The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-22

Democratic campaign greatly underestimate ths
intelligence, the sense OF decency and the love or
fair play which prevails among our people.
Great cheering and cries OF What's the mat
ter with Harrison and He's all rrght-1 You
will pardon further remark. The evening" Is
drawing on and many or you, / am sure, havs
been made uncomfortable by your muddy walk
through the streets of our city. lCries o. We
took the pavement Were all right and Go
on.1 | cannot omit. however, to thank my
friends from Lafayette for this beautiful floral
tribute which they have placed at my side, an
emblem of their profession. accept 1t CRATE
the confidence and respect of the intelligent
body Of my own fellow-citizens OF Indiana"
Cheers.
When General Harrison concluded his address
the announcement of an evening meeting at the
hall was repeated, and the audience dispersed
for the afternoon. most of the visitors lingering
to shake hands with the Republican presidential
candidate.
Early in the evening the balconies and
gallery OF Tomlinson Hall were again packed,
and the lower-hoor seats reserved fos
the commercial travellers were ali occupied,
leaving many to find only standing room The
Fourteenth Regiment Band, Of Columbus, O.,
that came with tae delegation from that city,
gave a half-hour concert until s o'clock, and the
Apollo Quartet. of the same city, sang an
Irish song. Some ono 10 the gallery yelled
''What's the matter with Hsrrisonp and 4. 900
voices responded: Hes all right!' The crowd
was immensely enthusiastic, and every allusicn
to Harrison or the flag or the country during
the evening was greeted with tremendous cheer
Ing. President Webster acted as ussser OF GER
emonies, and performed the task with
skill and grace. He bad q witty
remark to make upon introducing each
SPEAKER. Said he. upon calling the assemblage
IIrN
travellers love-feast. Those Of you who are
commercial. travellers know what that means,
and those who are not will fnd out If you stay
loog enough. l now have the pleasure of intro
duclng TO You John E. Dowell. Of Boston, who
has a job-lot OF politics he wishes 70 unload upon
you.' Applause.
Mr. Dowell said he was proud to be numbered
with the commercial travellers OF the United
States. and glad that he had been allowed
to shake his umbrella with q flag on
see Harrison. He represented the shoe
industry OF the old Bay State, one of
the greatest industries Of the country. If his
hearers did not think so, let them examine their
shoe bills at the end Of the year. He came
from q State where the only question is one of
majority, whether it 10 to be 40, 900 or Is, 900 for
Indiana's favorits son. He believed it would be
the latter. tApplausel Governor Hill and
Judge Thurman, he continued, have been
maliciously misreprssentine the shoe industry
in their speeches in Indiana. They say that
hides aud leather are admitted duty free. and
shoe manufacturers are prosperous. Hides are
free, but every pound OF leather pays 2 big
duty, and the manufscturers are making no
money. We have the best brains. and the best
machinery, aud the best material in the world,
and there is only one reason Why we cannot
undersell the world and that is because of the
higher price We pay our laborsrs for their work.
iApplause. There 10 not q mechanic in q shoe
factory in Massachusetts 20 ignorant that he
does not know this fact Under the system Of
protection every one OF the complicated ma
chimes now used In the shoe factories was the
invention of q workingman, and American shoe
machinery 10 the finest IN the world and one
will find it in every shoe factory in Europe to-
day. IApplause.l Hill and Thurman may
know more about some things than / do" said
the speaker. "but when it comes TO the shoe
business / claim that l know more than both Of
them put together. | worked four years on the
bench learning the trade, and know the business
from the ground up My brother is q sea captain
and said IL me, John, if you could only
travel as 1 have and see the misery and poverty
In foreign countries aud compare their condition
with the people OF the United States. you would
be a blscker Republican than you are now. ZAP
plause l never wished for success as | do
now. Out OF two hundred and fifty thousand
travelling men 90 per cent. are Republicans, and
each one Is q missionary il the cause" LAP
plausetl
THE Dowell family" said President Webster,
sis a big one. "but 1 want 10 introduce to you
r. t. Dow, of Atlantis, Ga, who has a job lot OF
Republican Southern ideas which he wishes to
get rid off,
Mr.. Dow said: Ladies'. and Gentlemen, aad
Feiiow-,ramps lapplausel-I came from the
solid South to greet you who will
be q solid North in November. lap
plause.] 1 greet you not as theoretical,
book-worm political economists, but as practical
business political economists (applausel; msu
who know that an ounce OF fact is worth a ton
OF theory; men who meet all kinds of people and
know what An ar1Nana man DhA Ena-
what protection has done for America. I went
to Atlanta in 1850, after there had been years
of Democratic rule, and there were then three
small factories. In twenty-four years Of Re-
publican rule, because there is five years that
don't count. that number has increased from 3
TO 249 establishments, employing IL. 900 men.
Applause. Free trade never did that lap
plause i was born in Ireland lapplausel, and
because was born under the frse-trads rule Of
England I am to-day a Republican [applausel,
and / don't see how an Irishman can
DO anything elss. James g. Blaine
was beaten by Burchard. but no Burchsrd can
beat the gallant son of Indiana tApplause l
Am a Catholic, aud because our country grants
freedom aud free speech, and free religion to all
l love that grand old Presbyterian, Benjamin
Harrison. Applause come from a country
where Democrats grow as thick as grasshoppers.
Applause. i have no fault to find with Demo-
Gratis only they have gone wrong Irishmen
have been wrong ever since the time Of jack
son, but thousands Of them are getting righs
this year. applause There are enough Of
them'in New York to make q grand Republican
victory there this year. Applause The Dem
ocrats complain that We have appropriated the
flag. They met first Of ST. Louis and had their
choice. They did not choose the grand old ban
ner of freedom, but they chose this rag. PRO
dueing q bandsnDa handkerchief. Applause.
When an Irishmao works hard all year and
finds he has not money enough 10 pay his rent,
he packs his clothes lin ono of these and goes
over to England snd works for rent money. o.
yes; an Irishman has great cause to love the
bandanna.- lt is a badge of servitude
to him. They talk of the Democrats
being the friend of the working men.
1t is only the other day that Cleveland's indian
Commissioner passed by all the free manufac-
tories in the United States and bought 600
wagons at the Nashville penitentiary, made by
convict labor, for the Indians. All the railroads
in nv State are constructed by convict labor.
and if Georgia ia not Democratic, Ia like TO
know of Q State that is.' IAppiauss Mr.. Dow
spoks at considerable length upon the Issues as
applied to the Irish. and was frequently ap-
pIauded.
President Webster then introduced John L,
Grifiths, the candidate for Supreme Court Re-
porter. He made one of his rousing speeches.
He said It was the second time to-day that be
had spoken to 5000 Republicans On the 4th of
next March they proposed TO empty the Presi-
Dental chair Of raw material and cut into it a
finished product of American institutions lap
[Great applause. He said there were some
things that made him tired, and one Of them
was a Democrats claim Of being the soldiers
friend. He then read aud commented upon
an interview with Cleveland which was
published in the Sentinel two yeeks