The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-09-26

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INDIANAPOLIS ooRREsPoNDENcE.l
The past week has been busy one with Gen.
Harrison. During the week he rec Owed and adj
dressed number of visiting delegations. On
Wednesday delegation arrived from Danville
and other points in Nermilion County, Illinois,
numbering L. 200 TO 1900 Three bands accom-
panied them. Gen. Harrison recei, eel them at
University Park. w. H. Jewell editor of the
Danville NsiOs, acted as spokesman for the vis
itors. Gen. Harrison, in response said
MY Illinois friends, the people of your State
and TO me that they deeply and generally
interested in this campaign. L welcome you
and accept your coming as evidence that the
early interest you manifested has suffered no
abatement IL was not an impulse that stirred
you, but deep conviction that matters OF great
and lasting consequence TO your country are IN
volved in this campaign. Your representative
in Congress, ths Hon. Joseph Cannon. is well
known in Indiana. 4 have known him for many
years; have observed his conduct in Congress,
and always with admiration. He is fearless,
aggressive, honest Republican leader. He
is worthy OF the favor and confidence you
have shown him. IL some one were 70 ask to-
day What is the matter with tho United
StatesT am sure we should htat some Demo
cratic friend respond, IL people are oppressed
and impoverished by tariff taxation Ordina-
rily our people can be trusted 70 know when
they are taxed; but this Democratic friend will
tell US that the tariff tax is so iusidious that
our people pay il without knowing IT, That Is
a very unhappy condition, indeed But his
difficulties are not oil surmounted when ne
has convinced his nearer that custom duty is
tax, for history does not lun well with MS
statement that our people have been I'M
poverished by our tariff system Another
answer TO your question will be. perhaps,
that there is now great surplus in the Treas
ury-he will probably not sJate the ngures, Tor
there seems 10 be painful uncertainty about
that 1 have sometimes though. tnat TINS sur
plus was held chiefly 10 be talked about. The
laws provide for IL that would speedily
place 1t in circulation. II n business IN II mas
an accumu lated surplus that he does no. need
in his business that stands bank ba ance
and draws no interest, and he has obi cations
oIsstanding TO mature in the future, he wlll
make ready choice between leaving his
balance in the bank and using IT 20
take up his obligations. But in our national
finances the other choice has been made ana
this surplus remains in the national bank with
out interest, while our bonds, which, under the
law, might be retired by the use OF 1t, continue
TO draw interest. You nave great agricultural
State. Its prairie soil offers the most tempting
invitation 60 the settler. l have heard II sug-
gested that one reason why you have outstrippsd
Indiana in population was because the men who
were afraid of the 'deadening passed over US 10
seek your treeless plains. But you have not
been contented to be only an agricultural COM
munity You have developed your manufactures
and mechanical industries until now, II nay
recollection Is not at fault. for every two per
sons engaged in agricultu0l labor you have one
engaged in manufacturing in tue mechanical
arts and mining. IL is this subdivision OF labor.
these diversified industries, that make illinois
take rank near the head among the states.
BY this home interchange OF the products OF
farm and shop made possible by our protocti va
system Illinois has been able to attain her
proud position in the Union of tho States. Shall
we continue policy that has wrought so mar
velCusly since the war in the development OF ali
these States that have given hospitabe access
TO manufacturing capital and TO the Drawn and
skill of the workingman?"
delegation OF about 800 reached the city
from Louisville and Covington on Wednesday,
and were also received in University Park.
Their enthusiasm ran very high j. r.. Wilson,
of Louisville, spoke briefly on be aft OF the
kentuckans. 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 10 be Republican
in Illinois and quite another TO be Republican
in kentucky Not the victors only in gooc
fight deserve a crown those who fight well and
are beaten and night again, as you have done
Deserve a crown, thOu2n victory never yet has
perched on your banner "A Vo.ce: II will
perch there, though, don't you forget il ] Yes,
1t will come for the bud of victory Is always
in the truth l will not treat you to-day TO any
statistics from the census reports, nor enter
the attractive field OF the history of your great
State. i have believed that these visi ing dele
cations always well advised as 20 the history
and statistics of their respective States. IL this
trust has been misplaced in other cases, certain
1y Kentuckans can be trusted TO remember aud
perhaps to tell all that is noble in the thrilling
history of their great State. Your history Is
very full of romantic and thrilling adventure and
of instances of individual heroism. Your people
have always been proud, ch1valric and brave IN
the late war for the Union, spite of all distrac-
ton and detection Kentucky stood by the old
Jag And now that the war is over and its bitter
memory ia forgotten, there is not one, hope,
in all your borders who does not bless the out
come of that great struggle. Surely there
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
States? Is there not as your spokesman
has suggested-in the early and thorough
instruction which the people of Kentucky
received from the mouth OF your matchless
orator, Henry Clay-a power that shall yet
and speedily bring back Kentucky to the sup
port Of our protective system? Can the old
Wings who so reverently received from the lips
of Clay the gospel OF protection, much longer
support a revenue policy that they know TO be
inmical TO national interests? II when
Kentucky was a slave STATE. she found a pro-
uective tariff promoted the prosperity OF her
people what greater things Will the same policy
not do for her as a free state? She mas
opened her hospitable doors 70 skilled labor.
Her coal and metals ana hemp invite its trans
forming touch. Why may she not speedily ind
groat manufac turing cities spring up in her
beautiful valleys. Shall any old prejudice spoil
these hopeful vlsions? l remember that Ken
lucky ngitated Tor seven years and neld nine
conventions before she secured separate
Statehood. May / not appeal 10 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 Is in the demand that Da
ixota and Washington shall be admitted? Does
not your 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 were admitted 20 Statehood We look
hopefully TO kentucky. The State of Henry Clay
and Abraham Lincoln can not be much
longer forgetful of the teachings OF those
great leaders Of thought. l believe that Ken
lucky will place herself soon upon the side OF
the truth upon these great questions. "A voice,
we believe it (; another voice, We Will keep
rhom out of Indiana, anyhow. Great cheer
ingl Thank you There is no better way that
know OF TO keep one detachment of any army
from reinforcing another than by giving that de-
tacnment all IL can do in its own field"
At the conclusion, the kentuckians shook
hands with the General, and heartily cheered
him as he left the park.
Toe last visitors OF the day 70 call upon Gen
eral and Mrs. Harrison were the hundred or
more delegates in attendance upon the annual
meeting of the National Association OF Union
-x-Prisoners OF tho War Every man had UNI
1ergone imprisonment at Andersonville, Libby,
or some of the less noted Southern prisons The
veterans arrived at tho Harrison residence ut 6
o'clock and were informally received by General
Harrison. After shaking hands and exchanging
greetings, they gathered around General Har-
rison, and General w. VI. Powell, of Iowa.
addressed him briefly and touchingly, referring
20 the perils and hardships they had survived.
Gen Harrison was greatly affected by the words
of the spokesman and the presence Of the vete-
rams grouped silently and so closely about him.
SO manifest were his emotions IL seemed he
scarcely dared trust himself 10 speak and paused
after few words as IL TO control his feelings.
Then i'm n low conversational aud sympathetic
voice end with expression OF seriousness re-
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