St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-01
NO LACK OF CALLERS.
Republicans of Henry County,
Indiana, Visit Gen. Har-
riSon.
Some of the Many Things
Which the G. o. P. Has
Accomplished.
Subsidies for Steamship Lines
to South and Central
America.
Gen. Alger, Of Michigan, Who
Is Present, Also Speaks
Briefly.

spects to Gen. Harrison to-day. They
were fine looking body of men, and
the clubs from Newcastle, Cadiz,
Greysboro, Moreland and Knightstown
wore white plug hats. They were ac-
companied by three bands of music,
which enlivened the city during their
stay. Among the banners carried by
the Newcastle contingent were such
mottos: England can't vote at the
coming election" and "The only use
England has for the Irish is to vote for
free trade in America.-LondOn Times"
AMONG TIE VISITORS
were some two score Of veterans of the
campaign of 1910. Gen. Harrison re-
ceived the delegation at the University
park. The spokesman for the visitors
was Gen. William Crosse, of New Castle,
a comrade of Gen. Harrison in the cam
paign around Atlanta, to which Gen.
Grose alluded in his address. Henry
county lies within what is historically
known as the burnt district of Indi-
ana and was settled by Quakers, to
which sect Gen. HarriSon'S remarks
applied. The general
SPOKE ON A NEW SUBJECT
to-day when he touched upon our COM
mercial relations with South America
and advocated the Substituting of steam
ship lines to the South and Central
American states. His response was as
follows:
Comrade Grose and my Henry County
Friends: If we have here any diScour-
aged statesman who takes respondent
view of the future of the country,
think he would recover his hopefulness
If he could look once in awhile into the
face of an audience like this. APP
plause. You come from county that
has been a
BULWARK OF REPUBLICANISM
since the party was organized. You had
an early element in your population
that has done much to promote your ma
terial interests, and, much more, to lift
up those principles that relate to the
purity of the home and to the freedom
of men [applause.[ The friends who
have been and are so large and so infiu-
entail an element in your population.
and In the country surrounding it, are a
people notable for the purity of their
home life and for their broad and loyal
SYMPATHY WITH ALL MEN.
They were the early enemies of slav-
ery;and they have always naturally been
the strength of the Republican party in
the community where they reside.
Applause. Your spokesman has eX-
party to which some of you give the
confidence of your matured powers and
some OF your hearty devotion of your
youth. The Republican party has &C
compliShed for the country a great work
in the brief period of its life 1t pre-
served the nation by wise, courageous
AND PATRIOTIC DEMONSTRATION.
What that means for you and your
posterity. what it means for the world,
no man can tell. II would have been
climax of disaster for the world if this
government of the people had persisted.
The one unSOlved experiment of free
government was solved. We have
demonstrated the capacity of the people
and citizen SOldiery to maintain i'll
violate the unity of the republic. ZAP
plauSe. There remain, now, fOrtu-
nately, chiefly economic questions to be
thought of and be settled. We refer to
the great war, not in any
SPIRIT OF HOSTILITY
to any section or any class of men. but
only because we believe it to be good
for the whole country that loyalty and
fidelity to the flag should be honored.
[Great applause.l 1t was one of the
great triumphs of the war; a particular
in Which our war was distinguished
from all other wars of history, that we
brough the vanQuished into the same
full, equal citizenship under the law
that we maintained for ourselves. APP
plause.] In all the addresses which have
been made to me, there has
BEEN SOME REFERENCE
to the great question of the protection
of our American industries. | see it
upon the banners which you carry. Our
party stands unequivocally, without
evasion or qualification, for the doctrine
that the American market shall be re-
served for our American producers.
[Great applauSe.] We are not attracted
by the suggestion that we should sur
render to foreign producers the best
market in the world. Our 60,00O,0O0 of
people are the best buyers in the world
our working classes receive the best
wages. [Applause.] But, we do not
mean to be content with our own
market. We
SHOULD SEEK TO PROMOTE
closer and more friendly commercial re-
lations with the Central and South
American states. [Applause.l And
what is essential to that end? Regular
mails are the first condition of COM
merce. The merchant must know when
his order will be received and when his
consignment will be returned, or there
can be no trade between distant COM
munities. What we need, therefore, is
the establishment of American steam
ship lines between our ports and the
ports of Central and South America.
[Applause.] Then it will be no longer
necessary that an American minister,
commissioned to
AN AMERICAN STATE,
shall take an English ship to Liverpool
to find another English ship to carry
him to his destination. [Applause.1
We are not to be frightened by the use
of that ugly word subsidy" Laugh
teri We should pay to American steam
ship lines a liberal compensation for
carrying our mails, instead of turning
them over to British tramp steamships.
[Applause.] We do not desire to domi-
nate these neighbOring governments;
we do not desire to deal with them in
any spirit of aggression. We desire
those political, mental and friendly re-
lationS which shall promote their inter-
estsI
EQUALLY WITH OURS.
We should not longer forego those
commercial relations and advantages
which our geographical relations sug-
gest and make so desirable. If you will
excuse me from further public speech,
will be glad to take by the hand my
Henry county friends. [Applause.l
After an hour passed in hand-shak-
ing, Gen. Harrison arrived home.
shortly before noon, just in time to well
come the arrival of his guest, Gen. R.
A. Alger, the two distinguished gentle
men meeting for the first time. They
were joined at dinner by Hon. Will
Cumback and Col. Alexander. At 3
o'clock about 600 members of the visit
ing delegation, accompanied by their
bands, committee from the local Har-
rison and Lincoln clubs, marched out
to the Harrison residence for the pur-
pose of
CALLING Upon GEN A1GER