The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-24
A Long Journey Yesterday-NO Abatement
in the Size of the Crowds or in the En-
thNsiasm of Their Greeting.
The PerilS that Would Follow in the
Wake of q Democratic Victory.
The New and the Old South, and the Danger
of Placing the Latter in POwer-A
Great Day at Lafayette.
EVANSVILLE TO TERRE HAUTE.
The Demonstrations at Sullivan and at the
Handsome Prairie City.

TERRE HAUTE, Oct. 23-The cold wave came
with vengeance, and despite the bright sun
the weather was decidedly uncomfortable for the
beginning of Mr.. Blaines trip northward. Long
before o'clock however, hundreds of people
had gathered at the station in Evansville
to await the arrival of Mr.. Blaine and to
send him speeding upon his triumphal tour.
The hour set for the departure was $3.50, but Mr..
Blaine was a few minutes late, so that it was
nearly o'clock before the signal to pull out was
given. The crowd had increased TO fully fifteen
hundred, and as the train slowly
the rear platform and waved his
acknowledgements to the cheering multitude
Mr.. Blaine expressed himself as feeling very
well, but had not slept quite as long as he would
have liked to. The brisk, bright air put every
body OH their mettle, and it was an enthusiastic,
jolly train load, which doubled upon the track of
yesterday as far as Vincennes, bearing with
them the Caesar and the fortunes of the Republic
an party. Two extra cars filed with the Pioneer
Corps, of Belleville, Ill., which had come to par
tcipate in the Evansville demonstration, were
attached to the special and will be taken as far
as Springfield. The run to Vineennes was made
without incident. Mr. Blaine passed a
| little while in cheerful conversation
with the members of the immediate party who
occupied his coach but after time he turned
to the reading of the papers and the considera-
ton of his mail. After his withdrawal to the
private room, the gentlemen very freely dis
cussed the marvellous letter of Grover Cleveland
to Mrs Henry Ward Beecher. The letter did
not appear in the Evansville Journal, but was in
the Courier, under display headlines and, be-
cause of the fact that it was only printed in the
one paper. and because of it's inherent stupidity
and downright idiocy without exception, all pro
nounced the document a forgery at first blush.
! Upon further inquiry, and seeing that it pur-
ported to be portion of speech of Mr. Beecher's,
there came a reluctant belief in its genuineness,
which was confirmed into conviction when at
| Vincennes the Indianapolis Journal was re-
ceived, and the document found to be in its col
umns. 1t would be scarcely proper to repeat
| the comments made upon this last most surpris
ing performance of the Democratic candidate;
but the general opinion was voiced by Senator
Harrison, who said the publication of that docu-
ment ended the campaign. ut would be humil-
iation for the Democratic party to even continue
show of fight, said he. Cleveland had bet
shown himself a fool. There is pardon for
wrong, but to be fool is the objectionable SIM :"
Mr. Blaine, of course took no part in the con-
versation and what he thinks of the letter was
not known
The run was made rather slowly, and the
! train was considerably behind time when Vim
cennes was reached, where the Terre Haute
committee on reception met the special, having
| come down in two special coaches, which were
here added to the Blaine train, thereby increas-
ing the weight and adding to the loss of time.
Among the Terre Haute committee were Hon.
W. r. McKeen, Colonel R. W. Thompson, Hon.
Thomas H. Nelson, D. w. Mnshall, L. A. Bur
nett, Fl. c. Royse, W. j. D. Mitchell, G. Esch-
man, Charles O'Connell, Dr. Kuster and Jacob
Steinmehl. A committee from Sullivan also
boarded the train here, and after the start was
made they came into Mr.. Blane's car and were
introduced
The train was more than an hour behind when
it reached Sullivan, but the immense crowd of
people had patiently waited its coming
handsomely decorated stand was erected on the
west side of the track, the notices upon it being
in favor of the doctrine of protection. A very
stiff wind blowing, and when Mr. Blaine
faced the thousands of people he begged their
pardon for keeping on his hat while he talked to
them. For fully ten minutes, in a wonderfully
| clear, forcible and homely manner, Mr.. Blaine
put the issue between protection and
free trade, and emphasized the inter-
est Indiana had in the decision of The
issue. He said he had been saying that
Indiana last year manufactured to an aggregate
of $3.50, 0OO, 600; but he had received from Dem
ocrat note correcting hm-that the exact
amount of the output of the State was $2l4, 900,
600. He was glad to be corrected because it
only added to the strength of the argument, and
he was much obliged to the honest Democrat
who had sent him the figures. When confront
ed with the statement that there were no honest
Democrats he would be able to say that there
was at least one, and he had found him in In
diana. Now the farmers of Indiana are inter
ested in the tariff. The amount of land cannot
be increased that is fixed quantity; but the
value of its produce and its own value can be in
creased, by the increase of the volume of man.
ufactures. Why is land worth $3.50 an
acre in certain parts of Pennsylvania
State honeycombed with manufactur-
ing enterprisesl 1t was because the farmer had
market both at his front door and his back
door, and the profits of his crops were not eaten
up by the cost of transportation over hundreds
of miles of land and over thousands of miles of
sea. Good land in Pennsylvania was no better
than good land in Indiana; the difference in
price was attributable solely to the fact stated.
The farmers of Indiana were all interested in
and benefited by the $214, 600. O0Oof mar ;actres
produced last year, and when that amount is