Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-22
HOME AFFAIRS.
THE LONDON FIEND'S EMULaTOR
IN ALABAMA.
Shocking Case of Wife-Murder-
More Rioting in Chicago-Judge
Terry's Petition-Etc.
ESPECIAL DIsPATCHEs TO THE REcoRD-UN1oN.l
ESPECIAL DIsrArCHEs TO THE REcoRD-UmoN.l
DRUMMERS' DAY.
Several Thousand Commercial Travellers
Visit General harrison.

INDIANAPOLIS October Dist Yesterday was
drummers day " in General Harrison's caIen.
oar OF engagements 1t was estimated that be
tween $500 and 5000 commercial traveIers in,
Guiding home organizations, participated in the
days demonstrations. Large delegations ar.
rived during the morning from Cincinnati
TWoiuIapus, Wa Bayton, Zanesyiile, Lafayette, Fort
wayne and Richmond, Ind. Several clubs were
present from other cities, and small parties of a
dozen or two were in attendance from New,
OK Boston, Chicago st. Louis, Philadelphia.
Duuaio' cleveland, Louisville and other cities
NOVEL FEATURE
AT 3 O'Clock the drummers held q narada
marching through the principal streets and ont
past General Harrison's residence The General
reviewed the procession from his stems and 80
enthusiastically cheered. There were about
Zooo marchers, with ten bands. At the head OF
the Column marched an Uncle Sauuel - in the
typical garb Immediately behind him came
Two stalwart Ethiopians leading monster bull,
on whose back sat drummer In a costume ,,ar
sonating hilarious Irishman A blanket on
the bovine read, John Bull rides the Demo
cratic party; we ride John Bull"
thousands of people gathered along the routa
10 witness the parade.
An OVATION TO TIE GENERAL.
At 40 the paraders returned to Tomlfnson,s
Han, Where General Harrison addressed them
Inc galleries were filed with spectators. among
them being several hundred ladies. The an
dlence numbered nearly 5,0C0
When General harrison appeard there WAS 8
repetition OF the Wild scenes of two weeks ano
when The Chicago Veterans were received. The
eL.iIG n asSeplage arose, cheering and the air
was hlled with thousands of waving flags while
ihe galleries. were a sea OF white cambrics the
ladies vleing with the drummers in their en-
thuslasm. The cheering continued for five
minutes, when the audience became seated
only to jump up again the next moment with
renewed zeal This was repeated three times.
General Harrison spoke at considerable
iengtn, ii. LAD &addresSlng his remarks chiefly to the
main issue of the campaign-protection or free
trade Among other things he said
MY Irlends, do not need TO repeat what l
nave nave sa,d on former occasions, that 1 very
hlghfy value the respect and confidence of the
commercial travellers of the United States Who
should be able better than you to know the com
merclai and business needs of our country.
whose hand is every day upon the business
pulse of the people; you who travel the eonntrv
up ana down upon the swift highways of COM
meice, and who have been brought in contact
with the business men Of the country not only
III our great centers of commerce, but in all the
the hallets of the land. / believe NAV saw for
you that. as result of this personal knowledge
OF your business needs yol have concluded that
tne poIlcy Tor Americans is the policy of q pro-
tective tariff. There are doubtless. here many
representatives of great American manufactur-
ing establishments and who should know bet-
yer tnan they the prostrating Effects upon the
industries they represent of this policy of rev.
ehue tariff Tor the not much differing policy of
free trade? Who should know better than Won
that II the discriminating duties now levied
which enable our American manufacturers TO
maintain a fair competition with the manu-
tacture1s of other countries, and at the same
time to pay scale of living wages to every
man ana woman who works tor them is once
proken down, the American competition with
foreign production becomes impossible excent
by reduction of the scale of American wages
10 the level OF the wages paid abroad
certainly you do not need to be told that a
shop or mill that has the smallest payroll in
proportion to its production will take the mar
Ket. certainly you do not need to be told that
the wages now enjoyed by our American work
men are greatly larger and the comforts they
ENJOY greatly more than those enioved bv the
WORKING people Of any other land Certainly
You do not need to be told that If the American
dustrles buys its blankets for the public service
IN England, that this is lust that much less
work for Americans to do
"Inis is TO me the beginning and end of the
tariff question.
''Since l was old enough TO have opinions or
utter them, have held to tn. doctrine thai the
true American policy was that which should
maintain not only living rate of wages but
one with margin for savings and comfort for
our work1ngmen. The propositions that now
stare our working people and our whole coun-
Try in the lace are these: Competition with for
elgn countries without adequate discriminating
and favoring duties means lower wages to our
working people. Revenue fer only tariff, or
progressive free trade, means larger importa-
tion OF forelgn goods, and that means less work
Tor Americans. Let our Democratic friends
meet these indisputable conclusions"
GIFTS FOR HARRISON.
General Harrison was the recipient of a gold.
headed cane, given by the employees of the De-
nance Hose company of Ticouderoga, n Y:
also mammoth broom, three feet wide with an
eight foot handle, voted to the General at ST.
Mary 5 Catholic picnic at WayneSburg, Ohio.
The next Republican demonstration occurs
next Thursday, the 25th, which is set aside for
the reception of the workingmen.