Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-27
Indianapolis AH1rahs.
Harrison's City Goes Wild Over
 His Nomination.
THETOwN DRAFTED IN HIS HONOR


 citation of the Convention's Action by
 the Firing of Guns and the Footing of
 InnumerabIe Horns.
 INDIANAPOLIS. June 27.-Indlanapolis feels its honor, and no mistake. Everybody is in the highest kind of feather-at least, those who are not have the grace not to say SO and the town, even to its least and lowest street, is bedecked in honor of Harrison. Ills face, draped in flags, ribbons and star span gled bunting of red, white and blue. stares at you from every corner. Richard HI and his ten Richmonds were not @ circumstance to the visitor to Indianapolis and its 10000 Harrisons. Hardly a building in the busi- ness portion of the city but laughs in gay attire, and since o'clock Monday, when the news of the nomination was received, the minutes have been marked off by explosions great and small. The deafening sound of tin horns, kazoos and other implements of tor ture is as ceaseless as the locust's song in a midsummer afternoon. It Is like bedlam where every lunatic should think himself @ fishmonger.
 The nights are filled with exultant noises, and by day every fellow has a horn. The town has gone mad, for truth Chalk fiends have scrawled in big figures, of all colors, on the fences, sidewalks, public build ipgs, stores and even on the fronts of private dwellings, the number of votes Harrison got at Chicago. Workmen in the street and along the railroad tracks turn their backs to the sun, and on them shines the magic num- Der 5+. Some one with lingering memory of policy shop says it sounds like lucky number.
 Every train that comes into Indianapolis ! brings delegates from Chicago to congratu- ! late the general. California has come, | Georgia and Kentucky. Vermont was here | yesterday, and sturdy old Governor Proctor | told Harrison how he had hammered away | from the opening of the convention, and | made Vermont's votes count for double their ' number At the meeting of citizens com \ mittees were chosen to furnish escort and en- tertainment for the visitors to the city. A band was in front of the new Dennison house all the afternoon, marching now and then to | the station to accompany some visitors to | their quarters. Tally-ho coaches with eight decorated horses trundled hither and thither. Men carried pictured banners about the streets Stylish chaps varied their costumes with red -white-and-b blue neckties.
 When the hullabaloo of Monday night let up little Gen Harrison retired, but he was up bright and early in the morning, ready for the ordeal which he knew was to come. He dressed in a coat and vest of black cheviot, with trousers of dark gray mixed goods. His bushy gray whiskers had been trimmed. He handled big white silk handkerchief. His shoes, which are hardly bigger than a | woman's. were polished to @ nicety, and with even those who love him best had ever thought he could muster, he greeted his guests
 The generals house cuts but O modest figure beside some of its more fashionable Ineighbors, but it is now the center of the town, and an endless string of people keep coming through the hot sunshine to stand for a minute in the generals parlor and shake his hands and tell him they ara glad.
 A reporter joined the callers Gen. Harrf son was courteous and contented, and said he had been deeply impressed with the evidence given by his townsmen of their pleasure at his nomination. He had not been down town, but heard that there, also, there was consid- erable demonstration. When assured that it was SO pleased smile overspread his face for an instant, but soon his pale features re- stunned their expression of dignified reserve. He said he couldn't talk politics at this stage of affairs, and did not intend making any speech further than to express his gratitude \ to the citizens.
 On leaving Gen. Harrison's house the re- porter saw carriages rolling through Dels- ware street with flags stuck in every possible place in the tops and in the horses harnesses. | In Pennsylvania street, which runs parallel with that upon which Gen. Harrison lives, the houses were beautifully decorated. The street cars, too, were all befagged.
 | There are not less than 10000 tin horns footing in Indianapolis The din Is racking. Under the windows of the Bates house there is truly more noise this minute than there was in the hall at Chicago when the nomina- \ tion was made.
 It is not a random note or O shout now and then, it is an unbroken believing of horns crying of voices and beating of everything | that will make a noise.
 During the evening the California dele gates were received on the lawn at the gen. \ erals house.