The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-08-15

points in Montgomery County numbered nearly
1000, and from Frankfort, in Clinton County
$50. Each delegation was headed by a small
club of twenty or less veterans of the Tippe-
canoe campaign. Some minutes before Gen.
Harrison appeared the small platform in Uni
versity Park was Packed with Tippscanoe vet
Grams, and when Gen. Harrison came taere
scarcely standing room left for HIM L. 5. Ken
nedy, of Charlottesville addressed the General
In behalf of the Montgomery County delegation,
and Judge j. G. Suit spoke for Clinton County
Gen. Harrison, in responding, touched upon our
homestead laws aud the ownership Of lands. He
spoke as follows
MY FFILow-CITIZENs-T daily and in
asing delegations coming TO witness their in
terest in the ge At issues which are prest ntsd
for tho consideration and determination. and
bearing as they do to me their kind personal
gree ting5, quite Overmatch my ability TO hitting
ly greet and respond 20 them. Your interests
hAyo had a harmonious and amazing growth
under that protective sygtem TO which your
rsprest natives have referred, and you wisely
demand Il continuation OF that policy for their
further advancement and development You
are in large part members o. the Republican
psr5y. You have IN the past contributed
you're personal influence, as well as your
ballots, 10 the great victories which it
has won. Among the great achievements
of our party, l think may worLhily men
ton the passage of that benehcent act of
let islation known rs the homestead law. ltwas
impossible 10 the Old parties. 1t was possible
ouly 10 party composed OF the sturdy yeomanry
of the free States IL has populated our terrific
ries and newer States with tine elect of our citi-
the soil TO vast number of our citizens, and
there is no surcr b nj in the direction of good
citizenship than that our people should have
property in the soil upon which they live. 1t il
one of the best elements of our strength as n
State that our farm lands so largely pos
sessed in small tracts aud are titled by men who
own them. 1t is one OF the best evidences OF
the prosperity OF our cities that so large n pro-
portion Of the men who wcrx are covered by
their roof-trocs. IL we would pc. petuate this
condition must maintain the American scale
of wages. The policy OF the subdivision of the
soil il that tends TO strengthen our ma
tional life. Col grant that IL may DO long before
have In this country a tenantry that IA hope
lessly sue n from one generation To another
That condition of th.ngs which makes Ireland u
land OF tenants and which holds in vast estates
the lands Of England must never I'm 1 footing
ere. Small farms invite the church aud school
house into the nsighborhood. Therefore it was
that in the beginning the Re- publican party de-
clar "a for free homes OF n quarter section each
That p1licy should be psrpetuased "a long as our
public domain lasts. and all our legislation
should tend in tho direction which have indi-
Gated.
At the conclusion OF the speechina,xing each
one OF the Tippecanoe veterans was INTRODUCED
10 tho General. who went through the llandshak-
ing ordeal with the entire 2,5O) or more people
Ihe effects of c RENE heat and tho exertion
were visible on the General At the finish.