The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-16

hou.and people greeted Judge Thurman at the
aenot. and cheersd him vigorously as he came
from the car. He was driven to the residence
Of Hon. John Beggs, where he was entertaibed.
ceneral Back. Senator Voorhees,, A. 4. Steven
son. and other leading Democrats, were also at
The Beggs residence.
The local COMMITTEES had arrang sd for fifty
steers for the barbecue ct the fair grounds, but
aot over half that number had been killed aud
prepared for the occasion. In one hour after
the people were gwen permission to SIT down to
the feast not a particle OF barbecue meat could
BE- found. and hundreds of hungry Democrats
enrsed the balance of The after
noon because enough had not been
prepared to supply the demand. Judge
Thurman was driven TO the grounds in a car
riage drawn by six white horses, and headed oy
the Duckworth Club. Tremendous applause
greeted him IS he appeared before the crowd,
which numbered about 10000. lie seemed
weary and played out with the trip, and the
rainy weather must have bad adepressing enect
open him. He apolceized TO the crowd several
times for his inability to be heard, aud nnaiy
stopped speaking, apparently unable to continue.
His speech was as follows:
NV Friends-Before l the brief
speech that I shall try to make to you to-day, L
want 10 make al explanation. l want 10 say to
you that | have been compelled to decline shak-
Ing hands with my friends. whom. under other
circumstances, 1t would have been given me
great pleasure to take by the hand. but / have
been on the stump now 30 long and receiving so
many delegations that this arm OF mine is so
sore as TO make it impossible for me to SHAKE
hands with you. 1t would cause me
more than any Of you would wish to
infict upon me. / shall speak to
you very briefly, because, first, there
are so many other speakers here whom you de-
sire TO hear, that it would be inexcusable In me
60 monopOlize your time. / am an anti-monopo-
list great cheeringl from principle. and, there
fore, on the stump, never take the time that De-
longs to other men. Now, my friends, wish
10 say TO you in the utmost sincerity that l am
n happy man to-day. | am happy to meet
this magnificent audience OF the unterrifed
Democracy Of the noble State OF Indiana l am
happy to stand in this eoodly city OF Shelbyviile,
where my dearly beloved friend. Thos. A. Hen
bricks lapplausel lived so long and honorably. L
I'm happy TO see around me SO many OF your
distinguished friends, and especially to meet
with your noble Governor, who 10 such an honor
10 your State, and the grand cause OF Democ-
facy. Applause. l am thrice happy to see,
all around me. the signs OF 8 grand victory in
this State. A victory in Indiana means the
election OF Grover Cleveland to be the next
President Of the United States Applause.
Now. my friends. four years ago, here the
greeted with prolonged applause -four years
ago l had the honor to speak at . number OF
meetings. in the State OF Indiana:
was advocating the election Of
DL0NCE
OF the United States. Well, all his opponents
now are the Same as those who opposed him
then, ana wherever / went 1 heard of their
gloomy predictions OF what would betall the
country in the event OF Clsyeland's election.
Everywhere they said that all the mills. and
factories, and furnaces Of the United States
would be shut down because they could not live
under the administration of Grover Cleveland.
Everywhere they talked about the payment or
the rebel debt and pepsioning the rebel soldiers,
and the Lord only knows what other evils
their vivid imagirarions c~onjured up to
brighten the people and prevent their voting
for Grover Cleveland for President; but the
people didn't believe their sad predictions and
they elected that grand man to the presidential
chair, and now be has been President for a little
over three years and a half, and what do We
now heart Why, from these very same Repub-
lican orators we hear IL declared this United
States never was IS prosperous as IL Ii to-day.
All their predictions OF ruin to the business Of
ths country, all their predictions of the pay
ment OF the rebel debt. all their predictions OF
the pensionine Of the rebel soldiers, and that
the mills and factories or the country would
shut down have gone for nothing. and have
only to be mentioned TO be ridiculed.
snow. nv friends, there nsver was a Presi-
dent who took bis seat under moro trying or
culstsnces than did Cleveland on the 4th OF
March. 1855. The Democratic party bad been
out of power for nearly a quarter OF a century.
OF course. there Were many Democrats who
thought thst when we got a Democratic admin
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have q good Office. OF course, there were others
who wanted no Office, but who had their own
peculiar opinions as to how the government
sdould be conducted to meet aud
wishes of those who had elected
him President. That man Cleveland had the
hardest task that WAS ever intrusted to a Presi-
dent. and now. how has he performed that taski
Nou have a complete and satisfactory answer
20 that question in the fact that, after three aud
n half years of his administration, the Demo
cratic convention at ST. Louis renominated him
Dy a unanimous vote. and that nomination has
been rstiied by the Democracy of the whole
country, from Maine IN Mexico, with the same
sort of unanImity. No second-rate man was
ever renominated for the Presidency of the
United States by a unanimous vote. | will
was ever nominated for she presidency
of the United STATES the second tine. The fact
is that Cleveland has so conducted himself that
his administration has been so clean, 90 upright,
so honest, so patriotic, that the whole Demo-
cratic party, from one end OF the Republic to the
other said. Let Us give him him another
term He has done well with the
powers that have been conferred upon
him once; let rs take him again, for
we know he will do well in another term Let
me say one more thing. No dishonest man. no
second-rate man, nobody but q great man, no.
body but an upright, industrious. courageous
man ever yet was nominated in this way, and
therefore the answer to what may be said
against Grover Cleveland is the verdict of the
American people In his behalf. lGreat applause.
81 have such q cold that you see that IL is al
most impossible for me to speak. My throat 10
all choked up, but my heart is not choked up.
1t beats well, it beats with the fullest degree Of
emotion at the kind welcome You have given
me, and at the solIcitude and sympathy you
manifest II favor Of that party to which I
have belonged from my youth up, and TO which
j intend to belong until 1 am laid in my mother
earth. Applause If / had time to do il, I
would like to say q few words upon q subject
that interests you SO much, and that
Is talked of SO much this year
the question OF the tariff, as it is
called. j must confins what / have to say upon
that subject to a very few remarks, and leave il
TO those who follow me to elaborate il as much
as you desire. What is the tariff 1t il nothing
10 the wide world but q taxi 1t is q tax
levied upon the people, and when it IS
levied for the purpose, aud for no other purpose,
Of furnishing the revenue TO carry on the govern
ment of the country. no member of our party
makes auy objection to it; but when 10 is used,
not for the purpose OF raising the neces.
sary revenue. bat for raising millions,
and tens Of millions. and hundreds
of millions of revenue for which
the government has no legitimate use, the gov
eminent puts its hands in your pockets and
takes from you a portion of your daily earnings
say IL is a tax. bat it is a tax paid in o most
unequal degree by the poor men of the land.
gatherer who comes to you and demands IL OF
not the way; il is laid upon every article of for
eigD manufacture that is imported into this couu-
try for USE 1t is collected In the custom houses
of the United States. Ii Is first Maid nv tha m n