Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-25
THURMAN IN INDIANA.
The Old Roman Meets an INN ,nss
Gathering at She1byville,
And Makes an Earnest Appeaifor the Re-
Election of Grover Cleveland and
Continued Fra of Good
Government.

Election of Grover Cleveland and
3 Continued Fra of Good
Government.
SHELBYvILLE, Ind, Oct. 16-At least
fifty thousand people did ho1or to the
s'Oid Roman" here Yesterday. o. course,
Shelby County of itself did not furnish
this great concourss. They came from
Marion, and Vigo, and RIsh. and
johnson and Bartholomew. The Illino is
border sent contingent, and Kentucky
also contributed her share from Louis
vile and Covington. The Thurman Club
came from Columbus; the Duckw orths
from Cincinnati, and there were scores
of Indiana campaign clubs from all over
the State. There were also a large num-
Der of Frances Cleveland clubs, COM
posed OF girls, which formed perhaps
the most picturesque feature of the day.
Every man carried a bandana handker-
chief, and every woman a bandana UNI
brella, which latter proved a decided
utility, as it rained steadily throughout
the morning. Tie rain had no eff ect on
the Democrats, however, and when Judge
Thurman stepped upon the platform at
the fair ground he saw vast, surging
crowd in front of him. Judge o. s.
Glessner introduced Judge Thurman,
VINO spoke as follows:
My FRIENDS: Before 1 commence the brief
speech that shall try to make to you to-day, I
want to make an explanation. want to say to
you that have been compelled to decline shak-
ing hands with my friends. whom, under other
circumstances, it would have given me great
pleasure to take by the hand But have been
on the stump so long, and receiving so many
delegations, that this arm Of mine is so sore as
to make it impossible for me to shake hands
with you. 1t would cause me more suffering
than could bear. and more than any of you
would wish to inflict upon me. I shall speak to
you very briefly, because, first, there are SO
many other speakers here whom you desire
to hear, that it would be inexcusable
in me to monopnlize your time. I
am an anti-monopolist Igreat cheeringl from
principle, and therefore on the stump 1 never
take the time that belongs to other men. Now.
my friends, wish to say to you in the utmost
SINGER ty that am happy man to-day. am
happy to meet this magnificent audience of the
unterrifed Democracy of the noble State of
Ind ana. am happy to stand in this goodly
city of Shelbvville, where my dearly beloved
friend, Thomas A. Hendricks (applausel, lived
so long and honorably. I am happy to see
around me many of your distinguished
friends, and especially to meet with your noble
Governor, who is such an honor to your State
and the grand cause of Democracy. APP
plause.l 1 am thrice happy to see all around
me the signs of a grand victory in this State.
vietorysin Indiana means the election Of
Grpre- Cleveland to be the next President of
the United states. Applause.
Now, my friends, four Years ago (here the
speaker drew forth his bandana, which was
greeted with prolonged applause), four years
ago had the honor to speak at q number of
meetings in the State of Indiana. was advo-
eating the election of Grover Cleveland to be
President o: the United States. Well, all his
opponents now are the same as those who op
posed him then, and wherever went heard of
the country in the event of Cleyeland's cleo
ton Everywhere they said that all the mills
and factories and furnaces OF the United States
would be shut down because they could not
live under the Administration of Grover Cleve-
land. Everywhere they talked about the pay
ment of the rebel debt and pensioning the rebel
soldiers, and the Lord only knows what other
svils their vivid imaginations conjured up
TO brighten the people and pre-
vent their voting for Grover Cleveland
for President; but the people didn't believe
their sad predictions, and they elected that
grand man to the presidential chair, and he
has been President for little over three years
and a half; and what do we now heart Why,
from these very same Republican orators we
hear it declared that the United States never
was as prosperous as it Is to-day. All their
predictions of ruin to the business of the coun-
try: all their predictions of the payment of the
rebel debt: all their predictions of the pension
ing of the rebel soldiers, and that the mills and
factories of the country would shut down. have
gone for nothing, and have only to be mention
ed to be ridiculed.
Now, my friends, there never was a President
who took his seat under more trying cIrcum-
stances than did Cleveland on the 4th of March,
1885. The Democratic party had been out of
power for nearly quarter Of a century. or
course, there were many Democrats who
thought that when We got Democratic Admin
istration every Democrat in the land ought to
have a good office. OF course there wereothers
who wanted no office, but who had their own
peculiar opinions as to how the Government
should be conducted, and to meet and satisfy
the wishes of the people: to satisfy the wishes
of those who had elected him President, that
man. Cleveland, had the hardest task that was
ever intrusted to President. And now, how
has he performed that task? You learn
happy and complete answer to that question,
in the fact that after three and q half years of
his administration the Democratic convention
at St Louis renominated HIM by unanimous
vote, and that nomination has been ratified by
the Democracy of the whole country from
Maine to Mexico with the same sort of unan-
imitv No second-rate man was ever renom-
mated for the presidency of the United States
by a unanimous vote. ] will change that and say
no second-rate man was ever nominated for the
presidency of the United States the second
time. The fact that Cleveland has so conduct
ed himself. that his Administration has been
clean. upright. patriotic, that the
whole Democratic party, from one end of the
Republic to the other said: Let US give him
another term He has done we'll by the powers
that have been conferred up him; let take
him again, for we know he will do well in an
other term"
Let me say one more thing: No dishonest
man; no second-rate man; nobody but great
man; nobody but an upright, industrious,
courageous man, ever yet was nominated in
this way. and, therefore, the answer to What
may be said against Grover Cleveland is the
verdict of the American people in his behalf.
[Great applause.l
Ihave such q cold that you see that it is al
most impossible for me to speak. My throat
is all choked up, but my heart is not choked up.
1t beats we'll; it beats with the fullest degree
of emotion at the kind welcome that you have
given me and at the solcitude and interest you
manifest in favor of that party to which have
belonged from my youth up, and to which in
tend to belong until 1 am laid in my mother
earth. Applause I II 1 had time to do it, ]
would like TO say few words upon subject
that interests you so much, and that is
talked OF so much this year, the question
of the tariff. it is called.
must confine what have to say upon that sub
5ect to a very few remarks, and leave 1t to those
desire. What is the tariff! It is nothing in
the wide world but q tax. It is q tax LEVIED on
the people, and when il is levied for the pur-
pose, and for no other purpose, Of furnishing
the revenue to carry on the Government Of the
country, no member of our party makes any OBJ
lection to it; but when 1t is used. not for the
purpose OF raising the necessary revenue, but
for raising millions, and tens of millions, and
hundreds of millions Of revenue, for which the
Government has no legitimate use, the
(}oyernnent puts its hands in your pockets
and takes from you portion OF your daily
earnings say it ID a tax, but it is a tax paid
in a most unequal degree by the poor men OF
to hfc fa~ mai Ia M mai