The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-12
General Dissatisfaction With the Ticket
The Speech Prepared for Gen.
eraI Harrison.
He Acts as an Alleged Photograph, But the
Machinery Gave Way-He Also
Gave the Party Away.

/ tolling parties OF the union. This state is a
/ battle ground, has been so recognized for a
I full score of years, and may be so again, but
probably Will not be if the idiocy of yestsr-
day is repeated. The republican conven-
\ ton held at the Metropolitan was the
most spiritless gathering that has been
ever assembled here since the capital was
removed from Corydon. During the day
previous, as reported in yesterdays Sentinel,
the wire-workers put IN an appearance in
numbers. They represented every phase of
| office-holding greeu, from a defeated candi-
/ date for Lieutenant governor, from Fort
| Wayne, to statesman and Christian
who 10y name Cumback) gathers to-
/ gether honest penny from collecting
a whisky tax in the fattest district of the state.
/ They were all here, but the representatives
/ OF the people were noticeably lacking. 1t
can be said without any danger of contradic-
! ton that even under the auspices of Simon
| Cameron in Pennsylvania aud Reuben Z.
| Fenton in New York, a more complete set
/ of demagogues were never punched together
/ They came without leader, and did not
/ succeed in finding one after they arrived.
/ They came with but one single and distinct
/ purpose, and that was either to hold fast TO
/ the office they had or fly to another one they
might possibly hear a rumor about.
! Preliminaries caused trouble, but on. ac-
! count of the general desire TO do away
| with the services of George w. FIiedley
/ and ID. S. Alexander as chairman and secre-
| tary of the centra, committee for toe ensu-
! ing year, little trouble was experienced
/ there. Then there was discussion about
the chairman. Several persons thought
/ Judge Gresham was the party. w. 2. Fish
back was spoken of. Tom Phillips thought
/ he could fill the BILL but on account OF post
! office complications weakened. Lingle also
/ thought about the post Office department;
| w. X. Edwards Terre Haute, remembered
his late race for the mayoralty; Congress
man Sexton thought, calling to mind his
experience as lieutenant governor, that he
was not much of presiding officer anyway,
and so it was decided that General Ben Har-
rlson was the only man who could hold
the party up by the tail. The general
was in Cincinnati on private business OF
nature calculated TO touch the hearts of the
| most callOus, but that made no difference
If he regarded his future prospects at home
he must come, and the wires were heated
with kilograms demanding his attendance.
He responded. On arrival he found a
speech written for which he was TO act as
photograph, but he did not repeat exactly
as anticipated. The machine got out of gear,
and recollecting the scoring he received
at the hands of the greenbackers two years
l ago ne DIoCSCUSt " QCliOullCC hdbtOn1JS
in unmeasured terms and advocated ad
ditional appropriations for insane asylums
for their reception. The few sensible men
present were not backward IN denouncing
his speech, but it will stand as the expressed
opinion of one, and the only one, who
could give tone" TO the party. In order
that no misrepresentation can ensue the
Sentinel gives Gen. Harrison's speech, as
prepared and otherwise, verbatim:
''THE KEY NOTE"
GENTIENrEN-We are assembled in conven-
ton to-day under circumstances of great inter-
est to the republican party and to the coun-
try. 1t seems to me that a right candid eX-
preston of true political principles from this
convention will have potent influence in the
coming election. The circumstances OF our
assembling are suspicious and favorable. The
calling of our convention together has given
us a nearer view of some OF the political queS-
tions which are to be discussed in this cam
paign, and put some of these questions behind
us as accomplished facts. We have great
advantage over our opponents.the democratic
party. Their convention assembled some time
in the remote past. Applause Their decara-
" so much relation to living things as last
years oyster shell. have said that We have
passed some of these questions upon which
the republican mind was divided last winter.
The silver question upon which men OF all par
ties were divided, is settled. The dollars OF our
fathers constitute the circulating medium of
our country. / was one OF those that held that
we would honor our fathers by putting little
more silver i'm that dollar, but accept to-day,
as a finaIiiy the silver bill, and would depre-
cate any attempt to NEEDLE with 1t, for II there
is any great stress upon this people to-day it is
for rest upon the financial question; l Delleve
when congress assembled Iast fall there
patent indications of rev1vlng confidence I'm
all business enterprises, but that the discussion
this past winter has so unsettled that, that we
have been put back six months in our progress
toward prosperity. The silver question Is set
tied. L believe for myself to-day, whether it
meets the views Of your platform, that the re-
sumption ofspe Gle payment is an accomplished
fact l believe we should recognize it as some
pIished present and eternal fact.
1t has been hard road we have gone over,
61t shall We go back oyer the Long way t1 AGAIN
all at fault III there is any Otner bed rock OF
finance than currency redeemable In coin.
Some of these gentlemen would nave us go
failed to notice that in foreign land where
John Sherman had no influence the same
financial distress has been felt as in this coun-
try If IL is true that the distress of this coun-
try has been aggravated by these financial
disturbances, shall we repeat this distress and
go back and tread the very way again? have
Sometimes myself upon the Kankakee found
IL necessary TO go through q marsh, and as IL
got deeper and deeper have been about ready
TO turn back, but when one further courageous
step will bring me out OF the way must go,
and that lies between myself and nome, go
forward.
A great deal of mistaken talk is INDUCED in
concerning this financial question:. Dem
gOgues say that species OF money called nat
have no asylum for idiots in Indiana, but L
think IL would be well for the next Legislature
TO turn its aztec ton in that direction. III
there is one thing that should be regarded as
settled it is that the currency of the poor
man, the farmer and the non-commercial
man should be fixed and of permanent value
from day TO day. Iappeal TO your recollection
of those times when deprecated currency has
been in circulation. Who was IL that suffered
with this depreciation? Ii was notthe banker;
he Is always advised and prepares for such
emergency. / met, the other day, colored
Iaborer who said he had received a Mexican
dollar for which the bank would give him but
ninetv-fve cents. What was the natter
Some firm dealing in these Mexican dollars
propose to fsell them at a per cent. off to rail-
road com panies and other corporations, that
for one dollar. In every pursuit of life the la
boring man, the farmer, the man
who never had any commercial expert
ence are the men that want
greenback of uniform value from New