
people in clear-cut, incisivs and convinc-
ing manner. The people always understand
him. Mr.. voorhees, will do good work for
the cause of the people in Ohio.
THE cHAIRMAN's COMPLIMENTS.
In introducing the Wabash orator to the
Loveland audience, Chairman Williamson
paid him this tribute: "It affords me great
pleasure TO introduce to you a most distin-
guished statesman and orator of sister
state; the Cicero of the American forum !;
whose name and fame are cock
tensive with the boundaries OF
the American Republic; who has written his
name, not only on some of the brightest
pages of our political history, but has at
taiued eninence in the fields of literature
and in the highest walks of jurisprudence;
who, for the invention of argument, Sc
quence of facts, elevation Of thought, force
OF reasoning, harmony of language, novelty
and brilliancy of metaphor, beauty of S;c-
ton, grace and eloquence of exordiurs, and
power and energy OF perorati0n has but few
equals and no superior since the days of s.
s. Permissible Hon. d. W. Voorhees,"
RIGHT ROYAL RECEPTION.
The Enquirer of yesterday morning says
that Governor Allen and ID. w. Voorhees,
did not reach the city last night from the
Lovelsnd meeting until half past seven
o'clock. They proceeded Immediately to
their rooms at the Gibson House, where the
governor expected to receive a few personal
friends during the evening. It was not
until alter eight o'clock that a few citizens
got together and determined, late as it was,
to inaugurate a serenade TO the distin-
guished guest of Messrs. Geffroy e Gibson.
A large number of people, mostly working
men, had gathered on the pavemeuts along
the Gibson House and across the street,
| for what purpose they hardly knew them
| selves, but the knowledge that William AL
len, the honest old governor of Ohio, was
within the Gibson House walls seemed to
act as a sort of magnet to draw these Ia
borers together. And there they stood, as
1t were, in silent reverence of the man above
all Others whom they recognized as
the friend of them and their kind.
When, therefore, an hour later, brass
band was brought into the front OF the ho-
| TEL it did not have to drum up a crowd.
The several hundred which at an earlier
hour had congregated on the sidewalks
were but the nucleus of the crowd that
kept
GATHERING AND SWELLING
until it filed the street completely from
College Building to the Gibson House doors.
Even the windows of the Mercantile Library
across the street were filled with ladies and
gentlemen who cast wistful looks of ex-
pectsncy toward the hotel balcony opposite.
1t had been noised around that Gov. Allen
was about to be serenaded, and the hope of
seeing bis gray head and hearing his honest
voice hurried people of all classes to the
spot. And there they stood, fully twelve
hundred of them, down in the open street,
with their sea of upturned facss spread over
with expressions that would have been rich
| food for the artist. His Honor Mayor john
| ston, in few appropriate words, intro
duced to the crowd the present as well as
| the next governor of Ohio. AS the
white hairs and tall, robust form OF Ohio's
governor come under the light OF the bal
cony lamps, such a shout of hearty welcome
went up as must have made the heart OF
VIM. Allen beat fast with pleasure and
| qualification. He said he did not intend to
/ 6QJ6T lnLO n Speech, ana ne QlQ
not. He simply touched upon the general
issues of this great campaign, and reminded
| the voters in the streets below him of the
great import which each mans vote in this
state would have this fall. In conclusion he
said if he lived he expected to address them
| at length in the Fifth Street Market Place
this evening; and he expected to live; he
did not expect to die so long as the people
cut out work ahead for an honest man to do.
He retired, while hearty cheers hoated up
and filed the street with their echoes. The
mayor next introduced
THE TALL SYCAMORE OF THE WABASH,
the Hon. Daniel w. voorhees,, Of a sister
state. Mr.. Voorhees, reception was scarcely
less warm than that given to the governor.
the gentleman said but little; he had Just
come from making one campaign speech,
and would make another to the citizens of
Cincinnati this evening. He would there
fore only thank them for the courtesy they
were extending to him, in connection with
their governor. He would say, however,
that, though he was, as the mayor mad in
troduced him, citizen of a sister state, he
was none the less interested in the result Of
Ohio's election next Tuesday. The peopleof
! his state were quite as much interested in
the result here we ourselves, and the
wires would be watched next Tuesday by
the citizens OF Indiana with the same
eagerness that we will give them here TN
Ohio. In reality, it was net a simple state
election, but an earnest of that great strug-
gle next year which is destined to decide the
veal or woe of the commercial interests OF
this great country. Mr.. VOORHEES, was fol-
lowed by the Hon. John E. Neff secretary
OF the state of Indiana. MIR. Ne1f though a
young man, Is sn earnest and eloquent
speaker. His remarks were few but pointed,
and were frequently interrupted with
shouts OF approval. John +. Follett, ESQ,
made the concluding speech, after which the
crowd on the street was dismissed by
Mayor Johnson, and slowly and
reluctantly dispersed. Until quite a
late hour Governor Allen was be-
sieged by an army of callers, among
whom were some prominent republicans.
Whatever may be the result of next Tues
days election land no one doubts what it