Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-08-08
HARRISON'S SPEECHES.
Indication that lie Hopes to Have the
Battle Fought in Indiana ON
State Issues.
he Talks About the Admission of Dakota
and Our Relations with South
America.
[Indianapolis special to CHICAGO Tribunel


largely ON local issues. few days ago when
the people of Shelby County came to pay their
respects he told them not to forget the great
abuses which had been practiced under Demo-
cratic authority on the benevolent institutions
of the State. These abuses have been scan
dial to the State, the Whitecap outrages
and the Coy Bernheimer conSpiracies against the
ballot
Cen Harrison desires that special attention
be given to these domestic affairs, because he
knows they are apt to be overlooked in the
presence of national issues and because they
contain great moral wrongs which should
be corrected with the assistance of fair
minded men, whether they are Repub
icans or Democrats. Last week tho
General received q delegation of 900 farmers,
mechanics, traders, lawyers and merchants
from Kosciusko County. Judge r. S. Biggs, of
Warsaw, presented the Presidential nominee to
the visitors in sensible short speech. The
response or Gen. Harrison was the longest he
has get made, and it was delivered in that rugged
style of oratory which has added much to his
reputation campaign orator. The abuses of
the right of representation in the State carried
him directly to the case of Dakota, of whose
cause he became the especial advocate while in
the Senate. He said:
did not need to be assured of the friendliness
of the Republicans of your county. 1t has been
evidenced too many times in the past. Before
the convention at Chicago the Republicans of
your county gave the assurance that my
nomination would meet the cordial appreciation
of your people. am glad to welcome you here
to-day, and regret that your Journey here was SO
tedious. You are proud OF the State in which
you dwell; proud of her institutions of learn
ING; proud of her great benevolent institu-
tions, which l notice by one of these banners
YOU have pledged yourselves to protect
from party spoliation and degradation. But
while we have much that is cause
for congratulation we are not enjoying that full
equality of civil rights in the State of Indiana to
which we are entitled. Our Government is
representative government Delegates in Con-
gress and members of State Senate and
House of Representatives. apportioned to
districts and the National and State Cons
lions con template that these districts shall be
equal SO that as far as possible each citizen
shall have in his district the same potency in
choosing a member of Congress of State
Legislature as is exercised By voter in any
other district. We do not to-day have that con-
dition of things. The apportionment of our
State for legislative and Congressional purposes
is unfair, and is known to be unfair to all men.
No candid Democrat can defend it as fair ap-
portionment. 1t was framed to be unequal; it
was designed to give to the citizens of favored
districts an undue influence 1t intended
to discriminate against Republicans. 1t is not
right that it should be / hope the time is
coming, and has even now arrived when the
great sense of justice which posse 5ses our peo-
pie Wilt teach men of al parties that party
cess is not to be promoted at the expense of an
injustice to any of our citizens. These things
take hold of Government. If would main
tain that respect for the law which is necessary
to social order our people must undorst md that
each voter has bis full an equal influence in
determining what the law shall be. l hope
this question will not be forgotten by our peo-
pie until we have secured in Indiana fair ap-
portionment for Legislative and Congressional
purposes When the Republicans shall secure
the power of making apportionment hope
and believe that the experiment of seeking
party advantage by a public injustice will not
be repeated
There are some other questions affecting suf-
frage too, OF which my attention has from Cir
cumstances been particularly attracted. There
are in the Northwest several Territories organ
lied under public law with dehned boundaries
They have been filled up with the elect of our
citizens the brave the enterprising and the in
telligent young men from all the States. Many
of the veterans of the late war have sought,
der our benefcent homestead law, new homes
in the West. Several of these Territories have
been for years possessed of population, wealth.
and all the requisites for admission as States
When the Territory of Indiana took the census
which was the basis OF It's petition for
admission 20 the Union had less than
$4,000 people; we had only thirteen or
ganized counties. In the Territory of South
Dakota there nearly half q million
people. For years they have been knocking for
admission to the sisterhood of States. They are
possessed of all the elements of organized
and stable community. 1t has more people,
more miles of railroad more post-ofices, more
churches, more banks, more wealth, than any
Territory ever possessed when it was admitted
to the Union. 1t surlasse5 some of the States
in these particulars. Four years ago, when a
President was to be chosen the Committee on
Territories in the Senate, to meet the objection
of our Democratic friends that the admission OF
Dakota would add disturbing element to the
Electoral College, provided in the Dakota bill
that its organization should be postponed until
after the election; now four years more have
rolled around and our people are called again to
take part i'll a Presidential election, and the in
telligent and patriotic Dakota people again
to be deprived of any participation 1 ask you
why this is so? Is not the answer obvious
They are disfIanchised and deprived of Their APP
propriate influence in the Electoral College only
because the prey aim, sentiment in the Terri
Territory is moro recent but no less fragrant. If
We appropriately express sympathy with the
cause of Irish home rule shall we not also de-
mand home rule for Dakota and Washington and
insist that their Acknowledgement shall not be
prolonged? There is sense of justice, of fair
ness, that will assert itself against these at
wrong. The day when men can be disfranchised
or shorn of their political power for opinion sake
must have an end in our country.
TRADE WITH SOUTH AMERICA.
The Republicans of Henry County Indiana, to
the number of about eleven hundred paid their
respects to General Harrison last week Among
the banners carried by the Newcastle contin-
gent were such notices as 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" Gen. Hair
rison received the delegation at the University
Park. The spokesman for the visitors WAS Gen.
William Grose, of Newcastle, comrade of Gen.
Harrison in the campaign around Atlanta.
Gen. Harrison spoke on a new subject when he
touched upon our commercial relations with
South America and advocated the substituting
OF steamship lines to the South ana central
American States. In the course OF his remarks
the General said
In ell the addresses which have been made to
me there has been some refe renee to tn great
question of the pre- lection of our American in
dustries. l see it upon the banners which you
carry. Our party stands unequrvocally, with
that the American market shall be preserved
for American producers. We not at
tracted by the suggestion that we should sur
render 10 foreign producers the best market iS
the world Our sixty millions of people are the
best buyers in the world and they are such be-
cnuse our working classes receive the best wages.
But do not mean to be content with our own
market. We should seek to promote closer and
more friendly commercial relations with the
Central and South American States. Regular
mails are the first conditions of commerce. The
merchant must know when his order will be re-
ceived and when his consignment will be re-
turned, there can be trade between distant
communities. What we need, therefore, is the
establishment of American steamship lines be-
tween our ports and the ports of Central and
South America. Then it will no longer be neces-
sary that an American minister. commissioned
to American state, shall take an English
ship to Liverpool - lind another English ship to
carry him TO his destination We not TO be
frightened by the of that ugly word sub
sidy. We should pay TO American steamship
lines liberal compensation for carrying our
mails instead OF turning them over to British
tramp steamships"
THE LABOR QUESTION.
Speaking of the labor question, Gov Harrison
said, in his address to the Clay County miners:
Some resort to statistics to show that the
of he Anne is better