Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-03
HAYES IN HOosIERDOAI.

HAYES IN HOOSIERDOM.
A Great Crowd Gathered at indianapolis
to See the Presidential Party and Other
Prize Exhibits-Incidents of the Day.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2.-The grand industrial
parade to-day is complete success. Every
branch of trade is represented. President
Hayes and General Sherman, escorted by the
military, were at the head of the procession,
which was viewed by Mrs. Hayes from plat
form in front of the post Office, and which oc-
cupied two hours and five minutes in passing.
The entire route is lined with thousands, and
the passage of the President is an ovation
from the start to the close. !. Ia 5si.4r
After lunch the President was driven to the
fair grounds, where he was introduced by Pres
ldent Mitchell, of the State board of agricul-
ture. President Hayes then spoke as follows:
Mr.. President and Fellow Citizens of Indi-
ana: The guests of Indianapolis and of the
State board of agriculture are not likely to
mistake the meaning of the enthusiastic as
semblage which we have seen, and which We
| now see here on this fair ground. The recep-
ton and the welcomes so hearty and so enthu-
siastic are not for any individual official or
otherwise. The welcome and reception which
brings together this vast multitude are not for
any human being. You are to welcome the
coming of better times. You are here to re-
joice over and be glad to welcome the return of
solid currency. (Applause and a voice
That's it.') You welcome restoration of in
dividual and national credit. after the long
night of five or six years of depression, of
the good time coming. That is why we are
here and why we are SO glad to be here and
that is why the people are so enthusiastic.
Before coming we learned something in de-
tail of Indiana. We looked around to see what
we could learn of your State. When we heard
State We were able to compare their representa-
tions with what we had learned from other
sources. We understood perfectly we'll that
Indiana could raise ard perhaps had raised in
single year fifty million bushels of wheat,
worth fifty million dollars. (Applause.) We
understood that Indiana had raised and could
continue to raise fifty million bushels of corn
year, worth from forty to fifty million dollars.
We understood that Indiana raises cattle and
hogs and horses and other products that can be
raised in the best sections of the best CONT
nent on the globe. (Great applause.) We
understood Indiana had coal and iron and tim
Der and manufactures, and that the good
things that she didn't have already she was
beginning to have. and the country is begin
ming to have market For her surplus beyond
the sea. (Cheers.) But the advantage of In
diana did not stop with the material advan-
tages speak of "a we understand them. We
learned also that Indiana has land for cattle
and horses and crops not only, but that she
has fostered educational interests by building
10000 school houses, (ereat applase), and we
learned further that in proportion to the pop
ulaton she has the largest school fund in the
Union. "Great applause.
So, my friends. we are glad to como to Indi-
bring any par: or this conatry, they are sure to
bring to this State-the lions share of what
ever good belongs to prosperous people. (Great
applause, and cries of goOd.) Indiana has
history of which her citizens may we'll be
proud. With population grown more largely
from the Southern States of our Union than,
perhaps, any of the Western States, that were
of old free States, she had her peculiar diff.
culties and her peculiar embarrassments in
our great struggle for the preservation of our
matte nal unity. It was but human that men
should sympathize with the country from
which their fathers had emigrated. This led
to some difficulties, but don't intend to stop
to criticise it, but nevertheless no State of the
Union probably, in proportion to the popula-
ton, sent more men to the front than Indiana.
Applause and voice ''That's fact, Mr..
President.') Indiana soldiers from beginning
to the end Of the State struggle carried the
flags, and keeping step to the music of the
Union were everywhere among the gallantest,
bravest and sturdiest soldiers who maintained
the Union cause and the constitution.
And when we come to speak of Indiana
among the old friends and neighbors of Oliver
P. Morton-(cheers)-w cannot pass without
pausing for moment to pay tribute to his
memory. Morton, as Senator and debater,
absolutely matches Morton az leader Of
political party, and, as to this, my friends of
the Democratic party will agree with my
friends of the Republican party. But it is not
as a Senator, as debater, as the leader of a
party alone that we would speak'of Oliver p.
Morton, hut his power before an audience
like this was wonderful. Crippled as he was,
to hold spell bound thousands of his country
mon by the hour. No other man unuer like
circumstances could accomplish what he did in
this respect. and yet it is not because of this
that I mention his name. His distinction hav-
ing no connection whatever officially with
the. government of the United States,
having no connection with civil
and military affairs Of the government of the
United States was simply that of Governor of
single State. They have had great war Gov
errors in other States. I am not here to dis
parage the ability, the patriotism or the cour-
age, or other great qualities of John Brough of
my own State, or other war Governors in Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,, Illinois, or any
other State; but to make simple and truthful
statement that no Governor in any other State
under such difficulties as he encountered, bore
up the flag of the Union as it was borne up by
Oliver P. Morton. (Cheers and cries of good"
The President then branched off into his set
speech. portions of which he has delivered at
nearly every place at which he has stopped
during his trip. which has been worn thread
bare in the repetition, and is therefore omitted
on this occasion. .l-
The President having concluded his remarks
there were loud and continued calls for Gen.
Sherman, who rather reluctantly responded.
After abiding to the large crowd and enthus-
loot Sherman IN he
disaster to Major Thornburghs command in the
Milk river country as follows: But the tele-
graph brings The sad tidings to-day that one of
our gallant officers, Major Thornburgh, with
thirteen others of our brave boys, as gallant
tsgxn as had any Seen slain bv 1ndans
Now we must finish these Indians.
It will be done Notwithstanding Congress has
given us so few men, because of the hard times
which are now past. They have cut our army
down now till we can hardly do picket duty on
our frontier lines, and that's the way the In
best Of US at first as in the case of
Custer, and now fellow soldiers,
your Congresmen to give us force
large enough to do, at least, effective picket
duty. Why, we have but q, 900 men in the
United States, 5000 of whom are clerks. They
are non combatants, hospital men, cooks, etc.
Now, what are they good for in fight. ca
voice, ''they amt worth cent? There are
not more than 10000 soldiers, scattered over
Colorado, Idaho, Arizona, Oregon and other
points that need protection from predatory
raids from the Indians. The other day about
$50 men were ambushed by the Indians, and
thirteen of our best troops were killed, two or
three of them being officers The railroads are
assembling companies to go to the relief of
the command, and they no doubt have been
succored by this time. If the border is to be
protected SO that the public do
main may be empowered up like
your WI beautiful city and country, then the
army must be maintained on such {. standard
as can cope with the hostiles. We cannot