Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-16
THURMAN SPEAKS.
10000 Strangers Attracted to
Shelbyville, Ind.
How Republicans Pessimistic Prophe-
cies Dame to Naught-simple Expla-
ton Of the Burdensome Tariff.

cies Dame to Naught- Simple Expla-
ton Of the Burdensome Tariff.
SHELBYvILLE, IND, Oct. 15.-The
cars carrying Judge Thurman and
party left Cincinnati this morning for
the big Democratic barbecue at Shell
byville. The extra cars on the train
were occupied by 200 members Of the
Duckworth Club, 15O of the Thurman
Club Of Cincinnatti, and fifty more
from the Thurman Club of Columbus,
all nicely uniformed, besides q large
number who did not go in delega-
tions.
AT Greensburg several hundred
people were in waiting impatiently
calling for Judge Thurman, whose
appearance at the rear of the plat
form was greeted with cheers.
Other towns gave hearty cheers and
Shelbyville stirred the air with a
tremendous cheer, the crowd being
away up in the thousands. Judge
Thurman was driven to the home OF
Mr.. John Giggs, where he reviewed
an immense parade.
After dining Judge Thurman was
driven through the crowded streets to
the still more crowded fair grounds.
The most conservative estimates on
the size Of the crowd placed it at from
$4,000 to 10000.
AT THE FAIR GROUNDS
three stands had been erected, from
all of which prominentspeak held
forth, among them being Senator
Voorhees,, Gen. Black, Gov. Gray
and others.
Under the shelter of the stand from
which Judge Thurman spoke were
six or seven thousand people and in
front of it were 10000 more.
After the applause aroused by his
introduction by Judge GlessRor had
subsidized, Judge Thurman spoke as
follows:
II am happy to meet with this
magnificent audience of unterrified
Democracy Of the noble State of In
diana. [Applause.] / am happy to
stand in this goodly city of Shelby
vile, where my dearly beloved
friend, Thomas A. Hendricks great
used to live. | am thrice
happy to see all around me the signs
of victory in the State great enthu
siasm and cries of You bet? and
victory in Indiana means the election
of Grover Cleveland to the Presiden-
cy of the United States. Applause ]
"Now, my friends (here Mr. Thur
man produced his bandana, which
was the signal for another oatburst of
four years ago L had the
honor to speak to a number of meet
ings in the State of Indiana. / was
the election of Grover
Cleveland to the Presidency of the
United States. Our opponents
WERE ACTIVELY ENGAGED
in the same contest, and everywhere
l heard their gloomy predictions of
what would befall the country should
Cleveland be elected President. A
voice, "We still live" Everywhere
they predicted ruin to the business of
the country. Everywhere they told
us that the mills and factories and
furnaces of the United States would
be shut down because they could not
live under an administration of
Grover Cleveland. Everywhere they
talked about the payment of the Con-
federate debt, pensioning the rebel
soldiers, and the Lord knows what
hotter evils their vivid imagination
lid not portray to the people to pre-
vent them from voting for Grover
Cleveland. But the people did not
believe their sad prediction, and they
elected that man to the Presidency.
And now he has been President for
| little over three years and a half,
md what do we now hear? Why,
rom the.
VERY SAME REPUBLICAN ORATORS
we hear it declared that the United
states was never so prosperous as
hey are this day. Applause.
"My friends, there never was a
President who took his seat under
more trying circumstances than
cleveland did on the 4th of March,
S85. The Democratic party had
'een out Of power for nearly a quar-
er of a century. OF course, there
we're many Democrats who thought
hat when we got Democratic ad-
every Democrat in the