The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-31
Proving to Be a Popular Feature.

The noon Republican meetings keep growing
better. The county committee room was yester.
day plainly shown to be far too small for the in
cressine throng, and from to-day forward these
meetings will be held at Pfafhin's Hall. Merrill
Moores acted as chairman, but at this love feast
there was little formality. and everything went
with a vim and good fellowship never before
seen in a political gathering. The elee club
opened with:
For evry honest fellow from Maine to Oregon
Says I'm a son of a, son of a gun
If We don't vote for Harrison
A new verse. ptu, asserting that any
fellow caught tampering with tally sheets would
"be sent north to get a job along with Bill and
Sim" was received with great relish.
The first speaker was Col. r. S. Robertson,
who eloquently gave his. reasons for being g
Republican, q member Of a party that followed
the stars and stripes, AID did not have to follow
a banner the chief use of which is to warn peo-
pie Of the dangerous proximity Of q smallpox
hospital The Colonel said there were many in
this country who could not feel IS did those
who lived through the stirring times OF the
war; that be himself had q boy who knows
nothing of the war but what he has read in his
tory or learned at his fathers knee, but that
boy, IS thousands Of Others born at that period,
would cast his first vote for General Harrison.
The glee club sung. another song composed
specially for the location, called ID Yourself
No Harm" one jingle of which, asserting of the
bardanna,
THAT red rag
When it waved back
To the British Jack"
elected great applause and laughter. Lewis c.
Garrigus, of this city. an ex-rebel soldier Of
Kentucky, now q stapch supporter of General
Harrison, made an inim.table speech, present
ing In bluegrass country metaphor the advant-
ages of running q thoroughbred like Ben Harri-
son 1.-The Admirable" predicting that in the
presidential race he would come IN at least
three necks ahead OF Cleveland. "And, you
know said the speaker, "three OF Cieveland's
neeks make quite a distance Continuing, he
said be had heard Of the motley throng of al
legged soldiers in this city who were.marshaled
by the Democracy. he thought II Matson were
put in comman that he, the speaker, would
like nothing better than TO take twenty or the
ex-rebels Of this city, now Republicans, and
with . stove-pipe as a cannon capture Marson
and MS entire regiment. A colored soldier then
sung a song, r~eciting the great events OF the
war, especially those in which those OF his
race took part.
The next talkcr was G. R. Bottsford, a BUSH
ness man residing ip Newark. n. j., but doing
business in New York. He said he represented
q company OF a million dollars capital, which
had three manufactures N Switzerland and one
large mandatory IN this country. The watches
made In Switzerland are handmade. and pay .
duty of % per cent. They can not be made in
this country under the American system of high
wages. The workmen who make them eer
from 81 to $40 a week, very high wages for
Switzerland. In this country such workmen.
VINO can repair such watches. get AS repairers
from $50 to $40 q week. He held that for these
watches, bought by the wealthy, 40 per cent.
duty Is not too much to protect American labor
in manufacturins American watches He said
that - - NJ =
understood the tariff, and that this 10 q bread
apd-butter issue. In New York city, even in
and Baxter streets. pictures Of Gen.
Harrison were display ed, where four years ago
the pictures or Republican candidates Would
not have been tolerated. and there are every
where Irish clubs supporting Harrison aud Nor
ton.
One Of the most interesting anu instructive