The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08

while they were in revolt He required them
10 cover in his presence, submit to his
menaclng insults, and return to their
tasks; then he might condescend to look
into their case and see what ought to be done.
Failing to carry his point in this direction at
once he was swift in his willingness to shed
their blood. He esteemed il an honor TO be
even captain under Gen. Macauley in such
arsenal we find announced in the indianapolis
Neecs of July q, 1877, as follows:
-Four companies OF volunteers, under the respec-
tive commands of Gen. Benjamin Harrison, Cof ".
r. Ruckle, Maj. J. J. Palmer and Capt. Harry
Adams, marched into camp at the IT, S. arsenal this
morning, The men are armed with the breech-
loading Springfield rifle, most formidable and
efficient weapon.
field rifle meant for you, because you
wanted more wages, and when your wives and
children read the announcement made by the
Ne,cs their hearts stood still with dread and
horror at the thought that you. would be
brought home TO them mangled by its accursed
lead. Those four companies at the arsenal,
with their formidable and efficient weapons,
were expressly organized to make war on you,
and to sprinkle the dusty streets of Indian
apolis with your blood # you refused TO sub
init, without terms, to the dictation of organ
lied capital. Christian men and Christian
tons resort to peaceful negotiations and arbi-
trations for the settlement OF differences Gen.
Harrison proposed nothing TO you but the
stern arbitrament OF the sword. l notice that
he is receiving many people and delegations
who call to do him honor. Let him put on the
captains uniform he at the arsenal, take
Springfield rifle in his hand, and
then he will appear to the delegations
calling on the republican candidate for
the presidency as he did to the laborlng
people of Indiana in 1877, and as he still APP
pears to them. The clothes worn by Washing
ton during the revolution, the coat in which
Jackson whipped the British at New Orleans,
the hat which covered Grants head at Shiloh,
and other precious and immortal relics may
be seen sacredly preserved in glass cases in
the national museum at Washington. What
shall be done with HarrisOn's uniform in which
he campaigned against workingmen eleven
short years ago? leave it to others to suggest
proper place in which to preserve for future
inspection and admiration such illustrious raj
ment. In the meantime, the man who was
more willing to give bullets than bread TO the
laborer now wants that laborer's vote to make
him commander-in-ehief OF the army and navy.
The Chinese Question.
But there is still another labor question on
which Gen. Harrison is the consistent expo
nent OF the principles OF his party. When the
republican party had its birth, a Chinese la
bOrer had perhaps never been seen on Ameri-
can soil. The Chinese empire at that time was
an isolated lonesome power, seeking neither
negotiations nor alliances with other nations,
and submitting to none, if they could be
avoided With the coming of the republican
party came the Burlingame treaty, and other
equally pernicious measures, opening our
shores to Chinese immigration and putting the
Chinaman with his Asiatic blood and habits,
in competition with the American laborer.
Every almOnd-eyed Mongolian now in the
United States is here as the result OF
treaties and laws made by the repub-
ican party; and when Gen. Harrison voted
fourteen times in the senate against restrictions
on Chinese immigration, he was simply carry
ing out the principles and adherlng TO the es-
tablshed practices of his party. When he
voted in the Forty-seventh congress against
both the bills reported by Senator Miller of
California, and Mr.. Page of the house, restrict.
ing the immigration of Chinese laborers into
the United States, he was faithful TO his in
stincts of hostility to American labor When
he voted to strike out of these measures all re-
stricton on the right and power of the state
courts and OF the U. ). courts, TO naturalize the
Chinese and to admit them to citizenship, he
was not only consistent with the teachings and
logic OF his party, but also with the sanction he
himself gave to the naturalization OF China
men at Indianapolis, procured by his law part.
ner from the courts with his full knowledge
and approval III the American labOrer wants
the cheap-liying, rat-eating Cinnamon as his
competitor in every branch OF industry, and
also as his opponent and rival at the ballot-box,
he can not more plainly make his wishes known
than to vote for Gen. Harrison. His election
would convey an invitation TO the tawny, pig
tailed sons OF the celestial empire, as broad and
iarreaehihg as divine grace extends to sinners
Come one, come al"
have heard, however, that the people of In
diana are expected to support Gen. Harrison
on a sentiment, the sentiment of state pride. /
am indeed proud of Indiana, of the fame of her
mighty resources, and of her educated, brave
and self-reliant people. Her name has been often
on my lips in the senate, and sometimes my
statements as to her wealth, her vast capabili-
ties in the future and the high intelligence and
integrity of her citizens have been carried
across the ocean and placed to her credit in the
markets where railroad securities were bought
and sold. Though one OF her humblest children,
| am one of her most devoted. When my age
was numbered by months, and not yet by
years, my infant eyes looked out from the door
OF a log cabin upon her dark, unbroken forests,
within fifty miles, as the crow hies, from where
| stand tonight. | rejoice that in her giant
progress from the pioneer days of your father
and mine, rank and alleged superiority of birth
have conferred no advantages over those born
in the abodes of labor, and who took their first
lessons in life behind the pillow.
But in what respect does the career of Gen.
Harrison appeal so strongly to the pride of In
dianians, aud especially of democrats that
they should forego their political convictions
and give him their support simply because he
lives in this state? Did any sentiment of state
pride ever move him to speak tolerantly, even,
OF political opponent much less vote for
nlm: NO generous WOruSi nor even WoruS OF
justice ever fell from his lips for the beloved
Hendricks in his lifetime. For Mcclellan, for
Seymour, for Tilden, for Hancock and for
Cleveland he has never had anything but bit
ter and uncharitable speech. Neither the in
dividual members of the democratic party, nor
the party itself as an organization, have ever
been spared by Gen Harrison. Nor has he
spared, in his partisan fanaticism, those
who differ from him in their habits
and modes of life, those who are opposed to
sumptuary, prohibitory legislation; and when
he finds the forks Of the road, as he does some
times he will always aim to take the one which
leads most swiftly and surely, in his opinion TO
the fOreordained destruction of those who dare
TO antagoniZe his narrow and illiberal views.
State pride in Gen. Harrison! / would not
disparage his just claims TO the respect OF his
countrymen, but whose duty is it to vote for
him on such ground? Do labor organizations,
against whom he declared war and took up
arms and into whose ranks he proposes to force
the refuse population of China, feel called upon
to support him because they are proud of Indi-
ana? Will democrats feel drawn by state pride to
vote for one who,in order to return to the SEN
ate, slandered the legislature of Indiana and at
tempted, in January, 1885, to pervert its hon.
est majority into a minority by expeling the
old iron puddler and knight of Labor, Cor
nelius Meagher, democratic member from this
county? And upon the pride of the people of
Indiana generally, irrespective Of party, what
claim has Gen. Harrison growing out of his
and care for her good name and fame among
her sister states and throughout the world?
The republican presidential candidate IN the
last campaign, you all too well remember
brought an action of SANDER against a demo-
cratic newspaper OF indianapolis. 1t involved
the most delicate matters OF domestic life con-
corning which have never spoken and never
will. Gen. Harrison Mr.. Blaine's leading