Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-08-22
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FROM ALL QUARTERS.
GEN. HARRISON SPEAKS
To American LaborerS On
The Issues Of The Day.
DIRE WORK OF THE STORM
In Wilmington, Boston And
New Orleans.
LIFE AND PROPERTY DESTROYED.
The Senate Refuses The
Fisheries Treaty.
life AND PROPERTY DESTROYED.

GENERAL HARRISON AT TOLEDO
Puts the Issues of the Campaign In
a Few Words-The Laborer Must
Choose His @wm LOt-HfGh Wages or
Free Trade.
TOLEDO. Aug. 11.-General Harrison and
his party arrived here at 4:30 o'clock. While
they were at Peru train bearing one thou
sand Democrats who are to attend barbecue
tonight arrived and insisted on seeing the
general. He took the visit good-naturedly
and shook hands with about one-half the
crowd, when the arrival of his train put an
end to the reception. At Antwerp there was
a crowd of two hundred and a cannon salute
was fred At Defiance several hundred had
assembled and the general thanked them
briefly for their presence. AS the train sped
through Napoleon and Maumee the crowds
grew larger. When the train reached Toledo
it stopped at station several squares from
the Union depot to avoid the jam A COM
mittee met the visitors and escorted them to
carriages. Preceded by guard of two hun
bred veteran soldiers and baud the process
sion passed through the principal streets to
the residence of William Cummings, whose
guests Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison are to be till
tomorrow.
A big reception was held this evening in
the open space next to Memorial Hall. A
crowd, estimated at ten thousand, assembled
and General Harrison was escorted to the
meeting by uniformed clubs bearing torches.
His appearance caused tremendous cheering,
and after speeches by Ex-Governor Foster and
others he was introduced and spoke as fol-
lows:
ST thank you for any measure of personal
respect and interest which your coming here
tonight may witness. But do not see in
this immense gathering any testimony that
is personal to me. prefer to regard it as
another witness added to the long number
have seen before of the deep-seated and
earnest interest of our people in the public
questions that are to be settled in Novem-
Der. (Applause.) I choose, rather, to re-
gard it as a pledge that this interest which
you manifest TO me tonight will not stop
here, but it is the pledge of continued and
earnest personal work by each one of you
for those principles which have won the con-
sent of your minds and the love of your
hearts. (Applause.)
Icannot enter into any detail in the dis
cussion of public questions; I would not at
all put myself between you and these great
important issues; I would, in all may say,
put them to the front. We are here citi
zens of great and prosperous and magnid-
cent nation. We are having common inter-
ests. We are here charged with the COM
mon duties to perpetuate, if we can, the
prosperity and to maintain the honor of this
great republic. (Applpuse.) We are here
tonight in the enjoyment of free govern
ment We are here in the individual pos
session of better opportunities of develop
ment of larger prosperity and OF more indi-
vidual comfort than are possessed by any
other people in the world. (Applause.)
The great economic question as to what
shall be our future legislative policy is stated
with distlnctness in this campaign that it
has never had before, and believe the YER
dict and decision will have an emphasis and
fnality that it has never had before. ZAP