Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-09-26
ADMIRERS OF HARRISON.
ENTHUSIASTIC DELEGATIONS GREET
THE REPUBLICAN LEADER.
Stirring Speeches for Protection Male to
the Visitors from Illinois and Kentucky
A Plea for Statehood for ID ,kota-Ex-
Prisoners Listen to ~ Pathetic Address

"A Plea for Statehood for ID akOta-Ex-
Prisoners Listen to Pathetic Address.
INDIANAPOLIS CoRREsPoNDENcE.l
Ghe past week has been busy one with Gen.
Harrison During the week he received and ad-
dressed a number OF visiting delegations. On
and other points in Vermilon County, Illinois,
numbering 200 to $50. Three bands accom-
panied them Gen. Harrison recei ed them at
University Park. W. H. Jewell, editor of the
Danvil1e NetOS, acted as spoke5rn IN for the Wis
itors. Gen. Harrison in respon 3e said:
MY Illinois friends, the people OF your State
were very early in giving evidence to our people
and to that they are deeply and generally
inter ested in this campai5 IN. [ welcome you
and accept your coming as evidence that the
early interest you mani .ested has suffered no
abatemA Mt 1t was OF an impulse that stirred
you, but deep conviction that ma tiers of great
and lasting consequence to your country are in
vol ed in this campaign. Your reDres entative
in Congress, the Hen. Joseph Cannon. is well
known in Indiana. have known him for many
wears: have observed his conduct in Congress-
and always with admiration. He is a fearless,
aggressive, honest publican leader. He
is wo tn of the favor ald confidence you
have sho Tn him. If some one were to ask to-
day What is the matter with the United
States? should hea: some Demo-
cratic friend respond, It's people are oppressed
and impoverished by tariff taxation Ordina-
rily our people can be trusted to know when
they taxed but this Democratic friend will
tell us that the tariff tax is so insidious that
our people ply It without knowing it. That is
q very unhappy condition indeed. But his
difficulties are not al surmount I'd Wnen ne
has convinced his hearer tlGt custom duty is
tax for history docs not lun well with his
statement that our people have been I'M
poverished by tariff system. Another
answer to your question will be-, perhaps
tn. there is 70 a great surplus In the Treas
ury-he wi prob IDLY not ate the figures for
there seems TO be a painful uncertainty about
that. / have sometimes though that this sur
plus was held chiefly to be talked about. The
laws p Divide a use for it that won speedily
p ace it in Gil culation. If business M IL tinds
an accum llated surplus that he does no. need
i'll his business, that stands as q bank ba ance
and draws no interest, and he has obi CATION
outstanding to nature in the future, he will
male O. ready choice between leaving his
lalance in the bank ind using it to
take up his obligations. But in our national
finances the other choice has been made and
this surplus remains in the national bank with
OUT interest, while our Bonds, which, under the
law, might be retired by the use of it, continue
to draw interest You have gre ut agricultural
State It's prairie soil offers the most tempting
invitation to the settler. L have heard it sug-
gested that one reason why you have outstripp d
Indiana in population was because the men who
were afraid of The deadening passed over us to
seek your treeless pains. But you have not
been con, ented 20 be only an agricultural COM
munty. You have developed your manufactures
and mechanical industries until now, If my
recollection is not at fault for every two per-
sons engaged in agricultural labor you have one
engaged in manufacturing in the mechanical
arts and mining 1t is this subdivision of labor.
these diversified industries, that make illinois
take rank near the heal among the States.
BY this home interchange of the products of
farm anu SDOp lQ;lu0 pOSSlDl0 by our prOO6CUI Fo
system Illinois has been able to attain her
proud position in the Union OF the St ties. Shall
we continue policy that has wrought so mar
velously since the war in the development OF all
these States that have given hospilable access
to manufacturing capital and to the Drawn and
skill OF the wOrkingnan?
from Louisville and Covington on Wednesday,
and were also received in University Park.
Their enthusiasm ran very hlgn. ;: II. wilson,
hentuckians. General Harrison responded as
follows
my kentucky friends there have been larger
delegations assembled about this platform, but
there have been none that has in any higher de-
gree attracted my interest or touched my heart.
1t has been quite one thing to be republican
in Illinois and quite another to be a Republican
in kentucky. Not the victors only in q good
light deserve crown those VINO nght Wen ana
are beaten and fight again, as you have done,
deserve O crown, though victory never yet has
percbed on your banner. IA voce: 1t VIII
perch there though don't you forget it J Yes,
it will come, for the bud of victory is always
in the truth. / will not treat you to-day any
statistics from the census reports, enter
the attractive field of the his DRY of your great
State. l have believed that these visi ing dele
cations always well advised as to the history
and statistics of their pective States If this
trust has been misplaced in other cases, certa n
ly Kentuckians can be trusted to remember aad
perhaps to tell all that is noble in the thrilling
history OF their great State Your history Is
very Iul of roman ic and thrilling adventure and
of instances of individual heroism. Your people
have al vays been proud chivalric and brave. In
the late war for the Union, spite of all distrac-
tion and detection, Kentucky stood by the old
flag. And now that the war is over and its bitter
memory is forgotten, there is not one, L hope,
in all your borders who does not bless the out
come of that sre8t struggle. Surely there are
none in Kentucky who do not rejoice that the
beautiful river is not river of division. And
now what hinders that Kentucky shall step for
ward in the great industrial rivalry between the
has suggested-in the early and thorough
instruction which the people of Kentucky
received from the mouth of your maGchless
+l,a%c I,,
and speed 1y br ng back Kent ucky to the sup
port of protective system? Can the old
Wings. who so reverently received from b lips
OF Clay the gospel of protection much longer
support revenue policy that they know to be
inimical to national Interests? If when
Kentucky slave sta 9, she found FRO
tective tariff promoted the pres perity OF ner
people, what greaser things will the same pc icy
noJ do for her free State? She has now
opened her hOspitaDle doors to skilled labor.
Her coal and metals ana hemp invite it's trans
forming touch Why may she not speedily find
great inanufac curing cities spring up. in her
beautiful valleys. Shall any old prejudice spoil
these no )etul visions? 1 remember that Ken
l. lucky. agitated for seven years and held nine
conve ntions before she secured separate
Statehood. May I not appeal to the children
OF those brave settlers who, when but
few in numbers, composed of distant and
feeble settlements, were received into the Union
of States to show their chivalry and love of JUS
tice by uniting with Us in the demand that Da-
kota and Washington shall be admitted? Does
|, not your own story shame those who represent
you in the halls of Congress, and who bar the
door against communities whose members and
resources so vastly outreach what you possessed
when you admitted to Statehood? We look
hopefully to Kentucky. The State of Henry Clay
ard Abraham Lincoln can not be much
longer forge ,ful of the teachings of those
great leaders of thought I believe that Ken
|. lucky will place herself upon the side of
the truth upon these great questions. IA voice,
We believe it, another voice. We will keep
them out OF Indiana anyhow Great cheer
ing Thank you. There is no better way that
know Of to keep one detachment of any army
from re-enforcing another than by giving that de-
tachment all i can do in it's own field"
At the conclusion, the Kentuckians shook
hands with the General, and heartily cheered
him as he left the park.
L e last visitors of the day to call upon Gen
er61 and Mrs Harrison the hundred or
| more delegates in attendance upon the annual
meeting of the National Association of Union
ex-Prisoners of the War. Every had u1l-
| lergone imprisonment at Apdersonville, Libby,
or some of the less noted Southern prisons. The
veterans arrived at the Harrison residence at
o'clock and were informally received by General
Harrison After shaking hands and exchanging
greetings, they gathered around General Har-
rison and General W. HI. Powell, of Iowa,
addressed him bri fly and touchingly referring
to the perils and hardships they had survived
Gen. Harrison WAS greatly affected by the words
of the spokesman and the presence of the vete-
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