St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-19
Gen. Harrison Gives the Elite
of Kokomo His Bless :
ing.
Hereafter the State Central
Committee Will Make
Dates for Him.
Fifth District Prohibitionists
Nominate Ear D. Scott for
Congress.
ASpirants for Political Prefer
ment Are Swarming at
WateptoWn.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
INDIANAPOLIS Ind, July 1S.-Ko-
komo is one of the natural gas centers
in Indiana, and during the past few
months this cheap fuel has added
largely to its population and manufac-
turing interests. This afternoon dele
CATION of 600 men and women, repre-
senting the merchant, farmer, banker,
professional and working classes. came
here to visit Gen. Harrison. He met
the people at the New-DeniSoD, where
they went direct after leaving the train.
The train was profusely decorated with
the national colors and emblems and
attracted great attention as it came
through the country along the line of
the Lake Erie & Western railroad. The
visitors themselves, headed by band
and carrying banners, gave the streets
of the city something of the character
that is shown during holiday paradeS as
they marched to the hotel. Gen. Har-
rison was there in waiting in one of the
parlors, around which the dele
CATION gathered. The Monomo
GIee club sang. and after that
Rev. Father Reyburn; voter
of 1910 and more than four score years,
made speech, expressing the congrat-
ulations of his party. To this Gen. Har-
riSon responded as follows: 'Father
Rayburn and My Howard County
Friends: think | may accept this DEM
onstration as evidence that the action
of the Republican convention at Chi
cago has been
ACCEPTED WITH RESIGNATION
by the Republicans Of Howard county.
You are the favored citizens of a favored
county; your county has been con-
spicuOus among the counties of this
state for its enterprise and intelligence.
You have been favored with a kindly
and generous soil, cultivated by an in
telligent and educated class of farmers.
Hitherto you have chiefly drawn your
wealth from the soil; you have had in
the city of Kokomo an enrerprising and
thrifty county town; you have been
conspicuous for your interest and devo-
ton to the cause of education-fOr your
interest in bringing forward the coming
generations we'll equipped for the
Suties of citizenship. l congratulate
you to-day that a new erea of prosperity
has opened for your county in the dis
covery of this new and free fuel to
which Mr.. Rayburn has alluded. A
source of great wealth has been opened
to your people, you have already begun
though your expectations have hardly
grasped what it will be when the city
of KOkomo and your other towns have
reached the full development which
will follow this discovery. You will
then all realize-the citizens of that
prosperous place, as we'll as the
farmers throughout the county-the
advantage of having a home mar
ket for the products of your
farms. You may not notice this so
much in the appreciation of the prices
of the staple products of your farms,
but you will notice it in the expansion
of the markets for those more perish
able products which cannot reach dis
near home. Is it not, then, time tor
you, as thoughtful citizens, whatever
your previous political affiliations may
have been, to consider the question,
what legislation will most promote the
development of the manufacturing in
tereSts of your county and
ENLARGE THE HOME MARKET
for the products of your farm? ! shall
not enter upon a discussion of this
question; it is enough to state, it and
leave it to your own consideration. Let
me thank you again for this kindly visit,
and beg you to excuse any more eX-
tended remarks, and to give me now an
opportunity of thanking each of you
personally for the kind things your
chairman has said in your behalf"
At the close of the speech, the
usual hand shaking and per-
sonal congratulations followed.
Tomorrow the Springfield. Ill.,,
Monticello and Beatrice. ILL.,. delepa-
tions will visit the general. Hereafter
all delegations desiring to pay their re-
spects to the general are requested to
communicate with Hon. J. n. Huston,
chairman of the state ceiftral comm it
tee. This course is to be pursued be-
cause the visitors and requests for dates
have become so numerous that they
alone would occupy all the generals
time. He has as yet had no time to
think about his letter of acceptance,
and he desires within the next week to
devote all the time possible to that doc
ument.