Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-10-12
4 BLAINE BOOM.
Big Procession. Booming Cannon,
and BRiI-Roiling,
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lBy telegraph to the Dispatch.l
INDIANAPOLIS, October 1.-THE Re
publican demonstration to-day WAS one
of the largest and most successful ever
held in indianapolis The early trains
poured their thousands into the city.
Nearly all the fifteen railroads entering
the city ran special trains. some of the
roads were unable 10 bring all the pas
eengers who desired to come. Not less
than l,00O extra passenger coaches We're
employed. 1t IS estimated that 10y noon
over 60, 900 visitors had arrived. Early
in the day the streets became blocked
throughout the business district aud
pedestrians found it tedious mat
ter to travel. Scores Of bands and
dmm-corps were marching TO and
fro and the scene during the morning
was one Of confusion and noise. The
hotel corridors were crowded and the
ain of file and drum was TO be heard
everywhere Toward noon the streets
around tho Republican headquarters at
New Denison began 10 fiji, and at
O'Clock nothing but n solid wall OF
humanity was TO be seen for two squares
up and down Pennsylvania avenue. The
column formed on east Washington
street. and owing TO the great confusion
thatpreyaled transformation bydiyislons
something like &, 600 members OF Lincoln
leagues from the country were unable
to obtain their position IN line and took
no part ia the parade. At 1880 Harrl-
son, accompanied 10y Elaine, arrived at
New Denison. Their Appearance was the
signal for tremendous out5urst from
thirty thousand people packed like sar-
dimes in the streets below. TumultuOus
cheering on the appearance OF General
Harrison and Blaine continued several
minutes. AT 80 the boom OF the can
non toll the waiting thousands that tho
column had started. The hne Of march
Was west on Washington street 10 Penn
syiyania, north on Pennsylvania TO Fort
Wayne avenue, and along Delaware
street out 10 the Exposition-G Grounds.
The column was an hour and thirty
minutes In passing, and 1t Il es-
timatel that there were nearly
l., 900 in line. There were not less than
forty bands aud drum-corps In the pro-
cession. At the rear Of the first division
came the gigantic Harrison and Morton
ball, drawn by four horses, and rolling
continuously in its framework. This Is
the first campaign. ball seen in this city,
and its passage elected storms Of cheers.
There were thirty-two uniformed ward
clubs from this city in the hne, and over
twenty-five colored clubs. the latter
aggregating between two and three thou
sand, and they were among the most de-
monstrative clubs in the Droce SION.
Blaine delivered speech tonight, in
the course OF which be said 1t ID the
studied and persistent effort of the
Democratic party in this presidential
campaign to prejudice the West against
the East on the subject OF the tariff,
maintaining that the eastern States get
the benefit OF protection and the western
States get its burden. Now, If tariff
for protection so operates that
one section gets gain and the other
gets q loss, then the whole system OF
protection ought to be abolished and il
the advocates OF the protective tariff
cannot prove that it is OF as great
advantage to the West as it is to the East,
as great advantage to the South as it il
to the North, and that it is a national aud
not sectional policy-if, say, they
cannot establish these points, then
the policy ought to be abandoned.
But maintain, and in the few minutes
/ shall occupy your attention l shall en-
deayortoprove by figures and by facts that
the West, the great, growing, teemIng.
prosperous West. has gained more OF the
protective tariff, than any section of the
whole United States. Blaine used the
statistics OF the growth Of the western
States 10 demonstrate his proDosltion.