The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-22
GEN. HARRISON at CHIC AGO
The Ex-senator Delivers a Speech Be-
fore Members of the Marquette Club,
In (which He Discusses the Great Achievements
Of the Repub lean Parry and the Leading
Issues IF the Coming Campaign.


Republican, Party His remarks, as printed in
the Tribune. are given below:
Mr. President aud Gentlemen of the Mar
quetts Club am under an obligation that
shall not soon forget in having been permitted
by your courtesy to eli at your .aDls to-niens
fallen from the lips OF those speakers who have
preceded me. / count IL a privilege to spend an
evening with so many young Republicans.
There be fitness In the association
of young mon with the Republican party The
Republican party Is young party have nou
yet begun to call myself an old man liaugnterl.
and yet theirs is older Republican 10 the
United States than am. My first presidential
vote was given for the first presidential candi-
date Of the Republican party, and have sup
ported with enthusiasm every successor OF Free
mont, including that matchless statesman who
claimed our SURFACES in 1884. lCheers.i We
cannot match ages with the Democratic party
any more than that party match achieve
mcnts with us. Applause and laughter liz
has lived longer, but 20 less purpose. Laugh
Republican. Our Democratic friends have
monopoly of that distinction, and it is one OF
the few distinguished monopolies that they en-
JOY, laughter and appausel, and yet when
hear Democrat boAstin himself of the are nf
his party | feel like reminding him that theirs
are other organized evils in the world older thaR
the Democratic party, Laughter and applause
1.-The Republican Party" the toast which son
have assigned to me tonight, seems to have
past, present and future tense TO it. It sug-
gests history, and yet history so recent that it
is to many here tonight story of current
events in which they have been participants.
The Republican party-the influences which
acter. The men who formed it and organized
it were picked men. The first assembly that
sounded in its camp call to sacrifice and
not to spoils. 1t assembled about altar TO
sacrifice, and In a temple beset with enemies. lt
is the only political party organized IN America
that has it's Book of Martyrs" On the bloody
fields of Kansas Republicans died for their
creed, and since then we bave pnt in that
book the sacred memory of our immortal
leader who has been mentioned here to night
Abraham Lincoln who died for his faith and
devotion TO the principles or human liberty and
constitutional union. And there have followed
it great army of men who have died by reason
of the fact that they adhered to the political
creed that We loved 1t is the only party in
this land which, in the past, has been prescribed
and prosecuted to death for its allegiance to the
principles of human liberty. After Lincoln had
triumphed in that great forum OF debate in his
contest with Douglas, the Republican party car
ried that debate from the hastings 10 the BATTLE
field. aud forever established the doctrine that
human liberty is of natura! right and universal
lApplause. 1t clinehed the matchess logic of
Webster in his celebrated debate against the
right of secession by demonstration OF its in
ability.
No party entered upon its administration
of the affairs of this Nation under circumstances
beset with danger and difficulty as those
which surrounded the Republican party when II
took mp the reins of executive control. In
all other political contests those who had
resisted the Veto rious party yielded acqui-
essence at the polls. but the Republican party
In its success was confronted bv armed resist,
to national authority. The first acts OF
Republican administration were to assemble
armies to maintain the authority of the Nation
throughout the rebellious States 1t organized
armies, it fed them, and it fought them through
those years OF war with an undying and per-
sistent faith that refused to be appalled, by any
dangers or discouraged by any difficulties In
the darkest days of the rebellion the Republican
party by faith saw Appomattox through the
smoke of Bull Run and Raleigh through the
mists of Chickamauga lapplauseI; and not only
did 1T conduct this great civil war victorious
end not only did it restore the national
authority aud set up the flag all those places
where il had been overthrown and that flag
torn down, but in the act and as an ncidenb
in the restoration of national authority it ac-
compished that act which, if no other had been
recorded in its history, would have given it i'm
mortality The emancipation of race, brought
about as an incident of war under the proclAmaa.
ton OF tine first Republican President. has for
ever immortalized the party that accomplished
it.
But not only were there these dangers, and
difficulties, and besetments, and discourage
ments of this long strife at home, but there was
also . call for the highest craftsmanship in deal
ing with the foreign affairs of the governments
during that period of war England and France
not only gave TO the Confederacy belhgerent
rights. bur threatened to extend recognition and
even armed lntery ton. There was scarcely
higher achievement in the long history of bril-
liant craftsmanship which stands to the credit
of our party than the matenless MANAGEMENT of
our diplomatic relations during the period of
our war; dIgnlfed. yet reserved; masterful yet
were held at bay .atil had accomplished
perpetual peace &c Apnomattox. That crashing
avarice which has attempted to coin commercial
advantages CT the distress of other nations
winch has often characterized English diplo-
macy naturally made the government of Eng
land the ally of the Confederacy that had pro-
hibited protective duties in it's constitution, and
yet Geneva followed Appomattox IApplause.I A
trinity of effort was necessary to that consnm-
mation-war, finance and diplomacy; Grant.
Chase, Seward, and Lincoln ovor all,
and each victor in his own sphere. EApplause.l
When 500. 600 veterans found themselves with
out any pressing engagements tlaughterl. and
Phil Sheridan sauntered down towards the bor-
ders of Me xico, French evacuation exp +dited
[ laug hterl, and when Gen. Grant advised the
English government that our claims for The
deDredat1oDs committed by those rebel cruisers
that were sent out from British ports to prey
upon our commerce must be paid. but that
Were not in hurry about it [laughterl-we
could wait, but in the meantime interest would
accumulate Ilaughterl-the Geneva arbitration
was accepted and compensation made for these
unfriendly invasions of our rights. 1t became
fashionable again at the tables of the English
nobility to speak of our common ancestry and
our common tongue. Then again France began
TO remind Us of Lafayette and De Grasse. Five
hundred Thousand veteran troops and an unem-
ployed navy did raore for than a common
tongue and ancient friendships would do in the
time of our distress tApplause and
laughter. And must not forget
that il is often easier to assemble armies than il
is to assem- bic army rev. ues. Though no
financial Secretary ever had laid upon him q
P. Chase to provide the enormous expenditures
which the maintenance of our army required,
this ceaseless, daily gigantic drain upon the
national Treasury called for the highest states
manship. And il was found. and our credit was
not only maintained through the war. but the
debt that accumulated, which our Demo
cratic friends said could never be paid, at
once began TO discharge when the army
disbanded.
And so it is that in this timely effort--consist-
ing first in this appeal to the courage and pa
triotism or the people of this country that
sponded 10 the call of Lincoln and filed our
armies with brave men that nnder the leader
ship of Grant, and Sherman. and Thomas sup
pressed the rebellion, aud under the wise,
magnificent system of
enabled MS to defray expenses. and
under the sagacious administrator of our
State Department held Europe bay while
were attending TO the business at home. APP
plause. In these departments OF administra-