, 1888-10-05
GEN. HARRISON
Visited by Delegations From
Ohio and Michigan.
He Speaks on the Old Subject
High Protection.
And is the Recipient of Hand
some Presents.

was visited to-day by large delegations
from Grand Rapids and vicinity and from
Tifin, o.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 4.-Gen. Harri-
sons Michigan visitors to-day were repre-
scented largely by the furniture manufac-
turers of Grand Rapids. The michi-
ganders were prolific in their gifts to Gen.
Harrison, chief of which was a handsome
Office chair. manufactured entirely of ma
tive hard wood and labelled Presidential
chair" Among their other presents
were a number offine specimens of copper
and iron ore from Northern Michigan;
also a unique cane.
At 8 o'clock Gen. Harrison received
the combined delegations at Tomlinson's
hall. Gen. Harrison was in good voice
and spoke with unusual animation and
earnestness, repeatedly rouslng his audi
ence. He said:
My Michigan, Ohio and Indiana
friends, these cordial manifestations of
your personal regard move me very deep
", Applause but | do not all appropri-
ate to myself the great illusions of BOD
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only one. | understand that N yrelations
to these public questions and to the peo-
pie as a representative of that interest
which thus expresses itself is in the prin.
ciples of government rather than in men.
lCheerS. L am one of the Oldest Repub-
licans. My first presidential vote was
given to the first Republican candidate
for that Office applause and it has al
ways been a PURGE of profound gratifica-
ton to mt that in peace and war a high
spirit of patriotism and devotion to our
country has always pervaded and domi-
mated that party. [Cheers] When dur
ing the civil war the clouds hung low,
disasters threatened and the future was
crowded with uncanny fears, never
did any Republican convention
assemble without declaring its faith in
the ultimate triumph of our cause.
[Great cheeringl. And now with the
broad patriotism that embraces and re-
CARDS the interests of all states, it advo-
Gates policies that will develop and unite
all our communities in a friendly and
profitable interchange of commerce, as
well as in a lasting political union. -Ap-
plausel.
These great western states will not re
spond to an attempt to excite prejudice
against New England. We advocate
measures that are as broad as our national
domain; that are calculated to distill their
equal blessings upon all the land.
[Cheers The people of the great " est
recognize and value the great contribution
which those commonwealth about Ply
mouth Rock have made to civilization the
material growth and manhood of our
western states. [Cheers]. We are not
envious Of the prosperity of New Eng
land, we rejoice in it. We believe that a
protective policy developed her great man
ufacturing institutions and made her
rich, and we do not doubt that a c"ontinu-
ance of that policy will produce the same
results in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
[Cheersl
We are not content to remain wholly
agricultural states in our relations to either
New England or old England. Jap
plause. We believe that in all these
great Western states there are minerals in
the soil and energy and skill in the brains
and arms of our people that will yet SO
multiply and develop our manufacturing
Industries as to give us a nearer home
market for much of the products of our
soil and for that great surplus which now
and always, perhaps, we shall not con
sumo at home. We think the New Eng
land market better than a foreign market.
Enthusiastic and proloDg d cheering.
The issue upon this great industrial
question is drawn as sharply as lines ever
were drawn between contending armies.
Men are readiustiDg their party relations
upon this great question. The appeal
that is now made for the defense OF our
American system is finding its response,
and many OF those who are opposed to us
on other questions are committing such
questions to the future for settlement,
while they help us to settle now and for
an indefinite future the great question of
the preservation of our commercial indie
p~endence. Applause.
The Democratic party has challenged
our protected interests to a fight Of exter-
mination, the wage earners of our couu-
try have accepted the challenge. and the
issue OF the contest will settle FOR many
years our tariff policy. prolonged cheer.
ing. The eloquent description to which
we have listened Of the material wealth
of the great state of Michigan has been
full of interest to us as citizens Of Indi
ana. We cannot doubt that the people
of the state having such gorgeous invita-
tons to the development of the great
home wealth and mining pursuits will un-
derstand the issue that is presented and
will cast their influence in favor OF that
policy which will make that development
rapid and sure, and more than all, and
better than all, will maintain in her com
munities the well paid class of wage earn
ers. [Cheers. Wage workers vote;
they are American citizens, and it is essen
tial that they be kept free from the slav-
cry of want and discomfort bred of injUs-
tice, Applause.