The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-20
FL0cKING TO HARRISON.
This ia the Kind Of Enthusiasm that Makes Dan
and Grover tired.

This il the Kind Of Enthusiasm that Makes Dan |
and Grover tired.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 1S.-This was |
one of General Harrison s busiest days.
He passed the morning at his desk.
In the afternoon he received and ad-
dressed three visiting delegations. The
first d legation to arrive came from
Danville and other points in Vermil-
lion county, Illinois, numbering from
twelve to fifteen hundred. General
Harrison in his response said:
Ordinarily our people can be trusted
to know when they areEtaXed, but our
democratic friend viii 4ell US that the
tariff tax is SO insidiesss that our peo-
pie pay 1t without knowing It. That is
very unhappy e09ditteH indeed, but
his difficulties are not all surmOunted
when he has been convinced that a
custom duty is tax, for history does
not run we'll with his statement that
our people have been impoverished by
our tariff system.
Another answer to our question Will
be perhaps that there is now great
surplus in the treasury. He Will prob
ably not state the figures, for there
seems to be painful uncertainty about
Il
this surplus was chiefly to be talked
about. The laws provide use for IT
that would speedily place it in circula-
ton. If a business man finds an accu-
INFLATED surplus that he does not need
| in his business, that stands bank bal
ance and draws no interest and he has
obligations outstanding to mature III
the future, he will make ready choice
between leaving his balance Ill the
bank and using it to take up his obliga-
tions. [Applause.I But in our nation
al finances the other choice has been
made and this surplus remains in the
| national bank without interest while
our bonds which under the law might
\ be retired by the use of it, continue to
draw interest.
You have great agricultural state;
| its prairie soil affords the most tempt
! ing invitation to the settler. l have
heard it suggested that one reason why
you have outstripped Indiana i'll popu-
lation was because the men who were
afraid of the ''deadening" passed over
us to seek your treeless plains Tap
plause), but you have not been con-
tented to be only an agricultural COM
munity. You have developed your
manufactures and mechanical indus
tries until now, if my recollection
is not at fault, for every two persons
engaged in agricultural labor you have
one engaged in manufacturing, in the
mechanical arts and mining. 1t is
this subdivision of labor, these
diversified industries that make Hi
nois take rank SO near the head among
the states. By this home interchange
of the products Of the farm and shop,
made possible by a protective system,
Illinois has been able to attain hel
proud position in the union of the
states. Shall we continue policy that
has wrought so marYellously since the
War in the development of all thoSt
, states that have given hOspitabie &C
cess TO manufacturing capital and tG
the Drawn and skill of the workingmeni
ICrieS OF ''gOOd, good, and cheers.
The delegations from Louisville anC
CUvingtOn, Kentucky. about eight hun
dred in number arrived at four O'Clock
, and were received at University
park.
MY KENTUCKY FRIENDS: - There
have been larger delegations assembled
, about this platform but there has beer
none that has in higher degree at
tracted my interest or touched my
heart. Applause. 1t has been quite
. one thing to be q republican in Illinois
and quite another To he republican Ii
: Kentucky. Applause. Not the victOr
+ only in gu.ad fight deserve crown
those who fight well and are beat
en- and fight again, as you have done
deserve a crown, though victory neve
yet has perched on your banner. Z
a voice cit will perch there though, ant
for the bugle of victory is always in tn
Q truth.
+ l cannot treat you to-day to any sta
+ tistics from the census reports. laugh
q teri nor enter the attractive field of tn
Z history of your great state. have be
y lieved that these visiting delegation
4 were always well advised as to the his
n tory and statistics of their RESPECTIVE
q states. Laughter. If this trust LA
8 been deplaced in other cases, certalnl
q KentuckianS can be trusted to remem
4 Der and perhaps to tel! all that is nobl
4 in the thrilling history OF their grea
4 state. IGredt applause Your hiStor
is very full of romantic and thrlllln
- adventure aud of Instances of indiVid
e ual herOiSm. Your people have aiway
q been proud, chivalric and brave. L
y the late war tor the union, spite OF a
q distraction and DETECTION, kentuck
q stood by the old flag, Lapplaust
; | and now that the war
IS over and its bitter memories are forgot
B. ten, there is not, l. trust, one i'll a
+ your borders who does Lot bless th
" outcome of that great struggle. lGre6
e applause.] Surely there are none j
Is Kentucky who do not rejoice that til
B. beautiful river is not river OF dlvls
70 ion, [great aDplause.l and now whS
n binders that Kentucky shall step fol
IS ward in the great industrial rivalry b
w tween the states? Is there not, z
se your spokesman has suggested, in th
or early and thorough instruction whic
Ia the people of Kentucky received frol
at the mouth of Your, matchleSS orato
10 Henry Clay, Iapplanse.] a power thu
il shall yet and speedily bring ba kei
o. lucky to the support of the protectiN
re system? [Applause.l Can the old Whis
pit who so FevereDtly received fro
i'd the lips of Clay, the gospel of prote'
lie ton, much longer support revenJ
n policy that they know to be inimicabl
k If when Kentucky was slave sta
H. they found protective tariff promote
O. the prosperity of her people what be
he ter things will the same policy not {
IS for her as a free state. She has no
IS opened her hoSpitable doors to skill'
u labor and invites its transforms
,ir touch. Why may she not speed
lis find great manufacturing cities sprin
n ing up in her beautiful valleys. Shs
nd any old prejudice spoil this hopef
". vision. Great applause.)
remember that Kentucky agitat
for seven years and he
OF nine conventions before s
no May 1 not appeal to the children
those brave settlers who when but fl
ie in numbers, composed of distant al
at feeble settlements, were received in
f. the union Of states to show their chi
of airy and love of justice by uniting wi
vi us in the demand that Dakota a.
OF Washington shall be admitted. Ia
as plause.l Does not your own histC
ed shame those who represent you in {
ar halls of congress and who bar the dc
ar against communities whose memb'
Sc, and resources so vastly outreach WI
lat you possessed when you were admit
of TO statehood. we look hopefully
M KENTUCKY; the state or Henry Clay
er. Abraham Lincoln, Enthusiastic che
ter ingl cannot be much longer forget
~. lCries of 'tNo, no.'T of the tea
AZ ings of those great leaders