The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-21

free. but every pound Of leather pays q big
duty, and the manufacturers are making no
money. We have the best brains. and the best
machinery, and the best material in the world.
and there Is only one reason why we cannot
undersell the world and that Is because OF the
higher price We pay our lsborers for their work.
iApplause There il not a mechanic in q shoe
factory in Massachusetts 20 ignorant that he
does not know this fact Under the system OF
protection every one or the complicated ma
chimes now used 10 the shoe factories was the
invention of 3 workineman, aud American shoe
machinery 10 the finest in the world and one
Will Ind it in every shoe factory in Europe to-
day. Applause. Hill and Thurman may
know more about some things than | do said
the speaker. "but when it comes to the shoe
business i claim that l know more than both Of
them put together. I worked four years on the
bench learning the trade, and know the business
from the ground up. My brother is a sea captain
and said I'd me, John, If you could only
travel as ! have and see the misery aud poverty
in foreign countries and compare their condition
with the people Of the United States. you would
be q blacker Republican than you are now. lAp-
plause I never wished for success as l do
now. Out OF two hundred and fifty thousand
travelling men % per cent. are Republicans, and
each one is a missionary in the cause" lap
p!ause.
THE Dowell family" said President Webster.
is q big one, "but / want 10 introduce to you
r. t. Dow, of Atlanta, Ga, who has a job lot Of
Republican Southern ideas which he wishes to
get rid Of"
Mr.. Dow said: 'Ladies. and Gentlemen, and
Fellow-tramps Iapplausel-I came from the
be a solid North in November. Zap
plause. 1 greet you not as theoretical,
book-worm political economists, but as practical
business political economists [applausel; men
who know that an ounce Of fact is worth a ton
OF theory; men who meet all kinds of people and
know what Americans are; men who know
what protection has done for America. went
to Atlanta in 1850, after there had been years
OF Democratic rule, and there were then three
small factories. In tweDty-four years OF Re-
publican rule, because there is FIVE years that
oont count. that number has increased from B
TO AZ establish mems, employing l2.eOO men.
lApplause. Free trade never did that. lap
plause L was born in Ireland lapplausel, and
because l was born under the free trade rule OF
England am to-day a Republican Iapplaussl
and l don't see how an irishmsn can
be anything else. James O.. Blaine
was beaten by Burchsrd. but no Burchard can
beat the gallant son of Indiana Applause /
am a Catholic, and because our country grants
freedom aud free speech, and free religion TO all
love that grand old Presbyterian, BENJAMIN
Harrison. Applause como from a country
where Democrats grow as thick as grasshoppers.
Applause have no fault TO find with Demo-
Gratis only they have gone wrong Irishmen
have been wrong ever since the time Of Jack
son, but thousands of them are getting right
this year. Applause. There are enough Of
knGn III NOW OIh " tuaho ~ kL6ua
victory there this year. Applause The Dem
ocrats complain that we have appropriated the
flag. They met first at ST. Louis and had their
choice. They old not choose the grand old oan-
ner of freedom, bot they chose this rag. PRO
duciug q bandanpa handkerchief. Applause.
When az Irishman works hard all year and
finds he has not money enough 10 pay his rent.
he packs his clothes in one of these and goes
over to England and works for rent money. o,
yes; an lrishman has great cause TO love the
bAudanna- c ia n badge of Geryltude
TO him. They talk Of the Democrats
being the friend of the workinemen.
1t is only the other day that Cleveland's Indian
| Commissioner passed by al the free manufac-
wagons at the Nashville peniteutiary, made by
convict labor, for the Indians. All the railroads
In nv State are constructed by convict labor.
and if Georgia is not Democratic, Ia like TO
know of . State that is" IAppiause.l Mr.. Dow
spoke at considerable length upon the issues q,
applied to the Irish. and was frequently ap
plauded.
President Webster then introduced John L.
Gri6iths, the candidate for Supreme Court Rs
porter. He made one of his rousing speeches
He said 1t was the second time to-day that he
had spoken to 5, 900 Republicans On the 4th OF
next March they proposed 70 empty the Presi
Dental chair Of raw material and put into IL 9
finished product OF American institutions [ap
plauseI in the shape of Gen. Ben Harrison
Great applause He said there were some
things that made him tired, and one Of then
was q Democrats claim of being tho soldiers
friend. be then read aud commented rpor
published in the Sentinel two week.
ago giving his reasons for not enlisting amiC
great laughter from the audience. He said tina
Cleveland bad appointed an Indianiar
tsr5,sor,A' i s"s b. Sn' ,n sII.Sa' h sS,a
ho-ar-co SAID be: 1--WE promised you
at Chicago thar IL you would nominate Harrison
We would carry indiana. and We will redeem on
pledge and give him the biggest majority WI
have ever given any ono since the war" Zap
plsuse.l
Captain W. G. David was next introduced
He recIted 'Sberidan's Rine," with fine effect
Charles P. Banks. of Kings county. New York
and e. l.. Young, of Columbus, o., each mad,
short political speeches. Indeed, the meeting
was nothing else than a political one. and one o
the most enthusiastic Of the campaign. Mr.
Young eaid his firm gave it to their men as
part of their duty that they should do mission
AIRY work for the Republican party.
President Webster, 10 introducing j. c. win
gate. said: "He is an Indiana man who ha
brains enough TO accumulate some property
he owns O whole town and q Democratic post
Office IN northern Indiana, the town of Wineate
He is the mar who wore the eracdfather's ba
In the parade. He has it with him., aud says i
is the same hat that his father wore 10 the cam
paign OF 1910. But the singular part is that hi
grandssther's name was Coon. He was a promi
nent man in the coon-skin campaign Of 40"
al au half Coon myself" said Mr.. Wingate
amid great laughter, land / have fattened il
this American corn-feld, protected by tariff laws
and / don't want the fence broken down by FIRE
trade"
Mr.. WiDgate then made a rafting speech 70
about q quarter OF an hour. He closed by saying
I'VE will appreciate the White House oil tn
more next March from having been out 60 lope
As Carlton says in one OF his poems:
a man to enjoy heaven well
Must have some fifteen minutes os hell"
A message was received from 500 travelin
men assembled az Bloomington, Ill, indorsin
the resolutions passed to-day. Jno. l.. Fem
more. of Columbus made q good speech and tn
Kazoo baud rendered its favorite and almos
only tune. "Good-bye. Old Grover. Goodbye
Three hearty cheers were given for Harriso
and the meeting adjourned.
INTERVIEWS AND INCIDENTS.